Tennessee Rep. Joe Pitts (D)

TN - Education (House)

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TN - Education Subcommittee (House)

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TN - Ethics (House)

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TN - Insurance and Banking (House)

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TN - HB2295 Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the month of August as "Women in STEM" month to raise awareness of the opportunities for women to pursue a career in a STEM related field; STEM refers to the fields of study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2128 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, permits county, city or metropolitan school boards to shift funds from one budget category to another after the local legislative body has approved the school system's budget. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.

TN - HJR543 General Assembly, Directed Studies - Requests the department of education to study and report on ways local education agencies are implementing the requirements of TCA 49-6-1021, which requires 90 minutes of physical activity per week.

TN - HB426 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, establishes scholarship program for dependents of certain disabled veterans. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HJR780 Memorials, Recognition - Nick Cunningham, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award.

TN - HB421 Education - As introduced, permits the commissioner of education to place any virtual school that fails to meet the performance standards set by the state board of education in the achievement school district. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB422 Veterans - As enacted, establishes special requirements for the expedited issuance of certain licenses, the temporary extension of certain licenses, and the granting of certain credit for certain service members. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8; Title 49, Chapter 9; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 1.

TN - HJR885 Memorials, Retirement - Roger Lewis.

TN - HJR86 Memorials, Recognition - George Kazuo Nishimura, Congressional Gold Medal

TN - HB2124 Gas, Petroleum Products, Volatile Oils - As introduced, prohibits fracturing in Tennessee, effective January 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 59; Title 60; Title 68 and Title 69.

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

TN - HB1974 Telecommunications - As introduced, allows certain cities to operate fiber optic facilities and use such facilities to provide broadband services to certain customers. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 52, Part 6.

TN - HR61 Memorials, Interns - Brandy Lassiter

TN - HJR933 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Naomi M. Jerkins, 80th birthday.

TN - HJR799 Memorials, Public Service - President Tim Hall, Austin Peay State University.

TN - HJR303 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Dewey Browder

TN - HJR203 Memorials, Recognition - Andrea Allen, Miss Black Clarksville 2013

TN - HJR837 Memorials, Recognition - Jaliyah Peterson, Miss Black Clarksville 2014.

TN - HJR886 Memorials, Recognition - Reverend Robert P. Harris, Jr.

TN - HB429 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, requires a pharmacist or pharmacist's agent to check identification of certain persons seeking delivery of a controlled substance and requires signature as confirmation of receipt. - Amends TCA Title 53.

TN - HB430 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, improves retirement benefits of certain Tennessee public employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36.

TN - HJR550 Memorials, Recognition - Genesis Learning Centers, 30th anniversary.

TN - HB2125 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, specifies that the provisions regarding suspensions imposed by the director of schools for three days or less apply to suspensions of teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR763 Memorials, Recognition - Academic Awards Student Recognition Program, Clarksville-Montgomery County Education Foundation, and Clarksville-Montgomery County School District.

TN - HB1972 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, extends to all registered sexual offenders certain residential, work and other restrictions that currently apply only to registered sexual offenders whose victims were minors; does not apply to restriction on obtaining sexual offender treatment or attending a sexual offender treatment program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - HJR134 Memorials, Recognition - George Stephens III

TN - HB1975 Education - As introduced, prohibits the test scores from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers to be used in evaluating LEAs during the 2014-2015 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1219 Veterans - As introduced, creates a process whereby the cremated remains of certain veterans and veterans' spouses may be interred by an entity selected by the county legislative body if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 25; Title 46; Title 58; Title 62, Chapter 5; Title 68, Chapter 3 and Title 68, Chapter 4.

TN - HB882 Veterans - As introduced, redefines veterans for purposes of the Tennessee Minority-Owned, Woman-Owned and Small Business Procurement and Contracting Act to include all veterans that served honorably on active duty in the armed forces of the United States; removes the requirement for a certain percentage of disability from the definition. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 11; Title 12; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 62 and Title 67.

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

TN - HB424 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, increases the Tennessee HOPE scholarship award at eligible four-year and two-year postsecondary institutions by at least the amount of the average increase over the previous academic year in in-state tuition and fees at public four-year and two-year institutions respectively. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB1364 Montgomery County - As introduced, subject to local approval, creates a special juvenile court in Montgomery County pursuant to the Juvenile Court Restructure Act of 1982.

TN - HB2296 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, changes the requirement for county clerks to remit fees associated with titling and registration the same day the application is filed to a monthly requirement. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB1971 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, permits dependent children of active duty military and formerly active duty personnel who intend to reside in this state following active service to apply for home and community-based services. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1973 Students - As enacted, requires the department of education to maintain the unique personal identification numbers of students of active duty military or reserve component parents or guardians in a separate database to identify and track these students if the students move to different schools across the state and country. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR541 Memorials, Recognition - Mallory Fundora, 13-year old altruist and founder of Project Yesu.

