Tennessee Rep. Curtis G. Johnson (R)

TN - Calendar and Rules (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Finance, Ways and Means (House)

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member

TN - Government Operations (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Insurance and Banking (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Insurance and Banking Subcommittee (House)

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chair

TN - HJR578 Memorials, Death - Deputy David "Bubba" Johnson.

TN - HB369 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, gives teachers who teach in multiple subject areas until January 1, 2014, to pass the content area tests in the subject areas in which they are teaching. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-6006.

TN - HB393 Education - As introduced, adds to the definition of conduct unbecoming a teacher, for which a teacher may be dismissed, deliberately making false statements about competency and qualifications on application to teach and misrepresenting professional qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB954 State Government - As enacted, clarifies that the board of trustees of the baccalaureate education system trust fund program may contract with financial consultants, actuaries, auditors, investment managers and other consultants and professionals; provides that the trustees of certain deferred or tax sheltered compensation plans are expressly authorized to contract for investment management services, personal services, professional services and consultant services for the deferred compensation programs. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25, Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 8.

TN - HJR722 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Barber, Korean American Association.

TN - HB1372 Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Veterans Education Transition Support Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1844 Water Pollution - As introduced, prohibits issuance of a water quality control permit that would alter any ridgeline that is more than 1,800 feet above sea level. - Amends TCA Title 59 and Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB99 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises the penalties for aggravated assault. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HJR646 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the Tennessee Congressional Delegation to restore the $6 billion in budget cuts for all working-age military retirees, by repealing the 1 percent reduction made to the annual cost-of-living adjustment to their retirement payments.

TN - HB1850 Public Works Projects - As introduced, enacts the "Keep Jobs in Tennessee Act," which requires contractors working on public construction projects to employ at least eighty percent state residents in their workforce and creates an administrative process for receiving complaints, adjudicating violations, and assigning penalties for non-compliance as well as modifying reciprocity standards for non-resident bidders. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 15 and Title 54, Chapter 5.

TN - HJR556 Memorials, Recognition - Daniel Park.

TN - HB1137 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, revises the definition of "autism spectrum disorder" and the required insurance coverage of autism spectrum disorder. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1158 Education - As enacted, specifies disciplinary action required for a student who transmits by electronic communication a credible threat to cause bodily injury or death to another student or school employee in which the transmission of such threat creates actual disruptive activity at the school that requires administrative intervention; the reporting and punishment of such prohibited conduct by certain persons. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HJR723 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Dae H. Kang, Korean American Association.

TN - HB1118 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, requires schedule II and III controlled substances to be stored in a locked safe in the prescription department during non-business hours. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - HB1841 Education - As introduced, allows parents to opt their children out of high stakes testing. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR527 Memorials, Death - John Bartee, Sr.

TN - HB871 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, authorizes expanded provisions in bank charters beyond requirements of Tennessee Business Corporation Act and gives bank shareholders certain notification rights. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 2.

TN - HJR770 Memorials, Recognition - Hannah Denson, Prudential Spirit of Community Award.

TN - HB1848 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, creates the Tennessee rural teachers scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HR21 Memorials, Recognition - Sang Won Lee

TN - HB962 Public Contracts - As introduced, authorizes certain allowances for Tennessee service-disabled veteran owned businesses in the evaluation of bids and proposals for transportation contracts. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - HJR851 Memorials, Retirement - Reverend George E. Wyatt.

TN - HB1369 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the Honor and Remember flag as the official state symbol of remembrance to honor fallen military service members. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HR22 Memorials, Recognition - Jessica M. Rose

TN - HJR9 Memorials, Death - Norman E. Lewis

TN - HJR16 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jane Winter, 2012-2013 Principal of the Year

TN - HJR447 Memorials, Interns - Amanda Lester

TN - HJR446 Memorials, Interns - Lauren Amos

TN - HB1242 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Litigation Financing Consumer Protection Act". - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - HB13 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises certain requirements regarding issuance of motor vehicle dealer license. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HJR435 Memorials, Interns - Jonathan Richard Donald

TN - HR172 Memorials, Recognition - Knox County Democratic Women's Club, 85th anniversary.

TN - HB1477 Energy - As enacted, modifies the allowable entities in which corporations operating under the Energy Acquisition Corporations Act may invest. - Amends TCA Section 7-39-313.

TN - HB1845 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires an annual charter school report to be posted on the web site of the department. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1446 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, revises various provisions governing bonds, loans, capital outlay notes, and other debt issued by local governments. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 40; Title 41; Title 42; Title 49; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB1246 District Attorneys - As enacted, directs the executive director of the Tennessee district attorneys general conference, in consultation with the commissioner of revenue to prepare a report to the general assembly on steps which should be taken with respect to improvement of sales tax fraud investigations and prosecutions. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 48 and Title 67.

TN - HB1384 Naming and Designating - As enacted, names new Tennessee State Veterans Home in Montgomery County in honor of Brigadier General (Retired) Wendell H. Gilbert, United States Army.

TN - HB1843 Education - As introduced, grants the director of schools the ability to employ persons in positions for which no teaching license is required by year-to-year contracts; provided, the director provides such persons 15 days’ notice of nonrenewal of the contract before the end of the contract period. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 3.

TN - HJR687 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Connie King, Tennessee fish and wildlife commission.

TN - HR20 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor David Lee

TN - HB1301 Public Employees - As introduced, requires municipalities, counties and other political subdivisions to grant leave of absence to full-time employees for service in the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38.

TN - HJR555 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Kyong Degan.

TN - HJR942 Memorials, Interns - Cody Michael Thornhill Conner.

TN - HB2024 Unknown

TN - HB25 Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires the department of safety to waive the driving skills test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members applying for commercial driver licenses; identifies certain alternative requirements, which include operating a commercial motor vehicle in the military in combination with a good driving record. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HB43 Water Pollution - As introduced, prohibits issuance of a water quality control permit that would alter any ridgeline that is more than 2,000 feet above sea level. - Amends TCA Title 59 and Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB1846 Education - As enacted, enacts "The Tennessee Community Schools Act". - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2023 Unknown

TN - HB1849 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires that evaluations of teachers be based on student performance only in subjects that were tested and in which the teacher taught the students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2, and Title 49, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1847 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to employ three technology student association advisors, one in each grand division, to assist chapters of the Tennessee technology student association and elementary and secondary educators in providing technology education to students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HB735 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, requires THEC to report on scholarships for specific groups of students, such as Tennessee HOPE scholarships for nontraditional students and Tennessee HOPE foster care grants; requires THEC to make recommendations on improving receipt and retention of such scholarships and grants. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB676 Open Meetings - As introduced, requires certain boards and commissions to provide video streaming over the Internet of the board meetings of each entity. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3 and Title 4.

