Tennessee Rep. Joe E. Armstrong (D)

TN - Finance, Ways and Means (House)

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TN - Finance, Ways and Means Subcommittee (House)

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TN - Transportation (House)

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TN - HB1093 Homestead Exemptions - As enacted, requires TACIR to study current homestead exemption amounts to determine whether the amounts should be increased to reflect the cost of living. - Amends TCA Title 26, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1008 Schools, Charter - As introduced, increases from 90 days to 120 days prior to the delayed opening of a charter school the time within which the commissioner of education must verify that no material changes have been made to the information and documents filed by the charter school sponsor. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB2221 Consumer Protection - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of agriculture to distribute the required annual report titled "Annual Report on the Quality of Kerosene and Motor Fuel in Tennessee" in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 65 and Title 66.

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

TN - HB2519 Naming and Designating - As introduced, designates the supreme court building located in the city of Knoxville as the "Edward T. Sanford State Supreme Court Building."

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

TN - HB2523 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires a court clerk who receives a petition for the restoration of rights from a petitioner who resides in that county to forward the petition to the clerk in the county where the conviction took place, if applicable, and requires such clerk to process the petition as if received directly from the petitioner. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 4; Title 18 and Title 40.

TN - HB2522 Education - As introduced, holds teachers who do not have access to individual student growth data harmless on their evaluations and students harmless on their grades in the first year of administration of TNReady assessments from the results obtained from those assessments. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

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 - HB1328 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to annually report on the availability and content of driver education and training courses in public schools to the education committee of the senate and the education instruction and programs committee of the house. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1322 Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As introduced, limits the law enforcement authority of wildlife officers to the extent such officers are acting within their scope of authority for enforcing a law, rule, or proclamation over which such officers have jurisdiction under boating and wildlife laws. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 69 and Title 70.

TN - HB1327 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, clarifies that an electronic version is acceptable for the annual compliance report on capital cases submitted by the administrative office of the courts to the chief clerks of the senate and house and chairs of the appropriate committees. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HR74 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lorna Treffert, Salutatorian, L & N STEM Academy.

TN - HB2521 Education - As introduced, raises the age of students, from age 12 and over to age 16 and over, for whom boards of education may establish and maintain night schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2459 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, requires TCRS board to strive to ensure that emerging investment managers account for at least 20 percent of all outside asset investments; increases amount of maximum portfolio to be considered an emerging investment manager from $100,000,000 to $250,000,000. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 24; Title 8 and Title 9.

TN - HJR83 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article III, Section 12 of the Constitution of Tennessee to provide for the exercise of powers and duties of the governor during disability.

TN - HJR401 Memorials, Interns - Ellen LoCurto-Martinez.

TN - HB1326 Public Employees - As introduced, increases, from one week to 14 days, the period of time for the sheriff's civil service board to provide written notice of the time, place, and scope of eligibility and promotion tests for applicants. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - HR72 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Mahongony Cobb, Salutatorian, Austin-East Magnet High School.

TN - HB1324 TennCare - As introduced, directs the commissioner of finance and administration to request an appropriate waiver to extend TennCare eligibility to veterans under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148) on the basis of income on or before July 1, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HR75 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jentry Indigo Jones, Valedictorian, L & N STEM Academy.

TN - HB1329 Uniform Commercial Code - As introduced, increases from 30 days to 60 days the period in which a purchase-money security interest in goods, other than inventory or livestock, must be perfected in order to maintain its priority over conflicting security interests in the same goods. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - HB2520 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, allows Holston Hills Country Club in Knox County to serve and sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises; designates the Orpheum Theater's Halloran Center as a "historic performing arts center" for purposes of on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages; authorizes Porter Inn in Nashville to serve alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1.

TN - HR73 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Peyton Dendy, Valedictorian, Austin-East Magnet High School.

TN - HJR84 Memorials, Recognition - University of Tennessee Lady Vols.

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

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

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

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 - HR2 Memorials, Recognition - Fort Campbell.

TN - HJR6 Memorials, Public Service - Ed Haley.

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

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

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

TN - HB110 Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, delineates the only requirements that shall apply to the use of non-OEM aftermarket crash parts in the repair of an insured’s or third-party claimant’s motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 56.

