Tennessee 112th General Assembly - Public Acts Search

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Chapter Number Subject Abstract Bill Number
0401 Taxes, Sales As enacted, allocates certain revenue from state and local sales taxes to pay for capital projects and debt service associated with a sports facility of a major league professional football franchise. HB1437
0402 Criminal Offenses As enacted, enacts "April's Law" to clarify that a person who engages in sexual contact with a corpse commits the offense of abuse of a corpse, a Class E felony. HB0012
0403 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As enacted, revises provisions governing payment of expenses incurred during proceedings related to contested cases. HB0079
0404 Open Meetings As enacted, changes the notice requirement for meetings conducted under the Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law, from 10 days prior to the hearing in newspapers of general circulation to seven days prior to such hearing on the general assembly website. HB0573
0405 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, requires an insurer to include cost sharing amounts paid by the enrollee, or on behalf of the enrollee by another person, when calculating an enrollee's contribution to an applicable cost sharing requirement, in certain circumstances. HB0619
0406 Children As enacted, requires the commissioner of human services to designate a specific departmental staff person to serve, in addition to the staff person's other duties, as a liaison to provide an official, uniform message to child care providers, community stakeholders, department child care staff, and partner agencies, using all appropriate channels of communication. HB0670
0407 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, revises provisions governing the sale of alcoholic beverages on the premises of the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. HB0682
0408 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to publish the guidelines for the best practices for identifying and reporting signs of child abuse, child sexual abuse, and human trafficking in which the victim is a child on the department's website. HB0723
0409 Correction, Dept. of As enacted, allows the department to contract with entities and organizations, including local governments, to create or operate community-based alternatives to incarceration; rewrites various provisions regarding community corrections, probation, probation revocation, and release on bail. HB0784
0410 Probation and Parole As enacted, enacts the "Reentry Success Act of 2021". HB0785
0411 Consumer Protection As enacted, requires a manufacturer, under certain circumstances, to replace farm machinery with comparable farm machinery or accept return of the farm machinery and refund the full purchase price and related repair costs, less a reasonable allowance for use and a reasonable offset for physical damage; creates a civil cause of action for consumers. HB0830
0412 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, revises provisions governing appropriations in regards to laws that result in net increase or net decrease in periods of imprisonment in state facilities. HB0841
0413 Victims' Rights As enacted, revises provisions governing restitution to victim; extends, from one year to two years, the time within which a victim of a crime may file a claim with the criminal injuries compensation fund. HB0870
0414 Foster Care As enacted, requires the caseworker for a child who has been placed in foster care to document any objection to the child's placement with a relative that is made by another relative or other interested party; requires the department of children's services to include the number of such objections in its annual report on foster care. HB0874
0415 Child Labor As enacted, allows an age-restricted venue to continue to permit smoking in the venue even if the venue employs a person under 21 years of age if the employee is at least 16 years of age, the child of the owner of the venue, and the venue is not an adult-oriented establishment. HB0926
0416 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, increases from $40 to $50 the minimum amount that the state will match to an employee's optional retirement plan. HB1016
0417 Education As enacted, revises provisions governing criminal history checks of certain persons who come in direct contact with school children or children in a child care program. HB1131
0418 Criminal Offenses As enacted, revises offense of critical infrastructure vandalism. HB1145
0419 Election Laws As enacted, revises provisions governing convenient voting centers. HB1178
0420 Trusts As enacted, makes various changes to laws regarding trusts. HB1186
0421 Criminal Procedure As enacted, authorizes law enforcement officers, district attorneys general, and the attorney general to seek criminal process for the production of wire and electronic communications and transactional records pertaining to the communications; sets guidelines for the service of and compliance with the criminal process. HB1187
0422 Taxes, Sales As enacted, revises provisions governing special sales and use tax allocation in regard to minor league baseball stadium. HB1204
0423 Forfeiture of Assets As enacted, revises provisions governing awards of attorney's fees in certain forfeiture actions. HB1254
0424 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, requires the state to reimburse a local government that provides health insurance benefits for first responders in an amount equal to that portion of health insurance premiums or expenses for COBRA coverage for benefits for which the local government is responsible. HB1373
0425 Wine & Wineries As enacted, authorizes a winery direct shipper that produces or manufactures less than 270,000 liters of wine per calendar year to ship up to 54 liters of wine to an individual per calendar year. HB1481
0426 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, reduces the population threshold, from 925 to 700, to make a municipality eligible to hold a referendum on the sale of alcoholic beverages. HB1514
0427 State Employees As enacted, provides 36 hours of yearly leave for a state employee who is a veteran with a service-connected disability of 30 percent or more to be used to attend appointments related to the service-connected disability. HB1578
