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0501 Witnesses As enacted, limits the circumstances under which a court may permit remote testimony by an expert in the scientific detection of crime (a "forensic analyst") in a criminal proceeding to certain cases; enacts other related requirements. SB1231
0502 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration As enacted, increases, from $4.00 to $5.00, the amount of the fee that may be imposed by each county clerk for the service of handling mail orders of registration plates and decals. SB1270
0503 Public Health As enacted, requires TACIR to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of childhood obesity in the state and its short- and long-term effects. SB1323
0504 Education, State Board of As enacted, requires the board to determine the percentage of any increase in funds appropriated to the instructional salaries and wages component of the basic education program (BEP) and increase the minimum salary on the state salary schedule by that percentage. SB1338
0505 Sentencing As enacted, classifies the offense of reckless endangerment by discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle as a Class C felony. SB1373
0506 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, provides that all actions, arbitrations, or other binding dispute resolution proceedings to recover damages for a deficiency in the design, planning, supervision, observation of construction, or construction of a trolley or light rail system, for injury to property, real or personal, arising out of any such deficiency, or for injury to the person or for wrongful death arising out of any such deficiency, must be brought against any governmental entity that owns, operates, or controls the trolley or light right system within four years after substantial completion of an improvement. SB1417
0507 Education, Higher As enacted, enacts the "Students Right to Know Act." SB1521
0508 Child Abuse As enacted, adds to the definition of "severe child abuse" the act of knowingly allowing a child to be within a structure where a Schedule I controlled substance, cocaine, methamphetamine, or fentanyl is present and accessible to the child. SB1530
0509 Sexual Offenses As enacted, states that a victim of sexual battery is incapable of consenting to sexual contact with a member of the clergy, healthcare professional, or alcohol and drug abuse counselor who was treating the victim for a mental, emotional, or physical condition if the sexual contact occurs during the course of a consultation, examination, ongoing treatment, therapy, or other provision of such professional services. SB1531
0510 State Government As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Small Business Investment Company Credit Act regarding TNInvestco. SB1552
0511 Criminal Offenses As enacted, creates the offense of negligently, by act or omission, engaging in conduct that places a child in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment. SB1591
0512 Tennessee Higher Education Commission As enacted, requires the commission to establish a four-year pilot program to award completion grants to Tennessee Promise scholarship students who have an immediate financial need or who are experiencing a financial hardship that may prevent the student from completing a postsecondary degree or credential. HB0006
0513 Public Health As enacted, establishes certain restrictions on requiring persons to be vaccinated for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. HB0013
0514 General Assembly As enacted, allows the use of electronic signatures for a written request by members of the general assembly to convene for extraordinary session in accordance with the Constitution of Tennessee, Article II, § 8. HB0129
0515 Welfare As enacted, makes certain investigative records of the department of human services confidential during the course of an investigation; establishes fines for certain offenses related to fraudulently obtaining food assistance; creates a families first community advisory board; requires the department of human services to establish a two-year pilot program that provides an optional alternative temporary assistance pathway for certain assistance recipients; enacts other related provisions. HB0142
0516 Privacy, Confidentiality As enacted, enacts the "Personal Privacy Protection Act." HB0159
0517 Taxes, Excise As enacted, revises provisions governing certain excise tax credits. HB0191
0518 Public Employees As enacted, requires that retirees of the Tennessee highway patrol with 25 years of service receive 80 percent of the scheduled premium or defined contribution for the health insurance benefits provided by the state. HB0202
0519 Education, Curriculum As enacted, requires an LEA to publish its curriculum on the LEA's website and to update curriculum changes at the beginning of each semester. HB0210
0520 Bail, Bail Bonds As enacted, specifies the continuing education credits required for persons acting as a bounty hunter; expands persons prohibited from serving as a bounty hunter in this state; and restricts clothing and representations of a professional bondsman. HB0217
0521 Veterans As enacted, requires the offering of discounted rates for activities at state parks to veterans who are Tennessee residents and a year-round discount in the amount of no less than 50 percent for camping and overnight cabin lodging fees at state parks to a state-resident veteran who has a service-connected disability that is determined by the veterans' administration to constitute a 100 percent permanent total disability. HB0322
0522 Taxes, Personal Property As enacted, authorizes, from May 25, 2021, to July 1, 2024, the county trustee to proceed against delinquent taxpayers by retaining an agent to collect delinquent personal property taxes, interest, costs, and attorneys' fees. HB0358
0523 Law Enforcement As enacted, requires, in jurisdictions that conduct citizen police academies or similar programs, that members of a community oversight board complete the local police force's citizen academy course or program; establishes timeframe for completion and provides that noncompliant member will lose voting privileges until requirement is met. HB0374
0524 TennCare As enacted, adds chiropractic services performed by a person authorized to engage in the practice of chiropractic to the list of healthcare services that may be included as covered TennCare medical assistance. HB0419
