Tennessee Rep. Barry Doss (R)

TN - Business and Utilities (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Business and Utilities Subcommittee (House)

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chair

TN - Health (House)

Title:

vice-chair

TN - HJR708 Memorials, Sports - E.O. Coffman Middle School Lady Panthers basketball team.

TN - HB1244 Damages - As enacted, deletes requirement that the trier of fact must specify, on an annual basis, the amount of future damages and the periods over which such future damages will accrue. - Amends TCA Section 29-39-103.

TN - HJR429 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Stephen Smith, Salutatorian, Giles County High School

TN - HB2401 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, upon meeting certain federal safety standards, allows mini-trucks to be titled and registered as private passenger motor vehicles; removes mini-trucks from present law provisions allowing them to be registered as medium speed vehicles; defines "mini-truck". - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 1; Title 55, Chapter 3; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 8 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB691 Unknown

TN - HJR426 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brianna Lillian Ramey, Valedictorian, Richland High School

TN - HJR427 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Meredith Smith, Valedictorian, Giles County High School

TN - HJR370 Memorials, Recognition - John Calvin Coolidge Bryant, 2014 Tennessee 4-H Congress Governor

TN - HB1355 Giles County - As introduced, subject to local approval, reallocates proceeds from the hotel/motel tax from the general fund for county general revenue to be designated for the maintenance and renovation of certain county owned buildings, rather than for courthouse maintenance and renovation. - Amends Chapter 133 of the Private Acts of 1996.

TN - HJR701 Memorials, Sports - Lawrenceburg 7 year old All Stars baseball team.

TN - HB2402 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, under certain conditions, exempts from use tax, persons who purchased and registered a boat in another state, relocated to Tennessee, and brought the boat into Tennessee for personal use. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR428 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cody Jordan, Salutatorian, Richland High School

TN - HB2400 Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises provisions governing the controlled substance database. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10.

TN - HJR775 Memorials, Recognition - J. Bruce Saltsman, Sr.

TN - HJR350 Memorials, Sports - New Prospect School Lady Tigers basketball team, TMSAA Class A State Champion

TN - HJR439 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lauren Elizabeth Kerstiens, Valedictorian, Lawrence County High School

TN - HB1245 Children - As introduced, strengthens the exception to the child curfew law that permits an adult who is not the child's parent to accompany the child after curfew with the authorization of the parent to require that such authorization be in writing. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - HJR438 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Logan Rae Kerstiens, Salutatorian, Lawrence County High School

TN - HJR700 Memorials, Sports - South Lawrence Elementary boys basketball.

TN - HJR698 Memorials, Congratulations - Babe Ruth District 8 All-Star baseball team of Lawrenceburg.

TN - HJR305 Naming and Designating - "Ependymoma Awareness Day" in Tennessee, April 18, 2013

TN - HJR699 Memorials, Congratulations - Babe Ruth District 8 All-Star baseball team of Lawrenceburg on winning the 2013 District 8 and East Tennessee Babe Ruth League Championship and for their 3rd place finish in that league's Southeast Region Championships.

TN - HJR369 Memorials, Recognition - Victoria Elizabeth Bryant, Vice President of Tennessee State 4-H Council

TN - HB53 Comptroller, State - As enacted, redefines the functions and duties of the office of local government in the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Section 4-16-101 and Section 16-2-508.

TN - HB2034 Unknown

TN - HB984 Abortion - As introduced, requires that an ultrasound be perfomed prior to an abortion, with an exception for medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 9 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB1538 Welfare - As introduced, requires owners and operators of automated teller machines to disable their machines from accepting electronic benefit transfer cards in locations of certain kinds of businesses. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB1037 DNA and Genetic Testing - As enacted, provides that a criminal prosecution may be commenced by the issuance of a warrant identifying the offender by a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) profile; applicable to commencement of prosecution for any offense, regardless of when committed, except those offenses for which prosecution is barred on July 1, 2013, because the applicable time limitation set out has expired. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB2263 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, enacts the "Educator Respect and Accountability Act of 2014." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1434 Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes any entity contracting with the department of safety to charge an additional fee of $4.00 for administrative costs related to the issuance, examination, and renewal of driver licenses, in the same manner as county clerks. - Amends TCA Section 55-50-331.

TN - HB1386 Employees, Employers - As enacted, establishes experience rating applicable to new employers moving to Tennessee after having been in operation for at least three years prior to becoming a employer in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7, Part 4.

