Tennessee Rep. David Byrd (R)

TN - Finance, Ways and Means (House)

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member

TN - Education Instruction and Programs (House)

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vice chair

TN - Education Instruction and Programs Subcommittee (House)

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member

TN - HJR1024 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sydnee Runions, Valedictorian, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR1051 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Alexis Lauren Lineberry, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HR278 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Alyssa Irons, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HB2206 Highway Signs - As introduced, requires that memorial signs commemorating service members killed in action contain the language "KIA", name and rank of the service member, name of war or conflict in which the service member was killed, and the Purple Heart emblem. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HJR720 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Melvin Martin, 2017 Fire Chief of the Year

TN - HB287 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, designates the week of September 17 as "Celebrate Freedom Week" in public schools; requires the department of education to provide LEAs with grade appropriate internet resources and materials for instruction for use during such week; establishes other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - HJR403 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Madison Dinwiddie, Valedictorian, Summertown High School

TN - HJR1032 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Avery Davis, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR1046 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ashlyn Rose Brown, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR387 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Peyton Lee Ewoldt, Salutatorian, Hardin County High School

TN - HJR399 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Riley Chapman, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HJR1025 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Aidan Britt, Salutatorian, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR393 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Taylor Grace Bevis, Salutatorian, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR1038 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brooklyn Danielle Grimes, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR389 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sawyer Blaine Turnbow, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR411 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sada Lowery, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR384 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Carlee Reese Register, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HJR372 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Chloe Cooke, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR880 Memorials, Sports - Hardin County High School Lady Tigers bowling team, 2018 State Champion

TN - HJR881 Memorials, Sports - Hardin County High School Tigers bowling team, 2018 State Champion

TN - HJR416 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hannah Horton, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HB288 Education - As introduced, creates a pilot program to provide grants to elementary and middle schools to implement the Leader in Me® pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HB2204 Education - As enacted, revises the date by which the state board of education must require a course in Tennessee history for students from the 2018-2019 school year to the 2019-2020 school year. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1015 and Chapter 482 of the Public Acts of 2017.

TN - HB1251 Education - As introduced, limits the number of state-mandated assessments by grade and subject; converts student ACT scores into letter grade equivalents for purposes of calculating certain course grades. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB918 Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the board to create an endorsement in computer science for all teachers who demonstrate sufficient content knowledge in the course material. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 5.

TN - HJR412 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lauren Palmer, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR1205 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jacob H. Brown, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HJR404 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dalton Belew, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HJR418 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kaylan Putman, Valedictorian, Collinwood High School

TN - HB286 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor of using or possessing a motor vehicle that has a compartment containing contraband or residue of contraband. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 2.

TN - HB917 Education - As introduced, changes the date, from September 30 to October 1, of when an LEA must submit a report to the commissioner of education on the remediation services provided to students who fail a required examination. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB32 Natural Disasters - As introduced, creates a Natural Disaster Relief Program to be administered by TEMA. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HR277 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Rachel Franks, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HJR1049 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Rachel Lynn Garrard, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR401 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sara Beasley, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HJR369 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Taylor Durbin, Valedictorian, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HB409 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, clarifies that the curriculum required before an employee is permitted to carry a handgun on the property of schools in distressed rural counties may be adapted by the instructing law enforcement agency from an existing curriculum approved by POST. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-816.

TN - HJR1030 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brittany Gobbell, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HB1250 District Attorneys - As introduced, establishes a new pay scale for assistant district attorney generals based upon the assistant's number of years of credible service as an assistant; reclassifies into the new pay scale those assistants hired before July 1, 1994, who have 20 years credible service. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7.

TN - HJR394 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Adele Marie Haun, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HR276 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Madelyn Blankenship, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HJR402 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Anna Gorbatoff, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HR281 Memorials, Recognition - Joanna Helton, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR405 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tessa Love, Salutatorian, Summertown High School

TN - HR273 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Walker Adkisson, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HR279 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Julia Mazanek, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HB1877 State Government - As introduced, requires the head of every state department to annually report the number of preferred service employees whose employments were impacted by a reduction in force to the chairs of the state government committee of the house of representatives and the state and local government committee of the senate. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 53; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 41; Title 50; Title 54 and Title 58.

TN - HJR1026 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sydni McClain, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR1047 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Shyanne Lashea Hobbs, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR1035 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jonathan Taylor Keeton, Salutatorian, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR1052 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Charles Raymond Brashier, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR383 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hillary Lauren Hunt, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HJR381 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Abigail Rose Magness, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HJR385 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emma Nichole King, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HJR374 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Mallory Cherry, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR396 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dustin Alan Hargrove, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR409 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ty Robertson, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR1029 Memorials, Academic Achievement - John Austin Skelton, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR1042 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hayden Elizabeth Lee, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HB2208 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows private certified firearms instructors to train teachers in certain distressed rural counties who are allowed to carry concealed firearms on school property as well as being taught by the local law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-816.

TN - HR285 Memorials, Recognition - Katy Wright, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR1206 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Magdelene Alford, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HB914 Education - As introduced, requires each local education agency to integrate a minimum of 150 minutes of physical activity per week for elementary school students and 90 minutes of physical activity per week for middle and high school students. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1021.