0525 Sentencing As enacted, requires that a person convicted of facilitation of rape of a child or aggravated rape of a child be sentenced to community supervision for life and to serve 100 percent of the sentence imposed before becoming eligible for release, with no more than 15 percent in sentence reduction credits. HB0430
0526 Child Custody and Support As enacted, adds to the child support advisory group two attorneys appointed by the commissioner of human services, one of whom will be an advocate for child support obligors and one of whom will be an advocate for child support obligees. HB0447
0527 Surplus Property As enacted, authorizes the department of safety to, without payment of financial consideration and following notice to the commissioner of general services, transfer a surplus first responder two-way radio held by the department to the county government of a county that is designated as a distressed county in the most recently published edition of the Appalachian Regional Commission economic classification system index; authorizes other similar transfers after initial transfer. HB0488
0528 Criminal Offenses As enacted, revises provisions regarding the criminal offense of commission of act of terrorism resulting in the killing of another person and other provisions regarding first degree murder and the sentencing for such offense. HB0511
0529 Education, Higher As enacted, increases from $1,000 to $1,250 the amount awarded each semester to a full-time student receiving the middle college scholarship. HB0542
0530 TennCare As enacted, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2022; revises other related provisions. HB0556
0531 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As enacted, limits an administrative agency's authority to promulgate rules without a public hearing. HB0568
0532 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As enacted, increases from 75 to 90 days that amount of time for which the house or senate government operations committee may stay a rule; authorizes additional 90-day stays by committees acting jointly in certain circumstances. HB0570
0533 Municipal Government As enacted, reduces from 24 hours to 16 hours the required amount of continuing professional education for certified municipal finance officers (CMFO); authorizes a municipality to contract with a certified public accountant to act as a CMFO; removes outdated compliance timelines. HB0656
0534 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, broadens the definition of "governmental entity" under the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act to include certain 501(c)(4) nonprofit property owners associations that, among other requirements, own and operate a water or sewer distribution service. HB0697
0535 Victims' Rights As enacted, requires the district attorneys general conference to submit a report to the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate and the criminal justice committee of the house as to whether separate and secure waiting areas exist within each of the 31 judicial districts along with recommendations to achieve the requirements of law that victims of crime and prosecution witnesses should be provided waiting areas that are separate and secure from the defendant or defense witnesses during all stages of the judicial process. HB0744
0536 Scholarships and Financial Aid As enacted, clarifies that the dual enrollment program will award the in-state tuition and mandatory fees cost up to a maximum amount for the first four courses taken and makes other related changes. HB0752
0537 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, enacts the "Insurance Modernization Act." HB0767
0538 Civil Emergencies As enacted, adds provisions relative to COVID-19 response to authorize the commissioner of labor and workforce development to take certain actions in regard to unemployment compensation and to authorize the substitution of a copy of certain documentation in regard to transport by sheriff or transportation agent of a person for involuntary admission for mental health treatment. HB0779
0539 Expunction As enacted, authorizes a clerk to charge a fee of less than $100 for expunction; expands the offenses for which expunction is permitted; revises other related provisions. HB0888
0540 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, enacts the "Firearms Information Privacy Protection Act." HB1171
0541 Probation and Parole As enacted, clarifies that when a person is serving two or more probationary sentences and the person's probation is revoked on one sentence, then the person must receive credit for time served as a result of that revocation against any other concurrent probationary sentence that is subsequently revoked in any jurisdiction in this state. HB1183
0542 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to notify the appropriate court when the department has knowledge that a foster parent from a kinship placement violated a court order by allowing a child to visit the child's parent within 96 hours of the department's knowledge of the information. HB1268
0543 Fairs As enacted, adds Wilson County Promotions, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, to the entities with which the Tennessee state fair and exposition commission may work to conduct a fair or exposition; provides for the Tennessee state fair being held at the Wilson County fairgrounds. HB1286
0544 Juries and Jurors As enacted, exempts from jury service, upon request and sufficient proof of age, persons 75 years of age and older who are incapable of providing service due to a mental or physical condition; requires person seeking such exemption to submit a declaration with certain information. HB1303
0545 Criminal Offenses As enacted, states that aggravated burglary and especially aggravated burglary are crimes committed against the person; moves the burglary offenses to the chapter that includes offenses against persons. HB1338
0546 State Government As enacted, creates a new division of state government, the Tennessee Office of Cooperative Disability Investigation, to operate for three years. HB1538
0547 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department, working jointly with the higher education commission, the board of regents, and public institutions of higher education, to establish a foster care youth outreach pilot program at a minimum of five public institutions of higher education. SB0722