TN - HB850 Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, removes certain prevailing wage requirements for the construction industry (other than state highway construction projects). - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 12; Title 41; Title 50; Title 58 and Title 62.

TN - HB1043 Controlled Substances - As enacted, redefines "imitation controlled substance" for purposes of the offense of knowingly manufacturing, delivering, selling, or possessing with the intent to sell, deliver or manufacture an imitation controlled substance. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB1528 State Employees - As enacted, enacts the "Three Stars of Tennessee Award" to recognize peace officers, firefighters, and medical first responders killed or who suffered a career-ending injury in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - HB519 TennCare - As enacted, makes it a Class E felony for a person, other than a person authorized to issue or dispense prescriptions, to knowingly sell, deliver, or aid and abet a person in the sale or delivery of a drug and use TennCare to obtain the drug. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 26.

TN - HB500 Unknown

TN - HB590 Annexation - As introduced, requires, prior to a municipality annexing within its urban growth boundary, the approval of a majority vote of qualified voters in the territory proposed for annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - HB1154 Budget Procedures - As enacted, requires the state funding board to study issues concerning the "Copeland Cap." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - HB1939 Controlled Substances - As enacted, redefines "pain management clinics" and defines "chronic non-malignant pain treatment"; requires commissioner of health to promulgate rules regarding drug screening and compliance plans. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 11 and Title 63, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1940 State Employees - As enacted, specifies, in regard to the Tennessee Excellence, Accountability and Management (TEAM) Act, that parties in a Step I appeal may make an audio tape recording of the proceeding; adds that in a Step I appeal, a complainant may have a non-lawyer representative participate in the appeal, in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30, Part 3.

TN - HB1647 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, enacts the "County Bridge Relief Act of 2014" for fiscal years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016; authorizes counties to use an unexpended balance of state-aid bridge grant funds to pay the local share of project costs required by present law. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 11, Part 2 and Title 54, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1554 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, regulates the use of maximum allowable cost lists by pharmacy benefit managers and covered entities. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

TN - HB1294 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, creates offense of prescription drug fraud, which is using fraud or forgery to obtain a controlled substance and adds the theft of identifying information used to prescribe a controlled substance to offense of identity theft. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53.

TN - HB1410 Agriculture - As enacted, defines agriculture to include entertainment activities that occur on land where farm products and nursery stock are produced; requires that the Tennessee Right to Farm Act be construed broadly to effectuate its purposes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 43, Chapter 26, Part 1.

TN - HB1776 Capitol - As enacted, requires the state capitol commission to study the feasibility of placing a visual depiction of the national motto of the United States in the tunnel leading from Charlotte Avenue to the state capitol building and report recommendations as to the type and placement of the visual depiction and an estimated cost thereof to the speaker of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives by May 1, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1295 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, provides that a woman may be prosecuted for assault for the illegal use of a narcotic drug while pregnant, if her child is born addicted to or harmed by the narcotic drug; law expires July 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1555 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, regulates dispensing of immediate methamphetamine precursor by making it a controlled substance requiring a prescription - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 53, Chapter 11 and Title 63, Chapter 10.

TN - HB2229 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, allows, instead of requires, physicians who refuse to prescribe opiate medication to a patient to inform the patient there are physicians whose treatment of severe chronic intractable pain includes the use of opiates. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 11.

TN - HB873 Trusts - As enacted, revises various provisions pertaining to trust. - Amends TCA Title 35.

TN - HB9 Unknown

TN - HB1439 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, expands the "Industrial Highway Act" to promote highway access to industrial facilities; renames Act the "State Industrial Access Act". - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 5, Part 4.

TN - HB1185 Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits public institutions of higher education from disciplining or discriminating against a student in a counseling, social work, or psychology program because the student refuses to counsel or serve a client as to goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with a sincerely held religious belief of the student, if the student refers the client to a counselor who will provide the counseling or services. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB1811 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, permits a nursing home facility to convert a licensed nursing home bed to a reserved nursing home bed right if certain conditions are met, including that the licensed nursing home bed has been voluntarily removed from the license of the nursing home. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB1981 Employees, Employers - As enacted, enacts the "Healthy Workplace Act", which requires TACIR to create a model policy for employers to prevent abusive conduct in the workplace, which policy may be adopted by employers. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.

TN - HB51 Municipal Government - As enacted, allows all municipally owned electric systems to promote economic and industrial development through participation in the rural economic development loan and grant program. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 52, Part 1.

