Tennessee Rep. Brenda Gilmore (D)

TN - Agriculture and Natural Resources (House)

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TN - Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee (House)

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TN - Criminal Justice (House)

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TN - Fiscal Review

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TN - HB2196 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, beginning 2021, establishes that regions will no longer receive credit against the 25 percent waste reduction and diversion goal for landfilling construction waste in Class III and IV landfills. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB2197 Solid Waste Disposal - As enacted, requires the commissioner of environment and conservation to conduct a study to define the processing of organic waste and incorporate the findings and recommendations into the state's comprehensive solid waste management plan. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB764 Solid Waste Disposal - As enacted, requires TDEC to include in its annual report to the governor and general assembly concerning the solid waste management system, progress implementation updates, including projected implement steps, on each specific component of the state's comprehensive solid waste management plan. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HJR542 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association Go Red for Women

TN - HB1712 Public Health - As enacted, requires the commissioner of health to encourage public health organizations, the medical community, the department of education, the department of labor and workforce development, the department of general services, and other relevant stakeholders to examine the asthma prevention protocols posted on the web site of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and related information; requires the commissioner to include on the department of health web site the Internet links to the protocols to better assist people affected by environmental illnesses and multiple chemical sensitivities. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB128 State Government - As introduced, removes conviction-related questions on job applications for employment with certain state agencies and political subdivisions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21 and Title 50.

TN - HJR203 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - To support passage of the STEM Education Act (H.R. 1020).

TN - HB1086 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, requires that no more than 20 percent of the funds received by the department of health from violations of the child safety restraint law be used for administrative costs. - Amends TCA Section 55-9-602.

TN - HB139 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class E felony of intentionally possessing a firearm that the person knows or reasonably should know is stolen. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2198 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, directs the department of environment and conservation, in conjunction with the general assembly and other entities to compile a report and any recommendations for legislation on services to be utilized in the diversion of municipal solid waste in certain counties by January 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB500 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies to submit to TBI reports of the demographics of the following members of the public who interact with the law enforcement agency: victims, suspects, and arrested individuals. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 10.

TN - HB1875 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires juveniles to undergo a mental health screening after being found delinquent twice of an offense that would be considered a misdemeanor if committed by an adult; makes the drug-free school zone statute inapplicable if school is not in session. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - HJR590 General Assembly, Directed Studies - Urges the commissioner of health to develop protocols to recognize multiple chemical sensitivity and appropriate responses to assist person affected with multiple chemical sensitivity.

TN - HJR495 Memorials, Recognition - Ken Jakes

TN - HB1706 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency that uses body cameras to adopt a written policy for the use of the cameras by its law enforcement officers; establishes certain requirements for the policies. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1085 Charitable Solicitations - As enacted, establishes requirements for charitable donation receptacles; requires certain signage to disclose how proceeds from donated items will be used. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101.

TN - HB129 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a private entity that performs criminal background checks from reporting that a person has been convicted of an offense, if the offense has been expunged for not less than six months. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB712 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement officers to wear wide angle body cameras that record video footage while on duty, if funded by grants, private donations, or federal funds. - Amends TCA Title 38.

TN - HJR563 Memorials, Recognition - Fisk University, 150th anniversary

TN - HB22 Human Rights - As introduced, prohibits employers from asking applicants for employment about expunged offenses; prevents higher education institutions from asking applicants for admission about expunged offenses; establishes civil penalties for private employers violating act's provisions. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32; Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 50.

TN - HR133 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Public Health Association

TN - HR134 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association Go Red for Women

TN - HB196 Elder Abuse - As enacted, requires that a fine be imposed on a person convicted of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an adult if the victim was over 60 years of age; authorizes appropriation of the fines to fund services and programs for senior citizens. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 71, Chapter 2 and Title 71, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB1704 Probation and Parole - As introduced, makes defendants convicted for having or selling drugs in school zones eligible for parole after serving 33 percent of the defendant's sentence; eliminates the requirement that defendants serve a mandatory minimum sentence before parole eligibility. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HJR178 Memorials, Recognition - The Links Days on Capitol Hill.

