Tennessee Rep. Bob Freeman (D)

TN - Consumer and Human Resources (House)

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TN - Facilities, Licensure, and Regulations Subcommittee (House)

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TN - HJR897 Memorials, Interns - Chelsea Nicole Owten

TN - HJR931 Memorials, Recognition - Donelson High School Class of 1970, 50th class reunion

TN - HR338 Memorials, Recognition - Veterans Awareness Day, March 26, 2020

TN - HJR896 Memorials, Recognition - Metro Nashville Police Department Academy February 2020 graduates

TN - HB252 State Government - As enacted, requires agencies to ensure the provision of appropriate accommodations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if the agency requires a person applying for a license to engage in an occupation, trade, or profession in this state to take an examination; not applicable to an examination mandated and administered pursuant to federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HJR951 Memorials, Recognition - Next Steps at Vanderbilt, 10th anniversary

TN - HR336 Memorials, Recognition - 65 Roses Month for Cystic Fibrosis Awareness, June 2020

TN - HR347 Memorials, Recognition - Nya Collins, Teens4Equality

TN - HB2863 Sexual Harassment - As introduced, requires that the department of human resources assist each department and entity of state government in the planning and conducting of training seminars, in addition to workshops, to prevent sexual harassment from occurring. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - HJR273 Memorials, Recognition - Lynn Nelson

TN - HJR1055 Memorials, Recognition - 65 Roses Month for Cystic Fibrosis Awareness, June 2020

TN - HB2613 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the office of energy programs to report annually to the agriculture and natural resources committee of the house of representatives and the energy, agriculture and natural resources committee of the senate concerning the office's efforts to assist Tennessee institutions and citizens for research and experimentation, in the development of clean energy technologies during the immediately preceding calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 68.

TN - HB400 Hotels and Restaurants - As introduced, increases from three years to four years the amount of time that an operator of a hotel has to maintain records for purposes of determining hotel occupancy taxes owed. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 56; Title 57; Title 62; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HJR979 Memorials, Recognition - Veterans Awareness Day, March 26, 2020

TN - HB255 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2019-2020 fiscal year, the number of instructional positions funded under the BEP to reflect the number of teachers a school district is required to employ to comply with maximum class size requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.

TN - HB256 Traffic Safety - As introduced, prohibits the use of wireless telecommunications devices while operating a motor vehicle unless the vehicle is lawfully parked; authorizes use of earpiece, headphone device, or wrist device; authorizes law enforcement and emergency personnel to use wireless telecommunications devices in the actual discharge of their official duties. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 39; Title 55, Chapter 8 and Title 65.

TN - HB2483 Juries and Jurors - As introduced, allows a breastfeeding mother to be excused from serving as a juror; requires a breastfeeding mother to provide the court with a supporting medical statement from a licensed physician and take any action necessary to obtain a ruling on a request to be excused no later than the date that the person is scheduled to appear for jury duty. - Amends TCA Title 22, Chapter 1 and Title 22, Chapter 2.

TN - HB253 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to provide students with characteristics of dyslexia appropriate tiered dyslexia-specific intervention through services provided by a teacher trained in dyslexia intervention; requires the department of education to employ at least one dyslexia specialist beginning with the 2019-2020 fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HB907 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends certain local option sales tax provisions to municipalities with a professional soccer franchise. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1120 State Government - As introduced, creates the state government advisory task force on community resilience. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

TN - HB2478 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, authorizes department of transportation to furnish electronically the quarterly report to each member of the general assembly on the status of highway projects in the county or counties that the member represents. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56 and Title 65.

TN - HB2480 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, extends the grace period, from 30 days to 45 days, that the commissioner of revenue may grant to liquor-by-the-drink licensees for the filing of tax returns. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1 and Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 3.

TN - HB2481 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, lowers amount of revenue required from sale of artwork from 90 percent to 80 percent in order for an art gallery that does not sell food or beverages to serve wine to patrons. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1 and Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 3.

TN - HB2611 Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As introduced, increases from 10 years to 12 years the minimum amount of work experience required as a substitute for a bachelor's degree for persons who apply for the position of wildlife officer on and after January 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 70.

