Tennessee Rep. Larry J. Miller (D)

TN - Finance, Ways and Means (House)

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member

TN - Local Government (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Local Government Subcommittee (House)

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chair

TN - HB604 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, deletes an obsolete code reference to the sentencing commission which was terminated on June 30, 1995; applies certain definitions to all sexual offenses, rather than certain sexual offenses. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 20; Title 24; Title 25; Title 26; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB869 Clerks, Court - As enacted, establishes exceptions to the $40.00 fee that is imposed on the receiving of funds paid into court on confirmation of private sales or other funds paid into the clerk pursuant to court order, and collecting and paying out the proceeds; exception applies to certain payments made by court order to any person from funds held by the clerk. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401.

TN - HR1 Unknown

TN - HR13 Memorials, Recognition - Niki Brown

TN - HB603 Shelby County - As introduced, creates special joint committee to study casino gambling in Shelby County. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 31; Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 8, Chapter 4; Title 9, Chapter 4; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HJR946 Memorials, Interns - Gabrielle Whitmore.

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

TN - HR4 Unknown

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

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

TN - HB608 Taxes - As introduced, corrects an incorrect code reference. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HR10 Memorials, Recognition - Henri Brooks, "12 Who Made a Difference" in 2012

TN - HB1946 Unknown

TN - HB609 Civil Procedure - As introduced, revises various provisions for assessing court costs and attorney's fees in proceedings involving parental relocation petitions, child visitation orders, and juvenile matters. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 29; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HR83 Memorials, Interns - Alex Uhlmann

TN - HB607 Real Property - As introduced, requires commissioner of financial institutions to select independent, qualified appraisers for appraisals of real estate held by savings and loan associations; replaces incorrect code references to federal home loan bank board and federal savings and loan insurance corporation, which was abolished in 1992, with references to the federal deposit insurance corporation, to which such responsibilities were transferred. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

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

TN - HR5 Unknown

TN - HR2 Unknown

TN - HB1100 Treasurer, State - As introduced, encourages increased use of minority-owned brokerage and investment management firms in services provided to funds administered, managed or held by the treasurer; requires annual report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56, Part 1; Title 8, Chapter 37; Title 9, Chapter 4; Title 12, Chapter 4 and Title 12, Chapter 3.

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

TN - HB1079 Credit and Debit Cards - As introduced, raises the amount in damages that a purchaser may be entitled to if wrongly asked to produce a credit card number for recordation in connection with a sale of goods or services in which the purchaser pays by check, or with the acceptance of a check from the greater of actual damages or $100 to the greater of the actual damages or $500. - Amends TCA Title 45; Title 47 and Title 67.

TN - HB1961 Unknown

TN - HB1463 Special License Plates - As introduced, authorizes issuance of Memphis Grizzlies new specialty earmarked license plates; allocates 50% of funds produced from sale thereof to Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation for educational and mentoring programs. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1152 Public Defenders - As introduced, clarifies that the affidavit of indigency to be used for purposes of determining whether a defendant is indigent is the affidavit form developed by the administrative office of the courts, rather than a "uniform affidavit of indigency." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14; Title 16; Title 23 and Title 40.

TN - HB605 Education - As introduced, extends, from July 10 to July 20, the deadline for certain city and county officials to submit annual report of expenditures to the commissioner of education. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HJR221 Memorials, Recognition - Van D. Turner, Jr.