TN - HB1978 Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the state board of education to establish guidelines whereby the department must prepare a fiscal analysis of any policy, rule or regulation proposed to the state board by the department if such proposal will financially impact an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 49.

TN - HB1976 Unknown

TN - HJR585 Memorials, Death - Coach Marshall H. Patterson.

TN - HJR762 Memorials, Recognition - Silent Witness Program.

TN - HB428 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires persons under 18 to successfully complete a state approved motorcycle rider training course prior to obtaining a motorcycle driver license or motorcycle learner's permit. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 51, Part 1.

TN - HB1969 Children - As enacted, makes dependent children, who are four years of age whose parent was killed, died as direct result of injuries received or has been officially reported as being either a prisoner of war or missing in action while serving honorably as a member of the United States armed forces during a qualified period of armed conflict, or was formerly a prisoner of war or missing in action under such circumstances, eligible to attend pilot pre-kindergarten programs and requires licensed child care agencies to prioritize such children on any waiting list for admission; changes the date by which a child from a family that qualifies for free and reduced price lunch must be four years of age, in order to qualify for participation in the programs of community-based early childhood education and pre-kindergarten programs from September 30 to August 15. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB881 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, prohibits navigators for exchanges under the Affordable Care Act from selling, soliciting, or negotiating any policy of insurance, either within or outside of an exchange. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1451 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, extends twenty-five percent tuition discount at state institutions of higher learning currently granted to children of full-time teachers and technology coordinators employed by LEAs to children of all full-time LEA employees. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-119.

TN - HJR37 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Stacey Hopwood, County Service Officer of the Year

TN - HB1977 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires any waiver of rules, regulations or policies granted by the department to be posted on the department's web site within five business days of approval; requires a rationale of the waiver to be included on the web site. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HB1117 Victims' Rights - As introduced, adds victims of vehicular assault, criminally negligent homicide, vehicular homicide, reckless homicide, and aggravated vehicular homicide whose injury or death was inflicted through the use of a motor vehicle or watercraft to those eligible for criminal injuries compensation. - Amends TCA Section 29-13-104.

TN - HB1970 Unknown

TN - HB423 Business Organizations - As enacted, extends certain protections to private foundations from governmental intrusion. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 9, Part 1 and Title 48.

TN - HB425 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to review security procedures for standardized tests given in grades K-12 in the public schools and make recommendations to the general assembly as to improvements that are needed to ensure test security. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR178 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dorothy N. "Dottie" Mann, State Forestry Commission

TN - HB427 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, changes the requirement that, for purposes of eligibility for Tennessee HOPE scholarships as a dependent child of active military parent, the parent's home of record be Tennessee and the child must be eligible for in-state tuition at the time of enrollment. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-926.

TN - HB431 Financial Responsibility Law - As enacted, increases penalty for violation of the Financial Responsibility law from a Class C misdemeanor punishable only by a fine of up to $100 to a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to 11 months and 29 days in jail and a fine of up to $2,500 when the offender was at fault for the accident resulting in bodily injury or death. - Amends TCA Title 40; Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 55, Chapter 12.

TN - HB223 Motor Vehicle Commission - As enacted, adds a non-franchise motor vehicle dealer as a member of the motor vehicle commission; increases quorum requirement by one person. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - HB1738 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, modifies the Medicare supplemental insurance benefit for participating retired employees and teachers to ensure that such retirees are not required to pay the full cost of each premium increase. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27, Part 7.

TN - HB2266 Welfare - As enacted, requires the commissioner of human services, in consultation with various governmental and non-governmental entities that serve poor people, to conduct a study of poverty in Tennessee and submit a state anti-poverty plan to the governor and the general assembly by January 15, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

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

TN - HB2285 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires any pending order of protection or restraining order to be served on domestic violence offender before release following the mandatory twelve-hour holding period; directs a copy of protection order to be issued to any court in which the respondent or 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 - HB2161 Fiscal Review Committee - As introduced, requires committee to review contracts that result in layoffs of state employees; requires committee as part of reviewing proposed contracts to consider whether existing state employees can perform the tasks in such proposed contracts. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 7.

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

TN - HB381 Education - As introduced, increases from 200,000 to 250,000 the maximum number of miles a conventional or Class D school bus operating in a 16th or 17th year can have. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-2109.

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

TN - HB445 Education, Higher - As enacted, redefines "institution" for purposes of the Tennessee State School Bond Authority Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 12.

TN - HB1838 Orders of Protection - As enacted, permits a clerk to transmit an order of protection to the sheriff of a county other than the county where the order was issued by facsimile or other electronic transmission, in order to complete service in a timely manner. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.

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

TN - HB598 State Government - As introduced, effective January 1, 2013, increases retirement allowance of retired teachers, wildlife officers, state police officers, firefighters, police officers, and general employees, based on date of retirement. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 7.