TN - HJR567 Memorials, Death - Reverend J. Fred Cloud

TN - HJR557 Memorials, Sports - 1966 Pearl High School varsity basketball team

TN - HB2442 State Employees - As enacted, prohibits a state employer from inquiring about an applicant's criminal history on an initial application form for employment under certain circumstances; excludes certain state employers from this prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 1.

TN - HR39 Memorials, Recognition - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority.

TN - HB2141 Sentencing - As introduced, specifies that violations of drug-free school zones that occur when schools are not in session for five consecutive days or more are not subject to enhanced and mandatory minimum sentences. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-432.

TN - HR6 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association Go Red for Women.

TN - HB1703 Driver Licenses - As introduced, deletes requirement that the department of safety extend the suspension of a person's driver license for an additional like period based on a conviction for driving on a suspended or revoked license. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB1705 Sentencing - As introduced, makes a person sentenced to imprisonment for life for a conviction of first degree murder that occurred when the person was a minor eligible for parole consideration after service of 65 percent of the 60-year sentence imposed, and no less than 50 percent including any sentence reduction credits earned. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1876 Sentencing - As introduced, reconstitutes the Tennessee sentencing commission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 40.

TN - HB2611 Public Records - As introduced, clarifies that the visual and audio images of a person who is captured in a law enforcement officer's body camera are confidential if the person was not the subject of the officer's investigation, was in a lawful place, was not engaged in illegal activity, and had a reasonable expectation of privacy. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 38, Chapter 8.

TN - HB713 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires each state, county, and municipal law enforcement agency to collect and submit demographic data to the TBI on any person who is stopped by an officer employed by the agency; requires the TBI to compile and submit a report on the data to the general assembly and the governor on January 1 annually. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 10.

TN - HB1225 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, requires the annual TBI report on crime to contain demographic data, including the percentage of suspects, victims, and convicted offenders based on race, gender, age, nationality, and any other appropriate demographic, as determined by the director of TBI. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1244 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of unlawful exposure, which is committed when a person distributes a private image of the intimate parts of another with the intent to cause emotional distress and the depicted person suffers emotional distress. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB317 Short Term Loans and Lenders - As introduced, prohibits any short-term lender from assessing an interest rate for any short-term lending transaction that exceeds 28 percent per annum; and authorizes the commissioner of financial institutions to determine appropriate civil penalties. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - HB57 Human Rights - As enacted, enacts the "Racial Profiling Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38, Chapter 1 and Section 49-7-118.

TN - HB2031 Public Records - As introduced, permits a person to petition the court for the expunction of multiple convictions provided all the offenses are currently eligible for expunction, the petitioner has completed all requirements of each sentence, and five years have elapsed since the most recent offense. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB1752 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires public criminal records to be automatically expunged after two years from date of entry of any dismissal, nolle prosequi, or no true bill if not previously expunged upon court order or petition; establishes certain procedures for expunction without cost when charge is dismissed or nolle prosequi is entered. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB2025 Dentists and Dentistry - As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of health to complete a comprehensive state oral health plan by January 1, 2017, and to submit the plan to the federal centers for disease control and prevention and to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB1270 Victims' Rights - As enacted, requires a law enforcement officer, when the officer responds to a report of certain offenses related to domestic violence, to inform the victim of the statewide automated victim information and notification service and to provide certain informational materials, if available. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 38.

TN - HB1497 Military - As introduced, extends employment protections for members of the army and air national guard, state guard, and civil air patrol of any other state to members who are called to active duty in Tennessee or any other state. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33; Title 50 and Title 58, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1174 Metropolitan Government - As enacted, permits a county with a metropolitan government that has acquired real property at a delinquent tax sale to authorize the conveyance of the real property by grant to a nonprofit organization for the purpose of constructing affordable or workplace housing. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 3, Part 3 and Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 25.

