Tennessee Rep. G. A. Hardaway (D)

TN - Criminal Justice (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Criminal Justice Subcommittee (House)

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chair

TN - Government Operations (House)

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TN - HB256 Nuisances - As enacted, authorizes the court to include in its order of abatement, costs for public services required to abate or manage the nuisance, which may include law enforcement costs, if any, caused by the public nuisance. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2185 Juries and Jurors - As introduced, excludes breastfeeding mothers from jury service as an undue hardship. - Amends TCA Title 22, Chapter 1 and Title 68, Chapter 58.

TN - HR76 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tiange "Alice" Zhan, Salutatorian, White Station High School

TN - HB2093 Nuisances - As introduced, requires that the community affected by a nuisance be notified and given an opportunity to be heard prior to the voluntary dismissal of a nuisance action in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3.

TN - HB455 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, specifies that if there is any remainder after the proceeds from delinquent tax sale have been distributed, the party receiving notice of the sale will also be given notice of the amount of proceeds resulting from the sale, the division of such proceeds and the remainder. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB669 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a criminal offense for persons who allow minors to have access to loaded firearms with an enhanced penalty if injury or death results; requires firearms dealers to post notice of safe storage requirements; creates a sentencing enhancement factor for adult defendants who involve children under the age of 13 in the commission of an offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2095 Sheriffs - As introduced, subject to local approval, allows three years of military experience in lieu of certain POST training requirements to qualify for election or appointment to the office of sheriff. - Amends TCA Section 8-8-102.

TN - HJR934 Memorials, Recognition - The Bar-Kays, 50th anniversary.

TN - HB257 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, authorizes man who has paid child support for a child who is not his biological child to recover such child support from the biological father. - Amends TCA Section 36-2-309.

TN - HR73 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Anthony Harris, Salutatorian, Melrose High School

TN - HR225 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Quintin R. Smith.

TN - HJR669 General Assembly, Directed Studies - Requests the department of human services to conduct a study relative to paternity laws and paternity testing.

TN - HJR51 General Assembly, Directed Studies - Directs the secretary of state in consultation with the department of education to biennially develop online K-12 curricula based on the Tennessee Blue Book.

TN - HJR588 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the health insurance coverage of men's wellness and preventive services.

TN - HR75 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Devin Payne, Valedictorian, East High School

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

TN - HR215 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Quintin R. Smith.

TN - HR174 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Julie Hudson.

TN - HR214 Memorials, Recognition - The Bar-Kays, 50th anniversary.

TN - HB2373 Election Laws - As introduced, requires the attorney general to write in a clear and coherent manner a brief summary of any question submitted to the people for a vote. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HR173 Memorials, Recognition - Traci Nordberg.

TN - HR77 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Maya Johnson, Salutatorian, East High School

TN - HB456 Welfare - As enacted, requires the commissioner of human services to study issues related to the issuance of a photo identification card to each eligible household in the food stamp and temporary assistance to needy families programs. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HJR25 Memorials, Recognition - Cato Johnson, 2013 Arthur S. Holman Lifetime Achievement Award

TN - HR184 Memorials, Recognition - Summer Owens.

TN - HJR788 Memorials, Recognition - Tatum Hauck Allsep.

TN - HJR672 Memorials, Congress - Urges the United States Congress to pass the Behavioral Health Information Technology Act of 2013 (H.R. 2957).

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Senegal delegation to Tennessee

TN - HR19 Memorials, Recognition - Cato Johnson, 2013 Arthur S. Holman Lifetime Achievement Award

TN - HB453 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, authorizes certain courts to order any of the following, in lieu of committing a child to DCS custody, if the child is found to be a delinquent child: assign a long-term mentor to such child; or require that the delinquent child or any of the child's family members receive counseling services from any counseling service provided through or approved by the juvenile court. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB457 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, specifies that if a petitioner is unable to pay $350 expunction fee, the petitioner may enter into a payment plan with the clerk in order to pay the fee in installment payments; no order of expunction will be granted until the total amount of the fee is paid; requires department of finance and administration to review the number of expunction petitions filed by eligible petitioners, the cost of processing each petition and the amount of money paid in expunction fees. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB458 School Transportation - As introduced, enacts the "Crime-Free School Zone Act." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - HB671 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, allows a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking to terminate a lease or rental agreement if notice and documentation that tenant is a victim are presented to landlord; specifies that a perpetrator of certain offenses remains liable for rent and damages under rental agreement even if the perpetrator is ordered to vacate the premises by protection order. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 66.

TN - HB2464 Fees - As introduced, authorizes the county legislative body of Shelby County to increase court costs charged by the clerks and sheriffs and the litigation tax by an amount not to exceed 20 percent of the amount authorized by law. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 67.

TN - HR71 Memorials, Academic Achievement - LaKeva Johnson, Valedictorian, Melrose High School

TN - HR191 Memorials, Congress - Urges the United States Congress to pass the Behavioral Health Information Technology Act of 2013 (H.R. 2957).

TN - HJR787 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Julie Hudson.

TN - HB2194 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires any law enforcement officer responding to alleged domestic abuse who finds a minor may have been present for the alleged abuse to determine whether the child is a victim of abuse or neglect and, if so, report that fact to the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Section 39-13-111.

TN - HR94 Memorials, Interns - Gabrielle Alana Garcia

TN - HB670 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, establishes the office of noncustodial parent advocacy. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HR175 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Kennard Brown.

TN - HR176 Memorials, Recognition - Tatum Hauck Allsep.

TN - HR74 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Megan Lee, Valedictorian, White Station High School

TN - HB2094 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds drug fraud to the crimes for which a person may have the public records of a conviction expunged. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB2186 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, establishes a civil cause of action for intentional misrepresentation of parentage, which permits a person proven not to be a child's biological parent to recover child support paid from the child's biological parent who intentionally or recklessly made the false claim of parentage. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

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

TN - HB454 Schools, Charter - As introduced, permits charter school use of LEA vacant land on same basis that LEA underutilized and vacant properties, other than vacant land, can currently be used; permits property obtained by local governments at tax sales to be conveyed to a charter school for use for its school purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB459 Credit, Consumer - As introduced, enacts the "Collateral Recovery Act" and implements a system for regulating repossession agencies and collateral recovery agents. - Amends TCA Title 26; Title 45; Title 47; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62, Chapter 11 and Title 66.

TN - HB668 Public Officials - As introduced, removes the requirement that a person running for election or appointment to the office of sheriff must have at least three years of full-time experience as a POST commission certified law enforcement officer in the previous 10 years or at least three years of full-time experience as a state or federal certified law enforcement officer with training equivalent to that required by the POST commission in the previous 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - HB2187 Personal Property - As introduced, prohibits any person or legal entity, besides the owner of a copyrighted sound recording initially fixed on or before February 15, 1972, from reproducing, distributing, performing, or otherwise using the recording without the owner’s express permission; creates a cause of action for the owner. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HJR593 General Assembly, Studies - Creates a special committee to study the development of a pilot program to assist former law enforcement personnel.

TN - HJR786 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Kennard Brown.

TN - HB2195 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the offense of unlawful exposure by photographing or recording the intimate parts of another and distributing the private image with the intent to cause serious emotional distress where the depicted person suffers emotional distress. - Amends TCA Title 39.

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

TN - HB2304 Child Abuse - As enacted, adds the offense of promoting prostitution to the list of offenses constituting severe child abuse. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

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

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

TN - HB1613 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 50.

TN - HB2285 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires any pending order of protection or restraining order to be served on domestic violence offender before release following the mandatory twelve-hour holding period; directs a copy of protection order to be issued to any court in which the respondent or petitioner are parties to an action. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - HB362 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires local education agencies to continue to pay teacher's full benefits including, but not limited to health insurance benefits, for teachers who are victims of violent crime during the course of employment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB1373 Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires all law enforcement agencies who store and maintain sexual assault collection kits to conduct an inventory to determine how many kits being stored are untested by the TBI or a similar laboratory and report the findings to TBI, who reports it to the speaker of the house and speaker of the senate. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

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

TN - HB117 Agriculture - As enacted, removes prohibition against selling produce raised in community gardens. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 24, Part 1.

TN - HB2361 Privacy, Confidentiality - As enacted, prevents certain disclosures of information regarding victims of sexual offenses. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 16, Chapter 3, Part 4.

TN - HB1729 Sunset Laws - As enacted, creates a June 30, 2016, sunrise provision for the Memphis regional megasite authority. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 64, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB710 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, provides that termination of parental or guardianship rights may be initiated if a parent or guardian has been convicted of trafficking for a commercial sex act. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB1429 Sentencing - As enacted, permits judge, as a condition of probation, to order a 2nd or 3rd time DUI offender to participate in a substance abuse treatment program; revises other related provisions regarding probation options for certain DUI offenders. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

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

TN - HB742 Evidence - As enacted, provides that victims 13 and under of trafficking for commercial sex acts and patronizing prostitution may, under certain circumstances, testify outside the courtroom by closed circuit television. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB128 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, requires rather than permits that restitution to the victim be paid by the defendant for the offenses of patronizing prostitution, trafficking for commercial sex acts, solicitation of a minor for sexual purposes, and enlisting or paying a minor to engage in child pornography. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-118.

TN - HB919 Human Rights - As enacted, establishes human trafficking task force. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 38 and Title 71, Chapter 1.

TN - HB920 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, removes as a defense ignorance or mistake of fact concerning the age of a minor to the offenses of patronizing prostitution and soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor; creates an exception to the offense of soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor that the victim is at least 15 but less than 18 years of age and the defendant is not more than four years older than the victim, unless the defendant intentionally commanded, hired, induced or caused the victim to violate the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2241 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, prohibits fact that subject of an offense was a law enforcement officer or that the victim was a consenting minor as defenses for the offense of promoting prostitution. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 40.

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

TN - HB2162 Education, Higher - As enacted, defines "college" and regulates the use of the word "college" in the name of a postsecondary educational institution. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 20.

TN - HB2270 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds new money laundering offenses for knowingly using property with intent to obtain, purchase, display, sell, conceal, comingle, or transport criminal proceeds or commit TennCare fraud; provides for forfeiture of assets and proceeds used in such violations. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 9.

TN - HB2445 Agriculture - As enacted, authorizes growing of industrial hemp subject to regulation by the department of agriculture. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 53 and Title 67.

TN - HB2329 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, adds convictions for criminal attempt to commit a violent sexual offense under repealed criminal attempt law to the definition of violent sexual offenses; requires person who is on the sexual offender registry due to conviction from another state to remain on the registry for at least five years. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - HB328 Contractors - As enacted, clarifies that it is unlawful for any person to engage in or offer to engage in contracting for any project in this state, unless such person has been licensed with the monetary limitation of such license being sufficient to allow such person to engage or offer to engage in contracting pursuant to the licensing laws; revises other provisions regarding construction industry. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 66.

TN - HB130 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class D felony offense of promoting travel for prostitution; adds the purchase of another person for the purpose of providing a commercial sex act to the types of conduct that constitute the criminal offense of trafficking a person for a commercial sex act; revises other provisions related to sexual servitude and commercial sex acts. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

TN - HB1578 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of safety, June 30, 2017; directs division of state audit to conduct limited audit concerning the department's 2013 audit findings. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 20.

TN - HB1321 Unknown

TN - HB1774 Ethics - As enacted, prohibits any public officer or employee of a governing authority who is involved in making or administering a contract with a private entity that is governed by the private probation services council and that provides probation services from deriving any direct benefit from the contract. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 40.

TN - HB521 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, disallows as a defense to offenses of sexual exploitation of a minor, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor that the minor consented to the conduct constituting the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB8 Unknown

TN - HB1851 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, revises the factors that are considered when making a custody determination and makes the factors applicable to determinations regarding relocation and establishment of residential schedules; revises other provisions regarding custody and parental rights. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - HB2372 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, requires a person applying for expunction of criminal records to pay the appropriate court clerk’s fee, in addition to any other fees required unless the person is entitled to have such records removed and destroyed without cost. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401 and Title 40.

