Tennessee Rep. Dennis Powers (R)

TN - Agriculture and Natural Resources (House)

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TN - Insurance and Banking (House)

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TN - Insurance and Banking Subcommittee (House)

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TN - HR38 Memorials, Death - Fred Cain Jr.

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

TN - HB518 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, requires the commissioner of financial institutions to prepare an annual analysis and recapitulation of title pledges, rather than a biennial analysis and recapitulation. - Amends TCA Title 45.

TN - HB1882 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, extends eligibility for the Tennessee Promise scholarship to students enrolled in middle college programs; allows student who earns an associate degree in a middle college program to be eligible for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship when transferring to an eligible four-year postsecondary institution. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2469 Education - As introduced, requires THEC to perform a study on the effectiveness of dual enrollment grants in promoting college degree attainment. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1881 Taxes, Severance - As introduced, reallocates all oil and gas severance tax revenue to the county in which the oil or gas well was located, less collection and administration costs retained by the department of revenue; currently, the county in which the well was located receives 1/3 of revenue and the state receives the other 2/3. - Amends TCA Title 60, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB1135 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, deletes obsolete reference to nonexistent scholarship within state lottery scholarship program. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-708 and Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB833 Mining and Quarrying - As introduced, enacts the "Primacy and Reclamation Act of Tennessee." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 50; Title 59; Title 60; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

TN - HB2255 Livestock - As introduced, creates a 21-member task force to study the equine industry; the task force will make a report and cease to exist by January 15, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 44 and Title 63, Chapter 12.

TN - HB2258 Special License Plates - As introduced, enacts the "2016 Police Support Act," which allocates 50 percent of proceeds from personalization of plates and 20 percent of proceeds from sale of new specialty earmarked plates to the police pay supplement fund. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 20, Part 1; Section 9-4-204; Section 38-8-111; Title 55, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1969 Immigration - As introduced, enacts the "Protect Tennessee Citizens and Workers Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 68.

TN - HR46 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kristie Dean.

TN - HB244 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, excludes a community foundation holding two auction sales per county receiving charitable support from the definition of "business" for sales and use tax purposes, under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2256 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Pawnbroker Restitution Act"; clarifies that a pawnbroker is not required to relinquish an item to a claimant without a court order; revises other pawnbroker provisions. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2470 Taxes, Income - As introduced, requires the department of revenue to submit a report by March 1, 2017, to the finance, ways and means committees of both houses on the number of Hall income taxpayers submitting electronic tax returns and payments. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - HB908 Education - As introduced, clarifies that nothing in the Virtual Schools Act prohibits a virtual school from reimbursing families for reasonable costs, instead of any costs, associated with their Internet connections for use in the virtual school program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 16, Part 2.

TN - HB2257 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, requires the commissioner of financial institutions to submit to the governor and general assembly no later than January 15 of each even-numbered year a biennial analysis and recapitulation of biennial reports submitted to the commissioner by title pledge lenders. - Amends TCA Title 45.

TN - HB2259 Tickets, Admission - As introduced, requires the TBI to submit to each member of the general assembly an annual report by December 1 of each year of the number of violations of the offense of interference with operations of ticket seller; authorizes such annual report to be submitted in conjunction with any other report submitted by the TBI to each member of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 47; Title 62 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB242 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, includes commissioned park rangers within the mandatory retirement age category for purposes of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system; allows them eligibility for the supplemental bridge retirement benefit afforded to other commissioned law enforcement employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 2.

TN - HB1133 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, changes the body that fills vacancies on county and municipal school boards from the local legislative body to the local board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 2.

TN - HB1968 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Local School District Empowerment Act," which creates a pilot program for reestablishment of the office of elected school superintendent; requires the department of education to study the pilot program procedures for reestablishment of the office; adjusts duties of local boards of education in systems in which the office of elected school superintendent is reestablished. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2641 Jellico - As introduced, subject to local approval, changes the appointment qualifications for city judge; requires the city judge to be appointed by the mayor and confirmed by majority vote of the board of mayor and aldermen; removes state residency requirement for appointed city judge. - Amends Chapter 91 of the Private Acts of 2008.

TN - HB909 Education - As introduced, requires local boards of education to admit students from outside their respective local school systems without the approval of the LEA; requires local boards of education to arrange for the transfer of students residing within their systems to schools located outside of their districts; provides for the mandatory transfer of students if the receiving LEA has the available space, teachers, and transportation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 31.

