Tennessee Rep. G. A. Hardaway (D)

TN - Criminal Justice (House)

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TN - Criminal Justice Subcommittee (House)

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TN - Government Operations (House)

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TN - HB2103 Education - As introduced, creates a task force to study the effects of concussions on student athletes in high school and college. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB926 Election Laws - As introduced, permits the use of a photo identification card issued by this state, the United States, or an accredited postsecondary institution of education in this state for purposes of verifying the identity of an eligible voter. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 7.

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

TN - HB1244 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of unlawful exposure, which is committed when a person distributes a private image of the intimate parts of another with the intent to cause emotional distress and the depicted person suffers emotional distress. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB578 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds drug fraud to the crimes for which a person may have the public records of the person's conviction expunged. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB786 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires that offenders' community reentry programs include ability to obtain a 12-month deferral of fines and costs for traffic offenses and a restricted driver license for work only. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 16; Title 18; Title 28; Title 33; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.

TN - HB1429 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, prohibits a person who is registered, or required to register, as a violent sexual offender or offender against children pursuant to the Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act to knowingly establish a primary or secondary residence or any other living accommodation in any public institution of higher education's on-campus student residence facilities, including dormitories and apartments. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB925 Sheriffs - As introduced, exempts a person who previously served as sheriff from having to have the three years of full-time experience as a POST commission certified law enforcement officer within the last 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - HJR355 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Elexis Houston, Salutatorian, Memphis Central High School.

TN - HB1270 Victims' Rights - As enacted, requires a law enforcement officer, when the officer responds to a report of certain offenses related to domestic violence, to inform the victim of the statewide automated victim information and notification service and to provide certain informational materials, if available. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 38.

TN - HB2327 Treasurer, State - As introduced, requires the department of the treasury and the department of education to determine the liability of LEAs, in which there are charter schools, for retirement benefits for employees not covered under the TCRS; permits an LEA, in which there is a charter school, to withhold from the per student expenditure the amount necessary to fund retirement benefits for those employees not under TCRS for which the LEA bears the financial obligation for retirement benefits. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

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

TN - HB2089 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, creates a domestic violence offender registry to be maintained by the TBI. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HJR359 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Doris Morrow, Salutatorian, Memphis East High School.

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

TN - HB1740 Courts, Juvenile - As introduced, authorizes a juvenile court to retain jurisdiction over a child for a crime committed prior to the child's 18th birthday until the child reaches 25 years of age; establishes procedures for the evaluation of the child's sentence when the child reaches 25 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB2091 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires investigation into an officer-involved shooting to be conducted by the TBI, which provides a report on the investigation to the district attorney general and attorney general and reporter; increases the amount awarded to the estate of an officer killed in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 8, Chapter 7 and Title 38.

TN - HB2095 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for any person who leases a motor vehicle on or after July 1, 2016, to knowingly install, conceal, or otherwise place an electronic tracking device in or on the motor vehicle without the consent of the purchaser of the vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 6 and Title 55.

TN - HB2090 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a minimum wage of $15.00 as of July 1; provides a minimum wage for employees in the service industry who receive tips and employees that are compensated solely by gratuities; authorizes the department of labor and workforce development to promulgate rules in compliance with federal law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1458 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for reckless endangerment by discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle from a Class E felony to a Class C felony, and specifies that each person endangered by the conduct constitutes a separate offense. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-103.

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

TN - HB1428 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires, rather than permits, the use of global positioning monitoring as a condition of bail for any person charged with a domestic violence offense, stalking, or a violation of an order of protection issued pursuant to title 36, chapter 3, part 6. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 13; Section 39-17-315 and Title 40, Chapter 11.

TN - HB577 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, requires each local education agency (LEA) that provides transportation services to submit to the department the names of persons authorized to drive a school bus; requires the department to maintain a database of all those persons authorized to drive a school bus and notify the appropriate LEA if the driver license or driving privileges of a listed person have been suspended or revoked; imposes a fee of $20.00 for each school bus endorsement or renewal thereof. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21; Title 55, Chapter 50; Title 55, Chapter 52 and Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5.

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

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

TN - HB1243 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 - HB1302 Domestic Violence - As introduced, directs funds from domestic assault fines to be used to pay for global positioning monitoring for indigent domestic abuse and stalking defendants; requires forms for bail in domestic abuse and stalking cases to indicate that global positioning monitoring was considered as a condition of bail and whether the monitoring requirement was imposed. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-111 and Title 40, Chapter 11.

TN - HB2104 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, creates a domestic violence offender registry to be maintained by the TBI. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HB2321 Child Abuse - As introduced, requires the department of children's services to develop instructional guidelines for child safety training programs for members of professions that frequently deal with children who may be at risk of abuse; requires certain licensing boards to create child safety training programs; requires certain professionals to complete the appropriate child safety training program prior to license renewal. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

TN - HB1269 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to study issues concerning the regulation of swingers clubs and report to the general assembly by December 1, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 62; Title 67 and Title 68.

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

TN - HR155 Memorials, Recognition - Reverend Willie Ward, Jr.

TN - HB2102 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, allows petitioner to request expedited expunction in cases where the person was arrested or charged due to mistaken identity. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HJR429 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Chulisia Pierce, Valedictorian, Memphis Health Careers Academy.

TN - HJR430 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Eric Sah, Salutatorian, White Station High School.

TN - HJR432 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kelly Yuan, Salutatorian, White Station High School.

TN - HJR433 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Iris Ramirez, Salutatorian, Overton High School

TN - HJR434 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kayla Adams, Valedictorian, Overton High School.

TN - HJR436 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Chelsey Danielle Jones, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences.

TN - HJR356 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Phylicia Samuels, Salutatorian, Douglass High School.

TN - HB2101 Schools, Charter - As introduced, changes the conditions under which certain charter school agreements may be revoked; defines the term "community-based charter schools." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR428 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cartavius Turner, Salutatorian, Memphis Health Careers Academy.

TN - HB401 Probation and Parole - As introduced, makes a person convicted of vehicular homicide involving alcohol ineligible for probation. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HR98 Memorials, Interns - Jillian Cantrell.

TN - HJR354 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emma Donnelly-Bullington, Valedictorian, Memphis Central High School.

TN - HB863 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Collateral Recovery Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 26; Title 40; Title 45; Title 47; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 66.

TN - HJR453 Naming and Designating - Designates the Memphis Grizzlies as the official sports team of Tennessee.

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

TN - HJR440 Memorials, Interns - Marc Meredith

TN - HR99 Memorials, Interns - Ja'Vonta Seals.

TN - HJR431 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Linnie Jiang, Valedictorian, White Station High School.

TN - HB125 Schools, Charter - As enacted, halts the closure at the end of the 2014–2015 school year of charter schools on the state's 2015 priority list; makes the 2017 priority list the first list for which charter schools appearing on a priority list must close at the end of the school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1413 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires that any petition regarding child custody include an affirmative statement setting out all applicable adjudications, if the petitioner knows whether a child has ever been adjudicated by a court as a dependent and neglected or abused child or whether any party to the action has ever been adjudicated by a court as the perpetrator of dependency and neglect or abuse of a minor child; authorizes court to order DCS to disclose certain information. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.

TN - HB1707 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, establishes the day after Thanksgiving Day as Native American Heritage Day in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 15.

TN - HB579 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a minimum wage that increases annually on July 1; provides a minimum wage for employees in the service industry who receive tips and employees that are compensated solely by gratuities; authorizes the department to promulgate rules and regulations in compliance with federal law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2.

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

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

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

TN - HJR357 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Quiavious Wainwright, Valedictorian, Douglass High School.

TN - HJR435 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Taylor Nicole Haywood, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences.

TN - HB924 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to determine whether reported child abuse was indicated or unfounded and report its findings to the department's abuse registry within 45 days instead of 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 42; Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 2; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 16, Chapter 1; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41, Chapter 22; Title 49; Title 50, Chapter 9; Title 63, Chapter 7; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HJR358 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Norman Harris II, Valedictorian, Memphis East High School.

TN - HB968 Textbooks - As enacted, requires the textbook commission to study the age and physical status of textbooks used in public schools of this state and issue a written report to the members of the general assembly, by January 1, 2016, detailing the average age, physical condition, and cost to replace outdated textbooks, and solutions to avoiding the use of textbooks that are over 10 years old. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1225 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, requires the annual TBI report on crime to contain demographic data, including the percentage of suspects, victims, and convicted offenders based on race, gender, age, nationality, and any other appropriate demographic, as determined by the director of TBI. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB42 Probation and Parole - As enacted, requires that a person convicted of vehicular assault or vehicular homicide serve a mandatory minimum sentence before being eligible for probation. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

TN - HB2197 Solid Waste Disposal - As enacted, requires the commissioner of environment and conservation to conduct a study to define the processing of organic waste and incorporate the findings and recommendations into the state's comprehensive solid waste management plan. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB101 Health Care - As enacted, authorizes the board for licensing healthcare facilities and the departments of mental health and substance abuse services, human services, and intellectual and developmental disabilities to amend licensure rules to be consistent with the federal home-based and community-based settings final rule; prohibits the use of emergency rulemaking to promulgate such rules; requires that licensure survey and enforcement be conducted in a manner consistent with any rule issued under this act. - Amends TCA Section 33-2-404; Section 68-11-202 and Section 71-2-412.

TN - HB2139 Education - As introduced, requires all LEA personnel to verify that the LEA's policy on use of the Internet has been read prior to accepting an employment contract or at the renewal of an employment contract. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1981 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the Class E felony offense of manufacturing marijuana concentrate by a process which uses an inherently hazardous substance like butane; creates Class A misdemeanor of owner of premises knowingly allowing the process to occur on the premises. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB170 Sentencing - As enacted, creates an enhancement factor, by which the defendant's sentence can be increased, that the defendant knowingly committed the offense within the geographical area, and during the time of, an emergency or disaster. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB2402 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, prohibits certain persons engaged in the business of towing or storing motor vehicles from charging a storage fee for any day on which the vehicle is not available for release to the owner, lienholder, or insurer, unless such failure to release is based on a hold placed on the vehicle by law enforcement; requires such businesses to release the vehicle to the insurer or lienholder, or an authorized agent or representative, upon the insurer's or lienholder's payment of reasonable charges due, without requiring additional consent from the owner of the vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 55, Chapter 23 and Title 66.

