Tennessee Rep. Cameron Sexton (R)

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TN - HB257 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, removes language that allows municipal utility systems to operate water and sewer systems as individual or combined entities, and removes language that allows municipal utility systems to operate a public works system as a special revenue fund. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34 and Title 9, Chapter 21.

TN - HB1152 Aircraft and Airports - As introduced, requires certain metropolitan airport authorities to impose fees upon vendors providing certain transportation services in an equitable manner and sets limits on increasing such fees. - Amends TCA Title 42, Chapter 4 and Title 67.

TN - HB1433 Financial Disclosure - As introduced, requires candidates and appointees for elective offices to annually disclose credit score range. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 5.

TN - HB699 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, establishes requirements and protections for healthcare providers that practice telehealth. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB1038 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts from property taxes, any property owned by the federal government and leased to marina owners or operators who lease the federally owned property and make in lieu of tax payments on such property. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1043 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, makes various changes to the regulation of motor vehicle dismantlers and recyclers and scrap metal processors, including imposing a temporary $250 fee on certain licensed motor vehicle dismantlers and recyclers and scrap metal processors to be used for the implementation and administration of reporting systems. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1422 Taxes, Income - As introduced, excludes social security benefits from determination of annual income for purposes of qualifying for exemption from tax on stocks and bonds for persons 65 years of age or older. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB2329 Education - As introduced, requires an LEA to post on its web site information about the state-mandated tests that will be administered in the upcoming year by no later than June 15, instead of July 15, each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB572 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, defines a "biological product" and an "interchangeable biological product" in the Tennessee Affordable Drug Act of 2005; authorizes a prescriber to substitute a prescribed biological product for an interchangeable biological product if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10.

TN - HB423 Taxes, Excise - As introduced, changes the statutory apportionment formula used to calculate franchise and excise taxes from a three-factor formula to a single-sales-factor formula. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2331 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises provisions governing coverage of telehealth services. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-1002.

TN - HB1730 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, revises various provisions governing certificates of need; requires certain reporting by person who provides magnetic resonance imaging services. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB634 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates Reds Ale House in Cumberland County as a premier type tourist resort for purposes of on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HB1731 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, imposes licensure and other requirements on pain management clinics. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1732 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, requires each location used by a scrap metal dealer to pay a biennial fee of $500 before registration or renewal in addition to the current biennial fee required for a motor vehicle dismantler and recycler. - Amends TCA Section 55-3-202.

TN - HB861 Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Healthcare Improvement Act of 2015" to establish physician-led patient care teams to oversee the practice of advanced practice registered nurses. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HR163 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Oswell Sibley Sexton

TN - HR47 Memorials, Interns - Rachel-Rebekah Brown.

TN - HB993 Medical Occupations - As enacted, amends the provisions governing X-ray equipment operators. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2.

TN - HB1784 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, reduces from 14 days to 10 days the period in which a compounding pharmacy is required to notify the board of pharmacy of any adverse action taken against the pharmacy by a regulatory agency other than the board. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 53 and Title 63, Chapter 10.

TN - HB2330 Traffic Safety - As introduced, imposes a fine of $200 for parking violations on two-lane state highways where the illegally parked vehicle restricts access to emergency vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1729 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, revises provisions relating to the qualifications of an applicant for a license to practice medicine; authorizes the board of medical examiners to issue certain temporary licenses to practice medicine. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1768 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, permits a pharmacist to dispense medication in a quantity that varies from the prescription under certain circumstances, so long as the units dispensed do not exceed a 90-day supply. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10.

TN - HB1088 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, increases from $50,000 to $75,000 the tangible net worth that comprises tangible assets less liabilities for each location of a business that makes flex loans; increases from 10 percent to 20 percent the percentage a shareholder must own. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 12.

TN - HB870 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises provisions governing the issuance of a retail food store wine license to a retail food store located within a shopping center or other development. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3.

TN - HB424 Special License Plates - As introduced, authorizes issuance of Supporters of the Blind and Visually Impaired new specialty earmarked license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB788 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, adds commissioner to certain multi-county utility district boards. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82.