TN - HB1157 Education - As introduced, requires employment by an LEA of persons in positions for which no teaching license is required to be by a year-to-year contract; requires director of schools to provide 15 days' notice of nonrenewal before the end of such person's contract period. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 3.

TN - HB409 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, requires additional information be submitted by state agencies upon the filing of rules with the secretary of state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5, Part 2.

TN - HB1842 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires all driver education courses to include instruction on the dangers of texting while driving and the penalty therefor. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1779 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates crimes of using an unmanned aircraft with intent to conduct surveillance and capturing or using an image captured by an unmanned aircraft. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.

TN - HB383 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, allows retailers to own and operate more than one retail package store. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-406.

TN - HB223 Motor Vehicle Commission - As enacted, adds a non-franchise motor vehicle dealer as a member of the motor vehicle commission; increases quorum requirement by one person. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - HB1738 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, modifies the Medicare supplemental insurance benefit for participating retired employees and teachers to ensure that such retirees are not required to pay the full cost of each premium increase. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27, Part 7.

TN - HB2266 Welfare - As enacted, requires the commissioner of human services, in consultation with various governmental and non-governmental entities that serve poor people, to conduct a study of poverty in Tennessee and submit a state anti-poverty plan to the governor and the general assembly by January 15, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB1265 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires health insurance policies to cover screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

TN - HB2285 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires any pending order of protection or restraining order to be served on domestic violence offender before release following the mandatory twelve-hour holding period; directs a copy of protection order to be issued to any court in which the respondent or 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 - HB1373 Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires all law enforcement agencies who store and maintain sexual assault collection kits to conduct an inventory to determine how many kits being stored are untested by the TBI or a similar laboratory and report the findings to TBI, who reports it to the speaker of the house and speaker of the senate. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB2161 Fiscal Review Committee - As introduced, requires committee to review contracts that result in layoffs of state employees; requires committee as part of reviewing proposed contracts to consider whether existing state employees can perform the tasks in such proposed contracts. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2348 Education - As enacted, prohibits intentional destruction of imagination library program books intended to be delivered to children enrolled in the program; requires best efforts to deliver books or, in the alternative, to make the books available for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten or elementary programs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 52, Part 1.

TN - HB1856 Collection Agencies - As enacted, exempts certain entities from the Tennessee Collection Service Act. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 20.

TN - HB2104 Mental Illness - As enacted, extends pilot project for assisted outpatient treatment for two years until June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 6, Part 6.

TN - HB1467 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, requires persons with intellectual disabilities on the waiting list for services to be enrolled in the self-determination waiver when their caregivers attain the age of 75. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.

TN - HB972 Tennessee Regulatory Authority - As enacted, revises various provisions pertaining to the TRA's power to regulate telecommunications providers. - Amends TCA Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB978 Damages - As introduced, limits recovery for medical costs in personal injury or wrongful death actions to amounts paid by or on behalf of the claimant, amounts necessary to satisfy unpaid charges for medical care, and amounts necessary to satisfy future medical charges. - Amends TCA Title 24 and Title 29.

TN - HB1038 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, eliminates release eligibility for a person committing attempted first degree murder where the victim suffers serious bodily injury, on or after July 1, 2013, until the person has served 85 percent of the sentence imposed by the court less sentence credits earned and retained. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB29 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the University of Tennessee Botanical Gardens as the official state botanical garden. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB445 Education, Higher - As enacted, redefines "institution" for purposes of the Tennessee State School Bond Authority Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 12.

TN - HB9 Unknown

TN - HB1372 Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Veterans Education Transition Support Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1293 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1036 Sentencing - As enacted, prohibits any release eligibility for a person committing aggravated child neglect or endangerment, on or after July 1, 2013, until the person has served 70 percent of the sentence imposed by the court less sentence credits earned and retained. - Amends TCA Titles 39 and 40.

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

TN - HB1381 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to adopt a salary schedule that is identical in either structure or designated salary levels or both to the salary schedule the LEA had in place during the 2012-2013 school year, with such schedule containing steps for each year of service up to and including 20 years and for the attainment of advanced degrees at the level of masters, masters plus 45 hours of graduate credit, specialist in education and doctor of education or doctor of philosophy; the schedule may not result in the reduction of the salary of a teacher employed by the LEA at the time of the adoption of the salary schedule. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB412 Cosmetology - As enacted, authorizes a manicurist to provide manicuring services to an ill, disabled or homebound individual, or to such individual's caregiver, custodian or guardian, in the individual's residence. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 4, Part 1.

TN - HB552 Local Government, General - As enacted, enacts the "Anti-Kicking the Can Act", which requires approval of the comptroller prior to any local government authorizing the issuance of balloon indebtedness. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 21.

TN - HB193 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, lowers the state sales tax on food and food ingredients for human consumption from 5.25 percent to 5 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1722 Securities - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Investment Exemption Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13 and Title 48.

TN - HB1000 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Fairness in Ticketing Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 62.

TN - HB422 Veterans - As enacted, establishes special requirements for the expedited issuance of certain licenses, the temporary extension of certain licenses, and the granting of certain credit for certain service members. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8; Title 49, Chapter 9; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1877 Domestic Violence - As enacted, specifies that in divorce proceeding involving domestic abuse within the marriage, any debt owed for any batterer's intervention or rehabilitation programs will be attributed to the abuser only. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - HB2337 Domestic Violence - As enacted, specifies, in regard to the 30-day and 90-day sentences to confinement for second and third convictions of domestic assault that results in bodily injury, that the respective sentence has to be served on consecutive days; specifies that individuals convicted of domestic assault that results in bodily injury must serve at least the minimum sentence day for day, and serve the difference between the time actually served and the maximum sentence on probation. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HB2123 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Kenneth and Madge Tullis, JD, Suicide Prevention Training Act of 2014," which requires certain health professionals to complete suicide assessment and prevention training. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1507 School Transportation - As enacted, extends the allowable number of years for a school bus to be in service to 18 years; revises other provisions relate to the use and inspection of school buses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21.