TN - HB1367 Taxes, Income - As introduced, beginning January 1, 2015, annually reduces the rate of the Hall Income Tax and increases the portion of taxes distributed to cities and counties in which the taxpayers are located; beginning January 1, 2018, requires 100 percent of the tax revenue collected by the state be distributed to the cities and counties. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1222 Taxes, Business - As introduced, returns collection of gross receipts tax to county clerks and designated city officials. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.

TN - HB1288 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes creation of new city school systems if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Section 6-58-112 and Title 49.

TN - HB1748 State Employees - As introduced, prohibits layoffs in excess of 10 employees if not approved in the state budget unless the general assembly approves the layoffs. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30.

TN - HB2290 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to reimburse LEAs for the costs of implementing and the ongoing costs to use common core state standards and PARCC assessments. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1769 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products - As enacted, enacts the "Transportation Fuel Equity Act"; revises other related provisions relative to taxation of diesel. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 3; Title 67, Chapter 4; Title 67, Chapter 6 and Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007.

TN - HB1493 Recycling - As introduced, prohibits owners and operators of sanitary landfills located within a 25 mile radius of sites where asphalt roofing shingles are recycled pursuant to the issuance of a permit-by-rule from accepting, for disposal, loads of whole or processed asphalt roofing shingles; requires the underground storage tanks and solid waste disposal control board to post on its web site the name and address of each site at which the recycling of asphalt roof shingles is approved pursuant to the issuance of a permit-by-rule. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211 and Title 68, Chapter 213.

TN - HB868 Controlled Substances - As enacted, prohibits pain management clinics from dispensing controlled substances; specifies that act does not prohibit a medical doctor, osteopathic physician, advanced practice nurse with certificates of fitness to prescribe, or physician assistant working at a pain management clinic from providing to that practitioner's patient, without charge, a sample of a schedule IV or schedule V controlled substance in a quantity limited to an amount that is adequate to treat the patient for a maximum of 72 hours. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53; Title 63 and Chapter 880 of the Private Acts of 2012.

TN - HB1395 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts railroads from sales and use tax based on the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee in Illinois Central Railroad Company v. TN Department of Revenue; subjects railroads to the same diesel fuel tax treatment as motor carriers under present law; revises other provisions related to the collection and allocation of such taxes. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-207; Title 67, Chapter 6; Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 2 and Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007.

TN - HB2255 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, enacts the "911 Funding Modernization and IP Transition Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86; Section 9-8-307; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 65.

TN - HB1711 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, on or after July 1, 2014, requires the state insurance committee to ensure that if the estimated total solvency reserve for the state health insurance plan exceeds the actuarially-required target solvency reserve for the calendar year by 75 percent for two consecutive years, then the excess amount must be used to decrease member’s out-of-pocket expenses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 9 and Title 56.

TN - HB138 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - As enacted, requires that appointments to state forestry commission be confirmed by general assembly "as soon as practical, but before the end of the first session of the general assembly following the appointment," instead of "prior to beginning such member's term of office"; clarifies that a person who is appointed to finish an unexpired term on the state forestry commission will be a voting member from the time of appointment. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2453 Education - As enacted, requires that LEAs make all teaching materials, including handouts readily available for review upon request by the parents or legal guardians and that the official operating policies of boards of education must provide that a parent or legal guardian is entitled to review tests that are developed by and graded by a teacher of the parent or legal guardian's child; revises other provisions relative to parental inspection of school materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 70.

TN - HB2288 Veterans - As introduced, allows eligible veteran and veteran's spouse to be interred at no cost if buried in a Tennessee veterans’ cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2371 Annexation - As enacted, establishes a moratorium on annexation by ordinance or resolution; revises other provisions governing annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - HB394 Local Government, General - As enacted, revises the Community Gardening Act to remove the process for a permit from the commissioner of agriculture for using vacant public land for gardening and makes various revisions to the Act regarding community gardens and local regulation of such gardens. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 43; Title 49; Title 67 and Title 71.

TN - HR1 Unknown

TN - HR13 Memorials, Recognition - Niki Brown

TN - HR8 Memorials, Recognition - Barbara Prescott, "12 Who Made a Difference" in 2012

TN - HR4 Unknown

TN - HR14 Memorials, Recognition - Eugene "Spank E." Broyls

TN - HR6 Memorials, Recognition - Kirk Whalum, "12 Who Made a Difference" in 2012

TN - HR211 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Andre L. Churchwell, M.D.