TN - HJR1037 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Abigail Lynn Dial, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR1080 Memorials, Sports - Summertown High School Lady Eagles, 2018 TSSAA Class A State Runner-Up

TN - HJR1203 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Haley Elizabeth Durham, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HB1252 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, includes as a requirement for the timely reimbursement of health insurance claims that any claim submitted to an insurer by a provider electronically will be paid within 10 days if the provider had obtained a preauthorization for the claim. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HJR1197 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Maggie Catherine Long, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HJR724 Memorials, Sports - Summertown AA (7/8) All Stars, 2017 Dixie Youth Baseball AA World Series Champions

TN - HB2205 Schools, Charter - As introduced, ensures that, on appeal from a denial of a charter school application by an LEA, the state board of education makes a decision based on the same information as the LEA by removing the charter school applicant's ability to make certain limited corrections to its application. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB916 Education - As introduced, requires that the commissioner of education's guidelines regarding the timely and responsible release of education data for research purposes be posted on the department’s website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR1198 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hannah Grace Kelly, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HB915 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, changes the method by which advertisement of the sale of surplus property by local school systems must occur; allows the local board of education to determine the method of advertisement; requires the local board to advertise at least seven days prior to sale. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HR272 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Whitley Cagle, Salutatorian, Hardin County High School

TN - HR282 Memorials, Recognition - Curtis Peters, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HR280 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Laura Lee Parson, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HR275 Memorials, Academic Achievement - John Patrick Davis, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HR283 Memorials, Recognition - DeLaney Timberman, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR377 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Anna Grace Blackburn, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR382 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Taylor Alexandra Clayton, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HJR1201 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lauren Kathleen Graves, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HJR1031 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Amelia Williams, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR1048 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dionna LáKia Webb, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HR264 Memorials, Sports - Waynesboro 14u Tennessee Elite baseball team, World Series Champions

TN - HB1422 Lewis County - Subject to local approval, authorizes the location of landfills within four and one-half miles of the Buffalo River. - Amends Chapter 169 of the Private Acts of 1990.

TN - HB2207 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, revises the percentage of student achievement data based on student growth data that may be calculated in the evaluation criteria for a teacher or principal, in the 2018-2019 school year and in subsequent school years, based on the percentage of Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) questions released by the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HJR380 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Mary Katelyn Davis, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HJR408 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hayley Sanduskey, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HJR407 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kaylee Johnson, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HJR398 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Alexandra Faith Woodside, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR406 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Heather Gauthier, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HJR375 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Rose Garrard, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR370 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jake Erisman, Salutatorian, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR417 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Adrianna Darnell, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR390 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hannah Dale Davis, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR391 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Elsie Grace Littrell, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR395 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lacey Danielle Staggs, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HR243 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Ruby C. Veltman, 100th birthday

TN - HJR1036 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Maicee Ciara Burleson, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR1204 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jase A. Collier, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HJR400 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sara Williams, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HB2203 Education - As introduced, limits the number of state-mandated assessments by grade and subject; converts student ACT scores into letter grade equivalents for purposes of calculating certain course grades. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR1034 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Mahalie Bree Stults, Valedictorian, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR392 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hope Makenzi Ruddle, Valedictorian, Wayne County High School

TN - HR271 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Whitney Williams, Valedictorian, Hardin County High School

TN - HJR1050 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Anna Marie Moyers, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR397 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Katelyn Cheyenne LaBombard, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR386 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kaylie Rebekah Jerrolds, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HJR1199 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Alex Elayne Isbell, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HJR1053 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jonathan Mason Lineberry, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR368 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Wayne County Forestry Association

TN - HJR441 Memorials, Recognition - Philip P. Goad

TN - HJR371 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Taylor Anne Beckham, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR1045 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Morgan Malin Whitfield, Salutatorian, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR485 Memorials, Death - Franklin Burns

TN - HJR410 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ashton Daniel, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR1033 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Makenna Vandygriffe, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR1044 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ian Vaughn Pigg, Valedictorian, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR1043 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Bailey Lynn Pigg, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR379 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Christian Robert Kirk, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HJR183 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Ruby Lopp, 102nd birthday

TN - HR274 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Joseph Burd, Top Ten Senior, Hardin County High School

TN - HJR119 Memorials, Sports - Hardin County High School boys' bowling team, 2017 TSSAA State Champions

TN - HJR118 Memorials, Sports - Hardin County High School Lady Tigers bowling team, 2017 state champions

TN - HJR185 Memorials, Recognition - Darryl Worley

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Sports - Wayne County High School football team

TN - HJR414 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Zoiee Gobbell, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR117 Memorials, Sports - Preston Rice, Wayne County High School, 2016 Mr. Football, Division I Class 1A Back

TN - HJR121 Memorials, Public Service - Sue Creasy

TN - HJR184 Memorials, Recognition - Morgan Mathis, 2016 ANTSO National Miss

TN - HJR388 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Houston Daniel Phillips, Valedictorian, Hardin County High School

TN - HJR1041 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Chloe Wade Holt, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR1200 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Madeline Elizabeth Grimes, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HJR378 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hannah Kate Love, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR1202 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Josie Meredith Franks, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

TN - HB2701 Lewis County - Subject to local approval, changes, from $40 per day to $50 per month, the compensation for members of the County Highway Advisory Commission; reduces, from $300 to $200 per month, the compensation for the chairman of the County Highway Advisory Commission. - Amends Chapter 395 of the Private Acts of 1937; as amended.