TN - HB1257 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development to set the state’s minimum hourly wage rate at not less than $10.10 per hour, adjusted annually to reflect inflation in accordance with the consumer price index; establishes a cause of action for employees if employers violate the state’s minimum hourly wage rate; sets the wage rate paid to blind persons employed by the state to the greater of the state minimum hourly wage rate or the federal minimum wage. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 13; Title 39; Title 50; Title 67 and Title 71.

TN - HB2514 Victims' Rights - As enacted, increases from $750 to $1,000 the maximum amount payable by the criminal injuries compensation fund for the provision of forensic medical examinations performed on victims of sexually oriented crimes. - Amends TCA Section 29-13-118.

TN - HB2496 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, allows licensing authorities for certain state regulatory agencies to consider whether a person's conviction for the commission of a felony bears directly on the person's fitness to practice competently when making determinations regarding the person's licensure status. - Amends TCA Title 57; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB2334 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department of labor and workforce development, in consultation with the department of corrections, if so requested, to report to the governor and general assembly on existing pilot programs that focus on work programs for the successful reentry of individuals to the workforce who have been convicted of a felony. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41 and Title 50.

TN - HB2225 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, authorizes the chief medical officer of the department of health to implement a state-wide collaborative pharmacy practice agreement for opioid antagonist therapy with pharmacists. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1699 Education, Higher - As enacted, provides tuition and fee waivers to full-time state employees for up to four courses per academic year provided the courses do not coincide. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-114.

TN - HB1407 Education, Higher - As enacted, grants in-state tuition and fees at public higher education institutions to certain dependent children of military parents regardless of place of residency if the military parent perished as the result of a targeted attack that occurred in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2370 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires that any conduct by an inmate against a correctional officer, guard, jailer, or other full-time employee of a penal institution, local jail, or workhouse, that would constitute an assault under current law be reported by the department to the appropriate district attorney general for prosecution. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 41.

TN - HB268 Evidence - As enacted, adds certain offenses to the list of crimes eligible for the interception of communications for evidence. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB1779 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes to the offense of stalking, including redefining "course of conduct". - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 14; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39.

TN - HB733 TennCare - As enacted, authorizes TennCare to provide medical assistance for sickle cell disease management services and public education campaign activities specifically related to sickle cell disease. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB554 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, eliminates the rights of custody, visitation, and inheritance for persons convicted of aggravated rape, rape, or rape of a child from which crime the child was conceived; permits the child's other parent to request reasonable visitation with the convicted parent; requires a court to establish a child support obligation for the convicted parent. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HB2149 Veterans - As enacted, expands eligibility for a Fallen Heroes Medal to service members killed in attacks specifically targeting service members and under other circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 58-3-113.

TN - HB2022 Mass Transit - As enacted, revises the present law provisions governing overtaking on the right in regard to the operation of mass transit buses on shoulders and rights-of-way. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55; Title 64 and Title 65.

TN - HB857 Solid Waste Disposal - As enacted, authorizes Davidson County to impose and collect a solid waste collection, processing, and disposal fee; adds solid waste "processing" as an authorized expenditure for the surcharge on each ton of municipal solid waste received at a solid waste disposal facility or incinerator. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB77 Education - As enacted, changes references in the code from vocational education to career and technical education; changes references in the code from the board for vocational education to the board for career and technical education. - Amends TCA Section 37-2-417; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 11; Title 49, Chapter 12; Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 5; Title 49, Chapter 50; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Section 62-4-122.

TN - HB2248 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, prohibits the expenditure of state funds by the University of Tennessee to promote the use of gender neutral pronouns, to promote or inhibit the celebration of religious holidays, or to fund or support sex week; specifies that all funds in the budget of the office for diversity and inclusion at UT Knoxville, for fiscal year 2016-2017, be reallocated in the university's budget and used by the university solely for scholarships to be awarded through a minority engineering scholarship program; any such funds that are not used for minority engineering scholarships in fiscal year 2016-2017 will remain in the scholarship program for use in future fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.