TN - HB2328 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to report to the house health committee and senate health and welfare committee concerning impacts of hospital-acquired infections on or before February 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB1042 Wine & Wineries - As enacted, revises the provisions governing the issuance of a self-distribution permit to a winery. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-207.

TN - HB2332 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, establishes requirements for central service technicians. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB1728 Election Laws - As introduced, adopts the interstate compact to elect the president by national popular vote. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 15.

TN - HB422 Gas, Petroleum Products, Volatile Oils - As introduced, imposes a highway maintenance fee of 2.85 cents per mile driven by commercial motor vehicles in Tennessee; imposes a surcharge of 13 cents per gallon of diesel fuel used in freight motor vehicles driven in Tennessee; authorizes a franchise and excise tax credit in the amount of highway maintenance fees and surcharges paid by motor carriers domiciled in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 3; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR551 Memorials, Recognition - May 2016 Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month

TN - HB421 Chiropractors - As introduced, increases from $50.00 to $100 the per diem for members of the board of chiropractic examiners; replaces the secretary of the board's monthly salary of $100 with the same per diem as other board members. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1837 Industrial Development - As enacted, specifies, in regard to the requirement that the Tennessee technology development corporation provide financial assistance through contracts, grants and loans to programs of scientific and technological research and development, that such assistance includes matching grants to Tennessee's industries and universities to conduct applied research of strategic importance to Tennessee's economy. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 67.

TN - HB150 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, for purposes of a public benefit hospital entity publishing notice of a conveyance transaction, corrects an erroneous reference to the "antitrust" division of the attorney general's office; revises procedures governing challenges by not-for-profit hospitals to certain assessments. - Amends TCA Title 48; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB992 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Transportation Network Company Services Act." - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56 and Title 65.

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

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

TN - HR2 Memorials, Recognition - Fort Campbell.

TN - HB83 Credit Unions - As enacted, revises the manner in which the commissioner of financial institutions assesses the annual supervision fee on credit unions and the manner in which the fees are used. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 4.

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

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

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

TN - HJR6 Memorials, Public Service - Ed Haley.

TN - HB39 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, prohibits the retail sale of products containing dextromethorphan to persons who are less than 18 years of age; prohibits the purchase of products containing dextromethorphan by persons who are less than 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 53.

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

TN - HB3 Education - As introduced, establishes standards review and development committees and advisory teams comprised of Tennessee teachers, higher education faculty members, and parents to propose world-class, highly rigorous K-12 English language arts and mathematics standards for use in public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR404 Memorials, Recognition - Joshua Jamahl Murray.

TN - HB698 Disabled Persons - As introduced, establishes within the department of human services a task force for vocational rehabilitation services for the blind. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 6.

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

TN - HB846 Planning, Public - As enacted, establishes a means by which certain industrial, commercial, or business establishments will be allowed to continue in operation after the land on which it is located becomes subject to land use restrictions imposed pursuant to a redevelopment plan or the land use restrictions imposed on the land area are amended by a redevelopment plan; adds that any operation, rebuilding, or expansion of an off-site sign that has been in existence for 10 years or more will not be denied solely on the basis that the original permit for the sign does not exist to prove that it was a lawful use when constructed. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 20, Part 2 and Title 13, Chapter 7, Part 2.

TN - HJR112 Memorials, Retirement - Jim Shipley, Cookeville City Manager.

TN - HB275 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, authorizes the TBI to employ, effective July 1, 2015, four additional special agents for the purpose of training other officers, investigating and assisting in the prosecution of human trafficking cases; directs TBI to develop and provide a course of instruction to other officers and departments in the recognition, detection, and prosecution of human trafficking cases. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6.

TN - HB813 Taxes, Income - As enacted, reduces Hall income tax from six percent to five percent; expresses legislative intent that the tax be statutorily reduced by one percent annually beginning with the first annual session of the 110th general assembly; eliminates the tax for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1046 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, revises law regarding the confiscation and disposal of weapons by law enforcement agencies. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6; Section 39-17-1317 and Section 40-33-211.