TN - HR284 Memorials, Recognition - Maicee Burleson, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR252 Memorials, Sports - Summertown High School girls' basketball team

TN - HJR1040 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Addison Layne Holt, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR1039 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Makenlee Grace Hensley, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR415 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jay Hutton, Salutatorian, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR120 Memorials, Public Service - Bonnie Merriman

TN - HJR376 Memorials, Academic Achievement - McKenzie Alley, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR413 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emily Dial, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School

TN - HJR373 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Gunnar Bunch, Top Ten Senior, Frank Hughes High School

TN - HJR1027 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jaylee Warren, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR1028 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Braden Morris, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School

TN - HJR22 Memorials, Death - Michael E. Anderson

TN - HJR21 Memorials, Sports - Whitehaven High School, TSSAA Class 6A State Football Champions

TN - HJR23 Memorials, Recognition - Expresses appreciation and thanks to entities and persons providing assistance during the Smoky Mountain wildfires.

TN - HJR67 Memorials, Death - Brock Wyatt Blick

TN - HJR54 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Helen James

TN - HJR35 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 3, 2017

TN - HJR34 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Tammy Letzler and Kim Cox

TN - HJR25 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Rep. Johnny Shaw, birthday

TN - HJR62 Memorials, Death - Avon Rollins, Sr.

TN - HJR64 Memorials, Death - Chattanooga school bus victims

TN - HJR66 Memorials, Recognition - Chalan Gabriella Sanders, World's Pre-Teen Miss Tennessee Tourism

TN - HB508 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates a private cause of action for a party that is adversely affected by a local ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment on firearms that is preempted by state law; restricts certain actions by local government in regard to handgun carry permittees. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HJR37 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee recognizing that our liberties do not come from governments, but from Almighty God.

TN - HJR91 Memorials, Heroism - Officer Joseph Miranne, Officer Jason Berrios, and Officer Anthony Oliveto of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

TN - HB539 Codes - As enacted, authorizes the state fire marshal to inspect an owner's building upon the owner's request to determine if the building meets the statewide safety standards even if the building is located in a county or municipality that has opted out of the statewide safety codes. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - HJR72 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment of Article VI, Section 5 to provide for popular election of the attorney general and reporter for a regular term of six years.

TN - HB91 Welfare - As introduced, requires certain amounts of work, community service, education, or job-seeking activities for recipients of food assistance (SNAP) unless certain exemptions apply. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HJR98 Memorials, Recognition - V. Lynn Evans

TN - HJR75 Memorials, Retirement - David Gregory

TN - HB482 Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the new Tennessee Bureau of Investigation crime lab and consolidated regional headquarters to be constructed in Madison County as the "Special Agent De'Greaun ReShun Frazier TBI Crime Lab and Regional Headquarters."

TN - HB108 Abortion - As enacted, requires, in cases where an ultrasound is performed as part of an examination prior to an abortion, the person who performs the ultrasound to offer the woman the opportunity to learn the results of the ultrasound; requires, if ultrasound is performed, that report of abortion indicate whether or not a heartbeat was detected. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HB40 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts the "Open Carry Firearms Freedom Act." - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 70.

TN - HB2129 Safety - As enacted, enacts the "School Safety Act of 2018". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 16; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Section 50-3-201; Section 58-1-112; Section 70-4-123 and Section 70-5-101.

TN - HJR1306 Memorials, Retirement - Denise Sims

TN - HB322 School Transportation - As enacted, establishes a school transportation supervisor program for the monitoring and oversight of transportation services for local education authorities and charter schools; requires new school bus drivers to complete a training program prior to transporting students; requires a driver to be at least 25 years of age to receive an initial school bus driver license endorsement. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21; Section 55-50-302 and Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 6.

TN - HB2426 Education - As introduced, requires driver education courses to include an area of instruction on the impact of talking and texting on a mobile phone on a student's driving abilities. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB387 Medical Occupations - As enacted, revises definitions related to practice of chiropractic; changes requirements related to composition, powers, and duties of the board of chiropractic examiners. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 4.

TN - HR95 Memorials, Recognition - Clayborn Temple

TN - HB640 Education - As introduced, requires a local board of education to hold a hearing within 30 days of, rather than within a reasonable time after, its receipt of an application for a hearing to contest the reasonableness of a student assignment. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB466 Public Employees - As enacted, authorizes the state and local governments to provide health insurance benefits to the immediate family members of first responders killed in the line of duty for a period of two years after the death of the first responder; requires the state to reimburse local governments that provide such benefits. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27.