TN - HB1167 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, deletes obsolete language for spring sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB148 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, extends to entities the provisions whereby those parts of a record identifying a person who has been or may in the future be directly involved in the process of executing a sentence of death are treated as confidential and are not open to public inspection. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Title 40.

TN - HB1074 Military - As enacted, authorizes public employees who are in the military to use five days of sick leave in lieu of annual leave after the employee has received 20 working days of compensation so the employee does not have to take leave without pay when called to military duties. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33, Part 1.

TN - HB1763 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "True Origin of Goods Act". - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - HB290 TennCare - As introduced, with respect to the Medicaid program, authorizes the department of finance and administration to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to either the extent permitted or required by law. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB2010 Unknown

TN - HB149 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, clarifies what is considered to be "private land" or "land expected to become privately owned" for purposes of present law prohibition against Fast Track infrastructure grants being applied to private land or to land expected to become privately owned. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7.

TN - HB1686 Judgments - As enacted, provides that a civil judgment or restitution order converted to civil judgment is valid until paid in full rather than renewed every 10 years if the judgment is based upon injury or death caused by criminal conduct and the judgment debtor was convicted of a criminal offense for such conduct. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

TN - HB6 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, enacts the "School Security Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

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

TN - HB291 Education - As introduced, eliminates outdated 1977 travel reimbursement of 15 cents per mile for high school counselors serving more than one school that originally only applied to Monroe County. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB746 Education - As enacted, adds to provisions governing students with a parent in the armed forces being given excused absences to additionally provide for up to 10 days cumulatively within the school year for visitation during the member's deployment cycle; cumulative number of excused absences under this provision and present provision for visitation with parent when the member is granted rest and recuperation leave and is stationed out of the country may not exceed 10 days. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1458 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, limits fee that high-cost home loan lenders may charge for third or subsequent pay-off statement provided to borrower in 12-month period to $10.00. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

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

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

TN - HB2086 Unknown

TN - HB1219 Veterans - As introduced, creates a process whereby the cremated remains of certain veterans and veterans' spouses may be interred by an entity selected by the county legislative body if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 25; Title 46; Title 58; Title 62, Chapter 5; Title 68, Chapter 3 and Title 68, Chapter 4.

TN - HB632 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, adds two additional trial court judges to the nineteenth judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 16; Title 3, Chapter 1 and Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1775 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows a part-time employee of state college of applied technology to enroll in one course per semester at state supported higher education institute without paying the tuition charges or maintenance fees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB1949 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the fine imposed on a person who commits an assault or an aggravated assault against an elder person. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 47; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1404 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, clarifies that observation while securing a firearm or firearm ammunition in compliance with provisions concerning a handgun permit holder's ability to transport or store a firearm or firearm ammunition does not violate such provisions. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1313.

TN - HB516 Children - As introduced, creates the department of children's services oversight committee. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 37.

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

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

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

TN - HB1108 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, makes various changes to the expunction law such as establishing the procedure for appeal from a denial of an expunction petition, allowing more than one conviction to be expunged if all the offenses are eligible and they were part of the same criminal episode and clarifying that an order of expunction results in a clean record for all types of expunctions. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

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

TN - HB1364 Montgomery County - As introduced, subject to local approval, creates a special juvenile court in Montgomery County pursuant to the Juvenile Court Restructure Act of 1982.

TN - HB1895 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires that a health insurance carrier provide coverage under a health insurance policy for healthcare services delivered through telehealth in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB1166 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, upon adoption of an ordinance or resolution, permits local governing bodies to permit certain business owners paying tangible personal property taxes to make quarterly installment payments; authorizes the department of economic and community development to make grants to counties for the purpose of marketing and other revitalization efforts for certain areas in the county. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - HB1973 Students - As enacted, requires the department of education to maintain the unique personal identification numbers of students of active duty military or reserve component parents or guardians in a separate database to identify and track these students if the students move to different schools across the state and country. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

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

TN - HB537 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, enacts the "Fair and Clear Teacher Evaluation System Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1726 Purchasing and Procurement - As introduced, requires agencies to give a preference to goods manufactured in the United States when awarding certain state contracts. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56; Title 12, Chapter 4 and Title 12, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1306 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires UT and TBR institutions to provide free parking to employees who earn less than the average state employee salary; permits other employees to be charged for parking on a tiered scale based on salary. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

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

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

TN - HB1168 Food and Food Products - As introduced, enacts the "Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18, Part 1 and Title 53, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2011 Unknown

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

TN - HB1041 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Boomer's Law," which revises what constitutes the offense of aggravated assault and revises the penalties for the offense. - Amends TCA Titles 39 and 40.

TN - HB2480 Disabled Persons - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Licensure for Interpreters and Transliterators Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 49 and Title 71, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1721 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, enacts the "Equity for Entrepreneurs Act"; allows franchise and excise tax credits of $5,000 for eligible start-up small businesses that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1549 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Data Accessibility, Transparency and Accountability Act"; establishes requirements for the adoption of educational standards and the requesting of proposals for student assessments; prohibits the state from adopting common core standards in any subjects other than math and English language arts; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HB517 Child Abuse - As introduced, requires a child advocacy center to perform the initial forensic interview with a child who is the victim of alleged child sexual abuse and any subsequent interviews found necessary by the child protective team to be conducted in a neutral setting. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB1542 State Employees - As enacted, authorizes the department of transportation to create a new job classification that does not require a high school diploma or state-approved high school equivalency certification as a minimum qualification, applicable to certain department employees. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - HB1918 Civil Procedure - As enacted, waives governmental immunity for claims against any governmental entity under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (“USERRA”), 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301-4334. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20, Part 2.

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

TN - HB964 Planning, Public - As enacted, specifies that a vested property right will be established with respect to any property upon the approval, by the local government in which the property is situated, of a preliminary development plan or a final development plan where no preliminary development plan is required by ordinance or regulation or a building permit allowing construction of a building where there was no need for prior approval of a preliminary development plan for the property on which that building will be constructed. - Amends TCA Section 13-4-310 and Section 13-3-413.