TN - HB614 Recycling - As enacted, revises provisions governing state government recycling efforts; encourages state facilities to offer recycling opportunities. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB1164 Health Care - As enacted, creates a special joint committee to study issues relative to lupus. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1238 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to develop a mentorship program that teams successful large enterprises, as mentors, with emerging small businesses, as mentees. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB735 Education - As enacted, requires the commissioner of education, by October 1 of the year prior to the public identification of priority schools, to notify any school and its respective LEA if the school is among the bottom 10 percent of schools in overall achievement as determined by the performance standards and other criteria set by the state board. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-602.

TN - HB921 Education - As enacted, prohibits the placement of a priority school in the achievement school district if, after the school is identified as a priority school, but before the commissioner determines that the school should be assigned to the achievement school district the school demonstrates student achievement growth at a level of "above expectations" or greater, as represented by TVAAS. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB718 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, declares the week that includes the third Thursday in November as "Agricultural Literacy Week." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB480 Metropolitan Government - As enacted, authorizes a metropolitan government by two-thirds vote to restrict the location of a private club within 1,000 feet of a private school, public school, charter school, public park, residence, or place of worship. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 68.

TN - HB20 Local Government, General - As enacted, expands presumptive disability in acquiring certain infectious diseases in the line of duty by emergency rescue workers to include the hepatitis C virus. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-209.

TN - HB2313 Financial Disclosure - As introduced, prohibits certain public employees and officials from owning shares of stocks or investments in privately held prison companies on or after January 1, 2017; requires such employees or officials who own holdings or stock in privately held prison companies prior to January 1, 2017, to disclose such investments or holdings and divest of such stock or investments by January 1, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 67.

TN - HB1482 Veterans - As introduced, extends from three years to 10 years the time in which a veteran must enroll in a public institution of higher education after discharge to be exempt from paying out-of-state tuition or fees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.

TN - HB41 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, revises provisions governing 12-hour hold period for persons charged with domestic violence or elder abuse offense; makes hold period mandatory unless the magistrate or other official duly authorized to release the offender finds that the offender is not a threat to the alleged victim. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - HB1871 Environmental Preservation - As introduced, creates the forum on Tennessee's great outdoors for the purpose of conducting a comprehensive review of the health and status of this state's natural resources and outdoor recreation needs and opportunities. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB830 Education - As enacted, encourages LEAs, in consultation with local law enforcement, to institute at least one domestic violence awareness education program per year for middle and high schools; requires each program to be developmentally appropriate based on the students' age and maturity level. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1545 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases penalty for TennCare fraud from Class E felony to Class D felony; creates specific fines for first and subsequent convictions for TennCare fraud. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 26.

TN - HB2116 Domestic Violence - As enacted, specifies that if domestic abuse is the underlying offense for which a tenancy is terminated, only the perpetrator may be evicted; enacts other provisions governing and domistic violence. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36 and Title 66.

TN - HB1850 Sewage - As enacted, authorizes the use of green infrastructure practices within areas that have combined sanitary sewage and storm water systems. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69, Chapter 3.

TN - HB228 Naming and Designating - As introduced, designates the welcome center at Johnsonville state historic park in honor of former state representative John C. Tidwell.

TN - HB2530 Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes counties and cities to establish programs allowing indigent persons who have been convicted of driving while their license is suspended or revoked to complete community service in lieu of paying the fine or costs for the conviction; requires a majority vote of the applicable local legislative body to establish such a program. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB2578 Education, Higher - As enacted, restructures the board of regents; establishes state university boards of trustees; makes other changes necessary to effectuate the restructuring; revises the composition of the Tennessee higher education commission - Amends TCA Section 12-3-102; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB1534 Correctional Programs - As enacted, allows an inmate to receive sentence reduction credits for obtaining any high school equivalency credential, instead of only a GED. - Amends TCA Section 41-21-236.