TN - HJR285 Memorials, Death - Mike Leach.

TN - HB1134 TennCare - As introduced, establishes a health insurance voucher program by means of a federal waiver that expands eligibility for Medicaid to 138 percent of the federal poverty line; funds the vouchers with an increase in the hospital assessment from 4.52 percent to six percent; removes expiration from the hospital assessment. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HJR445 Memorials, Death - Michael Lynn Starrett.

TN - HJR50 Memorials, Death - Elwood Pennington.

TN - HJR89 Naming and Designating - Norris Lake: the Marina Capital of Tennessee.

TN - HB834 Education - As enacted, authorizes a local school board to create a policy that excuses students who request to attend a released time course in religious moral instruction taught by an independent entity off school property. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB907 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Local School District Empowerment Act," which provides for reestablishment of elected office of school superintendent for county or city school systems upon two-thirds vote of county or city governing body and approval in an election on the question by the voters in 10 LEAs as a pilot program to allow the department to study the relevant procedures of reestablishing the office; provides for qualifications of candidates; adjusts duties of the local board of education in county or city school systems electing superintendents. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB243 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires all campuses of public higher education institutions operated by the board of regents or University of Tennessee board of trustees to hold observances for Veterans Day on or near the day recognized as the national day of observance. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB927 Home Improvement Contractors - As introduced, requires any person, on or after July 1, 2015, repairing or replacing a roof system, the total cost of which is between $3,000–$25,000, to be licensed as a home improvement contractor before providing the services; provided, that the person is not otherwise licensed as a contractor authorized to provide roofing services. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6.

TN - HB928 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, exempts from sales and use tax certain machinery used by water and wastewater treatment authorities created by governmental entities. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1880 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class C felony of assault of a public servant, which is assaulting a person known to be a first responder or police officer while that person in engaged in official duties. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HB1058 Textbooks - As introduced, requires any local board of education that provides electronic textbooks and instructional materials to students to provide the public access to view such materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.

TN - HB683 Education - As enacted, prohibits schools from requiring students or parents to provide information on firearm ownership; prohibits LEAs from requiring employees to provide information on firearm ownership; prohibits adverse disciplinary or employment action based on information of firearm ownership that is voluntarily provided. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB838 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a court to order an inmate convicted of aggravated assault against a correctional officer to pay restitution to the victim in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HB2380 Education, Higher - As introduced, revises provisions governing veterans qualifying for in-state tuition and fees at public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB1035 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state board of education to implement a process whereby the set of standards known as the Common Core State Standards adopted in 2010 will be reviewed and replaced with new sets of standards; requires the state board of education or the department of education to cancel any memorandum of understanding concerning the Common Core State Standards entered into with the national governor's association and the council of chief state school officers; establishes advisory teams and a standards recommendation committee; revises other provisions regarding curriculum standards. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2378 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, limits the number of days a student may be administered standardized tests to 15 school days per school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - HB1537 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Student Assessment Transparency Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - HB398 Education - As enacted, extends the date of the repeal of the Virtual Public Schools Act from June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2019. - Amends TCA Section 49-16-216.

TN - HB1940 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to perform certain duties, such as develop subrecipient monitoring plans utilizing analytic procedures; conduct unannounced and announced site visits of subrecipients; and conduct criminal history background checks on each applicant of the subrecipient or sponsoring organization during the application process and at any time during participation in a food program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 39, Chapter 16.

TN - HB2129 Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2016." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4.

TN - HB1843 DUI Offenses - As enacted, establishes requirements for the removal of an ignition interlock device and revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB107 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, makes various revisions to the Tennessee Promise Scholarship Act; clarifies a student will no longer be eligible for the Tennessee Promise scholarship once the student has attended an eligible postsecondary institution as a Tennessee Promise scholarship student for five semesters if the institution is on a semester system, or its equivalent if the institution is on a system other than a semester system. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.

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

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

TN - HB2126 Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises the provisions governing the dispensing of an opioid or benzodiazepine by a physician practice that provides healthcare services. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB1009 State Inmates - As introduced, enhances an assault against a correctional officer by an inmate to Class E felony aggravated assault if the inmate has two or more prior assaults or disciplinary violations against a correctional officer. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HB148 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, subject to local approval, authorizes all-terrain vehicles on certain portions of state highways in Town of Huntsville in Scott County and Oliver Springs in Anderson County two weekends per year under certain circumstances; requires that any driver of an all-terrain vehicle authorized to be on a road or highway wear a helmet. - Amends TCA Section 55-3-101 and Title 55, Chapter 8, Part 1.

