Tennessee Rep. Kevin Vaughan (R)

TN - Education (House)

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TN - Health (House)

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TN - Facilities, Licensure, and Regulations Subcommittee (House)

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TN - Electronic Delivery of Healthcare (House)

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TN - HB1538 Shelby County - Subject to local approval, authorizes proceeds from the hotel motel tax to be used for expenditures incurred in connection with a sports facility and the promotion of tourism. - Amends amend Chapter 131 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended.

TN - HR65 Memorials, Recognition - John Green and Company Realtors, 40th anniversary

TN - HB704 Taxes - As introduced, allows the division of property assessment to send the annual report, with the appropriate summary of the work accomplished by the division and any appropriate recommendations, to the state board of equalization in electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB2859 Consumer Protection - As enacted, revises provisions regarding statements that must be included in health club agreement. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18, Part 3.

TN - HB1875 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, changes the determination of indigence income for the definition of charity care, and the amount of debt that may be deemed charity care and uncollectable, for purposes of a hospital reporting on the joint annual reports to the department of health, center for health statistics. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB1897 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, changes from March 15 to March 31 the date by which the Tennessee higher education commission must publish the Tennessee postsecondary education fact book each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR195 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. David "Hank" Wright, Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - HB2726 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits a board under the division of health related boards from renewing the license of a licensee who has not paid the licensee's renewal fee and is currently incarcerated; clarifies that emergency summary suspension or revocation of a health care provider's license by a licensing board does not require the prior approval of the attorney general. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29, Chapter 26; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB703 Controlled Substances - As introduced, exempts from certain record keeping requirements any wholesale drug distributor licensed and regulated by the board of pharmacy and registered with and regulated by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration when storing Schedule V controlled substances containing any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any amount of gabapentin. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - HB199 Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, clarifies that the definition of the practice of nursing does not prevent qualified registered nurses from making determinations that patients are experiencing emergency medical conditions, in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 68.

TN - HB2195 Veterans Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Major Trevor Joseph Act," which requires the department to provide burial services for any person who died while on active duty with the armed forces and is being interred in a state veterans cemetery on any date requested by the family members of the person if the department is given notice of the burial at least 72 hours in advance of the burial. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6 and Title 58.

TN - HB1344 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, increases from 60 to 90 days, the maximum timeframe in which the governing board of the regional transportation authority of Middle Tennessee may vote to adopt alternative provisions to operate as a regional transportation authority. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 7; Title 54; Title 55; Title 64 and Title 67.

TN - HB270 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, changes from seven to 10 days the number of days prior to a vote on marketing strategies or strategic plans that a hospital subject to the open meetings law must make records related to the strategy available for public inspection. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1065 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, imposes a maximum allotment of time for standardized testing each school year based on a student's grade level; excludes assessments used to assess a student's readiness for postsecondary education and assessments required by an LEA or governing body from the maximum time allotments. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - HB1865 Expunction - As introduced, removes misdemeanor fraudulent use of a credit card or debit card (up to $500) from the list of offenses that are ineligible for expunction. - Amends TCA Section 40-32-101.

TN - HB892 Education - As introduced, changes from January 31 to January 15 the date by which the department of health must provide the governor's office, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives a report of the aggregate results of all BMI screenings performed in the previous calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB269 Medical Occupations - As introduced, reduces the number of days from 15 to 10 that the comptroller has to determine whether certain financing agreements to fund a medical school under the Medical School Authorities Act is in compliance with the guidelines, rules, and regulations of the state funding board. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 33; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB198 Home Improvement Contractors - As introduced, requires home improvement contractors initially licensed on or after January 1, 2009, to complete eight hours of continuing education biennially beginning January 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6 and Title 4, Chapter 5.

TN - HB797 Auctions and Auctioneers - As enacted, revises various provisions governing auctions. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 5; Title 55, Chapter 17, Part 1 and Title 62, Chapter 19.

TN - HB2112 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires each institution governed by the board of regents or a state university board to make the grievance procedure for its support staff employees available on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2675 Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Historic Buildings Revitalization Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11, Part 1; Title 4, Chapter 17; Title 56, Chapter 4; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - HB893 Education - As introduced, changes from two weeks to four weeks the time period following written notice to the affected board of education within which the commissioner of education may, upon due hearing, withhold and declare forfeited state school funds due any school district that refuses or neglects to comply with and enforce the census or compulsory school attendance laws. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1064 Contractors - As enacted, establishes continuing education requirements for residential contractors. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5 and Title 62, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1980 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, creates provisions related to prescribing buprenorphine. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 11.