TN - HR83 Memorials, Interns - Alex Uhlmann

TN - HR9 Memorials, Recognition - Nancy Berry, "12 Who Made a Difference" in 2012

TN - HR136 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Mrs. Ethel Virginia Higgins, 80th birthday

TN - HR5 Unknown

TN - HR2 Unknown

TN - HR56 Memorials, Recognition - Rev. Joan Cooper Burnett

TN - HR11 Memorials, Recognition - Rachel Greer, "12 Who Made a Difference" in 2012

TN - HR212 Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team.

TN - HR113 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Leslie Jones, Valedictorian, Central High School

TN - HR41 Memorials, Recognition - 100 Black Men of Chattanooga Inaugural African American History Bowl

TN - HR205 Memorials, Interns - Michael Patrick Olson.

TN - HR54 Memorials, Recognition - 2013 Links Day at the Capitol

TN - HR3 Unknown

TN - HR58 Memorials, Recognition - Brenna Mader, Miss Tennessee USA 2013

TN - HR112 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kiyah Anderson, Salutatorian, Central High School

TN - HR7 Memorials, Recognition - Kenya Bradshaw, "12 Who Made a Difference" in 2012

TN - HR39 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Linda Vance, 100th birthday

TN - HR216 Memorials, Recognition - Price & Ramey, 100th anniversary.

TN - HR213 Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee Volunteers men's basketball team.

TN - HR199 Memorials, Recognition - Women's History Month, March 2014.

TN - HR12 Memorials, Recognition - Mauricio Calvo, "12 Who Made a Difference" in 2012

TN - HJR293 Memorials, Recognition - Boy Scouts of America

TN - HJR217 Memorials, Recognition - Carolyn House Stewart

TN - HJR816 Memorials, Recognition - Krystal Scarbrough, 2014 Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR643 Memorials, Recognition - Delta Days at the State Capitol.

TN - HJR26 Memorials, Recognition - Make-A-Wish, Super Bowl to Remember

TN - HJR821 Memorials, Recognition - Rebecca Hilleary, 2014 Young Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR262 Memorials, Sports - Phillip Fulmer, College Football Hall of Fame

TN - HJR129 Memorials, Sports - Phillip Fulmer, College Football Hall of Fame

TN - HJR393 Memorials, Death - Cindy Leigh McAfee

TN - HJR649 Naming and Designating - Agriculture Literacy Week, November 16-22, 2014.

TN - HJR281 Memorials, Public Service - Dr. Nell Mohney, Diamond of Distinction

TN - HJR277 Memorials, Professional Achievement - MaryStewart Lewis, 2013 Woman of Distinction

TN - HJR807 Memorials, Recognition - Sgt. Cherilyn Bryant, 2014 Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR661 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Condemns the administration of the University of Tennessee for permitting “Sex Week” to be held on the UT-Knoxville campus.

TN - HJR811 Memorials, Recognition - Janet Jobe, 2014 Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR2 Unknown

TN - HJR263 Memorials, Death - Rev. Peggie A. Russell

TN - HJR32 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Beverly Marrero

TN - HJR150 Memorials, Death - Jeffrey "Jeff" Lee Francis

TN - HJR163 Memorials, Retirement - Sandy Sain

TN - HJR144 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Jim Edgemon, 80th birthday

TN - HJR368 Memorials, Personal Occasion - David Clyde Driver, 82nd Birthday

TN - HJR106 Memorials, Death - Marcellas Brooks

TN - HJR373 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jesse T. Montgomery, Salutatorian, Fairley High School

TN - HJR947 Memorials, Death - Speaker Pro Tempore Emeritus Lois M. DeBerry.

TN - HJR285 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Ann Ball, 2013 Woman of Distinction

TN - HJR806 Memorials, Recognition - Kim Criswell, the 2014 Tennessee Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR287 Memorials, Recognition - Mei Li Zuber, 2013 Young Woman of Distinction

TN - HJR505 Memorials, Interns - Sommerie Denise Wade

TN - HJR819 Memorials, Recognition - Ashley Augustine, 2014 Young Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR817 Memorials, Recognition - Pat Starke, 2014 Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR135 Memorials, Death - Judge Sam E. Boaz

TN - HJR904 Memorials, Death - U.S. Navy Midshipman William Dean McKamey.

