Tennessee Rep. Mary Littleton (R)

TN - Health (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Health Subcommittee (House)

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chair

TN - Transportation (House)

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vice-chair

TN - HB2304 Child Abuse - As enacted, adds the offense of promoting prostitution to the list of offenses constituting severe child abuse. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HB1035 Public Employees - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding social security, including, among other things, the deletion of provisions regarding administrative costs paid by subdivisions; recovery of delinquencies and penalties and contracts assuring social security contributions; appropriations for contributions and administrative costs; payments to the treasury department; appropriation estimates; sick payments on account of illness or accident disability to an employee. - Amends TCA Section 4-3-2403 and Title 8, Chapter 38.

TN - HB2361 Privacy, Confidentiality - As enacted, prevents certain disclosures of information regarding victims of sexual offenses. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 16, Chapter 3, Part 4.

TN - HB2305 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, requires a court in a private child custody case that has removed a child from the custody of the child’s parent due primarily or solely to drug abuse by the parent, not to return the child to the parent’s custody until the parent has passed six consecutive monthly drug tests to be paid for by the parent. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6 and Title 37.

TN - HB710 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, provides that termination of parental or guardianship rights may be initiated if a parent or guardian has been convicted of trafficking for a commercial sex act. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB1304 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, exempts a transferree of a vehicle from paying any fee for issuance or assignment of a certificate of title or registration when transferring a vehicle purchased from a dealer if such transfer takes place within 30 days from the date of the purchase from the dealer and is between persons who are married, lineal relatives, or spouses of lineal relatives or siblings. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB2551 Ashland City - As introduced, subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 121 of the Private Acts of 2004; as amended.

TN - HB1034 Education - As enacted, exempts from the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act of 1974 an educational instruction that: does not lead to a degree; is regulated by the federal aviation administration; and is offered by a postsecondary educational institution that does not require students receiving the instruction to enter into written or oral contracts of indebtedness. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB712 Public Health - As enacted, requires hospitals to give patients, upon discharge, certain information concerning influenza and vaccines. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - HJR298 Memorials, Recognition - Jonah and Emory Marlin

TN - HR193 Memorials, Recognition - Dickson County High School Concert Choir, Carnegie Hall Performance.

TN - HB2306 Day Care - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor when a child care agency operator, licensee or employee intentionally administers medication without the parent's written authorization or the direction of a licensed medical practitioner. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2281 Child Abuse - As introduced, requires any person with knowledge of the death of a child to report the death immediately to the department of children's services and local law enforcement; requires the department and law enforcement agency to determine whether to initiate an investigation by child protective services based on the report. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1731 Public Records - As enacted, removes certain references to storage of electronic public records in CD-ROM's and instead authorizes storage in any appropriate electronic medium. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1303 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, provides as additional grounds for the termination of parental rights that a parent was convicted of rape of a child; revises existing provisions regarding termination of parental rights based on a parent being convicted of rape or aggravated rape. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.

TN - HB2282 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of health to seek recovery of unpaid penalties assessed against deficient nursing homes in general sessions court, as an alternative to circuit or chancery court. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB2002 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, removes the requirement that an automobile retail seller must insure its GAP waiver obligation when the automobile retail seller does not assign the financing agreement of which a GAP waiver is a part to anyone other than the retail seller's related finance company. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 59.

TN - HR200 Memorials, Death - Johnny MacRae.

TN - HB1905 Law Enforcement - As introduced, provides that an officer’s designated beneficiary shall receive a cash salary supplement for annual training despite the officer's failure to complete the required in-service training, if the failure is due to the death of the officer. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.

TN - HB664 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, repeals the Access Improvement Fund Act of 1971. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1510 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, requires that the reimbursement of property taxes paid by the state to eligible veterans who are disabled shall be paid on the first $200,000, instead of $175,000, of the full market value of the veteran's property. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704.

TN - HB2492 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45 days, the prior notice period before a health insurance carrier can alter its payment or fee schedules. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB711 Dickson County - As enacted, deletes the exemption of Dickson County from certain minimum training requirements for firefighters. - Amends TCA Section 4-24-112.

TN - HB861 Special License Plates - As introduced, provides for issuance of Tennessee Cave Salamander special license plate; proceeds to be deposited in the wildlife resources fund. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HR190 Memorials, Sports - Creek Wood High School girls' basketball team.