0548 Mining and Quarrying As enacted, rewrites the Primacy and Reclamation Act of Tennessee. SB0742
0549 Professions and Occupations As enacted, makes various changes affecting certain professional boards and professions, including court reporters, motor vehicle dealers, barbers, certain apprentices, scrap metal dealers, locksmiths, and other professions. SB0771
0550 Public Health As enacted, removes authority from county boards of health in relation to enforcement and adoption of rules and regulations and instead makes the board advisory to the county mayor for such purposes; defines quarantine for purposes of the present law provisions governing quarantine; prohibits state or local governmental official, entity, department, or agency requiring physical documentation or digital storage of protected health information related to an individual's immunization or vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition of entering upon the premises of a state or local government entity, or utilizing services provided by a state or local government entity. SB0858
0551 Tobacco, Tobacco Products As enacted, adds use of vapor products to the acts that are prohibited in enclosed public places under the Non-Smoker Protection Act; revises provision whereby a local government may prohibit smoking by a distance of up to 50 feet from a hospital's entrance unless the application of a 50-foot limit would place hospital patients in a potentially unsafe condition to make the provision mandatory instead of discretionary and to also apply to the use of vapor products. SB1047
0552 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Work Ready Opportunity Program." SB1135
0553 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Second Amendment Sanctuary Act." SB1335
0554 Firearms and Ammunition As enacted, enacts the "Second Amendment Privacy and Protection Act of 2021," HB0902
0555 Public Records As enacted, revises provisions regarding confidentiality of certain information in records of person arrested or charged but not convicted of an offense and information in accident reports. HB0910
0556 Employees, Employers As enacted, clarifies that non-compliance with state and federal anti-discrimination laws is not included in the definition of "illegal activities" as it relates to provisions prohibiting retaliatory termination of an employee. HB0943
0557 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Health Services and Planning Act of 2021," which revises various provisions of and renames the Tennessee Health Services and Planning Act of 2002. HB0948
0558 Taxes As enacted, provides for the allocation of certain revenue from state and local sales taxes to pay for the capital and operation expenses associated with a motor sports facility. HB0975
0559 Taxes As enacted, adds one month to the current six-month extension of time in which taxpayers can file a franchise and excise tax return. HB1011
0560 Unemployment Compensation As enacted, revises provisions governing benefits formula under the Tennessee Employment Security Law. HB1039
0561 Taxes, Sales As enacted, revises provision governing allocation of sales and use tax revenue to certain commercial development districts in economically distressed counties by clarifying that a county bordering three such distressed counties for purposes of the allocation must have bordered at least three such counties in three fiscal years since fiscal year 2016-2017, if certain requirements met. HB1042
0562 Purchasing and Procurement As enacted, clarifies that the fiscal review committee must be allowed to review noncompetitive procurement agreements; requires the chief procurement officer to report procurement contracts monthly to the fiscal review committee; revises provisions governing public employees accepting employment with respondent to a solicitation or contractor in certain situations; revises other provisions related to state contracts. HB1046
0563 Sentencing As enacted, enumerates certain sexual offenses for which there will be no release eligibility. HB1047
0564 Appeal and Review As enacted, creates a right of appeal in an action brought against this state, a department or agency of this state, or an official of this state in their official capacity that challenges the constitutionality of a state statute, whereby the state may appeal as of right from an interlocutory order of a circuit or chancery court of this state that grants, continues, or modifies an injunction or denies a motion to dissolve or modify an injunction. HB1072
0565 Medical Occupations As enacted, makes various changes to laws regulating physician assistants. HB1080
0566 Civil Procedure As enacted, establishes process for three-judge panel hearing civil actions in which the complaint: challenges the constitutionality of a statute, executive order, or rule; includes a claim for declaratory judgment or injunctive relief; and is brought against the state, a state department or agency, or a state official acting in their official capacity. HB1130
0567 Foster Care As enacted, requires a foster care agency to provide a child in foster care with contact information for each sibling who is also in foster care and who is not placed in the same home as the child if maintaining contact with the sibling is in the best interests of each sibling. HB1166
0568 Children As enacted, enacts "Eli's Law," which creates a presumption that any child born to a parent, from whose custody a child has previously been removed for being dependent or neglected and the child who was previously removed is in the custody of the department of children's services, may be dependent or neglected and that it is in the best interest of both children that the child's birth be brought to the court's attention; enacts other related provisions. HB1377
0569 Insurance, Health, Accident As enacted, revises various provisions governing pharmacy benefits and pharmacy benefits managers. HB1398
0570 General Assembly As enacted, revises various provisions regarding mileage allowance and expense allowances. HB1401
0571 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, requires the state board of education to approve a process for an LEA, or for two or more LEAs working together, to establish an LEA teacher training program. HB1534
0572 Professions and Occupations As enacted, repeals the Locksmith Licensing Act of 2006. SB0012