TN - HB2612 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, requires persons applying for a manufacturer or distiller license to provide commission with names and percentage of ownership of any person having more than 10 percent interest in the manufacturer or distiller. - Amends TCA Section 57-2-104 and Section 57-3-202.

TN - HB2479 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, deletes one of two similar options for the purchase of a lifetime sportsman license for senior citizens, the fee for which cannot be automatically adjusted to reflect the same percentage increase as the annual sportsman license. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2482 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the bureau to develop and implement an electronic tracking system for sexual assault evidence collection kits released to a law enforcement agency at the conclusion of a forensic medical examination; requires law enforcement agencies, upon receipt of a DNA data analysis report from the bureau, to notify the victim of a DNA databank match and provide the victim with a copy of the forensic analysis report. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6 and Title 39.

TN - HB2477 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires that the family life curriculum adopted by the state board of education or an LEA include information on the prevention of dating violence. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 13.

TN - HJR800 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Tree Day, March 21, 2020

TN - HB250 Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, allows wildlife resource officers to authorize payroll deductions for the payment of membership dues for organizations that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23 and Title 70.

TN - HB254 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, designates the Brian Paul Hotel as a premier type tourist resort for purposes of consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - HB387 Employees, Employers - As introduced, makes it a discriminatory practice for a person who is paying a non-employee for labor or services to engage in harassment of the non-employee because of the non-employee's sex; holds such persons liable for the actions of their employees in engaging in such harassment under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - HJR604 Memorials, Death - James Arrington "Jimmy" Webb III

TN - HB1095 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a brief summary of any question, regardless of length, submitted to the people for a vote. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1119 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of possessing a firearm if a person has a prior conviction of stalking. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB251 State Symbols - As introduced, requires the secretary of state to conduct an online poll to determine a nominee to designate as the official state recording artist. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HJR254 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Tree Day, March 30, 2019

TN - HJR267 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Tree Day, March 23, 2019

TN - HB275 Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, requires the agency, by no later than March 1 each year, to submit a report relative to the implementation of any amended policies designed to improve the agency's blight elimination program to the state and local government committee of the senate and the local government committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 68.

TN - HB5 Taxes, Amusement - As introduced, eliminates the amusement tax on health clubs and fitness facilities; eliminates the amusement tax exemption for certain health clubs and fitness facilities. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-212 and Section 67-6-330.

TN - HB283 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the punishment for a conviction of aggravated rape of a child from "15 to 60 years in prison and a fine of up to $50,000" to "life in prison without the possibility of parole." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

TN - HJR72 Memorials, Recognition - Isabella Wren Sullivan, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HB215 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires local education agencies to develop and implement a "Stop the Bleed" program that requires each school in the LEA to place a bleeding control kit within the school; requires the department of education to develop a bleeding control kit training program for LEA employees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB164 Traffic Safety - As enacted, prohibits a person from physically holding or supporting, with any part of the person's body, a wireless telecommunications device or stand-alone electronic device while operating a motor vehicle; imposes other similar restrictions on activities such as texting; creates certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HJR171 Memorials, Sports - Bob Kesling, Voice of the Vols

TN - HJR4 Memorials, Professional Achievement - David Poile, U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame

TN - HJR70 Memorials, Recognition - Mookie Betts, Boston Red Sox World Series Champions 2018

TN - HJR175 Memorials, Death - Kenneth "Rance" Roby

TN - HB17 Children - As introduced, establishes a presumption that a minor who is the victim of a sexual offense or engaged in prostitution held a reasonable belief that the use of force is immediately necessary to avoid imminent death or serious bodily injury. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB273 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Save Tennessee Call Center Jobs Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

TN - HJR73 Memorials, Personal Achievement - John W. Huffman, Eagle Scout

TN - HB286 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, removes the statute of limitations for prosecution of certain Class A or Class B felony sex offenses committed against a child on or after July 1, 2019, and deletes a provision that sets a lower statute of limitations for aggravated rape, rape of a child, rape, and aggravated rape of a child if notice of the offense is not given to law enforcement within three years of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB62 Disabled Persons - As enacted, enacts the "Dynamic Accessibility Act," which provides for a modern symbol of access for disabled persons. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 12; Title 55 and Title 68.