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

TN - HB93 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, subjects conveyances to forfeiture if used in the transport, concealment or storage of money or goods that were the subject of a burglary, aggravated burglary or especially aggravated burglary. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 7 and Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 1.

TN - HB1385 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, creates the "Koozer-Kuhn Medical Cannabis Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 2; Title 39; Title 43; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1285 Education - As enacted, specifies that any barber school or school of cosmetology whose authorization by the department of commerce is denied by the United States department of education for student financial aid purposes may seek authorization from the Tennessee higher education commission under the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act and will thereafter be subject to all requirements of the Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1925 Welfare - As enacted, authorizes diversion grants. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB1950 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5 and Chapter 250 of the Public Acts of 2013.

TN - HB2007 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Animal Abuser Registration Act". - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 44.

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

TN - HB150 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, deletes provision whereby records from any student who is eligible for special education services under federal law will not be used as part of the value added assessment; adds other provisions regarding student growth data, student achievement data and teachers' evaluations scores. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302(d) and Section 49-1-606(a).

TN - HB1001 Civil Procedure - As enacted, requires legal and public notices that are currently required to be published in newspaper of general circulation to also be posted on newspaper's web site and on statewide web site maintained by majority of Tennessee newspapers. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 30, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB52 Education, Higher - As introduced, creates the office of higher education ombudsperson within the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2349 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Teach First Act," which requires the commissioner of education to be a licensed teacher for at least ten years prior to the appointment as commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 8 and Title 49.

TN - HB1697 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state board of education to include cursive writing in the course of instruction in all public schools through the curriculum standards, at the appropriate grade level, as determined by the board. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - HB1723 TennCare - As introduced, with respect to the Medicaid program, authorizes the department of finance and administration to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to the full extent permitted so long as the federal matching rate for the expansion population remains at 100 percent. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB2027 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a winery or farm wine producer to conduct business at satellite locations; requires all payments to wholesalers by licensees be made by electronic funds transfer, credit card, debit card, or such other method that will facilitate full payment at or near the time of delivery; revises other various provisions governing alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

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

TN - HB1040 Judicial Districts - As enacted, sets the current statutory requirement for criminal investigator positions in each judicial district as the statutory minimum and increases the prior service credit maximum available to criminal investigators from eight years to 12 years; revises other provisions related to criminal investigators for district attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16.

TN - HB898 Political Parties - As introduced, requires statewide political party to hold primary election for nominations for judge, chancellor, district attorney general and public defender in multi-county judicial districts. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

TN - HB999 Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises provisions governing tax on the wholesale beer sales. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1264 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, enacts the "Addison Sharp Prescription Regulatory Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - HB2005 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Work-Share Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - HB1368 Veterans - As introduced, creates a grant program to assist veterans with the creation and opening of small businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 58.

TN - HB288 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Jacob Nunley Act," which requires immunization against meningococcal disease for incoming students at public institutions of higher learning who live in on-campus housing. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 4; Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB1039 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the offense of especially aggravated assault when a person commits assault, causes serious bodily injury to another, and uses or displays a deadly weapon. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

TN - HB927 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, expands definition of harassment and bullying in schools to include conduct based on actual or perceived demographic traits, requires review of anti-bullying policies at least once every three years, clarifies that such policies apply to students, school staff and volunteers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1375 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, prohibits the department of education from revoking or non-renewing an individual's license based on student growth data as represented by the Tennessee value-added assessment system (TVAAS), or some other comparable measure of student growth, if no such TVAAS data is available; removes provision whereby the state board of education is authorized to adopt policies for the revocation of licenses and certificates. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - HB1526 Evidence - As enacted, enacts the "Chris Newsom Act", which creates presumption to successor trial and appellate judges that if the original trial judge dismisses the jury following a unanimous verdict, that the judge exercised his or her duties as the 13th juror and approves the verdict. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 18, Part 1.

TN - HB1694 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, sets minimum wage at $8.25 per hour for certain employers who do not offer health benefits to employees and employees' dependents, subject to exceptions for certain types of employment. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - HB1527 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, enacts the "Channon Christian Act", which clarifies rule of evidence regarding certain character evidence. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HR3 Unknown

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

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

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

TN - HR13 Memorials, Recognition - Niki Brown

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

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

TN - HR4 Unknown

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

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

TN - HR142 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association's Tenth Annual Wear Red Day.

TN - HR30 Memorials, Recognition - Second Annual House Homecoming, Wednesday, March 27, 2013

TN - HR120 Memorials, Interns - Alexis Darvin

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

TN - HR205 Memorials, Interns - Michael Patrick Olson.

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

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

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

TN - HR1 Unknown

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

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

TN - HR83 Memorials, Interns - Alex Uhlmann

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

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

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

TN - HR143 Memorials, Death - Harold G. Woods.

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

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

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

TN - HR5 Unknown

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

TN - HR2 Unknown

TN - HR151 Memorials, Recognition - Third Annual House Homecoming, Tuesday, March 18, 2014.

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

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

TN - HJR543 General Assembly, Directed Studies - Requests the department of education to study and report on ways local education agencies are implementing the requirements of TCA 49-6-1021, which requires 90 minutes of physical activity per week.

TN - HJR31 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Mike Kernell

TN - HJR776 Memorials, Recognition - Commemorates June 2014 as "Gun Violence Awareness Month".

TN - HJR780 Memorials, Recognition - Nick Cunningham, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award.

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

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

TN - HJR436 Memorials, Retirement - David Norton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR647 Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Lee.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR86 Memorials, Recognition - George Kazuo Nishimura, Congressional Gold Medal

TN - HJR298 Memorials, Recognition - Jonah and Emory Marlin

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR542 Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to revise No Child Left Behind standards relative to special education students and graduation rates.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR890 Memorials, Death - Gail Kerr.