0428 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, provides that legal service plans entered into by a person and certain intermediary organizations are not considered legal insurance for the purposes of the Tennessee Legal Insurance Act. SB0116
0429 Taxes, Sales As enacted, specifies that "private nonprofit college or university" as it relates to a certain sales and use tax exemption includes a nonprofit academic medical center and teaching hospital that operates as a separate nonprofit corporation, but which, when founded, was operated as a division of a private nonprofit college or university and that continues to provide education and training of physicians, nurses, and other allied healthcare professionals. SB0146
0430 Criminal Offenses As enacted, broadens offense of property owner allowing an "underage adult" to consume alcohol to apply to all minors; sets a mandatory fine for convictions offenses related to providing alcohol to minors. SB0157
0431 Highway Signs As enacted, authorizes the department of transportation to install appropriate signs along a state highway for the Doe Mountain recreational area. SB0171
0432 Beer As enacted, revises provisions governing self-distribution by certain beer manufacturers. SB0177
0433 Economic and Community Development As enacted, encourages each county's joint economic and community development board to include representation from school systems located within the county; revises other powers and actions taken by the board. SB0224
0434 Boats, Boating As enacted, aligns penalties for boating under the influence with the penalties for driving under the influence; clarifies that the offenses of vehicular assault, aggravated vehicular assault, vehicular homicide, and aggravated vehicular homicide may be committed by a person boating under the influence. SB0246
0435 Fireworks As enacted, makes various changes to the process for certification as an outdoor fireworks display operator, proximate pyrotechnic display operator, or flame effect display operator. SB0263
0436 Juvenile Offenders As enacted, prohibits juvenile courts from placing certain juveniles on judicial diversion; imposes certain other restrictions on juveniles adjudicated delinquent for certain acts. SB0281
0437 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, revises provisions governing certain tasting events. SB0332
0438 Highway Signs As enacted, requires that any state community colleges that are within the service area of Roane State Community College, located in Campbell County, and located within five miles of Interstate 75 be signed. SB0427
0439 Law Enforcement As enacted, establishes a reward for information leading to the arrest of any person responsible for the shooting of a law enforcement officer in the line of duty; sets the reward at $10,000 if the officer is injured in the shooting or $20,000 if the officer is killed in the shooting. SB0440
0440 Criminal Offenses As enacted, expands the offense of aggravated rioting to include rioting by a person who travels from outside the state with intent to commit a criminal offense and participating in a riot in exchange for compensation; increases the mandatory minimum sentence for aggravated rioting to 60 days if the person commits more than one aggravating circumstance. SB0451
0441 Disabled Persons As enacted, prohibits certain healthcare providers and entities from discriminating against qualified persons for receipt of transplantations or anatomical gifts based solely on disability; prohibits insurers that offer plans covering transplantations from denying coverage solely on disability. SB0488
0442 Comptroller, State As enacted, replaces the requirement that if a witness cannot be found, a copy of a subpoena issued by the comptroller of the treasury to the witness be left at the place of residence of the witness with the requirement that a copy of the subpoena be mailed by first-class mail to the last known address of the witness; adds, as an alternative to hand delivery of a subpoena, that the subpoena be mailed to the witness by certified mail, return receipt requested. SB0536
0443 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, clarifies that the term "crime of violence" in regard to weapons offenses includes aggravated rape of a child rather than especially aggravated rape of a child. SB0555
0444 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Firearm Protection Act." SB0557
0445 Veterans Services, Dept. of As enacted, enacts the "Major Trevor Joseph Act," which requires the department to provide burial services for a person who died while on active duty with the armed forces and is being interred in a state veterans cemetery on a date requested by the family members of the person if the department is given notice of the burial at least 72 hours in advance of the burial. SB0793
0446 Courts, Administrative Office of the As enacted, requires the AOC to provide each court clerk in a county that has not installed TnCIS with a list of the data that is required under Rules of the Supreme Court of Tennessee or state law; requires the AOC and court to coordinate efforts to ensure that the court clerks submit the required data by January 1, 2022, and in an ongoing manner thereafter, pursuant to procedures established by the AOC. SB0829
0447 Public Records As enacted, revises provisions relative to the destruction of original public records. SB0832
0448 Energy As enacted, adds the chair of the Tennessee public utility commission or the chair's designee as a voting member of the state energy policy council. SB0849
0449 Trusts As enacted, allows real property conveyances to a trust to vest title in the trustee of the trust; requires that public records referencing a trust be indexed by the name of the trust, if stated in the document, and in the name of each trustee listed in the document. SB0881
0450 Highways, Roads and Bridges As enacted, enacts the "Caitlyn Kaufman Interstate Safety Act," which expands the authorized uses of surveillance cameras on interstate highways. SB0354