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

TN - HB597 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires a parent to notify a child's other parent before relocating more than 50 miles away, rather than 100 miles away, and if necessary file a petition seeking to alter visitation. - Amends TCA Section 36-6-108.

TN - HB77 Schools, Charter - As introduced, permits parents of 51 percent of the students attending a public school in the bottom 20 percent of public schools academically to petition for conversion of the school to a charter school or to a turnaround model. - Amends TCA Section 49-13-106.

TN - HB171 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires adult day care and child care agencies potential employees to submit to a review to determine if person has committed abuse or "neglect," instead of "gross neglect," of a child or adult. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapters 2 and 3.

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

TN - HB2313 University of Tennessee - As enacted, requires the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the university to perform a study on the economic feasibility of creating and utilizing a statewide comprehensive energy policy. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 49; Title 60; Title 64; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - HB378 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, requires the department of economic and community development to execute a separate agreement in conjunction with any FastTrack economic development grant or loan contract that reserves the right of the department to recover the amount of money, grants, funds, or other incentives disbursed by the department, in whole or in part, if the person or entity benefitting from such money, grants, funds, or other incentives fails to fulfill the commitments made by such person or entity to the department. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7 and Title 64, Chapter 6.

TN - HB271 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires health care providers in certain health care facilities to ask patients whether they wish to be tested for HIV/AIDS. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

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

TN - HB241 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, establishes an additional award, the STEM stipend, from net lottery proceeds for Tennessee HOPE scholarship recipients who are majoring in STEM fields; sets STEM stipend at $1,000 for the 2013-2014 academic year subject to appropriation and sufficient net lottery proceeds. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB1181 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a person who assaults another person at a sporting event from entering the premises of such sporting event for a period of time; punishes a violation in same manner as criminal trespass. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HB243 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the education of children in foster care. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1229 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes change by county legislative body, with approval of the voters, in the number of members of the county board of education to any number no less than three nor more than 13. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 2.

TN - HB2221 Correctional Programs - As introduced, directs the commissioner of correction to study the effectiveness of the department's orientation concerning post-release issues for inmates and report to the criminal justice committee of the house and the judiciary committee of the senate by January 15, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 40; Title 41; Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - HB353 DUI Offenses - As enacted, revises various provisions of the ignition interlock law. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB520 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, raises the classification of the offense of promoting prostitution of a minor from a Class E felony to a Class A or B felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1590 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state university and community college system, board of regents, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 2.

TN - HB542 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, requires a pharmacist to make every reasonable effort to prevent the abuse of drugs which the pharmacist dispenses; makes it a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by fine only, for the owner, manager or operator of a pharmacy to knowingly restrict or interfere with, or knowingly require a protocol or procedure that restricts or interferes with, a pharmacist's professional duty to counsel with patients and to evaluate the patients' appropriate pharmaceutical needs and the exercise of the pharmacist's professional judgment as to whether it is appropriate to dispense a legend drug to a patient. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 56; Title 63, Chapter 1; Title 63, Chapter 10; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB1441 Workers Compensation - As enacted, allows the administrator of the division of workers' compensation to withdraw funds from the employee misclassification education and enforcement fund to provide benefits available through the uninsured employers fund. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 8.

TN - HB2493 Education - As introduced, creates a study committee of interested legislators from the majority and minority parties to study the BEP funding formula and its application and submit findings and recommendations to the education committees and speakers of the house of representatives and senate by January 15, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HB1138 Cosmetology - As enacted, requires the board of barber examiners and the state board of cosmetology to issue an authorization to provide postsecondary education in this state to any school registered with the respective board in certain situations; specifies that any person claiming damage or loss as a result of any act or practice by a school or its agent, or both, that is a violation of the laws and rules governing cosmetologists and barbers may file with the board a verified complaint against the school or against its agent, or both. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 1, Part 2 and Title 62.

TN - HB1569 Disabled Persons - As enacted, revises requirements concerning purchases of goods and services from persons with disabilities by state government. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 7.

TN - HB2101 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, prohibits law enforcement agencies and certain state departments from storing license plate records collected via automatic license plate readers for longer than 90 days, unless the date is retained or stored as part of an ongoing investigation. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 3.

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

TN - HB2453 Education - As enacted, requires that LEAs make all teaching materials, including handouts readily available for review upon request by the parents or legal guardians and that the official operating policies of boards of education must provide that a parent or legal guardian is entitled to review tests that are developed by and graded by a teacher of the parent or legal guardian's child; revises other provisions relative to parental inspection of school materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 70.

TN - HB1243 Liens - As enacted, revises the provisions regarding who is to be served in regard to mechanics' and materialmen's liens. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 11.

TN - HB226 Evidence - As introduced, prohibits a court, grand jury, general assembly or other administrative body from requiring the news media or press to disclose the identity of individuals who participate in online services offered by the news media or press in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 24-1-208.

TN - HB1739 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies that it will be a Class A misdemeanor for any person, firm or entity to fail to notify local law enforcement of the vehicle identification number (VIN), registration information, license plate number and description of the vehicle prior to towing a motor vehicle when the owner of the vehicle is not present. - Amends TCA Section 55-16-105.

TN - HB718 Business and Commerce - As enacted, enacts the "Made in Tennessee Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7.

TN - HB2211 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, revises certain provisions governing projects and qualified public use facilities to change the amount of the aggregate investment of public or private funds from "in excess of $200 million" to "in excess of $75 million". - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53 and Title 7, Chapter 88.

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

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

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

TN - HB1370 Arrests - As enacted, revises provisions governing issuance of arrest warrant and summons in lieu of arrest warrant. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6.

TN - HB12 Drugs, Synthetic or Analogue - As enacted, further clarifies the definition of "analogue controlled substance" and adds new drugs and compounds to list of synthetic cannabinoids. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - HB1869 Search & Seizure - As enacted, prohibits a law enforcement officer from searching, examining, extracting or duplicating cellular telephone data, even if incident to a lawful arrest, unless the officer has obtained a search warrant, the owner gives informed consent, the telephone has been abandoned, or exigent circumstances exist; makes any such data illegally obtained inadmissible as evidence in a court or administrative hearing. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB2204 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the council on children’s mental health care, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 37, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB21 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, creates the "Tennessee STEP UP" scholarship program for postsecondary education for students with intellectual disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

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

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

TN - HB188 Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation - As enacted, expands certain duties of the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC) concerning receipt and investment of funds; requires TSAC to administer a need-based grant program funded though an endowment for Tennesseans seeking an associate's degree or certificate from a two-year, public postsecondary institution. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1592 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee student assistance corporation, board of directors, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1275 Public Records - As enacted, authorizes certain persons who were convicted of a non-violent crime after January 1, 1980, and who received a pardon from the governor and a positive vote from the board of parole, to file a petition for expunction of that person's public records involving the crime. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB1029 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes various new special license plates and revises certain present law provisions regarding special license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2203 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of children's services, June 30, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1758 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, allows teachers scoring "significantly above expectations" on each of their last three evaluations to petition the commissioner of education for a waiver of any requirement for the renewal of their licenses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

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

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

TN - HB544 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

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

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

TN - HB1438 DUI Offenses - As enacted, eliminates the exception for certain employees to the ignition interlock installation requirement; clarifies provisions regarding the issuance and use of a restricted license in conjunction with an ignition interlock device. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11; Title 40, Chapter 33; Title 50; Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4 and Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 5.

TN - HB809 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of economic and community development, June 30, 2017; adds conflict of interest policies for governmental entities under the department's jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 4.

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

TN - HB1860 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, allows county, metropolitan form of government or municipality to establish a community notification system to notify certain residences, schools and child care centers that a sexual offender or violent sexual offender is residing within a certain distance of such residences, schools and child care centers; authorizes a fee of up to $50.00 for each offender in the jurisdiction to defray the notification costs. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - HB1303 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, provides as additional grounds for the termination of parental rights that a parent was convicted of rape of a child; revises existing provisions regarding termination of parental rights based on a parent being convicted of rape or aggravated rape. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.

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

TN - HB1575 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of veterans' affairs, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 25.

TN - HB1422 Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As enacted, requires a criminal history background check, including a fingerprint check, of all employees of the office of information resources having certain information or system access; includes procedures and additional requirements relating to the background check. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 55.

TN - HB2078 County Government - As enacted, authorizes the county legislative body to determine that no bid may be made on certain non-buildable or non-conforming parcels when land must be sold on behalf of governmental entities for payment of delinquent county taxes. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-2506.

TN - HB2376 Education - As enacted, requires LEAs to survey students, within one month of the start of the 2014-2015 school year, as to the availability of internet access in their homes and report results to the department of education; the department will report the results to the governor and the education committees of the house and senate. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2264 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, prohibits the establishment of rules, policies or guidelines that require classroom or position observation results to be aligned with TVAAS data. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB471 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires THEC to include in its annual postsecondary education fact book a financial disclosure statement accounting for the collection and use of student activity fees; applies to public institutions of higher education operated by the board of regents or the UT board of trustees. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HB319 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, revises tamper resistant prescription requirements to authorize printing with technology that results in a tamper resistant prescription. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10, Part 4 and Title 63.

TN - HB2079 Education - As enacted, revises list of offenses the conviction of which results in a person being prohibited from direct contact with school children or children in a child care program and from entering the grounds of a school or child care center when children are present. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HB720 Local Government, General - As introduced, expands presumptive disability in acquiring certain infectious diseases in the line of duty by emergency rescue workers beyond HIV/AIDS to include hepatitis C virus. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2.

TN - HB357 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the offense of organ trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 68, Chapter 30, Part 4.

TN - HB1972 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, extends to all registered sexual offenders certain residential, work and other restrictions that currently apply only to registered sexual offenders whose victims were minors; does not apply to restriction on obtaining sexual offender treatment or attending a sexual offender treatment program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - HB1870 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to develop and provide training regarding human trafficking to law enforcement officers and state personnel in certain departments, agencies and associations. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 4, Chapter 4; Title 38, Chapter 3; Title 38, Chapter 6 and Title 38, Chapter 8.

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

TN - HB1231 General Assembly - As introduced, upon request of a member of the general assembly, directs the fiscal review committee to include within a fiscal note an assessment of the bill's impact on the diversity of individuals participating in state or local government. - Amends TCA Section 3-2-107.

TN - HB1396 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, allows a person who is not in compliance with child support obligations to receive a restricted driver license that permits driving to and from the person's regular place of employment or school. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1338 DUI Offenses - As introduced, allows a person convicted of a first offense of driving under the influence to be sentenced to no more than 60 hours community service in addition to other penalties. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB1654 Students - As enacted, requires an LEA in which a student is transferring to another school to send the student's records, including disciplinary records, to the school to which the student transfers; requires an LEA from which a student is transferring to another LEA to send the student's records, including disciplinary records, to the LEA to which the student transfers; requires LEAs in transferring records to comply with FERPA. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB488 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, provides that the department of children's services, in determining whether to continue or restore custody to a parent, may not require a parent to do the following and a permanency plan may not require the following: a parent will not be required to obtain employment, if such parent has sufficient resources from other means to care for the child; or a parent will not be required to provide the child with the child's own bedroom unless specific safety or medical reasons exist that would make placement of the child with another child unsafe. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB239 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires every LEA to make at least one early postsecondary opportunity available for high school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1559 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, requires votes by members of the judicial performance evaluation commission on any report that is required to be published and disclosed to be by roll call in a public meeting. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 17, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - HB1887 Welfare - As enacted, revises provisions governing personal responsibility plans in regard to receipt of temporary financial aid to require attendance at certain school conferences and parenting classes and participation in certain support services. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB938 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, authorizes collection of certain charges by health care providers for voluntary provision of health care services when forwarded to sponsoring organization. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 7.