TN - HB1366 Special License Plates - As introduced, authorizes issuance of Memphis Grizzlies new specialty earmarked license plates; allocates 50 percent of funds produced from sale thereof to Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation for educational and mentoring programs. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

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

TN - HB1962 Employees, Employers - As introduced, adds the outcome measurements and the actual cost to the employer report submitted to the department of economic and community development by the employers receiving the job skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - HB606 Business and Commerce - As introduced, corrects technical errors in the Tennessee Limited Liability Company Act, by inserting missing words. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 56; Title 61; Title 62; Title 64; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HR3 Unknown

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

TN - HJR32 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Beverly Marrero

TN - HJR30 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Jeanne Richardson

TN - HJR31 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Mike Kernell

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

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

TN - HJR444 Memorials, Recognition - Rev. Walter Smith

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 - HB1876 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows student who was enrolled in the 2012-2013 academic year in an eligible postsecondary program and who is enrolled in the 2013-2014 academic year in the eligible postsecondary program for the student's second year of study to be eligible for award of a STEP UP scholarship for the 2013-2014 academic year, provided that the student meets the continuation requirements under present law for receipt of the scholarship; establishes related requirements. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-943.

TN - HB2270 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds new money laundering offenses for knowingly using property with intent to obtain, purchase, display, sell, conceal, comingle, or transport criminal proceeds or commit TennCare fraud; provides for forfeiture of assets and proceeds used in such violations. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 9.

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

TN - HB545 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, authorizes lump sum death benefit to beneficiary for noncontributory member dying prior to retirement as if such member had been a contributory member. - Amends TCA Section 8-36-107.

TN - HB1904 TennCare - As enacted, provides that an individual who is an inmate of a public institution will have eligibility for medical assistance suspended but not terminated during periods of actual incarceration; an individual who is an inmate of a public institution will be eligible for temporary reinstatement of medical assistance for care received outside of a jail or correctional facility in a hospital or other health care facility for more than 24 hours; and a public institution may make efforts to establish eligibility for or renew assistance for such individuals prior to their release from the public institution. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 33; Title 38; Title 41; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB2152 Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) - As enacted, enacts the "Emergency Response Broadcasters Act". - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2.

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 - HB2269 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a utility to individually meter certain apartments on or after July 1, 2014; prohibits master-metered designs for certain apartment buildings on or after July 1, 2014; and requires a utility to provide certain notice to occupants in a master-metered apartment building prior to the discontinuance of service. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - HB2003 Traffic Safety - As enacted, specifies that it is not a violation of a "red alone or stop" signal unless the front tires of a vehicle cross the stop line after the signal is red. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-110.

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 - 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 - HB2267 Litter Control - As enacted, enhances the fine for the offense of aggravated criminal littering when the amount of litter exceeds 100 pounds in weight or 30 cubic feet in volume from no greater than $2,500 to between $2,500 and $4,000. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7, Part 3; Section 5-1-115; Section 6-54-113; Title 7, Chapter 63, Part 2; Section 13-21-204; Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 5; Title 54, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Section 55-10-420.

TN - HB1136 Children - As introduced, adds the commissioner of children's services to the recipients who may receive disposition information from the council of juvenile and family court judges; those who may receive such information currently include properly concerned agencies and individuals, or any person upon request. - Amends TCA Title 37.

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 - 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 - HB1763 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "True Origin of Goods Act". - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - HB1910 Police - As introduced, beginning on January 1, 2015, requires the amount of the present police pay supplement of $600 to be increased annually to reflect inflation. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-204 and Section 38-8-111.

TN - HB544 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2211 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, revises certain provisions governing projects and qualified public use facilities to change the amount of the aggregate investment of public or private funds from "in excess of $200 million" to "in excess of $75 million". - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53 and Title 7, Chapter 88.

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

TN - HB457 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, specifies that if a petitioner is unable to pay $350 expunction fee, the petitioner may enter into a payment plan with the clerk in order to pay the fee in installment payments; no order of expunction will be granted until the total amount of the fee is paid; requires department of finance and administration to review the number of expunction petitions filed by eligible petitioners, the cost of processing each petition and the amount of money paid in expunction fees. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

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 - HB2226 Local Government, General - As introduced, permits local governments owning or operating a hot mix asphalt facility to use the asphalt to make minor repairs of certain public streets, byways, and parking lots in addition to paving public streets, roads, and highways. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 12 and Title 54.