TN - HJR46 Memorials, Death - Harlan Mathews.

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

TN - HJR88 Naming and Designating - Designates March 2015 as "Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month" in Tennessee.

TN - HR5 Memorials, Congress - Urge Congress to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

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

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

TN - HJR98 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Technological University, 100th anniversary.

TN - HB905 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, clarifies that the present law that authorizes local governments to levy a gasoline tax for the purpose of local public transportation funding, does not prohibit public transportation systems from charging fares sufficient to offset the costs of fuel. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 54; Title 64 and Title 67.

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

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

TN - HJR174 Memorials, Recognition - Donna Morgan.

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

TN - HJR128 Memorials, Recognition - Congressman Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Federation of Republican Women.

TN - HJR127 Memorials, Recognition - Congressman Diane Black, Tennessee Federation of Republican Women.

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

TN - HJR133 Memorials, Death - Henry Abbott Callaway Jr., M.D.

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

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

TN - HJR119 Memorials, Death - Garner "Mack" Goode Jr.

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

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

TN - HJR129 Memorials, Recognition - Helen H. "Tootie" Haskins, Tennessee Federation of Republican Women.

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

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

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - First Lady Crissy Haslam.

TN - HJR115 Memorials, Recognition - Speaker of the House Beth Harwell, Tennessee Federation of Republican Women.

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HB994 Employees, Employers - As enacted, creates a cause of action against an employer for discharge or adverse employment action based solely on transportation or storage of a firearm or firearm ammunition in an employer parking lot. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.

TN - HB467 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, creates certain sales tax exemptions for sales and repairs services related to large aircraft. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB246 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, extends liability protections to landowners who have activities involving sporting clays, shooting sports, and target shooting, including archery and shooting range activities, occurring on the landowner's property. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB917 Fire Prevention and Investigation - As enacted, makes various changes to the use of smoke alarms in one-family and two-family rental units, one-family and two-family dwellings, apartment buildings, and hotels. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 28; Title 68, Chapter 102 and Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - HJR187 Memorials, Professional Achievement - George Fraley.

TN - HB229 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, enacts the "Ensuring Patient Access to Pharmacy Drug Disposal Programs Act of 2015". - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10.

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Thadijah Jeanne Burks.

TN - HR117 Memorials, Interns - Antonio Briggs.

TN - HB670 Education - As enacted, requires certain institutions to report nonimmigrant student enrollment to the department of safety. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Title 49.

TN - HB977 Abortion - As enacted, implements 48-hour waiting period on procuring an abortion; establishes requirements for informed consent; provides medical emergency exception. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 9 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

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

TN - HJR71 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee recognizing that our liberties do not come from governments, but from Almighty God, our Creator and Savior.

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 - HB256 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, alters the method of creating a utility district by requiring county legislative approval of the order finding that the utility district is economically sound and desirable; allows for petitions for re-creation of a utility district for the purpose of redefining its incorporated boundary, which must be filed with the utility management review board simultaneously with the filing of the petition with the county mayor. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34, Part 1; Title 7, Chapter 82; Title 9, Chapter 21, Part 3 and Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 10.

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

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

TN - HB18 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, prohibits health insurance entities from charging a covered person a greater copayment or coinsurance amount for services rendered during an office visit to a physician assistant who is contracted as a primary care practitioner by that health insurer than those charged for such services rendered during an office visit to a physician. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB606 Financial Responsibility Law - As enacted, enacts the "James Lee Atwood Jr. Law," which establishes an electronic insurance verification program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Section 9-4-603; Title 10; Title 12; Title 55, Chapter 12; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 56.

TN - HB1109 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, enacts the "Travel Insurance Producer Limited License Act." - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6.

TN - HB825 Statutes and Codification - As enacted, revises Tennessee Code Annotated by correcting or deleting antiquated, erroneous, or obsolete language. - Amends TCA Section 3-2-111(c); Section 4-3-1010(b); Section 7-88-115; Section 67-6-393(f) and Section 68-55-306(b).