TN - HB792 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the human rights commission, June 30, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 29.

TN - HB1179 Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the state board of education to develop a uniform grading system for students enrolled in grades kindergarten through eight that LEAs may adopt and implement. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1929 Education, Higher - As enacted, specifies that a student will be classified as a state resident and charged in-state tuition if the student is a citizen of the United States; has resided in Tennessee for at least one year immediately prior to admission and has graduated from a Tennessee public secondary school; graduated from a private secondary school that is located in this state; or earned a Tennessee high school equivalency diploma. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HB566 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Skills for Jobs Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2368 Law Enforcement - As enacted, permits electronic citations for certain traffic offenses; establishes a $5.00 electronic citation fee for each citation resulting in conviction. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 2.

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

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

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

TN - HB1163 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires child care agencies to develop written emergency plans in consultation with local authorities. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5.

TN - HB1488 Search & Seizure - As enacted, allows a magistrate to issue a search warrant based on information communicated by telephone or other reliable electronic means in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1276 Education, Higher - As enacted, creates the Labor Education Alignment Program (LEAP) to allow participating students to apply combined occupational training and academic experience toward attaining post-secondary credentials needed for employment in high-technology industries in the state; authorizes technology centers and community colleges to establish a program; outlines the duties of the department of economic and community development, the higher education commission, and the department of labor and workforce development in administering and implementing the program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - HB2356 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes it an offense to knowingly establish, promote, or operate any pyramid promotional scheme. - Amends TCA Title 47.

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

TN - HB1412 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes a filing deadline, of six months from the date that medical services are provided, for claims against the state relative to the payment of expenses for the medical care of prisoners; establishes a filing deadline, of six months from the date of entry of judgment of conviction, for claims against the state relative to the payment of costs incurred in the prosecution and safekeeping of criminal defendants. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 25, Part 1 and Section 41-4-115.

TN - HB1574 Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises provisions governing the sale of products containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB1604 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board of nursing, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - HB966 Education - As enacted, revises provision for expulsion of a student who commits battery upon an LEA employee or school resource officer to instead require expulsion of a student who commits aggravated assault against such a person. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1752 Charitable Solicitations - As enacted, decreases the registration renewal fee for charitable organizations intending to solicit contributions from or within Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.

TN - HB1766 Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, establishes requirements for in loco parentis decision-making for a minor child and revises notary requirement for power of attorney for care of a minor child. - Amends TCA Title 34, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1852 Employees, Employers - As enacted, creates the "Employee Online Privacy Act of 2014" which prevents an employer from requiring an employee to disclose the username and password for the employee's personal internet account except under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 18; Title 49 and Title 50.

TN - HB1930 Planning, Public - As enacted, elevates the priority status of certain liens for court costs, expenses and receiver's fees levied relative to completion of a detailed development plan under the Neighborhood Preservation Act; makes the Neighborhood Preservation Act applicable to Madison County. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 6.

TN - HB694 Disabled Persons - As introduced, extends the time period that a permanent disabled parking placard is valid from two to five years and adjusts fee from $3.00 to $7.50. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21.

TN - HB1296 Boards and Commissions - As enacted, creates the "Great War Commission" to facilitate recognition of the centenary of World War I. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11; Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 58.

TN - HB1238 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes the issuance of a Native American Indian Association special license plate, with funds allocated to the Native American Indian Association of Tennessee, Inc., to be used exclusively for the association's emergency assistance and education program. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB533 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires 24-hour notice of approximate time of removal pursuant to writ of possession and holds plaintiff liable for damages to defendant's removed personal property if notice requirements are not followed. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 15; Title 29, Chapter 18, Part 1 and Title 66, Chapter 28.

TN - HB1629 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee public television council, June 30, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 9.

TN - HB1633 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the domestic violence state coordinating council, June 30, 2018; restructures the council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 38, Chapter 12, Part 1.

TN - HB1652 Law Enforcement - As enacted, prohibits any state or local law enforcement officer from participating in a voluntary motor vehicle checkpoint conducted by a private company or research institute to collect a human sample from which DNA may be derived from consenting motorists stopped at the checkpoint for statistical studies or research. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - HB2076 Education - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to adjust the salary schedules of persons employed by the LEAs in nonteaching positions based upon a compensation study, if there has been a change since the beginning of the previous school term in the boundaries of an LEA or if, due to the creation or reactivation of an LEA, students are shifted from one LEA to another. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB449 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each member of a public school board to make disclosure prior to voting on any matter of business that has an effect upon the employment of a relative of the member; requires the director of schools to give notice to the director's board each time there is intent to employ a relative of a board member. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 4.

TN - HB650 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, clarifies that financial records for income verification and information concerning disabilities submitted for the purposes of the property tax relief or property tax freeze programs are confidential. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-701; Section 67-5-703; Section 67-5-704 and Section 67-5-705.

TN - HB714 Law Enforcement - As enacted, prohibits bounty hunters from wearing clothing that indicates they are associated with law enforcement. - Amends TCA Section 40-11-318.

TN - HB2201 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an offense of photographing or recording the intimate parts of another where the parties agree that the image shall remain private and distributing the image with the intent to cause emotional distress, and the depicted person suffers emotional distress. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB2267 Litter Control - As enacted, enhances the fine for the offense of aggravated criminal littering when the amount of litter exceeds 100 pounds in weight or 30 cubic feet in volume from no greater than $2,500 to between $2,500 and $4,000. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7, Part 3; Section 5-1-115; Section 6-54-113; Title 7, Chapter 63, Part 2; Section 13-21-204; Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 5; Title 54, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Section 55-10-420.

TN - HB2003 Traffic Safety - As enacted, specifies that it is not a violation of a "red alone or stop" signal unless the front tires of a vehicle cross the stop line after the signal is red. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-110.

TN - HB39 Cosmetology - As enacted, requires the board of cosmetology to establish rules and regulations for separate schools that specialize solely in natural hair styling, manicuring and the practice of aesthetics; revises other provisions related to cosmetology schools. - Amends TCA Section 62-4-120.

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

TN - HB187 Veterans' Affairs, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes department to establish veteran cemeteries, in addition to the three cemeteries required under present law, as needed, by using federal planning criteria in order to receive federal grant funding to assist with establishing the additional cemeteries. - Amends TCA Section 46-6-101.

TN - HB339 Students - As enacted, allows students who enter the military or national guard during high school and complete basic training before high school graduation to receive credit toward graduation for basic training. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2139 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, authorizes collaborative pharmacy practice. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10; Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

TN - HB1426 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, authorizes certain health care providers to place a copy of a patient's controlled substances database report in the patient's medical record; authorizes controlled substances database committee to disclose certain aggregate unidentifiable personal data from the database for educational outreach purposes. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10, Part 3.

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

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

TN - HB867 Public Health - As enacted, requires schools and other organizations conducting youth athletic programs to adopt concussion policies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68, Chapter 55.

TN - HB477 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, establishes provisions governing the school assignment and other education-related issues regarding juveniles adjudicated delinquent as result of certain acts. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.

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

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

TN - HB2441 Psychologists - As enacted, changes the scope of practice for psychologists to include forensic evaluation, parent coordination, and telepsychology. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 11.

TN - HB2514 Collierville - As introduced, subject to local approval, authorizes that salaries of the mayor, vice-mayor and aldermen be set by resolution of the board of mayor and aldermen rather than setting specific salary amounts in the charter. - Amends Chapter 43 of the Private Acts of 2001.

TN - HB645 Mental Illness - As enacted, requires certain mental health professionals to report threats of bodily harm or death made by service recipients in certain situations; requires court clerks to report certain information regarding persons ordered to commitment or adjudicated as mental defective; establishes other requirements that relate to regulating firearm ownership by mental health patients. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 65.

TN - HB416 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds to the definition of criminal gang offenses, the commission or attempted commission, facilitation of, solicitation of, or conspiracy to commit the offense of trafficking for commercial sex acts. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2422 Nuisances - As enacted, declares a nuisance any place in which a person takes, by defrauding or colluding with the recipient of public assistance benefits, any portion of such benefit to which the person is not entitled or authorized to take. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3, Part 1.

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

TN - HB1876 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows student who was enrolled in the 2012-2013 academic year in an eligible postsecondary program and who is enrolled in the 2013-2014 academic year in the eligible postsecondary program for the student's second year of study to be eligible for award of a STEP UP scholarship for the 2013-2014 academic year, provided that the student meets the continuation requirements under present law for receipt of the scholarship; establishes related requirements. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-943.

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

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

TN - HB2080 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, authorizes a pilot program to terminate on January 1, 2030, which allows the department to make grants and loans to governmental entities for financing food desert relief enterprises in low-income, underserved areas; deposits the revenue generated by a certain percentage of the food sales tax rate levied on retail sales of sugar-sweetened beverages to a special fund for financing the grants and loans. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 67, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

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

TN - HB2479 Education - As enacted, requires the state board of education, department of education and the office of research and education accountability to confer with other stakeholders and determine the best means of establishing a best practices clearinghouse. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1173 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, specifies that the list of persons required to report knowledge or suspicion of child sexual abuse to the department of children's services includes an authority figure at a community facility, including any facility used for recreation or social assemblies, for educational, religious, social, health, or welfare purposes, including, but not limited to, facilities operated by schools, the boy or girl scouts, the YMCA or YWCA, the boys and girls club, or church or religious organizations. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1; Title 37, Chapter 5; Title 38, Chapter 1; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB1672 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities, June 30, 2018; clarifies requirements for background checks on persons who apply to work with persons receiving developmental disability services. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 33, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2155 Clerks, Court - As introduced, deletes the exemptions for Shelby and Knox counties regarding the statutory maximum fee a court clerk may charge for computer searches for any public record having commercial value; limits all court clerks statewide to charging no more than $5.00 for such searches. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 4.

TN - HB1257 Controlled Substances - As enacted, changes the name of the methamphetamine registry to the drug offender registry and requires that all felony drug offenders be placed on the registry; extends the amount of time that drug offenders will be placed on the registry from seven to 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - HB982 State Government - As enacted, requires that, after July 1, 2013, a portion of the small and minority-owned business program funds be transferred to the board of trustees of the baccalaureate education system trust fund program to be used for the establishment of an incentive plan for the benefit of low-income individuals, reserving such amounts that the state treasurer deems necessary for the administration of the small and minority-owned business program, as well as the administration and marketing of the incentive plan; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 8 and Title 65, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - HB1230 Schools, Charter - As introduced, requires LEA to use years of service acquired as a charter school teacher for tenure decisions upon return of the teacher to the LEA; permits public charter school teacher on leave of absence from an LEA to continue in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1100 Treasurer, State - As introduced, encourages increased use of minority-owned brokerage and investment management firms in services provided to funds administered, managed or held by the treasurer; requires annual report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56, Part 1; Title 8, Chapter 37; Title 9, Chapter 4; Title 12, Chapter 4 and Title 12, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1268 Building Commission, State - As enacted, encourages the commission to prescribe high performance building requirements and other standards, and promulgate rules, which meet or exceed the 2005 Sustainable Design Guidelines that the commission implemented, that are necessary to ensure all state buildings perform in an energy efficient manner; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 43 and Title 49, Chapter 17.

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

TN - HB129 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the offense of solicitation of a minor to include solicitations by adults, that if completed, would constitute trafficking for commercial sex acts, patronizing prostitution, promoting prostitution or aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1294 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, creates offense of prescription drug fraud, which is using fraud or forgery to obtain a controlled substance and adds the theft of identifying information used to prescribe a controlled substance to offense of identity theft. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53.