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

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

TN - HJR109 Memorials, Sports - Sophia Schuburt, Girls Golf Champion

TN - HJR106 Memorials, Death - Marcellas Brooks

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

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

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

TN - HJR217 Memorials, Recognition - Carolyn House Stewart

TN - HJR225 Memorials, Recognition - Pettus L. Read

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

TN - HJR297 Memorials, Recognition - Harold D. Morrell

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

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

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

TN - HJR293 Memorials, Recognition - Boy Scouts of America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR32 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Beverly Marrero

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR799 Memorials, Public Service - President Tim Hall, Austin Peay State University.

TN - HJR303 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Dewey Browder

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

TN - HJR203 Memorials, Recognition - Andrea Allen, Miss Black Clarksville 2013

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Public Service - Sara Kyle

TN - HJR837 Memorials, Recognition - Jaliyah Peterson, Miss Black Clarksville 2014.

TN - HJR886 Memorials, Recognition - Reverend Robert P. Harris, Jr.

TN - HJR111 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville, Girls' Varsity Cross Country Team, State Champion

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

TN - HJR110 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville, Boys Soccer State Champions

TN - HJR112 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville Girls Tennis Team, State Runner-Up

TN - HJR724 Memorials, Recognition - The Links Days on Capitol Hill.

TN - HJR550 Memorials, Recognition - Genesis Learning Centers, 30th anniversary.

TN - HJR763 Memorials, Recognition - Academic Awards Student Recognition Program, Clarksville-Montgomery County Education Foundation, and Clarksville-Montgomery County School District.

TN - HJR134 Memorials, Recognition - George Stephens III

TN - HJR930 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the department of labor to increase enforcement of T.C.A. 50-2-202 which governs gender pay equity in the state of Tennessee.

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

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

TN - HJR30 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Jeanne Richardson

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR444 Memorials, Recognition - Rev. Walter Smith

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

TN - HJR163 Memorials, Retirement - Sandy Sain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR518 Memorials, Interns - Jada Denise Flowers

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

TN - HJR551 General Assembly, Directed Studies - Directs the department of education to conduct another stakeholder survey that permits stakeholders to express their honest and frank opinions about the Teacher Educator Acceleration Model (TEAM) and to suggest additional changes and refinements to TEAM to improve the evaluation model.

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

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

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

TN - HJR740 Memorials, Retirement - Doyle Thomas Grant.

TN - HJR798 Memorials, Recognition - Coalition of 100 Black Women.

TN - HJR541 Memorials, Recognition - Mallory Fundora, 13-year old altruist and founder of Project Yesu.

TN - HJR572 Memorials, Sports - Bobby Davis.

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR393 Memorials, Death - Cindy Leigh McAfee

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

TN - HJR113 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville Girls Volleyball Team, State Runner-Up

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

TN - HJR108 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville, 2012 Varsity Football Team, State Champion

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

TN - HJR585 Memorials, Death - Coach Marshall H. Patterson.

TN - HJR762 Memorials, Recognition - Silent Witness Program.

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR913 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Barrett Rich.

TN - HJR2 Unknown

TN - HJR37 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Stacey Hopwood, County Service Officer of the Year

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

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

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

TN - HJR505 Memorials, Interns - Sommerie Denise Wade

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

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

TN - HJR114 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville, Girls Soccer Team, State Runner-Up

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

TN - HJR524 Memorials, Public Service - Jay Albertia, 2013-2014 Civitan International President-Elect

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

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

TN - HJR339 Memorials, Recognition - Leadership Middle Tennessee, Class of 2013

TN - SB478 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, adds two additional trial court judges to the nineteenth judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 16; Title 3, Chapter 1 and Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1856 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to adopt a salary schedule that is identical in either structure or designated salary levels or both to the salary schedule the LEA had in place during the 2012-2013 school year, with such schedule containing steps for each year of service up to and including 20 years and for the attainment of advanced degrees at the level of masters, masters plus 45 hours of graduate credit, specialist in education and doctor of education or doctor of philosophy; the schedule may not result in the reduction of the salary of a teacher employed by the LEA at the time of the adoption of the salary schedule. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - SB570 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, enacts the "School Security Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1184 Damages - As introduced, limits recovery for medical costs in personal injury or wrongful death actions to amounts paid by or on behalf of the claimant, amounts necessary to satisfy unpaid charges for medical care, and amounts necessary to satisfy future medical charges. - Amends TCA Title 24 and Title 29.

TN - SB1300 Education - As introduced, requires employment by an LEA of persons in positions for which no teaching license is required to be by a year-to-year contract; requires director of schools to provide 15 days' notice of nonrenewal before the end of such person's contract period. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 3.

TN - SB1460 Energy - As enacted, modifies the allowable entities in which corporations operating under the Energy Acquisition Corporations Act may invest. - Amends TCA Section 7-39-313.

TN - SB1443 Naming and Designating - As enacted, names new Tennessee State Veterans Home in Montgomery County in honor of Brigadier General (Retired) Wendell H. Gilbert, United States Army.

TN - SB1199 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, requires schedule II and III controlled substances to be stored in a locked safe in the prescription department during non-business hours. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63.

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

TN - SB1512 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, revises various provisions governing bonds, loans, capital outlay notes, and other debt issued by local governments. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 40; Title 41; Title 42; Title 49; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

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

TN - SB1085 Open Meetings - As introduced, requires certain boards and commissions to provide video streaming over the Internet of the board meetings of each entity. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3 and Title 4.

TN - SB1975 TennCare - As introduced, with respect to the Medicaid program, authorizes the department of finance and administration to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to the full extent permitted so long as the federal matching rate for the expansion population remains at 100 percent. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - SB1045 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the offense of especially aggravated assault when a person commits assault, causes serious bodily injury to another, and uses or displays a deadly weapon. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB262 Education - As introduced, eliminates outdated 1977 travel reimbursement of 15 cents per mile for high school counselors serving more than one school that originally only applied to Monroe County. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - SB2380 Welfare - As enacted, requires the commissioner of human services, in consultation with various governmental and non-governmental entities that serve poor people, to conduct a study of poverty in Tennessee and submit a state anti-poverty plan to the governor and the general assembly by January 15, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - SB1705 State Employees - As enacted, authorizes the department of transportation to create a new job classification that does not require a high school diploma or state-approved high school equivalency certification as a minimum qualification, applicable to certain department employees. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - SB1890 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows a part-time employee of state college of applied technology to enroll in one course per semester at state supported higher education institute without paying the tuition charges or maintenance fees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB1927 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, creates the Tennessee rural teachers scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB1908 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5 and Chapter 250 of the Public Acts of 2013.