TN - HB709 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting a person for trafficking a person for a commercial sex act, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, and exploitation of a minor by electronic means if the offense was committed against a child on or after July 1, 2013, to be 15 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age; changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting a person for patronizing prostitution and promoting prostitution if the offense was committed against a child on or after July 1, to be 10 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2508 Burns - As introduced, subject to local approval, creates the position of vice-mayor, to be selected from the board of commissioners. - Amends Chapter 193 of the Private Acts of 1953; as rewritten and amended.

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

TN - HB742 Evidence - As enacted, provides that victims 13 and under of trafficking for commercial sex acts and patronizing prostitution may, under certain circumstances, testify outside the courtroom by closed circuit television. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB128 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, requires rather than permits that restitution to the victim be paid by the defendant for the offenses of patronizing prostitution, trafficking for commercial sex acts, solicitation of a minor for sexual purposes, and enlisting or paying a minor to engage in child pornography. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-118.

TN - HB919 Human Rights - As enacted, establishes human trafficking task force. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 38 and Title 71, Chapter 1.

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 - HB937 TennCare - As enacted, prohibits the governor from making any decision or obligating the state in any way with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program, pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, unless authorized by joint resolution of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB1038 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, eliminates release eligibility for a person committing attempted first degree murder where the victim suffers serious bodily injury, on or after July 1, 2013, until the person has served 85 percent of the sentence imposed by the court less sentence credits earned and retained. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1480 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates an exception to the offense of carrying a firearm in public without a handgun carry permit that the person carrying or possessing a firearm or ammunition in a motor vehicle is not otherwise prohibited from carrying a firearm and is in lawful possession of the motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB9 Unknown

TN - HB130 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class D felony offense of promoting travel for prostitution; adds the purchase of another person for the purpose of providing a commercial sex act to the types of conduct that constitute the criminal offense of trafficking a person for a commercial sex act; revises other provisions related to sexual servitude and commercial sex acts. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

TN - HB1718 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony, the criminal penalty for observation without consent if victim is a minor and five years younger than the defendant. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-607.

TN - HB521 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, disallows as a defense to offenses of sexual exploitation of a minor, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor that the minor consented to the conduct constituting the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB358 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, redefines "unlawful debt" under the provisions governing organized crime to add debt incurred or contracted in violation of certain sex offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB8 Unknown

TN - HB555 Optometry - As enacted, revises provisions governing the "practice of optometry as a profession" in regard to the use of a local anesthetic. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 8.

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

TN - HB171 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires adult day care and child care agencies potential employees to submit to a review to determine if person has committed abuse or "neglect," instead of "gross neglect," of a child or adult. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapters 2 and 3.

TN - HB1036 Sentencing - As enacted, prohibits any release eligibility for a person committing aggravated child neglect or endangerment, on or after July 1, 2013, until the person has served 70 percent of the sentence imposed by the court less sentence credits earned and retained. - Amends TCA Titles 39 and 40.

TN - HB1098 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, requires the department of environment and conservation to develop a proposal for a revised state implementation plan that eliminates motor vehicle inspection testing requirements for all motor vehicles in this state that are three or less model-years old. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 1 and Title 68.

TN - HB378 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, requires the department of economic and community development to execute a separate agreement in conjunction with any FastTrack economic development grant or loan contract that reserves the right of the department to recover the amount of money, grants, funds, or other incentives disbursed by the department, in whole or in part, if the person or entity benefitting from such money, grants, funds, or other incentives fails to fulfill the commitments made by such person or entity to the department. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7 and Title 64, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1667 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, protects the right of a person to transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in a privately owned vehicle; prevents any owner, lessee or manager of real property from taking adverse action against a person transporting or storing a firearm or ammunition; creates a civil cause of action for damages. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB984 Abortion - As introduced, requires that an ultrasound be perfomed prior to an abortion, with an exception for medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 9 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB353 DUI Offenses - As enacted, revises various provisions of the ignition interlock law. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB520 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, raises the classification of the offense of promoting prostitution of a minor from a Class E felony to a Class A or B felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

TN - HB1099 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, provides that doctrine of joint and several liability does not apply in civil actions governed by comparative fault; preserves the doctrine of joint and several liability among manufacturers only in a product liability, but only if such action is based upon a theory of strict liability or breach of warranty. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 11, Part 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 - HB2453 Education - As enacted, requires that LEAs make all teaching materials, including handouts readily available for review upon request by the parents or legal guardians and that the official operating policies of boards of education must provide that a parent or legal guardian is entitled to review tests that are developed by and graded by a teacher of the parent or legal guardian's child; revises other provisions relative to parental inspection of school materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 70.