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

TN - HB2389 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, prohibits law enforcement officers of this state and its political subdivisions from enforcing provisions of international law and treaties that limit gun rights under Article I, Section 26 of the state constitution. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

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

TN - HB677 State Symbols - As introduced, designates the Barrett Model 82A1 rifle as the official state firearm. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

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

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

TN - HB2199 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As enacted, requires arresting agency to send fingerprint cards for DUI and other vehicular impairment offense arrests to TBI within five days of arrest for submission to NCIC and requires the clerks to send DUI convictions to TBI within seven days of conviction. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 55.

TN - HB868 Air Pollution - As enacted, requires TACIR, upon submission of the final state plan for regulating carbon dioxide emissions from covered electric-generating units by the department of environment and conservation to EPA, to prepare a report that assesses certain effects of the state plan; creates certain exceptions to creating the report. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 68.

TN - HB458 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires public institutions of higher education to accept from a student proof of the student's prior or current military service as proof of any immunization required of the student for enrollment at the institution. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-124.

TN - HB986 Eminent Domain - As introduced, revises provisions governing condemned property being offered for sale to the former owner. - Amends TCA Section 29-17-1005.

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

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

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

TN - HB1157 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, revises requirements for medical directors and others participating in the operation of a pain management clinic; revises provisions regarding the development of recommended treatment guidelines for prescribing controlled substances; requires the development of recommended pain clinic standards. - Amends TCA Title 63.

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

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

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

TN - HB403 Controlled Substances - As enacted, enacts the "Opioid Abuse Reduction Act," which requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to convene a working group to examine the problem of opioid abuse in this state. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2409 Education, Higher - As enacted, encourages all public institutions of higher education to offer instruction aimed at increasing the awareness and prevention of hate crime offenses, sexual battery, sexual harassment, and date rape to all entering freshmen during orientation or introductory studies; requires each public institution of higher education to require all entering freshmen, during orientation or introductory studies, to receive instruction aimed at increasing the awareness and prevention of sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual harassment, and date rape. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB1173 Drugs, Synthetic or Analogue - As enacted, adds certain synthetic cannabinoids to the list for which it is an offense to knowingly produce, manufacture, distribute, possess, or possess with intent to produce, manufacture, or distribute. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-438.

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

TN - HB2429 Education, Higher - As enacted, revises provisions regarding reporting of nonimmigrant students by higher education institutions; authorizes the commissioner of safety to issue a subpoena for valid law enforcement purposes to an institution of higher education in this state to compel the production of certain information with regard to nonimmigrant students possessing either an F-1 or M-1 student visa for instruction at the institution. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Title 49.

TN - HB1722 Education - As enacted, requires that the display of the American flag on school property and at school events conform to the requirements of federal law; requires a local board of education to permit display of the American flag, if the display conforms to the requirements of federal law. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1343 Sentencing - As introduced, establishes the penalty for the offense of reckless endangerment as a Class D felony if the victim of the offense is eight years of age or younger. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB32 Sports - As enacted, enacts the "Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB1918 Auctions and Auctioneers - As enacted, provides exemption from continuing education requirements for auctioneers who have reached 60 years of age and have been licensed as an auctioneer for 10 years or longer; or have been licensed under present law since July 1, 1999. - Amends TCA Section 62-19-106.

TN - HB2229 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, prohibits school districts and state special schools from paying through payroll deduction their professional employees' dues to a professional employee association. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-204 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 6.

TN - HB1810 Auctions and Auctioneers - As introduced, requires that all state-owned surplus property, either real or personal, be disposed of at a public auction conducted by a licensed auctioneer who is selected through a competitive bid process. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 12, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2379 Marriage - As introduced, limits the persons who may solemnize marriage to ministers, pastors, rabbis, priests, and other spiritual leaders; removes all existing authorization for public officials in official capacity to solemnize marriage. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.