TN - HB1410 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, deletes the Save the Tax Relief Act. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB2312 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to list priority schools by county and rank the schools in order of the highest composite proficiency rate to the lowest rate when publishing the list on the state report card. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - HB854 Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Criminal Justice Veterans Compensation Act of 2015" or the "CJVC Act." - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - HB2088 Medical Occupations - As enacted, creates a task force to study issues related to healthcare services; specifies that the task force will make a report and cease to exist by January 10, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1473 Students - As introduced, permits students who are not interested in attending a community college, college, or university to opt out of the required 11th grade administration of the ACT. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - HB903 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Pay Equality Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - HB1317 Sentencing - As introduced, eliminates the death penalty as a sentence for first degree murder. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB549 Business and Commerce - As enacted, makes the Made in Tennessee Act permanent instead of repealing on January 1, 2016; specifies that the annual report of the University of Tennessee Center for Industrial Services must address the promotion of nonagricultural products made in Tennessee through the use of a logo or seal pursuant to the Act. - Amends TCA Section 4-3-738.

TN - HB2142 Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $100,000,000 from excess state tax revenues over collected in fiscal year 2014-2015 to the various counties to be used for county transportation projects; allocates funds in the same manner as county aid funding. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - HB2483 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, deletes the $350 fee for expunction of criminal records; exempts from the $100 clerks fee for expunction of records, those persons applying for the expunction because the charge or warrant was dismissed in any court as a result of the successful completion of a pretrial diversion program. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401 and Title 40.

TN - HB829 Domestic Violence - As enacted, requires that any pending order of protection or restraining order be served on a domestic violence offender before release, following the mandatory 12-hour holding period; directs that a copy of protection order be issued to any court in which the respondent and petitioner are parties to an action. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1, and Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - HB1468 Traffic Safety - As introduced, deletes requirement that the child safety seat for a child age one through three weighing more than 20 pounds be secured in a forward-facing position. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 6.

TN - HB675 Students - As introduced, exempts certain students from payment of out-of-state tuition at state institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 58; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2211 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, permits the AOC to submit the annual report to the general assembly regarding compliance by the courts within the time limits established for capital cases and the reason for noncompliance by electronic delivery. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1742 Election Laws - As enacted, establishes an online voter registration system beginning July 1, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB2292 Mining and Quarrying - As introduced, enacts the "Dam Safety Act" to prohibit the issuance of a permit to conduct surface mining on land that is located within one mile of a dam operated by the U.S. army corps of engineers. - Amends TCA Title 59; Title 69, Chapter 11 and Title 69, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1426 Bond Issues - As enacted, authorizes Davidson County to issue bonds to fund affordable housing and workforce housing projects. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9, Chapter 21 and Title 13, Chapter 23.

TN - HB217 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, deletes the requirement of intent to cause bodily injury from aggravated assault involving strangulation or attempted strangulation. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-102.

TN - HB2310 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, permits a metropolitan government or municipality to conduct an advisory referendum on whether possession of one ounce of marijuana or less should be decriminalized. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 7.

TN - HB321 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, permits a person to have their records expunged after being charged with a misdemeanor or felony that was dismissed, if the person was convicted of an offense related to the same criminal conduct or a lesser included offense but that offense was a moving or nonmoving traffic violation; allows partial expunction in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB1451 University of Tennessee - As introduced, requires all intercollegiate women's athletic teams at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to be called the "Lady Volunteers" or "Lady Vols" for all official school purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2250 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires department to publish its annual report concerning virtual schools on the department's web site. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1351 County Government - As enacted, authorizes county legislative bodies to appropriate funds for affordable or workforce housing. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.

TN - HB642 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, expands premises for consumption of alcoholic beverages to include area between a convention center, convention center hotel, museum, and one block of public roadway in Nashville upon majority vote of the local legislative body. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102(27).

