Tennessee Rep. Dennis Powers (R)

TN - Business and Utilities (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 - HJR194 Memorials, Recognition - Laura Davis Jarnigan

TN - HB1857 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, requires any person operating in this state as a pharmacy benefits manager to be licensed by the department of commerce and insurance prior to operating. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6, Part 4 and Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

TN - HB740 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, requires the dual enrollment grant award (DEG) to be $500 for each of the first four courses taken; authorizes the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation (TSAC) to determine the DEG for courses five through eight; mandates that the cost for courses five through eight shall not exceed the cost per credit hour of courses taken at community colleges in the state university and community college system. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2475 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires that driver education courses in public schools include instruction on the dangers of using hand-held mobile telephones or personal digital assistants to transmit or read a message; requires that students be apprised of the delinquent act, and penalty, to knowingly operate a motor vehicle and use a mobile phone or personal digital assistant equipped with a hands-free device to transmit or read a written message. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB570 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 - HB572 Short Term Loans and Lenders - As introduced, changes the time within which records of pawn broker transactions must be delivered to law enforcement agencies from 48 hours after the day of the transaction to by noon the day following the day of transaction; removes specifications about the manner of delivery of records. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 45 and Title 62.

TN - HB2215 Local Government, General - As introduced, requires an organization that provides risk management services to local governments to disclose certain information to the public upon request. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 29, Chapter 20.

TN - HJR517 Memorials, Recognition - Susan Miceli, Trustee of the Year, Tennessee Library Association

TN - HB742 Law Enforcement - As introduced, increases from $600 per officer to $1,000 per officer the annual police pay supplement for completion of in-service training. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 38 and Title 55.

TN - HJR518 Memorials, Death - Patsy Dean Maiden Teague

TN - HB745 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows security guards who are employed on a part-time basis by a public institution of higher education and who are handgun carry permit holders to carry a handgun on campus in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB743 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes off-highway vehicles on certain state routes in Campbell County. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-185.

TN - HB746 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires the commissioners of health and mental health and substance abuse services to produce guidelines on nonresidential buprenorphine treatment by January 1, 2018, and to annually update those guidelines. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1.

TN - HJR129 Memorials, Death - Tony Brown

TN - HB569 TennCare - As introduced, prohibits certain direct and indirect charges to a pharmacist by a pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) or a health insurance entity; requires PBMs and auditing entities to make certain registrations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB93 Constitutional Conventions - As enacted, removes limitation on the number of delegates that may be appointed to a constitutional convention. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 18.

TN - HJR212 Memorials, Death - Shields Worth Richardson

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 - HB744 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, creates a Second Amendment sales tax holiday for the first weekend of September of each year for firearms and ammunition. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR519 Memorials, Professional Achievement - George "Everett" Ellison, Sr., and Ellison's Sanitary Supply Company

TN - HJR38 Constitutional Conventions - Appoints commissioners to the planning convention for a prospective Article V convention.

TN - HB741 Law Enforcement - As introduced, increases the death benefit payable to the estate of a law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty from $25,000 to $50,000. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2.

TN - HJR24 Constitutional Conventions - Calls for a convention of the states to plan for an Article V convention to propose a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution; creates a balanced budget amendment convention committee.

TN - HJR211 Memorials, Death - Alvin Carmany

TN - HB861 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, requires, by July 1, 2017, the commissioner of health to report to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate the results of consultations with stakeholders and to identify what method was chosen as the best means to obtain the records to facilitate investigations and inquiries concerning opioid drug abuse, overdoses, and death. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HJR195 Memorials, Recognition - John T. "Jack" Reynolds, Campbell County Good Scout Award

TN - HJR59 Memorials, Death - Sergeant Major Kenneth Eugene Goins

TN - HB2309 Law Enforcement - As introduced, permits participating counties and the comptroller of the treasury to deliver by electronic means the annual reports required by the County Bounty Act. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 40.

TN - HJR61 Memorials, Death - Bill L. DeGuire

TN - HJR60 Memorials, Retirement - JoAnn Wallace Whitaker

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

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

TN - HB7 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, removes the intermediate appeal to the court of criminal appeals in death penalty cases; provides for automatic direct review by the Tennessee supreme court for convictions for which a sentence of death is imposed. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HJR22 Memorials, Death - Michael E. Anderson

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

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

TN - HJR67 Memorials, Death - Brock Wyatt Blick

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

TN - HJR64 Memorials, Death - Chattanooga school bus victims

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 - HB1059 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 for the patient administered anti-cancer medication than for the injected or intravenously administered anti-cancer medication. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

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

TN - HB656 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, increases the number of free plates from one to two for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-237 and Section 55-4-239.

