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 - Ethics (House)

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TN - State Government (House)

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TN - HJR49 Memorials, Recognition - Montgomery Bell Academy, 150th anniversary

TN - HB935 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises certain requirements for infused products; makes other various changes to alcohol-related laws. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 2; Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2592 Local Government, General - As introduced, negates mandatory application of certain laws on local governments that are not fully funded; prohibits an agency of state government from creating a new fee that will impact local governments in any year in which the general state revenues to the agency have decreased from the previous year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 53; Title 10; Title 12; Title 41 and Title 50.

TN - HB1508 Students - As introduced, prohibits the use of corporal punishment against a student with an individualized education program (IEP), except corporal punishment may be used against a student who has an IEP because the student is intellectually gifted if all current procedures for use of corporal punishment are followed. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2332 Redistricting, Legislative - As introduced, imposes public notice and public input requirements on a redistricting committee and upon consideration of a final redistricting plan. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 16, Part 1 and Title 3.

TN - HB731 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, prohibits a manufacturer from holding a direct or indirect interest in any wholesaler or establishment that holds a license for consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises; prohibits a nonresident seller from holding a direct or indirect interest in any wholesaler. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HB1509 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, repeals requirements that authorization to engage in regulated professions and occupations be revoked for persons who default on student loans. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 23, Chapter 3; Title 38, Chapter 1; Title 49; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 63.

TN - HB1186 General Assembly - As introduced, requires the joint legislative services committee to publish on the general assembly website the floor voting record of each member following the conclusion of each annual or extraordinary session of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3.

TN - HB2330 Students - As enacted, prohibits the use of corporal punishment against a student with a disability who has an IEP or a Section 504 plan, with certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2373 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, reduces, from three years to one year, the period of time a security device submitted by a licensee conducting money transmission operations must remain in place after the licensee ceases operations in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 7, Part 2.

TN - HB1185 Real Property - As introduced, clarifies that the small business advocate within the office of the comptroller of the treasury may provide to residents of this state who are starting a small business or who already own a small business information regarding the acquisition of real property for the small business and other matters relative to real property that a small business may encounter. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 13; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB2337 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, revises provisions governing delinquent tax sales. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HJR562 Memorials, Recognition - Plaza Mariachi Music City, Grand Opening

TN - HJR767 Memorials, Recognition - PurSolutions LLC, National Science Foundation grant recipient

TN - HB934 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, revises various provisions of property tax law. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB385 Water Pollution - As introduced, requires principals of schools built before June 19, 1986, to flush fixtures used for drinking water and food preparation for at least 60 seconds before the arrival of children each school day. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB2372 Election Laws - As introduced, lengthens voter registration period to 15 days before an election instead of 30 days before an election. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1507 Business and Commerce - As enacted, recognizes the legal authority to use distributed ledger technology and smart contracts in conducting electronic transactions; protects ownership rights of certain information secured by distributed ledger technology. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 47; Title 48; Title 61 and Title 66.

TN - HB722 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates The Plaza in Nashville as a premier type tourist resort for purposes of on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - HB1506 Children - As introduced, enacts the "Infant Mortality Reduction Program Act," which creates a program for the distribution of baby boxes to parents at the birth of their child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 36; Title 37; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB932 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, exempts from the professional privilege tax physicians who are on inactive status and no longer earning income from the practice of medicine. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HJR1311 Memorials, Death - Taurean C. Sanderlin

TN - HB1505 Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As introduced, specifies that the state funds may be used to continue the CoverKids program in the event that federal funds are no longer available; expresses the intent of the general assembly to provide additional state funds for the CoverKids program in the event that federal funds are no longer available. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HJR111 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment to allow people to propose laws by initiative petition.