TN - HJR291 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Julie Betts Brandao, 2013 Woman of Distinction

TN - HJR343 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tyler Matthew Kemp, Nestle Pure Life 'Every Drop Counts' Scholarship Award

TN - HJR342 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Robert Glenn Parsons & Ruth Marlene Trivette Parsons, 50th wedding anniversary

TN - HJR518 Memorials, Interns - Jada Denise Flowers

TN - HJR344 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kirsten York, Nestle Pure Life 'Every Drop Counts' Scholarship Award

TN - HJR218 Memorials, Recognition - Adrienne P.K. Washington

TN - HJR810 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Debbie Ingram, 2014 Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Public Service - Sara Kyle

TN - HJR377 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tammy S. Davis, Salutatorian, Westwood High School

TN - HJR30 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Jeanne Richardson

TN - HJR813 Memorials, Recognition - Virginia Love, 2014 Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR31 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Mike Kernell

TN - HJR820 Memorials, Recognition - Anna Carroll, 2014 Young Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR547 Memorials, Sports - Recognizes the Ooltewah High School Band for its performance at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

TN - HJR899 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Joshua Evans.

TN - HJR945 Memorials, Death - Dr. Elbert T. Gill, Jr.

TN - HJR20 Memorials, Recognition - Chuck Zeiser, Kiwanis Club of Chattanooga 2012 Distinguished Service Award

TN - HJR284 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Holly Harwell, 2013 Woman of Distinction

TN - HJR278 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Pam Ladd, 2013 Woman of Distinction

TN - HJR295 Memorials, Recognition - The Corporate Image, 20th anniversary

TN - HJR812 Memorials, Recognition - Stacy Johnson, 2014 Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR502 Memorials, Recognition - Mary Freeman, Woman of Excellence Award

TN - HJR576 Memorials, Retirement - Mrs. Willie E. Slate.

TN - HJR895 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Richard Floyd.

TN - HJR896 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Joe Carr.

TN - HJR436 Memorials, Retirement - David Norton

TN - HJR534 Memorials, Congratulations - Congratulates Sallie Rawlston upon winning second place in the 'Jeopardy!' Kids Week Tournament.

TN - HJR374 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Chyna N. Littlejohn, Valedictorian, Fairley High School

TN - HJR286 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jean Burke Young, 2013 Woman of Distinction

TN - HJR292 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kim Chapman, 2013 Woman of Distinction

TN - HJR647 Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Lee.

TN - HJR80 Memorials, Death - Representative H. Victor Ellis

TN - HJR275 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kristina Montague, 2013 Woman of Distinction

TN - HJR503 Memorials, Recognition - Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis

TN - HJR584 Memorials, Death - Edward "Cornbread" Griffitts II.

TN - HJR279 Memorials, Public Service - Mary Barker, Diamond of Distinction

TN - HJR23 Memorials, Recognition - 2013 Phi Theta Kappa All-Tennessee Academic Team

TN - HJR14 Memorials, Sports - Whitehaven High School, 2012 TSSAA State Football Champs

TN - HJR890 Memorials, Death - Gail Kerr.

TN - HJR529 Memorials, Recognition - Carolyn Corlew, Ms. Senior America 2013.

TN - HJR280 Memorials, Public Service - Maxine Alper, Diamond of Distinction

TN - HJR282 Memorials, Public Service - Jo Ann Yates, Diamond of Distinction

TN - HJR225 Memorials, Recognition - Pettus L. Read

TN - HJR297 Memorials, Recognition - Harold D. Morrell

TN - HJR808 Memorials, Recognition - Sissy Figlestahler, 2014 Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR290 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Diane Parks, 2013 Woman of Distinction

TN - HJR289 Memorials, Recognition - Aliza Cohen, Young Women of Distinction

TN - HJR227 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Lonzo and Linda Stevison, 20th wedding anniversary

TN - HJR378 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Charles F. Smith III, Valedictorian, Westwood High School

TN - HJR276 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Carol Mutter, 2013 Woman of Distinction

TN - HJR818 Memorials, Recognition - Amy Thomas, 2014 Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR648 Memorials, Recognition - Indian Path Medical Center.

TN - HJR814 Memorials, Recognition - Donna Roddy, 2014 Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR809 Memorials, Recognition - Pat Fuller, 2014 Woman of Distinction.