TN - HB31 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, deletes the Intractable Pain Act. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

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

TN - HB1736 Handgun Permits - As enacted, permits full-time employees of state public colleges or universities who possess handgun carry permit to carry a handgun while on property owned, operated, or controlled by the employing college or university if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB2425 Handgun Permits - As enacted, lowers the age for receiving a handgun carry permit from 21 years of age to 18 years of age for persons who are an honorably discharged or retired veteran of the U.S. armed forces or a service member on active duty status. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

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

TN - HB287 Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding the scheduling of controlled substances and their analogues and derivatives, including updated identifications of drugs categorized in Schedules I–V. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB2040 Zoning - As enacted, authorizes zoning consideration of temporary family healthcare structures; adds a requirement that, as part of the plan to expand cost-effective community-based residential alternatives to institutional care as required by the Long-Term Care Community Choices Act of 2008, the bureau of TennCare must seek written guidance from the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services regarding whether a temporary family healthcare structure may be covered in whole or in part under the program established by the Long-Term Care Community Choices Act of 2008. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

TN - HB100 Controlled Substances - As enacted, changes the limit calculations for intermediate methamphetamine precursors from the total amount of the base ephedrine and pseudoephedrine in a product to the amount of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine base, or their salts, isomers, or salts of isomers contained in a product. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-431.

TN - HB1342 Evidence - As enacted, provides that in a prosecution for any criminal homicide, an appropriate photograph of the victim while still alive will be admissible evidence when offered by the district attorney to show the general appearance and condition of the victim while alive. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1644 Schools, Private - As enacted, authorizes the board or governing entity, or the chief administrative officer, of a private K-12 school or private institution of higher education to implement a handgun carry policy that either allows or prohibits the carrying of a handgun on the grounds or buildings of a private K-12 school or private university by a person who has a handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 8.

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

TN - HB1161 Credit, Consumer - As introduced, allows a litigation financier to attempt to use arbitration or effect a waiver of a consumer’s right to jury trial; allows a litigation financier to assign a litigation financing contract; revises other various provisions of the Tennessee Litigation Financing Consumer Protection Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 16.

TN - HB120 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As enacted, creates Class C felony offense of aggravated vehicular assault, which is vehicular assault with certain aggravating factors such as prior convictions for alcohol-related traffic offenses or a high blood alcohol concentration. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HB1339 Welfare - As enacted, prohibits recipients of public assistance benefits from using an EBT card at a tobacco retailer to purchase certain tobacco products; prohibits tobacco retailers from permitting the purchase of tobacco products or nicotine products with an EBT card; requires the department of human services to notify public assistance recipients of this prohibition. - Amends TCA Section 71-3-126.

TN - HB134 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As enacted, requires use of transdermal monitoring on certain persons charged with vehicular assault, vehicular homicide, or aggravated vehicular homicide who have certain prior alcohol-related motor vehicle convictions; creates offense of tampering with or removing monitoring device. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

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

TN - HB1427 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, requires an officer who arrests a person for a DUI-related offense to exercise, after the arrest but prior to the determination of bail for the arrest, due diligence in determining the existence of prior arrests for, and violations of, DUI-related offenses. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB428 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, directs the office of the attorney general to prepare a written statement of a property owner's rights during any condemnation proceeding and to post the statement on its web site; requires that the statement be sent together with any notice of the filing of a petition to institute condemnation proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 16 and Title 29, Chapter 17.

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

TN - HB1246 Workers Compensation - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Volunteer Firefighter Protection Act," which defines "earnings," for purposes of the average weekly earnings of a volunteer firefighter, as the volunteer firefighter's call rate multiplied by 40 hours per week, regardless of the actual hours worked in a week. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

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

TN - HB1372 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, places certain restrictions on the use of traffic enforcement cameras as basis for issuing speeding tickets. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-198.

TN - HB138 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Individualized Education Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

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

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

TN - HB1504 Military - As introduced, establishes standards for the wear and appearance of Tennessee state guard uniforms. - Amends TCA Section 58-1-304 and Title 58, Chapter 1, Part 4.

TN - HB395 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, creates an exemption to the motorcycle helmet requirement for persons riding in a funeral procession, memorial ride under a police escort, or body escort detail in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 55-9-302.

TN - HB1710 Charitable Institutions - As introduced, exempts certain 501(c)(4) entities, operating as advocacy organizations, from registering as a charitable organization. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.

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

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

TN - HB143 Health Care - As enacted, enacts the “Tennessee Right to Try Act.” - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

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

TN - HB1340 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, includes methamphetamine within drugs for which a mother can be prosecuted for assault if her baby is born harmed or addicted to methamphetamine. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-107.

TN - HB25 Medical Occupations - As enacted, adds dry needling to scope of practice of a physical therapist. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1476 Children - As enacted, expands the authority of a court to order grandparent visitation when the child is not in the custody of the parent and when the grandparent's relationship has been severely reduced. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 3.