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

TN - HB1398 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, prohibits expenditure of state funds to pay the public indebtedness of any municipality; specifies that this prohibition does not preclude any municipality from utilizing its allocation of state-shared taxes for the purpose of paying its public indebtedness. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 56; Title 9, Chapter 1; Title 9, Chapter 3; Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 9, Chapter 21.

TN - HB1869 Search & Seizure - As enacted, prohibits a law enforcement officer from searching, examining, extracting or duplicating cellular telephone data, even if incident to a lawful arrest, unless the officer has obtained a search warrant, the owner gives informed consent, the telephone has been abandoned, or exigent circumstances exist; makes any such data illegally obtained inadmissible as evidence in a court or administrative hearing. - Amends TCA Title 40, 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 - HB6 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, enacts the "School Security Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1386 Employees, Employers - As enacted, establishes experience rating applicable to new employers moving to Tennessee after having been in operation for at least three years prior to becoming a employer in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7, Part 4.

TN - HB1002 Local Government, General - As introduced, requires all counties of the state to provide and maintain ambulance services. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 61 and Title 68.

TN - HB82 TennCare - As introduced, prohibits Tennessee from participating in any Medicaid expansion authorized under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB1428 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, revises pharmacy practices of local health departments; grants commissioner of health certain rulemaking authority. - Amends TCA Section 63-10-205.

TN - HB1272 Energy - As enacted, enacts the "Energy Independence Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB1684 Securities - As enacted, creates the "Invest Tennessee Exemption" permitting the intra-state sale of certain securities that do not exceed $1 million. - Amends TCA Title 48.

TN - HB357 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the offense of organ trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 68, Chapter 30, Part 4.

TN - HB119 Welfare - As enacted, prohibits recipients of public assistance from using electronic benefit transfer cards to purchase certain goods or services in certain establishments. - Amends TCA Title 71.

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 - HB2424 Taxes, Inheritance Gift - As enacted, for tax years 2014 and 2015, annually raises the gross amount of a small estate that is below the statutory exemption and is not required to file a short form inheritance tax return. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 8.

TN - HB590 Annexation - As introduced, requires, prior to a municipality annexing within its urban growth boundary, the approval of a majority vote of qualified voters in the territory proposed for annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - HB170 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to investigate certain actions of fraud, theft or misconduct in department programs. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapters 1, 3 and 5.

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 - 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 - HB2368 Law Enforcement - As enacted, permits electronic citations for certain traffic offenses; establishes a $5.00 electronic citation fee for each citation resulting in conviction. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 2.

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

TN - HB1407 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, permits a person with a handgun carry permit to carry a firearm in any state, county or municipal park or other recreation area; deletes provisions allowing local governments to prohibit carrying in parks by resolution or ordinance. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB966 Education - As enacted, revises provision for expulsion of a student who commits battery upon an LEA employee or school resource officer to instead require expulsion of a student who commits aggravated assault against such a person. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HB859 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires a health insurance entity offering employer-based plans to offer to employers no less than one plan option in which the copayment and coinsurance amounts for services rendered during an office visit to a chiropractic physician, physical therapist or occupational therapist are no greater than copayment and coinsurance amounts for the services rendered during an office visit to a primary care physician. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1288 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes creation of new city school systems if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Section 6-58-112 and Title 49.

TN - HB639 Unemployment Compensation - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding unemployment insurance, including provisions governing the waiver of the collection of overpayments. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7.

