Tennessee Rep. Harry Brooks (R)

TN - Calendar and Rules (House)

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TN - Civil Justice (House)

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TN - HB2112 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the board of regents and UT board of trustees to report to the house and senate education committees whether instruction aimed at increasing the awareness and prevention of hate crime offenses, sexual battery, sexual harassment, and date rape are being offered to all entering freshmen during orientation or introductory studies at each of their respective institutions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 49.

TN - HB2107 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, counts mid-year public high school graduates as enrolled for the remainder of the school year for purposes of the BEP. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2113 Education - As introduced, specifies how and when notice must be given for collaborative conferencing sessions to enable attendance by professional employees who are not on the panel and the public. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 6.

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

TN - HB1546 Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires the TBI, with the assistance of the Tennessee association of chiefs of police, the Tennessee sheriffs' association and the county officials association of Tennessee, to survey appropriate law enforcement agencies and clerks' offices for the specific purpose of requesting information as to the best method for interfacing multiple computer databases to allow accessibility by police officers while on patrol. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 20; Title 21; Title 29; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

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

TN - HB419 Attorneys at Law - As introduced, addresses potential conflicts of interest by preventing full-time law faculty members of state law schools from receiving compensation from lawsuits against the government. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30; Title 8, Chapter 50; Title 23 and Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1115 Knox County - As introduced, subject to local approval, repeals the office of legislative affairs. - Amends Chapter 64 of the Private Acts of 1971.

TN - HR24 Memorials, Death - Trooper Michael Slagle

TN - HJR34 Memorials, Recognition - Read Across America Program.

TN - HB2116 Education, Higher - As enacted, limits courses state employees can take free of charge at public institutions of higher education under the state employees' fee waiver to 4 credit hours or 120 clock hours courses; allows the use of the fee waiver as partial payment for courses of more than 4 credit hours or 120 clock hours. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-114.

TN - HB246 Education, Higher - As enacted, authorizes and encourages teacher training programs at public institutions of higher education to offer coursework on neurological or brain science research. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.

TN - HB238 Education - As introduced, clarifies the offense of assault on educational personnel. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HR141 Memorials, Recognition - Taiwan for its relations with the United States.

TN - HB236 Education, Higher - As enacted, renames the state technology centers to be "state colleges of applied technology" instead of "state technology centers". - Amends TCA Section 4-3-1405; Section 8-50-114; Section 39-13-114; Title 49; Section 54-5-708 and Section 67-6-329.

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

TN - HJR518 Memorials, Interns - Jada Denise Flowers

TN - HB247 Board of Regents - As introduced, removes a position on the board of regents reserved by statute for a person now deceased. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB245 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows THEC, the University of Tennessee system and TBR to provide information on financial assistance from net lottery proceeds for attendance at eligible postsecondary institutions in the normal course of development and recruitment of Tennessee students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB2111 Education - As introduced, creates a special joint legislative study committee to consider, evaluate, and make recommendations regarding the state authorization reciprocity agreements (SARA); specifies that the committee consist of three house members and three senate members, appointed by their respective speaker. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1727 Election Laws - As enacted, decreases the number of signatures required to establish a recognized minor party solely in one county and for certain special elections; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 2-13-107(f); Title 2, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Section 2-13-107(a).

TN - HB705 Education - As enacted, establishes a two-year pilot project operated by the department of education to determine whether enhanced accessibility of AP courses and examinations and career and technical certification examinations encourages students to pursue completion of rigorous course work and successfully pass AP examinations and career and technical certification examinations; revises provisions regarding governing bodies of charter schools and other charter school provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2108 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, permits teachers and principals to select the student achievement measures that represent 15 percent of their evaluations, if they cannot agree with their evaluators on what should be used; requires the department of education to verify the evaluation measures to ensure that the evaluations correspond with the teaching assignment of each individual teacher and the duty assignments of each individual principal. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR572 Memorials, Sports - Bobby Davis.