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

TN - HB1642 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, encourages public school teachers to be Promise scholarship mentors by crediting them with one day of in-service for volunteering as mentors; encourages retired teachers to be Promise scholarship mentors by granting them one year of eligibility for the state employee discount program for volunteering as mentors. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11 and Title 49.

TN - HB615 State Government - As introduced, designates the Holy Bible as the official state book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1506 Education, Higher - As enacted, extends the Tennessee Promise scholarship to dependents of Tennessee military parents who are stationed outside of the state. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-708.

TN - HB2239 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an insurance policy that provides benefits for anti-cancer medications that are injected or intravenously administered by a healthcare provider and anti-cancer medications that are patient administered from requiring a higher copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amount. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

TN - HB684 Handgun Permits - As introduced, enacts the "Open Carry Firearms Freedom Act of 2015." - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 70.

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

TN - HB1665 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, revises eligibility requirements for home school students and students who graduate from an ineligible high school to receive the general assembly merit scholarship. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-916.

TN - HB1929 Military - As enacted, creates civil immunity for certain members of the national guard who use force against another, including by discharging a personally owned firearm, in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1.

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

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

TN - HB10 Students - As enacted, requires a student, during the student's high school career, to take a United States civics test. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2570 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, enacts the "Rural Economic Opportunity Act of 2016"; authorizes a job tax credit for qualified business enterprises located in tier 4 enhancement counties; specifies the minimum jobs criteria and requirements to qualify for the credit; establishes the propelling rural economic progress (P.R.E.P.) fund; establishes guidelines for making grants from the P.R.E.P. fund. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1900 Law Enforcement - As introduced, increases cash supplement for police officer in-service training from $600 to $1,000. - Amends TCA Section 38-8-111.

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

TN - HB2151 Energy - As introduced, creates the Tennessee energy policy council to make recommendations to the governor and general assembly on how to manage energy resources in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65 and Title 68.

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

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

TN - HB2510 Traffic Safety - As enacted, requires that every notice of violation or citation issued that is based solely upon evidence obtained from any traffic enforcement camera used to enforce or monitor traffic violations of the requirement that motor vehicles stop at a red light, include a disclaimer stating that nonpayment of the notice or citation cannot adversely affect the person's credit score or report, driver's license, and/or automobile insurance rates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1049 School Vouchers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Choice & Opportunity Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

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

TN - HR2 Memorials, Recognition - Fort Campbell.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Thadijah Jeanne Burks.

TN - HR117 Memorials, Interns - Antonio Briggs.

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

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

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

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

TN - HR126 Memorials, Retirement - Larry K. Scroggs

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

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

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

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

TN - HR161 Memorials, Public Service - Pastor Matt Anzivino

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR6 Memorials, Public Service - Ed Haley.

TN - HJR174 Memorials, Recognition - Donna Morgan.

TN - HJR187 Memorials, Professional Achievement - George Fraley.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR74 Memorials, Recognition - Commends parent activists on anti-common core victories.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR507 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Supports research and development of liquid-core-molten-salt-reactor and small-modular-reactor technologies as long-term solution to Tennessee's energy needs.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR92 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for the federal transfer of public lands to the western states and urges Congress to coordinate the transfer of title to the western states.

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

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

TN - HJR466 Memorials, Death - Former Representative Joe Burchfield

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

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

TN - HJR70 Memorials, Congress - Urges the president and congress to pass a comprehensive immigration policy that protects American society, favors U.S. citizens and lawful residents in receiving public benefits, and compensates the state for any financial burdens from illegal immigrants.

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

TN - HJR404 Memorials, Recognition - Joshua Jamahl Murray.

TN - HJR94 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - To "Stand With Rand: Invest in Transportation" and urge the United States Congress to approve United States Senators Rand Paul and Barbara Boxer's proposal to fund American highways at no additional costs to taxpayers by creating tax holidays.

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR86 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the President to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR231 Naming and Designating - Designates the Barrett Model M82/M107 as the official rifle of the State of Tennessee.

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

TN - HJR500 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Condemns global Christian persecution

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR565 Memorials, Recognition - Hardin County Forestry Association, County Forestry Association of the Year

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

TN - HJR597 Memorials, Recognition - Three Dog Night

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

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

TN - HJR46 Memorials, Death - Harlan Mathews.

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

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

TN - HJR574 Memorials, Death - Maurice White