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 - HB2194 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires any law enforcement officer responding to alleged domestic abuse who finds a minor may have been present for the alleged abuse to determine whether the child is a victim of abuse or neglect and, if so, report that fact to the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Section 39-13-111.

TN - HB2268 Election Laws - As introduced, requires voter notice of new legislative districts and new voter registration cards after decennial or court ordered redistricting. - Amends TCA Title 2; Section 3-1-102 and Section 3-1-103.

TN - HB578 State Employees - As enacted, authorizes state employees to serve as election officials at the polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB39 Cosmetology - As enacted, requires the board of cosmetology to establish rules and regulations for separate schools that specialize solely in natural hair styling, manicuring and the practice of aesthetics; revises other provisions related to cosmetology schools. - Amends TCA Section 62-4-120.

TN - HB1082 Fireworks - As introduced, permits the sale of consumer fireworks in Shelby County. - Amends TCA Section 68-104-112.

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 - HB1768 Disabled Persons - As enacted, elevates from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the penalty for knowingly abusing, neglecting or exploiting an adult who is unable to manage his or her resources or carry out the activities of daily living due to mental or physical dysfunctions or advanced age; requires certain notifications; establishes elder abuse task force. - Amends TCA Section 71-6-117.

TN - HB517 Child Abuse - As introduced, requires a child advocacy center to perform the initial forensic interview with a child who is the victim of alleged child sexual abuse and any subsequent interviews found necessary by the child protective team to be conducted in a neutral setting. - Amends TCA Title 37.

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 - HB1275 Public Records - As enacted, authorizes certain persons who were convicted of a non-violent crime after January 1, 1980, and who received a pardon from the governor and a positive vote from the board of parole, to file a petition for expunction of that person's public records involving the crime. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB129 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the offense of solicitation of a minor to include solicitations by adults, that if completed, would constitute trafficking for commercial sex acts, patronizing prostitution, promoting prostitution or aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB93 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, subjects conveyances to forfeiture if used in the transport, concealment or storage of money or goods that were the subject of a burglary, aggravated burglary or especially aggravated burglary. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 7 and Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 1.

TN - HB1925 Welfare - As enacted, authorizes diversion grants. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 1.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1766 Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, establishes requirements for in loco parentis decision-making for a minor child and revises notary requirement for power of attorney for care of a minor child. - Amends TCA Title 34, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1373 Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires all law enforcement agencies who store and maintain sexual assault collection kits to conduct an inventory to determine how many kits being stored are untested by the TBI or a similar laboratory and report the findings to TBI, who reports it to the speaker of the house and speaker of the senate. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB1686 Judgments - As enacted, provides that a civil judgment or restitution order converted to civil judgment is valid until paid in full rather than renewed every 10 years if the judgment is based upon injury or death caused by criminal conduct and the judgment debtor was convicted of a criminal offense for such conduct. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

TN - HB999 Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises provisions governing tax on the wholesale beer sales. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1981 Employees, Employers - As enacted, enacts the "Healthy Workplace Act", which requires TACIR to create a model policy for employers to prevent abusive conduct in the workplace, which policy may be adopted by employers. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.

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 - HB1979 Recycling - As introduced, changes the size requirements of the posted notice regarding criminal violations for a metals recycling facility. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1293 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2220 Education - As introduced, requires that collections of certain fines and penalties, related to certain traffic violations, first be used by the city of Memphis to provide financial assistance to certain students to participate in job training programs offered by the city of Memphis during the summer. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 55.

TN - HB1306 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires UT and TBR institutions to provide free parking to employees who earn less than the average state employee salary; permits other employees to be charged for parking on a tiered scale based on salary. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

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 - HB2490 Firefighters - As introduced, enacts the "Firefighter Training Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 68.

TN - HB1926 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, creates a loan program for the payment of real property taxes on residences of certain low or moderate income persons who are elderly or disabled. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23 and Title 67.