TN - HB243 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the education of children in foster care. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1850 Public Works Projects - As introduced, enacts the "Keep Jobs in Tennessee Act," which requires contractors working on public construction projects to employ at least eighty percent state residents in their workforce and creates an administrative process for receiving complaints, adjudicating violations, and assigning penalties for non-compliance as well as modifying reciprocity standards for non-resident bidders. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 15 and Title 54, Chapter 5.

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

TN - HB980 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires limited lines licensure for the sale or offer of coverage under a policy of self-service storage insurance. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6 and Title 66, Chapter 31.

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

TN - HB193 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, lowers the state sales tax on food and food ingredients for human consumption from 5.25 percent to 5 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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

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

TN - HB2123 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Kenneth and Madge Tullis, JD, Suicide Prevention Training Act of 2014," which requires certain health professionals to complete suicide assessment and prevention training. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

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

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

TN - HB290 TennCare - As introduced, with respect to the Medicaid program, authorizes the department of finance and administration to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to either the extent permitted or required by law. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB1841 Education - As introduced, allows parents to opt their children out of high stakes testing. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2482 Municipal Government - As introduced, authorizes municipal electric systems and other governmental utility authorities that provide broadband services, such as cable and Internet service, to provide such services to economic development, education, and health care projects within a community improvement area under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 7.

TN - HB2010 Unknown

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

TN - HB2117 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, creates cause of action against a person who, in connection with the assertion of a United States patent, sends, or causes any person to send, any written or electronic communication that states that the intended recipient or any affiliated person is infringing or has infringed a patent and bears liability or owes compensation to another person, in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 29.

TN - HB2086 Unknown

TN - HB720 Local Government, General - As introduced, expands presumptive disability in acquiring certain infectious diseases in the line of duty by emergency rescue workers beyond HIV/AIDS to include hepatitis C virus. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2.

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

TN - HB1946 Unknown

TN - HB1425 Medical Occupations - As enacted, authorizes online applications for various occupations regulated by the division of health related boards; revises public record status of certain investigatory records of the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 63, Chapter 11, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 13, Part 3; Title 63, Chapter 23, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 25, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 4, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 9, Part 1.

TN - HB1477 Energy - As enacted, modifies the allowable entities in which corporations operating under the Energy Acquisition Corporations Act may invest. - Amends TCA Section 7-39-313.

TN - HB1775 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows a part-time employee of state college of applied technology to enroll in one course per semester at state supported higher education institute without paying the tuition charges or maintenance fees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB516 Children - As introduced, creates the department of children's services oversight committee. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 37.

TN - HB2263 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, enacts the "Educator Respect and Accountability Act of 2014." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1108 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, makes various changes to the expunction law such as establishing the procedure for appeal from a denial of an expunction petition, allowing more than one conviction to be expunged if all the offenses are eligible and they were part of the same criminal episode and clarifying that an order of expunction results in a clean record for all types of expunctions. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB2288 Veterans - As introduced, allows eligible veteran and veteran's spouse to be interred at no cost if buried in a Tennessee veterans’ cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1384 Naming and Designating - As enacted, names new Tennessee State Veterans Home in Montgomery County in honor of Brigadier General (Retired) Wendell H. Gilbert, United States Army.

TN - HB1574 Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises provisions governing the sale of products containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB1839 Students - As introduced, permits an LEA, after three documented attempts to locate a student, to remove the student from the LEA's enrollment records so the student is not counted as a dropout. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.

TN - HB1895 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires that a health insurance carrier provide coverage under a health insurance policy for healthcare services delivered through telehealth in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB2118 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, revises various provisions relating to when certain financial institutions may pay out the proceeds of checks made payable to a deceased individual. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 5; Title 4, Chapter 4; Title 45, Chapter 2; Title 45, Chapter 3 and Title 45, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1052 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires any state department or agency to certify to the comptroller of the treasury that no employee within such department or agency is capable of accomplishing certain tasks before the department or agency can contract for such services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 12.

TN - HB1843 Education - As introduced, grants the director of schools the ability to employ persons in positions for which no teaching license is required by year-to-year contracts; provided, the director provides such persons 15 days’ notice of nonrenewal of the contract before the end of the contract period. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 3.

TN - HB252 Election Laws - As introduced, allows any photo identification issued by public institution of higher learning to be used as evidence of identification for voting purposes. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1554 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, regulates the use of maximum allowable cost lists by pharmacy benefit managers and covered entities. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

TN - HB887 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows retired state employees to take one class without charge per semester at public institutions of higher education; allows spouses of state employees to receive a 25 percent discount on tuition at public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-114; Section 8-50-115 and Section 49-7-113.

TN - HB537 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, enacts the "Fair and Clear Teacher Evaluation System Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB307 Uniform Commercial Code - As enacted, revises provision concerning remittance transfers. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 4A.

TN - HB1395 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts railroads from sales and use tax based on the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee in Illinois Central Railroad Company v. TN Department of Revenue; subjects railroads to the same diesel fuel tax treatment as motor carriers under present law; revises other provisions related to the collection and allocation of such taxes. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-207; Title 67, Chapter 6; Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 2 and Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007.

