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0801 Motor Vehicles As enacted, requires, at the time of hire, if an entity employs drivers or contracts with drivers who use the drivers' personal vehicles for the delivery of the entity's goods or services and the entity does not provide automobile insurance coverage to those drivers, the entity to inform the driver that the drivers' automobile insurance may not cover commercial uses. HB0685
0802 Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) As enacted, prohibits the state, a political subdivision, or a public official from prohibiting or imposing additional restrictions on the lawful operations of a church or religious organization during a state of emergency, major disaster, or natural disaster; restricts a county health officer from issuing an order closing or limiting the operations of a church or religious organization for purposes of worship services. HB1137
0803 Consumer Protection As enacted, requires a business that allows someone to sign up for a service or subscription online to provide the option to cancel the service or subscription online without additional steps; creates certain exceptions. HB1652
0804 Controlled Substances As enacted, expands the definition of drug paraphernalia to include pill press devices and pieces of a pill press device, unless the pill press device or piece is used by a person or entity that lawfully possesses drug products in the course of legitimate business activities, including a pharmacy or pharmacist licensed by the board of pharmacy; a wholesale drug distributor, or its agents, licensed by the board of pharmacy; and a manufacturer of drug products, or its agents, licensed by the board of pharmacy. HB1763
0805 Tort Liability and Reform As enacted, specifies that a registered charitable organization providing food, housing, or shelter from adverse weather to the community is not liable for any loss, damages, injury, or death that results from providing such services unless the charitable organization's conduct constitutes gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct. HB1765
0806 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, exempts from the general requirement that a person must be licensed in order to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance in this state a medicare product marketing representative, unless licensing as an insurance producer is required under applicable centers for medicare and medicaid services (CMS) regulations. HB1772
0807 Health Care As enacted, includes as provider-based telemedicine, which health insurance entities must cover, HIPAA-compliant audio-only conversation for the provision of healthcare services (in addition to behavioral health services as covered under existing law) when the use of HIPAA-compliant real-time, interactive video, video telecommunications, or electronic technology, or store-and-forward telemedicine services are unavailable. HB1843
0808 Real Property As enacted, provides that if a person who already possesses a private easement or right-of-way of less than 25 feet granted determines that additional land is needed for the purpose of extending utility lines to the enclosed land, then the person must file a new petition requesting additional land; enacts other related requirements in regard to such a petition. HB1884
0809 Election Laws As enacted, requires that a candidate for county legislative body, constable, trustee, register, assessor of property, school board, or chief administrative officer of the highway department be a qualified voter of the county and a resident of the county for one year; requires that a candidate for clerk of a general sessions, circuit, criminal, or other special court be a qualified voter of the county and resident of the county for one year prior to the date of the qualifying deadline for running as a candidate for the office. HB1970
0810 Tobacco, Tobacco Products As enacted, defines "smokeless nicotine product"; adds smokeless nicotine products to type of products that are age-restricted to persons aged 21 years and older under the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco, Smoking Hemp, and Vapor Products Act; specifies that nicotine replacement therapy products as defined and approved by the federal food and drug administration are not smokeless nicotine products. HB2058
0811 Cooperatives As enacted, authorizes a rural electric and community services cooperative to allow directors or cooperative members to participate in cooperative meetings by means of virtual or remote communication if certain conditions are met. HB2126
0812 Pharmacy, Pharmacists As enacted, permits a pharmacy technician to perform tasks delegated by the pharmacist, including participation in drug, dietary supplement and device selection, storage, distribution and administration, if the delegated tasks are consistent with the pharmacy technician's education, training, and experience. HB2131
0813 Motor Vehicles As enacted, revises lighting requirements for motor vehicles and trailers transporting intrastate certain loads of logs or long pulpwood or certain loads of poles or posts. HB2208
0814 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies As enacted, limits the time a prior misdemeanor or Class E felony may be considered for purposes of issuing an insurance producer license to within 10 years of the date upon which an individual applies for an insurance producer license; specifies, in regard to a prior Class E felony from more than 10 years before not being considered, that the provision will apply if the individual was charged but not convicted of the offense. HB2225
0815 Professions and Occupations As enacted, specifies the conditions under which an employee of a licensed mortgage lender, mortgage loan broker, or mortgage loan servicer may perform licensable activities at an unlicensed or unregistered remote location. HB2304
0816 Beer As enacted, revises provisions governing the authority for certain manufacturers of beer to self-distribute the manufacturer's beer. HB2349
0817 Landlord and Tenant As enacted, requires a tenant to execute a bond, post a cash deposit or irrevocable letter of credit from a financial institution, or provide personal sureties with security in the amount of one-year's rent in all instances in which the defendant appeals a judgment rendered in favor of the landlord instead of only applying when the landlord's action was brought due to the tenant's failure to pay rent. HB2443