TN - HB498 TennCare - As enacted, directs the commissioner of finance and administration to submit to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services a waiver or waivers pursuant to Section 1115 of the Social Security Act for the purpose of establishing a distinct Katie Beckett program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HR3 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

TN - HJR103 Memorials, Recognition - African-American Breast Cancer Awareness Week, September 8-14, 2019

TN - HB1111 Political Parties - As introduced, authorizes the minority party to appoint members of the state executive committee by rules of the party rather than at the regular August primary election. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1447 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a handgun carry permit holder convicted of domestic assault to surrender the permit to the court within 48 hours of conviction to be forwarded to the department of safety for revocation. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HJR1 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes teen suicide as a health crisis in Tennessee.

TN - HB999 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the bluetick coonhound as the official state dog. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HJR223 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

TN - HJR231 Memorials, Death - Sam Powell

TN - HB947 Education - As enacted, requires, instead of authorizes, the Tennessee school safety center to establish school safety grants to assist LEAs in funding programs that address school safety; revises other various provisions regarding school safety grants. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-1004 and Section 49-6-4302.

TN - HB330 Taxes, Amusement - As introduced, removes amusement tax on dues or fees to membership sports and recreation clubs. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-212 and Section 67-6-330.

TN - HB937 Local Government, General - As enacted, increases pay supplement from $600 to $800 for police officers and firefighters who complete 40 hours of in-service training. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24, Part 2 and Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - HB928 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises the use of student growth data for purposes of a teacher's or principal's annual evaluation; deletes obsolete provisions regarding the use of student growth data; excludes, for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years, student growth evaluation composites generated by assessments administered in the 2017-2018 school year if the exclusion results in a higher evaluation score for the teacher. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302.

TN - HB1242 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, removes certain discontinuance of service requirements of utilities in Nashville/Davidson County; requires such utilities to establish policies in compliance with service practice standards and best practices for similarly situated utilities. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 52 and Title 65, Chapter 32.

TN - HB519 Firefighters - As introduced, creates a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter's cancer that causes a disabling health condition is a result of the firefighter's duties as a firefighter. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB780 Workers Compensation - As introduced, creates a presumption that a firefighter or emergency medical services personnel diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sustained the injury in the line of duty for purposes of workers' compensation; allows for the presumption to be rebutted by evidence that the PTSD was caused by nonservice-connected risk factors or exposure. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 56.

TN - HB681 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, revises the Volunteer Public Education Trust Fund Act of 1985; designates the commissioner of education and state treasurer as trustees of the fund. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 4.

TN - HJR309 Memorials, Recognition - DeMolay International, 100th anniversary

TN - HB544 Fiscal Review Committee - As introduced, requires the fiscal review committee to hear appeals from legislators related to fiscal notes produced by the committee; requires the committee to develop and adopt a formal appeal process. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 2 and Title 3, Chapter 7.

TN - HR53 Memorials, Recognition - Manny and Adele Macca, Manny's House of Pizza

TN - HB1138 Taxes, Amusement - As enacted, exempts from the tax admission, dues, fees, or other charges paid to any person principally engaged in offering services or facilities for the development or preservation of physical fitness through exercise or other active physical fitness conditioning. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 2 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HJR307 Memorials, Death - Durward Gordon Hall

TN - HB1185 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, enacts the "Juvenile Justice Stop Solitary Confinement Act." - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 41, Chapter 4.

TN - HB817 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, makes the provision for the assessor of property recording with the register of deeds an application for the classification of property as agricultural, forest, or open space land discretionary instead of mandatory, and requires the property owner to record the application with the register of deeds if the assessor does not. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB367 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, requires wildlife resources agency to issue permanent sport combination hunting and fishing licenses upon payment of a one-time $10 fee to honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - HB852 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, enhances the punishment for a second or subsequent conviction of aggravated cruelty to animals or a first conviction of aggravated cruelty to animals involving five or more animals, from a Class E felony to a Class C felony with a mandatory minimum sentence of 180 days; requires that 100 percent of the minimum sentence be served. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3; Title 39; Title 63, Chapter 12 and Title 66.