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 - HB2372 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, requires a person applying for expunction of criminal records to pay the appropriate court clerk’s fee, in addition to any other fees required unless the person is entitled to have such records removed and destroyed without cost. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401 and Title 40.

TN - HB1742 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, permits expunction of multiple criminal convictions in certain circumstances; revises other provisions regarding expunction of records. - Amends TCA Section 40-32-101.

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 - HB2290 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to reimburse LEAs for the costs of implementing and the ongoing costs to use common core state standards and PARCC assessments. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB920 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, removes as a defense ignorance or mistake of fact concerning the age of a minor to the offenses of patronizing prostitution and soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor; creates an exception to the offense of soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor that the victim is at least 15 but less than 18 years of age and the defendant is not more than four years older than the victim, unless the defendant intentionally commanded, hired, induced or caused the victim to violate the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1769 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products - As enacted, enacts the "Transportation Fuel Equity Act"; revises other related provisions relative to taxation of diesel. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 3; Title 67, Chapter 4; Title 67, Chapter 6 and Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007.

TN - HB2255 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, enacts the "911 Funding Modernization and IP Transition Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86; Section 9-8-307; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 65.

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 - HB1050 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, adds a person who physically possesses or controls a child to those from whose custody a child can be removed if the child is subject to an immediate threat to the child's health or safety and there is no less drastic alternative to removal. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB972 Tennessee Regulatory Authority - As enacted, revises various provisions pertaining to the TRA's power to regulate telecommunications providers. - Amends TCA Title 65 and Title 67.

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

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 - 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 - HB1877 Domestic Violence - As enacted, specifies that in divorce proceeding involving domestic abuse within the marriage, any debt owed for any batterer's intervention or rehabilitation programs will be attributed to the abuser only. - Amends TCA Title 36.

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 - 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 - HB792 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the human rights commission, June 30, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 29.

TN - HB2445 Agriculture - As enacted, authorizes growing of industrial hemp subject to regulation by the department of agriculture. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 53 and Title 67.

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

TN - HB1392 Agriculture - As introduced, decriminalizes the growing and processing of industrial hemp in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 53 and Title 67.

TN - HB352 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, extends the hours of sale for alcoholic beverages and beer for establishments located within the central business improvement district in downtown Memphis to the hours of sale for establishments located on Beale Street and certain areas in the vicinity of Beale Street. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - HB1736 Special License Plates - As enacted, revises and clarifies various provisions of law regarding veteran and military-related license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4 and Chapter 318 of the Public Acts of 2013.

TN - HB306 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the fine imposed on a person who commits an assault or an aggravated assault against a health care provider while such provider is acting in the discharge of the provider's duty. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.

TN - HR73 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Anthony Harris, Salutatorian, Melrose High School

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

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Senegal delegation to Tennessee

TN - HR75 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Devin Payne, Valedictorian, East High School

TN - HR94 Memorials, Interns - Gabrielle Alana Garcia

TN - HR186 Memorials, Death - William Otis Little, Sr.

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

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

TN - HR76 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tiange "Alice" Zhan, Salutatorian, White Station High School

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

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

TN - HR15 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Glenda Baskin Glover, new president of Tennessee State University

TN - HR71 Memorials, Academic Achievement - LaKeva Johnson, Valedictorian, Melrose High School

TN - HR205 Memorials, Interns - Michael Patrick Olson.

TN - HR74 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Megan Lee, Valedictorian, White Station High School

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

TN - HR120 Memorials, Interns - Alexis Darvin

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

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

TN - HR77 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Maya Johnson, Salutatorian, East High School

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

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

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

TN - HJR293 Memorials, Recognition - Boy Scouts of America

TN - HJR358 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jamal Sankhon, Salutatorian, Craigmont High School

TN - HJR217 Memorials, Recognition - Carolyn House Stewart

TN - HJR92 Memorials, Recognition - Rosa Parks

TN - HJR356 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Leonard Duarte, Valedictorian, Kingsbury High School

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR53 Memorials, Recognition - Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. Sorority, 100th anniversary

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

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

TN - HJR393 Memorials, Death - Cindy Leigh McAfee

TN - HJR353 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kierra Wheeler, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HJR46 Memorials, Death - Major L. DeBerry

TN - HJR195 Memorials, Death - Minerva Johnican

TN - HJR824 Memorials, Recognition - Coalition of 100 Black Women.