0818 Education, Higher As enacted, prohibits a public institution of higher education from taking certain actions with regard to divisive concepts and the ideologies or political viewpoints of students and employees; enacts other related provisions. HB2670
0819 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, makes emergency communications personnel eligible for early service retirement when the employing entity has elected to offer this benefit; requires the employing entity to be responsible for 100 percent of any increased cost necessary to provide this benefit to the emergency communications personnel. HB2683
0820 Safety, Dept. of As enacted, requires the department, in consultation with local law enforcement agencies, to produce informational material on how to interact with law enforcement when a person is being pulled over. HB2771
0821 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, authorizes, from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2025, retirees who have been retired for at least 60 days from TCRS or from a superseded system administered by the state, or from a local retirement fund, to accept re-employment as a kindergarten through twelfth grade teacher, substitute teacher, or school bus driver without loss or suspension of retirement benefits if certain conditions are met. HB2783
0822 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, authorizes capital outlay notes to be refunded with public building authority loans, subject to review by the comptroller; makes other revisions to provisions governing bonds and notes issued by local governments. HB1864
0823 State Employees As enacted, prohibits a state agency from requiring a baccalaureate degree as a condition of state employment unless the knowledge, skills, or abilities required for the position can only reasonably be obtained through a course of study culminating in a baccalaureate degree. HB1916
0824 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, specifies the powers that the state funding board may exercise with respect to the local government investment pool, including establishing limits, restrictions, or conditions on the acceptance of moneys into and the withdrawal of moneys from the fund and other various powers; makes other related revisions to the administration of the local government investment pool. HB2130
0825 Controlled Substances As enacted, makes various changes to the controlled substance monitoring database. HB2171
0826 Liens As enacted, revises various provisions related to garagekeeper or towing firm liens. HB2245
0827 Medical Occupations As enacted, authorizes, until June 30, 2025, an emergency medical service employee who has been retired for at least 60 days from TCRS from a superseded system administered by the state, or from a local retirement fund to accept employment as an emergency medical services employee without loss or suspension of retirement benefits if certain conditions met. HB2275
0828 Domestic Violence As enacted, adds to the provisions governing bail that following the arrest of a person for the offense of aggravated assault under circumstances in which the alleged victim of the offense is a domestic abuse victim, that the court or magistrate must make certain findings and, based on the findings, may extend the 12-hour hold period up to 24 hours after the time of arrest; revises other related provisions. HB1459
0829 Education, Higher As enacted, requires the Tennessee higher education commission to submit a report to the governor and speakers of the senate and house of representatives by December 31, 2023, on issues of food insecurity among students at public institutions of higher education in this state and that identifies and describes the efforts of the institutions to address food insecurity among students. HB1669
0830 County Government As enacted, authorizes a county legislative body to provide notice of regular and special meetings on the social media platform of the county, in addition to other notification methods. HB1677
0831 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, authorizes a retired TCRS member to cancel the member's designated beneficiary for any reason one time, and to name a new beneficiary. HB1722
0832 Employees, Employers As enacted, lowers the threshold for private employers having to verify work authorization status of new hires through E-Verify from those with 50 or more employees to those with 35 or more employees; requires the office of employment verification assistance to offer, at no charge, E-Verify sign ups and work authorization status checks for employers with less than 35 employees; protects employers acting upon false results generated by E-Verify; prohibits certain wrongful or retaliatory discharge or discrimination actions; prohibits certain rehires. HB1853
0833 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As enacted, removes requirement that an administrative judge or hearing officer make a motion prior to deciding a procedural question of law; removes similar requirement for such persons to direct parties or attorneys for parties to appear for a conference to consider matters relating to a contested case hearing; removes obsolete language regarding the manner in which parties may participate in hearings remotely and revises other related provisions. HB1997
0834 Taxes, Privilege As enacted, clarifies that a deed is treated as a quitclaim deed for transfer tax purposes if the deed only conveys the grantor's interest to the grantee, and that a deed containing language evidencing an intent to convey the property itself or warranties of title is taxed as a transfer of a freehold estate; specifies that the recordation tax provisions do not affect the validity of the underlying transfer or conveyance. HB2196
0835 Real Property As enacted, allows for notice of cancellation of a time-share contract being made by email. HB2288
0836 Education, Higher As enacted, requires Tennessee State University (TSU) to annually submit a report to the governor and the general assembly, detailing the progress of improvements to TSU's facilities and infrastructure and how the improvements address the needs identified in the Tennessee higher education commission's evaluation on facilities and infrastructure needs for TSU on September 1, 2021. HB2293
