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Chapter Number | Subject | Abstract | Bill Number |
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0201 | Public Records | As enacted, requires that captured plate data from automatic license plate reader systems be treated as confidential and not be open for inspection by members of the public; schedules provision to expire July 1, 2026. | SB0699 |
0202 | Agriculture, Dept. of | As enacted, revises certain enforcement provisions of the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. | SB0718 |
0203 | Conservation | As enacted, rewrites the Soil Conservation Districts Law to be the Soil and Water Conservation Districts Law; makes corresponding changes. | SB0719 |
0204 | Sexual Offenders | As enacted, requires the sex offender treatment board to compile a list of approved sex offender evaluation providers and sex offender treatment providers who are authorized to provide required sex offender evaluations and treatment. | SB0731 |
0205 | Textbooks | As enacted, prohibits the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission, state board of education, and public schools from recommending, approving, or using textbooks and instructional materials and supplemental instructional materials created to align exclusively with the common core state standards or that are marketed or otherwise identified as common core textbooks or materials; provides for withholding of funds if teacher or principal intentionally violates prohibition on such textbooks and materials. | SB0769 |
0206 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, requires each high school to designate an apprenticeship training program contact; requires the department of education to compile and publish a list of the apprenticeship program contacts. | SB0844 |
0207 | Tort Liability and Reform | As enacted, specifies that a good faith donor of apparently usable feminine hygiene products to a bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization for distribution to persons in need of the product is not subject to criminal or civil liability in the absence of gross negligence or intentional misconduct. | SB0974 |
0208 | Water Pollution | As enacted, authorizes the department of environment and conservation to take certain actions to ensure that in-lieu fee sponsors secure mitigation for permanent impacts to waters. | SB1049 |
0209 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the Tennessee radiologic imaging and radiation therapy board of examiners to June 30, 2025. | SB1079 |
0210 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, adds the offense of trafficking a person for a commercial sex act to the meaning of predatory offenses for purposes of sentencing a person as a child sexual predator. | SB1122 |
0211 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, revises provisions governing temporary teaching permits. | SB1133 |
0212 | Local Government, General | As enacted, designates ambulance service as an essential service, directs all county governing bodies to make provisions to ensure that at least one licensed ambulance service is available within their county, authorizes municipal governing bodies to make provisions for ambulance service within the boundaries of a municipality, and authorizes the governing body of any county or city to adopt and enforce reasonable regulations to control the provision of private or nonprofit ambulance service. | SB1597 |
0213 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, establishes certain requirements for persons engaged in the business of buying or selling unattached catalytic converters as a single item; creates Class A, punishable by fine only, misdemeanor of possessing a used, detached catalytic converter that the person does not have authorization to possess. | SB1612 |
0214 | Revenue, Dept. of | As enacted, establishes taxpayer protections for taxpayers relying on guidance issued by the department. | HB0038 |
0215 | Sentencing | As enacted, enacts the "Good Samaritan Sentencing Enhancement Act," which provides that a defendant convicted of first degree murder is eligible for the death penalty if the victim was rendering assistance to a person in need at the time of their death. | HB0047 |
0216 | Education, Higher | As enacted, extends eligibility for tuition reimbursement provided to members of the Tennessee national guard under the STRONG Act of 2017 to include technical certificates and diplomas and certain graduate programs; extends, from June 30, 2021, to June 30, 2025, the date on which the act will be repealed. | HB0083 |
0217 | Taxes | As enacted, tolls the statute of limitations for collection of taxes upon the imposition of a bankruptcy stay or upon the filing of a probate, receivership, or assignment for benefit of creditors proceeding; permits statute of limitations to begin running 30 days after the stay is lifted or the proceeding prohibiting collection ends. | HB0084 |
0218 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, reduces the lower gross weight threshold for freight vehicles that are required to pay the registration tax of $1,019 from 56,000 pounds to 55,000 pounds; removes authority for nonresidents to apply directly to department of revenue for off-highway vehicle permits; authorizes issuance of decals instead of new plates upon expiration of special purpose plates for manufacturers, dealers, transporters, and nonprofit organizations. | HB0086 |
0219 | Safety, Dept. of | As enacted, changes the formatting requirements for credentials issued by the department. | HB0087 |
0220 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, changes the criteria that a private entity must meet to conduct driver education courses and community education courses. | HB0088 |
0221 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, authorizes the department of transportation to notify by electronic transmission, owners of utility facilities that occupy rights-of-way of any highway on which construction related to the relocation of a utility facility is proposed. | HB0092 |