TN - HR171 Memorials, Recognition - Tim Shaw

TN - HR24 Memorials, Recognition - Alzheimer's and other dementia awareness

TN - HR250 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Travis McKinney, Keller Williams Realty International Rookie of the Year

TN - HJR197 Memorials, Death - Dr. Gene Caldwell

TN - HB15 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, creates exemptions from sales tax, registration fee, and motor vehicle privilege tax, for any motor vehicle sold to a veteran or service member who has a service-connected disability and who is eligible for a United States department of veterans affairs automobile grant under the Disabled Veterans' and Servicemen's Automobile Assistance Act of 1970; limits sales and use tax exemption to portion of price that is in excess of the amount of the grant received. - Amends TCA Section 5-8-102; Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR561 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jack Lowery, President of Tennessee Road Builders Association

TN - HJR204 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Altha Stewart, President-elect of American Psychiatric Association

TN - HJR205 Memorials, Death - Dr. Luther M. Kindall

TN - HJR593 Memorials, Sports - Nashville Predators, NHL Western Conference champions

TN - HJR735 Memorials, Retirement - Ed Cromer

TN - HJR454 Memorials, Interns - Daniel H. Cox

TN - HJR577 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Roland Donnelly-Bullington, Salutatorian, Central High School

TN - HJR578 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Elizabeth A. Mulhearn, Valedictorian, Central High School

TN - HJR262 Memorials, Recognition - The Lee Sisters of Memphis

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Death - Barbara Rodgers Alston

TN - HJR641 Memorials, Congratulations - Taiwan

TN - HJR736 Memorials, Death - E. Claude Gardner

TN - HJR831 Memorials, Recognition - Jamita Swearengen, 2018 Social Justice Honoree

TN - HJR832 Memorials, Recognition - Deidre Malone, 2018 Social Justice Honoree

TN - HB167 Juries and Jurors - As introduced, exempts from jury service persons 72 years of age or older upon request and sufficient proof of age. - Amends TCA Title 22.

TN - HB1591 Telecommunications - As enacted, authorizes a cooperative to access certain property for purposes of supplying telecommunications and broadband internet services. - Amends TCA Title 65.

TN - HB1549 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, exempts certain supervisors, principals, and public school teachers from having to take an assessment to advance or renew a teaching license under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB405 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, expands to include pharmacists in the prohibition on discrimination by managed health insurance issuers against optometrists, ophthalmologists, podiatrists, and chiropractors solely on the basis of their license or certification, if such providers are acting within the scope of their license or certification. - Amends TCA Section 56-32-129.

TN - HJR601 Memorials, Personal Occasion - J.B. "Buddy" Glassman, 80th birthday

TN - HB695 Education - As enacted, adds to and clarifies law concerning teacher training. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.

TN - HJR648 General Assembly - Provides for affixing plaque at Representative Lois DeBerry's desk in House chambers to commemorate her legislative service.

TN - HJR636 Memorials, Death - Jesse Wilburn

TN - HR185 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 2, 2018

TN - HJR605 Memorials, Sports - Union City High School football team, TSSAA Division I Class 2A State Champions

TN - HJR637 Memorials, Death - Bernal E. Smith II

TN - HJR754 Memorials, Sports - Gibbs High School wrestling team, TSSAA Class A-AA dual state champion

TN - HJR642 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Robin Copp, 2017-2018 Tennessee Department of Education Principal of the Year

TN - HJR638 Memorials, Recognition - W.C. Handy Heritage Awards

TN - HJR639 Memorials, Death - Reverend Dwight Montgomery

TN - HB726 Consumer Protection - As enacted, adds "advertising services for the provision of a motor vehicle warranty in a deceptive manner likely to cause the owner to believe that the advertisement originated from the original manufacturer of the motor vehicle or from the dealer that sold the motor vehicle" as a violation of the Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 55.

TN - HB433 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires state institutions of higher education to develop and implement uniform procedures for awarding academic credit through course equivalencies for military education, training, experience, and occupational specialties; provides methods for implementation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.

TN - HJR783 Memorials, Retirement - Edwin D. Brown

TN - HJR140 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bev Johnson, 30th anniversary with 1070 WDIA-AM

TN - HJR166 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Midyett, State Forestry Commission

TN - HJR789 Memorials, Recognition - The Links Days on Capitol Hill

TN - HJR721 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jeff Drake, Tennessee Forestry Association 2017 Master Logger of the Year

TN - HB1199 Election Laws - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Freedom of Speech Act." - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 66.

TN - HJR136 Memorials, Sports - Rick Insell, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

TN - HB1017 Water Pollution - As enacted, removes the authority for the department of environment and conservation to define "concentrated animal feeding operation" (CAFO) more stringently than federal law requires. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB17 Elder Abuse - As introduced, expands the offense of aggravated stalking to include a person who commits stalking against a victim who is at least 65 years of age when the person stalking is 15 or more years younger than the victim. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3 and Title 71, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR722 Memorials, Retirement - Shirley Jones

TN - HB498 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding when a health insurance entity can make, and when a health insurance entity is required to notify a provider of, changes in the provider's fee schedule. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1366 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, gives immunity from civil or criminal liability to a person for making a report to law enforcement of suspicious activity or behavior if the report is based on articulable suspicion. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 8.

TN - HB227 Welfare - As enacted, enacts the "Program Integrity Act of 2017," which establishes certain requirements for benefit eligibility. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 1 and Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 3.