TN - HB1505 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, sets minimum disclosure requirements for the department of children's services after the fatality of a child under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - HB285 Students - As enacted, treats unexcused absences from certain remedial programs the same as unexcused absences from school; applies to remedial programs offered at no cost to the parent, if, prior to the student being required to attend the program, the LEA commits to providing transportation to and from school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.

TN - HB709 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting a person for trafficking a person for a commercial sex act, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, and exploitation of a minor by electronic means if the offense was committed against a child on or after July 1, 2013, to be 15 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age; changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting a person for patronizing prostitution and promoting prostitution if the offense was committed against a child on or after July 1, to be 10 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

TN - HB1894 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As enacted, clarifies $100 out of $200 be given to each teacher by October 1 so that the teacher may spend it at any time during that school year on instructional supplies as determined necessary by the teacher; requires LEA to send written explanation to education committees and commissioner for any noncompliance. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HB1865 Tourism - As enacted, expands the applicability of the Tourism Development Authority Act to include Shelby County and its municipalities; adds to the powers of a tourism development authority. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 69, Part 1.

TN - HB1503 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, requires any sexual offender whose victim was a child of 12 years of age or less to be classified as an offender against children and to register for life; adds certain acts to those considered a "violent juvenile sexual offense" for purposes of registration. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 39.

TN - HB1898 Recycling - As enacted, adds components to the comprehensive solid waste management plan for the state and creates a 16-member Tennessee solid waste and recycling advisory committee to review and develop recommendations concerning solid waste and recycling statutes, rules and policies. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

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

TN - HB2121 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, provides that duty-free teacher time for instructional planning shall be allocated on an individual basis. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1772 Personal Property - As enacted, prohibits an individual, business or agency involved in the repossession of a vehicle from abandoning any personal property found in or on the vehicle for a period of 14 days following the repossession; establishes provisions governing the property being reclaimed by the owner. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 30; Title 47; Title 55, Chapter 5; Title 62 and Title 66.

TN - HB1593 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the University of Tennessee, board of trustees, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 9, Part 2.

TN - HB1463 Special License Plates - As introduced, authorizes issuance of Memphis Grizzlies new specialty earmarked license plates; allocates 50% of funds produced from sale thereof to Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation for educational and mentoring programs. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1156 Education - As enacted, requires that, if in any fiscal year a local government appropriates funds for education for non-recurring expenditures evidenced by a written agreement with the LEA establishing the non-recurring use of the funds, such funds be excluded from the maintenance of local funding requirement and from any apportionment requirement under the school tax component of the BEP. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.

TN - HB2326 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, increases the penalty for patronizing a prostitute under age 18 from a Class E felony to a Class A felony; increases the penalty for patronizing a prostitute with an intellectual disability from a Class E felony to a Class B felony; specifies that it is not a defense that the subject of the offense is a law enforcement officer or that the victim of the offense is a minor who consented to the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB172 Day Care - As enacted, clarifies that Parent's Day Out licensing exemption applies to programs operated by a religious institution or organization instead of a church or church organization; requires such programs to register with department of human services and maintain certain records; specifies that each separate location or campus of a religious institution or religious organization will be considered a separate religious institution or religious organization for the purpose of Parents' Day Out or any similar program. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5.

TN - HB675 Civil Service - As introduced, extends the time a state employee has to file a complaint under the TEAM Act from "14 days," to "21 days," after the employee became, or should have become, aware of the occurrence giving rise to the complaint. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5 and Title 8, Chapter 30.

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

TN - HB1981 Employees, Employers - As enacted, enacts the "Healthy Workplace Act", which requires TACIR to create a model policy for employers to prevent abusive conduct in the workplace, which policy may be adopted by employers. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1788 Health Care - As enacted, sets specific requirements for various health care providers to provide information on infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation at certain times. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2048 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a private entity that performs criminal background checks from reporting that a person has been convicted of an offense, if the offense has been expunged. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB1409 Landlord and Tenant - As enacted, suspends, for 48 hours after the execution of a writ of possession, the actions of any local government relative to the disposition of personal property; prohibits a plaintiff, after the execution of a writ of possession, from disposing of the personal property of a defendant for 48 hours. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 29, Chapter 18, Part 1 and Title 66.

TN - HB447 Education, Higher - As enacted, exempts from the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act of 1974 institutions operated solely as auction schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1295 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, provides that a woman may be prosecuted for assault for the illegal use of a narcotic drug while pregnant, if her child is born addicted to or harmed by the narcotic drug; law expires July 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB131 Sexual Offenses - As introduced, changes "sexual servitude" definition to "commercial sex acts," increases penalties for criminal gang members committing trafficking for commercial sex acts, removes defense that victim was a police officer and a minor victim consented from offenses of commercial sex trafficking and patronizing prostitution and makes patronizing prostitution of a minor a "sexual offense" for purposes of the sex offender registry. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

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

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

TN - HB832 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee economic council on women, June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 50.

TN - HB2350 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of human services, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 12 and Title 71, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1904 TennCare - As enacted, provides that an individual who is an inmate of a public institution will have eligibility for medical assistance suspended but not terminated during periods of actual incarceration; an individual who is an inmate of a public institution will be eligible for temporary reinstatement of medical assistance for care received outside of a jail or correctional facility in a hospital or other health care facility for more than 24 hours; and a public institution may make efforts to establish eligibility for or renew assistance for such individuals prior to their release from the public institution. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 33; Title 38; Title 41; Title 56 and Title 71.

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

TN - HB1279 Psychologists - As enacted, charges the board of examiners in psychology with overseeing the practice of behavior analysis; creates the applied behavior analyst licensing committee; increases board from nine to 10 members; revises other related provisions and establishments requirements for the practice of behavior analysis. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63.

TN - HB1495 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, authorizes community mental health centers and federally qualified health centers to employ physicians, except anesthesiologists, emergency department physicians, pathologists or radiologists. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.

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

TN - HB1020 Handgun Permits - As introduced, requires more information concerning mental health, domestic assault and felony indictments be sent to the TBI and department of safety to better determine if a person is eligible to purchase a firearm or remains eligible to have a handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1109 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, authorizes a court restoring a person's rights of citizenship following conviction for a crime to also grant a certificate of employability; provides certain immunity to employers who hire a person who has been issued a certificate; enacts other provisions related to the certificate of employability. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.

TN - HB277 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Safe Harbor Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36 and Title 37.

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

TN - HB1600 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the interstate nurse licensure compact, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 3.

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

TN - HB2220 Education - As introduced, requires that collections of certain fines and penalties, related to certain traffic violations, first be used by the city of Memphis to provide financial assistance to certain students to participate in job training programs offered by the city of Memphis during the summer. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 55.

TN - HB1759 DUI Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Amelia's Law", which clarifies that a transdermal monitoring device or other alternative alcohol or drug monitoring device may be ordered as a condition of pretrial diversion, parole, probation, judicial diversion or DUI probation if it is determined that the defendant's use of alcohol was a contributing factor in the defendant's unlawful conduct. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB1452 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Brian Byrge Act", which allows certain part-time employees of the state university and community college system to enroll in one course per semester at a community college or state college of applied technology without paying tuition charges or maintenance fees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 7.

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

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

TN - HB387 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Lois M. DeBerry Alternative Diploma Act."

TN - HB164 Purchasing and Procurement - As enacted, revises and reorganizes laws related to procurement. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56; Title 12, Chapter 3 and Title 12, Chapter 4.

TN - HB969 Education, Higher - As introduced, authorizes certain postsecondary education institutions to accept students without a high school degree or its equivalent if such students are pursuing a profession or trade that does not require a certificate or license; requires THEC to study annually fees assessed for regulatory oversight of postsecondary proprietary schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 20.

TN - HB1742 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, permits expunction of multiple criminal convictions in certain circumstances; revises other provisions regarding expunction of records. - Amends TCA Section 40-32-101.

TN - HB824 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of mental health and substance abuse services, June 30, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1050 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, adds a person who physically possesses or controls a child to those from whose custody a child can be removed if the child is subject to an immediate threat to the child's health or safety and there is no less drastic alternative to removal. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB942 Public Records - As enacted, exempts personal email address of public employee from public records; clarifies that applicant for public employment has same information exempt from public record as do public employees; revises provision governing confidentiality of certain information regarding a domestic violence shelter or rape crisis center. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

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

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

TN - HB1078 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, specifies that, upon the seizure of any personal property subject to forfeiture and where the person in possession is not being arrested, the seizing officer must provide the person found in possession of the property, if known, a notice of the forfeiture warrant hearing; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6 and Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2.

TN - HB196 Sentencing - As enacted, redefines "criminal gang offense" under present law regarding enhanced penalties for gang offenses. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-121.

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

TN - HB531 Disabled Persons - As enacted, enacts "Lynn's Law"; defines abuse or neglect of an adult to include transporting an adult and knowingly abandoning, leaving or failing to provide additional planned transportation for the adult in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 1 and Title 71, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB1943 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, confers civil immunity upon a person who forcibly enters a motor vehicle for purpose of removing a minor locked or trapped inside the vehicle if the person has good faith belief that the minor is in imminent danger of suffering harm if not immediately removed. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 34, Part 2.

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

TN - HB1468 County Government - As enacted, allows a county, upon two-thirds vote of the county legislative body, to dispose of real property at a nominal cost by private negotiation and sale to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, incorporated under the laws of this state, whose purpose includes educational and vocational training services to children and adults with disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 7 and Title 5, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2188 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, revises various present law provisions governing the statute of limitations for certain sexual offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1736 Special License Plates - As enacted, revises and clarifies various provisions of law regarding veteran and military-related license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4 and Chapter 318 of the Public Acts of 2013.

TN - HB2294 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, enacts "Erin's Law", which requires the departments of education and children's services to work together to enhance or adapt curriculum materials that focus on child sexual abuse, including such abuse which may occur in the child’s home. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1; Title 37, Chapter 5; Title 49, Chapter 10 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2214 Corporations, Not for Profit - As enacted, enacts the "Neighborhood Preservation Nonprofit Corporation Act". - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 29; Title 38; Title 48; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - HB2491 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Promise Scholarship Act of 2014"; revises certain provisions of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7 and Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB524 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts "Dustin's Law," which adds vehicular homicide with a blood alcohol concentration of .20 percent or more or vehicular homicide with a blood alcohol concentration of .08 percent or more and any blood concentration of methamphetamine to the definition of aggravated vehicular homicide. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB306 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the fine imposed on a person who commits an assault or an aggravated assault against a health care provider while such provider is acting in the discharge of the provider's duty. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1580 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee bureau of investigation, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 38, Chapter 6.

TN - HR42 Memorials, Recognition - K-9 Veterans

TN - HR3 Unknown

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

TN - HR186 Memorials, Death - William Otis Little, Sr.

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

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

TN - HR13 Memorials, Recognition - Niki Brown

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

TN - HR4 Unknown

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

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

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

TN - HR15 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Glenda Baskin Glover, new president of Tennessee State University

TN - HR120 Memorials, Interns - Alexis Darvin

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

TN - HR205 Memorials, Interns - Michael Patrick Olson.

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

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

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

TN - HR1 Unknown

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

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

TN - HR83 Memorials, Interns - Alex Uhlmann

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

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

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

TN - HR48 Memorials, Recognition - 21st anniversary of the Khojaly Tragedy

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

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

TN - HR5 Unknown

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

TN - HR2 Unknown

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

TN - HJR124 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges establishment of Veterans Courts across Tennessee and urges the administrative office of the courts to pursue any and all available federal funding for such an initiative.

TN - HJR182 Memorials, Recognition - David Pickler, 2013-14 President of the National School Boards Association

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

TN - HJR562 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Pearl D. Shaw, Tennessee education lottery board of directors.

TN - HJR671 General Assembly, Directed Studies - Directs the commissioner of education, in conjunction with the commissioner of health, to establish a Sports Brain Trauma working group.