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

TN - HB500 Unknown

TN - HB416 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds to the definition of criminal gang offenses, the commission or attempted commission, facilitation of, solicitation of, or conspiracy to commit the offense of trafficking for commercial sex acts. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1549 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Data Accessibility, Transparency and Accountability Act"; establishes requirements for the adoption of educational standards and the requesting of proposals for student assessments; prohibits the state from adopting common core standards in any subjects other than math and English language arts; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2293 Local Government, General - As introduced, revises the provisions governing altering or revising the budget of the county department of education. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.

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

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

TN - HB2371 Annexation - As enacted, establishes a moratorium on annexation by ordinance or resolution; revises other provisions governing annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - HB1483 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, broadens scope of handgun permit holder's right to transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in certain motor vehicle parking lots without criminal liability under Tennessee law, unless expressly prohibited by federal law. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1313(a).

TN - HB1257 Controlled Substances - As enacted, changes the name of the methamphetamine registry to the drug offender registry and requires that all felony drug offenders be placed on the registry; extends the amount of time that drug offenders will be placed on the registry from seven to 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 53 and Title 63.

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 - 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 - HB2121 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, provides that duty-free teacher time for instructional planning shall be allocated on an individual basis. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

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

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

TN - HB1295 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, provides that a woman may be prosecuted for assault for the illegal use of a narcotic drug while pregnant, if her child is born addicted to or harmed by the narcotic drug; law expires July 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 39.

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

TN - HB131 Sexual Offenses - As introduced, changes "sexual servitude" definition to "commercial sex acts," increases penalties for criminal gang members committing trafficking for commercial sex acts, removes defense that victim was a police officer and a minor victim consented from offenses of commercial sex trafficking and patronizing prostitution and makes patronizing prostitution of a minor a "sexual offense" for purposes of the sex offender registry. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1697 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state board of education to include cursive writing in the course of instruction in all public schools through the curriculum standards, at the appropriate grade level, as determined by the board. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - HB1185 Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits public institutions of higher education from disciplining or discriminating against a student in a counseling, social work, or psychology program because the student refuses to counsel or serve a client as to goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with a sincerely held religious belief of the student, if the student refers the client to a counselor who will provide the counseling or services. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

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

TN - HB80 General Assembly - As enacted, beginning November 4, 2014, limits per diem payments to certain members; revises mileage allowance for certain members.

TN - HB1811 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, permits a nursing home facility to convert a licensed nursing home bed to a reserved nursing home bed right if certain conditions are met, including that the licensed nursing home bed has been voluntarily removed from the license of the nursing home. - Amends TCA Title 68.

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

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 - HB1473 School Transportation - As introduced, permits use of a school bus, regardless of years of service or mileage driven, if the bus is found to be safe for continued use upon inspection; requires school buses to be inspected at least annually. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21.

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 - HB2250 Local Government, General - As introduced, grants local legislative bodies the power to line item veto over administrative spending in a school district's proposed budget when the administrative spending exceeds 10 percent of the proposed budget. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.

TN - HB1526 Evidence - As enacted, enacts the "Chris Newsom Act", which creates presumption to successor trial and appellate judges that if the original trial judge dismisses the jury following a unanimous verdict, that the judge exercised his or her duties as the 13th juror and approves the verdict. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 18, Part 1.

TN - HB2059 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, confers upon general assembly or governor the authority to direct attorney general and reporter to initiate a civil action on behalf of the state and upon general assembly and governor the authority to direct the attorney general to cease a civil action initiated by the attorney general; allows the general assembly to employ outside counsel to advise on additional matters than is currently permitted. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1527 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, enacts the "Channon Christian Act", which clarifies rule of evidence regarding certain character evidence. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HR3 Unknown

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

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

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

TN - HR67 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cody Dean Phillips, Valedictorian, Creek Wood High School

TN - HR13 Memorials, Recognition - Niki Brown

TN - HR89 Memorials, Retirement - William Allen Weller, III

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

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

TN - HR4 Unknown

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

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

TN - HR142 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association's Tenth Annual Wear Red Day.

TN - HR120 Memorials, Interns - Alexis Darvin

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

TN - HR205 Memorials, Interns - Michael Patrick Olson.

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

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

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

TN - HR1 Unknown

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

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

TN - HR83 Memorials, Interns - Alex Uhlmann

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

TN - HR66 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Mason Edward Cordell, Salutatorian, Creek Wood High School

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HR5 Unknown

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

TN - HR2 Unknown

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

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

TN - HJR31 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Mike Kernell

TN - HJR772 Memorials, Retirement - Warner C. Taylor, Jr.