TN - HJR244 Memorials, Recognition - Allan Benton, Benton's Smoky Mountain Country Hams.

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

TN - HB1368 Abortion - As enacted, requires facilities or physician offices where more than 50 abortions are performed in a calendar year to be licensed as ambulatory surgical treatment centers. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR246 Memorials, Sports - Webb School of Knoxville girls' basketball team TSSAA Division II Class A state champions.

TN - HB425 Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Kenneth Harry-Hill Tennessee Veterans Health Care Act of 2015," which may also be known as the "Mission Tennessee for Veterans Program". - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB309 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, restricts persons under the age of 18 from having access to vapor products; revises related provisions and urges the department of agriculture to study effects of the sale and distribution of vapor products to persons under 18 years of age; requires the department of health to implement comprehensive tobacco prevention programs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47; Title 49; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB779 Municipal Government - As introduced, abolishes deannexation by ordinance; requires the reallocation of certain municipal highway funds if a municipality deannexes city roadways; revises various other provisions governing deannexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 54.

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

TN - HB745 Handgun Permits - As enacted, creates a lifetime handgun carry permit which entitles the permit holder to carry any handgun that the permit holder legally owns or possesses without expiration; sets the application fee for a lifetime handgun carry permit at $500 and establishes other requirements for obtaining and maintaining the permit. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

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 - HR39 Memorials, Recognition - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority.

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

TN - HJR366 Memorials, Recognition - U.S. Army 199th Infantry Brigade (Separate) (Light) June 1, 1966–1970 and the Redcatcher Association.

TN - HJR351 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Lee Ward, elevated to Auxiliary Bishop within the Church of God in Christ.

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

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 - HJR364 Memorials, Recognition - Commemorates Primary Immunodeficiency Awareness Month.

TN - HB1892 Water Pollution - As enacted, prohibits any NPDES permit that is issued to a municipal separate storm sewer system ("MS4") administrator in this state from imposing post-construction stormwater requirements, except to the extent necessary to comply with the minimum requirements of federal law; prohibits the state from requiring any entity that administers a MS4 under an NPDES permit to impose control measures for post-construction stormwater that exceed the minimum requirements of federal law; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

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

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

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

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

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 - 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 - HB1436 Taxes, Income - As introduced, for tax years beginning January 1, 2016, increases the income exemption levels for taxpayers 65 years of age or older from $37,000 to $50,000 for single filers and from $68,000 to $100,000 for joint filers. - Amends TCA Section 67-2-104.

TN - HB1437 Taxes, Income - As introduced, decreases Hall income tax rate from six percent to 5.5 percent for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - HB150 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, for purposes of a public benefit hospital entity publishing notice of a conveyance transaction, corrects an erroneous reference to the "antitrust" division of the attorney general's office; revises procedures governing challenges by not-for-profit hospitals to certain assessments. - Amends TCA Title 48; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB861 Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Healthcare Improvement Act of 2015" to establish physician-led patient care teams to oversee the practice of advanced practice registered nurses. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

TN - HB700 Traffic Safety - As introduced, exempts drivers and passengers over 21 years of age from the requirement to wear a crash helmet while operating or riding in motorcycles, motor-driven cycles, and motorized bicycles, if the person is covered by health or medical insurance other than insurance through TennCare; makes a violation of the helmet law a secondary offense. - Amends TCA Section 55-9-302.

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

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

TN - HR126 Memorials, Retirement - Larry K. Scroggs

TN - HJR458 Memorials, Death - Fred Dalton Thompson.

TN - HJR459 Memorials, Retirement - Lacy Upchurch.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR466 Memorials, Death - Former Representative Joe Burchfield

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

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 - HB1438 Military - As enacted, enacts the "National Guard Force Protection Act of 2016". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 58.