TN - HB2110 Safety, Dept. of - As enacted, prohibits the commissioner from adding points to a driver record involving accidents that were reported on the Tennessee Uniform Traffic Crash Report as a "vehicle special use (09) police", "(10) ambulance", or "(11) fire apparatus" and on which the driver presence is reported as "driver operated government vehicle", so long as the driver is not charged with vehicular assault, vehicular homicide, aggravated vehicular homicide, reckless driving, or DUI. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB2115 Education, Higher - As enacted, prohibits the board of regents and the University of Tennessee's board of trustees from adopting policies that substantially burden students' free exercise of religion. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB2114 Education - As introduced, requires posting of a proposed memorandum of understanding reached by the management personnel of a local board of education and the professional employees on the LEA's web site; requires the approval and the date of the approval to be included once the memorandum is approved by the local board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 6.

TN - HB2109 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, creates a four-year pilot program in the dual enrollment grant program to determine if covering more fully the costs of dual enrollment courses increases participation in the program and subsequent success in college. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HR25 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Anna A. Kao, Spokesperson for Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Director-General of the Public Diplomacy Coordination Council

TN - HB1089 Education, Higher - As enacted, establishes requirements for legislative proposals or requests for state funding toward public higher education capital projects, maintenance, new academic programs, public service, research activities and engagement opportunities or operational support coming before the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.

TN - HB2127 Education, Higher - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act in regard to exempt institutions. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-2004.

TN - HB237 Education - As enacted, prohibits persons who contract with a school or child care program or employees of such persons from having direct contact with the school's or child care center's children or coming on the school or child care center grounds when children are present if convicted of certain offenses. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-413.

TN - HB315 Schools, Charter - As enacted, authorizes a charter school sponsor to apply to an LEA to convert an existing public school to a charter school to serve the students zoned to the school and revises other various provisions regarding public charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 49.

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

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

TN - HB2104 Mental Illness - As enacted, extends pilot project for assisted outpatient treatment for two years until June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 6, Part 6.

TN - HB1467 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, requires persons with intellectual disabilities on the waiting list for services to be enrolled in the self-determination waiver when their caregivers attain the age of 75. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.

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

TN - HB692 Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, revises various provisions relative to court appointed guardians and conservators. - Amends TCA Title 34 and Title 40.

TN - HB240 Education - As introduced, requires, instead of permits, an LEA's parent involvement policy to include plans for making parents aware of the policy, the parents' rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and how parents may access LEA policies and curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB29 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the University of Tennessee Botanical Gardens as the official state botanical garden. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB1480 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates an exception to the offense of carrying a firearm in public without a handgun carry permit that the person carrying or possessing a firearm or ammunition in a motor vehicle is not otherwise prohibited from carrying a firearm and is in lawful possession of the motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

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

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

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

TN - HB984 Abortion - As introduced, requires that an ultrasound be perfomed prior to an abortion, with an exception for medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 9 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

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

TN - HB1776 Capitol - As enacted, requires the state capitol commission to study the feasibility of placing a visual depiction of the national motto of the United States in the tunnel leading from Charlotte Avenue to the state capitol building and report recommendations as to the type and placement of the visual depiction and an estimated cost thereof to the speaker of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives by May 1, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1381 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to adopt a salary schedule that is identical in either structure or designated salary levels or both to the salary schedule the LEA had in place during the 2012-2013 school year, with such schedule containing steps for each year of service up to and including 20 years and for the attainment of advanced degrees at the level of masters, masters plus 45 hours of graduate credit, specialist in education and doctor of education or doctor of philosophy; the schedule may not result in the reduction of the salary of a teacher employed by the LEA at the time of the adoption of the salary schedule. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1439 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, expands the "Industrial Highway Act" to promote highway access to industrial facilities; renames Act the "State Industrial Access Act". - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 5, Part 4.

TN - HB1291 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, removes the provisions limiting the number of school districts in a county. - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 49.

TN - HB1857 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, requires the executive director of THEC to convene an accessibility task force to develop recommendations for the general assembly related to ensuring accessibility of digital curricula for students with disabilities at state institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 20.

TN - HB1000 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Fairness in Ticketing Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 62.

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

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

TN - HB1507 School Transportation - As enacted, extends the allowable number of years for a school bus to be in service to 18 years; revises other provisions relate to the use and inspection of school buses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21.

TN - HB1167 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, deletes obsolete language for spring sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1074 Military - As enacted, authorizes public employees who are in the military to use five days of sick leave in lieu of annual leave after the employee has received 20 working days of compensation so the employee does not have to take leave without pay when called to military duties. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33, Part 1.