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 - HJR75 Memorials, Retirement - David Gregory

TN - HB54 Business and Commerce - As introduced, prohibits state and local governments from taking discriminatory action against a business based on that business's internal policies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 48; Title 61; Title 62 and Title 67.

TN - HJR98 Memorials, Recognition - V. Lynn Evans

TN - HJR1306 Memorials, Retirement - Denise Sims

TN - HB344 Victims' Rights - As enacted, makes the identifying information of the minor victim of a criminal offense confidential and not open to inspection by members of the public, unless a court waives the confidentiality at the request of the minor's custodial parent or legal guardian; creates certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39.

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 - HR95 Memorials, Recognition - Clayborn Temple

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 - 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 - 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 - HB689 Handgun Permits - As enacted, creates an exemption to the firing range component of the training that is required in order to obtain a handgun carry permit for applicants who submit proof to the department of safety that they have successfully passed small arms qualification training or combat pistol training in any branch of the United States armed forces. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

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

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

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

TN - HJR454 Memorials, Interns - Daniel H. Cox

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

TN - HJR641 Memorials, Congratulations - Taiwan

TN - HJR735 Memorials, Retirement - Ed Cromer

TN - HJR736 Memorials, Death - E. Claude Gardner

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR636 Memorials, Death - Jesse Wilburn

TN - HJR639 Memorials, Death - Reverend Dwight Montgomery

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

TN - HB980 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, creates the Tennessee middle college scholarship, funded by net lottery proceeds. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

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

TN - HB707 Medical Occupations - As enacted, clarifies that the exemptions from the licensure and regulatory requirements for medical physicians apply to surgeons of the United States army, navy, air force or marine hospital service regardless of the hospital or practice site, if the surgeon's practice is part of the surgeon's authorized military service or training. - Amends TCA Section 63-6-204.

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

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

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

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

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 - 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 - HB73 Flags - As enacted, requires that the P.O.W.-M.I.A. flag be displayed daily below the United States flag in War Memorial Plaza and in Vietnam Veterans Park and displayed over the state capitol on days that neither house of the general assembly is in session during the month of September. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-406 and Title 58, Chapter 4, Part 3.

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

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

TN - HB538 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Campus Free Speech Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR722 Memorials, Retirement - Shirley Jones

TN - HB457 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises provisions governing the money teachers receive for classroom instruction materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.

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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB173 State Government - As enacted, clarifies that state law preempts local government enactments with respect to the regulation of and appropriate sanctions for conduct involving drugs and other similar substances. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 40; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - HB63 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Individualized Education Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HB1111 Statutes and Codification - As enacted, requires that undefined words be given their natural and ordinary meaning, without forced or subtle construction that would limit or extend the meaning of the language, except when a contrary intention is clearly manifest. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3.

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 - HB1121 Law Enforcement - As introduced, increases amount to be paid to the estate of any law enforcement officer who is killed in the line of duty from $25,000 to $100,000. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2.

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

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 - HB2006 Veterans - As enacted, makes the veteran hiring preference mandatory. - Amends TCA Section 8-30-307 and Title 9, Chapter 8.

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 - 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 - HB1917 Labor - As enacted, extends repeal date for the Go Build Tennessee Program, from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2024; deletes restriction that funds collected from contractor licensing revenue be used only to fund career and technical education programs and other certified and nationally accredited programs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 41 and Title 62, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB786 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands voluntary manslaughter to include causing the death of another by unlawful distribution or delivery of a controlled substance, when the controlled substance is a contributing factor in the death of the user. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-211.

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 - 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 - HJR88 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Directs that tactile Braille American flag be displayed in public lobby of new legislative office building.

TN - HB1949 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, allows a cause of action for any affected person who seeks declaratory and injunctive relief in any action brought regarding the legality or constitutionality of a governmental action, but such action does not include damages. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3.

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

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 - HB1831 Controlled Substances - As enacted, makes various changes to the requirements for prescribing, dispensing, and reporting of opioids. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2; Title 53 and Title 63.

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

TN - HJR1073 Memorials, Retirement - Ted Hackney

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

TN - HB1221 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, authorizes district attorneys general and similar persons to carry firearms subject to training and certification requirements if certain requirements met. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1350.