TN - HB1657 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, authorizes Davidson County and municipalities located in Sullivan County to prohibit, by local ordinance, smoking on the grounds of a swimming pool or outdoor amphitheater owned or operated by the local government. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB1336 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, specifies that the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners may suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew a barber’s certificate of registration due to the person having a felony conviction if the felony conviction occurred within three years prior to the board’s decision. - Amends TCA Title 62.

TN - HB1043 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, makes various changes to the regulation of motor vehicle dismantlers and recyclers and scrap metal processors, including imposing a temporary $250 fee on certain licensed motor vehicle dismantlers and recyclers and scrap metal processors to be used for the implementation and administration of reporting systems. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3.

TN - HB894 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - As enacted, requires DIDD to adopt policies and procedures regarding the development of appropriations requested for family support; requires, unless the commissioner determines an exigent circumstance exists, DIDD to seek the state family support council's input prior to adopting certain policies and procedures; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2082 Public Records - As enacted, revises requirements for protecting personally identifying information in records held by governmental entities; requires the office of open records counsel to develop a model public records policy for governmental entities; makes other related changes to public records laws. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 4; Title 8, Chapter 4; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 39; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 50, Chapter 1 and Title 67.

TN - HB811 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, in cases not involving the department of children's services or a child-placing agency, prohibits a court from returning a child to the custody of a parent when the child was removed due to the parent's drug abuse unless the parent demonstrates a sustained commitment to responsible parenting. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB776 Credit, Consumer - As enacted, authorizes certain guardians to place a security freeze on the consumer report of a person under 16 years of age or an incapacitated person; establishes requirements for such a freeze and remedies for violations. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 47 and Title 68.

TN - HB1550 Day Care - As enacted, makes various changes to the disclosures, background checks, and training required for child care agencies, including requiring volunteers to disclose any criminal history and be subject to criminal history records checks. - Amends TCA Section 71-3-502 and Section 71-3-507.

TN - HB2058 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates offense of recklessly leaving a loaded firearm unattended and readily accessible to a child under 13 years of age; creates certain defense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2576 Sentencing - As enacted, enacts the "Public Safety Act of 2016." - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1; Title 40, Chapter 28; Title 40, Chapter 35 and Title 41, Chapter 1, Part 4.

TN - HB985 County Government - As enacted, prohibits members of a county legislative body from voting on matters in which they have a conflict of interest; authorizes legislative bodies of any metropolitan and charter form of government to opt out. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 12.

TN - HB2593 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, extends the statute of limitations for civil actions based on injury or illness resulting from child sexual abuse that occurred when the person was a minor but was not discovered until after the person became an adult to three years from the discovery of the abuse. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB764 Solid Waste Disposal - As enacted, requires TDEC to include in its annual report to the governor and general assembly concerning the solid waste management system, progress implementation updates, including projected implement steps, on each specific component of the state's comprehensive solid waste management plan. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB2147 Education - As enacted, requires the principal of a school to allow a patriotic society the opportunity to speak with students during school hours. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB317 Short Term Loans and Lenders - As introduced, prohibits any short-term lender from assessing an interest rate for any short-term lending transaction that exceeds 28 percent per annum; and authorizes the commissioner of financial institutions to determine appropriate civil penalties. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - HB765 Law Enforcement - As enacted, permits a permanent legal resident of the United States who is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces to be employed as a police officer; requires such an officer to apply for or obtain citizenship within six years of the employment start date. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - HB1812 Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, makes various changes to the procedure for appeals from juvenile court. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-159.

TN - HB180 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain specified persons, and provides for the placement of other certain signage. - Amends TCA Title 54.

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

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

TN - HB1484 School Transportation - As enacted, broadens the scope of the offense regarding a school bus driver using certain electronic devices while operating a bus with a child on board and increases the penalty for the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

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

TN - HB1932 Real Property - As enacted, expands the applicability of the Neighborhood Preservation Act to certain occupied buildings and residential properties by authorizing a person to bring a civil action against the owner of an occupied building or property that is not properly maintained or that fails to comply with certain ordinances or regulations. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 6.

TN - HB715 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires the executive director of THEC to convene representatives from UT and the board of regents to create, revise, and adopt policies to assist veterans and military service members with higher education programs; makes other various revisions to the eligibility and in-state tuition guidelines of the Tennessee Veterans Education Transition Support Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.

TN - HB531 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, clarifies that no person loaning money that is secured by real property may require insurance that exceeds the replacement cost of the structures or the expected replacement value of the structures on the real property. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 8.

TN - HB200 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, revises provisions governing statute of limitations for certain civil actions. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1851 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires all public institutions of higher education to charge the same rate of tuition and fees for full-time students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2025 Dentists and Dentistry - As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of health to complete a comprehensive state oral health plan by January 1, 2017, and to submit the plan to the federal centers for disease control and prevention and to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB708 Taxes - As enacted, specifies that in certain circumstances real property in Shelby County owned and used by certain nonprofit economic or charitable development organizations will be eligible for property tax exemption as a charitable use of property if the real property is owned by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity that is engaged in economic development. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1104 Recreational Vehicles - As enacted, creates an off-highway vehicle advisory committee to study the provision of safety training to off-highway vehicle operators, acquisition of potential private or public land as off-highway recreation areas, and funding sources for such training and acquisitions; requires the committee to report by January 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 55 and Title 70.

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

TN - HB1239 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, provides that a victim of a sexually oriented crime is entitled to a forensic medical examination without charge to the victim; establishes requirements for collection of evidence, testing, and handling of such evidence; requires the domestic violence state coordinating council to create a model policy for law enforcement agencies responding to reports of sexually oriented crimes and requires all law enforcement agencies that are likely to encounter reports of sexually oriented crimes to establish written policies and procedures on responding to reports of sexually oriented crimes. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 13, Part 1; Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HB880 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, requires persons convicted of the offense of sexual contact with inmates to register as a sexual offender and allows such persons to file a request for termination of registration no sooner than three years after termination of active supervision or no sooner than three years after discharge from incarceration without supervision. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39.

TN - HB2268 Cemeteries - As enacted, creates the community cemetery grant fund; provisions to be repealed July 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 46.

TN - HB2327 Treasurer, State - As introduced, requires the department of the treasury and the department of education to determine the liability of LEAs, in which there are charter schools, for retirement benefits for employees not covered under the TCRS; permits an LEA, in which there is a charter school, to withhold from the per student expenditure the amount necessary to fund retirement benefits for those employees not under TCRS for which the LEA bears the financial obligation for retirement benefits. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - HB1615 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board of examiners for architects and engineers four years to June 30, 2020; establishes minimum attendance requirement for board members and removal of members who do not meet the requirement. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Section 49-17-103 and Title 62, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2038 Workers Compensation - As enacted, revises various provisions governing workers' compensation in regard to the case management system and settlements. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 56.

TN - HB1516 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, removes convicted felons whose voting rights have been restored from those persons or classes prohibited from being bail bondsmen, agents of bail bondsmen, or surety companies and directly or indirectly receiving any benefits from the execution of a bail bond. - Amends TCA Section 40-11-128.

TN - HB1174 Metropolitan Government - As enacted, permits a county with a metropolitan government that has acquired real property at a delinquent tax sale to authorize the conveyance of the real property by grant to a nonprofit organization for the purpose of constructing affordable or workplace housing. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 3, Part 3 and Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 25.

TN - HB1528 Sentencing - As enacted, specifies that a defendant charged with the offense of domestic assault, child abuse, or child neglect or endangerment is not eligible for suspended prosecution and pretrial diversion. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 15.

TN - HB1625 Privacy, Confidentiality - As enacted, permits the disclosure of a decedent's mental health records to an authorized post-mortem official if necessary for the preparation of a post-mortem examination report pertaining to a case under investigation and a court order or judicial subpoena authorizes the official to obtain the records. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 38, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB1652 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, changes date for annual sales tax holiday from the first weekend in August to the last weekend in July each year. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-393.

TN - HB2424 DUI Offenses - As enacted, authorizes the use of the ignition interlock fund to assist with the costs of other monitoring devices; renames the fund the "DUI monitoring fund" and limits the amounts to be expended from the fund; revises provisions governing service of a sentence for a DUI conviction in an alternative facility. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB1582 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners two years to June 30, 2018; requires the division of state audit to conduct a question and answer review of the board in 2017. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4.

TN - HB48 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, for tax years beginning January 1, 2015, increases the income exemption level for the Hall income tax to be $37,000 for single filers and $68,000 for joint filers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1698 Local Government, General - As enacted, removes provision whereby a processing fee may not exceed five percent of the amount of payment collected by credit or debit card, in regard to the authority for a local government to set and collect a processing fee in an amount that is equal to the amount paid to a third-party processor for processing the payment. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1614 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board of examiners for nursing home administrators six years to June 30, 2022; establishes minimum attendance requirement for board members and removal of members who do not meet the requirement. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 16; Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HB128 State Government - As introduced, removes conviction-related questions on job applications for employment with certain state agencies and political subdivisions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21 and Title 50.

TN - HB2325 Personal Property - As introduced, prohibits any person or legal entity from reproducing, preparing derivative works from, distributing, or using digital or satellite transmission to perform a sound recording without the owner’s express permission if the sound recording was initially fixed on or before February 15, 1972; creates a cause of action for the owner. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1257 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development to set the state’s minimum hourly wage rate at not less than $10.10 per hour, adjusted annually to reflect inflation in accordance with the consumer price index; establishes a cause of action for employees if employers violate the state’s minimum hourly wage rate; sets the wage rate paid to blind persons employed by the state to the greater of the state minimum hourly wage rate or the federal minimum wage. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 13; Title 39; Title 50; Title 67 and Title 71.

TN - HB1555 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, removes the limitation that a passenger car or passenger motor vehicle have a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of 8,500 pounds or less in order to be subject to the mandatory seat belt law. - Amends TCA Section 55-9-603.

TN - HB2514 Victims' Rights - As enacted, increases from $750 to $1,000 the maximum amount payable by the criminal injuries compensation fund for the provision of forensic medical examinations performed on victims of sexually oriented crimes. - Amends TCA Section 29-13-118.