TN - HJR177 Memorials, Recognition - Shelby County Public Defender, centennial

TN - HB530 Education, Higher - As enacted, replaces the Tennessee National Guard Tuition Assistance Act with the Tennessee Support, Training, and Renewing Opportunity for National Guardsmen (STRONG) Act of 2017. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 10.

TN - HB1169 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, enacts the "Senator Douglas Henry Tennessee History Act". - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HJR530 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. James Netters

TN - HJR32 Naming and Designating - "Child Abuse Prevention Month," April 2017

TN - HB566 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, requires state governmental entities that establish or adopt guides to practice to do so through the promulgation of rules. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

TN - HB529 Telecommunications - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Broadband Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7; Title 7, Chapter 59, Part 3; Title 65, Chapter 25 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.

TN - HJR655 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article II and Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Tennessee to authorize appointment of special counsel by the general assembly to investigate, indict, and prosecute alleged criminal activity committed by state and local officials, departments, and agencies.

TN - HB1967 Consumer Protection - As introduced, makes various changes to state law related to gift certificates, such as requiring certain gift certificates to have longer expiration dates; prohibiting dormancy or inactivity fees; and authorizing activation or issuance fees up to certain limits. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 66.

TN - HB45 Students - As enacted, revises provisions governing physical activity requirements for students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1773 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, designates as a Class A misdemeanor aggravated assault a knowing act to cause physical injury to an employee of a utility; sets an enhanced maximum fine of $15,000. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 65, Chapter 35.

TN - HJR529 Memorials, Recognition - Fred L. Davis

TN - HB456 Real Property - As enacted, prohibits a homeowners' association from adopting or enforcing a dedicatory instrument provision that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, a property owner from displaying the flag of the United States of America or an official or replica flag of any branch of the United States armed forces on the property owner's property; allows certain restrictions regarding display. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 66.

TN - HJR338 Memorials, Interns - Justin D. Lowe

TN - HB2381 Capitol - As enacted, provides that the general assembly calls for a monument to be erected on the capitol campus as a reminder of unborn children, in memory of the victims of abortion: babies, women, and men. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB2315 Immigration - As enacted, prohibits state and local governmental entities and officials from adopting sanctuary policies; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2174 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the department and state board of education to provide certain information regarding Bible curricula and courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2153 Milk, Dairy Products - As enacted, authorizes the labeling of any milk sold in this state as "Local Tennessee Milk", or a statement that indicates the milk is Tennessee milk, if the milk contains only milk produced in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 53 and Title 57.

TN - HR71 Memorials, Recognition - Scott Golden

TN - HB2021 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, revises laws governing civil asset forfeiture. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2.

TN - HB1498 Senior Citizens - As enacted, exempts certain religious organizations and religious institutions that provide limited respite care services programs from licensure for providing adult day care. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB941 Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, redefines "least restrictive alternatives" for purposes of supported decision making agreements. - Amends TCA Title 34.

TN - HJR741 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses strong support for President Trump's proposal to construct a secure border wall and urges Congress to immediately take action to fund the construction.

TN - HB2247 Education - As enacted, requires that each year at least 30 percent, instead of 70 percent, of the items on state assessments in grades 3-8 and end of course examinations in high school be fresh, nonredundant items that did not appear on the tests in the previous two years, instead of the previous four years for grades 3-8 and the previous three years for high school tests. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-610.

TN - HB1457 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, establishes the Tennessee taxpayer relief and recession reserve; clarifies that deposits into the reserve for revenue fluctuation and the relief and recession reserve do not count toward the Copeland Cap; provides an automatic, temporary sales tax reduction when there are sufficient over collections to offset the loss of revenue. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - HB888 Students - As introduced, requires students in public schools and public institutions of higher education to use restrooms and locker rooms that are assigned to persons of the same sex as that shown on the students' birth certificates. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HR267 Memorials, Sports - Mt. Juliet League, Incorporated

TN - HB901 TennCare - As enacted, requires the bureau of TennCare to promulgate rules to promote the safe and responsible coverage of opioids for TennCare members who have the TennCare pharmacy benefit; requires report on rules to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HJR1071 Memorials, Recognition - Wilson County Fair, 2017 Triple A division champion

TN - HJR1073 Memorials, Retirement - Ted Hackney

TN - HB20 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, changes the home value for which real property tax relief will be granted from $100,000 to $175,000 for veterans with disabilities and from $23,500 to $25,000 for low-income homeowners who are elderly or have disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB2591 Public Employees - As introduced, provides a $100 per month raise on July 1 every odd-numbered year to all public employees who are in active state service as of June 30 of such year; the raises are subject to appropriations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 54.

TN - HB2053 Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Down Syndrome Information Act of 2018". - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB176 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, increases the property value threshold for determining the extent of any property tax relief payments to disabled veterans and their surviving spouses from $100,000 to $175,000 of the full market value of the property for any veteran receiving property tax relief in 2014 or prior years and reapplying to receive a reimbursement for tax year 2017 and subsequent years without interruption. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2159 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act of 2018." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - HB2312 Immigration - As enacted, prohibits any official or employee of this state or any political subdivision of this state from accepting an identification document issued or created by any person, organization, county, city, or other local authority, except where expressly authorized to be used for identification purposes by the general assembly to determine a person's identity or residency unless required by federal law; prohibits any local government or law enforcement agency from authorizing the use of any such card or document as a form of identification to be used to determine the identity or residency of any person. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 55.