0222 | Professions and Occupations | As enacted, allows members of the United States armed forces and honorably discharged veterans who receive certified occupational training as a member of the United States armed forces to receive equivalent credit toward certain occupational licenses relating to the training received. | HB0188 |
0223 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, revises the requirements for an LEA's progressive truancy intervention plan; requires, beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, that each progressive truancy plan adopted by an LEA include a first tier of schoolwide, truancy prevention-oriented supports for all enrolled students. | HB0206 |
0224 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the statewide community services agency to June 30, 2023. | HB0298 |
0225 | Safety, Dept. of | As enacted, authorizes members of the general assembly to request, in writing, the department to provide a copy of a crash report concerning fatal accidents that occurred in the member's district; specifies that a crash report that is subject to an ongoing investigation or court order requiring the information be kept confidential is not subject to released under this bill. | HB0364 |
0226 | Utilities, Utility Districts | As enacted, redefines "change in net position" for purposes of financially distressed utility districts and water or wastewater facilities; corrects a reference that should be to a petition for a new utility system. | HB0651 |
0227 | Human Services, Dept. of | As enacted, removes requirement that the significant variance amount established by the department provide the lower threshold for modification of child support orders for low income persons; allows department to review and seek adjustment of an obligation once aware of a change in circumstances for a party to a Title IV-D child support case. | HB0765 |
0228 | Industrial Development | As enacted, requires each member of a board of directors of an industrial development corporation to complete a conflict-of-interest statement; requires the Tennessee Ethics Commission to post on its website a sample conflict of interest statement. | HB0831 |
0229 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, authorizes an LEA to remove a student from the regular school program without assigning the student to an alternative school or alternative program if the student was suspended or expelled for certain offenses that may threaten the safety of persons attending or assigned to the regular school program and the alternative school or alternative program is located on the same grounds as the regular school program. | HB0890 |
0230 | Controlled Substances | As enacted, excludes from the definition of marijuana "a product," instead of "a cannabidiol product" approved as a prescription medication by the United States food and drug administration; specifies that such a product will be redesignated, rescheduled, or deleted as a controlled substance. | HB0976 |
0231 | Dentists and Dentistry | As enacted, removes restriction on appointment to the board of dentistry for persons affiliated with educational institutions where the practice of dentistry, dental hygiene, and dental assisting is taught. | HB1091 |
0232 | County Government | As enacted, authorizes counties that self-insure their liability for county officials and employees under the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act to self-insure their risk of loss in lieu of obtaining bonds or insurance to cover their liability for such persons. | HB1097 |
0233 | Election Laws | As enacted, allows a person who lives in an independent living facility that is on the same property as a licensed nursing home, assisted care living facility, or home for the aged to vote by absentee ballot when the county election commission conducts an election at the licensed nursing home, assisted care living facility, or home for the aged. | HB1098 |
0234 | Local Government, General | As enacted, prohibits local governmental entities from mandating certain disclosures in contracts for improvements to real property, or in a bid, proposal, or agreement relating to an improvement of real property. | HB1112 |
0235 | Child Custody and Support | As enacted, prohibits a court from solely considering a parent's disability to determine custody unless it impacts the parent's ability to meet the needs of the child; specifies that a court cannot consider a parent or guardian's disability alone in a termination of parental rights proceeding unless it impacts the physical or psychological welfare of the child. | HB1168 |
0236 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, creates the Class E felony of possessing a telecommunication device inside a penal institution; specifies that the first violation of such an offense is punishable only by a fine and the second or subsequent violation is punishable only by a fine of $3,000. | HB1343 |
0237 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, authorizes the City of St. Joseph to hold a referendum to authorize the retail sale of alcoholic beverages in package stores and for consumption on the premises. | HB1517 |
0238 | State Government | As enacted, authorizes state agencies to contract with a licensed provider of child care services to offer child care services as an option for the agency's officers and employees. | SB0022 |
0239 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the bureau of ethics and campaign finance to June 30, 2027. | SB0044 |
0240 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration | As enacted, clarifies that a lienor is required to send notice of a discharged lien to the department of revenue on the date the lien is discharged and that the department must be notified of the discharge within 72 hours of the date of discharge. | SB0112 |
0241 | Game and Fish Laws | As enacted, creates a lifetime sportsman license for adopted children, under the age of 13; provides that the child's guardian must apply for the license on the child's behalf within 36 months from the adoption; provides that the fish and wildlife commission will set the license fee. | SB0119 |