TN - HB2496 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, allows licensing authorities for certain state regulatory agencies to consider whether a person's conviction for the commission of a felony bears directly on the person's fitness to practice competently when making determinations regarding the person's licensure status. - Amends TCA Title 57; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB2490 Education - As enacted, encourages public high school students to participate voluntarily in at least 10 hours of community service each semester; requires the student's public high school to recognize the student's achievement at graduation in a suitable manner in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2334 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department of labor and workforce development, in consultation with the department of corrections, if so requested, to report to the governor and general assembly on existing pilot programs that focus on work programs for the successful reentry of individuals to the workforce who have been convicted of a felony. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41 and Title 50.

TN - HB3 Education - As introduced, establishes standards review and development committees and advisory teams comprised of Tennessee teachers, higher education faculty members, and parents to propose world-class, highly rigorous K-12 English language arts and mathematics standards for use in public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - HB575 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes it a Class B misdemeanor for any person to violate an order to vacate a structure declared unfit for human occupation or use; makes it a Class B misdemeanor for the owner, manager, or person responsible for a structure declared unfit for human occupation or use to authorize or facilitate occupancy of the structure. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 21, Part 1.

TN - HB1147 Aircraft and Airports - As enacted, revises provisions governing tax on aviation fuel; creates advisory task force to study revenue measures regarding the operation of aircraft and airport facilities in this state, the funding available to airports from the transportation equity fund, and the effect of such funding on the needs of the air carrier and general aviation airports. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-207; Title 67, Chapter 4; Title 67, Chapter 6 and Title 67, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2505 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, permits a student with a documented learning disability who is unable to take 12 semester hours as required for the Tennessee Promise scholarship to be eligible for the scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1580 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state family support council six years to June 30, 2022; establishes minimum attendance requirement for council members and removal of members who do not meet the requirement. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 33, Chapter 5, Part 2.

TN - HB218 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, prohibits the court from awarding any form of custody to a parent who is indicted for aggravated child abuse, sexual abuse of a child, or severe child sexual abuse while indictment is still pending, unless presumption of substantial risk of harm to child is overcome; allows supervised visitation. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB2374 Probation and Parole - As enacted, specifies that a person with a felony sentence of two years or less who is placed on probation based on reaching their release eligibility date may have their probation revoked pursuant to a revocation proceeding; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1693 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies that for the offense of trafficking for a commercial sex act it is not a defense to prosecution that the intended victim was a law enforcement officer or that the victim is a minor who consented to the act or acts constituting the offense. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-309.

TN - HB2122 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, requires the TBI to provide to the commissioner of health and to the general assembly an annual report on all law enforcement-related deaths that occurred in the prior calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 68.

TN - HB819 Education, State Board of - As enacted, allows the state board to meet in locations other than Nashville by revising the requirement that the state board meet at least quarterly in Nashville to instead require that the state board meet at least quarterly, with at least two meetings held in Nashville. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-301.

TN - HB1532 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, allows the Tennessee POST commission to deny a retired law enforcement officer's application to carry as a law enforcement officer if the retired officer is prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm, or obtaining a handgun carry permit, or if the retired officer has certain DUI convictions. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - HB179 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, increases the fines for failure to use safety belts; designates a portion of the revenue from the fines to the division of vocational rehabilitation and a portion to the state general fund. - Amends TCA Section 55-9-603.

TN - HB197 Controlled Substances - As enacted, authorizes use of cannabidiol oil with less than 0.9 percent of tetrahydrocannabinol to treat intractable seizures or epilepsy in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 43, Chapter 26.

TN - HB1477 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, each LEA to offer students in each of its high schools the opportunity to take at least six early postsecondary credit courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1241 Education - As introduced, requires LEAs to conduct eighth grade conferences with parents and teachers and guidance counselors to discuss high school graduation requirements, to set the classes that the students will take in high school, and to provide information about financial aid for college. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 70.

TN - HB1756 Education - As enacted, specifies that excluded expenditures include nonrecurring funds for priority schools in regard to provisions governing local government appropriating funds for education for nonrecurring expenditures and such funds being excluded from the maintenance of local funding requirement and from any apportionment requirement for local transportation funding. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.

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

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

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

TN - HB2370 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires that any conduct by an inmate against a correctional officer, guard, jailer, or other full-time employee of a penal institution, local jail, or workhouse, that would constitute an assault under current law be reported by the department to the appropriate district attorney general for prosecution. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 41.

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

TN - HB1121 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department of education, when publishing the list of priority schools, to list all schools in the state in order by success rate from the highest to the lowest; and list all schools in each county and each LEA in order by success rate from the highest to the lowest. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - HB1167 Weights and Measures - As enacted, requires that liquefied natural gas motor fuel be sold in diesel gallon equivalents and that compressed natural gas motor fuel be sold in gasoline gallon equivalents or diesel gallon equivalents; requires the commissioner of agriculture to promulgate rules that are necessary to establish conversion units from mass to gasoline gallon equivalents and from mass to diesel gallon equivalents. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 26.

TN - HB1982 Controlled Substances - As enacted, specifies that, on and after July 1, 2016, a new applicant may only qualify as a pain management specialist through board certification by the American board of interventional pain physicians (ABIPP) by passing parts 1 and 2 of its examination, and holding an unencumbered Tennessee license, and maintaining the minimum number of CME hours in pain management to satisfy retention of ABIPP diplomate status. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB855 Tourism - As enacted, authorizes the department of transportation to establish a sponsorship program allowing a person or entity to sponsor welcome centers and rest areas by providing highway-related services, products, or monetary contributions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 12 and Title 54.

TN - HB1487 Traffic Safety - As enacted, creates offense of operating a motor vehicle in a bicycle lane; establishes exceptions to offense and penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB89 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, clarifies responsibilities of staffing agencies relative to obtaining and submitting fingerprint samples and disclosure forms for substitute employees at child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5.

TN - HB2322 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, requires boards and commissions that appoint executive directors to appoint persons from different grand divisions of this state on a rotating basis; exempts boards and commissions that are required to appoint executive directors who reside outside of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB1779 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes to the offense of stalking, including redefining "course of conduct". - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 14; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39.

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

TN - HB733 TennCare - As enacted, authorizes TennCare to provide medical assistance for sickle cell disease management services and public education campaign activities specifically related to sickle cell disease. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1221 Students - As enacted, requires a school in which a child who is a suspected victim of child sexual abuse that occurred while the child was under the supervision or care of the school to make reasonable accommodations to separate the alleged victim of child sexual abuse from the alleged perpetrator. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.

TN - HB1643 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, reestablishes the first portion of home value for which real property tax relief will be reimbursed to disabled veteran home owners from $100,000 to $175,000 for those homeowners who received the reimbursement for tax years 2014 and 2015 and who apply to receive a reimbursement for tax year 2016 and in subsequent tax years without interruption. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB2010 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to post on the department’s web site all legislation enacted by the general assembly related to the rights of students and parents or legal guardians; requires the LEA to provide a link to the list on the web site of the LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HB554 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, eliminates the rights of custody, visitation, and inheritance for persons convicted of aggravated rape, rape, or rape of a child from which crime the child was conceived; permits the child's other parent to request reasonable visitation with the convicted parent; requires a court to establish a child support obligation for the convicted parent. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HB736 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, classifies the financial exploitation by a caretaker of an adult as a Class D felony; requires the district attorney to freeze the assets of anyone charged with taking property valued at $5,000 or more until the criminal proceedings are complete. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40 and Title 71, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB350 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the bureau of TennCare, June 30, 2019, and requires the bureau to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2014 performance audit report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10 and Title 71.

TN - HB2434 Evidence - As introduced, permits victim of domestic violence to testify via two-way closed circuit television if the court finds that the victim would be traumatized by testifying in the courtroom with the defendant present. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2435 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 the tenant is a victim are presented to the landlord; specifies that a perpetrator of certain offenses remains liable for rent and damages under a lease or rental agreement even if the perpetrator is ordered to vacate the premises by a protection order. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 66.

TN - HB382 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state board of education, June 30, 2019, and requires the board to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2014 performance audit report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB552 Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires employers to provide employees four hours of leave, paid or unpaid, each year for parental involvement in schools, subject to certain conditions; establishes a private cause of action for employer violations. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2014 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, reduces from 80 to 75 the age a custodial parent or other custodial caregiver of a person with an intellectual disability who is on the waiting list for services must reach before the individual with intellectual disabilities must be placed on the self-determination waiver or similarly capped medical assistance waiver within six months. - Amends TCA Section 33-5-112.

TN - HB387 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Tennessee economic council on women, June 30, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 50.

TN - HB1653 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department of correction to pay, within 120 days of the bill being submitted, any bill of costs or other fees owed to a county by the department as the result of a criminal conviction in that county. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 25, Part 1.

TN - HB2174 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, enacts "Kari's Law," which requires an entity that owns or controls a telephone system that is capable of outbound dialing or access to configure the telephone system to allow a person initiating a 911 call on the telephone system direct access to 911 service without an additional code, digit, prefix, postfix, or trunk access code; and an entity that owns or operates a residential or business facility utilizing a telephone system so configured to configure the telephone system to provide notification to a central location on the site of the residential or business facility when a person within the facility dials 911. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 65 and Title 68.

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

TN - HB987 Cosmetology - As enacted, specifies that the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners may suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew any license due to the person having a felony conviction if the felony conviction occurred within three years prior to the board’s decision or due to the person having a misdemeanor conviction involving moral turpitude if the misdemeanor conviction occurred within one year prior to the board’s decision. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 4.

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

TN - HB1165 Education, Higher - As enacted, creates the higher education foundation investment pool; allows higher education foundations to participate in the investment pool; requires the state treasurer to invest and manage funds in the pool. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2179 Health Care - As enacted, authorizes a qualified physician assistant to evaluate and provide care to a youth athlete who suffered, or is suspected to have suffered, a concussion or head injury during the course of a school youth athletic activity. - Amends TCA Section 68-55-501.

TN - HB809 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, creates the aeronautics economic development fund to be used by the department of transportation for program administration, marketing expenses, and program evaluation; authorizes the executive director of TWRA to use funds from the 1986 wetland acquisition fund to acquire the McCartt Tract and adjacent lands in Morgan County; authorizes certain fund expenditures. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 11; Title 13; Title 50; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB1443 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, reduces, from 60 days to 21 days, the maximum period of time in which a person engaged in towing and storing motor vehicles may charge the vehicle's owner or lienholder a storage fee; decreases the period in which notification must be given under present law by persons engaged in the business of towing and storing motor vehicles to the last known registered owner and all lienholders of a vehicle from at least 14 days to at least 10 days prior to charging a storage fee; revises the applicability of the Motor Vehicle Storage Act to remove the exemption for counties with a metropolitan form of government. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 55, Chapter 23.