0451 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes, for a period of two years, certain establishments authorized to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption to also offer drive-through, pickup, and carryout orders; revises other related provisions. HB0241
0452 Education As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Accommodations for All Children Act." HB1233
0453 Public Buildings As enacted, requires a public or private entity or business that operates a building or facility open to the general public to post a notice at the entrance of each public restroom of the entity's or business's policy of allowing a member of either biological sex to use any public restroom within the building or facility, if the entity or business maintains such a policy. HB1182
0454 Appropriations As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2020, and July 1, 2021. SB0912
0455 Bond Issues As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $126 million. SB0910
0456 Budget Procedures As enacted, establishes a sales tax holiday on food and food ingredients and on prepared food (excluding alcoholic beverages) from Friday, July 30, 2021, through Thursday, August 5, 2021; revises qualified work-based learning grant program provisions. SB0909
0457 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 $431,600,000 or 2.37 percent. SB0911
0458 Criminal Offenses As enacted, adds nurses to the assault against a first responder who is discharging or attempting to discharge official duties statute. SB0019
0459 TennCare As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2021." SB0123
0460 Health Care As enacted, specifies that standard medical practice does not involve prescribing hormone treatment for gender dysphoric or gender incongruent prepubertal minors; prohibits a healthcare prescriber from prescribing a course of treatment that involves hormone treatment for gender dysphoric or gender incongruent prepubertal minors, except that a healthcare prescriber may prescribe a course of treatment that involves hormone treatments for prepubertal minors for diagnoses of growth deficiencies or other diagnoses unrelated to gender dysphoria or gender incongruency. SB0126
0461 Health, Dept. of As enacted, requires licensing authority, upon learning a healthcare prescriber was indicted for or convicted of certain criminal offenses, to restrict or revoke, respectively, the prescriber's ability to prescribe controlled substances; requires licensing authority to suspend the license of certain healthcare professionals upon finding the healthcare professional failed to comply with physician collaboration requirements; requires facility administrators to report certain information. SB0212
0462 Law Enforcement As enacted, revises various provisions of the Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act. SB0258
0463 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, revises various provisions under the Human Resource Agency Act of 1973. SB0280
0464 Elder Abuse As enacted, recreates the elder abuse task force, which was terminated and dissolved January 15, 2021; extends date for the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the governor and general assembly to January 15, 2022. SB0304
0465 Dentists and Dentistry As enacted, authorizes a dentist licensed in this state to administer a vaccination against COVID-19 if the dentist has received appropriate training as recommended by the centers for disease control and prevention. SB0410
0466 Tourism As enacted, increases maximum amount of additional fee that may be imposed on certain sales in central improvement districts under the Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act; specifies how additional fee may be used. SB0424
0467 Scholarships and Financial Aid As enacted, removes the requirement that a home school student must be enrolled as a home school student for a full year to be eligible for certain state lottery scholarships; adds those who complete six credit hours of dual enrollment courses to be eligible for the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. SB0458
0468 Controlled Substances As enacted, adds required information to the report issued by the commissioner of health regarding the impact and effects of restrictions and limitations on the use of opioids to treat patients. SB0484
0469 Education, Higher As enacted, ends the BEST college savings program that permitted tuition units to be purchased under a tuition contract; provides for the use, refund, or rollover to another college savings plan of all funds remaining under any tuition contract. SB0501
0470 Public Employees As enacted, specifies that an employee of a county or municipality is not entitled to back pay if the employee is arrested and placed on administrative leave and then voluntarily separates from employment, even if the charges are dropped or the employee is found not guilty, or is terminated for reasons other than the arrest; requires that the records of the administrative actions be preserved. SB0610
0471 Textbooks As enacted, revises various provisions governing textbooks and instructional materials; prohibits public school teachers and principals from using or permitting the use of textbooks and 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. SB0630
0472 County Government As enacted, prohibits certain persons from having a direct or indirect interest in a contract with a county for the purchase of supplies, materials, equipment, or services. SB0656
0473 Gaming As enacted, authorizes a nonprofit organization to conduct a bingo game as its annual event for purposes of the Tennessee Nonprofit Gaming Law. SB0664
0474 General Assembly, Directed Studies As enacted, creates the Tennessee child care task force. SB0677
0475 Clerks, Court As enacted, requires the circuit court clerks, criminal court clerks, clerks and masters of chancery courts, clerks of courts of general sessions, county clerks, clerks of juvenile and probate courts, and clerks of law and equity courts within Knox County to charge the standard schedule of fees. SB0688
0476 Dentists and Dentistry As enacted, revises present law provisions regarding the examination to become licensed as a dentist. SB0702
0477 Taxes, Sales As enacted, revises provisions regarding the aviation fuel tax. SB0772