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

TN - HB1485 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 - HB1289 School Districts, Special - As introduced, lifts prohibition on creation of new special school districts. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

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

TN - HB1848 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, creates the Tennessee rural teachers scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

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

TN - HB918 University of Tennessee - As introduced, authorizes university to guaranty obligations of an entity proposing operation of a proton therapy center up to $98,000,000. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2426 Hazardous Materials - As enacted, revises requirements for maintaining lists of hazardous chemicals that are used in the workplace. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 3, Part 20.

TN - HB571 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, provides for re-establishment of elected office of school superintendent for counties or cities upon two-thirds vote of governing body; any such ordinance or resolution once approved is not operative until approved in an election; provides for qualifications of candidates. - Amends TCA Section 49-2-203 and Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 3.

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

TN - HB151 Education - As enacted, establishes total initial enrollment cap for virtual schools, with certain exceptions; establishes other requirements related to virtual schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 16, Part 2.

TN - HB590 Annexation - As introduced, requires, prior to a municipality annexing within its urban growth boundary, the approval of a majority vote of qualified voters in the territory proposed for annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - HB1693 Schools, Charter - As introduced, allows charter schools to contract with for-profit managers or operators. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1799 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, revises provisions governing LEAs applying to the commissioner for a waiver of a state board rule or regulation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1404 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, clarifies that observation while securing a firearm or firearm ammunition in compliance with provisions concerning a handgun permit holder's ability to transport or store a firearm or firearm ammunition does not violate such provisions. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1313.

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

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

TN - HB1292 Driver Education - As introduced, requires all driver education courses to include instruction on the danger and crime of texting while driving. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1824 Education - As introduced, provides for re-establishment of elected office of school superintendent for county or city school systems upon two-thirds vote of county or city governing body and approval in an election on the question by the voters in ten LEAs as a pilot program to allow the department to study the relevant procedures of re-establishing the office; provides for qualifications of candidates; adjusts duties of the local board of education in county or city school systems electing superintendents. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2133 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs that have established a teacher sick leave bank to allow employees who are not teachers, but who accrue sick leave, to participate in the LEA's teacher sick leave bank or classified employee sick bank. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 7 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 8.

TN - HB1166 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, upon adoption of an ordinance or resolution, permits local governing bodies to permit certain business owners paying tangible personal property taxes to make quarterly installment payments; authorizes the department of economic and community development to make grants to counties for the purpose of marketing and other revitalization efforts for certain areas in the county. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - HB993 Welfare - As introduced, revises various provisions relative to the purchase of goods and services from persons with disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 7.

TN - HB1713 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, deletes the Intractable Pain Treatment Act. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

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

TN - HB693 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, provides that the disability of a parent seeking custody will not create a presumption for or against awarding custody to such a party but may be a factor to be considered by the court. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB1418 Foster Care - As enacted, changes terminology from "post-custody" to "extension of foster care" in existing post-custody services statute. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 6.

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

TN - HB1288 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes creation of new city school systems if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Section 6-58-112 and Title 49.

TN - HB1989 Schools, Charter - As enacted, revises the provisions governing the revocation or nonrenewal of a public charter school agreement. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HB1282 Handgun Permits - As enacted, limits 10-year period that person must wait between exiting a drug or alcohol program or hospital before being eligible for a handgun carry permit to three years if the applicant entered rehab voluntarily; 10-year period still applies to those who enter rehab pursuant to a court order. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HB1547 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1549 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Data Accessibility, Transparency and Accountability Act"; establishes requirements for the adoption of educational standards and the requesting of proposals for student assessments; prohibits the state from adopting common core standards in any subjects other than math and English language arts; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1405 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, defines "motor vehicle" for purposes of clarifying the type of vehicle in which a handgun carry permit holder may transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in a parking lot. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

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

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

TN - HB1647 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, enacts the "County Bridge Relief Act of 2014" for fiscal years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016; authorizes counties to use an unexpended balance of state-aid bridge grant funds to pay the local share of project costs required by present law. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 11, Part 2 and Title 54, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2371 Annexation - As enacted, establishes a moratorium on annexation by ordinance or resolution; revises other provisions governing annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - HB1483 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, broadens scope of handgun permit holder's right to transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in certain motor vehicle parking lots without criminal liability under Tennessee law, unless expressly prohibited by federal law. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1313(a).