TN - HB976 Dentists and Dentistry - As enacted, specifies that a person who authorizes the practice of teledentistry will be deemed to be practicing dentistry and subject to requirements governing dentistry; requires dentists who deliver services using teledentistry to establish protocols for the practice; enacts other provisions governing teledentistry. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB2195 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises provisions regarding promoting prostitution; the dissemination of certain information by the TBI in regard to human trafficking; and the definition of "caregiver" for purposes of the laws governing juvenile courts and proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - HB1432 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds aggravated rape of a child and rape of a child as offenses for which aggravated sexual battery is a lesser included offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Section 40-18-110.

TN - HB674 Children - As enacted, revises provisions governing information provided in a pamphlet associated with newborn testing and establishes requirements for the destruction of certain specimens and identifying information. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 5.

TN - HB115 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, requires that persons with intellectual disabilities on the waiting list for services be enrolled in the self-determination waiver when their caregivers attain the age of 80. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.

TN - HB681 Constitutional Amendments - As enacted, requires a summary of a constitutional amendment to precede the question on the ballot instead of requiring a summary for only those questions exceeding 300 words in length. - Amends TCA Section 2-5-208.

TN - HB1621 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the applied behavior analyst licensing committee of the board of examiners in psychology six years to June 30, 2022; establishes minimum attendance requirement for committee members and removal of members who do not meet the requirement. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 11, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 11, Part 3.

TN - HB330 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the commission on children and youth, June 30, 2020; removes provision for the commission on children and youth to prepare and distribute impact statements analyzing the potential effect of proposals under consideration by the general assembly that relate to the health, well-being, and development of children and youth. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 37, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB496 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, clarifies that each court clerk possessing records subject to an expunction order is required to remove and destroy the records within 60 days of the date of the expunction order rather than the date of the filing of the petition; requires any court ordering the expunction of a person's records to send a copy of the order to the TBI within 30 days of the order; requires the TBI to remove expunged records from a person's criminal history within 60 days from the receipt of the expunction order. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB2436 Cemeteries - As enacted, extends to all local governments the authorization that county governments currently have to use local funds to rehabilitate or maintain dilapidated or abandoned cemeteries that do not maintain a sufficient improvement care trust fund or are not maintained adequately. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB1777 Sentencing - As enacted, requires a minimum sentence of 30 days in confinement upon conviction for flight from or attempt to elude a law enforcement officer in a motor vehicle or 60 days if the flight or attempt to elude creates a risk of death or injury to others, including pursuing law enforcement officers; adds intentionally concealing oneself to offense as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Section 39-16-603.

TN - HB810 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, prohibits sexual offenders and violent sexual offenders from being alone with minors in a private place; makes clarifications to the registry such as requiring the offender to divulge social media names. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - HB84 Purchasing and Procurement - As enacted, authorizes public institutions of higher education to participate in, sponsor, conduct, or administer a cooperative purchasing agreement for the procurement of goods or services with one or more other states or local governments in accordance with an agreement entered into between the participants; revises the protest process for challenging a solicitation, award, or proposed award of a state contract; revises provisions governing authorized limitations of liability in certain state contracts. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 2, Part 1; Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 5 and Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 7.

TN - HB1312 Highway Patrol - As enacted, enables members of the Tennessee highway patrol to authorize payroll deductions for the payment of membership dues for organizations that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - HB133 Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As enacted, requires an action that accrued while a plaintiff inmate was housed in a facility operated by a private corporation pursuant to a contract with the state or local government to be brought in the county in which the facility is located. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 8.

TN - HB2407 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, enacts the "Public-Private Transportation Act of 2016." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 9; Title 12; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB1425 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, prohibits the local board of education from increasing the salary or compensation for the director of schools, unless the board approves a raise for teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB570 Taxes, Excise - As enacted, exempts certain interests in qualified low-income community historic structures from excise tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.

TN - HB2493 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, requires the commissioner of children's services to report annually to the governor, the chief clerk of the senate, and the chief clerk of the house on probation and juvenile justice evidence-based treatment services; requires other reporting by juvenile court clerks. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB614 Recycling - As enacted, revises provisions governing state government recycling efforts; encourages state facilities to offer recycling opportunities. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB754 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, allows a person who is mandated to comply with the requirements of sex offender registry, based solely upon a conviction for aggravated prostitution may petition the sentencing court for termination of the registration requirements based on the person's status as a victim of: a human trafficking offense, a sexual offense, or domestic abuse. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - HB1164 Health Care - As enacted, creates a special joint committee to study issues relative to lupus. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB494 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, creates a new disposition option of taking a minor who violates curfew to a designated curfew center rather than juvenile court; revises other curfew provisions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 17.

TN - HB2032 Agriculture - As enacted, redefines industrial hemp under the Tennessee Right to Farm Act, and revises other provisions of the Act. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43 and Chapter 936 of the Public Acts of 2014.

TN - HB999 Disabled Persons - As enacted, enacts "The Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act."

TN - HB1645 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, extends the statute of limitations for prosecution of the offenses of aggravated child abuse, or aggravated child neglect or endangerment. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB865 Children - As enacted, allows law enforcement officers to transport minor victims of prostitution to a shelter care facility designated by the juvenile court judge to facilitate the release of the minor to the custody of a parent or legal guardian. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HB1611 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board of pharmacy two years to June 30, 2018; requires the board to appear before the government operations joint evaluation committee on education, health and general welfare no later than November 18, 2016, to provide an update on the board's progress in addressing the findings set forth in the October 2015 performance audit report issued by the division of state audit. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 10, Part 3.

TN - HB114 Consumer Protection - As enacted, prohibits the printing of a social security number on a check in order to receive a benefit, good, service, or other value, unless the person provides written permission or the disclosure is required by state or federal law or made to a consumer reporting agency or certain financial institutions. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - HB735 Education - As enacted, requires the commissioner of education, by October 1 of the year prior to the public identification of priority schools, to notify any school and its respective LEA if the school is among the bottom 10 percent of schools in overall achievement as determined by the performance standards and other criteria set by the state board. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-602.

TN - HB1648 DUI Offenses - As enacted, allows a court to order a person convicted of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol to be subject to monitoring using a transdermal monitoring device, electronic monitoring with random alcohol or drug testing, global positioning monitoring, or any other monitoring device necessary to ensure compliance with the conditions of probation or the results of any clinical substance abuse assessment. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2 and Title 55.

TN - HB921 Education - As enacted, prohibits the placement of a priority school in the achievement school district if, after the school is identified as a priority school, but before the commissioner determines that the school should be assigned to the achievement school district the school demonstrates student achievement growth at a level of "above expectations" or greater, as represented by TVAAS. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1978 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, increases age of persons allowed to use tobacco and vapor products from 18 years of age to 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 39 and Title 68.

TN - HB843 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the “Neighborhood Protection Act.” - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

TN - HB2054 Safety - As enacted, authorizes certain entities to stock epinephrine auto-injectors on their premises; authorizes employees, agents, and laypersons to provide or administer an epinephrine auto-injector under certain circumstances; requires the secretary of state to provide any rule promulgated to implement this act to the chairs of the health committee of the house and the health and welfare committee of the senate after approval by the attorney general at the same time that the rule is to be made available to the government operations committees. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - HB381 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the prevailing wage commission, June 30, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 4.

TN - HB1031 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, changes, from "prior to June 15" to "within five business days following the last instructional day for the school year" the time within which notices of dismissal or failure of re-election must be provided to teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1185 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, establishes restitution for certain offenses involving wild game and requires that hunting and fishing privileges be revoked until restitution is paid. - Amends TCA Title 70.

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

TN - HB20 Local Government, General - As enacted, expands presumptive disability in acquiring certain infectious diseases in the line of duty by emergency rescue workers to include the hepatitis C virus. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-209.

TN - HB2313 Financial Disclosure - As introduced, prohibits certain public employees and officials from owning shares of stocks or investments in privately held prison companies on or after January 1, 2017; requires such employees or officials who own holdings or stock in privately held prison companies prior to January 1, 2017, to disclose such investments or holdings and divest of such stock or investments by January 1, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 67.

TN - HB41 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, revises provisions governing 12-hour hold period for persons charged with domestic violence or elder abuse offense; makes hold period mandatory unless the magistrate or other official duly authorized to release the offender finds that the offender is not a threat to the alleged victim. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - HB2009 Education - As enacted, changes various references from "curriculum" to "standards" in present law in order to clarify that the state board of education is responsible for academic standards and local boards are responsible for curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB36 Education - As enacted, allows LEAs to opt out of including the student's TCAP scores in the student's final grades if the LEA doesn't receive the scores at least five instructional days before the end of the school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2271 General Assembly - As introduced, creates a special joint committee to study issues relating to the investigation and prosecution of unsolved civil rights crimes and cold cases from the civil rights era. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB646 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, enacts the "Community College Reconnect Grant." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB1601 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of human resources three years to June 30, 2019; requires the department to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2015 performance audit report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1469 Optometry - As enacted, confers immunity from civil liability for charitable organizations and free clinics, and optometrist, ophthalmologist, or dispensing optician providing services at the free clinic, involved in facilitating the dispensing of previously owned eyeglasses by licensed optometrists and ophthalmologists. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB1897 Veterans - As enacted, allows employees authorized by the Tennessee state veterans' homes board to solicit donations for the improvement of existing homes or for future construction of new homes. - Amends TCA Section 58-7-103.

TN - HB45 Sentencing - As enacted, enacts the "Ben Woodruff and Mike Locke Act," which requires a person who commits aggravated vehicular homicide on or after July 1, 2015, to serve 60 percent of the sentence imposed before becoming release eligible; provided, however, that the person must serve at least 45 percent of the sentence imposed after sentence-reduction credits are applied. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 5.

TN - HB1240 Drugs, Synthetic or Analogue - As introduced, requires the district attorneys general conference to report to the senate judiciary committee and the house criminal justice committee concerning the issue of synthetic drugs on or before January 31, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB500 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies to submit to TBI reports of the demographics of the following members of the public who interact with the law enforcement agency: victims, suspects, and arrested individuals. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 10.