TN - HB2398 TennCare - As introduced, establishes medication therapy management as a component of the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

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

TN - HB2397 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, requires healthcare providers to provide certain women at risk of contracting cytomegalovirus (CMV) with information concerning CMV; specifies that there is no liability for failure to comply with the requirement to provide the information. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2054 Safety - As enacted, authorizes certain entities to stock epinephrine auto-injectors on their premises; authorizes employees, agents, and laypersons to provide or administer an epinephrine auto-injector under certain circumstances; requires the secretary of state to provide any rule promulgated to implement this act to the chairs of the health committee of the house and the health and welfare committee of the senate after approval by the attorney general at the same time that the rule is to be made available to the government operations committees. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - HB2105 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Fantasy Sports Act". - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 39; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 67.

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 - 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 - HB1543 Privacy, Confidentiality - As enacted, makes confidential the identities of vendors providing the state with goods and services used to protect government property or government employee or citizen information; allows governmental entity to vote to make information about such goods and services provided to the entity confidential. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

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

TN - HR168 Memorials, Recognition - Emily White, FFA East Tennessee State Vice President

TN - HJR574 Memorials, Death - Maurice White

TN - HR161 Memorials, Public Service - Pastor Matt Anzivino

TN - HR165 Memorials, Recognition - Chelsea Sanders, FFA State President

TN - HR172 Memorials, Recognition - Derek Anderson, FFA Middle Tennessee State Vice President

TN - HR167 Memorials, Recognition - Madison Benson, FFA West Tennessee State Vice President

TN - HR171 Memorials, Recognition - Stephen McNeil, FFA State Sentinel

TN - HJR597 Memorials, Recognition - Three Dog Night

TN - HB2577 Abortion - As enacted, establishes requirements regarding the disposition of aborted fetuses and fetal tissue, including reporting requirements and requirements for interim inspections of and certain reporting by facilities where surgical abortions are performed. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2 and Title 68.

TN - HB2069 Education, Higher - As introduced, enacts the "Tuition Stability Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HR169 Memorials, Recognition - Chelsea Wattenbarger, FFA State Reporter

TN - HJR606 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Roger Jowers, Star of Life Award

TN - HB1905 Education - As enacted, requires each local school board to adopt a policy on the inclusion of religion in curriculum and instructional materials; requires each LEA to create a syllabus to be made public for grades six through 12 on social studies, science, math, and English language arts courses; requires the state board to initiate a revision process for the social studies standards adopted in 2013; requires teacher training institutions to instruct candidates regarding constitutionally permissible instruction of religious content. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - HR166 Memorials, Recognition - Dalton Teel, FFA State Secretary

TN - HJR464 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Pete Claussen, heritage conservation trust fund board

TN - HR170 Memorials, Recognition - Chad Lewis, FFA State Treasurer

TN - HJR529 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses disagreement with the U.S. supreme court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges.

TN - HB1632 Real Property - As enacted, prohibits a local governmental unit from enacting zoning regulations that require the allocation of a percentage of existing or newly constructed private residential or commercial rental units for long-term retention as affordable or workforce housing. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1697 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, allows a pharmacy to designate a pharmacy services administrative organization to file and handle an appeal challenging the maximum allowable cost set for a particular drug or medical product or device on behalf of the pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

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

TN - HB1487 Traffic Safety - As enacted, creates offense of operating a motor vehicle in a bicycle lane; establishes exceptions to offense and penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1513 Sheriffs - As enacted, authorizes sheriffs and deputy sheriffs to retain service weapon upon retirement and completion of honorable service and approval by 2/3 vote of county legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8, Part 2.

TN - HJR514 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages state agencies and their contractors to donate excess, apparently wholesome food to nonprofit organizations that provide assistance to food-insecure people in the state.

TN - HB1424 Handgun Permits - As enacted, reduces the fee for lifetime handgun carry permit, effective January 1, 2017, from $500 to be an amount equal to the regular carry permit fee plus $200, which under present law will equal $300 for the lifetime permit. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HB1941 Nuisances - As enacted, imposes same burden of proof in nuisance actions based on changed farming operations as presently applied to nuisance actions based on established farming operations. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3; Section 39-17-415; Section 43-1-701; Title 43, Chapter 26 and Title 44, Chapter 18.