TN - HJR222 Memorials, Recognition - The Salvation Army Angel Tree Day, December 1, 2013

TN - HJR444 Memorials, Recognition - Rev. Walter Smith

TN - HJR15 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Peter Phillips, US Commerce Association Best of Chattanooga Award

TN - HJR471 Memorials, Recognition - Tri-State Defender's Women of Excellence

TN - HJR122 Memorials, Personal Occasion - David Clyde Driver, 60th birthday

TN - HJR283 Memorials, Recognition - Alarie Gage, 2013 Young Woman of Distinction

TN - HJR376 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Anthony Jackson, Salutatorian, Ridgeway High School

TN - HJR504 Memorials, Recognition - Hazel Moore, Legends Award

TN - HJR500 Memorials, Recognition - Stanley Campbell and the 2013 Stone Awards

TN - HJR430 Memorials, Heroism - U.S. Army Lieutenant Joseph Kevin Abel

TN - HJR298 Memorials, Recognition - Jonah and Emory Marlin

TN - HJR548 Constitutional Conventions - Makes application to Congress for the purpose of calling a convention of states concerning balanced budgeting.

TN - HJR572 Memorials, Sports - Bobby Davis.

TN - HJR89 Memorials, Recognition - Recognizes and supports persons who are caregivers for older Americans.

TN - HJR104 Memorials, Sports - Summer Lanter, Gatorade Girls Soccer Player for the State of Tennessee

TN - HJR300 Memorials, Recognition - United States Army Reserve, 105th anniversary

TN - HJR375 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ezer Benaim, Valedictorian, Ridgeway High School

TN - HJR288 Memorials, Recognition - Savannah Clay, Young Women of Distinction

TN - HJR668 Naming and Designating - "Child Abuse Prevention Month" April 2014.

TN - HJR151 Naming and Designating - Designates April 2013 as "Child Abuse Prevention Month" in Tennessee.

TN - HJR553 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Acknowledges, renounces, and expresses regret for the Removal Act of 1830 and the Trail of Tears.

TN - HJR165 Memorials, Death - Donald "Duck" Dunn

TN - SB2076 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products - As enacted, enacts the "Transportation Fuel Equity Act"; revises other related provisions relative to taxation of diesel. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 3; Title 67, Chapter 4; Title 67, Chapter 6 and Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007.

TN - SB831 DNA and Genetic Testing - As enacted, provides that a criminal prosecution may be commenced by the issuance of a warrant identifying the offender by a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) profile; applicable to commencement of prosecution for any offense, regardless of when committed, except those offenses for which prosecution is barred on July 1, 2013, because the applicable time limitation set out has expired. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - SB80 Comptroller, State - As enacted, redefines the functions and duties of the office of local government in the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Section 4-16-101 and Section 16-2-508.

TN - SB78 Municipal Government - As enacted, allows all municipally owned electric systems to promote economic and industrial development through participation in the rural economic development loan and grant program. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 52, Part 1.

TN - SB1691 State Employees - As enacted, enacts the "Three Stars of Tennessee Award" to recognize peace officers, firefighters, and medical first responders killed or who suffered a career-ending injury in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2547 Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises provisions governing the controlled substance database. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10.

TN - SB614 Controlled Substances - As enacted, redefines "imitation controlled substance" for purposes of the offense of knowingly manufacturing, delivering, selling, or possessing with the intent to sell, deliver or manufacture an imitation controlled substance. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - SB1991 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, regulates the use of maximum allowable cost lists by pharmacy benefit managers and covered entities. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

TN - SB1053 Damages - As enacted, deletes requirement that the trier of fact must specify, on an annual basis, the amount of future damages and the periods over which such future damages will accrue. - Amends TCA Section 29-39-103.

TN - SB500 TennCare - As enacted, makes it a Class E felony for a person, other than a person authorized to issue or dispense prescriptions, to knowingly sell, deliver, or aid and abet a person in the sale or delivery of a drug and use TennCare to obtain the drug. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 26.

TN - SB2003 Capitol - As enacted, requires the state capitol commission to study the feasibility of placing a visual depiction of the national motto of the United States in the tunnel leading from Charlotte Avenue to the state capitol building and report recommendations as to the type and placement of the visual depiction and an estimated cost thereof to the speaker of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives by May 1, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 8.

TN - SB2549 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, under certain conditions, exempts from use tax, persons who purchased and registered a boat in another state, relocated to Tennessee, and brought the boat into Tennessee for personal use. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1644 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, expands the "Industrial Highway Act" to promote highway access to industrial facilities; renames Act the "State Industrial Access Act". - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 5, Part 4.