TN - HB1711 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, on or after July 1, 2014, requires the state insurance committee to ensure that if the estimated total solvency reserve for the state health insurance plan exceeds the actuarially-required target solvency reserve for the calendar year by 75 percent for two consecutive years, then the excess amount must be used to decrease member’s out-of-pocket expenses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 9 and Title 56.

TN - HB25 Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires the department of safety to waive the driving skills test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members applying for commercial driver licenses; identifies certain alternative requirements, which include operating a commercial motor vehicle in the military in combination with a good driving record. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HB1111 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, establishes a framework regarding pole attachments in regard to poles owned by non-investor-owned electric utilities. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 21.

TN - HB1846 Education - As enacted, enacts "The Tennessee Community Schools Act". - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1748 State Employees - As introduced, prohibits layoffs in excess of 10 employees if not approved in the state budget unless the general assembly approves the layoffs. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30.

TN - HB1849 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires that evaluations of teachers be based on student performance only in subjects that were tested and in which the teacher taught the students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2, and Title 49, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1542 State Employees - As enacted, authorizes the department of transportation to create a new job classification that does not require a high school diploma or state-approved high school equivalency certification as a minimum qualification, applicable to certain department employees. - Amends TCA Title 8.

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

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

TN - HB2080 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, authorizes a pilot program to terminate on January 1, 2030, which allows the department to make grants and loans to governmental entities for financing food desert relief enterprises in low-income, underserved areas; deposits the revenue generated by a certain percentage of the food sales tax rate levied on retail sales of sugar-sweetened beverages to a special fund for financing the grants and loans. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 67, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB964 Planning, Public - As enacted, specifies that a vested property right will be established with respect to any property upon the approval, by the local government in which the property is situated, of a preliminary development plan or a final development plan where no preliminary development plan is required by ordinance or regulation or a building permit allowing construction of a building where there was no need for prior approval of a preliminary development plan for the property on which that building will be constructed. - Amends TCA Section 13-4-310 and Section 13-3-413.

TN - HB2479 Education - As enacted, requires the state board of education, department of education and the office of research and education accountability to confer with other stakeholders and determine the best means of establishing a best practices clearinghouse. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1847 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to employ three technology student association advisors, one in each grand division, to assist chapters of the Tennessee technology student association and elementary and secondary educators in providing technology education to students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1242 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Litigation Financing Consumer Protection Act". - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

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

TN - HB1385 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, creates the "Koozer-Kuhn Medical Cannabis Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 2; Title 39; Title 43; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1055 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, changes the definition of "home school student" for purposes of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship to require that a student be home schooled the last year of high school instead of the last two years of high school. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-902.

TN - HB1016 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, gives nontraditional students who receive a Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant and obtain a diploma from a Tennessee technology center a pathway to qualify for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB1950 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5 and Chapter 250 of the Public Acts of 2013.

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

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

TN - HB2349 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Teach First Act," which requires the commissioner of education to be a licensed teacher for at least ten years prior to the appointment as commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 8 and Title 49.

TN - HB1109 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, authorizes a court restoring a person's rights of citizenship following conviction for a crime to also grant a certificate of employability; provides certain immunity to employers who hire a person who has been issued a certificate; enacts other provisions related to the certificate of employability. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.

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

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

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

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

TN - HB1659 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates second offense for using a hand-held mobile telephone to transmit written messages while driving a motor vehicle to include a fine not to exceed $1,000; present law imposes a fine not to exceed $50 for each offense; removes present limitation on amount of court costs that may be imposed for such offense. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB927 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, expands definition of harassment and bullying in schools to include conduct based on actual or perceived demographic traits, requires review of anti-bullying policies at least once every three years, clarifies that such policies apply to students, school staff and volunteers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HB1694 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, sets minimum wage at $8.25 per hour for certain employers who do not offer health benefits to employees and employees' dependents, subject to exceptions for certain types of employment. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - HB2280 Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, defines certain practices as unfair trade practices and unfair claims practices by insurers of automobile glass coverage; defines certain practices as unfair, deceptive or fraudulent practices by persons engaged in automobile glass repairs and replacements. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 56.

TN - HR3 Unknown

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

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

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

TN - HR13 Memorials, Recognition - Niki Brown

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

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

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

TN - HR4 Unknown

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

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

TN - HR120 Memorials, Interns - Alexis Darvin

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

TN - HR205 Memorials, Interns - Michael Patrick Olson.

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

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

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

TN - HR1 Unknown

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

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

TN - HR83 Memorials, Interns - Alex Uhlmann

TN - HR136 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Mrs. Ethel Virginia Higgins, 80th birthday

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

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

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

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

TN - HR5 Unknown

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

TN - HR2 Unknown

TN - HJR578 Memorials, Death - Deputy David "Bubba" Johnson.

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

TN - HJR124 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges establishment of Veterans Courts across Tennessee and urges the administrative office of the courts to pursue any and all available federal funding for such an initiative.