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

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

TN - HB283 Education - As enacted, allows retired teachers' children who are under 24 years of age to receive a 25 percent discount at any state-operated institution of higher learning; provided, that the parent retired with 30 years of full-time creditable service in Tennessee public schools or received disability retirement after a minimum of 25 years of full-time creditable service in Tennessee public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1190 Insurance, Life - As introduced, requires the department of health to purchase a uniform accidental death policy for the benefit of all emergency responders. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 56 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

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

TN - HB2217 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, defines as confidential all information, records, and plans that relate to school security, the district-wide school safety plans or the building-level school safety plans; provides that meetings involving school security, the district-wide school safety plans or the building-level school safety plans are not subject to the open meetings laws. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10 and Title 49.

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

TN - HB1925 Welfare - As enacted, authorizes diversion grants. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB150 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, deletes provision whereby records from any student who is eligible for special education services under federal law will not be used as part of the value added assessment; adds other provisions regarding student growth data, student achievement data and teachers' evaluations scores. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302(d) and Section 49-1-606(a).

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

TN - HB1001 Civil Procedure - As enacted, requires legal and public notices that are currently required to be published in newspaper of general circulation to also be posted on newspaper's web site and on statewide web site maintained by majority of Tennessee newspapers. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 30, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB52 Education, Higher - As introduced, creates the office of higher education ombudsperson within the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1290 Municipal Government - As introduced, prevents any municipality from passing outstanding debt to residents of the county after relinquishing its charter by establishing a trusteeship composed of the former municipal governing body, and requiring, instead of authorizing, the county legislative body to levy a special tax within the previously incorporated limits. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 1, Part 3; Title 6, Chapter 18, Part 1 and Title 6, Chapter 52.

TN - HB1427 Controlled Substances - As enacted, provides for immunity from civil liability for prescribers of opioid antagonists and those who administer it in order to address opioid-related drug overdoses. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1.

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

TN - HB681 Local Inmates - As enacted, requires any person convicted of a felony and sentenced to a local jail or workhouse to also be sentenced to participate in the jail's work program, if any; and allows sheriff to opt county or individual inmates out of these provisions for various reasons such as security, health or inmate or financial condition of county. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35.

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

TN - HB2341 Naming and Designating - As enacted, names new TRICOR office building and warehouse complex in honor of Patricia Weiland. - Amends TCA Section 41-22-406.

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

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

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

TN - HB862 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows dependent children of certain workers assigned to work full time in a foreign nation to be eligible for the Tennessee HOPE lottery scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB192 Taxes, Income - As enacted, increases the annual income a person at least 65 years of age may earn and still be exempt from the Hall income tax from $26,200 to $33,000 for single filers and from $37,000 to $59,000 for persons filing jointly. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2, Part 1.

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

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

TN - HB1526 Evidence - As enacted, enacts the "Chris Newsom Act", which creates presumption to successor trial and appellate judges that if the original trial judge dismisses the jury following a unanimous verdict, that the judge exercised his or her duties as the 13th juror and approves the verdict. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 18, Part 1.

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

TN - HB2102 Schools, Charter - As introduced, removes a provision that created a task force to study and evaluate the Tennessee Public Charter Schools Act of 2002, under the facilitation of the comptroller of the treasury, and to report to the general assembly by February 2, 2011. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

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

TN - HR3 Unknown

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

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

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

TN - HR13 Memorials, Recognition - Niki Brown

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

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

TN - HR4 Unknown

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

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

TN - HR120 Memorials, Interns - Alexis Darvin

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

TN - HR205 Memorials, Interns - Michael Patrick Olson.

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

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

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

TN - HR1 Unknown

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

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

TN - HR83 Memorials, Interns - Alex Uhlmann

TN - HR124 Memorials, Interns - Garrett Buttrey

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HR5 Unknown

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

TN - HR2 Unknown

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

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

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

TN - HJR31 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Mike Kernell

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

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

TN - HJR436 Memorials, Retirement - David Norton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR647 Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Lee.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR298 Memorials, Recognition - Jonah and Emory Marlin

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

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

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

TN - HJR233 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville girls' basketball team

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

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

TN - HJR542 Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to revise No Child Left Behind standards relative to special education students and graduation rates.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR890 Memorials, Death - Gail Kerr.