TN - HJR561 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Charles Traughber, Tennessee ethics commission.

TN - HJR398 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Morgan Whaley, Salutatorian, Bartlett High School

TN - HJR357 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Whitney Cole, Valedictorian, Craigmont High School

TN - HJR355 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Adam Trung, Salutatorian, Kingsbury High School

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

TN - HJR25 Memorials, Recognition - Cato Johnson, 2013 Arthur S. Holman Lifetime Achievement Award

TN - HJR694 Memorials, Heroism - Honors Blount County's African-American soldiers who served in the Civil War and the valiant men of the United States Colored Heavy Artillery.

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

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

TN - HJR354 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jamelah Brassell, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HJR361 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Keiarra A. Harris, Valedictorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School

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

TN - HJR593 General Assembly, Studies - Creates a special committee to study the development of a pilot program to assist former law enforcement personnel.

TN - HJR362 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Eric M. Hampton, Salutatorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School

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

TN - HJR136 Memorials, Death - Cora Mae McKinney Cash

TN - HJR360 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Harry Bridges, Salutatorian, Douglass High School

TN - HJR359 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kristina Brown, Valedictorian, Douglass High School

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

TN - HJR2 Unknown

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

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

TN - HJR163 Memorials, Retirement - Sandy Sain

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

TN - HJR106 Memorials, Death - Marcellas Brooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR505 Memorials, Interns - Sommerie Denise Wade

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR518 Memorials, Interns - Jada Denise Flowers

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

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

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

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Public Service - Sara Kyle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR182 Memorials, Recognition - David Pickler, 2013-14 President of the National School Boards Association

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR436 Memorials, Retirement - David Norton

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR647 Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Lee.

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

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

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

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

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 - HJR890 Memorials, Death - Gail Kerr.

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

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

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

TN - HJR225 Memorials, Recognition - Pettus L. Read

TN - HJR297 Memorials, Recognition - Harold D. Morrell

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR378 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Charles F. Smith III, Valedictorian, 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 - HJR814 Memorials, Recognition - Donna Roddy, 2014 Woman of Distinction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR298 Memorials, Recognition - Jonah and Emory Marlin

TN - HJR572 Memorials, Sports - Bobby Davis.

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

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

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

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

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

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 - HJR165 Memorials, Death - Donald "Duck" Dunn

TN - HJR399 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emily Irene Hayes, Valedictorian, Bartlett High School

TN - SB1953 Judgments - As enacted, provides that a civil judgment or restitution order converted to civil judgment is valid until paid in full rather than renewed every 10 years if the judgment is based upon injury or death caused by criminal conduct and the judgment debtor was convicted of a criminal offense for such conduct. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

TN - SB823 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, subjects conveyances to forfeiture if used in the transport, concealment or storage of money or goods that were the subject of a burglary, aggravated burglary or especially aggravated burglary. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 7 and Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 1.

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

TN - SB1089 Clerks, Court - As enacted, establishes exceptions to the $40.00 fee that is imposed on the receiving of funds paid into court on confirmation of private sales or other funds paid into the clerk pursuant to court order, and collecting and paying out the proceeds; exception applies to certain payments made by court order to any person from funds held by the clerk. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401.

TN - SB1224 Credit and Debit Cards - As introduced, raises the amount in damages that a purchaser may be entitled to if wrongly asked to produce a credit card number for recordation in connection with a sale of goods or services in which the purchaser pays by check, or with the acceptance of a check from the greater of actual damages or $100 to the greater of the actual damages or $500. - Amends TCA Title 45; Title 47 and Title 67.