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

TN - HJR31 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Mike Kernell

TN - HJR776 Memorials, Recognition - Commemorates June 2014 as "Gun Violence Awareness Month".

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

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

TN - HJR436 Memorials, Retirement - David Norton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR647 Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Lee.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR127 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages inclusion of energy conservation curricula in K-12 education.

TN - HJR298 Memorials, Recognition - Jonah and Emory Marlin

TN - HJR305 Naming and Designating - "Ependymoma Awareness Day" in Tennessee, April 18, 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR890 Memorials, Death - Gail Kerr.

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

TN - HJR527 Memorials, Death - John Bartee, Sr.

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

TN - HJR847 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses profound regret for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans.

TN - HJR909 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Charles Curtiss.

TN - HJR106 Memorials, Death - Marcellas Brooks

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

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

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

TN - HJR217 Memorials, Recognition - Carolyn House Stewart

TN - HJR225 Memorials, Recognition - Pettus L. Read

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

TN - HJR297 Memorials, Recognition - Harold D. Morrell

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

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

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

TN - HJR293 Memorials, Recognition - Boy Scouts of America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR32 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Beverly Marrero

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Public Service - Sara Kyle

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

TN - HJR9 Memorials, Death - Norman E. Lewis

TN - HJR16 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jane Winter, 2012-2013 Principal of the Year

TN - HJR930 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the department of labor to increase enforcement of T.C.A. 50-2-202 which governs gender pay equity in the state of Tennessee.

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

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

TN - HJR30 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Jeanne Richardson

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

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

TN - HJR471 Memorials, Recognition - Tri-State Defender's Women of Excellence

TN - HJR444 Memorials, Recognition - Rev. Walter Smith

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

TN - HJR163 Memorials, Retirement - Sandy Sain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR518 Memorials, Interns - Jada Denise Flowers

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR687 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Connie King, Tennessee fish and wildlife commission.

TN - HJR572 Memorials, Sports - Bobby Davis.

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR393 Memorials, Death - Cindy Leigh McAfee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR2 Unknown

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

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

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

TN - HJR505 Memorials, Interns - Sommerie Denise Wade

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

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

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

TN - HJR524 Memorials, Public Service - Jay Albertia, 2013-2014 Civitan International President-Elect

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

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

TN - HJR339 Memorials, Recognition - Leadership Middle Tennessee, Class of 2013

TN - SB2562 Municipal Government - As introduced, authorizes municipal electric systems and other governmental utility authorities that provide broadband services, such as cable and Internet service, to provide such services to economic development, education, and health care projects within a community improvement area under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 7.

TN - SB1099 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, improves retirement benefits of certain Tennessee public employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36.

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

TN - SB637 State Government - As introduced, effective January 1, 2013, increases retirement allowance of retired teachers, wildlife officers, state police officers, firefighters, police officers, and general employees, based on date of retirement. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 7.

TN - SB1611 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires any waiver of rules, regulations or policies granted by the department to be posted on the department's web site within five business days of approval; requires a rationale of the waiver to be included on the web site. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - SB1147 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires limited lines licensure for the sale or offer of coverage under a policy of self-service storage insurance. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6 and Title 66, Chapter 31.

TN - SB1460 Energy - As enacted, modifies the allowable entities in which corporations operating under the Energy Acquisition Corporations Act may invest. - Amends TCA Section 7-39-313.

TN - SB251 Financial Responsibility Law - As enacted, increases penalty for violation of the Financial Responsibility law from a Class C misdemeanor punishable only by a fine of up to $100 to a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to 11 months and 29 days in jail and a fine of up to $2,500 when the offender was at fault for the accident resulting in bodily injury or death. - Amends TCA Title 40; Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 55, Chapter 12.

TN - SB1443 Naming and Designating - As enacted, names new Tennessee State Veterans Home in Montgomery County in honor of Brigadier General (Retired) Wendell H. Gilbert, United States Army.

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

TN - SB2093 Children - As enacted, makes dependent children, who are four years of age whose parent was killed, died as direct result of injuries received or has been officially reported as being either a prisoner of war or missing in action while serving honorably as a member of the United States armed forces during a qualified period of armed conflict, or was formerly a prisoner of war or missing in action under such circumstances, eligible to attend pilot pre-kindergarten programs and requires licensed child care agencies to prioritize such children on any waiting list for admission; changes the date by which a child from a family that qualifies for free and reduced price lunch must be four years of age, in order to qualify for participation in the programs of community-based early childhood education and pre-kindergarten programs from September 30 to August 15. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - SB1629 Medical Occupations - As enacted, authorizes online applications for various occupations regulated by the division of health related boards; revises public record status of certain investigatory records of the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 63, Chapter 11, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 13, Part 3; Title 63, Chapter 23, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 25, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 4, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 9, Part 1.