0242 | Public Records | As enacted, authorizes, from April 28, 2021, to July 1, 2025, a records custodian to petition a court to enjoin a person who makes a request to view or copy a public record with the intent to disrupt government operations from making records requests. | SB0135 |
0243 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, exempts tow trucks that are responding to an emergency call received from a law enforcement agency from law that generally makes it a Class C misdemeanor to operate a vehicle on the shoulder or right-of-way of a state highway. | SB0139 |
0244 | Insurance, Health, Accident | As enacted, revises requirement for the department of commerce and insurance to report on coverage for mental health, alcoholism, and drug dependency. | SB0151 |
0245 | Evidence | As enacted, redefines "crisis intervention" and "crisis response services" for purposes of the privileged communications. | SB0163 |
0246 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, requires a law enforcement officer to notify the department of children's services when a person under 18 years of age is taken into custody for suspicion of committing the offense of prostitution. | SB0214 |
0247 | Driver Licenses | As enacted, adds the NAVPERS-660 honorable discharge certificate to the list of documents that may be submitted by an honorably discharged veteran who requests to have the "veteran" designation on a driver license. | SB0268 |
0248 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, defines the term "teacher" for purposes of state salary increases for licensed education personnel. | SB0290 |
0249 | Libraries | As enacted, makes various changes to the state and regional library systems. | SB0311 |
0250 | Schools, Charter | As enacted, entitles all public charter schools to participate in the state group insurance plans selected by the governing body of the public charter school in accordance with existing law; authorizes, instead of requires, teachers and other full-time permanent employees of public charter schools to participate in such plans. | SB0353 |
0251 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits | As enacted, clarifies that when members of the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System elect to establish retirement service through monthly installments, the members can do so over the length of service being established. | SB0405 |
0252 | Children's Services, Dept. of | As enacted, requires secure detention facilities, correctional facilities, youth development centers, and other hardware secure facilities that contract with the department, that are housing juveniles to immediately report any security breach to the department and local law enforcement; requires the department to include information on escapes, attempted escapes, security breaches, or attempted security breaches in the previous calendar year in the department's annual report. | SB0447 |
0253 | Public Records | As enacted, makes confidential, from April 28, 2021, to July 1, 2026, certain personal, financial, and residential information of federal law enforcement agents and officers conducting operations in this state in the same manner that such information is confidential for state and local law enforcement officers and agents. | SB0475 |
0254 | Courts, General Sessions | As enacted, authorizes Johnson County to employ a full-time general sessions judge and prohibit the judge from practicing law or accepting other employment upon adoption of a resolution by a two-thirds majority vote of the county legislative body. | SB0505 |
0255 | Marriage | As enacted, permits notaries public to solemnize marriages. | SB0509 |
0256 | Public Funds and Financing | As enacted, requires that the annual budget of a local government be on the same basis of accounting as required by generally accepted accounting principles; requires the comptroller of the treasury provide guidance to the form of that budget, including supplemental schedules, as necessary, to demonstrate the local government has adequate cash to meet its current obligations, including principal and interest, as applicable; makes other revisions to provisions governing budgeting by local governments. | SB0534 |
0257 | Comptroller, State | As enacted, removes requirement that the comptroller of the treasury approve quarterly profit and loss statements of the Tennessee rehabilitative initiative in correction's (TRICOR's) operation prior to the release of such statements for publication. | SB0545 |
0258 | Unclaimed Property | As enacted, changes the date used to determine when property held in a pension or retirement account is presumed abandoned; changes, from $50 to $25, the threshold value for property to be included in the report due to the treasurer under the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act; changes the exception to allow the treasurer to waive the claim requirement and deliver the property directly to a person. | SB0611 |
0259 | Health Care | As enacted, establishes certain requirements and procedures to be followed when a patient who is an inpatient at a healthcare facility, or seeking services from emergency department, expresses to a healthcare provider a recent threat or attempt at suicide or infliction of bodily harm to themselves. | SB0615 |
0260 | Insurance, Health, Accident | As enacted, clarifies that the assignment of benefits statute does not prohibit a policy of insurance from providing reimbursement to an insured for expenses the insured incurred when the insured remitted payment directly to a healthcare provider or healthcare facility for provided covered healthcare services. | SB0618 |
0261 | Education | As enacted, specifies, for purposes of certain provisions governing leave, that a teacher's school or school district is not considered to be closed when teachers are required to work remotely and provide virtual instruction to students. | SB0636 |
0262 | Redistricting, Legislative | As enacted, authorizes the comptroller of the treasury to extend the January 1, 2022, deadline for county legislative bodies to redistrict due to the United States census bureau delay in releasing the results of the 2020 federal census. | SB0786 |