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

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

TN - HJR109 Memorials, Sports - Sophia Schuburt, Girls Golf Champion

TN - HJR106 Memorials, Death - Marcellas Brooks

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

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

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

TN - HJR217 Memorials, Recognition - Carolyn House Stewart

TN - HJR225 Memorials, Recognition - Pettus L. Read

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

TN - HJR297 Memorials, Recognition - Harold D. Morrell

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

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

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

TN - HJR293 Memorials, Recognition - Boy Scouts of America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR32 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Beverly Marrero

TN - HJR548 Constitutional Conventions - Makes application to Congress for the purpose of calling a convention of states concerning balanced budgeting.

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Public Service - Sara Kyle

TN - HJR111 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville, Girls' Varsity Cross Country Team, State Champion

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

TN - HJR110 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville, Boys Soccer State Champions

TN - HJR112 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville Girls Tennis Team, State Runner-Up

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

TN - HJR661 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Condemns the administration of the University of Tennessee for permitting “Sex Week” to be held on the UT-Knoxville campus.

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

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

TN - HJR30 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Jeanne Richardson

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

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

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

TN - HJR444 Memorials, Recognition - Rev. Walter Smith

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

TN - HJR163 Memorials, Retirement - Sandy Sain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR551 General Assembly, Directed Studies - Directs the department of education to conduct another stakeholder survey that permits stakeholders to express their honest and frank opinions about the Teacher Educator Acceleration Model (TEAM) and to suggest additional changes and refinements to TEAM to improve the evaluation model.

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

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

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

TN - HJR740 Memorials, Retirement - Doyle Thomas Grant.

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR393 Memorials, Death - Cindy Leigh McAfee

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

TN - HJR113 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville Girls Volleyball Team, State Runner-Up

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

TN - HJR108 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville, 2012 Varsity Football Team, State Champion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR2 Unknown

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

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

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

TN - HJR505 Memorials, Interns - Sommerie Denise Wade

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

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

TN - HJR114 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville, Girls Soccer Team, State Runner-Up

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

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

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

TN - SB1684 Schools, Charter - As introduced, allows charter schools to contract with for-profit managers or operators. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

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

TN - SB1856 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to adopt a salary schedule that is identical in either structure or designated salary levels or both to the salary schedule the LEA had in place during the 2012-2013 school year, with such schedule containing steps for each year of service up to and including 20 years and for the attainment of advanced degrees at the level of masters, masters plus 45 hours of graduate credit, specialist in education and doctor of education or doctor of philosophy; the schedule may not result in the reduction of the salary of a teacher employed by the LEA at the time of the adoption of the salary schedule. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

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

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

TN - SB1214 Knox County - As introduced, subject to local approval, repeals the office of legislative affairs. - Amends Chapter 64 of the Private Acts of 1971.

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

TN - SB632 Abortion - As introduced, requires that an ultrasound be perfomed prior to an abortion, with an exception for medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 9 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - SB1353 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes creation of new city school systems if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Section 6-58-112 and Title 49.

TN - SB2003 Capitol - As enacted, requires the state capitol commission to study the feasibility of placing a visual depiction of the national motto of the United States in the tunnel leading from Charlotte Avenue to the state capitol building and report recommendations as to the type and placement of the visual depiction and an estimated cost thereof to the speaker of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives by May 1, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 8.

TN - SB205 Schools, Charter - As enacted, authorizes a charter school sponsor to apply to an LEA to convert an existing public school to a charter school to serve the students zoned to the school and revises other various provisions regarding public charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 49.

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

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

TN - SB1702 Education - As introduced, provides for re-establishment of elected office of school superintendent for county or city school systems upon two-thirds vote of county or city governing body and approval in an election on the question by the voters in ten LEAs as a pilot program to allow the department to study the relevant procedures of re-establishing the office; provides for qualifications of candidates; adjusts duties of the local board of education in county or city school systems electing superintendents. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1927 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, creates the Tennessee rural teachers scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

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

TN - SB2256 Mental Illness - As enacted, extends pilot project for assisted outpatient treatment for two years until June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 6, Part 6.