0837 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, replaces the executive board of the Greater Nashville regional council with a board of directors; rewrites reporting and auditing requirements to coincide with other development districts; revises other related provisions. HB2508
0838 Education As enacted, specifies that an adult high school may provide virtual instruction in accordance with the Virtual Public Schools Act; requires an adult high school that provides virtual instruction to satisfy the instructional time requirements established for adult high schools by the state board of education. HB2553
0839 Interstate Compacts As enacted, enacts the "Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact" and the "Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact." HB2561
0840 Professions and Occupations As enacted, removes the requirement that the credentials held by a person to practice as a central service technician must have been administered by the International Association of Healthcare Central Service Material Management or the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution, Inc.; allows an individual the option to obtain a certified sterile processing and distribution technician credential instead of a certified registered central service technician credential. HB2857
0841 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel As enacted, clarifies that all employees working directly with students of an LEA or public charter school must complete an annual child abuse training program identified by the department of education or that meets the guidelines established by the department of children's services. HB2021
0842 Human Rights As enacted, requires the department of correction, the department of mental health and substance abuse services, and the department of human services to work with a nonprofit charitable organization to provide mandatory annual training to appropriate personnel in the identification, intervention, prevention, and treatment of human trafficking victims, and in the proper action that should be taken when dealing with a known or suspected victim of human trafficking; requires that the training be submitted to, and approved by, the TBI's human trafficking advisory council. HB2113
0843 Consumer Protection As enacted, makes it a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act to advertise a home warranty to consumers in this state, or issue or deliver a home warranty to consumers in this state, without explicitly stating in written detail what items will be covered and fully paid for by the home warranty. HB2114
0844 Codes As enacted, adds provisions concerning the minimum statewide building construction safety standards promulgated by the state fire marshal. HB2242
0845 Education, Higher As enacted, revises present law provisions governing the use of an intercollegiate athlete's name, image, or likeness. HB2249
0846 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of As enacted, requires, beginning in 2024, the department to submit to the members of the general assembly, by February 15 of each year, a report of data collected related to the use of medication-assisted treatment for opiate addiction by department-funded providers in this state for the prior fiscal year. HB2376
0847 Law Enforcement As enacted, removes the requirement for employment as a police officer that a lawful permanent resident has been honorably discharged from the United States armed forces, so that any permanent legal resident of the United States who applies for or obtains United States citizenship within six years of the employment start date may be employed as a police officer. HB2442
0848 Taxes, Real Property As enacted, authorizes country trustees to accept prepayments of property taxes. HB2467
0849 Children's Services, Dept. of As enacted, specifies that if an anonymous report of harm is made to the department, a juvenile court must not order the parents or person responsible for the care of the child, or the person in charge of any place where the child may be, to allow the department entrance for purposes of interview, examination, and investigation unless the department has presented evidence corroborating the anonymous report of harm. HB2575
0850 Public Records As enacted, requires government entities to maintain records of information relating to the deaths of persons held in jails and prisons. HB2613
0851 Lottery, Charitable As enacted, authorizes qualified nonprofit organizations to file an application to operate an annual event in the July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023, fiscal year. HB2638
0852 Business Organizations As enacted, enacts provisions governing decentralized organizations HB2645
0853 State Employees As enacted, classifies as state employees for purposes of defense and other related provisions, a contracted court reporter when the contracted court reporter is named in a civil action for damages alleging an act or omission by the contracted court reporter in the course of performing the contracted court reporter's official duties. HB2728
0854 Veterans As enacted, requires an employer to allow a veteran employee to have the entirety of Veterans' Day as a non-paid holiday if certain conditions met; specifies that this act does not prohibit an employer from allowing the employer's veteran employees to have the entirety of Veterans Day as a paid holiday. HB2733
0855 Pensions and Retirement Benefits As enacted, authorizes the investment committee for the TCRS board of trustees to cause the retirement system to divest, as expeditiously as possible, from an investment the system has with an entity found to be doing business with or supporting a country sanctioned by the office of foreign assets control. HB2743
0856 Open Meetings As enacted, revises provisions governing participation in meetings by electronic means of communication. HB2864
0857 Election Laws As enacted, requires that a person meet the residency requirements for state senators and representatives contained in the Tennessee constitution in order to qualify as a candidate in a primary election for congress. SB2616