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

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

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

TN - HJR404 Memorials, Recognition - Joshua Jamahl Murray.

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 - HR99 Memorials, Interns - Ja'Vonta Seals.

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 - 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 - HR98 Memorials, Interns - Jillian Cantrell.

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

TN - HB829 Domestic Violence - As enacted, requires that any pending order of protection or restraining order be served on a domestic violence offender before release, following the mandatory 12-hour holding period; directs that a copy of protection order be issued to any court in which the respondent and petitioner are parties to an action. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1, and Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

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

TN - HB1325 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, lengthens time from 45 days to 60 days that the retirement division must hear from a duly qualified administrator or executor of an estate before releasing payment to the executor of any will of the deceased. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36.

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

TN - 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 - HB879 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, exempts compressed natural gas from sales tax in the same manner that the present law exempts motor fuel and liquified gas from sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 3 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

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

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

TN - HJR46 Memorials, Death - Harlan Mathews.

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

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

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

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

TN - HR22 Memorials, Recognition - Allan Wade Houston.

TN - HJR174 Memorials, Recognition - Donna Morgan.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 - 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 - HJR408 Memorials, Death - Kyle Copenhaver Testerman.

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

TN - HR113 Memorials, Academic Achievement - James "Grayson" Goble, Salutatorian, West High School.

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

TN - HR115 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lane Brandt, Co-Valedictorian, West High School.

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HR114 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Robert "Walker" Ivy, Co-valedictorian, West High School.

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

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Thadijah Jeanne Burks.

TN - HR117 Memorials, Interns - Antonio Briggs.

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

TN - HJR187 Memorials, Professional Achievement - George Fraley.

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

TN - HB1323 Codes - As enacted, specifies that if a local government adopts mandatory sprinkler requirements for one-family and two-family dwellings pursuant to present law that would apply to dwellings used as establishments providing sleeping accommodations to transients for less than 30 nights per stay, then those mandatory sprinkler requirements will be applied only to those dwellings constructed on or after the date the mandatory sprinkler requirements took effect. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 12; Title 47; Title 48; Title 57; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR246 Memorials, Sports - Webb School of Knoxville girls' basketball team TSSAA Division II Class A state champions.

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

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 - HR39 Memorials, Recognition - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority.

TN - HJR286 Memorials, Recognition - Rotary Club of Knoxville, 100th anniversary.

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

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

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

TN - HR70 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Layla Marie Mosadegh, Valedictorian, South-Doyle High School.

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 - HR71 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Alexxis Rhyann Rodgers Jester, Salutatorian, South-Doyle High School.

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR458 Memorials, Death - Fred Dalton Thompson.

TN - HJR466 Memorials, Death - Former Representative Joe Burchfield

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HB1856 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, permits a physician or osteopathic physician to prescribe, order, or otherwise distribute, for the purpose of treating binge eating disorder, a drug that is approved by the FDA for that indication. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2336 Human Rights - As introduced, removes the requirement that a litigant file a claim arising under the jurisdiction of the human rights commission within 90 days after the commission issues a finding that there was reasonable cause to believe discrimination was found. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21.

TN - HB2335 Human Rights - As enacted, eliminates requirement that a party remove a case to state court within 90 days after the complaint is filed if the Tennessee human rights commission determines there is reasonable cause to believe discrimination took place in regard to housing. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21.

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

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

TN - HJR574 Memorials, Death - Maurice White

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 - HJR598 Memorials, Sports - Webb School of Knoxville Volleyball Team, Division 2A Championship

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 - 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 - HJR597 Memorials, Recognition - Three Dog Night

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 - HR161 Memorials, Public Service - Pastor Matt Anzivino

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR605 Memorials, Sports - Peyton Manning

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

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

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

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

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 - HR164 Memorials, Retirement - Judge Walter F. Williams

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 - 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 - HB1416 Traffic Safety - As enacted, enacts the "Slow Poke Law," which prohibits the operation of vehicles in the left lane of interstates and multilane divided highways, except for passing and other purposes. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

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

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

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

TN - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1816 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, extends 120-day period certain pregnant insureds may continue to receive covered benefits after termination of an agreement between a healthcare provider and a managed health insurance issuer to additional classes of insureds. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

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