TN - HJR31 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Mike Kernell

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

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

TN - HJR436 Memorials, Retirement - David Norton

TN - HJR587 Memorials, Recognition - Frederick Douglass.

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

TN - HJR356 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Leonard Duarte, Valedictorian, Kingsbury High School

TN - HJR136 Memorials, Death - Cora Mae McKinney Cash

TN - HJR583 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Declares a position of ‘No Confidence” in Shelby County Administrator of Elections.

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR354 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jamelah Brassell, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HJR647 Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Lee.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR127 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages inclusion of energy conservation curricula in K-12 education.

TN - HJR857 Memorials, Sports - East Nashville Magnet School boys' basketball team, Class AA Runner Up.

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

TN - HJR3 Unknown

TN - HJR509 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Krista Lucas, Salutatorian, Wooddale High School

TN - HJR499 Memorials, Recognition - Tish Towns, Women of Excellence Award

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR890 Memorials, Death - Gail Kerr.

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

TN - HJR538 Memorials, Heroism - Blount County's African American Civil War soldiers and men of United States Colored Heavy Artillery.

TN - HJR675 Naming and Designating - Supports the work and vision of International Justice Mission to end human slavery around the world, and recognizes October 1, 2014, as International Justice Mission Day.

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

TN - HJR847 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses profound regret for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans.

TN - HJR106 Memorials, Death - Marcellas Brooks

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

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

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

TN - HJR217 Memorials, Recognition - Carolyn House Stewart

TN - HJR225 Memorials, Recognition - Pettus L. Read

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

TN - HJR297 Memorials, Recognition - Harold D. Morrell

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

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

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

TN - HJR293 Memorials, Recognition - Boy Scouts of America

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

TN - HJR353 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kierra Wheeler, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HJR98 General Assembly, Directed Studies - Directs the administrative office of the courts to study issues related to fees for unsecured bail bonds.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR180 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Norma Lester, Registry of Election Finance

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

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

TN - HJR32 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Beverly Marrero

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR46 Memorials, Death - Major L. DeBerry

TN - HJR358 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jamal Sankhon, Salutatorian, Craigmont High School

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

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Public Service - Sara Kyle

TN - HJR800 Memorials, Sports - Kippy Brown, Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks.

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

TN - HJR434 Memorials, Interns - Marjorie Pritchard

TN - HJR490 Memorials, Recognition - Janeen Gordon, Women of Excellence

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

TN - HJR195 Memorials, Death - Minerva Johnican

TN - HJR645 Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to support efforts to bring low-cost loans to military service members.

TN - HJR488 Memorials, Recognition - Rosalyn Gray, Women of Excellence

TN - HJR359 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kristina Brown, Valedictorian, Douglass High School

TN - HJR360 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Harry Bridges, Salutatorian, Douglass High School

TN - HJR92 Memorials, Recognition - Rosa Parks

TN - HJR362 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Eric M. Hampton, Salutatorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School

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

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

TN - HJR30 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Jeanne Richardson

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR444 Memorials, Recognition - Rev. Walter Smith

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

TN - HJR163 Memorials, Retirement - Sandy Sain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR518 Memorials, Interns - Jada Denise Flowers

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

TN - HJR537 Memorials, Recognition - Commends Tennessee Department of Health for its Preventative Oral Health Initiatives.

TN - HJR361 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Keiarra A. Harris, Valedictorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School

TN - HJR10 Naming and Designating - Designates January 27-February 2, 2013, as "School Choice Week" in Tennessee.

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

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

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

TN - HJR221 Memorials, Recognition - Van D. Turner, Jr.

TN - HJR740 Memorials, Retirement - Doyle Thomas Grant.

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

TN - HJR572 Memorials, Sports - Bobby Davis.

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR393 Memorials, Death - Cindy Leigh McAfee

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

TN - HJR561 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Charles Traughber, Tennessee ethics commission.

TN - HJR355 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Adam Trung, Salutatorian, Kingsbury High School

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR2 Unknown

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

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

TN - HJR357 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Whitney Cole, Valedictorian, Craigmont High School

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

TN - HJR505 Memorials, Interns - Sommerie Denise Wade

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

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

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

TN - HJR511 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Torien Williams, Valedictorian, Wooddale High School

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

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

TN - HJR133 General Assembly, Directed Studies - Urges the department of education to conduct a feasibility study relative to the initiation of a dual enrollment program with community colleges for students enrolled in GED® preparation programs.

TN - SB1891 Ethics - As enacted, prohibits any public officer or employee of a governing authority who is involved in making or administering a contract with a private entity that is governed by the private probation services council and that provides probation services from deriving any direct benefit from the contract. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 40.

TN - SB663 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each member of a public school board to make disclosure prior to voting on any matter of business that has an effect upon the employment of a relative of the member; requires the director of schools to give notice to the director's board each time there is intent to employ a relative of a board member. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 4.

TN - SB2083 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, requires any sexual offender whose victim was a child of 12 years of age or less to be classified as an offender against children and to register for life; adds certain acts to those considered a "violent juvenile sexual offense" for purposes of registration. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 39.

TN - SB446 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the offense of solicitation of a minor to include solicitations by adults, that if completed, would constitute trafficking for commercial sex acts, patronizing prostitution, promoting prostitution or aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1664 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, prohibits law enforcement agencies and certain state departments from storing license plate records collected via automatic license plate readers for longer than 90 days, unless the date is retained or stored as part of an ongoing investigation. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 3.

TN - SB1730 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, requires votes by members of the judicial performance evaluation commission on any report that is required to be published and disclosed to be by roll call in a public meeting. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 17, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - SB2559 Education - As enacted, requires that LEAs make all teaching materials, including handouts readily available for review upon request by the parents or legal guardians and that the official operating policies of boards of education must provide that a parent or legal guardian is entitled to review tests that are developed by and graded by a teacher of the parent or legal guardian's child; revises other provisions relative to parental inspection of school materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 70.

TN - SB2072 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, confers civil immunity upon a person who forcibly enters a motor vehicle for purpose of removing a minor locked or trapped inside the vehicle if the person has good faith belief that the minor is in imminent danger of suffering harm if not immediately removed. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 34, Part 2.

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

TN - SB1919 Charitable Solicitations - As enacted, decreases the registration renewal fee for charitable organizations intending to solicit contributions from or within Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.

TN - SB2471 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Promise Scholarship Act of 2014"; revises certain provisions of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7 and Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB1572 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 50.

TN - SB1488 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, revises the factors that are considered when making a custody determination and makes the factors applicable to determinations regarding relocation and establishment of residential schedules; revises other provisions regarding custody and parental rights. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - SB1133 State Government - As enacted, requires that, after July 1, 2013, a portion of the small and minority-owned business program funds be transferred to the board of trustees of the baccalaureate education system trust fund program to be used for the establishment of an incentive plan for the benefit of low-income individuals, reserving such amounts that the state treasurer deems necessary for the administration of the small and minority-owned business program, as well as the administration and marketing of the incentive plan; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 8 and Title 65, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - SB1330 Education, Higher - As enacted, creates the Labor Education Alignment Program (LEAP) to allow participating students to apply combined occupational training and academic experience toward attaining post-secondary credentials needed for employment in high-technology industries in the state; authorizes technology centers and community colleges to establish a program; outlines the duties of the department of economic and community development, the higher education commission, and the department of labor and workforce development in administering and implementing the program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - SB1372 Liens - As enacted, revises the provisions regarding who is to be served in regard to mechanics' and materialmen's liens. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 11.

TN - SB1390 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, adds a person who physically possesses or controls a child to those from whose custody a child can be removed if the child is subject to an immediate threat to the child's health or safety and there is no less drastic alternative to removal. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB834 Public Records - As enacted, exempts personal email address of public employee from public records; clarifies that applicant for public employment has same information exempt from public record as do public employees; revises provision governing confidentiality of certain information regarding a domestic violence shelter or rape crisis center. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

TN - SB194 Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation - As enacted, expands certain duties of the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC) concerning receipt and investment of funds; requires TSAC to administer a need-based grant program funded though an endowment for Tennesseans seeking an associate's degree or certificate from a two-year, public postsecondary institution. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1536 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of veterans' affairs, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 25.

TN - SB1583 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the University of Tennessee, board of trustees, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 9, Part 2.

TN - SB1616 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes a filing deadline, of six months from the date that medical services are provided, for claims against the state relative to the payment of expenses for the medical care of prisoners; establishes a filing deadline, of six months from the date of entry of judgment of conviction, for claims against the state relative to the payment of costs incurred in the prosecution and safekeeping of criminal defendants. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 25, Part 1 and Section 41-4-115.

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

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

TN - SB605 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, requires the department of economic and community development to execute a separate agreement in conjunction with any FastTrack economic development grant or loan contract that reserves the right of the department to recover the amount of money, grants, funds, or other incentives disbursed by the department, in whole or in part, if the person or entity benefitting from such money, grants, funds, or other incentives fails to fulfill the commitments made by such person or entity to the department. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7 and Title 64, Chapter 6.

TN - SB102 Agriculture - As enacted, removes prohibition against selling produce raised in community gardens. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 24, Part 1.

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

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

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

TN - SB1808 Employees, Employers - As enacted, creates the "Employee Online Privacy Act of 2014" which prevents an employer from requiring an employee to disclose the username and password for the employee's personal internet account except under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 18; Title 49 and Title 50.

TN - SB878 Handgun Permits - As introduced, requires more information concerning mental health, domestic assault and felony indictments be sent to the TBI and department of safety to better determine if a person is eligible to purchase a firearm or remains eligible to have a handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1905 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows student who was enrolled in the 2012-2013 academic year in an eligible postsecondary program and who is enrolled in the 2013-2014 academic year in the eligible postsecondary program for the student's second year of study to be eligible for award of a STEP UP scholarship for the 2013-2014 academic year, provided that the student meets the continuation requirements under present law for receipt of the scholarship; establishes related requirements. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-943.

TN - SB1963 Education, Higher - As enacted, defines "college" and regulates the use of the word "college" in the name of a postsecondary educational institution. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 20.

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

TN - SB923 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, provides as additional grounds for the termination of parental rights that a parent was convicted of rape of a child; revises existing provisions regarding termination of parental rights based on a parent being convicted of rape or aggravated rape. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.

TN - SB2010 Planning, Public - As enacted, elevates the priority status of certain liens for court costs, expenses and receiver's fees levied relative to completion of a detailed development plan under the Neighborhood Preservation Act; makes the Neighborhood Preservation Act applicable to Madison County. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2040 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, adds convictions for criminal attempt to commit a violent sexual offense under repealed criminal attempt law to the definition of violent sexual offenses; requires person who is on the sexual offender registry due to conviction from another state to remain on the registry for at least five years. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

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

TN - SB1068 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires a parent to notify a child's other parent before relocating more than 50 miles away, rather than 100 miles away, and if necessary file a petition seeking to alter visitation. - Amends TCA Section 36-6-108.

TN - SB685 Public Officials - As introduced, removes the requirement that a person running for election or appointment to the office of sheriff must have at least three years of full-time experience as a POST commission certified law enforcement officer in the previous 10 years or at least three years of full-time experience as a state or federal certified law enforcement officer with training equivalent to that required by the POST commission in the previous 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - SB2112 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, sets minimum disclosure requirements for the department of children's services after the fatality of a child under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1039 Schools, Charter - As introduced, permits charter school use of LEA vacant land on same basis that LEA underutilized and vacant properties, other than vacant land, can currently be used; permits property obtained by local governments at tax sales to be conveyed to a charter school for use for its school purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - SB2188 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires any law enforcement officer responding to alleged domestic abuse who finds a minor may have been present for the alleged abuse to determine whether the child is a victim of abuse or neglect and, if so, report that fact to the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Section 39-13-111.

TN - SB1288 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes change by county legislative body, with approval of the voters, in the number of members of the county board of education to any number no less than three nor more than 13. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 2.