TN - HJR785 Memorials, Recognition - Demetria Kalodimos

TN - HJR1054 Memorials, Recognition - Azafran Park

TN - HJR149 Memorials, Death - Dr. Gerald Schulman

TN - HJR796 Memorials, Death - Getahn Ward

TN - HB1183 Election Laws - As introduced, requires elections for judicial and county constitutional offices to be nonpartisan; provides for runoff elections if no candidate receives a majority of votes for the office. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 16.

TN - HJR1313 Memorials, Death - Akilah Dasilva

TN - HJR1006 Memorials, Death - Mike Servais

TN - HB1184 Human Rights - As introduced, requires that all employers give their employees six weeks of paid leave for adoption, pregnancy, childbirth, or nursing an infant. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21 and Title 50.

TN - HB2331 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires LEAs to report certain information to the department of education regarding use of corporal punishment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1182 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a candidate for president of the United States to file with the secretary of state tax returns for the immediately preceding five years as a prerequisite for being placed on a primary or general election ballot; requires the secretary of state to give notice of the prerequisite to each qualified candidate. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB775 Fees - As introduced, creates the fee reduction and elimination examination task force to conduct a comprehensive study of the continued need for regulatory fees in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 70.

TN - HJR471 Memorials, Heroism - Griffin Barry

TN - HB933 Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, establishes requirements regarding the custody and transfer of remains in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 7; Title 62, Chapter 5 and Title 68.

TN - HB2374 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, extends, from 10 to 15 days, the period of time within which a Model 2 seller must correct an error in its certified automated system used to determine tax due on its sales and leases in order to be exempt from additional tax liability. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1847 Election Laws - As introduced, requires political communications through a social media platform to indicate the person, candidate, or political committee who paid for and, as applicable, authorized the communication. - Amends TCA Section 2-19-120.

TN - HB2590 State Employees - As enacted, revises provisions governing the use of leave by state employees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 53; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 41; Title 50 and Title 54.

TN - HB1846 Public Health - As introduced, requires parents, guardians, legal custodians, or caregivers of children attending schools to be notified of unsafe drinking water at schools. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 7.

TN - HB502 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits health insurance issuers from imposing preexisting condition exclusions on insureds. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB721 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Comprehensive Contraception Coverage Act." - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HJR730 Memorials, Congress - Supports states' primacy in legalizing and regulating medical cannabis.

TN - HJR1312 Memorials, Death - Joe R. Perez

TN - HJR1315 Memorials, Heroism - Brennan McMurry

TN - HJR1189 Memorials, Death - Rodney L. Bragg

TN - HB432 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, revises certain reckless endangerment provisions; establishes enhanced punishment for acts constituting "community terrorism." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.

TN - HB23 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, reestablishes the first portion of home value for which real property tax relief will be reimbursed to disabled veteran home owners from $100,000 to $175,000. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB176 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, increases the property value threshold for determining the extent of any property tax relief payments to disabled veterans and their surviving spouses from $100,000 to $175,000 of the full market value of the property for any veteran receiving property tax relief in 2014 or prior years and reapplying to receive a reimbursement for tax year 2017 and subsequent years without interruption. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2303 Education - As enacted, creates the "Homeless Student Stability and Opportunity Gap Act." - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB2118 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes the state palliative care and quality of life council to advise the executive director of the Tennessee commission on aging and disability on issues related to palliative care. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 71, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1059 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an insurance policy that provides benefits for anti-cancer medications that are injected or intravenously administered by a healthcare provider and anti-cancer medications that are patient administered from requiring a higher copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amount for the patient administered anti-cancer medication than for the injected or intravenously administered anti-cancer medication. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

TN - HB1795 Mental Illness - As enacted, adds community mental health centers to definition of healthcare organization in order to add them to quality improvement committees. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB941 Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, redefines "least restrictive alternatives" for purposes of supported decision making agreements. - Amends TCA Title 34.

TN - HB278 Food and Food Products - As enacted, adds beekeeping to practices included in the Tennessee Community Gardening Act. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 44, Chapter 15.