TN - SB1264 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, upon adoption of an ordinance or resolution, permits local governing bodies to permit certain business owners paying tangible personal property taxes to make quarterly installment payments; authorizes the department of economic and community development to make grants to counties for the purpose of marketing and other revitalization efforts for certain areas in the county. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - SB2250 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, permits teachers and principals to select the student achievement measures that represent 15 percent of their evaluations, if they cannot agree with their evaluators on what should be used; requires the department of education to verify the evaluation measures to ensure that the evaluations correspond with the teaching assignment of each individual teacher and the duty assignments of each individual principal. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - SB1600 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, requires persons with intellectual disabilities on the waiting list for services to be enrolled in the self-determination waiver when their caregivers attain the age of 75. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2423 Education, Higher - As enacted, prohibits the board of regents and the University of Tennessee's board of trustees from adopting policies that substantially burden students' free exercise of religion. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

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

TN - SB749 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, provides that the disability of a parent seeking custody will not create a presumption for or against awarding custody to such a party but may be a factor to be considered by the court. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SB869 Annexation - As introduced, requires, prior to a municipality annexing within its urban growth boundary, the approval of a majority vote of qualified voters in the territory proposed for annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - SB643 Education, Higher - As enacted, renames the state technology centers to be "state colleges of applied technology" instead of "state technology centers". - Amends TCA Section 4-3-1405; Section 8-50-114; Section 39-13-114; Title 49; Section 54-5-708 and Section 67-6-329.

TN - SB1071 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, provides for re-establishment of elected office of school superintendent for counties or cities upon two-thirds vote of governing body; any such ordinance or resolution once approved is not operative until approved in an election; provides for qualifications of candidates. - Amends TCA Section 49-2-203 and Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 3.

TN - SB207 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows THEC, the University of Tennessee system and TBR to provide information on financial assistance from net lottery proceeds for attendance at eligible postsecondary institutions in the normal course of development and recruitment of Tennessee students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB1819 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, deletes the Intractable Pain Treatment Act. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB1793 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

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

TN - SB1631 Controlled Substances - As enacted, provides for immunity from civil liability for prescribers of opioid antagonists and those who administer it in order to address opioid-related drug overdoses. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - SB634 Education - As enacted, establishes a two-year pilot project operated by the department of education to determine whether enhanced accessibility of AP courses and examinations and career and technical certification examinations encourages students to pursue completion of rigorous course work and successfully pass AP examinations and career and technical certification examinations; revises provisions regarding governing bodies of charter schools and other charter school provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1009 Welfare - As introduced, revises various provisions relative to the purchase of goods and services from persons with disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 7.

TN - SB667 Military - As enacted, authorizes public employees who are in the military to use five days of sick leave in lieu of annual leave after the employee has received 20 working days of compensation so the employee does not have to take leave without pay when called to military duties. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33, Part 1.

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

TN - SB1355 School Districts, Special - As introduced, lifts prohibition on creation of new special school districts. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2252 Safety, Dept. of - As enacted, prohibits the commissioner from adding points to a driver record involving accidents that were reported on the Tennessee Uniform Traffic Crash Report as a "vehicle special use (09) police", "(10) ambulance", or "(11) fire apparatus" and on which the driver presence is reported as "driver operated government vehicle", so long as the driver is not charged with vehicular assault, vehicular homicide, aggravated vehicular homicide, reckless driving, or DUI. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - SB108 Public Records - As enacted, makes confidential and not open for public inspection all information contained in and pertaining to a handgun carry permit application or renewal application and the status of a handgun carry permit; creates exceptions to such confidentiality. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB454 Education - As introduced, clarifies the offense of assault on educational personnel. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1834 Education, Higher - As enacted, limits courses state employees can take free of charge at public institutions of higher education under the state employees' fee waiver to 4 credit hours or 120 clock hours courses; allows the use of the fee waiver as partial payment for courses of more than 4 credit hours or 120 clock hours. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-114.

TN - SB1644 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, expands the "Industrial Highway Act" to promote highway access to industrial facilities; renames Act the "State Industrial Access Act". - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 5, Part 4.

TN - SB497 Attorneys at Law - As introduced, addresses potential conflicts of interest by preventing full-time law faculty members of state law schools from receiving compensation from lawsuits against the government. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30; Title 8, Chapter 50; Title 23 and Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB2357 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the board of regents and UT board of trustees to report to the house and senate education committees whether instruction aimed at increasing the awareness and prevention of hate crime offenses, sexual battery, sexual harassment, and date rape are being offered to all entering freshmen during orientation or introductory studies at each of their respective institutions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 49.