TN - SB2380 Welfare - As enacted, requires the commissioner of human services, in consultation with various governmental and non-governmental entities that serve poor people, to conduct a study of poverty in Tennessee and submit a state anti-poverty plan to the governor and the general assembly by January 15, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - SB1705 State Employees - As enacted, authorizes the department of transportation to create a new job classification that does not require a high school diploma or state-approved high school equivalency certification as a minimum qualification, applicable to certain department employees. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - SB1890 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows a part-time employee of state college of applied technology to enroll in one course per semester at state supported higher education institute without paying the tuition charges or maintenance fees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB2091 Orders of Protection - As enacted, permits a clerk to transmit an order of protection to the sheriff of a county other than the county where the order was issued by facsimile or other electronic transmission, in order to complete service in a timely manner. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.

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

TN - SB1908 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5 and Chapter 250 of the Public Acts of 2013.

TN - SB2058 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts railroads from sales and use tax based on the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee in Illinois Central Railroad Company v. TN Department of Revenue; subjects railroads to the same diesel fuel tax treatment as motor carriers under present law; revises other provisions related to the collection and allocation of such taxes. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-207; Title 67, Chapter 6; Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 2 and Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007.

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

TN - SB2460 Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the month of August as "Women in STEM" month to raise awareness of the opportunities for women to pursue a career in a STEM related field; STEM refers to the fields of study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1429 Disabled Persons - As introduced, requires the issuance of red permanent disabled parking placards to persons who are confined to a wheelchair; requires certain businesses that provide a minimum number of disabled parking spaces to designate a minimum number of red disabled parking signs for priority use by such placard holders; revises related provisions governing disabled parking privileges. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 1.

TN - SB1991 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, regulates the use of maximum allowable cost lists by pharmacy benefit managers and covered entities. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

TN - SB493 Veterans - As enacted, establishes special requirements for the expedited issuance of certain licenses, the temporary extension of certain licenses, and the granting of certain credit for certain service members. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8; Title 49, Chapter 9; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 1.

TN - SB701 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, makes various changes to the expunction law such as establishing the procedure for appeal from a denial of an expunction petition, allowing more than one conviction to be expunged if all the offenses are eligible and they were part of the same criminal episode and clarifying that an order of expunction results in a clean record for all types of expunctions. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - SB2414 Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, defines certain practices as unfair trade practices and unfair claims practices by insurers of automobile glass coverage; defines certain practices as unfair, deceptive or fraudulent practices by persons engaged in automobile glass repairs and replacements. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 56.

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

TN - SB2022 Fiscal Review Committee - As introduced, requires committee to review contracts that result in layoffs of state employees; requires committee as part of reviewing proposed contracts to consider whether existing state employees can perform the tasks in such proposed contracts. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 7.

TN - SB10 Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires the department of safety to waive the driving skills test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members applying for commercial driver licenses; identifies certain alternative requirements, which include operating a commercial motor vehicle in the military in combination with a good driving record. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - SB978 Education, Higher - As enacted, redefines "institution" for purposes of the Tennessee State School Bond Authority Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 12.

TN - SB276 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, authorizes a court restoring a person's rights of citizenship following conviction for a crime to also grant a certificate of employability; provides certain immunity to employers who hire a person who has been issued a certificate; enacts other provisions related to the certificate of employability. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.

TN - SB1926 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to employ three technology student association advisors, one in each grand division, to assist chapters of the Tennessee technology student association and elementary and secondary educators in providing technology education to students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

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

TN - SB1200 Victims' Rights - As introduced, adds victims of vehicular assault, criminally negligent homicide, vehicular homicide, reckless homicide, and aggravated vehicular homicide whose injury or death was inflicted through the use of a motor vehicle or watercraft to those eligible for criminal injuries compensation. - Amends TCA Section 29-13-104.

TN - SB2222 Unknown

TN - SB2102 Unknown

TN - SB1751 Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises provisions governing the sale of products containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - SB2005 Telecommunications - As introduced, allows certain cities to operate fiber optic facilities and use such facilities to provide broadband services to certain customers. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 52, Part 6.

TN - SB2050 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires that a health insurance carrier provide coverage under a health insurance policy for healthcare services delivered through telehealth in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - SB2006 Students - As enacted, requires the department of education to maintain the unique personal identification numbers of students of active duty military or reserve component parents or guardians in a separate database to identify and track these students if the students move to different schools across the state and country. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2451 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, creates the "Koozer-Kuhn Medical Cannabis Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 2; Title 39; Title 43; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB2217 Veterans - As introduced, allows eligible veteran and veteran's spouse to be interred at no cost if buried in a Tennessee veterans’ cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1253 Veterans - As introduced, creates a process whereby the cremated remains of certain veterans and veterans' spouses may be interred by an entity selected by the county legislative body if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 25; Title 46; Title 58; Title 62, Chapter 5; Title 68, Chapter 3 and Title 68, Chapter 4.

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

TN - SB1967 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, creates cause of action against a person who, in connection with the assertion of a United States patent, sends, or causes any person to send, any written or electronic communication that states that the intended recipient or any affiliated person is infringing or has infringed a patent and bears liability or owes compensation to another person, in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 29.