TN - HB1961 Public Health - As enacted, enacts the "Suicide Mortality Review and Prevention Act of 2018." - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 3.

TN - HB553 Education, Higher - As enacted, creates the Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). - Amends TCA Section 4-3-733 and Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB841 Education - As introduced, enacts the "K-12 Block Grant Act," which distributes block grants to each LEA to improve the quality of education; appropriates $250 million from excess state tax revenues over collected in fiscal years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 for K-12 block grants. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.

TN - HB770 Public Health - As enacted, authorizes, if approved by the department of health, any nongovernmental organization, including an organization that promotes scientifically proven ways of mitigating health risks associated with drug use and other high-risk behaviors, to establish and operate a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB727 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires students to complete one year of instruction in American government and one year of instruction in Tennessee history between grades 7 and 12 to receive a high school diploma, with various exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB631 Water Pollution - As enacted, requires each local board of education to develop a policy to implement a program to reduce the potential sources of lead contamination in drinking water in public schools that incorporates periodic, not to exceed biennial, testing of lead levels in drinking water sources at school facilities that were constructed prior to January 1, 1998. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB1275 Computers and Electronic Processing - As introduced, requires the information systems council to assess the feasibility of incorporating the recommendations of the open data task force into the council's policy guidelines for the overall management of the state's information systems. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10 and Title 12.

TN - HB1479 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, authorizes general sessions and criminal court judges statewide to suspend court costs and litigation tax for indigent defendants; authorizes court clerk to implement community service program in lieu of full payment of court costs and litigation taxes for indigent defendants, if county legislative body approves such a program. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401; Title 40, Chapter 25 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.

TN - HB1308 Veterans - As enacted, lowers from $610 to $300 the maximum fee for the interment of an eligible veteran's spouse. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1909 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, applies the criminal offense of animal cruelty to the restraint of a dog with a chain, cord, tether, cable, or similar device while a disaster is imminent or occurring. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 44, Chapter 17.

TN - HB2169 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates August 18 of each year as "Febb Burn Day" to honor her role in the enfranchisement of women. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2412 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, gives licensing authorities discretion whether or not to suspend, deny, or revoke a license based on the applicant or licensee having defaulted or become delinquent on student loan repayment, if the licensing authority determines that the default or delinquency is the result of a medical hardship that prevented the person from working in the person's licensed field and the medical hardship significantly contributed to the default or delinquency. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 23; Title 49; Title 56 and Title 63.

TN - HB2626 Public Records - As enacted, revises provisions governing access to investigative records of the Tennessee bureau of investigation by certain members and committees of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1487 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, repeals requirements that authorization to engage in regulated professions and occupations be revoked for persons who default on student loans. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 23, Chapter 3; Title 38, Chapter 1; Title 49; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 63.

TN - HB918 Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the board to create an endorsement in computer science for all teachers who demonstrate sufficient content knowledge in the course material. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 5.

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

TN - HB2129 Safety - As enacted, enacts the "School Safety Act of 2018". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 16; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Section 50-3-201; Section 58-1-112; Section 70-4-123 and Section 70-5-101.

TN - HB275 Financial Disclosure - As enacted, requires certain disclosures by members of the general assembly regarding travel expenses paid on behalf of the member. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10, Part 1; Title 3, Chapter 6 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 5.

TN - HB2643 General Assembly - As enacted, designates the public space constructed on top of the parking garage attached to the Cordell Hull Building as the "Beth Harwell Plaza"; designates the new tunnel that connects the Cordell Hull Building to the State Capitol as the "Ron Ramsey Tunnel". - Amends TCA Title 3.

TN - HB1112 Domestic Violence - As enacted, requires the court to give a defendant intending to plead guilty to a domestic violence offense notice of the firearm dispossession consequences of a domestic violence conviction and sets out a procedure for a person convicted of domestic violence to terminate possession of all firearms. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-111 and Section 40-14-109.