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

TN - SB1362 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1939 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, limits fee that high-cost home loan lenders may charge for third or subsequent pay-off statement provided to borrower in 12-month period to $10.00. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - SB2256 Mental Illness - As enacted, extends pilot project for assisted outpatient treatment for two years until June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 6, Part 6.

TN - SB1264 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, upon adoption of an ordinance or resolution, permits local governing bodies to permit certain business owners paying tangible personal property taxes to make quarterly installment payments; authorizes the department of economic and community development to make grants to counties for the purpose of marketing and other revitalization efforts for certain areas in the county. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - SB1600 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, requires persons with intellectual disabilities on the waiting list for services to be enrolled in the self-determination waiver when their caregivers attain the age of 75. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.

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

TN - SB2462 Education - As enacted, prohibits intentional destruction of imagination library program books intended to be delivered to children enrolled in the program; requires best efforts to deliver books or, in the alternative, to make the books available for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten or elementary programs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 52, Part 1.

TN - SB1429 Disabled Persons - As introduced, requires the issuance of red permanent disabled parking placards to persons who are confined to a wheelchair; requires certain businesses that provide a minimum number of disabled parking spaces to designate a minimum number of red disabled parking signs for priority use by such placard holders; revises related provisions governing disabled parking privileges. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 1.

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

TN - SB493 Veterans - As enacted, establishes special requirements for the expedited issuance of certain licenses, the temporary extension of certain licenses, and the granting of certain credit for certain service members. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8; Title 49, Chapter 9; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 1.

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

TN - SB701 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, makes various changes to the expunction law such as establishing the procedure for appeal from a denial of an expunction petition, allowing more than one conviction to be expunged if all the offenses are eligible and they were part of the same criminal episode and clarifying that an order of expunction results in a clean record for all types of expunctions. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - SB832 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, eliminates release eligibility for a person committing attempted first degree murder where the victim suffers serious bodily injury, on or after July 1, 2013, until the person has served 85 percent of the sentence imposed by the court less sentence credits earned and retained. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB99 Water Pollution - As introduced, prohibits issuance of a water quality control permit that would alter any ridgeline that is more than 2,000 feet above sea level. - Amends TCA Title 59 and Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - SB2022 Fiscal Review Committee - As introduced, requires committee to review contracts that result in layoffs of state employees; requires committee as part of reviewing proposed contracts to consider whether existing state employees can perform the tasks in such proposed contracts. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 7.

TN - SB10 Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires the department of safety to waive the driving skills test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members applying for commercial driver licenses; identifies certain alternative requirements, which include operating a commercial motor vehicle in the military in combination with a good driving record. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - SB2480 Disabled Persons - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Licensure for Interpreters and Transliterators Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 49 and Title 71, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1428 Veterans - As introduced, creates a grant program to assist veterans with the creation and opening of small businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 58.

TN - SB978 Education, Higher - As enacted, redefines "institution" for purposes of the Tennessee State School Bond Authority Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 12.

TN - SB1926 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to employ three technology student association advisors, one in each grand division, to assist chapters of the Tennessee technology student association and elementary and secondary educators in providing technology education to students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2117 Unknown

TN - SB155 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, clarifies what is considered to be "private land" or "land expected to become privately owned" for purposes of present law prohibition against Fast Track infrastructure grants being applied to private land or to land expected to become privately owned. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7.

TN - SB154 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, extends to entities the provisions whereby those parts of a record identifying a person who has been or may in the future be directly involved in the process of executing a sentence of death are treated as confidential and are not open to public inspection. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Title 40.

TN - SB667 Military - As enacted, authorizes public employees who are in the military to use five days of sick leave in lieu of annual leave after the employee has received 20 working days of compensation so the employee does not have to take leave without pay when called to military duties. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33, Part 1.

TN - SB894 Food and Food Products - As introduced, enacts the "Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18, Part 1 and Title 53, Chapter 1.

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

TN - SB1916 Titles, Short - As introduced, enacts the "Save Tennessee Call Center Jobs Act". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 13; Title 47; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - SB2222 Unknown

TN - SB2220 Unknown

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

TN - SB1303 District Attorneys - As enacted, directs the executive director of the Tennessee district attorneys general conference, in consultation with the commissioner of revenue to prepare a report to the general assembly on steps which should be taken with respect to improvement of sales tax fraud investigations and prosecutions. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 48 and Title 67.

TN - SB1923 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires an annual charter school report to be posted on the web site of the department. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1861 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the fine imposed on a person who commits an assault or an aggravated assault against an elder person. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 47; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1078 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, requires THEC to report on scholarships for specific groups of students, such as Tennessee HOPE scholarships for nontraditional students and Tennessee HOPE foster care grants; requires THEC to make recommendations on improving receipt and retention of such scholarships and grants. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB2050 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires that a health insurance carrier provide coverage under a health insurance policy for healthcare services delivered through telehealth in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - SB2006 Students - As enacted, requires the department of education to maintain the unique personal identification numbers of students of active duty military or reserve component parents or guardians in a separate database to identify and track these students if the students move to different schools across the state and country. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1064 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Boomer's Law," which revises what constitutes the offense of aggravated assault and revises the penalties for the offense. - Amends TCA Titles 39 and 40.

TN - SB2451 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, creates the "Koozer-Kuhn Medical Cannabis Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 2; Title 39; Title 43; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 63 and Title 68.

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

TN - SB1253 Veterans - As introduced, creates a process whereby the cremated remains of certain veterans and veterans' spouses may be interred by an entity selected by the county legislative body if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 25; Title 46; Title 58; Title 62, Chapter 5; Title 68, Chapter 3 and Title 68, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1980 Mining and Quarrying - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act" to prohibit the issuance of water quality permits for surface mining activities along ridgelines, subject to certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 59 and Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - SB676 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, enacts the "Addison Sharp Prescription Regulatory Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - SB1286 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires health insurance policies to cover screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

TN - SB2536 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Teach First Act," which requires the commissioner of education to be a licensed teacher for at least ten years prior to the appointment as commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 8 and Title 49.