0858 Taxes, Sales As enacted, requires, on or before January 1, 2023, and on or before January 1 of each subsequent year, the department of revenue to submit a report to the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house outlining the actual costs incurred by the department for the administration and collection of the local option sales tax. SB0160
0859 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, revises provisions governing the retail sale of wine and alcoholic beverages. SB0384
0860 Financial Responsibility Law As enacted, increases from $15,000 to $25,000 the minimum amount of insurance coverage for property damage in any one accident that is required for a split-limit motor vehicle insurance policy to qualify as proof of financial security under the financial responsibility law for policies issued or renewed after December 31, 2022. SB0504
0861 Public Funds and Financing As enacted, prohibits local governmental entities from paying, compensating, awarding, or remitting funds in the form of, or facilitating the conversion of compensation or funds to, blockchain, cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens, or virtual currency to an individual person, corporation, or other entity (or procuring the services for the performance of any such actions) without the prior written approval of the state treasurer. SB0535
0862 Food and Food Products As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Food Freedom Act" to specify circumstances when persons may sell certain homemade food products without meeting certain permitting and licensure requirements. SB0693
0863 Paternity As enacted, removes the five-year statute of limitations for challenging a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity on the basis of fraud, duress, or mistake of fact; specifies, in regard to the provision whereby a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity signed by a child's mother and biological father constitutes a legal finding of paternity on the individual named as the father of the child in the acknowledgment, that the finding applies when the acknowledgement is signed by an unwed father. SB1779
0864 Courts As enacted, authorizes a county legislative body to authorize the judges of the circuit and chancery courts to appoint masters for certain purposes. SB1819
0865 Dentists and Dentistry As enacted, designates live, interactive webinars as in-person courses for the purposes of continuing education requirements. SB1827
0866 Energy As enacted, establishes certain requirements for solar power facility agreements. SB1925
0867 Secretary of State As enacted, extends the period of reduced fees payable to the secretary of state relating to nonprofit charitable gaming and the solicitation of charitable funds. SB1983
0868 Real Property As enacted, revises the threshold at which assessments and indebtedness, as a percentage of the fair market value of a subject property, affect the eligibility of the property to participate under the Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resilience Act; adds property owned by certain kinds of organizations to the definition of "commercial property"; makes other changes related to the Act. SB1990
0869 Landlord and Tenant As enacted, specifies that for purposes of postponement of trial in forcible entry and detainer proceedings, the term "civil court" includes diversionary courts created for special civil proceedings. SB2002
0870 Salaries and Benefits As enacted, requires employers to pay employees no less than the minimum wage, regardless of the subminimum wage for an employee whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by age, physical, or mental deficiency or injury. SB2042
0871 Safety As enacted, makes various changes to blasting requirements, including adding safety processes and protocols. SB2055
0872 Boats, Boating As enacted, regulates wakesurfing and wakeboarding in the public waters of this state. SB2107
0873 Regional Authorities and Special Districts As enacted, authorizes development districts and the greater Nashville regional council to obtain insurance in lieu of surety bonds to ensure the lawful performance by agency officials and employees of their fiduciary duties and responsibilities. SB2108
0874 Game and Fish Laws As enacted, transfers assets held in the wildlife management endowment fund to a newly created lifetime sportsman endowment fund, which will be an irrevocable trust for the exclusive benefit of lifetime sportsman license holders; revises other related provisions. SB2118
0875 Solid Waste Disposal As enacted, revises provisions governing solid waste plans and the authority of the commissioner of environment and conservation in regard to certain permits for construction or expansion when a decision on an application has not been rendered or when an appeal is pending. SB2121
0876 Taxes, Hotel Motel As enacted, authorizes an additional privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy in any hotel of each transient in an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the consideration charged by the operator in metropolitan counties having a population less than 25,000. SB2139
0877 Trusts As enacted, changes requirements for providing various types of notice concerning activities of fiduciaries; revises manner to authorize trustees and others to vote stock that is a trust asset; makes other changes concerning administration of trusts. SB2166
0878 Driver Licenses As enacted, removes authority of the department of safety to deny a license to a minor for unsatisfactory academic progress; retains provisions for denial of a license, with certain exceptions, to a minor when the person is a student who is not enrolled in school. SB2176
0879 Highway Signs As enacted, requires a guide sign to be erected on or along an interstate highway or at an interchange for an exposition center located within a county agricultural center. SB2227
0880 Election Laws As enacted, specifies that the prohibition on an elected official or an employee of a municipal, county, state, or federal governmental body or agency serving as a member of a county election commission does not disqualify an employee of a county or city school system who does not work directly under the supervision of an elected official from serving as a member of the county election commission. SB2230