TN - HB1276 Public Contracts - As enacted, adds "businesses owned by persons with disabilities" to the Tennessee Minority-Owned, Woman-Owned and Small Business Procurement and Contracting Act; requires that the annual report made by the chief procurement officer concerning the awarding of purchases to minority-owned business, woman-owned business, service-disabled veteran-owned business, or small business and the total value of awards made also include the total dollar amount of purchases awarded to all businesses in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 12.

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

TN - HB400 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates the Sewanee Inn in Franklin County as a premier type tourist resort for the purposes of on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages; also so designates a certain commercially operated facility in Cumberland County and the new Restoration Hardware store in Nashville. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - HB2608 Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to establish a procedure under the CoverKids Act that sends an email notice to an enrollee, or the parent or legal guardian of the enrollee stating that the enrollee must redetermine eligibility for the program; specifies that email notice is required only when the department has an email address for the enrollee of the parent or guardian of the enrollee. - Amends TCA Title 71.

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

TN - HB463 Marriage - As enacted, establishes provisions governing marriage by proxy for persons in the armed forces. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1856 Adoption - As enacted, revises various provisions governing adoption. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1976 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, specifies that an entity licensed for on-premises consumption may include contiguous areas in its designated premises; adds designation as festival operator for purposes of those authorized to sell for on-premises consumption; revises other on-premises consumption provisions. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1384 Planning, Public - As enacted, establishes authorization and procedures for housing authorities to redevelop certain areas for transit projects. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 23; Title 13, Chapter 20 and Title 29, Chapter 17.

TN - HB466 Public Employees - As enacted, authorizes the state and local governments to provide health insurance benefits to the immediate family members of first responders killed in the line of duty for a period of two years after the death of the first responder; requires the state to reimburse local governments that provide such benefits. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27.

TN - HB872 Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to review all current laws and policies related to exclusionary discipline practices in public schools for students in pre-kindergarten through kindergarten and to develop guidelines and standards for alternatives to exclusionary discipline practices based on the findings of the review; establishes other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 10; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2051 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, enacts the "Voluntary Employee Retirement Accounts Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 8 and Title 9.

TN - HB2112 Taxes - As enacted, establishes a method of apportionment that may be elected by financial asset management companies for franchise and excise tax purposes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

TN - HB2429 Education, Higher - As introduced, exempts certain students from paying out-of-state tuition at state institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Section 4-58-102; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2606 Child Abuse - As enacted, requires the department of children's services to develop instructional guidelines for child safety training programs for members of professions that frequently deal with children who may be at risk of abuse. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 23; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

TN - HB1491 Firefighters - As introduced, creates a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter's cancer that causes a disabling health condition is a result of the firefighter's duties as a firefighter. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB629 Health Care - As enacted, creates the state palliative care and quality of life task force. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB5 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, reestablishes, from $100,000 to $175,000, the first portion of home value for which real property tax relief will be reimbursed to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB1368 Public Employees - As enacted, increases the compensation from $25,000 to a $250,000 annuity payable in five annual installments of $50,000, paid to the estate of a firefighter, volunteer rescue squad worker, or law enforcement officer who dies in the line of duty; revises related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - HB2065 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is deaf or hard of hearing to request that the department of safety include such designation in the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database; enacts other related provisions in regard to such designation. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB395 School Transportation - As introduced, requires any bus ordered or purchased on or after July 1, 2018, 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 - HB1717 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the delivery of alcoholic beverages, including the fee structure for delivery service licenses. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1785 Marriage - As introduced, requires each applicant be at least 18 years of age before a county clerk can issue a marriage license. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3 and Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB710 Barbers and/or Cosmetologists - As enacted, authorizes a licensed cosmetologist, manicurist, aesthetician, or natural hair stylist to practice such occupations in a recipient's residence, short-term residence, or place of business. - Amends TCA Title 62.