0573 Criminal Offenses As enacted, increases the penalty for drag racing from a Class B misdemeanor to a Class A misdemeanor. SB0014
0574 Tobacco, Tobacco Products As enacted, authorizes a municipality, a county, or a county having a metropolitan form of government to prohibit the use of tobacco products or vapor products, or both, on the grounds of a public park, public playground, or public greenway as long as the public park, public playground, or public greenway is owned or controlled by the respective municipality or county. SB0028
0575 Human Resources, Department of As enacted, creates the state as a model employer (SAME) program within the department to ensure certain employment practices in regard to individuals with disabilities. SB0100
0576 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department to increase the hourly wage for direct care professionals employed at contracted agencies of the department for the home- and community-based waiver programs for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, or any successor programs, such that on July 1, 2021, the hourly wage is at least $12.50 per hour. SB0114
0577 Health Care As enacted, creates the medical cannabis commission; exempts from the definition of marijuana oil containing the substance cannabidiol, with less than 0.9% of THC for use by a person with certain health issues, if certain other requirements met. SB0118
0578 Education As enacted, enacts the "School Turnaround Pilot Program Act." SB0122
0579 Special License Plates As enacted, authorizes various new special license plates and grants additional time for certain plates to meet the minimum order requirement; revises other special license plate provisions. SB0138
0580 Animal Cruelty and Abuse As enacted, revises offense of aggravated cruelty to animals. SB0166
0581 Judicial Districts As enacted, requires that any employee of the twenty-first judicial district who transfers to the same position in the thirty-second judicial district as of September 1, 2022, must retain the same level of salary and benefits, subject to appropriation by the general assembly in the annual appropriations act. SB0222
0582 Taxes, Sales As enacted, increases, from 30 to 35 years, the maximum time period during which a certain portion of state sales taxes are allocated and distributed to a municipality or industrial development corporation that finances development of an extraordinary retail or tourism facility project in a certified border region retail tourism development district. SB0241
0583 Public Utility Commission As enacted, increases membership of commission from five to seven members; revises other provisions regarding appointments and panels. SB0242
0584 Highway Signs As enacted, establishes provisions governing specific service signs where more than six businesses of a specific service type are eligible for sign panels. SB0267
0585 Banks and Financial Institutions As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to study the feasibility of creating a state gold depository and to report its findings to the speakers of the senate and house of representatives no later than January 1, 2022. SB0279
0586 Criminal Procedure As enacted, authorizes district attorney general to petition court for protective order prohibiting defendant and defendant's counsel from publishing certain information in certain circumstances; penalizes violation of such an order as Class E felony. SB0283
0587 Medical Occupations As enacted, requires the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and the East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine, in cooperation with the department of health and THEC, to administer certain residency opportunities; creates a resident training program to provide resident training opportunities for physicians focusing on family medicine and general internal medicine to provide medical and behavioral health services in medically underserved areas and rural counties, distributed across all three grand divisions of this state. SB0298
0588 County Boundaries As enacted, alters the boundary between Davidson and Wilson counties in such manner as to detach certain parcels of real property currently located in Davidson County and to attach such parcels to Wilson County. SB0364
0589 Local Education Agencies As enacted, requires an LEA to allocate prorated daily per pupil state and local funding to an out-of-state residential mental health facility if a student of the LEA is admitted to the facility and certain conditions are met. SB0449
0590 Child Abuse As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a person to attempt to access or obtain confidential information from the department of children's services regarding alleged child abuse or neglect that the person knows is in violation of state or federal laws and regulations regarding confidentiality. SB0476
0591 Taxes, Sales As enacted, extends provisions related to the apportionment and distribution of state tax revenue as they pertain to National Hockey League franchises until June 30, 2049. SB0481
0592 Taxes, Sales As enacted, creates a sales tax holiday for the retail sale of gun safes and gun safety devices if sold between 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 2021, and 11:59 p.m. on June 30, 2022. SB0551
0593 Gaming As enacted, transfers all powers and duties regarding the Tennessee Sports Gaming Act to the sports wagering advisory council. SB0588
0594 Treasurer, State As enacted, authorizes the treasurer to establish a length of service award program for eligible employers to participate in a deferred compensation plan for bona fide volunteers. SB0655
0595 Education, State Board of As enacted, enacts the "K-12 Mental Health Trust Fund Act." SB0739
0596 Redistricting, Legislative As enacted, establishes state senate districts. SB0780
0597 Redistricting, Congressional As enacted, establishes the state's congressional districts. SB0781
0598 Redistricting, Legislative As enacted, establishes state house of representatives districts. HB1035
0599 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the applied behavior analyst licensing committee of the board of examiners in psychology to June 30, 2028. SB1693
0600 Sunset Laws As enacted, extends the archaeological advisory council to June 30, 2028. SB1694

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