TN - HB828 Veterans - As enacted, specifies that no fee may be charged for the interment of an eligible veteran in a state veterans' cemetery and limits the fee to $610 for the interment of an eligible veteran's spouse. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1018 TennCare - As introduced, repeals requirement that the general assembly must authorize by joint resolution any expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program, pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. - Repeals TCA Section 71-5-126.

TN - HB1707 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, establishes the day after Thanksgiving Day as Native American Heritage Day in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 15.

TN - HB147 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Animal Abuser Registration Act." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 44.

TN - HB460 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates May 11 of each year as "Police Memorial Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB579 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a minimum wage that increases annually on July 1; provides a minimum wage for employees in the service industry who receive tips and employees that are compensated solely by gratuities; authorizes the department to promulgate rules and regulations in compliance with federal law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2200 Education - As introduced, makes various revisions to the ASD, including requiring schools assigned to the ASD on or after July 1, 2016, be in the bottom 2.5 percent of schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - HB478 State Employees - As enacted, eliminates the 30-day aggregate limit of sick leave that may be used for maternity and paternity leave if both parents are state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8.

TN - HB1960 Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, enacts the "Juvenile Justice Realignment Act"; creates a task force to study new approaches to the administration of juvenile justice. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 37.

TN - HB2026 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, revises references to criminal offenses in the expunction provisions to conform to changes made to those criminal offenses by the Public Safety Act of 2016. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1485 Education - As enacted, makes certain changes to the requirements for voluntary pre-k programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB1635 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires the department of safety to develop a driver interaction with law enforcement informational video; beginning September 1, 2016, requires that the informational video be viewed by all first-time applicants for a driver license or intermediate driver license. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 55.

TN - HB2212 Water Pollution - As enacted, expands the notice requirement when lead is present in the drinking water supply. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 12; Title 45; Title 47; Title 50; Title 56; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB1672 Education - As introduced, creates a pilot program to provide grants to elementary and middle schools to implement the Leader in Me® pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HB2367 Sentencing - As introduced, permits a defendant who is sentenced to life imprisonment to become release eligible after service of 60 percent of 60 years, and in no event less than 25 years including sentence reduction credits; permits a defendant convicted under prior law to request parole eligibility be determined pursuant to this act. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Section 40-35-501.

TN - HB2071 Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to establish a model policy on suicide prevention; requires an LEA to adopt its own policy or the model policy on suicide prevention. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 49.

TN - HB1495 Driver Licenses - As enacted, deletes requirement that a person's driver license be suspended for an additional like period if convicted of driving on a suspended or revoked license; allows a court to order issuance of a restricted driver license contingent on the person participating in a payment plan for any unpaid fines or costs. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB946 Education - As enacted, requires the Tennessee STEM innovation network to establish STEM innovation hubs in rural areas of the state and in Northwest Tennessee; requires the Tennessee STEM innovation network to provide a middle school curriculum on the variety and benefits of STEM careers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2028 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, establishes a procedure whereby a person who committed a crime while a juvenile, was transferred to adult court for trial, and was sentenced as an adult may petition the court for sentence reduction after service of 15 years imprisonment. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB1489 Naming and Designating - As enacted, names the new high school to be constructed for the Tennessee School for the Deaf in honor of Alan J. Mealka.

TN - HB2316 Health Care - As enacted, establishes a stroke best practices and treatment guidelines task force under the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

TN - HB852 Election Laws - As introduced, removes requirement that a person must pay outstanding child support obligations that accumulated during any period of incarceration to have right of suffrage restored. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29, Part 2.

TN - HB873 Controlled Substances - As introduced, deletes the offense for a person to distribute a small amount of marijuana not in excess of one-half ounce (14.175 grams); increases the amount of marijuana, from one-half ounce to one ounce, that a person must possess, casually exchange, or distribute to be considered a criminal offense punishable as a Class C misdemeanor by a $100 fine for each violation. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB967 Public Contracts - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee First Act." - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 67.

TN - HR82 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Chulisia K. Pierce, Valedictorian, Memphis Health Careers Academy.