TN - HB1540 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages and wine on Sundays during certain hours; prohibits sales on Easter, Christmas, and Thanksgiving; revises other provisions relating to alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3; Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1713 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, expands the requirement that sellers of dogs and cats be licensed to include sellers who sell to individuals and not just sellers who sell at flea markets, who sell for resale, or who sell for research purposes; establishes application and renewal fees of $125 for sellers of dogs and cats who sell to individuals. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - HB1905 Capitol - As enacted, administratively attaches the David Crockett commission to the department of finance and administration; creates a separate account within the treasury to be used to erect a monument; authorizes state and private funds to be used to erect a monument with intent that no state funds be used until private funding exhausted. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 8, Part 4.

TN - HB596 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates March 4 of each year as "Tennessee Missing Children's Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15.

TN - HB1862 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, lowers the expunction fee from $350 to $180 for a defendant whose charge was dismissed due to successful completion of a pretrial diversion program. - Amends TCA Section 40-32-101.

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

TN - HB530 Education, Higher - As enacted, replaces the Tennessee National Guard Tuition Assistance Act with the Tennessee Support, Training, and Renewing Opportunity for National Guardsmen (STRONG) Act of 2017. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 10.

TN - HB1686 Education - As enacted, specifies that, for the 2017-2018 school year, employment termination and compensation decisions for pre-kindergarten or kindergarten teachers will not be based solely on data generated by the portfolio model; revises provisions regarding funding and approval for LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1402 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the punishment for intentionally desecrating a place of worship or burial from a Class A misdemeanor to Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB2053 Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Down Syndrome Information Act of 2018". - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

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

TN - HB1533 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires public higher education institutions in this state to adopt a policy to allow American sign language courses to satisfy any foreign language requirements for admission to an undergraduate degree program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB383 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, reduces the fee for expunction to $205, reduces the time after which sentences have been completed before a person can apply for expunction to one year, and allows a person to obtain expunction for an assault conviction. - Amends TCA Section 40-32-101.

TN - HB1207 Controlled Substances - As enacted, requires the department of health to identify high-risk prescribers; requires the commissioner of health to report certain information concerning births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and opioid use by women of childbearing age; requires bureau of TennCare to issue appropriate requests for information for program initiatives aimed at primary prevention and secondary prevention of births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and the use of opioids by women of childbearing age enrolled in the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB441 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes the BEP to provide funding that allows all first time teachers in the state to receive $500 for classroom instructional supplies. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.

TN - HB165 Veterans - As enacted, authorizes private employers to give hiring preference to honorably discharged veterans, spouses of veterans with service-connected disabilities, unremarried widows or widowers of veterans who died of service-connected disabilities, and unremarried widows or widowers of members of the military who died in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB361 Civil Procedure - As introduced, sets the statute of limitations of certain causes of actions arising from a home inspection or home inspection report to one year; prohibits contractual waiver of the limitation; limits home inspector liability relative to certain defects; prohibits disciplinary actions taken by the commissioner from being the sole basis for civil or criminal cause of actions against the home inspector. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 62, Chapter 6, Part 3 and Title 66, Chapter 5.

TN - HB15 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, creates exemptions from sales tax, registration fee, and motor vehicle privilege tax, for any motor vehicle sold to a veteran or service member who has a service-connected disability and who is eligible for a United States department of veterans affairs automobile grant under the Disabled Veterans' and Servicemen's Automobile Assistance Act of 1970; limits sales and use tax exemption to portion of price that is in excess of the amount of the grant received. - Amends TCA Section 5-8-102; Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1359 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 or public school. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB2134 Marriage - As enacted, revises the interest rate on certain unpaid child support arrearages; revises provisions governing the age at which a person may be issued a marriage license; creates a cause of action for forced marriage. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - HB2120 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory committee on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to perform a study of the potential, overall effects of creating a grant and loan program administered by the department of economic and community development to encourage the financing and development of food desert relief enterprises that sell fresh food in low-income, underserved areas of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 67, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB20 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, changes the home value for which real property tax relief will be granted from $100,000 to $175,000 for veterans with disabilities and from $23,500 to $25,000 for low-income homeowners who are elderly or have disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB1208 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, prohibits outsourcing with respect to the maintenance, operation, and preservation of state parks, including buildings, facilities, structures, or improvements upon state park property. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 11.