TN - SB2277 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As enacted, clarifies $100 out of $200 be given to each teacher by October 1 so that the teacher may spend it at any time during that school year on instructional supplies as determined necessary by the teacher; requires LEA to send written explanation to education committees and commissioner for any noncompliance. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - SB1302 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires child care agencies to develop written emergency plans in consultation with local authorities. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5.

TN - SB2364 Nuisances - As introduced, requires that the community affected by a nuisance be notified and given an opportunity to be heard prior to the voluntary dismissal of a nuisance action in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3.

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

TN - SB2398 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, allows county, metropolitan form of government or municipality to establish a community notification system to notify certain residences, schools and child care centers that a sexual offender or violent sexual offender is residing within a certain distance of such residences, schools and child care centers; authorizes a fee of up to $50.00 for each offender in the jurisdiction to defray the notification costs. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

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

TN - SB2616 Collierville - As introduced, subject to local approval, authorizes that salaries of the mayor, vice-mayor and aldermen be set by resolution of the board of mayor and aldermen rather than setting specific salary amounts in the charter. - Amends Chapter 43 of the Private Acts of 2001.

TN - SB1033 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class D felony offense of promoting travel for prostitution; adds the purchase of another person for the purpose of providing a commercial sex act to the types of conduct that constitute the criminal offense of trafficking a person for a commercial sex act; revises other provisions related to sexual servitude and commercial sex acts. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1929 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds new money laundering offenses for knowingly using property with intent to obtain, purchase, display, sell, conceal, comingle, or transport criminal proceeds or commit TennCare fraud; provides for forfeiture of assets and proceeds used in such violations. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 9.

TN - SB835 Contractors - As enacted, clarifies that it is unlawful for any person to engage in or offer to engage in contracting for any project in this state, unless such person has been licensed with the monetary limitation of such license being sufficient to allow such person to engage or offer to engage in contracting pursuant to the licensing laws; revises other provisions regarding construction industry. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 66.

TN - SB1736 Sunset Laws - As enacted, creates a June 30, 2016, sunrise provision for the Memphis regional megasite authority. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 64, Chapter 6, Part 1.

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

TN - SB575 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, provides that the department of children's services, in determining whether to continue or restore custody to a parent, may not require a parent to do the following and a permanency plan may not require the following: a parent will not be required to obtain employment, if such parent has sufficient resources from other means to care for the child; or a parent will not be required to provide the child with the child's own bedroom unless specific safety or medical reasons exist that would make placement of the child with another child unsafe. - Amends TCA Title 37.

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

TN - SB652 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes the issuance of a Native American Indian Association special license plate, with funds allocated to the Native American Indian Association of Tennessee, Inc., to be used exclusively for the association's emergency assistance and education program. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

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

TN - SB1885 Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, establishes requirements for in loco parentis decision-making for a minor child and revises notary requirement for power of attorney for care of a minor child. - Amends TCA Title 34, Chapter 6.

TN - SB737 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, allows a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking to terminate a lease or rental agreement if notice and documentation that tenant is a victim are presented to landlord; specifies that a perpetrator of certain offenses remains liable for rent and damages under rental agreement even if the perpetrator is ordered to vacate the premises by protection order. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 66.

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

TN - SB2115 Education, Higher - As enacted, specifies that a student will be classified as a state resident and charged in-state tuition if the student is a citizen of the United States; has resided in Tennessee for at least one year immediately prior to admission and has graduated from a Tennessee public secondary school; graduated from a private secondary school that is located in this state; or earned a Tennessee high school equivalency diploma. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2187 Personal Property - As introduced, prohibits any person or legal entity, besides the owner of a copyrighted sound recording initially fixed on or before February 15, 1972, from reproducing, distributing, performing, or otherwise using the recording without the owner’s express permission; creates a cause of action for the owner. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1109 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires 24-hour notice of approximate time of removal pursuant to writ of possession and holds plaintiff liable for damages to defendant's removed personal property if notice requirements are not followed. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 15; Title 29, Chapter 18, Part 1 and Title 66, Chapter 28.

TN - SB546 Education, Higher - As introduced, authorizes certain postsecondary education institutions to accept students without a high school degree or its equivalent if such students are pursuing a profession or trade that does not require a certificate or license; requires THEC to study annually fees assessed for regulatory oversight of postsecondary proprietary schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 20.

TN - SB2056 Traffic Safety - As enacted, specifies that it is not a violation of a "red alone or stop" signal unless the front tires of a vehicle cross the stop line after the signal is red. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-110.

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

TN - SB1757 Search & Seizure - As enacted, prohibits a law enforcement officer from searching, examining, extracting or duplicating cellular telephone data, even if incident to a lawful arrest, unless the officer has obtained a search warrant, the owner gives informed consent, the telephone has been abandoned, or exigent circumstances exist; makes any such data illegally obtained inadmissible as evidence in a court or administrative hearing. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB1040 Nuisances - As enacted, authorizes the court to include in its order of abatement, costs for public services required to abate or manage the nuisance, which may include law enforcement costs, if any, caused by the public nuisance. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3.

TN - SB276 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, authorizes a court restoring a person's rights of citizenship following conviction for a crime to also grant a certificate of employability; provides certain immunity to employers who hire a person who has been issued a certificate; enacts other provisions related to the certificate of employability. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.

TN - SB1112 Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the state board of education to develop a uniform grading system for students enrolled in grades kindergarten through eight that LEAs may adopt and implement. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1685 Search & Seizure - As enacted, allows a magistrate to issue a search warrant based on information communicated by telephone or other reliable electronic means in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1860 Corporations, Not for Profit - As enacted, enacts the "Neighborhood Preservation Nonprofit Corporation Act". - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 29; Title 38; Title 48; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - SB1391 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, provides that a woman may be prosecuted for assault for the illegal use of a narcotic drug while pregnant, if her child is born addicted to or harmed by the narcotic drug; law expires July 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 39.

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

TN - SB1028 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting a person for trafficking a person for a commercial sex act, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, and exploitation of a minor by electronic means if the offense was committed against a child on or after July 1, 2013, to be 15 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age; changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting a person for patronizing prostitution and promoting prostitution if the offense was committed against a child on or after July 1, to be 10 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1643 DUI Offenses - As enacted, eliminates the exception for certain employees to the ignition interlock installation requirement; clarifies provisions regarding the issuance and use of a restricted license in conjunction with an ignition interlock device. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11; Title 40, Chapter 33; Title 50; Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4 and Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 5.

TN - SB962 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, requires a pharmacist to make every reasonable effort to prevent the abuse of drugs which the pharmacist dispenses; makes it a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by fine only, for the owner, manager or operator of a pharmacy to knowingly restrict or interfere with, or knowingly require a protocol or procedure that restricts or interferes with, a pharmacist's professional duty to counsel with patients and to evaluate the patients' appropriate pharmaceutical needs and the exercise of the pharmacist's professional judgment as to whether it is appropriate to dispense a legend drug to a patient. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 56; Title 63, Chapter 1; Title 63, Chapter 10; Title 67 and Title 68.

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

TN - SB483 Schools, Charter - As introduced, permits parents of 51 percent of the students attending a public school in the bottom 20 percent of public schools academically to petition for conversion of the school to a charter school or to a turnaround model. - Amends TCA Section 49-13-106.

TN - SB1751 Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises provisions governing the sale of products containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - SB1434 Arrests - As enacted, revises provisions governing issuance of arrest warrant and summons in lieu of arrest warrant. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1786 Students - As enacted, requires an LEA in which a student is transferring to another school to send the student's records, including disciplinary records, to the school to which the student transfers; requires an LEA from which a student is transferring to another LEA to send the student's records, including disciplinary records, to the LEA to which the student transfers; requires LEAs in transferring records to comply with FERPA. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB739 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, establishes the office of noncustodial parent advocacy. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SB1732 Landlord and Tenant - As enacted, suspends, for 48 hours after the execution of a writ of possession, the actions of any local government relative to the disposition of personal property; prohibits a plaintiff, after the execution of a writ of possession, from disposing of the personal property of a defendant for 48 hours. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 29, Chapter 18, Part 1 and Title 66.

TN - SB860 Public Records - As enacted, authorizes certain persons who were convicted of a non-violent crime after January 1, 1980, and who received a pardon from the governor and a positive vote from the board of parole, to file a petition for expunction of that person's public records involving the crime. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - SB2086 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an offense of photographing or recording the intimate parts of another where the parties agree that the image shall remain private and distributing the image with the intent to cause emotional distress, and the depicted person suffers emotional distress. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - SB858 Civil Service - As introduced, extends the time a state employee has to file a complaint under the TEAM Act from "14 days," to "21 days," after the employee became, or should have become, aware of the occurrence giving rise to the complaint. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5 and Title 8, Chapter 30.

TN - SB338 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the human rights commission, June 30, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 29.

TN - SB2062 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of human services, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 12 and Title 71, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2379 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, permits expunction of multiple criminal convictions in certain circumstances; revises other provisions regarding expunction of records. - Amends TCA Section 40-32-101.

TN - SB741 Credit, Consumer - As introduced, enacts the "Collateral Recovery Act" and implements a system for regulating repossession agencies and collateral recovery agents. - Amends TCA Title 26; Title 45; Title 47; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62, Chapter 11 and Title 66.

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

TN - SB2390 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the council on children’s mental health care, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 37, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - SB1037 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the offense of organ trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 68, Chapter 30, Part 4.

TN - SB1577 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee public television council, June 30, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 9.

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

TN - SB1992 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, authorizes collaborative pharmacy practice. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10; Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

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

TN - SB447 Sexual Offenses - As introduced, changes "sexual servitude" definition to "commercial sex acts," increases penalties for criminal gang members committing trafficking for commercial sex acts, removes defense that victim was a police officer and a minor victim consented from offenses of commercial sex trafficking and patronizing prostitution and makes patronizing prostitution of a minor a "sexual offense" for purposes of the sex offender registry. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB360 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee economic council on women, June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 50.

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

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

TN - SB2350 Law Enforcement - As enacted, permits electronic citations for certain traffic offenses; establishes a $5.00 electronic citation fee for each citation resulting in conviction. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 2.

TN - SB203 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires every LEA to make at least one early postsecondary opportunity available for high school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

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

TN - SB963 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, revises tamper resistant prescription requirements to authorize printing with technology that results in a tamper resistant prescription. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10, Part 4 and Title 63.

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

TN - SB583 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, establishes provisions governing the school assignment and other education-related issues regarding juveniles adjudicated delinquent as result of certain acts. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.

TN - SB412 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the fine imposed on a person who commits an assault or an aggravated assault against a health care provider while such provider is acting in the discharge of the provider's duty. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.

TN - SB670 DUI Offenses - As enacted, revises various provisions of the ignition interlock law. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SB1851 Welfare - As enacted, revises provisions governing personal responsibility plans in regard to receipt of temporary financial aid to require attendance at certain school conferences and parenting classes and participation in certain support services. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - SB1913 Special License Plates - As enacted, revises and clarifies various provisions of law regarding veteran and military-related license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4 and Chapter 318 of the Public Acts of 2013.

TN - SB48 Drugs, Synthetic or Analogue - As enacted, further clarifies the definition of "analogue controlled substance" and adds new drugs and compounds to list of synthetic cannabinoids. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - SB1770 Disabled Persons - As enacted, revises requirements concerning purchases of goods and services from persons with disabilities by state government. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 7.

TN - SB1032 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, raises the classification of the offense of promoting prostitution of a minor from a Class E felony to a Class A or B felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1538 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the domestic violence state coordinating council, June 30, 2018; restructures the council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 38, Chapter 12, Part 1.