TN - HB754 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for the transfer of a firearm to a person knowing that the person: has been judicially committed to a mental institution or adjudicated as a mental defective unless the person's right to possess firearms has been restored; or is receiving inpatient mental health or substance abuse treatment at a hospital or treatment resource. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB674 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, revises various provisions related to stepparent visitation. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - HJR319 Memorials, Recognition - Governor Frank G. Clement

TN - HR64 Memorials, Recognition - Social Work Month, March 2019

TN - HJR382 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Marjorie Jean Yaeger, 90th birthday

TN - HB1550 School Vouchers - As introduced, deletes the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1406 Hearing and Hearing Aids - As enacted, replaces references to hearing impairment with language referring to being deaf or hard of hearing. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 24; Title 37; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 60; Title 65 and Title 71.

TN - HJR385 Memorials, Recognition - Jaynee K. Day and Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee

TN - HB912 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the poem "My Tennessee," written by Michael McDonald in 1984, as an official state poem of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-303.

TN - HB901 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes the enhanced maximum fine of up to $15,000 applicable to aggravated assault when committed against an identifiable employee or contractor of a utility who is discharging or attempting to discharge such person's official duties. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 65, Chapter 35.

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

TN - HB1483 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to provide free feminine hygiene products in eligible public high schools. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB689 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, extends for a student who becomes pregnant during the four-month period immediately preceding the date on which the student completes high school in a Tennessee home school program, obtains a GED or HiSET, or graduates from high school, the time within which the student must be admitted to, and enrolled in, an eligible postsecondary institution to be eligible for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HJR433 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Julie Schwarz, 2018 Christ the Teacher Award

TN - HB839 Driver Licenses - As enacted, revises provisions governing payment plans for fines and costs and license suspension for failure to comply with plan. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 24, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 5.

TN - HB949 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, enacts the Governor's Investment in Vocational Education Act; specifies that financial assistance received for all dual enrollment courses attempted after the fourth dual enrollment course reduces any subsequent award of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-930.

TN - HB716 DUI Offenses - As introduced, creates per se DUI offense of driving while the person's blood includes any amount of Schedule I controlled substance or Schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance that cannot be dispensed without a prescription when the person does not have a valid prescription; enhances criminal penalties for impaired driving within a school zone. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

TN - HJR475 Memorials, Sports - University of Memphis men's basketball team

TN - HB179 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes various new special license plates and grants additional time for certain plates to meet the minimum order requirement. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Representative Ron Lollar

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

TN - HB405 Education - As enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools to adopt a trauma-informed discipline policy; requires the department of education to develop guidance on trauma-informed discipline practices that LEAs must use to develop a trauma-informed discipline policy. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB37 Public Health - As enacted, creates the state Alzheimer's disease and related dementia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 14 and Title 71.

TN - HJR513 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly C. Robertson

TN - HJR515 Memorials, Death - Gladys Margaret Endsley McKinsey

TN - HJR477 Memorials, Recognition - National "Distracted Driving Awareness Month," April 2019

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Deborah Means Henderson

TN - HB944 Education - As enacted, establishes the Governor's Civics Seal to recognize public schools and local education agencies implementing high-quality civic education programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - HB1168 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates offenses related to the possession, sale, distribution, and transport of child-like sex dolls. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1339 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop a state plan for computer science in grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1449 Sentencing - As enacted, adds to sentencing considerations available community-based alternatives to confinement and the benefits that imposing such alternatives may provide to the community should be considered when the offense is nonviolent and the defendant is the primary caregiver of a dependent child. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB1354 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires each state institution of higher education to do the following: develop and implement a suicide prevention plan for students, faculty, and staff; and provide the plan to students, faculty, and staff at least once each semester. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR583 Memorials, Sports - Hunter Sturgill

TN - HJR613 Memorials, Government Officials - Designates House Seat 34 in the House Chamber of the State Capitol as the "Charles Sargent Memorial."