TN - HJR697 Memorials, Recognition - Town of Collierville, 150th anniversary

TN - HB1343 Industrial Development - As introduced, reduces, from 15 days to 10 business days, the period in which an industrial development corporation has to file notice of default on debt obligations with the governing body of the municipality where the corporation functions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10 and Title 67.

TN - HB1917 Health Care - As enacted, adds nonopioid medicinal drugs or drug products, occupational therapy, and interventional procedures or treatments to the alternative treatments that must be disclosed and explained by a healthcare practitioner to a patient or the patient's legal representative as a prerequisite to obtaining informed consent to treatment with an opioid. - Amends TCA Section 63-1-164.

TN - HB2447 Codes - As introduced, extends, from 10 to 20 days, the period in which the state fire marshal must rule on an appeal involving a conflict between a city and county over a building or fire code issue involving a county building located within a city. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6 and Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - HB2194 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, shortens, from 90 to 75 days, the time period in which the department must either issue or deny an aquatic resource alteration permit after the department has determined that the application for the permit is complete. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB2196 Health Care - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to make available to the general public on the department of health website the commissioner's most recent annual report to the governor and Tennessee State Dental Association about the commissioner's work to promote dental health. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2193 Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, adds to the list of practices exempt from the provisions of the chapter on dentistry the taking of intraoral or extraoral photographic images using technologies that do not emit ionizing radiation. - Amends TCA Section 63-5-109.

TN - HB202 Municipal Government - As enacted, requires online training and continuing education providers for municipal utility board commissioners to provide a certificate of completion or attendance that must be submitted by the commissioner to the municipality upon the completion of required training; requires the municipality to keep the certificate of completion or attendance for six years. - Amends TCA Section 7-34-115.

TN - HR80 Memorials, Retirement - John S. Aitken

TN - HB1063 Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "Main Street Historic Tourism and Revitalization Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11, Part 1; Title 56, Chapter 4 and Title 67.

TN - HJR72 Memorials, Recognition - Isabella Wren Sullivan, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HB106 Fireworks - As enacted, authorizes the retail sale of Class C common fireworks in Millington. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.

TN - HB1391 Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires that only 5 percent of the evaluation criteria used to evaluate all teachers and principals be comprised of student achievement data based on student growth generated by assessments administered to students enrolled in an English as a second language (ESL) program with limited English proficiency. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

TN - HB843 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, makes various changes concerning the prescription of certain Scheduled controlled substances. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 4.

TN - HB512 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, deletes provisions declaring incarcerated persons to be categorically ineligible for financial assistance. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB283 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the punishment for a conviction of aggravated rape of a child from "15 to 60 years in prison and a fine of up to $50,000" to "life in prison without the possibility of parole." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1199 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, extends eligibility for receipt of Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grants to students who are attending certain independent postsecondary institutions and who are otherwise eligible for the grants. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HJR171 Memorials, Sports - Bob Kesling, Voice of the Vols

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

TN - HJR175 Memorials, Death - Kenneth "Rance" Roby

TN - HJR73 Memorials, Personal Achievement - John W. Huffman, Eagle Scout

TN - HJR139 Memorials, Death - Samuel W. Bartholomew, Jr.

TN - HJR4 Memorials, Professional Achievement - David Poile, U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

TN - HB247 State Government - As enacted, establishes daylight saving time as the standard time in Tennessee, subject to authorization to do so from the United States Congress and certain other conditions being met. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-401.

TN - HJR103 Memorials, Recognition - African-American Breast Cancer Awareness Week, September 8-14, 2019

TN - HB131 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, urges the department of revenue to study the enforcement of disabled parking violations; requires department to report its findings and recommendations on or before February 1, 2020, to the transportation and safety committee of the senate and transportation committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 1.