TN - HB863 Education - 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 - HB1967 Consumer Protection - As introduced, makes various changes to state law related to gift certificates, such as requiring certain gift certificates to have longer expiration dates; prohibiting dormancy or inactivity fees; and authorizing activation or issuance fees up to certain limits. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 66.

TN - HB381 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, enacts the "Automated Vehicles Act" and other requirements related to the operation of autonomous vehicles on the public roads of this state. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 39; Title 40; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB1320 Birth Control - As enacted, enacts the "Long-Acting Birth Control Information Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2247 Education - As enacted, requires that each year at least 30 percent, instead of 70 percent, of the items on state assessments in grades 3-8 and end of course examinations in high school be fresh, nonredundant items that did not appear on the tests in the previous two years, instead of the previous four years for grades 3-8 and the previous three years for high school tests. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-610.

TN - HB1209 Controlled Substances - As enacted, requires that any person treated for a drug-related overdose with an opioid antagonist by a first responder be taken to a medical facility by emergency medical services for evaluation, unless the person is competent to refuse medical treatment and chooses to refuse treatment. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1.

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

TN - HB433 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires state institutions of higher education to develop and implement uniform procedures for awarding academic credit through course equivalencies for military education, training, experience, and occupational specialties; provides methods for implementation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.

TN - HB1549 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, exempts certain supervisors, principals, and public school teachers from having to take an assessment to advance or renew a teaching license under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB736 Driver Licenses - As enacted, permits a judge to consider a criminal defendant's participation in recovery court as a hardship sufficient to order the stay of a criminal defendant's driver license revocation for failing to pay fines, court costs, and litigation taxes. - Amends TCA Section 40-24-105.

TN - HB972 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to maintain case manager staffing levels so that case manager caseloads do not exceed an average of 20 active cases relating to initial assessments or an average of 20 children monitored and supervised per case manager. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1337 Child Abuse - As enacted, requires the department of children's services to develop guidelines on the best practices for identifying and reporting signs of child abuse, child sexual abuse, and human trafficking in which the victim is a child; requires the department of education to use the guidelines to identify child abuse training programs appropriate for teachers; requires local education agencies and public charter schools to ensure teachers complete a child abuse training program. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 23; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2130 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Stolen Valor Act". - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 3 and Section 58-1-602.

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

TN - HB577 Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, requires an adjudicating court to inform a child of the need to file a motion for expunction of a juvenile record; requires the administrative office of the courts to create a motion that can be completed by a child; requires juvenile court clerks to make the model expunction motion available to all children. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-153.

TN - HB2248 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Fresh Start Act". - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 76, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 1.

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

TN - HB1381 Public Buildings - As enacted, requires that stair steps leading into the public entrance of certain public buildings have detectable nosings of a contrasting color; enacts other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB2279 Telecommunications - As enacted, enacts the "Competitive Wireless Broadband Investment, Deployment, and Safety Act of 2018" and requires TACIR to study certain items relating to deployment. - Amends TCA Title 13.

TN - HB2439 Landlord and Tenant - As enacted, classifies as material noncompliance and default by a tenant with a rental agreement, if the tenant pretends to have a disability-related need for an assistance animal in order to obtain an exception to a provision in a rental agreement that prohibits pets or establishes limits on the types of pets that tenants may possess on residential rental property. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 13, Chapter 20; Title 33; Title 39; Title 44, Chapter 17; Title 44, Chapter 8, Part 4 and Title 66.