0478 Firefighters As enacted, provides annual $600 cash supplements to volunteer firefighters who successfully complete in each year an in-service training course. SB0778
0479 Local Education Agencies As enacted, requires each LEA to have an open enrollment period in which a parent or guardian of a student may seek to transfer the parent's or guardian's student to a school in the LEA that the student is not zoned to attend. SB0788
0480 Taxes, Sales As enacted, allows for sales or use taxes collected from a customer by a dealer being refunded to the customer if the customer twice requested a refund from the dealer and the dealer failed or declined to issue the refund and other criteria are met. SB0883
0481 Taxes, Privilege As enacted, makes permanent the removal of the cap on the amount of state shared sales tax revenue remitted to premiere type tourist resort municipalities. SB0897
0482 Environment and Conservation, Department of As enacted, requires the commissioner to promulgate rules that take effect by July 1, 2021, to create a commercial use authorization to allow persons wanting to engage in commercial activities at state parks or state natural areas to obtain a permit to do so; specifies that the rules must include fees structured to promote park self-sufficiency and economic development. SB1075
0483 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As enacted, continues permanent rules filed with the secretary of state after January 1, 2020. SB1076
0484 Human Services, Dept. of As enacted, authorizes the department to utilize an enrollment-based child care subsidy payments program that complies with all applicable federal funding requirements and legal authority and that seeks to provide adequate, stable payments to providers of child care services by establishing effective payment practices based upon accurate time and attendance systems. SB1105
0485 Fireworks As enacted, requires the state fire marshal to verify that an applicant for a fireworks permit is locally licensed to do business in this state and is registered with the department of revenue prior to issuing a permit. SB1111
0486 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, authorizes a correctional officer of a local government who is a member of the state retirement system to retire under the state retirement system upon completion of 25 years of creditable service; authorizes local governments participating in TCRS to adopt a mandatory age of retirement for correctional officers. SB1114
0487 Campaigns and Campaign Finance As enacted, disqualifies an officer of a multicandidate political campaign committee from running for a state or local public office if the multicandidate political campaign committee has not paid a lawfully assessed civil penalty for a violation of the financial disclosure laws or the campaign contribution laws within 30 days; revises other provisions regarding political campaign committees. SB1120
0488 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, changes the compensation, from an amount not to exceed $1,000 annually to an amount not to exceed $200 monthly, for the board of directors of the Reelfoot Lake regional utility and planning district. SB1187
0489 Law Enforcement As enacted, requires law enforcement agencies to develop certain policies regarding the use of force; prohibits magistrates from issuing no-knock warrants; establishes certain reporting requirements. SB1380
0490 Education As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the achievement school district. HB0074
0491 Opioids As enacted, establishes the opioid abatement fund; enacts the "Opioid Abatement Council Act"; enacts the "Tennessee Opioid Abatement Act"; authorizes the attorney general and reporter to settle claims against opioid manufacturers. HB1132
0492 Juvenile Offenders As enacted, redefines "seclusion" with regard to children in custody at juvenile detention facilities approved, certified, or licensed by the department of children's services, including youth development centers; enacts other related provisions. SB0383
0493 Education As enacted, deletes several obsolete provisions and makes various substantive changes to education laws; establishes parameters for the teaching of certain concepts related to race and sex. SB0623
0494 Expunction As enacted, extends eligibility for expunction to a person convicted of Class A misdemeanor assault prior to July 1, 2000. SB0707
0495 Health Care As enacted, authorizes medical laboratory directors to monitor personnel remotely; creates exceptions to the Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act for pharmacies and private laboratories; revises other provisions of the Act. SB0982
0496 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, revises provisions governing the levying of a hotel occupancy tax by a local government. SB1030
0497 General Assembly, Directed Studies As enacted, requires TACIR to study funding for all non fish and game recreational activities, particularly the use of non-motorized vessels, and submit a report of their findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation or interim reports, to the general assembly no later than December 31, 2022. SB1080
0498 Human Services, Dept. of As enacted, authorizes the department to utilize alternative methodologies to determine the cost of day care when setting the annual day care reimbursement rate and to take actions necessary to support the development of shared services alliances and family child care networks to improve the quality of child care in this state, give child care providers access to innovative child care business resource platforms, and provide a means of cost savings to child care providers through negotiated discounts. SB1104
0499 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, authorizes, from May 25, 2021, to July 1, 2023, law enforcement officers who have been retired for at least nine months from TCRS from any superseded system administered by the state, or from any local retirement fund to accept employment as a law enforcement officer without loss or suspension of retirement benefits if certain conditions met. SB1185
0500 Elder Abuse As enacted, enacts the "Safe Seniors Act of 2021". SB1228

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