TN - HB1985 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, increases the number of days within which a registrant with the division of health related boards must notify the division of a change in address from 30 days to 45 days. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1660 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, deletes the July 1, 2016, termination date for legislation permitting the prosecution of a woman for assault of a fetus based on her illegal use of narcotic drugs while pregnant and creating the affirmative defense that the woman completed an addiction recovery program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Chapter 820 of the Public Acts of 2014.

TN - HB2616 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop procedures for identifying characteristics of dyslexia through the universal screening process required by the existing RTI2 framework or other available means; requires every LEA to implement the dyslexia screening procedures; specifies that dyslexia screening may be requested for any student by the student's parent or guardian, teacher, counselor, or school psychologist; creates the dyslexia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49.

TN - HB2156 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As enacted, increases the amount on which property tax reimbursement will be paid from the first $23,000 to the first $23,500 for low-income, elderly homeowners and for disabled homeowners; removes the income limitation applicable for tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1419 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises provisions governing the evaluation of teachers and principals. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - HB2421 Law Enforcement - As enacted, encourages TBI to develop an activation card for law enforcement use in connection with the missing citizen alert program to help locate missing citizens who have wandered due to dementia or physical impairment. - Amends TCA Section 38-6-121.

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 - HJR528 Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to recognize Tennessee's sovereignty under the 10th amendment to the Constitution.

TN - HB2260 Education - As enacted, requires referees or officiates of interscholastic athletic events to submit to a criminal background investigation and provide a fingerprint sample; exempts the referees and officiates from the criminal background investigation and requirement to provide a fingerprint sample if they have undergone a satisfactory background check as a condition of registration for work as an official for interscholastic athletic contests. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 4.

TN - HB963 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Healthcare Provider Stability Act." - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2068 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, revises provisions governing construction of the Act and hearings regarding rules; requires an agency to demonstrate by convincing evidence, certain factors that justify continued existence of an agency rule. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2473 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, adds an exemption from the licensure requirement for motor vehicle dealers for person to sell motor vehicles to licensed automotive dismantlers and recyclers, or to registered scrap metal processors - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 62 and Title 68.

TN - HB1840 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, declares that no person providing counseling or therapy services will be required to counsel or serve a client as to goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with the sincerely held principles of the counselor or therapist; requires such counselor or therapist to refer the client to another counselor or therapist; creates immunity for such action; maintains liability for counselors who will not counsel a client based on the counselor's religious beliefs when the individual seeking or undergoing the counseling is in imminent danger of harming themselves or others. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB1641 Handgun Permits - As enacted, removes the five-year time frame requirement from the exemption to the handgun safety course requirement for applicants who successfully completed all handgun training of not less than four hours as required by any branch of the military within five years from the date the application for a handgun carry permit is filed. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB1823 Birth Control - As enacted, authorizes a pharmacist to provide hormonal contraceptives according to a valid collaborative pharmacy practice agreement containing a nonpatient-specific prescriptive order and standardized procedures developed and executed by one or more authorized prescribers, in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2323 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, enacts the "Health Care Empowerment Act". - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - HB1830 Employees, Employers - As enacted, makes various changes to the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act, including requiring, beginning January 1, 2017, a private employer with 50 or more employees to enroll in the E-verify program. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5, Part 11 and Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 7.

TN - HB929 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts provisions governing nonresidential office-based opioid treatment facilities and nonresidential opioid treatment programs. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

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 - HJR519 Naming and Designating - "Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Awareness Month," October 2016

TN - HB2103 Education - As introduced, creates a task force to study the effects of concussions on student athletes in high school and college. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

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 - HB2179 Health Care - As enacted, authorizes a qualified physician assistant to evaluate and provide care to a youth athlete who suffered, or is suspected to have suffered, a concussion or head injury during the course of a school youth athletic activity. - Amends TCA Section 68-55-501.

TN - HB678 Taxes, Privilege - As enacted, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to study and make recommendations relative to the professional privilege tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HJR525 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article II, Section 28, of the Constitution of Tennessee to prohibit the legislature from imposing a state property tax on real property.