TN - HB1327 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes, in leases entered into between Memphis and business owners holding a restaurant license from the alcoholic beverage commission, the inclusion of provisions where the rent is calculated on gross sales, including gross sales of alcohol, of the business; prohibits a county from denying the issuance or renewal of a beer permit on the basis of a similar lease; provisions also applicable to Knoxville within an easement area granted to the city for commercial recreation and commercial recreation facilities from TVA in the Fort Loudoun Reservoir. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 1; Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - HR3 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

TN - HR20 Memorials, Recognition - President Ronald Reagan

TN - HB77 Abortion - As introduced, prohibits abortions from the point a fetal heartbeat is detected; creates exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HJR1 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes teen suicide as a health crisis in Tennessee.

TN - HB1029 Abortion - As enacted, enacts the "Human Life Protection Act," which bans abortion in this state effective on the 30th day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade or an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to allow states to prohibit abortion; creates exception for situations where the abortion is necessary to prevent the death of pregnant woman or prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of major bodily function; prohibits prosecution of a woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-5116; Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 9; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 68 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HJR231 Memorials, Death - Sam Powell

TN - HB937 Local Government, General - As enacted, increases pay supplement from $600 to $800 for police officers and firefighters who complete 40 hours of in-service training. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24, Part 2 and Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - HB109 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, permits correctional officers and certain other people employed by the department of correction to carry a handgun the same as a law enforcement officer if they have completed their probationary period rather than when they are vested. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1350.

TN - HB1089 Annexation - As enacted, specifies that property owners, rather than just residents, of a territory proposed for annexation may vote in the referendum on the question of annexation; limits provision for property owners to vote based on ownership to no more than two persons per an individual tract of property, regardless of number of owners of the property. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51, Part 1.

TN - HB928 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises the use of student growth data for purposes of a teacher's or principal's annual evaluation; deletes obsolete provisions regarding the use of student growth data; excludes, for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years, student growth evaluation composites generated by assessments administered in the 2017-2018 school year if the exclusion results in a higher evaluation score for the teacher. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302.

TN - HB416 Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits a trustee or former trustee of a board of trustees of a hospital authority from entering into an arrangement for employment or the provision of labor or services with the authority until at least 12 months have expired following the trustee or former trustee's tenure of service on the board. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 68.

TN - HB519 Firefighters - As introduced, creates a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter's cancer that causes a disabling health condition is a result of the firefighter's duties as a firefighter. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HR53 Memorials, Recognition - Manny and Adele Macca, Manny's House of Pizza

TN - HB1423 County Government - As enacted, prohibits interpreting or amending county charter in a manner inconsistent with state law with respect to the duties, qualifications, and privileges of the constitutional county offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, or trustee. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HR62 Memorials, Death - John Kilzer

TN - HB658 Law Enforcement - As enacted, establishes certain parameters regarding the authority of a community oversight board and certain requirements for those serving on such a board. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1245 Consumer Protection - As enacted, increases from $10,000 to $30,000 the civil penalty amount per violation that the attorney general and reporter may recover in an action against a person who commits the offense of caller identification spoofing; encourages carriers offering telephone services in this state to adopt certain technologies and measures. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 65.

TN - HB1138 Taxes, Amusement - As enacted, exempts from the tax admission, dues, fees, or other charges paid to any person principally engaged in offering services or facilities for the development or preservation of physical fitness through exercise or other active physical fitness conditioning. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 2 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HR64 Memorials, Recognition - Social Work Month, March 2019

TN - HB352 Consumer Protection - As enacted, makes an unfair or deceptive act or practice certain legal advertisements for claims related to medical devices and pharmaceuticals, and the unauthorized use or distribution of protected health information; creates penalties for violations; authorizes attorney general to enforce the provisions of the act. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 23 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - HB901 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes the enhanced maximum fine of up to $15,000 applicable to aggravated assault when committed against an identifiable employee or contractor of a utility who is discharging or attempting to discharge such person's official duties. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 65, Chapter 35.

TN - HJR377 Memorials, Death - Monroe James "M.J." Edwards, Sr.

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

TN - HJR416 Memorials, Recognition - YWCA Greater Memphis, 100th anniversary

TN - HR73 Memorials, Death - George Klein

TN - HB949 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, enacts the Governor's Investment in Vocational Education Act; specifies that financial assistance received for all dual enrollment courses attempted after the fourth dual enrollment course reduces any subsequent award of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-930.

