Tennessee Rep. Jason Powell (D)

TN - Business and Utilities (House)

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TN - Business and Utilities Subcommittee (House)

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TN - State Government (House)

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TN - HB641 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, establishes an interagency council on homelessness. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB2214 Food and Food Products - As introduced, increases from 10 days to 15 days the number of days following the service of notice before a food service establishment permit is revoked if no request for a hearing is filed. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 8, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 14, Part 7.

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 - HB688 Election Laws - As introduced, increases, from 15 days to 30 days, the amount of time in which to cure a defect in the documentation required to initiate a petition for a recall election. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 17; Title 18 and Title 49.

TN - HB2213 General Assembly - As introduced, restores the charitable gaming oversight committee, consisting of three members of each chamber of the general assembly, to be appointed by their respective speaker, and to study issues related to the Charitable Gaming Implementation Law. - Amends TCA Title 3.

TN - HB2215 State Government - As enacted, creates a task force to study the feasibility of state government utilizing an open data policy. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10 and Title 12.

TN - HB2595 Election Laws - As introduced, prohibits name of presidential candidate being on ballot unless the candidate is a natural born citizen of the United States; prohibits presidential electors from voting for a candidate who is not a natural born citizen. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 15 and Title 2, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2209 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to create a report regarding cybersecurity that includes, at a minimum, a summary explaining necessary improvements to protect state data. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10 and Title 38.

TN - HB1488 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes the Metropolitan Nashville local board of education to conduct meetings by electronic means under the same circumstances as other local boards of education. - Amends TCA Section 49-2-203.

TN - HB2210 Naming and Designating - As introduced, requires, beginning July 1, 2016, requested naming or designating of state buildings be approved by the state building commission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 12.

TN - HB687 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, directs the departments of transportation and economic and community development to study the Nolensville Pike corridor in Davidson County.

TN - HB824 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, sets the BEP instructional salary unit cost for the 2015–2016 fiscal year at the statewide average licensed teacher salary. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

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 - HB1056 Education - As introduced, specifies that students who obtain a HiSET diploma will be counted as graduates when calculating graduation rates in the same manner as students who obtain a GED credential. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB767 Corporations, For Profit - As enacted, enacts the "For-Profit Benefit Corporation Act." - Amends TCA Title 48.

TN - HB2596 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires TBI to consult with the department of safety and the FBI to determine whether any handgun carry permit holders are on the federally maintained no fly list and report the number of permit holders on the list to the general assembly prior to January 15 each year. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HJR87 Constitutional Amendments - Authorizes casino gaming; requires state revenues derived from casino gaming to be allocated to K–12 education, gambling addiction programs, or both.

TN - HB1057 Redistricting, Congressional - As introduced, establishes a five-member congressional redistricting commission beginning in January 2021. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 16; Title 4, Chapter 16, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2216 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 - HB866 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises; authorizes Cheekwood to grant a franchise for the provision of food or beverage on the premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

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 - HB2211 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, permits the AOC to submit the annual report to the general assembly regarding compliance by the courts within the time limits established for capital cases and the reason for noncompliance by electronic delivery. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1404 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, prohibits the issuance or renewal of the Sons of Confederate Veterans special license plate for motor vehicles and motorcycles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2208 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the TBI to report to the general assembly by March 1 annually the number of Tennessee handgun carry permit holders who are also on the no-fly list maintained by the FBI. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - HJR341 Memorials, Sports - South Nashville All-Stars Little League, U.S. Little League World Series participants.

TN - HB642 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, expands premises for consumption of alcoholic beverages to include area between a convention center, convention center hotel, museum, and one block of public roadway in Nashville upon majority vote of the local legislative body. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102(27).

TN - HJR383 Memorials, Death - Charles Phillip Clinard Sr.

TN - HJR468 Memorials, Death - Claudette Riley Sisk

TN - HB1842 Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions in counties with populations over 65,000 to establish additional early voting polling locations. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - HB2254 Gambling - As introduced, creates an advisory task force to review games of skill, including, but not limited to, online fantasy football, and recommend any necessary statutory revisions to the consumer protection and criminal laws that should be made to protect consumers when paying to participate in a game of skill. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39 and Title 47.