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 - SB2150 Litter Control - As enacted, enhances the fine for the offense of aggravated criminal littering when the amount of litter exceeds 100 pounds in weight or 30 cubic feet in volume from no greater than $2,500 to between $2,500 and $4,000. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7, Part 3; Section 5-1-115; Section 6-54-113; Title 7, Chapter 63, Part 2; Section 13-21-204; Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 5; Title 54, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Section 55-10-420.

TN - SB2369 Local Government, General - As introduced, permits local governments owning or operating a hot mix asphalt facility to use the asphalt to make minor repairs of certain public streets, byways, and parking lots in addition to paving public streets, roads, and highways. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 12 and Title 54.

TN - SB2023 TennCare - As enacted, provides that an individual who is an inmate of a public institution will have eligibility for medical assistance suspended but not terminated during periods of actual incarceration; an individual who is an inmate of a public institution will be eligible for temporary reinstatement of medical assistance for care received outside of a jail or correctional facility in a hospital or other health care facility for more than 24 hours; and a public institution may make efforts to establish eligibility for or renew assistance for such individuals prior to their release from the public institution. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 33; Title 38; Title 41; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB2076 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products - As enacted, enacts the "Transportation Fuel Equity Act"; revises other related provisions relative to taxation of diesel. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 3; Title 67, Chapter 4; Title 67, Chapter 6 and Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007.

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 - SB2188 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires any law enforcement officer responding to alleged domestic abuse who finds a minor may have been present for the alleged abuse to determine whether the child is a victim of abuse or neglect and, if so, report that fact to the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Section 39-13-111.

TN - SB1905 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows student who was enrolled in the 2012-2013 academic year in an eligible postsecondary program and who is enrolled in the 2013-2014 academic year in the eligible postsecondary program for the student's second year of study to be eligible for award of a STEP UP scholarship for the 2013-2014 academic year, provided that the student meets the continuation requirements under present law for receipt of the scholarship; establishes related requirements. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-943.

TN - SB1362 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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 - SB1929 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds new money laundering offenses for knowingly using property with intent to obtain, purchase, display, sell, conceal, comingle, or transport criminal proceeds or commit TennCare fraud; provides for forfeiture of assets and proceeds used in such violations. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 9.

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 - SB1885 Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, establishes requirements for in loco parentis decision-making for a minor child and revises notary requirement for power of attorney for care of a minor child. - Amends TCA Title 34, Chapter 6.

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 - 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 - SB1100 Real Property - As introduced, requires commissioner of financial institutions to select independent, qualified appraisers for appraisals of real estate held by savings and loan associations; replaces incorrect code references to federal home loan bank board and federal savings and loan insurance corporation, which was abolished in 1992, with references to the federal deposit insurance corporation, to which such responsibilities were transferred. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1852 Disabled Persons - As enacted, elevates from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the penalty for knowingly abusing, neglecting or exploiting an adult who is unable to manage his or her resources or carry out the activities of daily living due to mental or physical dysfunctions or advanced age; requires certain notifications; establishes elder abuse task force. - Amends TCA Section 71-6-117.

TN - SB873 State Employees - As enacted, authorizes state employees to serve as election officials at the polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - SB2056 Traffic Safety - As enacted, specifies that it is not a violation of a "red alone or stop" signal unless the front tires of a vehicle cross the stop line after the signal is red. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-110.

TN - SB860 Public Records - As enacted, authorizes certain persons who were convicted of a non-violent crime after January 1, 1980, and who received a pardon from the governor and a positive vote from the board of parole, to file a petition for expunction of that person's public records involving the crime. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - SB1101 Taxes - As introduced, corrects an incorrect code reference. - Amends TCA Title 67.