TN - HB308 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding student accountability measures due to the implementation of the federal law The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) including revising the way the state board of education and the department of education determine the performance level of a school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6 and Section 49-6-6001.

TN - HB2114 Education, Higher - As introduced, enacts the "Complete College Tennessee Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7; Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - HB268 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, exempts certain active, volunteer firefighters and rescue squad members from payment of the regular registration fee at the time of renewal for license plate issued to the volunteer firefighter or rescue squad member; authorizes a county legislative body to waive the motor vehicle tax for motor vehicles receiving the exemption from the registration fee, if the waiver is approved in the same manner as the adoption of the motor vehicle tax. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2368 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, enacts the "National Motto in the Classroom Act," which requires each local education agency to display the national motto, "In God We Trust," in a prominent location in each school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2230 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Transparency in Higher Education Act, which requires each state institution of higher education to notify parents of enrolled students of the parent's right to view student records under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 on the institution's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR1068 Memorials, Retirement - Rick Shepard

TN - HB166 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, removes the 90-day limitation on a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system working as a substitute teacher. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 49.

TN - HB165 Veterans - As enacted, authorizes private employers to give hiring preference to honorably discharged veterans, spouses of veterans with service-connected disabilities, unremarried widows or widowers of veterans who died of service-connected disabilities, and unremarried widows or widowers of members of the military who died in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HJR1016 Memorials, Retirement - Mark S. Freedman

TN - HJR699 Memorials, Death - Denise LaSalle

TN - HB2034 Taxes, Personal Property - As enacted, exempts tangible personal property owned and used by nonprofit organizations to provide character development and other educational programs to youth about the Medal of Honor recipients; sets forth exemption criteria. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2279 Telecommunications - As enacted, enacts the "Competitive Wireless Broadband Investment, Deployment, and Safety Act of 2018" and requires TACIR to study certain items relating to deployment. - Amends TCA Title 13.

TN - HB2643 General Assembly - As enacted, designates the public space constructed on top of the parking garage attached to the Cordell Hull Building as the "Beth Harwell Plaza"; designates the new tunnel that connects the Cordell Hull Building to the State Capitol as the "Ron Ramsey Tunnel". - Amends TCA Title 3.

TN - HB1599 Education - As enacted, creates a liability framework for an employer that accepts or employs a student who is participating in work-based learning coordinated through the student's LEA or a state institution of higher education, including, but not limited to, Tennessee colleges of applied technology; establishes a qualified work-based learning student grant program. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 67.

TN - HJR36 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for the Nation of Israel.

TN - HB571 Mining and Quarrying - As enacted, enacts the "Primacy and Reclamation Act of Tennessee" and revises other related provisions; contains certain contingent effective dates. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 50; Title 59; Title 60; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

TN - HB2262 Public Health - As enacted, establishes order of priority of entities to be awarded funds that become available to the department of health for family planning programs, in excess of funds needed to operate family planning programs in county or district health departments. - Amends TCA Section 68-34-105.

TN - HB384 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, establishes the Tennessee council on autism spectrum disorder. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

TN - HB372 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, enacts the "Tom Cronan Physical Education Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1510 Public Employees - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Public Safety Behavioral Health Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 50; Title 58; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HR143 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Camerin Morganfield, Valedictorian, East High School

TN - HR144 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Leonica Clear, Valedictorian, Melrose High School

TN - HB1491 Firefighters - As introduced, creates a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter's cancer that causes a disabling health condition is a result of the firefighter's duties as a firefighter. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HJR696 Memorials, Personal Occasion - James R. Fitzhugh, 95th birthday

TN - HR213 Memorials, Recognition - Sidney Raphael Branch, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR1005 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Susan Ritter, State Executive Officer of the Year

TN - HJR940 Memorials, Death - Alma Tate

TN - HJR686 Memorials, Recognition - Oak Ridge Schools

TN - HB2130 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Stolen Valor Act". - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 3 and Section 58-1-602.

TN - HB1051 Traffic Safety - As enacted, makes the offense of obstructing public highways and streets where the obstruction restricts emergency vehicle access a Class B misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $200. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB410 Education - As introduced, removes the requirement of a minimum of three 15-minute periods of non-structured physical activity per day for students in grades K-1; removes the requirement of a minimum of two 20-minute periods of non-structured physical activity at least four days a week for grades 2-6; requires LEAs with elementary school students to integrate a minimum of two 20-minute periods of non-structured physical activity at least four days each week; clarifies the definition of non-structured physical activity; defines physical education program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB41 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, phases out the professional privilege tax over a five-year period for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HJR740 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment to prohibit the general assembly from levying a state tax on real property and to remove provisions authorizing the general assembly to tax certain tangible personal property.

TN - HB2016 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, requires that the weighted caseload formula devised by the comptroller of the treasury be provided to the general assembly no later than January 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB955 Local Government, General - As enacted, increases the authorized annual state contribution made to human resources agencies. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 26.