TN - HB1510 Public Employees - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Public Safety Behavioral Health Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 50; Title 58; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1765 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, consolidates provisions governing earthquake and fire drills. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB1382 Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Fair Repair Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 55 and Title 62.

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

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

TN - HB1460 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes local education agencies to establish recovery high schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 4.

TN - HR146 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Markila Tate, Salutatorian, Melrose High School

TN - HR263 Memorials, Public Service - Roger Campbell

TN - HR24 Memorials, Recognition - Alzheimer's and other dementia awareness

TN - HR248 Memorials, Death - Dr. Stephanie Balmer

TN - HR250 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Travis McKinney, Keller Williams Realty International Rookie of the Year

TN - HR95 Memorials, Recognition - Clayborn Temple

TN - HR62 Memorials, Recognition - World Relief Nashville

TN - HR171 Memorials, Recognition - Tim Shaw

TN - HR184 Memorials, Public Service - Thistle Farms

TN - HR241 Memorials, Death - Catherine Coke

TN - HR144 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Leonica Clear, Valedictorian, Melrose High School

TN - HR145 Memorials, Academic Achievement - JerMeiah Clay, Salutatorian, East High School

TN - HR257 Memorials, Death - Dr. Eugene TeSelle

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

TN - HR76 Memorials, Death - Howard Stringer

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

TN - HR143 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Camerin Morganfield, Valedictorian, East High School

TN - HR13 Memorials, Sports - Ben Zobrist, 2016 World Series Most Valuable Player

TN - HR148 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Angela Taylor, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HR348 Memorials, Death - DeEbony Groves

TN - HR346 Memorials, Recognition - Krishun Lovelace, Mr. HBCU

TN - HR313 Memorials, Recognition - Union University Debate Team

TN - HR147 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Vivica Martin, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HR89 Memorials, Sports - Maplewood High School boys' basketball team, TSSAA Division I Class AA State Champions

TN - HR187 Memorials, Recognition - Metro Nashville Arts Commission, 40th anniversary

TN - HR110 Memorials, Recognition - Representative Gary Moore

TN - HR213 Memorials, Recognition - Sidney Raphael Branch, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

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

TN - HJR809 Memorials, Recognition - Tami Sawyer, 2018 Social Justice Honoree

TN - HJR108 Memorials, Recognition - World Sickle Cell Day

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

TN - HJR782 Memorials, Recognition - Nathan "Nearest" Green

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

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

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

TN - HJR561 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jack Lowery, President of Tennessee Road Builders Association

TN - HJR34 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Tammy Letzler and Kim Cox

TN - HJR35 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 3, 2017

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

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

TN - HJR185 Memorials, Recognition - Darryl Worley

TN - HJR64 Memorials, Death - Chattanooga school bus victims

TN - HJR67 Memorials, Death - Brock Wyatt Blick

TN - HJR91 Memorials, Heroism - Officer Joseph Miranne, Officer Jason Berrios, and Officer Anthony Oliveto of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

TN - HJR98 Memorials, Recognition - V. Lynn Evans

TN - HJR262 Memorials, Recognition - The Lee Sisters of Memphis

TN - HJR1073 Memorials, Retirement - Ted Hackney

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

TN - HJR802 Memorials, Recognition - Nedra Butler-Ross, Reva Allman-Name That Soror Award

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

TN - HJR953 Memorials, Recognition - "Autism Awareness Month," April 2018

TN - HJR641 Memorials, Congratulations - Taiwan

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

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

TN - HJR805 Memorials, Recognition - Kimberly JoAnne Reid, Mary D. Shane-Miss AKA Outstanding Undergraduate Soror Award

TN - HJR1086 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Brad A. Lampley, UT board of trustees

TN - HJR639 Memorials, Death - Reverend Dwight Montgomery

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

TN - HJR650 Memorials, Death - John H. "Jack" Morris III

TN - HJR735 Memorials, Retirement - Ed Cromer

TN - HJR583 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Denounces white nationalists and neo-Nazi groups as domestic terrorist organizations.