TN - HJR588 Memorials, Recognition - National Drug Endangered Children Awareness Day

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Khyiah K. Riviears

TN - HJR608 Memorials, Retirement - Vanessa M. Horner

TN - HJR607 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jeremiah Higginbottom, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HB664 Education - As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding alternative schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1187 Veterans - As enacted, eliminates the fee for interment of an eligible veteran's most recent spouse in a state veterans' cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

TN - HB316 Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "Barry Brady Act," which creates a presumption that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by certain cancers arose out of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2.

TN - HB494 Taxes, Privilege - As enacted, eliminates the special privilege tax on ammunition. - Amends TCA Section 8-8-201 and Title 70, Chapter 3.

TN - HJR629 Memorials, Recognition - City of Memphis, Bicentennial

TN - HB565 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, revises various provisions governing statutes of limitations for civil actions and criminal prosecutions for cases involving abuse against child; revises penalty for failure to report abuse. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 37 and Title 40.

TN - HB1340 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Leigh Ann Act," which creates a Class A misdemeanor of violating a no contact order issued to a domestic violence victim as part of a disposition in any criminal court. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-113.

TN - HJR644 Memorials, Retirement - Helen Ford

TN - HB1177 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, grants a retirement allowance to a surviving spouse who is a designated beneficiary if the deceased TCRS member is vested instead of requiring that the member have 10 years of creditable service. - Amends TCA Section 8-36-109.

TN - HB1460 Handgun Permits - As enacted, waives the fee for obtaining a lifetime handgun carry permit for former law enforcement officers who served at least 10 years and left the law enforcement agency while in good standing. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HB1440 Law Enforcement - As enacted, makes denial of a claim made by the estate of a law enforcement officer for the annuity payable to the estate of an emergency responder who is killed in the line of duty subject to review by the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission within 90 days of the claim's denial; redefines "law enforcement officer" for purposes of determining which law enforcement officers are considered an emergency responder whose estate would be eligible for the annuity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38.

TN - HB909 Elder Abuse - As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - HJR631 Memorials, Recognition - Shelby County, Bicentennial

TN - HB917 Child Abuse - As enacted, creates the Class A misdemeanor and Class E felony offenses of withdrawing, transferring, or altering a child's school enrollment with intent to hinder an active child abuse or child neglect investigation. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HJR647 Memorials, Retirement - Steve North

TN - HJR646 Memorials, Public Service - Metro Nashville Councilman Bill Pridemore

TN - HJR636 Memorials, Retirement - State Trooper Joe Wynne

TN - HJR651 Memorials, Public Service - Metro Nashville Councilman Doug Pardue

TN - HJR652 Memorials, Public Service - Metro Nashville Councilman Anthony Davis

TN - HJR630 Memorials, Recognition - Memphis Light, Gas and Water, 80th anniversary

TN - HJR688 Memorials, Death - William B. "Bill" Whitson

TN - HJR683 Memorials, Recognition - Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Week, February 7-14, 2020

TN - HJR691 Memorials, Public Service - Scott W. Gilmer

TN - HB1648 Education - As introduced, requires LEAs to provide opportunity for enrollment in a pre-kindergarten program to all children who are four years of age by September 30 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51 and Title 49.

TN - HJR734 Memorials, Sports - Tennessee Titans

TN - HJR701 Memorials, Sports - Maryville High School, 2019 TSSAA Class 6A Football State Champions

TN - HJR735 Memorials, Sports - Derrick Henry

TN - HR218 Memorials, Death - David C. Driver, Jr.

TN - HB1963 Codes - As introduced, requires that all citations issued for violations of ordinances referenced in the municipality's administrative hearing ordinance be served via certified mail to the actual address of the person in violation of such ordinances. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 10.

TN - HB2171 Victims' Rights - As introduced, prohibits requiring an advocate to disclose certain information in regard to a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking in a judicial, legislative, or administrative proceeding unless the victim gives express written consent. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 36 and Title 39.