TN - HB308 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, specifies that it is grounds for the termination of parental rights that the parent or guardian is convicted on or after July 1, 2015, of the offense of sex trafficking of children under federal law, or under the law of another state. - Amends TCA Section 36-1-113.

TN - HB1836 Education, Higher - As enacted, permits THEC to designate private nonprofit institutions of higher education as Tennessee VETS campuses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.

TN - HB830 Education - As enacted, encourages LEAs, in consultation with local law enforcement, to institute at least one domestic violence awareness education program per year for middle and high schools; requires each program to be developmentally appropriate based on the students' age and maturity level. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB505 Election Laws - As enacted, allows a person to challenge a candidate's qualifications for the office of sheriff to the POST commission; creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for a person who intentionally files a fraudulent challenge of a sheriff candidate's qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 5 and Title 8, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - HB2450 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a person who commits an assault at a sporting event from remaining on or entering the property during the same or another sporting event for the period of time determined by property management; punishes the entering of property during the established period of time as criminal trespass. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB796 Real Property - As enacted, requires a seller of real property to disclose to a buyer the presence of any known sinkhole on the property. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - HB2326 Election Laws - As introduced, removes requirement that voter needs photograph identification prior to voting; restores former requirement that voter present identification such as social security cared or credit card for purpose of comparing signature on the application for ballot. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1512 Safety - As enacted, expands the categories of missing citizens for whom a media alert is sent; changes name of program from "missing citizen alert program" to "Care Alert program". - Amends TCA Section 38-6-121.

TN - HB2144 Controlled Substances - As enacted, excludes from the definition of marijuana, cannabis oil containing the substance cannabidiol, with less than 0.6 percent THC, including the necessary seeds and plants, when manufactured, processed, transferred, dispensed, or possessed by certain four-year institutions of higher education in this state as part of clinical research studies on the treatment of intractable seizures, cancer, or other diseases. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-402 and Chapter 936 of the Public Acts of 2014.

TN - HB126 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows a child of a military parent to be eligible for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship if the child is classified as an in-state student at the time of application. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-926.

TN - HB721 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes certain counties to exempt certain newer motor vehicles from emissions testing requirements. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 201.

TN - HB1224 Traffic Safety - As introduced, exempts vehicles in a parade or community event from receiving a traffic citation based on evidence obtained from unmanned traffic enforcement cameras. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-198.

TN - HB1591 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Memphis regional megasite authority six years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Section 13-16-206; Section 13-16-204 and Title 64, Chapter 6.

TN - HB212 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates November as "Lung Cancer Awareness Month." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1509 Clerks, Court - As enacted, clarifies that clerks of general sessions and circuit courts are required to notify the TBI of final disposition of criminal proceedings as soon as practicable but no later than 30 days after final disposition of the proceedings. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401; Section 8-4-115; Title 16; Title 18 and Section 39-17-1316.

TN - HB1593 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the interstate compact on the placement of children six years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 36, Chapter 1; Title 37, Chapter 1; Title 37, Chapter 4 and Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2116 Domestic Violence - As enacted, specifies that if domestic abuse is the underlying offense for which a tenancy is terminated, only the perpetrator may be evicted; enacts other provisions governing and domistic violence. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36 and Title 66.

TN - HB1700 Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, grants the court discretion to waive the requirement that a fiduciary request court approval for any change in the nature of any investment if a minimum balance is maintained and other requirements are met; adds income-producing property to list of approved investments. - Amends TCA Title 34, Chapter 1 and Title 35, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2530 Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes counties and cities to establish programs allowing indigent persons who have been convicted of driving while their license is suspended or revoked to complete community service in lieu of paying the fine or costs for the conviction; requires a majority vote of the applicable local legislative body to establish such a program. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB1540 Solid Waste Disposal - As enacted, changes eligibility criteria for counties that receive rebates against the solid waste disposal tipping fee surcharge in lieu of a recycling equipment grant from the 11 highest waste generating counties to the five most populous counties. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB1678 Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, creates the "Nurse Licensure Compact." - Amends and repeals portions of TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2236 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the state board of education and the department to support and encourage LEAs in the creation of communities of schools; authorizes LEAs and schools to form community consortiums with a variety of community partners to establish communities of schools; enacts other provisions relative to community schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 24.

TN - HB555 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, enacts the "Making Work Pay Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.

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

TN - HB1321 Fees - As enacted, enacts the "Tire Environmental Act." - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 16 and Title 68.

TN - HB1955 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires that any state mandated health benefit that takes effect on or after the effective date of this act apply not only to private health insurance issuers but also any managed care organization contracting with the state to provide insurance through the TennCare program and state or local insurance program. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB676 Board of Regents - As enacted, permits students at the University of Memphis who are residents of another state in a county lying immediately adjacent to Shelby County or who have residences within 30 miles of the university to attend without paying out-of-state tuition. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - HB1534 Correctional Programs - As enacted, allows an inmate to receive sentence reduction credits for obtaining any high school equivalency credential, instead of only a GED. - Amends TCA Section 41-21-236.

TN - HB594 Cosmetology - As enacted, requires any cosmetologist seeking a license to instruct in a cosmetology school to have been licensed as a cosmetologist, aesthetician, manicurist, or natural hair stylist for at least three continuous years and seek to instruct only in the area in which the applicant is currently licensed. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 4.

TN - HB103 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, extends the CoverKids Act of 2006 from June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Section 71-3-1113.

TN - HB1577 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state TennCare pharmacy advisory committee four years to June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 24.

TN - HB1630 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, removes a teacher's duty to perform fire drills, intruder drills, or any other safety or emergency drills. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-201.

TN - HB935 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, specifies that property used in the course of, intended for use in the course of, derived from, or realized through certain terrorist acts is subject to forfeiture; creates a civil action for damages for a person injured as a result of certain terrorist acts. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB102 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, makes various changes to the Access Tennessee Act of 2006; limits coverage under the Act to those persons enrolled prior to April 22, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 29.

TN - HB1799 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes issuance of Combat Action new specialty earmarked license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1237 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, enacts the "Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11, Part 1; Title 56, Chapter 4 and Title 67.

TN - HB338 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board for professional counselors, marital and family therapists, and clinical pastoral therapists, June 30, 2019, and clarifies that nominations from professional groups for appointment to the board are permissive. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 63, Chapter 22.

TN - HB78 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, deletes the current schedule for the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program that requires testing to occur during a two-week window by the first Monday on or after April 22; authorizes the commissioner of education to establish a schedule for the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-6002.

TN - HB181 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes various new special license plates and grants additional time for certain plates to meet the minimum order requirement. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB553 Election Laws - As introduced, permits any registered Tennessee voter to vote absentee for any reason after providing evidence of identification in the application for a ballot; exempts certain absentee voters from the evidence of identification requirement under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB2331 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises provisions governing coverage of telehealth services. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-1002.

TN - HB1979 Charitable Solicitations - As enacted, specifies that educational institutions exempt from registering with the division of charitable solicitations, includes institutions that are approved by the local board of education, the ASD, or the state board of education; extends certain renewal of registration filings for an additional 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101.

TN - HB897 Short Term Loans and Lenders - As introduced, removes the requirement that pawnbrokers deliver records of every pawn transaction by mail or in person; changes the time of delivery of the records from 48 hours after the transaction to noon the next business day following the transaction; allows a copy of the records to be delivered to the appropriate law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 45 and Title 62.

TN - HB1571 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee sports hall of fame six years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 54.

TN - HB354 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the consumer advocate division in the office of the attorney general and reporter, June 30, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 65, Chapter 4, Part 1.

TN - HB1701 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor offenses for supervisors or employees who make false statements or engage in other activity to hinder an audit conducted by or on behalf of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 4.

TN - HB309 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, restricts persons under the age of 18 from having access to vapor products; revises related provisions and urges the department of agriculture to study effects of the sale and distribution of vapor products to persons under 18 years of age; requires the department of health to implement comprehensive tobacco prevention programs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47; Title 49; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB890 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires an independent law enforcement agency to investigate any officer-involved death; makes investigation report public if district attorney declines to bring charges against officer. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 38, Chapter 8.

TN - HB808 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, expands a court's ability to admit into evidence a video recording of a forensic interview with a child to include an interview conducted by a forensic interviewer employed by a child advocacy center that is not a nonprofit corporation. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-213 and Section 24-7-123.

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

TN - HB2324 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a state minimum wage for all employees of $10.00 per hour. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2156 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As enacted, increases the amount on which property tax reimbursement will be paid from the first $23,000 to the first $23,500 for low-income, elderly homeowners and for disabled homeowners; removes the income limitation applicable for tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2088 Medical Occupations - As enacted, creates a task force to study issues related to healthcare services; specifies that the task force will make a report and cease to exist by January 10, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - HB769 General Assembly - As introduced, enacts the "Housekeeping Expenditure and Lawmaker Transparency on Healthcare (H.E.A.L.T.H.) Act," which requires the office of legislative administration to publish an annual report indicating which members of the general assembly are enrolled in the state group health plan. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 10.

TN - HB923 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of aggressive panhandling where a first violation is a Class C misdemeanor and a second or subsequent violation is a Class B misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3.

TN - HB1716 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, prohibits a child's parent or relative from interfering with a noncustodial parent's court-ordered visitation as custodial interference; makes such custodial interference a Class C misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6 and Section 39-13-306.

TN - HB1931 Students - As enacted, enacts the "Student Online Personal Protection Act". - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB238 School Transportation - As enacted, extends the allowable number of years for a Type A school bus to be in service to 15 years. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 7 and Section 49-6-2109.

TN - HB1706 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency that uses body cameras to adopt a written policy for the use of the cameras by its law enforcement officers; establishes certain requirements for the policies. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 1.

TN - HB903 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Pay Equality Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - HB2006 Medical Occupations - As enacted, permits the employment of certain medical professionals by charitable clinics. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 11; Title 63, Chapter 5; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 8 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

TN - HB1317 Sentencing - As introduced, eliminates the death penalty as a sentence for first degree murder. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB672 Domestic Violence - As enacted, requires an investigator or law enforcement officer investigating possible domestic abuse or child abuse involving a hearing-impaired child to interview the child using an interpreter outside the presence of the child's parent or family member; permits the interpreter to interpret using video remote interpreting. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Section 39-13-111.