TN - HB1903 Taxes - As introduced, requires that 5 percent of state funds in the municipal street aid fund be distributed equally to each municipality instead of all such funds being distributed based on population; reduces state sales tax revenue allocated to general fund; increases state-shared sales tax revenue allocated to municipalities. - Amends TCA Section 54-4-203 and Section 67-6-103.

TN - HB23 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, reestablishes the first portion of home value for which real property tax relief will be reimbursed to disabled veteran home owners from $100,000 to $175,000. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB5 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, reestablishes, from $100,000 to $175,000, the first portion of home value for which real property tax relief will be reimbursed to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HJR1186 Memorials, Recognition - Kent Ritchey, Ginny Award

TN - HB493 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, amends various firearms provisions, including changes to firearms on school property, open or concealed carrying of a firearm, handgun carry permits, and posted firearms prohibitions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 49 and Title 70.

TN - HB1707 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, revises provisions governing eligible collateral pledged by a state depository for public funds. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1686 Education - As enacted, specifies that, for the 2017-2018 school year, employment termination and compensation decisions for pre-kindergarten or kindergarten teachers will not be based solely on data generated by the portfolio model; revises provisions regarding funding and approval for LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB727 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires students to complete one year of instruction in American government and one year of instruction in Tennessee history between grades 7 and 12 to receive a high school diploma, with various exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1196 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Educators Protection Act". - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 28; Title 29; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - HJR1177 Memorials, Death - Joe Clyde Daniels

TN - HJR709 Memorials, Sports - Gibbs High School softball team, TSSAA Division I Class AAA State Champions

TN - HB1006 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, confers criminal and civil immunity upon a person who uses or threatens force in self-defense, defense of another, or defense from a person committing criminal offense, unless the person is a law enforcement officer during discharge of the officer's duties and the person knows the person against whom force is used is a law enforcement officer. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 6 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB1855 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, prohibits the department and the state board of education from mandating assessments for any grades or subjects beyond those mandated during the 2016-2017 school year until the 2020-2021 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - HB1463 Education - As introduced, specifies which students are eligible to have information shared with an LEA, chartering authority, or public charter school approved to operate one or more schools in the district; creates a timeframe within which an LEA, chartering authority, or public charter school receiving eligible student information may communicate with eligible students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HR145 Memorials, Academic Achievement - JerMeiah Clay, Salutatorian, East High School

TN - HJR1184 Memorials, Recognition - Chattanooga Mayor's Council for Women, inaugural Statewide Women's Policy Conference

TN - HR313 Memorials, Recognition - Union University Debate Team

TN - HR148 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Angela Taylor, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HJR46 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Confirms the appointment of persons to the state university board of Tennessee State University.

TN - HB393 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the offense of theft to include new home construction contractors who fail to refund amounts paid under contract under certain circumstances or deviate from or disregard plans or specifications in any material respect that are contained in a new home construction contract. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14.

TN - HB1368 Public Employees - As enacted, increases the compensation from $25,000 to a $250,000 annuity payable in five annual installments of $50,000, paid to the estate of a firefighter, volunteer rescue squad worker, or law enforcement officer who dies in the line of duty; revises related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - HB2251 TennCare - As enacted, requires that a waiver amendment to the existing TennCare II waiver that requires elective abortion providers be excluded from participation as providers in the TennCare program be submitted to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services for approval. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1856 Adoption - As enacted, revises various provisions governing adoption. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - HJR657 Memorials, Death - Representative Raymond Walker

TN - HJR1196 Memorials, Sports - Loretto High School baseball team, 2017 TSSAA Class A State Champions

TN - HJR1195 Memorials, Sports - Loretto High School Mustangs, TSSAA Class A state champions

TN - HJR582 Memorials, Death - Iyalode Nkechi Kianga Ajanaku

TN - HR263 Memorials, Public Service - Roger Campbell

TN - HJR909 Memorials, Recognition - Hillsman Lee Wright

TN - HJR1067 Memorials, Recognition - April, Month of the Military Child

TN - HJR957 Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee Volunteers men's basketball team

TN - HB810 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - HJR141 Memorials, Recognition - Deanie Parker

TN - HJR737 Memorials, Death - Dr. David Millhorn

TN - HR146 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Markila Tate, Salutatorian, Melrose High School

TN - HB879 TennCare - As enacted, enacts the "Ground Ambulance Service Provider Assessment Act." - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HJR810 Memorials, Recognition - Terri Lee Freeman, 2018 Social Justice Honoree

TN - HB1249 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, extends the minimum period of time that must be allotted for public comment on a proposed new solid waste landfill between the time of public notice and a public hearing under the Jackson Law. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB1271 Health Care - As enacted, requires the emergency medical services board to establish standards for a community paramedic through promulgation of rules. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - HJR731 Memorials, Recognition - Second Lieutenant Albert Louis Young of the Tuskegee Airmen

TN - HB1076 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, authorizes an emergency communications district to purchase, in lieu of surety bonds, fidelity bonds to cover any losses from breach of the condition of faithful discharge of the duties of any board member, executive committee member, employee, officer, or any other authorized person of an emergency communications district who receives public funds, has authority to make expenditures from public funds, or has access to any public funds. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 8.

TN - HB334 Chiropractors - As enacted, allows chiropractic physicians to enter into a direct primary care agreement with an individual patient or the patient's legal representative. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 5.