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 - SB446 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the offense of solicitation of a minor to include solicitations by adults, that if completed, would constitute trafficking for commercial sex acts, patronizing prostitution, promoting prostitution or aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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 - 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 - 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 - SB516 Civil Procedure - As introduced, revises various provisions for assessing court costs and attorney's fees in proceedings involving parental relocation petitions, child visitation orders, and juvenile matters. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 29; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SB412 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the fine imposed on a person who commits an assault or an aggravated assault against a health care provider while such provider is acting in the discharge of the provider's duty. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.

TN - SB1913 Special License Plates - As enacted, revises and clarifies various provisions of law regarding veteran and military-related license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4 and Chapter 318 of the Public Acts of 2013.

TN - SB1351 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, authorizes lump sum death benefit to beneficiary for noncontributory member dying prior to retirement as if such member had been a contributory member. - Amends TCA Section 8-36-107.

TN - SB1423 Special License Plates - As introduced, authorizes issuance of Memphis Grizzlies new specialty earmarked license plates; allocates 50 percent of funds produced from sale thereof to Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation for educational and mentoring programs. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

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 - SB1805 Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) - As enacted, enacts the "Emergency Response Broadcasters Act". - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1299 Public Defenders - As introduced, clarifies that the affidavit of indigency to be used for purposes of determining whether a defendant is indigent is the affidavit form developed by the administrative office of the courts, rather than a "uniform affidavit of indigency." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14; Title 16; Title 23 and Title 40.

TN - SB2057 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to reimburse LEAs for the costs of implementing and the ongoing costs to use common core state standards and PARCC assessments. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2588 Firefighters - As introduced, enacts the "Firefighter Training Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 68.

TN - SB2011 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, clarifies that the age-restricted venue exception to the no smoking law applies only to persons entering such facilities other than employees. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2226 Employees, Employers - As enacted, enacts the "Healthy Workplace Act", which requires TACIR to create a model policy for employers to prevent abusive conduct in the workplace, which policy may be adopted by employers. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2211 Employees, Employers - As introduced, adds the outcome measurements and the actual cost to the employer report submitted to the department of economic and community development by the employers receiving the job skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB2504 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, requires a person applying for expunction of criminal records to pay the appropriate court clerk’s fee, in addition to any other fees required unless the person is entitled to have such records removed and destroyed without cost. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401 and Title 40.

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 - 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 - SB441 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SB109 Cosmetology - As enacted, requires the board of cosmetology to establish rules and regulations for separate schools that specialize solely in natural hair styling, manicuring and the practice of aesthetics; revises other provisions related to cosmetology schools. - Amends TCA Section 62-4-120.

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 - SB2329 Unknown

TN - SB2379 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, permits expunction of multiple criminal convictions in certain circumstances; revises other provisions regarding expunction of records. - Amends TCA Section 40-32-101.

TN - SB1426 Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires all law enforcement agencies who store and maintain sexual assault collection kits to conduct an inventory to determine how many kits being stored are untested by the TBI or a similar laboratory and report the findings to TBI, who reports it to the speaker of the house and speaker of the senate. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB237 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, specifies that if a petitioner is unable to pay $350 expunction fee, the petitioner may enter into a payment plan with the clerk in order to pay the fee in installment payments; no order of expunction will be granted until the total amount of the fee is paid; requires department of finance and administration to review the number of expunction petitions filed by eligible petitioners, the cost of processing each petition and the amount of money paid in expunction fees. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - SB1899 Education - As introduced, requires that collections of certain fines and penalties, related to certain traffic violations, first be used by the city of Memphis to provide financial assistance to certain students to participate in job training programs offered by the city of Memphis during the summer. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 55.

TN - SB1074 Child Abuse - As introduced, requires a child advocacy center to perform the initial forensic interview with a child who is the victim of alleged child sexual abuse and any subsequent interviews found necessary by the child protective team to be conducted in a neutral setting. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB2495 Agriculture - As enacted, authorizes growing of industrial hemp subject to regulation by the department of agriculture. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 53 and Title 67.