TN - HB549 Business and Commerce - As enacted, makes the Made in Tennessee Act permanent instead of repealing on January 1, 2016; specifies that the annual report of the University of Tennessee Center for Industrial Services must address the promotion of nonagricultural products made in Tennessee through the use of a logo or seal pursuant to the Act. - Amends TCA Section 4-3-738.

TN - HB2426 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires all LEAs using the uniform grading system for lottery scholarship purposes, and another grading system based on quality points for other purposes, to award additional quality points for honors and other advanced courses uniformly. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB216 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, requires, instead of authorizes, the government operations committees to review every rule promulgated pursuant to the UAPA; makes other various changes to the rulemaking process under the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5, Part 2.

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

TN - HB1559 Workers Compensation - As enacted, revises various provisions governing payments for permanent partial disabilities; revises other provisions of the workers' compensation law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1964 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, requires the instant check unit of the TBI to contact the agency making an entry of an order of protection into the national crime information center within one day if the subject of the order of protection attempts to purchase a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38, Chapter 6 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB707 Lobbying, Lobbyists - As enacted, prohibits lobbyists from making campaign contributions to judges and judicial candidates. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB551 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Cost Accountability and Verification Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB333 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee council for the deaf, deaf-blind, and hard of hearing, June 30, 2020; requires that members of the council be removed by their appointing authority if they miss more than 50 percent of the required quarterly meetings. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 21.

TN - HB108 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Teaching Evaluation Enhancement Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 5.

TN - HB818 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, requires a driver who approaches a stationary solid waste vehicle to treat the vehicle in the same manner as approaching a stationary recovery or highway maintenance vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB2483 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, deletes the $350 fee for expunction of criminal records; exempts from the $100 clerks fee for expunction of records, those persons applying for the expunction because the charge or warrant was dismissed in any court as a result of the successful completion of a pretrial diversion program. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401 and Title 40.

TN - HB829 Domestic Violence - As enacted, requires that any pending order of protection or restraining order be served on a domestic violence offender before release, following the mandatory 12-hour holding period; directs that a copy of protection order be issued to any court in which the respondent and 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 - HB403 Controlled Substances - As enacted, enacts the "Opioid Abuse Reduction Act," which requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to convene a working group to examine the problem of opioid abuse in this state. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

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

TN - HB2391 Orders of Protection - As enacted, removes the exclusion of petitioners who are victims of sexual assault or stalking from the provisions whereby an order of protection may direct the respondent to vacate home shared with the petitioner or to provide suitable housing alternative for the petitioner. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6.

TN - HB137 Eminent Domain - As enacted, requires that actions that could be brought for trespass or nuisance in connection with the exercise of eminent domain be brought within 12 months after the land has been actually taken possession of and the work of proposed improvement begun. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 16.

TN - HB2120 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, extends the statute of limitation for aggravated statutory rape committed on or after July 1, 2016, from four years to 15 years from the date the victim becomes 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1530 Foster Care - As enacted, creates the reasonable and prudent parent standard to be used by a caregiver when determining whether to allow a foster child to participate in activities; exempts a caregiver acting in compliance with the standard from civil liability relating to injuries the child may incur in such activities. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 4.

TN - HB944 Senior Citizens - As enacted, revises certain duties of the commission on aging and disability regarding outreach and counseling. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1468 Traffic Safety - As introduced, deletes requirement that the child safety seat for a child age one through three weighing more than 20 pounds be secured in a forward-facing position. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 6.

TN - HB2117 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, revises the provisions governing eligibility and funding for the community college reconnect grant. - Amends Chapter 363 of the Public Acts of 2015.

TN - HB1911 Animal Control - As enacted, specifies that local governments may authorize an animal control agency to seize or take into custody any dog found trespassing on the premises of another person. - Amends TCA Section 44-8-408.

TN - HB2502 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, clarifies that a parent who spends intervals of time with a child and who wishes to relocate is required to provide notice to the other parent after custody or co-parenting has been established by the entry of a permanent parenting plan or final court order. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB675 Students - As introduced, exempts certain students from payment of out-of-state tuition at state institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 58; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB619 County Officers - As enacted, specifies that certain information acquired by a county trustee is not subject to public inspection unless a law enforcement agency, court, or other government agency requires inspection of the information in performing official functions. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2148 Students - As enacted, requires LEAs to provide students with certain periods of physical activity depending on grade level; deletes an obsolete reporting requirement; requires the office of coordinated school health in the department of education to provide an annual report regarding this act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB90 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, authorizes and establishes certain procedures regarding the right to reach a written compromise and settlement to forgive accrued principal and interest on delinquent child support owed with approval of the obligee. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - HB2107 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the commissioner to submit a report to the health and welfare committee of the senate and the health committee of the house concerning the feasibility of a pilot program for one county that seeks to address overcrowding in jails and correction institutions by providing diversionary or transitional services that include mental health services and supports, substance abuse treatment and counseling, health care, and employment and housing supports. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 40; Title 41; Title 50 and Title 71.

TN - HB1513 Sheriffs - As enacted, authorizes sheriffs and deputy sheriffs to retain service weapon upon retirement and completion of honorable service and approval by 2/3 vote of county legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8, Part 2.

TN - HB1888 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the “Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Compact.” - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - HB404 Alcohol Offenses, Sales - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor for sale of powdered or crystalline alcohol. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 57.

TN - HB87 Public Health - As enacted, upon request by the commissioner of health or commissioner's designee, requires that commissioner or designee be given certain access to medical records in order to facilitate investigations and inquiries when responding to an immediate threat to public health. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 3.

TN - HB1036 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As enacted, enacts the "Addiction Treatment Act of 2015." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 53; Title 56 and Title 63.

TN - HB1594 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the interstate compact on mental health six years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 33, Chapter 9, Part 2 and Title 33, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HB1524 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes the issuance of certain new specialty earmarked plates; extends the minimum order deadline for certain plates; revises other special license plate provisions. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB270 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a law enforcement officer to provide a minor suspected of prostitution with the telephone number of the Tennessee human trafficking resource center hotline instead of the number to the national hotline. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB24 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, enacts the "Go Build Tennessee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 62, Chapter 6.

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

TN - HB1583 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state board of accountancy four years to June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 62, Chapter 1.

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

TN - HB1448 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, makes sex offender registration for persons convicted of misdemeanor unlawful photographing in violation of privacy discretionary instead of mandatory; the judge may order registration after taking into account the facts and circumstances surrounding the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 6 and Title 40, Chapter 39.

TN - HB720 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As enacted, specifies that the seizure and forfeiture of vehicles is applicable after certain DUI convictions, rather than violations. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10.

TN - HB2571 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prescription Safety Act of 2016," which revises regulation of controlled substances; makes permanent most all of the changes made under the Tennessee Prescription Safety Act of 2012, and revises and enacts other provisions. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 63, Chapter 1; Chapter 791 of the Public Acts of 2014 and Chapter 880 of the Public Acts of 2012.

TN - HB1631 Consumer Protection - As enacted, redefines the time period within which a business must notify a consumer if the consumer's personal information that was held by the business was obtained by an unauthorized person from immediate notification to no later than 45 days; includes employees of the business who use the information in an unlawful manner as unauthorized persons, thus triggering the notice requirements. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - HB99 DUI Offenses - As enacted, makes certain technical corrections to statutes regarding driving under the influence. - Amends TCA Section 55-10-401 and Section 55-10-402.

TN - HB1974 Education - As enacted, requires schools having automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) to have annual training in the use of AEDs and an annual CPR/AED drill for school personnel; requires students in junior high or senior high to receive training in the use of AEDs during CPR instruction and, if the school has an AED, participate in a CPR/AED drill; exempts schools operated by or under contract with the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB556 Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes the department of safety to develop an electronic driver license system in which licensees may participate; permits development of a mobile application to display images of driver licenses on cell phones; allows electronic driver licenses to be accepted in lieu of physical driver licenses. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB2176 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, requires the department of safety to report annually to the speakers of the senate and the house and the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate, civil justice committee of the house, and criminal justice committee of the house, a report detailing certain information regarding forfeitures from the prior year. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 40.

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

TN - HB2081 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services, in consultation with the commissioner of health, to establish a pre-arrest diversion program from minor drug charges. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2443 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires that certain temporary injunctions go into effect against both parties upon filing of a petition related to child custody. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB1204 Education - As enacted, authorizes and encourages local education agencies to adopt as their course of instruction in character education the Congressional Medal of Honor Character Development Program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB18 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, prohibits health insurance entities from charging a covered person a greater copayment or coinsurance amount for services rendered during an office visit to a physician assistant who is contracted as a primary care practitioner by that health insurer than those charged for such services rendered during an office visit to a physician. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB587 Sentencing - As enacted, creates a new sentencing enhancement factor when the defendant committed the offense of robbery, aggravated robbery, or especially aggravated robbery on the premises of a licensed pharmacy in an effort to unlawfully obtain, sell, give, or exchange a controlled substance, controlled substance analogue, or other illegal drug. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-114.

TN - HB217 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, deletes the requirement of intent to cause bodily injury from aggravated assault involving strangulation or attempted strangulation. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-102.

TN - HB22 Human Rights - As introduced, prohibits employers from asking applicants for employment about expunged offenses; prevents higher education institutions from asking applicants for admission about expunged offenses; establishes civil penalties for private employers violating act's provisions. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32; Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 50.

TN - HB98 DUI Offenses - As enacted, directs the commissioner of education to develop guidelines for LEAs to create an annual report that informs students of the death of any person 18 years of age or younger who died as a result of a person 18 years of age or younger driving under the influence of an intoxicant or drug. - Amends TCA Section 4-3-2014 and Section 49-1-219.

TN - HB693 Public Health - As enacted, requires the bureau of TennCare, the department of health, and the department of finance and administration to jointly develop certain plans and reports concerning diabetes to be made to the health and welfare committee of the senate and the health committee of the house every two years. - Amends TCA Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1478 Sentencing - As enacted, punishes sixth offense DUI as a Class C felony; clarifies "prior convictions" for purposes of enhancing a DUI sentence; removes Class E felony designation for third or subsequent conviction for simple possession or casual exchange of a controlled substance in certain situations; removes mandatory 24-hour litter removal requirement for first DUI offenders. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB196 Elder Abuse - As enacted, requires that a fine be imposed on a person convicted of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an adult if the victim was over 60 years of age; authorizes appropriation of the fines to fund services and programs for senior citizens. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 71, Chapter 2 and Title 71, Chapter 6, Part 1.