TN - SB108 Public Records - As enacted, makes confidential and not open for public inspection all information contained in and pertaining to a handgun carry permit application or renewal application and the status of a handgun carry permit; creates exceptions to such confidentiality. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB1679 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, enacts the "County Bridge Relief Act of 2014" for fiscal years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016; authorizes counties to use an unexpended balance of state-aid bridge grant funds to pay the local share of project costs required by present law. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 11, Part 2 and Title 54, Chapter 4.

TN - SB869 Annexation - As introduced, requires, prior to a municipality annexing within its urban growth boundary, the approval of a majority vote of qualified voters in the territory proposed for annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - SB1638 Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes any entity contracting with the department of safety to charge an additional fee of $4.00 for administrative costs related to the issuance, examination, and renewal of driver licenses, in the same manner as county clerks. - Amends TCA Section 55-50-331.

TN - SB514 Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits public institutions of higher education from disciplining or discriminating against a student in a counseling, social work, or psychology program because the student refuses to counsel or serve a client as to goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with a sincerely held religious belief of the student, if the student refers the client to a counselor who will provide the counseling or services. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB1398 Sexual Offenders - As introduced, prohibits sexual offenders from going on the grounds of schools or recreation areas when someone under 18 is present rather than when the offender believes children to be present; requires agreements permitting use of school or recreation area space or facilities to include provision that sexual offender cannot be on the grounds if children under 18 are present. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - SB2057 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to reimburse LEAs for the costs of implementing and the ongoing costs to use common core state standards and PARCC assessments. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB678 Children - As introduced, strengthens the exception to the child curfew law that permits an adult who is not the child's parent to accompany the child after curfew with the authorization of the parent to require that such authorization be in writing. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - SB1427 Taxes, Income - As introduced, beginning January 1, 2015, annually reduces the rate of the Hall Income Tax and increases the portion of taxes distributed to cities and counties in which the taxpayers are located; beginning January 1, 2018, requires 100 percent of the tax revenue collected by the state be distributed to the cities and counties. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2226 Employees, Employers - As enacted, enacts the "Healthy Workplace Act", which requires TACIR to create a model policy for employers to prevent abusive conduct in the workplace, which policy may be adopted by employers. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.

TN - SB1391 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, provides that a woman may be prosecuted for assault for the illegal use of a narcotic drug while pregnant, if her child is born addicted to or harmed by the narcotic drug; law expires July 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB1699 Welfare - As introduced, requires owners and operators of automated teller machines to disable their machines from accepting electronic benefit transfer cards in locations of certain kinds of businesses. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - SB632 Abortion - As introduced, requires that an ultrasound be perfomed prior to an abortion, with an exception for medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 9 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - SB1997 State Employees - As introduced, prohibits layoffs in excess of 10 employees if not approved in the state budget unless the general assembly approves the layoffs. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30.

TN - SB1833 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, allows, instead of requires, physicians who refuse to prescribe opiate medication to a patient to inform the patient there are physicians whose treatment of severe chronic intractable pain includes the use of opiates. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 11.

TN - SB1209 Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, removes certain prevailing wage requirements for the construction industry (other than state highway construction projects). - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 12; Title 41; Title 50; Title 58 and Title 62.

TN - SB1614 Agriculture - As enacted, defines agriculture to include entertainment activities that occur on land where farm products and nursery stock are produced; requires that the Tennessee Right to Farm Act be construed broadly to effectuate its purposes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 43, Chapter 26, Part 1.

TN - SB1235 Budget Procedures - As enacted, requires the state funding board to study issues concerning the "Copeland Cap." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - SB2550 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, upon meeting certain federal safety standards, allows mini-trucks to be titled and registered as private passenger motor vehicles; removes mini-trucks from present law provisions allowing them to be registered as medium speed vehicles; defines "mini-truck". - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 1; Title 55, Chapter 3; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 8 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - SB2000 Controlled Substances - As enacted, redefines "pain management clinics" and defines "chronic non-malignant pain treatment"; requires commissioner of health to promulgate rules regarding drug screening and compliance plans. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 11 and Title 63, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2045 State Employees - As enacted, specifies, in regard to the Tennessee Excellence, Accountability and Management (TEAM) Act, that parties in a Step I appeal may make an audio tape recording of the proceeding; adds that in a Step I appeal, a complainant may have a non-lawyer representative participate in the appeal, in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30, Part 3.