TN - HJR786 Memorials, Death - Sterling Haskel "Hack" Ayers

TN - HJR818 Memorials, Recognition - Harriet Tubman Day

TN - HJR675 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John Crosslin, Board of Directors of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation

TN - HJR819 Memorials, Recognition - Michael W. Rallings, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR810 Memorials, Recognition - Helen Abbott, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HB1699 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, makes various changes to the law concerning the electronic delivery of health care and its coverage under insurance policies. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Section 63-1-155.

TN - HJR831 Memorials, Recognition - Women Veterans Day, June 12, 2020

TN - HB781 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, creates the professional art therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of art therapy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 63.

TN - HB1562 State Symbols - As enacted, designates "The Volunteer State" as the official nickname of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB2708 Employees, Employers - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Pregnant Workers Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - HB497 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, expands the definition of "eligible independent postsecondary institution" to include certain private postsecondary institutions for purposes of scholarships and grants funded from net proceeds of the state lottery. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB2676 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax; establishes requirements for payment of annual professional registration fee for nonresidents engaged in certain professions. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 19; Title 23; Title 48, Chapter 1; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 67.

TN - HJR878 Memorials, Recognition - Congressman John Robert Lewis

TN - HJR871 Memorials, Recognition - Nashville State Community College, 50th anniversary

TN - HJR932 Memorials, Sports - Nashville SC, inaugural MLS season

TN - HB1620 Driver Licenses - As enacted, adds documentation a veteran may submit to the department of safety to have military service indicated on a driver license to allow an honorably discharged veteran to submit a certified copy of the veteran's AGO Form 53-55 or NAVPERS 553 showing the dates of service. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HB2443 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, each Title I public high school to provide at least one driver education course for its students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2054 Controlled Substances - As introduced, prohibits revocation of parole, probation, or bail based on drug test result that is positive for THC below a certain level; prohibits public employers from taking adverse employment action and denying certain benefits based on such test result. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Section 49-6-4213; Title 49, Chapter 5; Title 50; Section 63-1-126 and Title 71.

TN - HB2457 Firefighters - As introduced, enacts the "Firefighter Suicide Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB1589 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Anti-Lunch Shaming Act"; prohibits a school from taking certain actions against a student who cannot pay for a meal, or who has accumulated a meal debt; requires a school to provide a United States department of agriculture reimbursable meal to each student who requests one; requires a school to assist parents and guardians with obtaining free or reduced-price meals for the parent's or guardian's eligible student. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB2719 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, encourages all employers in this state to provide a paid day off each Veterans' Day for all employees of the employer who are veterans. - Amends TCA Title 15 and Title 58.

TN - HB2191 Sexual Offenses - As introduced, revises and enacts various provisions regarding the rights of victims of sexually oriented crimes, including decreasing the time period within which a law enforcement agency must submit a sexual assault evidence collection (SAEC) kit to the TBI, requiring the TBI to begin analyzing an SAEC kit within 30 days of receipt, requiring the TBI to create a tracking system for SAEC kits, and prohibiting the use of forensic evidence against the victim in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 63.

TN - HB1933 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, requires training curriculum for 911 operators and public safety dispatchers to include guidelines for T-CPR; provides immunity from civil liability for emergency communication districts, the state, counties, and municipalities for employees who provide assistance or instruction on T-CPR to a caller or bystander on an emergency call. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 68.

TN - HB2121 Taxes - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Local Education Capital Investment Act." - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2674 Welfare - As introduced, extends the date by which the commission on aging and disability must provide to the general assembly an updated report and analysis on the waiting list for the state options program from January 15 of each year to January 20 of each year. - Amends TCA Section 71-2-105.

TN - HB1650 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, for purposes of determining if a person has a duty to retreat before threatening or using force in self-defense, declares that a person is not considered to be engaged in unlawful activity or where the person does not have a right to be if the person is engaged in activity or in a place due to the person's status as a victim of human trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 6.