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

TN - HB1903 Courts - As enacted, requires all pleadings and records filed in a termination of parental rights case in chancery or circuit court to be placed under seal and not subject to public disclosure, in the same manner as those filed in juvenile court, unless otherwise provided by court order. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1936 Elder Abuse - As enacted, requires, by January 1, 2017, the district attorney general of each judicial district to establish, or cause to be established, a vulnerable adult protective investigative team (VAPIT). - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 6.

TN - HB364 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of education, June 30, 2019, and requires the department to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2014 performance audit report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB321 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, permits a person to have their records expunged after being charged with a misdemeanor or felony that was dismissed, if the person was convicted of an offense related to the same criminal conduct or a lesser included offense but that offense was a moving or nonmoving traffic violation; allows partial expunction in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB275 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, authorizes the TBI to employ, effective July 1, 2015, four additional special agents for the purpose of training other officers, investigating and assisting in the prosecution of human trafficking cases; directs TBI to develop and provide a course of instruction to other officers and departments in the recognition, detection, and prosecution of human trafficking cases. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6.

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

TN - HB1369 Adoption - As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding adoption, including provisions governing termination of parental rights, abandonment, and surrender. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - HB1607 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee commission on aging and disability four years to June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 71, Chapter 2, Part 1.

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

TN - HB1163 Health Care - As enacted, clarifies that Alzheimer's-related dementia, includes, but is not limited to, dementia with Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia for purposes of the required disclosure of specialized care at any entity, facility, program, or any instrumentality of the state or political subdivision of the state that advertises, markets, or offers to provide specialized care, treatment, or therapeutic activities for one or more persons with a probable diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease or Alzheimer's-related dementia. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB2377 Evidence - As enacted, requires that all biological evidence collected for a criminal offense or offenses in which one or more of the defendants received a sentence of death based upon the same criminal acts, whether the defendants were tried separately or together, be preserved until all defendants receiving a death sentence based on the same conduct are executed, otherwise die, or all related charges for which the defendants were convicted are dismissed. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB817 Election Laws - As enacted, requires county election commissions to notify the secretary of state's division of elections prior to implementing an Internet electronic filing process. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1704 Probation and Parole - As introduced, makes defendants convicted for having or selling drugs in school zones eligible for parole after serving 33 percent of the defendant's sentence; eliminates the requirement that defendants serve a mandatory minimum sentence before parole eligibility. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB1451 University of Tennessee - As introduced, requires all intercollegiate women's athletic teams at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to be called the "Lady Volunteers" or "Lady Vols" for all official school purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

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

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

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

TN - HB1976 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, makes various revisions to an LEA’s policies on harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyber-bullying; requires that an investigation be initiated within 48 hours and that an appropriate intervention be initiated within 20 calendar days of receipt of the report. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 45.

TN - HB2078 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, authorizes general sessions and criminal court judges in Knox County to suspend court costs and litigation tax for indigent defendants; authorizes criminal court clerk to implement community service program in lieu of full payment of court costs and litigation taxes for indigent defendants; provisions expire July 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401; Title 40, Chapter 25 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.

TN - HB2049 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Government Imposter and Deceptive Advertisements Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - HB1351 County Government - As enacted, authorizes county legislative bodies to appropriate funds for affordable or workforce housing. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.

TN - HB1511 Traffic Safety - As enacted, redesignates, from nonmoving to moving, traffic violations for transmitting or reading written messages on hand-held devices while driving; requires that first offenders for transmitting or reading written messages on hand-held devices while driving attend and complete a driver education course. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB80 Water - As enacted, changes requirements for use of lead free hardware with respect to drinking water. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 7.

TN - HB1536 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, establishes a tax credit equal to 33 percent of the value of cash investments made in certain companies by an "angel investor" against the angel investor's Hall income tax liability. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - HB64 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the department to create a safety reporting system where the department's employees may report information regarding the safety of those served by the department and the safety of the department's employees. - Amends TCA Section 37-5-106.

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

TN - HB1026 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, enacts the "Community Resurgence Job Tax Credit Act of 2015." - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

TN - HB1870 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, authorizes all public pension and retirement plans, including those of utility districts and other local governmental entities, to recognize a qualified domestic relations order that directs the entity to allocate a portion of a member's benefits to the member's former spouse. - Amends TCA Section 26-2-105.

TN - HB582 Elder Abuse - As enacted, confers upon law enforcement agencies, as well as the department of human services, the authority, during the course of an elder abuse investigation, to require a medical examination of the person if the agency is not sure that the adult is in imminent danger. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - HB2445 Law Enforcement - As enacted, authorizes law enforcement officers to administer epinephrine in emergency situations in certain circumstances; authorizes physicians to prescribe epinephrine to a law enforcement agency for use by officers in emergency situations; adds immunity from civil liability for pharmacists based on any injury to an individual who is harmed by the administration of the epinephrine dispensed by the pharmacist and prescribed by a physician pursuant to this bill, unless the pharmacist acts with reckless disregard for safety. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB576 Probation and Parole - As enacted, makes a person who commits vehicular homicide where alcohol or drugs were involved ineligible for probation. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

TN - HB853 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, permits a professional bondsman to take certain actions without legal counsel; directs that documents relating to the assignment of collateral be delivered to the presiding judge of the judicial district; creates a procedure for a surety to deliver to the court an investment certificate to establish or increase the surety's capacity. - Amends TCA Section 40-11-302.

TN - HB429 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, prohibits supervisors from disciplining or discouraging teachers and other educators for reporting inaccuracies or errors or potentially inflammatory material in textbooks or other educational materials to supervisors, elected officials, or parents or guardians; prohibits requiring a teacher or other educator to agree not to report inaccuracies or errors or potentially inflammatory material in textbooks or other educational materials, as a condition of employment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB66 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, consolidates annual reports on foster children and child care agencies into a comprehensive annual report made by the department; removes reporting requirement concerning shifting responsibility for foster children who move from one placement to another within the county probation department or children's services department. - Amends TCA Section 37-2-205; Section 37-2-411 and Section 37-5-519.

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

TN - HB2442 State Employees - As enacted, prohibits a state employer from inquiring about an applicant's criminal history on an initial application form for employment under certain circumstances; excludes certain state employers from this prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 1.

TN - HB828 Veterans - As enacted, specifies that no fee may be charged for the interment of an eligible veteran in a state veterans' cemetery and limits the fee to $610 for the interment of an eligible veteran's spouse. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

TN - HB697 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires that a child and the child's parents, guardian, or custodian receive five days' notice instead of three before a hearing to transfer the child from juvenile court to criminal court. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 40.

TN - HB1574 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee medical laboratory board six years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Section 63-1-138; Section 68-1-101 and Title 68, Chapter 29.

TN - HB147 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Animal Abuser Registration Act." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 44.

TN - HB52 Clerks, Court - As enacted, allows court clerk, subject to approval of the judge, to accept a lump-sum partial payment in full settlement for all court costs, fees, and litigation taxes owed; provided, that the amount has been in default for at least five years and the amount settled upon is 50 percent or more of the combined outstanding balance. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 24, Part 1.

TN - HB695 Election Laws - As enacted, revises provisions governing nominations to fill a vacancy in a general assembly seat, under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 2, Chapter 14, Part 2.

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

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

TN - HB1824 Elder Abuse - As enacted, revises requirements for criminal background checks in certain health care facilities; convenes working groups on elder abuse; revises other provisions relative to abuse of certain vulnerable persons. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 47; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1780 Education - As enacted, requires every elementary and secondary school to post the toll-free telephone number operated by the department of children's services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect in a clearly visible location in a public area that is readily accessible to students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB478 State Employees - As enacted, eliminates the 30-day aggregate limit of sick leave that may be used for maternity and paternity leave if both parents are state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8.

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

TN - HB2489 Education - As enacted, authorizes the state board of education to promulgate rules for the development of a program whereby 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporations may be recognized for the purpose of assisting LEAs through the selection and appointment of qualified volunteers; requires LEAs to establish a local appeal process through which a recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation may appeal a decision of the LEA to reject the corporation's offer of assistance. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1960 Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, enacts the "Juvenile Justice Realignment Act"; creates a task force to study new approaches to the administration of juvenile justice. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 37.

TN - HB464 Probation and Parole - As enacted, specifies that when declining, revoking, or rescinding parole, the board of probation and parole may set the period of time before the prisoner receives another hearing on the same offense or offenses; no period set by the board may exceed 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 28, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 5.

TN - HB291 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, requires commissioners of economic and community development and revenue to evaluate certain tax credits and report to various officials; revises, modifies, and limits various other tax credit provisions. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 1; Title 67, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

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

TN - HB1747 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, requires every law enforcement agency to have a policy describing when law enforcement personnel may disclose to the public information or law enforcement records concerning the use of drugs or alcohol by a driver as a contributing factor in a motor vehicle accident. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10.

TN - HB2026 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, revises references to criminal offenses in the expunction provisions to conform to changes made to those criminal offenses by the Public Safety Act of 2016. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2084 Energy - As introduced, enacts the "Property Assessed Clean Energy Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 68.

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

TN - HB82 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, removes the commissioner of financial institutions' authority to use a multi-state automated licensing system as an agent for channeling information pursuant to the Flexible Credit Act; requires a flex loan licensee to consent to a criminal history records check and to provide fingerprints to the commissioner of financial institutions when the licensee is applying to renew the license, if so requested by the commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 12.

TN - HB1485 Education - As enacted, makes certain changes to the requirements for voluntary pre-k programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB2212 Water Pollution - As enacted, expands the notice requirement when lead is present in the drinking water supply. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 12; Title 45; Title 47; Title 50; Title 56; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB229 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, enacts the "Ensuring Patient Access to Pharmacy Drug Disposal Programs Act of 2015". - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10.

TN - HB2260 Education - As enacted, requires referees or officiates of interscholastic athletic events to submit to a criminal background investigation and provide a fingerprint sample; exempts the referees and officiates from the criminal background investigation and requirement to provide a fingerprint sample if they have undergone a satisfactory background check as a condition of registration for work as an official for interscholastic athletic contests. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 4.