TN - SB2536 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Teach First Act," which requires the commissioner of education to be a licensed teacher for at least ten years prior to the appointment as commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 8 and Title 49.

TN - SB604 TennCare - As introduced, with respect to the Medicaid program, authorizes the department of finance and administration to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to either the extent permitted or required by law. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - SB574 Children - As introduced, creates the department of children's services oversight committee. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 37.

TN - SB527 Business Organizations - As enacted, extends certain protections to private foundations from governmental intrusion. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 9, Part 1 and Title 48.

TN - SB467 Education - As introduced, permits the commissioner of education to place any virtual school that fails to meet the performance standards set by the state board of education in the achievement school district. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - SB2145 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, sets minimum wage at $8.25 per hour for certain employers who do not offer health benefits to employees and employees' dependents, subject to exceptions for certain types of employment. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB1079 Veterans - As introduced, redefines veterans for purposes of the Tennessee Minority-Owned, Woman-Owned and Small Business Procurement and Contracting Act to include all veterans that served honorably on active duty in the armed forces of the United States; removes the requirement for a certain percentage of disability from the definition. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 11; Title 12; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 62 and Title 67.

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

TN - SB1083 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, increases the Tennessee HOPE scholarship award at eligible four-year and two-year postsecondary institutions by at least the amount of the average increase over the previous academic year in in-state tuition and fees at public four-year and two-year institutions respectively. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

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

TN - SB254 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, establishes scholarship program for dependents of certain disabled veterans. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2008 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, permits dependent children of active duty military and formerly active duty personnel who intend to reside in this state following active service to apply for home and community-based services. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2080 Business and Commerce - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Small Business Procurement and Contracting Opportunity Act". - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 12.

TN - SB2221 Unknown

TN - SB810 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, gives nontraditional students who receive a Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant and obtain a diploma from a Tennessee technology center a pathway to qualify for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB1997 State Employees - As introduced, prohibits layoffs in excess of 10 employees if not approved in the state budget unless the general assembly approves the layoffs. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30.

TN - SB2103 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, permits county, city or metropolitan school boards to shift funds from one budget category to another after the local legislative body has approved the school system's budget. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.

TN - SB253 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires persons under 18 to successfully complete a state approved motorcycle rider training course prior to obtaining a motorcycle driver license or motorcycle learner's permit. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 51, Part 1.

TN - SB1420 Montgomery County - As introduced, subject to local approval, creates a special juvenile court in Montgomery County pursuant to the Juvenile Court Restructure Act of 1982.

TN - SB1188 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires any state department or agency to certify to the comptroller of the treasury that no employee within such department or agency is capable of accomplishing certain tasks before the department or agency can contract for such services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 12.

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

TN - SB266 Local Government, General - As introduced, expands presumptive disability in acquiring certain infectious diseases in the line of duty by emergency rescue workers beyond HIV/AIDS to include hepatitis C virus. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2.

TN - SB1082 Election Laws - As introduced, allows any photo identification issued by public institution of higher learning to be used as evidence of identification for voting purposes. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 7.

TN - SB877 Motor Vehicle Commission - As enacted, adds a non-franchise motor vehicle dealer as a member of the motor vehicle commission; increases quorum requirement by one person. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - SB1924 Education - As enacted, enacts "The Tennessee Community Schools Act". - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2007 Students - As introduced, permits an LEA, after three documented attempts to locate a student, to remove the student from the LEA's enrollment records so the student is not counted as a dropout. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.

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

TN - SB1145 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, prohibits navigators for exchanges under the Affordable Care Act from selling, soliciting, or negotiating any policy of insurance, either within or outside of an exchange. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6.

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

TN - SB2094 Veterans - As introduced, enacts the "Military Education Assistance for Tennessee Act," which provides eligibility for in-state tuition to certain honorably discharged veterans; creates tuition waiver program for members of the Tennessee state guard with at least one year of service. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

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

TN - SB2090 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, extends to all registered sexual offenders certain residential, work and other restrictions that currently apply only to registered sexual offenders whose victims were minors; does not apply to restriction on obtaining sexual offender treatment or attending a sexual offender treatment program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - SB2101 Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the state board of education to establish guidelines whereby the department must prepare a fiscal analysis of any policy, rule or regulation proposed to the state board by the department if such proposal will financially impact an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 49.

TN - SB1222 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, establishes a framework regarding pole attachments in regard to poles owned by non-investor-owned electric utilities. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 21.

TN - SB2030 Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires certain successive appointments to the board to have at least five years of teaching experience in public schools in grades K-12; mandates, after April 1, 2018, the board to be composed of at least five members with at least five years of teaching experience in public schools in grades K-12. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-301.