TN - HB1575 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds imminent danger of serious sexual abuse as a justification for the use of deadly force in self-defense and to defenses of duress and use of deadly force by law enforcement officer; defines serious sexual abuse as rape, aggravated rape, rape of a child, or aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2454 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requests the department and its division of health related boards to perform a study on the licensure and regulation of cannabis for medical use by departments of health and medical professional licensing boards in states contiguous to Tennessee and report findings to the general assembly's health committees by December 15, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 38, Chapter 3; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43; Title 50; Title 53; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB1815 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an offense of using force or coercion to cause a person to join a criminal gang against the person's will; sets penalty based on the age of the victim. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2518 Local Government, General - As introduced, expands presumptive disability in acquiring certain infectious diseases in the line of duty by emergency rescue workers to include the hepatitis B virus. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-209.

TN - HB2335 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to survey all LEAs, public charter schools, and state special schools to determine whether there are enough licensed speech-language pathologists to serve the needs of public school students with speech disorders; requires the department to survey and collect information on speech pathologists' caseloads and workloads; requires the department to report its findings and recommendations to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives by January 15, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 56 and Title 63.

TN - HB2407 Education - As enacted, permits a student whose IEP or section 504 plan allows for testing accommodations to use the same testing accommodations while taking an assessment under the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) or an end-of-course assessment, as long as the accommodation does not invalidate the assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1643 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, provides for restrictions or a ban on ownership of a companion animal by certain persons convicted of certain offenses against animals. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 1.

TN - HB2223 Food and Food Products - As enacted, corrects a cross-reference in regard to the standards that apply to certain donations of food; changes the level of carelessness that gives rise to liability for damage caused by certain food donors from negligence to gross negligence; makes other changes concerning food donations. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1587 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs to develop and implement a "Stop the Bleed" program that provides limited civil immunity to LEAs, schools, and LEA employees for personal injuries resulting from the use of items in a bleeding control kit; establishes requirements for the program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR974 Memorials, Death - Victor Thompson

TN - HB2308 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, enacts the "Holly Bobo Act," which expands the bureau's endangered child and young adult alert program to include endangered persons under 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB1718 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, increases the maximum age for a victim of aggravated rape of a child from three years of age to eight years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HB2818 Education - As enacted, authorizes the state board of education to promulgate emergency rules as necessary to address any issues created by school closures due to the outbreak of COVID-19 during the 2019-2020 school year; requires the commissioner of education to waive certain requirements; establishes other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2630 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the bureau to provide oversight for and implement a program to assist in the locating of missing, vulnerable citizens, called the Silver Alert program, that will supersede the Care Alert program. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1596 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Accessible Transportation and Mobility Act of 2020." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 23; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB2069 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, adds the offenses of promoting the prostitution of a minor and patronizing prostitution from a person who is younger than 18 years of age or has an intellectual disability as sexual offenses for which a person may not qualify for judicial diversion. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2588 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires that the parent educational seminar include at least one 30-minute video on adverse childhood experiences created by the department of children's services in conjunction with the commission on children and youth or as part of the Building Strong Brains Tennessee public awareness campaign; adds to that the requirement of attendance by parents at the parent educational seminar may be waived upon motion by either party and the agreement of the court upon the showing of good cause. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2586 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates "Women's Suffrage Day" as a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2764 Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires the department of human resources to make an annual report on or before January 15, instead of periodically, to the governor on recommendations for improvements of the state service system. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 28; Title 29; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 50.

TN - HB2727 General Services, Dept. of - As introduced, 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 various other provisions related to procurement of state contracts. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 49.

TN - HJR1053 Memorials, Retirement - Lloyd Hansen

TN - HB2601 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires public institutions of higher education to provide each student with a detailed and completed current-year federal college financing plan; imposes other requirements for such institutions to provide certain information when a student is finalizing acceptance of a financial aid package. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR828 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes the importance of the honeybee and pollinators to the agricultural industry of Tennessee.

TN - HJR1200 Memorials, Death - Johnny Majors

TN - HJR1212 Memorials, Death - George Floyd

TN - HB2269 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, makes various changes to state law to reflect the change in federal law that raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 years of age to 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-113; Title 39, Chapter 15 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB2653 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of disseminating a photograph of an inmate at a state penal institution that was taken during a visitation period. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 47.