TN - SB2574 Election Laws - As introduced, requires the attorney general to write in a clear and coherent manner a brief summary of any question submitted to the people for a vote. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB1201 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, authorizes collection of certain charges by health care providers for voluntary provision of health care services when forwarded to sponsoring organization. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 7.

TN - SB740 General Assembly - As introduced, upon request of a member of the general assembly, directs the fiscal review committee to include within a fiscal note an assessment of the bill's impact on the diversity of individuals participating in state or local government. - Amends TCA Section 3-2-107.

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

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

TN - SB687 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires THEC to include in its annual postsecondary education fact book a financial disclosure statement accounting for the collection and use of student activity fees; applies to public institutions of higher education operated by the board of regents or the UT board of trustees. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB137 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, clarifies that financial records for income verification and information concerning disabilities submitted for the purposes of the property tax relief or property tax freeze programs are confidential. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-701; Section 67-5-703; Section 67-5-704 and Section 67-5-705.

TN - SB1527 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board of nursing, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1655 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to develop and provide training regarding human trafficking to law enforcement officers and state personnel in certain departments, agencies and associations. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 4, Chapter 4; Title 38, Chapter 3; Title 38, Chapter 6 and Title 38, Chapter 8.

TN - SB1769 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities, June 30, 2018; clarifies requirements for background checks on persons who apply to work with persons receiving developmental disability services. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 33, Chapter 2.

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

TN - SB760 Cosmetology - As enacted, requires the board of barber examiners and the state board of cosmetology to issue an authorization to provide postsecondary education in this state to any school registered with the respective board in certain situations; specifies that any person claiming damage or loss as a result of any act or practice by a school or its agent, or both, that is a violation of the laws and rules governing cosmetologists and barbers may file with the board a verified complaint against the school or against its agent, or both. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 1, Part 2 and Title 62.

TN - SB193 Veterans' Affairs, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes department to establish veteran cemeteries, in addition to the three cemeteries required under present law, as needed, by using federal planning criteria in order to receive federal grant funding to assist with establishing the additional cemeteries. - Amends TCA Section 46-6-101.

TN - SB948 Welfare - As enacted, requires the commissioner of human services to study issues related to the issuance of a photo identification card to each eligible household in the food stamp and temporary assistance to needy families programs. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - SB1110 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a person who assaults another person at a sporting event from entering the premises of such sporting event for a period of time; punishes a violation in same manner as criminal trespass. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - SB562 Disabled Persons - As introduced, extends the time period that a permanent disabled parking placard is valid from two to five years and adjusts fee from $3.00 to $7.50. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21.

TN - SB327 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of economic and community development, June 30, 2017; adds conflict of interest policies for governmental entities under the department's jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SB1034 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, provides that termination of parental or guardianship rights may be initiated if a parent or guardian has been convicted of trafficking for a commercial sex act. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

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

TN - SB2084 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, revises various present law provisions governing the statute of limitations for certain sexual offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1031 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, removes as a defense ignorance or mistake of fact concerning the age of a minor to the offenses of patronizing prostitution and soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor; creates an exception to the offense of soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor that the victim is at least 15 but less than 18 years of age and the defendant is not more than four years older than the victim, unless the defendant intentionally commanded, hired, induced or caused the victim to violate the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1030 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, disallows as a defense to offenses of sexual exploitation of a minor, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor that the minor consented to the conduct constituting the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2226 Employees, Employers - As enacted, enacts the "Healthy Workplace Act", which requires TACIR to create a model policy for employers to prevent abusive conduct in the workplace, which policy may be adopted by employers. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2342 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, prohibits the establishment of rules, policies or guidelines that require classroom or position observation results to be aligned with TVAAS data. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2189 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, establishes a civil cause of action for intentional misrepresentation of parentage, which permits a person proven not to be a child's biological parent to recover child support paid from the child's biological parent who intentionally or recklessly made the false claim of parentage. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SB1568 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee bureau of investigation, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 38, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2473 University of Tennessee - As enacted, requires the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the university to perform a study on the economic feasibility of creating and utilizing a statewide comprehensive energy policy. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 49; Title 60; Title 64; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - SB2504 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, requires a person applying for expunction of criminal records to pay the appropriate court clerk’s fee, in addition to any other fees required unless the person is entitled to have such records removed and destroyed without cost. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401 and Title 40.

TN - SB1021 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts "Dustin's Law," which adds vehicular homicide with a blood alcohol concentration of .20 percent or more or vehicular homicide with a blood alcohol concentration of .08 percent or more and any blood concentration of methamphetamine to the definition of aggravated vehicular homicide. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1036 Human Rights - As enacted, establishes human trafficking task force. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 38 and Title 71, Chapter 1.

TN - SB891 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, specifies that, upon the seizure of any personal property subject to forfeiture and where the person in possession is not being arrested, the seizing officer must provide the person found in possession of the property, if known, a notice of the forfeiture warrant hearing; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6 and Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2.

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

TN - SB806 Business and Commerce - As enacted, enacts the "Made in Tennessee Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7.

TN - SB2519 Education - As enacted, requires LEAs to survey students, within one month of the start of the 2014-2015 school year, as to the availability of internet access in their homes and report results to the department of education; the department will report the results to the governor and the education committees of the house and senate. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB618 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Skills for Jobs Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB525 Education, Higher - As enacted, exempts from the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act of 1974 institutions operated solely as auction schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - SB723 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, authorizes man who has paid child support for a child who is not his biological child to recover such child support from the biological father. - Amends TCA Section 36-2-309.

TN - SB1709 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Brian Byrge Act", which allows certain part-time employees of the state university and community college system to enroll in one course per semester at a community college or state college of applied technology without paying tuition charges or maintenance fees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB266 Local Government, General - As introduced, expands presumptive disability in acquiring certain infectious diseases in the line of duty by emergency rescue workers beyond HIV/AIDS to include hepatitis C virus. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2.

TN - SB1962 DUI Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Amelia's Law", which clarifies that a transdermal monitoring device or other alternative alcohol or drug monitoring device may be ordered as a condition of pretrial diversion, parole, probation, judicial diversion or DUI probation if it is determined that the defendant's use of alcohol was a contributing factor in the defendant's unlawful conduct. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - SB441 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1748 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, prohibits fact that subject of an offense was a law enforcement officer or that the victim was a consenting minor as defenses for the offense of promoting prostitution. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 40.

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

TN - SB109 Cosmetology - As enacted, requires the board of cosmetology to establish rules and regulations for separate schools that specialize solely in natural hair styling, manicuring and the practice of aesthetics; revises other provisions related to cosmetology schools. - Amends TCA Section 62-4-120.

TN - SB1795 County Government - As enacted, authorizes the county legislative body to determine that no bid may be made on certain non-buildable or non-conforming parcels when land must be sold on behalf of governmental entities for payment of delinquent county taxes. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-2506.

TN - SB738 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a criminal offense for persons who allow minors to have access to loaded firearms with an enhanced penalty if injury or death results; requires firearms dealers to post notice of safe storage requirements; creates a sentencing enhancement factor for adult defendants who involve children under the age of 13 in the commission of an offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1047 Psychologists - As enacted, charges the board of examiners in psychology with overseeing the practice of behavior analysis; creates the applied behavior analyst licensing committee; increases board from nine to 10 members; revises other related provisions and establishments requirements for the practice of behavior analysis. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63.

TN - SB2179 Juries and Jurors - As introduced, excludes breastfeeding mothers from jury service as an undue hardship. - Amends TCA Title 22, Chapter 1 and Title 68, Chapter 58.

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

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

TN - SB927 School Transportation - As introduced, enacts the "Crime-Free School Zone Act." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - SB2571 Fees - As introduced, authorizes the county legislative body of Shelby County to increase court costs charged by the clerks and sheriffs and the litigation tax by an amount not to exceed 20 percent of the amount authorized by law. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 67.

TN - SB1886 Health Care - As enacted, sets specific requirements for various health care providers to provide information on infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation at certain times. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 5.

TN - SB105 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Lois M. DeBerry Alternative Diploma Act."

TN - SB1815 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, increases the penalty for patronizing a prostitute under age 18 from a Class E felony to a Class A felony; increases the penalty for patronizing a prostitute with an intellectual disability from a Class E felony to a Class B felony; specifies that it is not a defense that the subject of the offense is a law enforcement officer or that the victim of the offense is a minor who consented to the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - SB1287 Schools, Charter - As introduced, requires LEA to use years of service acquired as a charter school teacher for tenure decisions upon return of the teacher to the LEA; permits public charter school teacher on leave of absence from an LEA to continue in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - SB1789 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, allows a person who is not in compliance with child support obligations to receive a restricted driver license that permits driving to and from the person's regular place of employment or school. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5.

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

TN - SB2090 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, extends to all registered sexual offenders certain residential, work and other restrictions that currently apply only to registered sexual offenders whose victims were minors; does not apply to restriction on obtaining sexual offender treatment or attending a sexual offender treatment program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - SB1858 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, revises certain provisions governing projects and qualified public use facilities to change the amount of the aggregate investment of public or private funds from "in excess of $200 million" to "in excess of $75 million". - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53 and Title 7, Chapter 88.

TN - SB2479 Psychologists - As enacted, changes the scope of practice for psychologists to include forensic evaluation, parent coordination, and telepsychology. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 11.

TN - SB2205 Sheriffs - As introduced, subject to local approval, allows three years of military experience in lieu of certain POST training requirements to qualify for election or appointment to the office of sheriff. - Amends TCA Section 8-8-102.

TN - SB1898 Correctional Programs - As introduced, directs the commissioner of correction to study the effectiveness of the department's orientation concerning post-release issues for inmates and report to the criminal justice committee of the house and the judiciary committee of the senate by January 15, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 40; Title 41; Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - SB2082 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, authorizes a pilot program to terminate on January 1, 2030, which allows the department to make grants and loans to governmental entities for financing food desert relief enterprises in low-income, underserved areas; deposits the revenue generated by a certain percentage of the food sales tax rate levied on retail sales of sugar-sweetened beverages to a special fund for financing the grants and loans. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 67, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2130 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes it an offense to knowingly establish, promote, or operate any pyramid promotional scheme. - Amends TCA Title 47.

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

TN - SB1485 Law Enforcement - As enacted, prohibits any state or local law enforcement officer from participating in a voluntary motor vehicle checkpoint conducted by a private company or research institute to collect a human sample from which DNA may be derived from consenting motorists stopped at the checkpoint for statistical studies or research. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - SB486 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires health care providers in certain health care facilities to ask patients whether they wish to be tested for HIV/AIDS. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB640 Students - As enacted, treats unexcused absences from certain remedial programs the same as unexcused absences from school; applies to remedial programs offered at no cost to the parent, if, prior to the student being required to attend the program, the LEA commits to providing transportation to and from school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.

TN - SB330 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of mental health and substance abuse services, June 30, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - SB459 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Safe Harbor Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SB625 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, specifies that if there is any remainder after the proceeds from delinquent tax sale have been distributed, the party receiving notice of the sale will also be given notice of the amount of proceeds resulting from the sale, the division of such proceeds and the remainder. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2150 Litter Control - As enacted, enhances the fine for the offense of aggravated criminal littering when the amount of litter exceeds 100 pounds in weight or 30 cubic feet in volume from no greater than $2,500 to between $2,500 and $4,000. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7, Part 3; Section 5-1-115; Section 6-54-113; Title 7, Chapter 63, Part 2; Section 13-21-204; Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 5; Title 54, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Section 55-10-420.