TN - HB689 Education - As introduced, prohibits corporal punishment in public schools. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB1966 Gas, Petroleum Products, Volatile Oils - As introduced, prohibits the construction of a gas compressor on land that is located within one mile of a public park. - Amends TCA Title 68.

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 - HB770 School Transportation - As introduced, requires any bus ordered or purchased on or after July 1, 2016, to be equipped with a restraint system; requires any bus that is currently used to transport students be equipped with a restraint system by July 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 6.

TN - HB904 Education, State Board of - As enacted, prohibits the state board from denying instructional leadership licensure based solely on the applicant completing a leadership preparation program located outside of this state. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2300 Traffic Safety - As enacted, enacts the "Elena Zamora Memorial Act," which changes the criminal penalties for failure to yield when that violation results in an accident resulting in serious bodily injury to or death of any person. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1543 Privacy, Confidentiality - As enacted, makes confidential the identities of vendors providing the state with goods and services used to protect government property or government employee or citizen information; allows governmental entity to vote to make information about such goods and services provided to the entity confidential. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2594 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, revises provisions governing penalties imposed on server permit holders for certain violations; requires any employee, representative, or agent of a permittee whose duties include verifying that a person is 21 years of age or older for the purpose of authorizing the person access to the premises of the permittee to require each person seeking access to the premises whose physical appearance does not reasonably demonstrate an age of 50 years or older to present a valid, government-issued document or other acceptable form of identification that includes the photograph and birth date of the person. - Amends TCA Section 57-1-201; Section 57-3-204; Section 57-3-704; Section 57-3-706; Section 57-3-818 and Title 57, Chapter 5, Part 6.

TN - HB1016 Traffic Safety - As enacted, extends the rules of the road requiring drivers to yield the right-of-way at intersections and other locations to the operation of vehicles on drives open to public use and frequented by the public at large. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

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 - 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 - HB1823 Birth Control - As enacted, authorizes a pharmacist to provide hormonal contraceptives according to a valid collaborative pharmacy practice agreement containing a nonpatient-specific prescriptive order and standardized procedures developed and executed by one or more authorized prescribers, in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1449 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, prohibits interrogation or interview of a child who has been taken into custody due to suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct except in the presence of the child's legal counsel, parent, guardian, or custodian; requires that a video recording be made of the interview and that the child be informed of certain rights. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2022 Mass Transit - As enacted, revises the present law provisions governing overtaking on the right in regard to the operation of mass transit buses on shoulders and rights-of-way. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55; Title 64 and Title 65.

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 - HB826 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises provisions governing payments to wholesalers for alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-203.

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 - HB1846 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, exempts public housing authorities from property tax liability when they enter into leases that permit the public housing authority to acquire the property for a nominal sum at or before the completion of the lease term. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-203.

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 - HB962 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of causing a person under 18 years of age to attend an animal fight; increases the penalty for the offense of being a spectator at an animal fight to a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-203.

TN - HB276 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, deletes the requirement that establishments holding a license for consumption of alcoholic beverages on premises pay wholesalers of alcoholic beverages upon delivery of the product. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-203.

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 - HB1238 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to develop a mentorship program that teams successful large enterprises, as mentors, with emerging small businesses, as mentees. - Amends TCA Title 4.

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

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 - HB859 Beer - As enacted, allows a person to make beer without a license or permit under certain circumstances; allows homemade beer in certain exhibitions, contests, and competitions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 7 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

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 - HB2373 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, revises various provisions governing licensure and certification for barbers and cosmetologists, including redefining "cosmetology" to include shampooing and natural hairstyling. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4.

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

TN - 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 - HB1354 Taxes, Litigation - As introduced, permits a county to impose a litigation tax on all civil and criminal cases in the sessions, juvenile, and municipal courts; requires the funds to be used exclusively to support substance abuse prevention coalitions operating within the county. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-601.