0881 Controlled Substances As enacted, prohibits a healthcare provider who is authorized to prescribe buprenorphine under federal law from prescribing via telehealth a buprenorphine product, as approved by the federal food and drug administration for use in recovery or medication-assisted treatment, unless certain conditions met. SB2240
0882 Alcoholic Beverages As enacted, authorizes a special occasion licensee to designate an area in which liquor-by-the-drink licensees may sell alcoholic beverages and beer to patrons who may consume the alcoholic beverages and beer anywhere in the designated area; authorizes a festival operator licensee to provide a list of the liquor-by-the-drink licensees that will sell alcoholic beverages and beer to patrons in the designated area of the festival. SB2270
0883 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) As enacted, provides that in interpreting a state statute or rule, a court presiding over the appeal of a judgment in a contested case must not defer to a state agency's interpretation of the statute or rule and must interpret the statute or rule de novo; after applying all customary tools of interpretation, the court must resolve any remaining ambiguity against increased agency authority. SB2285
0884 Education, Higher As enacted, requires, by the 2023-2024 school year, each state college of applied technology to establish partnerships with each LEA that is located in the county in which the main campus of the state college of applied technology is located to provide early postsecondary opportunities for students enrolled in a high school in the LEA; encourages the board of regents to expand the presence of state colleges of applied technology in each county within this state to provide greater early post-secondary opportunities for students enrolled in a high school in an LEA. SB2370
0885 State Universities As enacted, creates the Tennessee Center for Nursing Advancement within East Tennessee State University to address issues of nursing workforce needs and makes other related changes. SB2401
0886 Water As enacted, expands mechanisms that the department of environment and conservation may employ to use federal funds to subsidize loans for wastewater and drinking water facilities; authorizes the commissioner to promulgate emergency rules and revises other provisions governing such loan programs. SB2417
0887 Taxes, Sales As enacted, extends until 2025 the reporting requirement to the department of revenue by certain wholesalers of food, candy, and nonalcoholic beverages regarding net sales of such products to retailers; requires the comptroller to conduct a review of the retail accountability program regarding the reporting required for sales of food, candy, and nonalcoholic beverages, to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the program. SB2430
0888 Lottery, Charitable As enacted, reduces to three years the period of time that a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(19) nonprofit organization has to be in continuous and active existence in this state to qualify to operate a charitable gaming event in this state. SB2454
0889 Utilities, Utility Districts As enacted, authorizes certain water utilities to enter into agreements with other water utilities to operate within their territory; requires those water utilities to establish a method by which ratepayers may petition the utilities to consider entering into such agreements. SB2529
0890 Municipal Government As enacted, authorizes the council of a municipality with a modified city manager-council charter to, upon the adoption of an ordinance by a 2/3 vote of the entire membership of the council, fix the salaries of the mayor and the members of the council annually at the time the operating budget is adopted. SB2564
0891 Education, Higher As enacted, requires each institution governed by the board of regents, a state university board, or the board of trustees for the University of Tennessee to make the grievance procedure for the institution's support staff employees available on its website. SB2666
0892 Day Care As enacted, increases the authorized operation times/days for drop-in centers from "not to exceed 14 hours per week and for not more than seven hours per day for any individual child during regular working hours" to "not to exceed 18 hours per week and for not more than nine hours per day during regular working hours." SB2723
0893 Sheriffs As enacted, requires a sheriff, deputy sheriff, or constable serving an order of protection or ex parte order of protection to make reasonable efforts, prior to or at the time of service, to determine whether the person being served has an outstanding criminal warrant. SB2746
0894 Game and Fish Laws As enacted, revises the provisions governing property used in violation of certain hunting laws. SB2868
0895 Jails, Local Lock-ups As enacted, requires reimbursement to counties for housing state parolees awaiting a parole revocation hearing. SB0735
0896 Public Health As enacted, removes TCA 14-2-101, which prohibits COVID-19 vaccine mandates by governmental entities, schools, and local education agencies, and removes TCA 14-1-101, which is the definitions to the Title 14 COVID-19 laws, from the application of the Title 14 termination date of July 1, 2023; effective July 1, 2023, deletes the 14-1-101 definitions except for those that relate to the prohibition on COVID-19 vaccine mandates for governmental entities. SB1884
0897 Education As enacted, authorizes LEAs to provide up to two days of the required 180 days of classroom instruction through remote instruction in accordance with certain criteria. SB1887
0898 TennCare As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2022." SB1956
0899 Litter Control As enacted, increases the penalty for mitigated criminal littering from a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a $50 fine to a Class B misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine. SB2070
0900 County Government As enacted, revises population figures in the code to clarify references that are to Shelby County only (and not to Shelby and Davidson counties) in light of the most recent census figures. SB2199

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