TN - HB2414 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, extends the exemption from licensure to hunt and fish on farmlands owned by a spouse, parent, or grandparent, to include spouses of children of landowners. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - HB2494 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, specifies that a sportsman's license is not required in order to assist a person with a disability who is fishing or hunting pursuant to a discounted license or an exemption from licensure, if certain requirements are met, including executing a form and compliance with certain laws by the assistant. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - HB1990 Abuse - As introduced, authorizes release to law enforcement of information regarding the identity of a person who reports a case of suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an adult so that law enforcement may follow up with the person to determine if the report was investigated and resolved. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 5 and Title 71, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HJR1229 Memorials, Recognition - General James Norman Mattis, United States Marine Corps (ret.)

TN - HR344 Memorials, Recognition - Zee Thomas, Teens4Equality

TN - HR345 Memorials, Recognition - Kennedy Green, Teens4Equality

TN - HR346 Memorials, Recognition - Mikayla Smith, Teens4Equality

TN - HR348 Memorials, Recognition - Emma Rose Smith, Teens4Equality

TN - HR349 Memorials, Recognition - Jade Fuller, Teens4Equality

TN - HB2126 Evidence - As introduced, requires a local law enforcement agency to submit a sexual assault evidence collection kit to the state crime lab or other similar qualified laboratory for testing within 45 days of a victim filing a police report, rather than within 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HB2623 Civil Procedure - As introduced, changes, from not less than five days to not less than seven days before a hearing, the time the opposing party has to file a response to a petition under the Tennessee Public Participation Act. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 20; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 47 and Title 49.

TN - HB2275 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, deletes the offense of impersonation of a licensed professional. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 3.

TN - HR351 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

TN - HB1862 Employees, Employers - As enacted, prohibits marketplace platforms from keeping tips intended for marketplace contractors. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 56 and Title 62.

TN - HB2867 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, defines physician to mean a person licensed in this state and in good standing, for purposes of requiring an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is deaf or hard of hearing and who seeks to request a designation in the VTRS database by application coupled with a physician's statement. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2760 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, changes, from February 1 to February 15, the date by which the department of revenue must report findings and recommendations regarding sales taxes collected on electronic nicotine delivery devices to the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives and the chairs of the respective finance, ways and means committees. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB2938 General Assembly - As introduced, reduces the salary for members of the general assembly to $11,333 per year beginning with the election of the 113th General Assembly. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-107.

TN - HR374 Historical Sites and Preservation - Denounces the use of taxpayer money to maintain monuments that symbolize racism, repression, or hatred.

TN - HJR1240 Memorials, Death - Anna J. Shepherd

TN - HB2093 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to publish the guidelines for the best practices for identifying and reporting signs of child abuse, child sexual abuse, and human trafficking in which the victim is a child on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - HB547 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, restores the voting rights of persons convicted of certain infamous crimes upon receipt of a pardon or completion of any sentence of incarceration, parole, or probation. - Amends TCA Section 2-2-102 and Title 40, Chapter 29.

TN - HB2705 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, creates a five-member Asian carp advisory commission to recommend methods and seek funding for the eradication of Asian carp from Tennessee waters. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 70.

TN - HB2157 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, enacts the "Financial Aid Simplification for Tennesseans (FAST) Act." - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2517 Sentencing - As enacted, revises provisions governing drug-free school zones and school safety zones and sentences related to violations. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Section 49-2-116.

TN - HB1593 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, establishes requirements for peer-to-peer car sharing programs, and subjects such programs to certain existing laws. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 42; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB2680 Health Care - As introduced, authorizes healthcare facilities to provide an electronic method for insureds or their representatives to acknowledge and sign the statutorily required notice that the insured agrees to receive medical services by an out-of-network provider and will receive a bill for the amount unpaid by the insured's insurer. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2924 Budget Procedures - As enacted, makes revisions to general law necessary to implement the annual appropriations act; requires dealers with physical presence in this state to register with department of revenue to collect and remit sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71.