TN - HJR779 Memorials, Recognition - Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 995

TN - HJR909 Memorials, Recognition - Hillsman Lee Wright

TN - HJR1068 Memorials, Retirement - Rick Shepard

TN - HJR838 Memorials, Sports - David Poile

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

TN - HJR1194 Memorials, Retirement - Eugene Francis Nolan

TN - HJR582 Memorials, Death - Iyalode Nkechi Kianga Ajanaku

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

TN - HJR686 Memorials, Recognition - Oak Ridge Schools

TN - HJR459 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Calls for a halt to state facilities outsourcing.

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Death - Barbara Rodgers Alston

TN - HJR657 Memorials, Death - Representative Raymond Walker

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

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

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

TN - HJR736 Memorials, Death - E. Claude Gardner

TN - HJR197 Memorials, Death - Dr. Gene Caldwell

TN - HJR940 Memorials, Death - Alma Tate

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

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

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

TN - HJR656 Memorials, Sports - Phillip Edward Fulmer, Sr., Director of Athletics at the University of Tennessee

TN - HJR801 Memorials, Recognition - Annie L. Barnes, Omicron Omega Golden Soror of the Year

TN - HJR807 Memorials, Recognition - Anesha Hines, Velma Lois Jones-New Soror of the Year Award

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

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

TN - HJR22 Memorials, Death - Michael E. Anderson

TN - HJR783 Memorials, Retirement - Edwin D. Brown

TN - HJR789 Memorials, Recognition - The Links Days on Capitol Hill

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

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

TN - HJR1302 Memorials, Heroism - James Shaw, Jr.

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

TN - HJR1004 Memorials, Government Officials - Urges Governor to refuse to participate in any survey or settlement seeking to alter Tennessee-Georgia boundary and Boundary Line Commission.

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

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

TN - HJR709 Memorials, Sports - Gibbs High School softball team, TSSAA Division I Class AAA State Champions

TN - HJR1005 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Susan Ritter, State Executive Officer of the Year

TN - HJR75 Memorials, Retirement - David Gregory

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

TN - HJR530 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. James Netters

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

TN - HJR226 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 33 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the criminal punishment exception from slavery and involuntary servitude prohibition.

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

TN - HJR1177 Memorials, Death - Joe Clyde Daniels

TN - HJR176 Memorials, Retirement - Tim Tohill

TN - HJR636 Memorials, Death - Jesse Wilburn

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

TN - HJR141 Memorials, Recognition - Deanie Parker

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

TN - HJR121 Memorials, Public Service - Sue Creasy

TN - HJR109 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment to Article XI, Section 5 to allow the legislature to authorize casinos and games of chance associated with casinos to be operated in Tennessee.

TN - HJR1306 Memorials, Retirement - Denise Sims

TN - HJR454 Memorials, Interns - Daniel H. Cox

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

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

TN - HJR833 Memorials, Recognition - Ethel Hedgeman Lyle

TN - HJR804 Memorials, Recognition - Lauryn Joiner, Mary D. Shane-Miss AKA Outstanding Undergraduate Soror Award

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

TN - HJR1186 Memorials, Recognition - Kent Ritchey, Ginny Award

TN - HJR722 Memorials, Retirement - Shirley Jones

TN - HJR1055 Memorials, Death - Perry Wallace

TN - HJR529 Memorials, Recognition - Fred L. Davis

TN - HJR261 Memorials, Death - Rosetta Leteria Dover

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

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

TN - HJR699 Memorials, Death - Denise LaSalle

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

TN - HJR578 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Elizabeth A. Mulhearn, Valedictorian, Central High School

TN - HJR120 Memorials, Public Service - Bonnie Merriman

TN - HJR145 Memorials, Public Service - Stancil Ford

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

TN - HJR737 Memorials, Death - Dr. David Millhorn

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