TN - HJR433 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Julie Schwarz, 2018 Christ the Teacher Award

TN - HB941 Expunction - As enacted, removes $180 fee for an individual petitioning the court for an expunction of certain criminal offenses; removes $350 fee for a defendant applying for expunction of an offense following the completion of a diversion program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

TN - HJR438 Memorials, Recognition - Shannon McCloud

TN - HR86 Memorials, Interns - Shane Richards

TN - HR87 Memorials, Interns - Hailey Ragsdale

TN - HJR475 Memorials, Sports - University of Memphis men's basketball team

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Representative Ron Lollar

TN - HJR613 Memorials, Government Officials - Designates House Seat 34 in the House Chamber of the State Capitol as the "Charles Sargent Memorial."

TN - HJR513 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly C. Robertson

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Deborah Means Henderson

TN - HB643 Mental Illness - As enacted, requires the department of finance and administration, in consultation with the department of mental health and substance abuse services and the division of TennCare, to develop and administer a grant program to assist sheriffs who are required by law to transport persons who have been certified by a health care professional for transport to a hospital or treatment resource for a mental health examination to determine whether the person should be involuntarily admitted; authorizes hospitals and treatment resources to conduct a mental health examination to determine whether a person should be involuntarily admitted via telehealth services. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21; Title 8, Chapter 42; Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 13, Chapter 26; Title 29, Chapter 20; Title 33, Chapter 2; Title 33, Chapter 6; Title 33, Chapter 7; Title 37, Chapter 1; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Khyiah K. Riviears

TN - HJR515 Memorials, Death - Gladys Margaret Endsley McKinsey

TN - HJR575 Memorials, Recognition - Maryville High School, 100th anniversary

TN - HJR588 Memorials, Recognition - National Drug Endangered Children Awareness Day

TN - HJR583 Memorials, Sports - Hunter Sturgill

TN - HJR607 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jeremiah Higginbottom, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HJR608 Memorials, Retirement - Vanessa M. Horner

TN - HB316 Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "Barry Brady Act," which creates a presumption that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by certain cancers arose out of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2.

TN - HB498 TennCare - As enacted, directs the commissioner of finance and administration to submit to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services a waiver or waivers pursuant to Section 1115 of the Social Security Act for the purpose of establishing a distinct Katie Beckett program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HJR636 Memorials, Retirement - State Trooper Joe Wynne

TN - HJR631 Memorials, Recognition - Shelby County, Bicentennial

TN - HJR629 Memorials, Recognition - City of Memphis, Bicentennial

TN - HJR630 Memorials, Recognition - Memphis Light, Gas and Water, 80th anniversary

TN - HJR644 Memorials, Retirement - Helen Ford

TN - HB1262 Taxes, Privilege - As enacted, limits the professions to which the professional privilege tax applies to: lobbyists; persons licensed or registered under the laws governing securities as agents, broker-dealers, and investment advisers; physicians and osteopathic physicians; and attorneys; applicable to privilege taxes due and payable after May 31, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 67; Chapter 72 of the Public Acts of 2011; Chapter 193 of the Public Acts of 2017; Chapter 273 of the Public Acts of 2015; Chapter 452 of the Public Acts of 2017; Chapter 480 of the Public Acts of 2013; Chapter 530 of the Public Acts of 2009 and Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007.

TN - HB1440 Law Enforcement - As enacted, makes denial of a claim made by the estate of a law enforcement officer for the annuity payable to the estate of an emergency responder who is killed in the line of duty subject to review by the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission within 90 days of the claim's denial; redefines "law enforcement officer" for purposes of determining which law enforcement officers are considered an emergency responder whose estate would be eligible for the annuity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38.

TN - HJR683 Memorials, Recognition - Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Week, February 7-14, 2020

TN - HJR688 Memorials, Death - William B. "Bill" Whitson

TN - HJR691 Memorials, Public Service - Scott W. Gilmer

TN - HR194 Memorials, Recognition - Christopher Clark

TN - HJR701 Memorials, Sports - Maryville High School, 2019 TSSAA Class 6A Football State Champions

TN - HR195 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor J. L. Payne

TN - HB1647 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, allows the court to approve agreements pertaining to custody and residential parenting schedules without making further inquiry and an independent determination that the modification is in the best interest of the child, if the parties announce an agreement to the court on the record or execute a permanent parenting plan approved through entry of an agreed order. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 4 and Title 36, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR674 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Chris Patterson, Board of Directors of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation

TN - HB1699 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, makes various changes to the law concerning the electronic delivery of health care and its coverage under insurance policies. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Section 63-1-155.