TN - HB1703 Driver Licenses - As introduced, deletes requirement that the department of safety extend the suspension of a person's driver license for an additional like period based on a conviction for driving on a suspended or revoked license. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB1666 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies the offense of harassment with respect to the methods by which harassment may occur and broadens the offense to include the methods available through modern technology. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-308.

TN - HB231 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau of TennCare to report annually an accounting of the amount paid to MCOs under the CHOICES program in the prior fiscal year and the amount paid by MCOs for long-term care services in that same fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 71.

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

TN - HB704 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, permits a biological or adoptive great-grandparent or the spouse thereof to petition a court for grandparent visitation. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB1531 Paternity - As enacted, defines the term "putative father"; makes various changes to the termination of parental rights of a putative father. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB2201 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Right to Earn a Living Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 38; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 67.

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

TN - HB1811 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of using an unmanned aircraft to fly within 250 feet of a critical infrastructure facility for the purpose of conducting surveillance of, gathering evidence or collecting information about, or photographically or electronically recording, critical infrastructure data. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2071 Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to establish a model policy on suicide prevention; requires an LEA to adopt its own policy or the model policy on suicide prevention. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 49.

TN - HB297 Taxes - As introduced, amends the taxpayer bill of rights by changing the current right to a 10-day notice before a levy on assets is enforced to a 14-day notice. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1495 Driver Licenses - As enacted, deletes requirement that a person's driver license be suspended for an additional like period if convicted of driving on a suspended or revoked license; allows a court to order issuance of a restricted driver license contingent on the person participating in a payment plan for any unpaid fines or costs. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB1498 Education - As introduced, requires the state board of education to promulgate a rule permitting the length of the school term to be calculated by instructional hours as well as the current number of instructional days. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3004.

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

TN - HB1291 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Aron's Law," which makes the knowing killing of a police dog, fire dog, search and rescue dog, or police horse a Class E felony, unless the offense would be a higher classification based on the animal’s value, in which case, knowingly killing the animal will be punished as theft of property. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-205.

TN - HB567 Students - As enacted, prohibits an LEA from requiring more than the minimum graduation requirements for students enrolling or transferring in the 11th grade or later who are in the custody of the department of children's services to receive a full diploma. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - HB661 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, permits a magistrate to impose additional conditions of release or bail on a defendant arrested for child abuse, neglect, or endangerment or aggravated child abuse, neglect, or endangerment who is a threat to the alleged victim. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4 and Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - HB1705 Sentencing - As introduced, makes a person sentenced to imprisonment for life for a conviction of first degree murder that occurred when the person was a minor eligible for parole consideration after service of 65 percent of the 60-year sentence imposed, and no less than 50 percent including any sentence reduction credits earned. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB33 Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Mabry Kate Webb Act," which requires that all infants born in this state be tested for specific genetic, metabolic, or other heritable conditions beginning six months under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1186 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of labor and workforce development, June 30, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2486 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, requires the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners to issue certificates of registration for mobile barber shops and licenses for mobile cosmetology, dual, manicure, skin care, or other category of shop licensed by the board. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 62 and Title 68.

TN - HB2105 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Fantasy Sports Act". - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 39; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 67.

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

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

TN - HB2193 Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, establishes requirements for the expunction of certain juveniles' records in cases of successful completion of informal adjustment or dismissal; allows a person adjudicated unruly to petition the juvenile court for expunction. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-153.

TN - HB2316 Health Care - As enacted, establishes a stroke best practices and treatment guidelines task force under the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

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

TN - HB852 Election Laws - As introduced, removes requirement that a person must pay outstanding child support obligations that accumulated during any period of incarceration to have right of suffrage restored. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29, Part 2.

TN - HB1757 Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Maternal Mortality Review and Prevention Act of 2016". - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB891 Students - As enacted, authorizes a school principal to excuse students for non-school-sponsored extracurricular activities; requires the student to submit to the school documentation of the activity and the parents to submit a written request to the principal at least seven business days prior to the student’s requested excused absence. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.

TN - HB1694 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, revises the offense of sexual contact with a minor by an authority figure to eliminate the requirement that a minor be between 13 and 18 years of age to qualify for this offense, so that a minor includes any person less than 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB269 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, extends the statute of limitations for commission of the offense of promotion of prostitution involving a minor on or after July 1, 2015, from 10 years from the date that the minor becomes 18 years of age to 25 years from the date that the minor becomes 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 2.

TN - HB967 Public Contracts - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee First Act." - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 67.

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

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

TN - HR117 Memorials, Interns - Antonio Briggs.

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

TN - HR2 Memorials, Recognition - Fort Campbell.

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

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

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

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

TN - HR40 Memorials, Recognition - Centennial Commemoration of the Navy Reserve, March 3, 2015.

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

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

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

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

TN - HR161 Memorials, Public Service - Pastor Matt Anzivino

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

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Thadijah Jeanne Burks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HR126 Memorials, Retirement - Larry K. Scroggs

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

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

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

TN - HR125 Memorials, Recognition - RR Donnelley, Gallatin Division, 40th anniversary.

TN - HR8 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Redirects the endowment funds previously directed to the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in English Poetry at the University of Memphis to the establishment and ongoing support of a Chair of Excellence in Computer Science at the University of Memphis.

TN - HJR542 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association Go Red for Women

TN - HJR133 Memorials, Death - Henry Abbott Callaway Jr., M.D.

TN - HJR16 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recommends all school administrators, teachers, parents, and students be educated about the potential health impact of heavy backpacks and take proactive measures to avoid injury.

TN - HJR233 Memorials, Recognition - Vanecia Belser Kimbrow, I AM A VOTER Strategic Collaborative.

TN - HJR203 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - To support passage of the STEM Education Act (H.R. 1020).

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

TN - HJR104 Memorials, Public Service - Mayor William "Bill" Rawls, first African-American mayor of Brownsville, TN.

TN - HJR481 Memorials, Congress - A resolution to urge the United States Congress to pass bills for the implementation of the veterans affairs new Veterans Choice Program.

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

TN - HJR138 Memorials, Public Service - Robert T. Lee.

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

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

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

TN - HJR57 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Affirms commitment to equal right to technology and information access for Tennesseans with disabilities.

TN - HJR66 Memorials, Public Service - Thomas A. "Tom" Rice, Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission.

TN - HJR180 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Commending Taiwan.

TN - HJR10 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment of Article VI, Section 5 to provide for popular election of the attorney general and reporter for a regular term of eight years.

TN - HJR187 Memorials, Professional Achievement - George Fraley.

TN - HJR75 General Assembly, Directed Studies - Requests the department of education to study and report on ways local education agencies are implementing the requirements of Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-1021, which requires 90 minutes of physical activity per week.

TN - HJR585 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourage employers to grant holiday time off on Veterans Day to their employees who are military veterans if they would otherwise be required to work on that day.

TN - HJR211 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages public awareness of the use of umbilical cord blood and placenta blood banking, supports the expansion of existing research in the area of umbilical cord blood and placenta blood banking, and encourages exploration into additional stem cell research.

TN - HJR218 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - To support use of science-based data to assess the impacts and regulation of modern agricultural technologies.

TN - HJR254 Memorials, Sports - Tennessee State University women's basketball team.

TN - HJR530 Naming and Designating - "Child Abuse Prevention Month" April 2016

TN - HJR458 Memorials, Death - Fred Dalton Thompson.

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

TN - HJR152 Memorials, Recognition - Brad Simpson, Tennessee Highway Patrol Investigator of the Year.

TN - HJR409 Memorials, Retirement - Johnnie B. Watson, president of LeMoyne-Owen College.

TN - HJR198 Memorials, Recognition - John Jay Hooker.

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

TN - HJR219 Memorials, Recognition - Commemorate April 2015 as "Autism Awareness Month" in Tennessee.

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

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

TN - HJR314 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Timothy L. Amos, 30 years with the Tennessee Bankers Association.

TN - HJR178 Memorials, Recognition - The Links Days on Capitol Hill.

TN - HJR195 Memorials, Recognition - The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, “2015 Tennessee Legislative Days.”

TN - HJR80 Memorials, Congress - Expresses support for Medicare and opposes any cuts to benefits.

TN - HJR263 Memorials, Death - Dr. Bettye J. Alston.

TN - HJR541 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Toney Armstrong, Director of Police Services, Memphis PD

TN - HJR597 Memorials, Recognition - Three Dog Night

TN - HJR6 Memorials, Public Service - Ed Haley.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR466 Memorials, Death - Former Representative Joe Burchfield

TN - HJR14 Naming and Designating - Designating the State of Tennessee as a Purple Heart State.

TN - HJR489 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jim Rout, heritage conservation trust fund board

TN - HJR350 Memorials, Recognition - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 2015 Hunting for a Cure.

TN - HJR512 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for efforts to bring the 2016 4th Annual Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame induction ceremony to Memphis.

TN - HJR514 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages state agencies and their contractors to donate excess, apparently wholesome food to nonprofit organizations that provide assistance to food-insecure people in the state.

TN - HJR76 Memorials, Government Officials - Requests the state capitol commission to initiate the creation of a monument to honor veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the placement of the monument on War Memorial Plaza.

TN - HJR47 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for efforts to ensure women have access to full range of contraception.

TN - HJR90 Health Care - Authorizes the governor to do all that is necessary and appropriate to expand enrollment in Tennessee's Medicaid program.

TN - HJR182 Memorials, Recognition - United States Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker.

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

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

TN - HJR128 Memorials, Recognition - Congressman Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Federation of Republican Women.

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

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

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

TN - HJR127 Memorials, Recognition - Congressman Diane Black, Tennessee Federation of Republican Women.

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

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

TN - HJR174 Memorials, Recognition - Donna Morgan.

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

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

TN - HJR455 Naming and Designating - Designates Auto Zone as the official auto parts manufacturer and distributor of the State of Tennessee.

TN - HJR574 Memorials, Death - Maurice White

TN - HJR456 Naming and Designating - Designates the National Civil Rights Museum as an official museum of the State of Tennessee.

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

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

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

TN - HJR129 Memorials, Recognition - Helen H. "Tootie" Haskins, Tennessee Federation of Republican Women.

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

TN - HJR404 Memorials, Recognition - Joshua Jamahl Murray.

TN - HJR548 Memorials, Recognition - Hannah Robison, Miss Tennessee 2015

TN - HJR23 Naming and Designating - Designates 2016 as the "Year of Science Education" in Tennessee.

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

TN - HJR46 Memorials, Death - Harlan Mathews.