TN - HB1739 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, requires state agencies to conduct economic impact analyses of administrative rules on persons residing in or doing business in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1109 Education - As introduced, removes requirement that an eligible student be previously enrolled in a public school for two semesters prior to receiving an individualized education account, attend a Tennessee school for the first time, or receive an account in the previous school year in order to be considered eligible to receive an individualized education account. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HR147 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Vivica Martin, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HB2101 Education, Higher - As introduced, adds any postsecondary education benefit for which payments or assistance are provided by, or appropriated by funds of, any state or local governmental entity, and any use of money provided to the state through taxes, to the definition of "state or local public benefit" in the Eligibility Verification for Entitlements Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HJR656 Memorials, Sports - Phillip Edward Fulmer, Sr., Director of Athletics at the University of Tennessee

TN - HJR650 Memorials, Death - John H. "Jack" Morris III

TN - HB885 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Anti-Semitism Awareness Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR833 Memorials, Recognition - Ethel Hedgeman Lyle

TN - HB501 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, adds funding for three Response to Instruction and Intervention positions within each public school to the BEP calculation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HB1041 Sentencing - As enacted, establishes a sentencing enhancement factor for defendants who are illegally or unlawfully in the United States. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB2451 Orders of Protection - As introduced, increases possible fine that a court may impose for contempt involving an order of protection, an injunction, or a no contact order from $50.00 to $500. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 9 and Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6.

TN - HB531 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, enacts the Tennessee reconnect grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB1064 Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Financial Exploitation Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 45; Title 47, Chapter 30; Title 48, Chapter 1 and Title 71, Chapter 6.

TN - HB26 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes the issuance of a license plate with the language "In God We Trust". - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB800 Domestic Violence - As introduced, increases the penalty for contempt to 10 days imprisonment and a $370 fine when a respondent knowingly violates an order of protection, court-approved consent agreement, injunction, or no contact order and the violation involves a domestic abuse victim. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 9 and Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6.

TN - HB1097 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, extends for two years the provision, that was set to expire July 1, 2017, allowing counties to provide 2 percent matching funds for state-aid highway funds rather than 25 percent. - Amends TCA Section 54-4-404.

TN - HJR806 Memorials, Recognition - Maya Hill, Mary D. Shane-Miss AKA Outstanding Undergraduate Soror Award

TN - HB1139 General Assembly - As introduced, reduces from 12 to six months the time during which a former member's email will be forwarded to a private email address. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1.

TN - HJR808 Memorials, Recognition - Lillian Williams, Velma Lois Jones-New Soror of the Year

TN - HJR805 Memorials, Recognition - Kimberly JoAnne Reid, Mary D. Shane-Miss AKA Outstanding Undergraduate Soror Award

TN - HJR807 Memorials, Recognition - Anesha Hines, Velma Lois Jones-New Soror of the Year Award

TN - HJR804 Memorials, Recognition - Lauryn Joiner, Mary D. Shane-Miss AKA Outstanding Undergraduate Soror Award

TN - HJR779 Memorials, Recognition - Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 995

TN - HB2065 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is deaf or hard of hearing to request that the department of safety include such designation in the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database; enacts other related provisions in regard to such designation. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HJR595 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tennessee Speech and Debate Society

TN - HB736 Driver Licenses - As enacted, permits a judge to consider a criminal defendant's participation in recovery court as a hardship sufficient to order the stay of a criminal defendant's driver license revocation for failing to pay fines, court costs, and litigation taxes. - Amends TCA Section 40-24-105.

TN - HJR145 Memorials, Public Service - Stancil Ford

TN - HB1189 Abortion - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Infants Protection Act," which prohibits abortion of a viable fetus except in a medical emergency and requires testing to determine viability if a woman is at least 20 weeks pregnant. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2.

TN - HB345 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits the death penalty as a punishment for defendants suffering from severe mental illness at the time of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB51 Managed Care Organizations - As introduced, adds an optional use of a new grievance procedure to the prompt pay statute for the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HJR108 Memorials, Recognition - World Sickle Cell Day

TN - HJR800 Memorials, Recognition - Beatrice Williams, Mary B. Conner Sisterly Relations Award

TN - HJR803 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Janice Garrett Booker, Vanessa Rogers Long Humanitarian Award

TN - HB835 Sentencing - As enacted, creates an enhancement factor, by which the defendant's sentence can be increased, where the defendant is convicted of committing a violent offense against a uniformed law enforcement officer or uniformed member of the military or national guard and the defendant intentionally selected the victim because of the victim's status as a law enforcement officer or service member. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HJR801 Memorials, Recognition - Annie L. Barnes, Omicron Omega Golden Soror of the Year

TN - HJR176 Memorials, Retirement - Tim Tohill

TN - HJR802 Memorials, Recognition - Nedra Butler-Ross, Reva Allman-Name That Soror Award

TN - HB617 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs to use the ACT, ACT Aspire, or SAT suites of standardized assessments instead of the TCAP, TNReady, and end-of-course exams to test the subjects of math and English language arts for grades nine through 12. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR226 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 33 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the criminal punishment exception from slavery and involuntary servitude prohibition.

TN - HB1522 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain specified persons. - Amends TCA Title 54.