TN - HR151 Memorials, Recognition - Buck Dozier

TN - HR136 Memorials, Death - John Hollins, Sr.

TN - HR84 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dellarontay A. Readus, Valedictorian, Melrose High School.

TN - HR109 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tito Hunter, Valedictorian, Trezevant High School.

TN - HR76 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Asha A. Cathey, Salutatorian, Melrose High School.

TN - HR78 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Eric Sah, Salutatorian, White Station High School.

TN - HR117 Memorials, Interns - Antonio Briggs.

TN - HR174 Memorials, Death - Mary Jenkins Hardin

TN - HR80 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Taylor Nicole Haywood, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences.

TN - HR77 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Linnie Jiang, Valedictorian, White Station High School.

TN - HR37 Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee at Martin Men's Rodeo Team, NIRA National Champions.

TN - HR2 Memorials, Recognition - Fort Campbell.

TN - HR81 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Chelsey Danielle Jones, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences.

TN - HR1 Memorials, Retirement - Chaplain (Colonel) Phillip M. Armstrong.

TN - HR173 Memorials, Death - Cynthia Morin

TN - HR127 Memorials, Death - Richard M. Morin

TN - HR112 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jason Zeng, Salutatorian, Bartlett High School.

TN - HR164 Memorials, Retirement - Judge Walter F. Williams

TN - HR153 Memorials, Recognition - Vietnam Veterans Day

TN - HR98 Memorials, Interns - Jillian Cantrell.

TN - HR161 Memorials, Public Service - Pastor Matt Anzivino

TN - HR99 Memorials, Interns - Ja'Vonta Seals.

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Thadijah Jeanne Burks.

TN - HR79 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kelly Yuan, Salutatorian, White Station High School.

TN - HR83 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cartavius L. Turner, Salutatorian, Memphis Health Careers Academy.

TN - HR108 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brianna Parrish, Salutatorian, Trezevant High School.

TN - HR49 Memorials, Congratulations - Nelson Lundberg, high school graduation.

TN - HR141 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Roy W. Ellison, 100th birthday

TN - HR126 Memorials, Retirement - Larry K. Scroggs

TN - HR111 Memorials, Interns - D'John W. Moore.

TN - HR128 Memorials, Recognition - Domtar, 100th anniversary in Kingsport

TN - HR152 Memorials, Recognition - Director General Huei-Yuan Tai

TN - HJR233 Memorials, Recognition - Vanecia Belser Kimbrow, I AM A VOTER Strategic Collaborative.

TN - HJR472 Memorials, Death - Gunnery Sergeant Thomas J. Sullivan, United States Marine Corps

TN - HJR183 Memorials, Recognition - Honors and commends the members of the Gold Star Mothers and Gold Star Families.

TN - HJR138 Memorials, Public Service - Robert T. Lee.

TN - HJR204 Memorials, Recognition - Celebrate September 2015 as "American Indian Heritage Month" in Tennessee.

TN - HJR51 Naming and Designating - "Child Abuse Prevention Month" April 2015.

TN - HJR56 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Deborah R. Williams, Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2014.

TN - HJR150 Memorials, Recognition - Commemorates "March for Meals Month" in Tennessee.

TN - HJR57 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Affirms commitment to equal right to technology and information access for Tennesseans with disabilities.

TN - HJR187 Memorials, Professional Achievement - George Fraley.

TN - HJR585 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourage employers to grant holiday time off on Veterans Day to their employees who are military veterans if they would otherwise be required to work on that day.

TN - HJR206 Memorials, Recognition - Reverend David Royalty, 25th anniversary at First Baptist Church Joelton.

TN - HJR229 Memorials, Sports - Belmont University men's basketball team.

TN - HJR458 Memorials, Death - Fred Dalton Thompson.

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Retirement - Chaplain (COL-R) Alvin E. Miller Sr.

TN - HJR223 Memorials, Sports - Martin Luther King High School Lady Royals basketball team, TSSAA Class AA State Champions.