TN - HJR675 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John Crosslin, Board of Directors of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation

TN - HB1697 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, enacts the "Food Tax Holiday Act," which exempts the retail sale of food and food ingredients from sales tax for the months of June and July in 2020. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HR218 Memorials, Death - David C. Driver, Jr.

TN - HB1929 State Government - As introduced, prohibits the governor from making a decision or obligating the state of Tennessee in any way with regard to resettlement of refugees unless authorized by joint resolution of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 71.

TN - HB2062 Board of Regents - As enacted, allows the governing board of a public institution of higher education to employ a law enforcement officer in the same manner as a public institution of higher education governed by the board. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HJR673 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Susan S. Lanigan, Board of Directors of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation

TN - HB2301 Taxes, Excise - As introduced, establishes a statutory mechanism for automatic adjustments to the current excise tax rate of 6.5 percent based on economic conditions. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-5202 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.

TN - HJR794 Memorials, Recognition - City of Germantown, 2019 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

TN - HJR786 Memorials, Death - Sterling Haskel "Hack" Ayers

TN - HJR810 Memorials, Recognition - Helen Abbott, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HB2227 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, authorizes tax credits for privilege and excise taxes equal to 75 percent of the purchase price of brownfield property purchased in a tier 3 or tier 4 enhancement county for the purpose of a qualified development project; makes other revisions regarding tax credits for brownfield properties. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-2009.

TN - HB1575 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds imminent danger of serious sexual abuse as a justification for the use of deadly force in self-defense and to defenses of duress and use of deadly force by law enforcement officer; defines serious sexual abuse as rape, aggravated rape, rape of a child, or aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2450 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires that a person convicted of the offense of aggravated assault involving the use of a deadly weapon to be punished one classification higher than otherwise provided if the violation was committed by discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.

TN - HJR819 Memorials, Recognition - Michael W. Rallings, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR818 Memorials, Recognition - Harriet Tubman Day

TN - HJR850 Memorials, Recognition - Gregory M. Duckett, Living Legend Awards

TN - HB2108 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows law enforcement officers to carry handguns in posted areas under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB2645 Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires commissioner of safety to design and make available to persons with autism spectrum disorder a blue envelope containing written information and guidance on ways to enhance effective communication between a law enforcement officer and a person with such disorder, and the person's driver license, registration, and insurance card. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HJR842 Memorials, Recognition - Clyde R. Venson, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR841 Memorials, Recognition - Calvin Anderson, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR844 Memorials, Recognition - Georgia Anna King, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR843 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Austin Emeagwai, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR846 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Reginald W. Coopwood, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR845 Memorials, Recognition - Gail Tyree, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR847 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Isaac Richmond, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR848 Memorials, Recognition - Shepperson A. Wilbun, Jr., Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR856 Memorials, Recognition - Debra L. Sigee, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR849 Memorials, Recognition - Leslie Smith-Thomas, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR851 Memorials, Recognition - Van D. Turner, Jr., Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR852 Memorials, Recognition - Tyrone Burroughs, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR853 Memorials, Recognition - Elaine Lee Turner, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR855 Memorials, Recognition - Al Green, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR857 Memorials, Recognition - Pearl "Eva" Walker, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR858 Memorials, Recognition - Coach Jerry C. Johnson, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR890 Memorials, Recognition - Karanja A. Ajanaku, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR902 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Denise Mustiful-Martin, Living Legend Awards

TN - HB1620 Driver Licenses - As enacted, adds documentation a veteran may submit to the department of safety to have military service indicated on a driver license to allow an honorably discharged veteran to submit a certified copy of the veteran's AGO Form 53-55 or NAVPERS 553 showing the dates of service. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HJR892 Memorials, Recognition - Yvonne B. Acey, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR891 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. David L. Acey, Sr., Living Legend Awards

TN - HB1977 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As introduced, enacts the "Stopping Addiction and Fostering Excellence (SAFE) Act." - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 33; Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HJR861 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Keith Norman, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR860 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Yvonne Denise Nelson, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR863 Memorials, Recognition - Mabra Holeyfield, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR859 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. L. LaSimba M. Gray, Jr., Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR862 Memorials, Recognition - Mark Stansbury, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR864 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Melvin Watkins, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR865 Memorials, Recognition - Christine Taylor-Moore, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR866 Memorials, Recognition - Joyce Vinetta Garner, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR867 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Youth Courts, Inc., 20th anniversary