TN - SB1679 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, enacts the "County Bridge Relief Act of 2014" for fiscal years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016; authorizes counties to use an unexpended balance of state-aid bridge grant funds to pay the local share of project costs required by present law. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 11, Part 2 and Title 54, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2235 Unknown

TN - SB2201 Unknown

TN - SB1701 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, defines "motor vehicle" for purposes of clarifying the type of vehicle in which a handgun carry permit holder may transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in a parking lot. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

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

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

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

TN - SB157 Education - As enacted, establishes total initial enrollment cap for virtual schools, with certain exceptions; establishes other requirements related to virtual schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 16, Part 2.

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

TN - SB1622 Foster Care - As enacted, changes terminology from "post-custody" to "extension of foster care" in existing post-custody services statute. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 6.

TN - SB1966 School Transportation - As enacted, extends the allowable number of years for a school bus to be in service to 18 years; revises other provisions relate to the use and inspection of school buses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21.

TN - SB1172 Insurance, Life - As introduced, requires the department of health to purchase a uniform accidental death policy for the benefit of all emergency responders. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 56 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - SB2202 Unknown

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

TN - SB156 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, deletes provision whereby records from any student who is eligible for special education services under federal law will not be used as part of the value added assessment; adds other provisions regarding student growth data, student achievement data and teachers' evaluations scores. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302(d) and Section 49-1-606(a).

TN - SB461 Civil Procedure - As enacted, requires legal and public notices that are currently required to be published in newspaper of general circulation to also be posted on newspaper's web site and on statewide web site maintained by majority of Tennessee newspapers. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 30, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

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

TN - SB609 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Fairness in Ticketing Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 62.

TN - SB2285 Schools, Charter - As enacted, revises the provisions governing the revocation or nonrenewal of a public charter school agreement. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

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

TN - SB1835 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Data Accessibility, Transparency and Accountability Act"; establishes requirements for the adoption of educational standards and the requesting of proposals for student assessments; prohibits the state from adopting common core standards in any subjects other than math and English language arts; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - SB2311 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs that have established a teacher sick leave bank to allow employees who are not teachers, but who accrue sick leave, to participate in the LEA's teacher sick leave bank or classified employee sick bank. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 7 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 8.

TN - SB59 Education, Higher - As enacted, authorizes and encourages teacher training programs at public institutions of higher education to offer coursework on neurological or brain science research. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.

TN - SB524 Local Inmates - As enacted, requires any person convicted of a felony and sentenced to a local jail or workhouse to also be sentenced to participate in the jail's work program, if any; and allows sheriff to opt county or individual inmates out of these provisions for various reasons such as security, health or inmate or financial condition of county. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - SB71 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the University of Tennessee Botanical Gardens as the official state botanical garden. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - SB2069 Schools, Charter - As introduced, removes a provision that created a task force to study and evaluate the Tennessee Public Charter Schools Act of 2002, under the facilitation of the comptroller of the treasury, and to report to the general assembly by February 2, 2011. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - SB2358 Education - As introduced, creates a special joint legislative study committee to consider, evaluate, and make recommendations regarding the state authorization reciprocity agreements (SARA); specifies that the committee consist of three house members and three senate members, appointed by their respective speaker. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB79 Education, Higher - As introduced, creates the office of higher education ombudsperson within the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB719 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows dependent children of certain workers assigned to work full time in a foreign nation to be eligible for the Tennessee HOPE lottery scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

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

TN - SB975 Education, Higher - As enacted, establishes requirements for legislative proposals or requests for state funding toward public higher education capital projects, maintenance, new academic programs, public service, research activities and engagement opportunities or operational support coming before the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.

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

TN - SB1837 Welfare - As enacted, authorizes diversion grants. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - SB1354 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, removes the provisions limiting the number of school districts in a county. - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 49.

TN - SB2031 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, broadens scope of handgun permit holder's right to transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in certain motor vehicle parking lots without criminal liability under Tennessee law, unless expressly prohibited by federal law. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1313(a).