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 - HR71 Memorials, Recognition - Scott Golden

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 - HB1353 Highway Patrol - As enacted, requires the department of safety to pay from existing budgeted funds a monthly amount to a retired highway patrol officer for the medical care of the retired canine to whom the officer was assigned if the canine is given to the care and custody of the officer upon retirement. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB1551 TennCare - As enacted, requires that an amendment to the existing TennCare II waiver be submitted to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services (CMS) authorizing the bureau of TennCare to create reasonable work and community engagement requirements for able-bodied working age adult enrollees without dependent children under the age of six. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB1993 Controlled Substances - As enacted, requires health care prescribers to issue prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances electronically by July 1, 2020, with certain exceptions; establishes other provisions regarding electronic prescriptions. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1832 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; authorizes sentence reduction credits for prisoners who successfully complete intensive substance use disorder treatment program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - HJR1068 Memorials, Retirement - Rick Shepard

TN - HB948 Medical Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Kenneth and Madge Tullis, MD, Suicide Prevention Training Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

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 - 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 - HB2195 Flags - As enacted, prohibits local governments from adopting or enforcing regulations that prohibit or restrict the display of a flag of the United States of America, a flag of the state of Tennessee, the MIA/POW flag, or an official or replica flag of any branch of the United States armed forces on a property owner's property except when necessary to promote public health and safety. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 5; Title 6, Chapter 54 and Title 13, Chapter 7.

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 - HB2683 Religion and Religious Organizations - As enacted, extends the prohibition on a governmental entity, other than a court, subpoenaing a clergy member's sermon or notes for use in a civil or administrative action to also include a prohibition on compelling a clergy member to testify regarding a sermon. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-407 and Title 24.

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

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 - 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 - HJR1016 Memorials, Retirement - Mark S. Freedman

TN - HJR699 Memorials, Death - Denise LaSalle

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 - HJR940 Memorials, Death - Alma Tate

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

TN - HB808 Law Enforcement - As introduced, increases cash supplement for police officer in-service training from $600 to $1,800. - Amends TCA Section 38-8-111.

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

TN - HB1547 Controlled Substances - As introduced, increases the penalty for certain distribution or transfer criminal offenses involving fentanyl, or an equipotent amount of carfentanil, sufentanil, or the analogues of fentanyl to B felony if amount between 0.1 and 10 grams and to Class A felony if amount more than 10 grams. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB1187 Taxes, Severance - As introduced, changes the due date for reporting and remitting severance liabilities from the 20th to the 19th of the month. - Amends TCA Title 60, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB1598 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, exempts certain types of insurance from filing requirements of commercial risk insurers; revises the disclaimer that must be included in an application or policy that is issued to an exempt commercial risk policyholder. - Amends TCA Title 56.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB222 Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires a person to establish proof of United States citizenship; lawful permanent resident status; or, in the case of a temporary driver license, a specified period of authorized stay in the United States, if the person, for purposes of obtaining a Tennessee driver license, presents a driver license from another state that issues driver licenses to illegal aliens. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

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 - 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 - HJR657 Memorials, Death - Representative Raymond Walker

TN - HB2002 Controlled Substances - As enacted, permits the direct administration of buprenorphine mono or buprenorphine without the use of naloxone as a treatment for substance use disorder under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 53, Chapter 11 and Title 63.

TN - HR263 Memorials, Public Service - Roger Campbell

TN - HJR909 Memorials, Recognition - Hillsman Lee Wright

TN - HB1881 State Government - As introduced, establishes daylight savings time as the standard time in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4.

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

TN - HR313 Memorials, Recognition - Union University Debate Team

TN - HB1207 Controlled Substances - As enacted, requires the department of health to identify high-risk prescribers; requires the commissioner of health to report certain information concerning births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and opioid use by women of childbearing age; requires bureau of TennCare to issue appropriate requests for information for program initiatives aimed at primary prevention and secondary prevention of births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and the use of opioids by women of childbearing age enrolled in the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 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 - 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 - HJR709 Memorials, Sports - Gibbs High School softball team, TSSAA Division I Class AAA State Champions

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 - HB1569 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, allows any LEA, rather than just the Metropolitan Nashville public school system, using the career academy or small learning community model to extend career and technical education (CTE) class sizes in grades nine through 12; allows an LEA to seek a waiver from the commissioner of education to extend the CTE class size average in grades nine through 12. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 11.

TN - HJR582 Memorials, Death - Iyalode Nkechi Kianga Ajanaku

TN - HB535 Uniform Commercial Code - As enacted, creates a streamlined process for certain public officials to contest Uniform Commercial Code financing statements that they believe to lack any legal basis. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 9, Part 5.

TN - HB2036 Auctions and Auctioneers - As enacted, creates the Tennessee Task Force on Auction Law Modernization. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 19.

TN - HB675 Water Authorities - As introduced, limits amount of fluoride that public water supply system operators may add to public drinking water; requires that fluoride testing results be open for public inspection; requires public notice of fluoridation. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 7.