TN - SB2407 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, enacts the "911 Funding Modernization and IP Transition Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86; Section 9-8-307; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 65.

TN - SB1763 Employees, Employers - As enacted, establishes experience rating applicable to new employers moving to Tennessee after having been in operation for at least three years prior to becoming a employer in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7, Part 4.

TN - SB2047 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, enacts the "Educator Respect and Accountability Act of 2014." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2237 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, permits a nursing home facility to convert a licensed nursing home bed to a reserved nursing home bed right if certain conditions are met, including that the licensed nursing home bed has been voluntarily removed from the license of the nursing home. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB713 Trusts - As enacted, revises various provisions pertaining to trust. - Amends TCA Title 35.

TN - SB513 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires commissioners of certain water utility districts in Lawrence County to be elected by the customers of the utility district. - Amends TCA Section 7-82-307.

TN - SB1647 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, regulates dispensing of immediate methamphetamine precursor by making it a controlled substance requiring a prescription - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 53, Chapter 11 and Title 63, Chapter 10.

TN - SB2464 Annexation - As enacted, establishes a moratorium on annexation by ordinance or resolution; revises other provisions governing annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - SB1353 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes creation of new city school systems if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Section 6-58-112 and Title 49.

TN - SB2217 Veterans - As introduced, allows eligible veteran and veteran's spouse to be interred at no cost if buried in a Tennessee veterans’ cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1814 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, on or after July 1, 2014, requires the state insurance committee to ensure that if the estimated total solvency reserve for the state health insurance plan exceeds the actuarially-required target solvency reserve for the calendar year by 75 percent for two consecutive years, then the excess amount must be used to decrease member’s out-of-pocket expenses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 9 and Title 56.

TN - SB144 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - As enacted, requires that appointments to state forestry commission be confirmed by general assembly "as soon as practical, but before the end of the first session of the general assembly following the appointment," instead of "prior to beginning such member's term of office"; clarifies that a person who is appointed to finish an unexpired term on the state forestry commission will be a voting member from the time of appointment. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2058 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts railroads from sales and use tax based on the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee in Illinois Central Railroad Company v. TN Department of Revenue; subjects railroads to the same diesel fuel tax treatment as motor carriers under present law; revises other provisions related to the collection and allocation of such taxes. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-207; Title 67, Chapter 6; Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 2 and Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007.

TN - SB1799 Recycling - As introduced, prohibits owners and operators of sanitary landfills located within a 25 mile radius of sites where asphalt roofing shingles are recycled pursuant to the issuance of a permit-by-rule from accepting, for disposal, loads of whole or processed asphalt roofing shingles; requires the underground storage tanks and solid waste disposal control board to post on its web site the name and address of each site at which the recycling of asphalt roof shingles is approved pursuant to the issuance of a permit-by-rule. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211 and Title 68, Chapter 213.

TN - SB705 Controlled Substances - As enacted, prohibits pain management clinics from dispensing controlled substances; specifies that act does not prohibit a medical doctor, osteopathic physician, advanced practice nurse with certificates of fitness to prescribe, or physician assistant working at a pain management clinic from providing to that practitioner's patient, without charge, a sample of a schedule IV or schedule V controlled substance in a quantity limited to an amount that is adequate to treat the patient for a maximum of 72 hours. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53; Title 63 and Chapter 880 of the Private Acts of 2012.

TN - SB945 Taxes, Business - As introduced, returns collection of gross receipts tax to county clerks and designated city officials. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.

TN - SB1407 Giles County - As introduced, subject to local approval, reallocates proceeds from the hotel/motel tax from the general fund for county general revenue to be designated for the maintenance and renovation of certain county owned buildings, rather than for courthouse maintenance and renovation. - Amends Chapter 133 of the Private Acts of 1996.

TN - SB2559 Education - As enacted, requires that LEAs make all teaching materials, including handouts readily available for review upon request by the parents or legal guardians and that the official operating policies of boards of education must provide that a parent or legal guardian is entitled to review tests that are developed by and graded by a teacher of the parent or legal guardian's child; revises other provisions relative to parental inspection of school materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 70.

TN - SB1363 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, creates offense of prescription drug fraud, which is using fraud or forgery to obtain a controlled substance and adds the theft of identifying information used to prescribe a controlled substance to offense of identity theft. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53.