0263 | Water Pollution | As enacted, defines "system of incentives" to include regulatory flexibility recognizing increased environmental performance and enhanced water quality under specified permitted activities through permit conditions pursuant to duly promulgated rules. | SB0790 |
0264 | Taxes | As enacted, specifies that a vacation lodging service is not a short-term rental unit marketplace for purposes of being responsible for collecting and remitting tourist accommodation taxes and hotel occupancy taxes. | SB0852 |
0265 | Tort Liability and Reform | As enacted, revises provisions governing information to be filed by a plaintiff in an asbestos action; requires dismissal without prejudice of plaintiff's asbestos claim as to any defendant whose product or premises is not identified in the required information form; requires that plaintiff's asbestos claim be dismissed without prejudice if plaintiff fails to provide the required information. | SB0873 |
0266 | Judges and Chancellors | As enacted, allows a general sessions or juvenile court judge serving by interchange to receive reimbursement for travel expenses from the county to which the judge travels to serve; limits certain travel expenses to no more than $100 per day. | SB0886 |
0267 | Alcoholic Beverages | As enacted, designates sports facilities at private universities as sports authority facilities for purposes of consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises. | SB1004 |
0268 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation | As enacted, requires the human trafficking advisory council to develop a poster design that brings awareness to human trafficking and provide the completed poster design to the department of tourism for placement of the posters in each of Tennessee's welcome centers for the public to view. | SB1132 |
0269 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, specifies three segments of state highways located in Unicoi County where operation of off-highway vehicles will be authorized. | SB1178 |
0270 | Game and Fish Laws | As enacted, repeals statutory fee structure for licenses and permits, with certain exceptions; authorizes the fish and wildlife commission to promulgate rules to abolish license years and establish an annual license system. | SB1199 |
0271 | Education, Dept. of | As enacted, directs the department to provide career and technical education opportunities for students in middle school; requires an LEA to provide students in seventh or eighth grade with information on available career and technical education programs upon administering a career aptitude assessment. | SB1240 |
0272 | Sports | As enacted, enacts the "Safe Stars Act," which establishes certain health and safety requirements in regard to school youth athletic activities. | SB1259 |
0273 | Taxes, Privilege | As enacted, authorizes a local governing body to pass a resolution or ordinance requiring 50 percent of the residential development tax levied under the County Powers Relief Act to be paid at the time of application for a building permit and the remaining 50 percent of the tax to be paid prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy. | SB1262 |
0274 | Education | As enacted, establishes certain requirements regarding student athletes who are placed in foster care. | SB1303 |
0275 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, authorizes dealers whose sales and use tax liability for 12 consecutive months has averaged $1,000 or less per month to file returns and payment either monthly or quarterly; requires that the $1,000 be adjusted for inflation and rounded to the nearest $10 every five years, beginning January 1, 2026. | SB1326 |
0276 | Local Education Agencies | As enacted, authorizes LEAs to purchase technology using state school funds for textbooks and instructional materials in a school year immediately following a textbook adoption cycle in which the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission did not list or recommend career and technical education textbooks or instructional materials; authorizes LEAs to use any remainder of such funds after the purchase of career and technical education textbooks or instructional materials to purchase technology. | SB1377 |
0277 | Motor Vehicles | As enacted, adds to the provisions governing labor rates charged by motor vehicle dealers. | SB1615 |
0278 | Criminal Offenses | As enacted, enacts the "Spencer Bristol Act," which increases the penalty for evading arrest that results in the serious bodily injury of a law enforcement officer to a Class C felony and evading arrest that results in the death of a law enforcement officer to a Class A felony. | SB0129 |
0279 | General Services, Dept. of | As enacted, deletes the Paperwork Reduction and Simplification Act of 1976; redistributes the recordkeeping responsibilities for the state protest committee; revises other various provisions governing state contracts. | SB0746 |
0280 | Human Services, Dept. of | As enacted, designates certain licensing periods as provisional licensing periods; requires the department to establish and implement a quality assessment and rating system to evaluate child care agencies; makes various other changes relative to licensing of child care agencies. | SB0749 |
0281 | Education, Curriculum | As enacted, requires an LEA or public charter school to notify a student's parent or guardian prior to commencing instruction of a sexual orientation or gender identity curriculum; permits a parent or guardian to excuse the parent's or guardian's student from a sexual orientation or gender identity curriculum, and prohibits the LEA or charter school from penalizing an excused student. | SB1229 |
0282 | State Inmates | As enacted, creates process by which the commissioner of correction may certify as eligible for parole certain chronically debilitated or incapacitated inmates; clarifies that medical conditions for which an inmate may be granted a furlough by the commissioner of correction must be chronically debilitating or incapacitating. | HB0072 |