TN - SB604 TennCare - As introduced, with respect to the Medicaid program, authorizes the department of finance and administration to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to either the extent permitted or required by law. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - SB1298 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, revises the definition of "autism spectrum disorder" and the required insurance coverage of autism spectrum disorder. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1431 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the Honor and Remember flag as the official state symbol of remembrance to honor fallen military service members. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - SB574 Children - As introduced, creates the department of children's services oversight committee. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 37.

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

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

TN - SB1966 School Transportation - As enacted, extends the allowable number of years for a school bus to be in service to 18 years; revises other provisions relate to the use and inspection of school buses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21.

TN - SB2145 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, sets minimum wage at $8.25 per hour for certain employers who do not offer health benefits to employees and employees' dependents, subject to exceptions for certain types of employment. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB2162 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Animal Abuser Registration Act". - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 44.

TN - SB1936 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "True Origin of Goods Act". - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB422 Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises provisions governing tax on the wholesale beer sales. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 6.

TN - SB474 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, allows retailers to own and operate more than one retail package store. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-406.

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

TN - SB728 State Government - As enacted, clarifies that the board of trustees of the baccalaureate education system trust fund program may contract with financial consultants, actuaries, auditors, investment managers and other consultants and professionals; provides that the trustees of certain deferred or tax sheltered compensation plans are expressly authorized to contract for investment management services, personal services, professional services and consultant services for the deferred compensation programs. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25, Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 8.

TN - SB156 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, deletes provision whereby records from any student who is eligible for special education services under federal law will not be used as part of the value added assessment; adds other provisions regarding student growth data, student achievement data and teachers' evaluations scores. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302(d) and Section 49-1-606(a).

TN - SB461 Civil Procedure - As enacted, requires legal and public notices that are currently required to be published in newspaper of general circulation to also be posted on newspaper's web site and on statewide web site maintained by majority of Tennessee newspapers. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 30, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB823 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, subjects conveyances to forfeiture if used in the transport, concealment or storage of money or goods that were the subject of a burglary, aggravated burglary or especially aggravated burglary. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 7 and Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 1.

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

TN - SB609 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Fairness in Ticketing Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 62.

TN - SB1925 Water Pollution - As introduced, prohibits issuance of a water quality control permit that would alter any ridgeline that is more than 1,800 feet above sea level. - Amends TCA Title 59 and Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - SB462 Local Government, General - As enacted, enacts the "Anti-Kicking the Can Act", which requires approval of the comptroller prior to any local government authorizing the issuance of balloon indebtedness. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 21.

TN - SB2221 Unknown

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

TN - SB1977 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, enacts the "Equity for Entrepreneurs Act"; allows franchise and excise tax credits of $5,000 for eligible start-up small businesses that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1420 Montgomery County - As introduced, subject to local approval, creates a special juvenile court in Montgomery County pursuant to the Juvenile Court Restructure Act of 1982.

TN - SB1835 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Data Accessibility, Transparency and Accountability Act"; establishes requirements for the adoption of educational standards and the requesting of proposals for student assessments; prohibits the state from adopting common core standards in any subjects other than math and English language arts; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB93 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Jacob Nunley Act," which requires immunization against meningococcal disease for incoming students at public institutions of higher learning who live in on-campus housing. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 4; Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - SB1215 Education - As enacted, specifies disciplinary action required for a student who transmits by electronic communication a credible threat to cause bodily injury or death to another student or school employee in which the transmission of such threat creates actual disruptive activity at the school that requires administrative intervention; the reporting and punishment of such prohibited conduct by certain persons. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - SB71 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the University of Tennessee Botanical Gardens as the official state botanical garden. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - SB66 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises the penalties for aggravated assault. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB877 Motor Vehicle Commission - As enacted, adds a non-franchise motor vehicle dealer as a member of the motor vehicle commission; increases quorum requirement by one person. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - SB730 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, requires additional information be submitted by state agencies upon the filing of rules with the secretary of state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5, Part 2.

TN - SB268 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, gives teachers who teach in multiple subject areas until January 1, 2014, to pass the content area tests in the subject areas in which they are teaching. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-6006.

TN - SB1924 Education - As enacted, enacts "The Tennessee Community Schools Act". - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1301 Public Employees - As introduced, requires municipalities, counties and other political subdivisions to grant leave of absence to full-time employees for service in the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38.

TN - SB79 Education, Higher - As introduced, creates the office of higher education ombudsperson within the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB615 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, authorizes expanded provisions in bank charters beyond requirements of Tennessee Business Corporation Act and gives bank shareholders certain notification rights. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1842 Purchasing and Procurement - As introduced, requires agencies to give a preference to goods manufactured in the United States when awarding certain state contracts. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56; Title 12, Chapter 4 and Title 12, Chapter 3.

TN - SB2004 Civil Procedure - As enacted, waives governmental immunity for claims against any governmental entity under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (“USERRA”), 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301-4334. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20, Part 2.

TN - SB2030 Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires certain successive appointments to the board to have at least five years of teaching experience in public schools in grades K-12; mandates, after April 1, 2018, the board to be composed of at least five members with at least five years of teaching experience in public schools in grades K-12. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-301.

TN - SB1837 Welfare - As enacted, authorizes diversion grants. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - SB2213 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Work-Share Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB2377 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Kenneth and Madge Tullis, JD, Suicide Prevention Training Act of 2014," which requires certain health professionals to complete suicide assessment and prevention training. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB1180 Tennessee Regulatory Authority - As enacted, revises various provisions pertaining to the TRA's power to regulate telecommunications providers. - Amends TCA Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - SB1426 Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires all law enforcement agencies who store and maintain sexual assault collection kits to conduct an inventory to determine how many kits being stored are untested by the TBI or a similar laboratory and report the findings to TBI, who reports it to the speaker of the house and speaker of the senate. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB1161 Education - As enacted, adds to provisions governing students with a parent in the armed forces being given excused absences to additionally provide for up to 10 days cumulatively within the school year for visitation during the member's deployment cycle; cumulative number of excused absences under this provision and present provision for visitation with parent when the member is granted rest and recuperation leave and is stationed out of the country may not exceed 10 days. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1074 Child Abuse - As introduced, requires a child advocacy center to perform the initial forensic interview with a child who is the victim of alleged child sexual abuse and any subsequent interviews found necessary by the child protective team to be conducted in a neutral setting. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB1953 Judgments - As enacted, provides that a civil judgment or restitution order converted to civil judgment is valid until paid in full rather than renewed every 10 years if the judgment is based upon injury or death caused by criminal conduct and the judgment debtor was convicted of a criminal offense for such conduct. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