TN - HB2457 Firefighters - As introduced, enacts the "Firefighter Suicide Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB2134 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Teacher's Discipline Act"; establishes a disciplinary process for students who have been removed from the classroom by the teacher. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2008 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class E felony of communicating a threat to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity; creates the Class A misdemeanor of knowing failure to report a threat of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HJR942 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Brinders Jones, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR854 Memorials, Recognition - Janice Gill Gray, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR936 Memorials, Recognition - Faith Morris, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR937 Memorials, Recognition - Keith O. Williams, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR939 Memorials, Recognition - Sarah Carpenter, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR940 Memorials, Recognition - Johnnie Mosley, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR938 Memorials, Recognition - Thelma Nelms, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR941 Memorials, Recognition - Kevin Potts, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR943 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. William Terrell, Jr., Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR934 Memorials, Recognition - Representative Johnnie Turner, Living Legend Awards

TN - HJR935 Memorials, Recognition - Willie Harper, Living Legend Awards

TN - HB1791 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the West Tennessee River basin authority to June 30, 2028; adds an attendance requirement for board members; revises other provisions regarding the authority. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 64, Chapter 1.

TN - HJR974 Memorials, Death - Victor Thompson

TN - HJR983 Memorials, Recognition - Sonny Hicks

TN - HB2069 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, adds the offenses of promoting the prostitution of a minor and patronizing prostitution from a person who is younger than 18 years of age or has an intellectual disability as sexual offenses for which a person may not qualify for judicial diversion. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HJR1053 Memorials, Retirement - Lloyd Hansen

TN - HB2291 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires that a hearing requested by a police officer who has been dismissed, demoted, suspended, or transferred for punitive reasons be set within 21 calendar days following the request, rather than 14 calendar days. - Amends TCA Title 38.

TN - HB2727 General Services, Dept. of - As introduced, clarifies that the fiscal review committee must be allowed to review noncompetitive procurement agreements; requires the chief procurement officer to report procurement contracts monthly to the fiscal review committee; revises various other provisions related to procurement of state contracts. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 49.

TN - HB2385 Firefighters - As introduced, allows a volunteer firefighter to receive $800 from the commission on firefighting personnel standards and education for completing 40 hours of training annually. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24.

TN - HB2818 Education - As enacted, authorizes the state board of education to promulgate emergency rules as necessary to address any issues created by school closures due to the outbreak of COVID-19 during the 2019-2020 school year; requires the commissioner of education to waive certain requirements; establishes other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HR326 Memorials, Congratulations - Tennessee is well-suited to host the 2020 Republican National Convention.

TN - HB225 Election Laws - As introduced, requires election officials to inspect filings for sufficiency and timeliness; establishes conclusive presumption that accepted filings are sufficient and timely filed. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB2764 Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires the department of human resources to make an annual report on or before January 15, instead of periodically, to the governor on recommendations for improvements of the state service system. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 28; Title 29; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 50.

TN - HB1607 Local Government, General - As introduced, removes prohibition on a member of a local governing body who is also an employee of the local governing body from voting on matters in which the member has a conflict of interest, and reinstates the declaration of conflict prior to voting. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 12.

TN - HJR1212 Memorials, Death - George Floyd

TN - HB2653 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of disseminating a photograph of an inmate at a state penal institution that was taken during a visitation period. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 47.

TN - HJR1200 Memorials, Death - Johnny Majors

TN - HB2705 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, creates a five-member Asian carp advisory commission to recommend methods and seek funding for the eradication of Asian carp from Tennessee waters. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 70.

TN - HR351 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

TN - HB2680 Health Care - As introduced, authorizes healthcare facilities to provide an electronic method for insureds or their representatives to acknowledge and sign the statutorily required notice that the insured agrees to receive medical services by an out-of-network provider and will receive a bill for the amount unpaid by the insured's insurer. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB825 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for theft of property that includes a firearm valued at less than $2,500 from a Class A misdemeanor or Class E felony, as applicable based on the value, to a Class D felony. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 35.