TN - HB1464 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, contingent upon monthly surplus state tax revenues exceeding $5 million, allocates 25 percent of the surplus revenues to the priority transportation project fund to be used exclusively for essential transportation projects; requires commissioner of transportation to recommend the top 100 projects to be funded; authorizes general assembly to appropriate from fund to implement all or part of the projects recommended. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - HB228 Naming and Designating - As introduced, designates the welcome center at Johnsonville state historic park in honor of former state representative John C. Tidwell.

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 - HB807 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates September 18, each year, as "Carbon Monoxide Awareness Day" to bring awareness to the dangers of carbon monoxide. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB766 Contractors - As introduced, removes the prohibition on local governments regulating contractors and their employees operating within the jurisdiction of the local government. - Amends TCA Section 62-6-111(i).

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

TN - HB1514 Highway Signs - As enacted, enacts the "Tyler Head Law," which creates a memorial sign program for persons who died in accidents caused by drivers under the influence of drugs or alcohol. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 54 and Title 55.

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 - 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 - HB557 Employees, Employers - As introduced, authorizes the department of labor, subject to the availability of federal funding, to study the feasibility of the development or implementation of a paid family and medical leave program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 8 and Title 50.

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 - HB34 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, designates portion of Powell Drive in Knox County as a scenic highway. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 17.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2575 Handgun Permits - As enacted, makes various changes to handgun carry permits, including extending permit renewals to occur every eight years and lowering the initial application fee from $115 to $100. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

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

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 - 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 - HB2292 Mining and Quarrying - As introduced, enacts the "Dam Safety Act" to prohibit the issuance of a permit to conduct surface mining on land that is located within one mile of a dam operated by the U.S. army corps of engineers. - Amends TCA Title 59; Title 69, Chapter 11 and Title 69, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1105 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, enacts the "County Road Relief Act of 2015." - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 4; Title 54, Chapter 9 and Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 9.

TN - HB1426 Bond Issues - As enacted, authorizes Davidson County to issue bonds to fund affordable housing and workforce housing projects. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9, Chapter 21 and Title 13, Chapter 23.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2303 Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Commercial Dog Breeders Registration Act"; makes selling of dogs by unlicensed breeders, misrepresenting the condition of a dog for sale, or altering or falsifying a dog's health certificate a consumer protection violation. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 62.

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 - 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 - HB2420 Fire Prevention and Investigation - As introduced, prohibits certain flame retardants in children's products and residential upholstered furniture. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 131.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1018 TennCare - As introduced, repeals requirement that the general assembly must authorize by joint resolution any expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program, pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. - Repeals TCA Section 71-5-126.

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

TN - HB2029 Racing and Motor Sports - As enacted, creates the state horse racing advisory committee to develop recommendations for legislation related to the establishment of horse racing in this state; repeals the commission July 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4.

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

TN - 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 - HB1014 Business and Commerce - As introduced, changes the time period in which appointments to the Tennessee regulatory authority must be approved by the general assembly from 30 days to 45 days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 47; Title 48; Title 60; Title 61; Title 62; Title 64; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

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

TN - HB1089 Education - As introduced, allows a student's parent or the student's teacher to view a state-required standardized summative assessment taken by the student and the student's answers subject to certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

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

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

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

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

TN - HR151 Memorials, Recognition - Buck Dozier

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HR117 Memorials, Interns - Antonio Briggs.

TN - HR174 Memorials, Death - Mary Jenkins Hardin

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

TN - HR2 Memorials, Recognition - Fort Campbell.

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

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 - HR173 Memorials, Death - Cynthia Morin

TN - HR127 Memorials, Death - Richard M. Morin

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

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

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

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 - HJR167 Memorials, Sports - Montgomery Bell Academy, 2014 TSSAA Division II-AA Football State Champions.

TN - HJR187 Memorials, Professional Achievement - George Fraley.

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 - HJR458 Memorials, Death - Fred Dalton Thompson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 - HJR315 Memorials, Sports - Honors the return of professional baseball to historic Sulphur Dell.

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 - HJR426 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Jesse Register.

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

TN - HJR506 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Renata Soto, Chair of the National Council of La Raza

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

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

TN - HJR574 Memorials, Death - Maurice White

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

TN - HJR46 Memorials, Death - Harlan Mathews.

TN - HJR576 Memorials, Death - Mike Pigott