TN - SB1369 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires UT and TBR institutions to provide free parking to employees who earn less than the average state employee salary; permits other employees to be charged for parking on a tiered scale based on salary. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB703 Treasurer, State - As introduced, encourages increased use of minority-owned brokerage and investment management firms in services provided to funds administered, managed or held by the treasurer; requires annual report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56, Part 1; Title 8, Chapter 37; Title 9, Chapter 4; Title 12, Chapter 4 and Title 12, Chapter 3.

TN - SB485 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, extends the hours of sale for alcoholic beverages and beer for establishments located within the central business improvement district in downtown Memphis to the hours of sale for establishments located on Beale Street and certain areas in the vicinity of Beale Street. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - SB691 Shelby County - As introduced, creates special joint committee to study casino gambling in Shelby County. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 31; Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 8, Chapter 4; Title 9, Chapter 4; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - SB1950 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, creates a loan program for the payment of real property taxes on residences of certain low or moderate income persons who are elderly or disabled. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23 and Title 67.

TN - SB690 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, deletes an obsolete code reference to the sentencing commission which was terminated on June 30, 1995; applies certain definitions to all sexual offenses, rather than certain sexual offenses. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 20; Title 24; Title 25; Title 26; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - SB1858 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, revises certain provisions governing projects and qualified public use facilities to change the amount of the aggregate investment of public or private funds from "in excess of $200 million" to "in excess of $75 million". - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53 and Title 7, Chapter 88.

TN - SB1390 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, adds a person who physically possesses or controls a child to those from whose custody a child can be removed if the child is subject to an immediate threat to the child's health or safety and there is no less drastic alternative to removal. - Amends TCA Title 37.

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 - SB2151 Unknown

TN - SB1837 Welfare - As enacted, authorizes diversion grants. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - SB338 Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the human rights commission, June 30, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 29.

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 - SB1103 Education - As introduced, extends, from July 10 to July 20, the deadline for certain city and county officials to submit annual report of expenditures to the commissioner of education. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 49 and Title 67.

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 - SB2407 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, enacts the "911 Funding Modernization and IP Transition Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86; Section 9-8-307; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 65.

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

TN - SB1936 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "True Origin of Goods Act". - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB1102 Business and Commerce - As introduced, corrects technical errors in the Tennessee Limited Liability Company Act, by inserting missing words. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 56; Title 61; Title 62; Title 64; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - SB1686 Agriculture - As introduced, decriminalizes the growing and processing of industrial hemp in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 53 and Title 67.

TN - SB422 Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises provisions governing tax on the wholesale beer sales. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1822 Unknown

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 - 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 - 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 - SB1909 Domestic Violence - As enacted, specifies that in divorce proceeding involving domestic abuse within the marriage, any debt owed for any batterer's intervention or rehabilitation programs will be attributed to the abuser only. - Amends TCA Title 36.

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 - SB2124 Unknown

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 - SB1031 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, removes as a defense ignorance or mistake of fact concerning the age of a minor to the offenses of patronizing prostitution and soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor; creates an exception to the offense of soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor that the victim is at least 15 but less than 18 years of age and the defendant is not more than four years older than the victim, unless the defendant intentionally commanded, hired, induced or caused the victim to violate the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1228 Fireworks - As introduced, permits the sale of consumer fireworks in Shelby County. - Amends TCA Section 68-104-112.

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

TN - SB1180 Tennessee Regulatory Authority - As enacted, revises various provisions pertaining to the TRA's power to regulate telecommunications providers. - Amends TCA Title 65 and Title 67.

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 - 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 - SB1226 Children - As introduced, adds the commissioner of children's services to the recipients who may receive disposition information from the council of juvenile and family court judges; those who may receive such information currently include properly concerned agencies and individuals, or any person upon request. - Amends TCA Title 37.

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