TN - SB1909 Domestic Violence - As enacted, specifies that in divorce proceeding involving domestic abuse within the marriage, any debt owed for any batterer's intervention or rehabilitation programs will be attributed to the abuser only. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - SB1369 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires UT and TBR institutions to provide free parking to employees who earn less than the average state employee salary; permits other employees to be charged for parking on a tiered scale based on salary. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1358 Education - As enacted, specifies that any barber school or school of cosmetology whose authorization by the department of commerce is denied by the United States department of education for student financial aid purposes may seek authorization from the Tennessee higher education commission under the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act and will thereafter be subject to all requirements of the Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1928 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires that evaluations of teachers be based on student performance only in subjects that were tested and in which the teacher taught the students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2, and Title 49, Chapter 3.

TN - SB1124 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, expands definition of harassment and bullying in schools to include conduct based on actual or perceived demographic traits, requires review of anti-bullying policies at least once every three years, clarifies that such policies apply to students, school staff and volunteers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2415 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a winery or farm wine producer to conduct business at satellite locations; requires all payments to wholesalers by licensees be made by electronic funds transfer, credit card, debit card, or such other method that will facilitate full payment at or near the time of delivery; revises other various provisions governing alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB828 Sentencing - As enacted, prohibits any release eligibility for a person committing aggravated child neglect or endangerment, on or after July 1, 2013, until the person has served 70 percent of the sentence imposed by the court less sentence credits earned and retained. - Amends TCA Titles 39 and 40.

TN - SB2240 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, prohibits the department of education from revoking or non-renewing an individual's license based on student growth data as represented by the Tennessee value-added assessment system (TVAAS), or some other comparable measure of student growth, if no such TVAAS data is available; removes provision whereby the state board of education is authorized to adopt policies for the revocation of licenses and certificates. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - SB607 Education - As introduced, adds to the definition of conduct unbecoming a teacher, for which a teacher may be dismissed, deliberately making false statements about competency and qualifications on application to teach and misrepresenting professional qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2099 Securities - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Investment Exemption Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13 and Title 48.

TN - SB2168 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires any pending order of protection or restraining order to be served on domestic violence offender before release following the mandatory twelve-hour holding period; directs a copy of protection order to be issued to any court in which the respondent or 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 - SB1263 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, deletes obsolete language for spring sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB1862 Public Works Projects - As introduced, enacts the "Keep Jobs in Tennessee Act," which requires contractors working on public construction projects to employ at least eighty percent state residents in their workforce and creates an administrative process for receiving complaints, adjudicating violations, and assigning penalties for non-compliance as well as modifying reciprocity standards for non-resident bidders. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 15 and Title 54, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1794 Domestic Violence - As enacted, specifies, in regard to the 30-day and 90-day sentences to confinement for second and third convictions of domestic assault that results in bodily injury, that the respective sentence has to be served on consecutive days; specifies that individuals convicted of domestic assault that results in bodily injury must serve at least the minimum sentence day for day, and serve the difference between the time actually served and the maximum sentence on probation. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - SB1797 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, enacts the "Channon Christian Act", which clarifies rule of evidence regarding certain character evidence. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1.

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

TN - SB915 Planning, Public - As enacted, specifies that a vested property right will be established with respect to any property upon the approval, by the local government in which the property is situated, of a preliminary development plan or a final development plan where no preliminary development plan is required by ordinance or regulation or a building permit allowing construction of a building where there was no need for prior approval of a preliminary development plan for the property on which that building will be constructed. - Amends TCA Section 13-4-310 and Section 13-3-413.

TN - SB838 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, enacts the "Fair and Clear Teacher Evaluation System Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

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

TN - SB199 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, lowers the state sales tax on food and food ingredients for human consumption from 5.25 percent to 5 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB297 Political Parties - As introduced, requires statewide political party to hold primary election for nominations for judge, chancellor, district attorney general and public defender in multi-county judicial districts. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

TN - SB491 Cosmetology - As enacted, authorizes a manicurist to provide manicuring services to an ill, disabled or homebound individual, or to such individual's caregiver, custodian or guardian, in the individual's residence. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 4, Part 1.

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

TN - SB2133 Collection Agencies - As enacted, exempts certain entities from the Tennessee Collection Service Act. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 20.

TN - SB440 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises certain requirements regarding issuance of motor vehicle dealer license. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SB1881 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state board of education to include cursive writing in the course of instruction in all public schools through the curriculum standards, at the appropriate grade level, as determined by the board. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - SB1360 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Litigation Financing Consumer Protection Act". - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - SB1700 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, clarifies that observation while securing a firearm or firearm ammunition in compliance with provisions concerning a handgun permit holder's ability to transport or store a firearm or firearm ammunition does not violate such provisions. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1313.

TN - SB1824 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, modifies the Medicare supplemental insurance benefit for participating retired employees and teachers to ensure that such retirees are not required to pay the full cost of each premium increase. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27, Part 7.

TN - SB1796 Evidence - As enacted, enacts the "Chris Newsom Act", which creates presumption to successor trial and appellate judges that if the original trial judge dismisses the jury following a unanimous verdict, that the judge exercised his or her duties as the 13th juror and approves the verdict. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 18, Part 1.

TN - SB1041 Judicial Districts - As enacted, sets the current statutory requirement for criminal investigator positions in each judicial district as the statutory minimum and increases the prior service credit maximum available to criminal investigators from eight years to 12 years; revises other provisions related to criminal investigators for district attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16.

TN - SB1433 Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Veterans Education Transition Support Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1191 Public Contracts - As introduced, authorizes certain allowances for Tennessee service-disabled veteran owned businesses in the evaluation of bids and proposals for transportation contracts. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - SB1892 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates crimes of using an unmanned aircraft with intent to conduct surveillance and capturing or using an image captured by an unmanned aircraft. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.