0283 | Banks and Financial Institutions | As enacted, authorizes a state bank to request from the commissioner a waiver or modification of certain terms and conditions applicable to a national bank; authorizes a state bank to request from the commissioner authority to exercise certain incidental powers or engage in certain incidental activities; requires commissioner to publish a summary of applications made for waiver, modification, or authorization. | HB0077 |
0284 | Military | As enacted, establishes state employment protections for members of the national guard, state guard, and civil air patrol called to active state duty equivalent to the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) for members of the national guard called to federal active service. | HB0082 |
0285 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, deletes streamlined sales tax provisions first enacted by Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007 and the implementation of which have been delayed with subsequent legislation. | HB0085 |
0286 | Workers Compensation | As enacted, requires that disputes concerning an employer's failure to provide medical care and treatment, medical services or medical benefits, or both, meet certain requirements; removes requirement that all compensation be paid prior to an employee qualifying for vocational recovery assistance; extends current provisions, as amended, for four years; authorizes workers' compensation judges to conduct judicial settlement conferences. | HB0094 |
0287 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel | As enacted, increases, from one time to once every three years, the required in-service training for a teacher employed by a local board of education in regard to the detection, intervention, prevention, and treatment of human trafficking in which the victim is a child. | HB0117 |
0288 | Sunset Laws | As enacted, extends the board of nursing to June 30, 2023. | HB0267 |
0289 | Taxes, Sales | As enacted, defines "micro market," "micro market display," and "unattended" for purposes of sales and use taxes; authorizes dealers who own and operate micro markets in multiple locations to submit to the department of revenue a single monthly sales tax return and payment from sales made at all micro markets owned and operated by the dealer. | HB0367 |
0290 | Education | As enacted, extends, beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, the counties within which each LEA must implement a program of family life education from counties with a pregnancy rate of 19.5 pregnancies for every 1,000 females ages 15 to 17 to all counties; requires a curriculum on sex education or human sexuality that is implemented by an LEA as a part of a human growth and development program be in conformance with the curriculum guidelines established for family life programs. | HB0487 |
0291 | Administrative Procedure (UAPA) | As enacted, changes the attorney general and reporter's review of an emergency rule, from not disapproving solely on the basis of failure to meet statutory criteria to requiring that the attorney general not approve an emergency rule that does not meet statutory criteria for adoption. | HB0567 |
0292 | Election Laws | As enacted, prohibits a county election commissioner from voting on issues that directly affect the commissioner's immediate family member who is a candidate for office; requires a county election commissioner to be recused of official duties 30 days prior to an election if an immediate family member of the commissioner is a candidate for office in that county. | HB0722 |
0293 | Landlord and Tenant | As enacted, authorizes a tenant to terminate a residential rental or lease agreement entered into or renewed on or after July 1, 2021, upon the tenant providing the landlord with written notice stating that the tenant or household member is a domestic abuse victim, sexual assault victim, or stalking victim, regardless of whether the victim is an adult or a child; establishes requirements for the tenant and landlord in such situations. | HB0732 |
0294 | Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of | As enacted, terminates the Tennessee private investigation and polygraph commission and state board for licensing alarm systems contractors with no wind down period; transfers the commission and board's duties to the commissioner. | HB0781 |
0295 | Secretary of State | As enacted, requires that funds collected from charitable organizations that solicit contributions be used by the secretary of state to defray the costs of the division of the department of state in administering laws governing charitable solicitations; requires that portion of certain filing fees collected by the secretary of state from business organizations be used to defray operating costs of the division of the department of state. | HB0820 |
0296 | State Symbols | As enacted, adds "Amazing Grace" by John Newton as an official state song. | HB0938 |
0297 | Economic and Community Development | As enacted, defines the terms "economic development" and "project" to include incentives that promote the development of single-family housing, for purposes of laws governing projects by industrial development corporations and contributions to industrial development corporations by municipalities. | HB0968 |
0298 | Landlord and Tenant | As enacted, specifies that, unless certain circumstances are met, a landlord is not liable for negligence in renting, leasing, or otherwise extending housing opportunities to a person who has been previously convicted of a criminal offense based solely on the person's criminal conviction; specifies that evidence of the prior criminal conviction is not admissible. | HB1064 |
0299 | Education | As enacted, requires the commissioner of education to obtain approval from the state board of education for changes to the formula used to calculate school or LEA performance goals and measures; requires the commissioner to convene a working group before submitting a proposal to the state board to change the formula. | HB1570 |
0300 | Planning, Public | As enacted, establishes a process for notifying developers regarding the location of natural gas pipelines and easements for such pipelines for purposes of breaking ground on residential and nonresidential developments, and provides pipeline operators with notice of such developments. | SB0271 |