TN - HJR109 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Robert Hensley, named Department Commander of the American Legion Department of Tennessee.

TN - HJR388 Memorials, Retirement - Sharon Peters.

TN - HJR12 Memorials, Recognition - Childhood apraxia of speech awareness.

TN - HJR475 Memorials, Death - Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Scott Smith, United States Navy

TN - HJR261 Memorials, Recognition - Dot Ponder.

TN - HJR5 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Department of Transportation, 100th anniversary.

TN - HJR385 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Amber J. Mitchell, Valedictorian, Northside High School.

TN - HJR195 Memorials, Recognition - The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, “2015 Tennessee Legislative Days.”

TN - HJR80 Memorials, Congress - Expresses support for Medicare and opposes any cuts to benefits.

TN - HJR597 Memorials, Recognition - Three Dog Night

TN - HJR6 Memorials, Public Service - Ed Haley.

TN - HJR24 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Bill Ketron, Chair, Fiscal Review Committee.

TN - HJR7 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Baeteena Black.

TN - HJR465 Memorials, Death - Dr. W.J. Julian, UT director of bands

TN - HJR471 Memorials, Death - Staff Sergeant David Allen Wyatt, United States Marine Corps

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Sergeant Carson Holmquist, United States Marine Corps

TN - HJR284 Memorials, Recognition - Honoring those who fought and died in World War II and commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe.

TN - HJR3 Memorials, Professional Achievement - John Germ, president of Rotary International.

TN - HJR4 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Michael Monroe, Eagle Scout.

TN - HJR473 Memorials, Death - Lance Corporal Squire K. (Skip) Wells, United States Marine Corps

TN - HJR546 Memorials, Sports - Trezevant High School, 2A state football champs

TN - HJR466 Memorials, Death - Former Representative Joe Burchfield

TN - HJR14 Naming and Designating - Designating the State of Tennessee as a Purple Heart State.

TN - HJR341 Memorials, Sports - South Nashville All-Stars Little League, U.S. Little League World Series participants.

TN - HJR512 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for efforts to bring the 2016 4th Annual Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame induction ceremony to Memphis.

TN - HJR315 Memorials, Sports - Honors the return of professional baseball to historic Sulphur Dell.

TN - HJR426 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Jesse Register.

TN - HJR47 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for efforts to ensure women have access to full range of contraception.

TN - HJR506 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Renata Soto, Chair of the National Council of La Raza

TN - HJR90 Health Care - Authorizes the governor to do all that is necessary and appropriate to expand enrollment in Tennessee's Medicaid program.

TN - HJR43 Memorials, Recognition - Wade Norris, Tennessee Forestry Association 2014 Master Logger of the Year.

TN - HJR446 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Harris Taylor, Valedictorian, McGavock High School.

TN - HJR196 Memorials, Recognition - Commemorates Autism Awareness Day in Tennessee.

TN - HJR174 Memorials, Recognition - Donna Morgan.

TN - HJR106 Memorials, Heroism - Andrew Michael Keith, Public Safety Medal of Valor.

TN - HJR384 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Nola G. Madison, Salutatorian, Northside High School.

TN - HJR216 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Richard Rhoda, Executive Director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

TN - HJR574 Memorials, Death - Maurice White

TN - HJR352 Memorials, Recognition - Brown, Davidson, Driver, Smith Family Reunion.

TN - HJR205 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Malcolm "Jimmy" Keep, World War II veteran.

TN - HJR558 Memorials, Recognition - Honors the City of Memphis's efforts to bring the 2016 4th Annual Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony to Memphis.

TN - HJR404 Memorials, Recognition - Joshua Jamahl Murray.

TN - HJR548 Memorials, Recognition - Hannah Robison, Miss Tennessee 2015

TN - HJR237 Memorials, Recognition - Honor the liberators and Holocaust survivors of Tennessee.

TN - HJR46 Memorials, Death - Harlan Mathews.

TN - HJR576 Memorials, Death - Mike Pigott