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TN - SB2392 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, revises provisions governing LEAs applying to the commissioner for a waiver of a state board rule or regulation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2558 Hazardous Materials - As enacted, revises requirements for maintaining lists of hazardous chemicals that are used in the workplace. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 3, Part 20.

TN - SB714 Handgun Permits - As enacted, limits 10-year period that person must wait between exiting a drug or alcohol program or hospital before being eligible for a handgun carry permit to three years if the applicant entered rehab voluntarily; 10-year period still applies to those who enter rehab pursuant to a court order. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

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

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

TN - SB2464 Annexation - As enacted, establishes a moratorium on annexation by ordinance or resolution; revises other provisions governing annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

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

TN - SB1466 Election Laws - As enacted, decreases the number of signatures required to establish a recognized minor party solely in one county and for certain special elections; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 2-13-107(f); Title 2, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Section 2-13-107(a).

TN - SB198 Taxes, Income - As enacted, increases the annual income a person at least 65 years of age may earn and still be exempt from the Hall income tax from $26,200 to $33,000 for single filers and from $37,000 to $59,000 for persons filing jointly. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - SB204 Education - As introduced, requires, instead of permits, an LEA's parent involvement policy to include plans for making parents aware of the policy, the parents' rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and how parents may access LEA policies and curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB555 Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, revises various provisions relative to court appointed guardians and conservators. - Amends TCA Title 34 and Title 40.

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

TN - SB1731 Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires the TBI, with the assistance of the Tennessee association of chiefs of police, the Tennessee sheriffs' association and the county officials association of Tennessee, to survey appropriate law enforcement agencies and clerks' offices for the specific purpose of requesting information as to the best method for interfacing multiple computer databases to allow accessibility by police officers while on patrol. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 20; Title 21; Title 29; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

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

TN - SB2073 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, defines as confidential all information, records, and plans that relate to school security, the district-wide school safety plans or the building-level school safety plans; provides that meetings involving school security, the district-wide school safety plans or the building-level school safety plans are not subject to the open meetings laws. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10 and Title 49.

TN - SB2393 Naming and Designating - As enacted, names new TRICOR office building and warehouse complex in honor of Patricia Weiland. - Amends TCA Section 41-22-406.

TN - SB543 Education - As enacted, allows retired teachers' children who are under 24 years of age to receive a 25 percent discount at any state-operated institution of higher learning; provided, that the parent retired with 30 years of full-time creditable service in Tennessee public schools or received disability retirement after a minimum of 25 years of full-time creditable service in Tennessee public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB2352 Education, Higher - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act in regard to exempt institutions. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-2004.

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

TN - SB1352 Municipal Government - As introduced, prevents any municipality from passing outstanding debt to residents of the county after relinquishing its charter by establishing a trusteeship composed of the former municipal governing body, and requiring, instead of authorizing, the county legislative body to levy a special tax within the previously incorporated limits. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 1, Part 3; Title 6, Chapter 18, Part 1 and Title 6, Chapter 52.

TN - SB1356 Driver Education - As introduced, requires all driver education courses to include instruction on the danger and crime of texting while driving. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1194 University of Tennessee - As introduced, authorizes university to guaranty obligations of an entity proposing operation of a proton therapy center up to $98,000,000. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SB1263 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, deletes obsolete language for spring sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB1774 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates an exception to the offense of carrying a firearm in public without a handgun carry permit that the person carrying or possessing a firearm or ammunition in a motor vehicle is not otherwise prohibited from carrying a firearm and is in lawful possession of the motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB1692 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, requires the executive director of THEC to convene an accessibility task force to develop recommendations for the general assembly related to ensuring accessibility of digital curricula for students with disabilities at state institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 20.

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - SB1700 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, clarifies that observation while securing a firearm or firearm ammunition in compliance with provisions concerning a handgun permit holder's ability to transport or store a firearm or firearm ammunition does not violate such provisions. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1313.

TN - SB206 Board of Regents - As introduced, removes a position on the board of regents reserved by statute for a person now deceased. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1587 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 - SB1796 Evidence - As enacted, enacts the "Chris Newsom Act", which creates presumption to successor trial and appellate judges that if the original trial judge dismisses the jury following a unanimous verdict, that the judge exercised his or her duties as the 13th juror and approves the verdict. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 18, Part 1.

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