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 - HJR729 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR737 Memorials, Death - Dr. David Millhorn

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

TN - HB438 Energy - As enacted, creates the Tennessee energy policy council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - HB664 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, enacts the "Interstate Medical Licensure Compact." - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB686 Election Laws - As enacted, requires a court to impose an additional $1,000 fine for a conviction for voter fraud; provides a $1,000 reward for information leading to a conviction for voter fraud. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40.

TN - HB688 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, expands the exception to unlawful carrying or possession of a firearm or firearm ammunition to include carrying or possession in a boat; clarifies that the exception includes a loaded firearm, as well as a firearm or ammunition. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1307.

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 - HB1837 TennCare - As enacted, revises and extends, until June 30, 2019, the ground ambulance service provider assessment. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - HB2550 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, authorizes an LEA to offer a noncompulsory gun safety class or program for students in elementary school; prohibits the use or presence of live ammunition or live fire. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2348 Controlled Substances - As enacted, requires a prescriber to provide certain information prior to prescribing more than a three-day supply of an opioid or an opioid dosage that exceeds a total of a 180 morphine milligram equivalent dose to a woman of childbearing age. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63.

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

TN - HB1496 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As enacted, provides continued eligibility for an elderly low-income, disabled, and disabled veteran's property tax relief during temporary periods of relocation for health care to home of a friend or relative or to a hospital or skilled intermediate care facility if the homeowner intends to return to the residence once recovered. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HJR121 Memorials, Public Service - Sue Creasy

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 - 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 - HB1819 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, broadens the definition of financial institution to include a trust company and institutions that are organized under the laws of other states for purposes of conversion of charter and resulting institutions; requires a financial institution that results from a conversion to have its principal place of business in this state. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 1; Title 45, Chapter 11 and Title 45, Chapter 2.

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

TN - HB1958 Registers of Deeds - As introduced, removes requirement that 52 percent of the commission retained by county registers for collecting and reporting the recordation tax be remitted to the state treasurer and credited to the general fund of the state. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 4.

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

TN - HB2634 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, revises the notice that must be provided to a patient who is determined to have dense breasts or extremely dense breasts based on a mammogram. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB407 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, eliminates the accrual of interest on child support arrearages unless the court makes a written finding that interest will continue to accrue; in making such finding, the court must set the rate at which interest will accrue after consideration of any factors the court deems relevant, which rate may be no more than 4 percent per year. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5.

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 - HJR145 Memorials, Public Service - Stancil Ford

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

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

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

TN - HJR185 Memorials, Recognition - Darryl Worley

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

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 - HJR120 Memorials, Public Service - Bonnie Merriman

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 - HB1977 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, imposes certain rules of construction when interpreting an insurer's responsibilities under a policy of insurance; limits an insurer's duty to defend based on the allegations in the underlying complaint. - Amends TCA Title 56.

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

TN - HJR108 Memorials, Recognition - World Sickle Cell Day

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

TN - HB790 State Employees - As introduced, restores longevity pay for employees of the executive branch in the service of the state hired after June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23.

TN - HJR833 Memorials, Recognition - Ethel Hedgeman Lyle

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

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

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 - 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 - HB271 Immigration - As introduced, prohibits state and local governmental entities and officials from adopting or enacting sanctuary policies; authorizes residents of this state and members of the general assembly to submit complaints to the attorney general and reporter; provides that violations will subject applicable entities to ineligibility of state moneys. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 9.

TN - HB362 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, revises present law provisions regarding local governmental entities that administer a municipal separate storm water system under a national pollutant discharge elimination permit. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 59; Title 60; Title 62; Title 68 and Title 69.

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 - HB2326 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Rural Hospital Transformation Act of 2018." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB521 Education - As enacted, requires all public high schools to place automated external defibrillator (AED) devices in schools; encourages public middle and elementary schools and private schools to place AED devices in schools. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 4.

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 - 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 - HB717 Controlled Substances - As enacted, makes various changes and additions to law concerning opioids; creates task force with duty to promulgate rules that create a uniform minimum disciplinary action that will apply to any healthcare practitioner who treats a human patient with an opioid and that healthcare practitioner's licensing board or agency finds that the healthcare practitioner engaged in a significant deviation or pattern of deviation from sound medical judgment; requires comptroller to conduct certain studies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2032 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, provides for the expunction of records of certain juveniles for adjudications involving conduct that would constitute the offense of prostitution or aggravated prostitution if the conduct upon which the conviction is based was found to have occurred as a result of the person being a victim of human trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 40, Chapter 32.