TN - SB2356 Education - As enacted, revises list of offenses the conviction of which results in a person being prohibited from direct contact with school children or children in a child care program and from entering the grounds of a school or child care center when children are present. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1027 Evidence - As enacted, provides that victims 13 and under of trafficking for commercial sex acts and patronizing prostitution may, under certain circumstances, testify outside the courtroom by closed circuit television. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB264 Education - As enacted, revises provision for expulsion of a student who commits battery upon an LEA employee or school resource officer to instead require expulsion of a student who commits aggravated assault against such a person. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - SB1917 Recycling - As enacted, adds components to the comprehensive solid waste management plan for the state and creates a 16-member Tennessee solid waste and recycling advisory committee to review and develop recommendations concerning solid waste and recycling statutes, rules and policies. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - SB237 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, specifies that if a petitioner is unable to pay $350 expunction fee, the petitioner may enter into a payment plan with the clerk in order to pay the fee in installment payments; no order of expunction will be granted until the total amount of the fee is paid; requires department of finance and administration to review the number of expunction petitions filed by eligible petitioners, the cost of processing each petition and the amount of money paid in expunction fees. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - SB477 Students - As enacted, allows students who enter the military or national guard during high school and complete basic training before high school graduation to receive credit toward graduation for basic training. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

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

TN - SB1535 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of safety, June 30, 2017; directs division of state audit to conduct limited audit concerning the department's 2013 audit findings. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 20.

TN - SB202 Sentencing - As enacted, redefines "criminal gang offense" under present law regarding enhanced penalties for gang offenses. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-121.

TN - SB1899 Education - As introduced, requires that collections of certain fines and penalties, related to certain traffic violations, first be used by the city of Memphis to provide financial assistance to certain students to participate in job training programs offered by the city of Memphis during the summer. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 55.

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

TN - SB9 Boards and Commissions - As enacted, creates the "Great War Commission" to facilitate recognition of the centenary of World War I. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11; Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 58.

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

TN - SB2495 Agriculture - As enacted, authorizes growing of industrial hemp subject to regulation by the department of agriculture. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 53 and Title 67.

TN - SB1307 Building Commission, State - As enacted, encourages the commission to prescribe high performance building requirements and other standards, and promulgate rules, which meet or exceed the 2005 Sustainable Design Guidelines that the commission implemented, that are necessary to ensure all state buildings perform in an energy efficient manner; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 43 and Title 49, Chapter 17.

TN - SB2208 Education - As introduced, creates a study committee of interested legislators from the majority and minority parties to study the BEP funding formula and its application and submit findings and recommendations to the education committees and speakers of the house of representatives and senate by January 15, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB699 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits employers from using the credit report or credit history of an employee or applicant for employment to deny employment, discharge an employee or determine compensation of the terms, conditions or privileges of employment, but allows the credit report or history to be used if information in the credit report is substantially job-related and disclosed in writing to the employee or applicant. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50, Chapter 1.

TN - SB612 Education - As enacted, requires that, if in any fiscal year a local government appropriates funds for education for non-recurring expenditures evidenced by a written agreement with the LEA establishing the non-recurring use of the funds, such funds be excluded from the maintenance of local funding requirement and from any apportionment requirement under the school tax component of the BEP. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.

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

TN - SB1561 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state university and community college system, board of regents, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 2.

TN - SB703 Treasurer, State - As introduced, encourages increased use of minority-owned brokerage and investment management firms in services provided to funds administered, managed or held by the treasurer; requires annual report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56, Part 1; Title 8, Chapter 37; Title 9, Chapter 4; Title 12, Chapter 4 and Title 12, Chapter 3.

TN - SB2355 Education - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to adjust the salary schedules of persons employed by the LEAs in nonteaching positions based upon a compensation study, if there has been a change since the beginning of the previous school term in the boundaries of an LEA or if, due to the creation or reactivation of an LEA, students are shifted from one LEA to another. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1630 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, authorizes certain health care providers to place a copy of a patient's controlled substances database report in the patient's medical record; authorizes controlled substances database committee to disclose certain aggregate unidentifiable personal data from the database for educational outreach purposes. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10, Part 3.

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

TN - SB1029 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds to the definition of criminal gang offenses, the commission or attempted commission, facilitation of, solicitation of, or conspiracy to commit the offense of trafficking for commercial sex acts. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1922 Nuisances - As enacted, declares a nuisance any place in which a person takes, by defrauding or colluding with the recipient of public assistance benefits, any portion of such benefit to which the person is not entitled or authorized to take. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - SB1131 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, specifies that the list of persons required to report knowledge or suspicion of child sexual abuse to the department of children's services includes an authority figure at a community facility, including any facility used for recreation or social assemblies, for educational, religious, social, health, or welfare purposes, including, but not limited to, facilities operated by schools, the boy or girl scouts, the YMCA or YWCA, the boys and girls club, or church or religious organizations. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1; Title 37, Chapter 5; Title 38, Chapter 1; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - SB1580 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee student assistance corporation, board of directors, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1646 Workers Compensation - As enacted, allows the administrator of the division of workers' compensation to withdraw funds from the employee misclassification education and enforcement fund to provide benefits available through the uninsured employers fund. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 8.

TN - SB1545 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the interstate nurse licensure compact, June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 3.

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

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

TN - SB170 Purchasing and Procurement - As enacted, revises and reorganizes laws related to procurement. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56; Title 12, Chapter 3 and Title 12, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2389 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of children's services, June 30, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - SB789 Mental Illness - As enacted, requires certain mental health professionals to report threats of bodily harm or death made by service recipients in certain situations; requires court clerks to report certain information regarding persons ordered to commitment or adjudicated as mental defective; establishes other requirements that relate to regulating firearm ownership by mental health patients. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 65.

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

TN - SB496 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the education of children in foster care. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1660 Child Abuse - As enacted, adds the offense of promoting prostitution to the list of offenses constituting severe child abuse. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - SB2168 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires any pending order of protection or restraining order to be served on domestic violence offender before release following the mandatory twelve-hour holding period; directs a copy of protection order to be issued to any court in which the respondent or petitioner are parties to an action. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - SB934 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, authorizes certain courts to order any of the following, in lieu of committing a child to DCS custody, if the child is found to be a delinquent child: assign a long-term mentor to such child; or require that the delinquent child or any of the child's family members receive counseling services from any counseling service provided through or approved by the juvenile court. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB1844 Personal Property - As enacted, prohibits an individual, business or agency involved in the repossession of a vehicle from abandoning any personal property found in or on the vehicle for a period of 14 days following the repossession; establishes provisions governing the property being reclaimed by the owner. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 30; Title 47; Title 55, Chapter 5; Title 62 and Title 66.

TN - SB1693 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies that it will be a Class A misdemeanor for any person, firm or entity to fail to notify local law enforcement of the vehicle identification number (VIN), registration information, license plate number and description of the vehicle prior to towing a motor vehicle when the owner of the vehicle is not present. - Amends TCA Section 55-16-105.

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

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

TN - SB1813 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, allows teachers scoring "significantly above expectations" on each of their last three evaluations to petition the commissioner of education for a waiver of any requirement for the renewal of their licenses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

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

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

TN - SB2023 TennCare - As enacted, provides that an individual who is an inmate of a public institution will have eligibility for medical assistance suspended but not terminated during periods of actual incarceration; an individual who is an inmate of a public institution will be eligible for temporary reinstatement of medical assistance for care received outside of a jail or correctional facility in a hospital or other health care facility for more than 24 hours; and a public institution may make efforts to establish eligibility for or renew assistance for such individuals prior to their release from the public institution. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 33; Title 38; Title 41; Title 56 and Title 71.

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

TN - SB2254 Privacy, Confidentiality - As enacted, prevents certain disclosures of information regarding victims of sexual offenses. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 16, Chapter 3, Part 4.

TN - SB2257 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, provides that duty-free teacher time for instructional planning shall be allocated on an individual basis. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2097 Clerks, Court - As introduced, deletes the exemptions for Shelby and Knox counties regarding the statutory maximum fee a court clerk may charge for computer searches for any public record having commercial value; limits all court clerks statewide to charging no more than $5.00 for such searches. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 4.

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

TN - SB1035 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, requires rather than permits that restitution to the victim be paid by the defendant for the offenses of patronizing prostitution, trafficking for commercial sex acts, solicitation of a minor for sexual purposes, and enlisting or paying a minor to engage in child pornography. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-118.

TN - SB2320 County Government - As enacted, allows a county, upon two-thirds vote of the county legislative body, to dispose of real property at a nominal cost by private negotiation and sale to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, incorporated under the laws of this state, whose purpose includes educational and vocational training services to children and adults with disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 7 and Title 5, Chapter 9.

TN - SB882 Public Health - As enacted, requires schools and other organizations conducting youth athletic programs to adopt concussion policies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68, Chapter 55.

TN - SB1633 Sentencing - As enacted, permits judge, as a condition of probation, to order a 2nd or 3rd time DUI offender to participate in a substance abuse treatment program; revises other related provisions regarding probation options for certain DUI offenders. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - SB675 Disabled Persons - As enacted, enacts "Lynn's Law"; defines abuse or neglect of an adult to include transporting an adult and knowingly abandoning, leaving or failing to provide additional planned transportation for the adult in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 1 and Title 71, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB2365 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds drug fraud to the crimes for which a person may have the public records of a conviction expunged. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - SB302 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires local education agencies to continue to pay teacher's full benefits including, but not limited to health insurance benefits, for teachers who are victims of violent crime during the course of employment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - SB177 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires adult day care and child care agencies potential employees to submit to a review to determine if person has committed abuse or "neglect," instead of "gross neglect," of a child or adult. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapters 2 and 3.

TN - SB2149 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a private entity that performs criminal background checks from reporting that a person has been convicted of an offense, if the offense has been expunged. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - SB2561 Education - As enacted, requires the state board of education, department of education and the office of research and education accountability to confer with other stakeholders and determine the best means of establishing a best practices clearinghouse. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1782 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, authorizes community mental health centers and federally qualified health centers to employ physicians, except anesthesiologists, emergency department physicians, pathologists or radiologists. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.

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

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

TN - SB106 Evidence - As introduced, prohibits a court, grand jury, general assembly or other administrative body from requiring the news media or press to disclose the identity of individuals who participate in online services offered by the news media or press in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 24-1-208.

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

TN - SB1312 Controlled Substances - As enacted, changes the name of the methamphetamine registry to the drug offender registry and requires that all felony drug offenders be placed on the registry; extends the amount of time that drug offenders will be placed on the registry from seven to 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - SB899 Law Enforcement - As enacted, prohibits bounty hunters from wearing clothing that indicates they are associated with law enforcement. - Amends TCA Section 40-11-318.

TN - SB1626 Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As enacted, requires a criminal history background check, including a fingerprint check, of all employees of the office of information resources having certain information or system access; includes procedures and additional requirements relating to the background check. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 55.

TN - SB2333 Tourism - As enacted, expands the applicability of the Tourism Development Authority Act to include Shelby County and its municipalities; adds to the powers of a tourism development authority. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 69, Part 1.

TN - SB178 Day Care - As enacted, clarifies that Parent's Day Out licensing exemption applies to programs operated by a religious institution or organization instead of a church or church organization; requires such programs to register with department of human services and maintain certain records; specifies that each separate location or campus of a religious institution or religious organization will be considered a separate religious institution or religious organization for the purpose of Parents' Day Out or any similar program. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5.

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

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

TN - SB2421 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, enacts "Erin's Law", which requires the departments of education and children's services to work together to enhance or adapt curriculum materials that focus on child sexual abuse, including such abuse which may occur in the child’s home. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1; Title 37, Chapter 5; Title 49, Chapter 10 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB579 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises offense of unlawful photographing in violation of privacy and offense of observation without consent to increase penalty in certain situations when the victim is younger than 13 years of age; adds to the list of offenses that constitute a "sexual offense" for purposes of the sex offender registry observation without consent when the offense is classified as a Class E or D felony and unlawful photographing when the offense is classified as a Class E or D felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

TN - SB1363 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, creates offense of prescription drug fraud, which is using fraud or forgery to obtain a controlled substance and adds the theft of identifying information used to prescribe a controlled substance to offense of identity theft. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53.