TN - SB2082 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, authorizes a pilot program to terminate on January 1, 2030, which allows the department to make grants and loans to governmental entities for financing food desert relief enterprises in low-income, underserved areas; deposits the revenue generated by a certain percentage of the food sales tax rate levied on retail sales of sugar-sweetened beverages to a special fund for financing the grants and loans. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 67, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2377 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Kenneth and Madge Tullis, JD, Suicide Prevention Training Act of 2014," which requires certain health professionals to complete suicide assessment and prevention training. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB2064 Unknown

TN - SB1993 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates second offense for using a hand-held mobile telephone to transmit written messages while driving a motor vehicle to include a fine not to exceed $1,000; present law imposes a fine not to exceed $50 for each offense; removes present limitation on amount of court costs that may be imposed for such offense. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - SB252 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, requires a pharmacist or pharmacist's agent to check identification of certain persons seeking delivery of a controlled substance and requires signature as confirmation of receipt. - Amends TCA Title 53.

TN - SB2370 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, specifies that the provisions regarding suspensions imposed by the director of schools for three days or less apply to suspensions of teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB538 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, changes the definition of "home school student" for purposes of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship to require that a student be home schooled the last year of high school instead of the last two years of high school. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-902.

TN - SB1452 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, extends twenty-five percent tuition discount at state institutions of higher learning currently granted to children of full-time teachers and technology coordinators employed by LEAs to children of all full-time LEA employees. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-119.

TN - SB88 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to review security procedures for standardized tests given in grades K-12 in the public schools and make recommendations to the general assembly as to improvements that are needed to ensure test security. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1928 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires that evaluations of teachers be based on student performance only in subjects that were tested and in which the teacher taught the students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2, and Title 49, Chapter 3.

TN - SB1124 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, expands definition of harassment and bullying in schools to include conduct based on actual or perceived demographic traits, requires review of anti-bullying policies at least once every three years, clarifies that such policies apply to students, school staff and volunteers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - SB1164 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows retired state employees to take one class without charge per semester at public institutions of higher education; allows spouses of state employees to receive a 25 percent discount on tuition at public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-114; Section 8-50-115 and Section 49-7-113.

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

TN - SB57 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, changes the requirement that, for purposes of eligibility for Tennessee HOPE scholarships as a dependent child of active military parent, the parent's home of record be Tennessee and the child must be eligible for in-state tuition at the time of enrollment. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-926.

TN - SB496 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding the education of children in foster care. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2168 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires any pending order of protection or restraining order to be served on domestic violence offender before release following the mandatory twelve-hour holding period; directs a copy of protection order to be issued to any court in which the respondent or 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 - SB1862 Public Works Projects - As introduced, enacts the "Keep Jobs in Tennessee Act," which requires contractors working on public construction projects to employ at least eighty percent state residents in their workforce and creates an administrative process for receiving complaints, adjudicating violations, and assigning penalties for non-compliance as well as modifying reciprocity standards for non-resident bidders. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 15 and Title 54, Chapter 5.

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

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

TN - SB1814 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, on or after July 1, 2014, requires the state insurance committee to ensure that if the estimated total solvency reserve for the state health insurance plan exceeds the actuarially-required target solvency reserve for the calendar year by 75 percent for two consecutive years, then the excess amount must be used to decrease member’s out-of-pocket expenses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 9 and Title 56.

TN - SB915 Planning, Public - As enacted, specifies that a vested property right will be established with respect to any property upon the approval, by the local government in which the property is situated, of a preliminary development plan or a final development plan where no preliminary development plan is required by ordinance or regulation or a building permit allowing construction of a building where there was no need for prior approval of a preliminary development plan for the property on which that building will be constructed. - Amends TCA Section 13-4-310 and Section 13-3-413.

TN - SB838 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, enacts the "Fair and Clear Teacher Evaluation System Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

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

TN - SB199 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, lowers the state sales tax on food and food ingredients for human consumption from 5.25 percent to 5 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1458 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, requires BEP funding to be based on the average of equally weighted ADMs reported for periods 2 and 3. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2561 Education - As enacted, requires the state board of education, department of education and the office of research and education accountability to confer with other stakeholders and determine the best means of establishing a best practices clearinghouse. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2047 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, enacts the "Educator Respect and Accountability Act of 2014." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB523 Education - As introduced, increases from 200,000 to 250,000 the maximum number of miles a conventional or Class D school bus operating in a 16th or 17th year can have. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-2109.

TN - SB2402 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, changes the requirement for county clerks to remit fees associated with titling and registration the same day the application is filed to a monthly requirement. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SB219 Uniform Commercial Code - As enacted, revises provision concerning remittance transfers. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 4A.

TN - SB2096 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, revises various provisions relating to when certain financial institutions may pay out the proceeds of checks made payable to a deceased individual. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 5; Title 4, Chapter 4; Title 45, Chapter 2; Title 45, Chapter 3 and Title 45, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1360 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Litigation Financing Consumer Protection Act". - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - SB1824 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, modifies the Medicare supplemental insurance benefit for participating retired employees and teachers to ensure that such retirees are not required to pay the full cost of each premium increase. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27, Part 7.

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