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

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

TN - HJR436 Memorials, Retirement - David Norton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR647 Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Lee.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR890 Memorials, Death - Gail Kerr.

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

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

TN - HJR106 Memorials, Death - Marcellas Brooks

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

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

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

TN - HJR217 Memorials, Recognition - Carolyn House Stewart

TN - HJR225 Memorials, Recognition - Pettus L. Read

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

TN - HJR297 Memorials, Recognition - Harold D. Morrell

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

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

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

TN - HJR293 Memorials, Recognition - Boy Scouts of America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR32 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Beverly Marrero

TN - HJR548 Constitutional Conventions - Makes application to Congress for the purpose of calling a convention of states concerning balanced budgeting.

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Public Service - Sara Kyle

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

TN - HJR724 Memorials, Recognition - The Links Days on Capitol Hill.

TN - HJR419 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Tony Boals, 68th President of the Tennessee Road Builders Association

TN - HJR661 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Condemns the administration of the University of Tennessee for permitting “Sex Week” to be held on the UT-Knoxville campus.

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

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

TN - HJR30 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Jeanne Richardson

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR444 Memorials, Recognition - Rev. Walter Smith

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

TN - HJR163 Memorials, Retirement - Sandy Sain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR518 Memorials, Interns - Jada Denise Flowers

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

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

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

TN - HJR66 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Julie Schuster, Tennessee fish and wildlife commission.

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

TN - HJR740 Memorials, Retirement - Doyle Thomas Grant.

TN - HJR572 Memorials, Sports - Bobby Davis.

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR393 Memorials, Death - Cindy Leigh McAfee

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

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

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

TN - HJR642 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages Sean Hannity and like-minded New Yorkers to relocate to Tennessee.

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR839 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Condemns federal court decision granting a preliminary injunction in the case Tanco et al v Haslam.

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

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

TN - HJR2 Unknown

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

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

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

TN - HJR505 Memorials, Interns - Sommerie Denise Wade

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - 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 - SB2559 Education - As enacted, requires that LEAs make all teaching materials, including handouts readily available for review upon request by the parents or legal guardians and that the official operating policies of boards of education must provide that a parent or legal guardian is entitled to review tests that are developed by and graded by a teacher of the parent or legal guardian's child; revises other provisions relative to parental inspection of school materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 70.

TN - SB570 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, enacts the "School Security Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB726 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires a health insurance entity offering employer-based plans to offer to employers no less than one plan option in which the copayment and coinsurance amounts for services rendered during an office visit to a chiropractic physician, physical therapist or occupational therapist are no greater than copayment and coinsurance amounts for the services rendered during an office visit to a primary care physician. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - SB2372 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, requires a court in a private child custody case that has removed a child from the custody of the child’s parent due primarily or solely to drug abuse by the parent, not to return the child to the parent’s custody until the parent has passed six consecutive monthly drug tests to be paid for by the parent. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6 and Title 37.

TN - SB1080 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, requires the department of environment and conservation to develop a proposal for a revised state implementation plan that eliminates motor vehicle inspection testing requirements for all motor vehicles in this state that are three or less model-years old. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 1 and Title 68.

TN - SB632 Abortion - As introduced, requires that an ultrasound be perfomed prior to an abortion, with an exception for medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 9 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - SB1353 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes creation of new city school systems if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Section 6-58-112 and Title 49.

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

TN - 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 - SB605 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, requires the department of economic and community development to execute a separate agreement in conjunction with any FastTrack economic development grant or loan contract that reserves the right of the department to recover the amount of money, grants, funds, or other incentives disbursed by the department, in whole or in part, if the person or entity benefitting from such money, grants, funds, or other incentives fails to fulfill the commitments made by such person or entity to the department. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7 and Title 64, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1763 Employees, Employers - As enacted, establishes experience rating applicable to new employers moving to Tennessee after having been in operation for at least three years prior to becoming a employer in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7, Part 4.

TN - SB220 Optometry - As enacted, revises provisions governing the "practice of optometry as a profession" in regard to the use of a local anesthetic. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 8.

TN - SB923 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, provides as additional grounds for the termination of parental rights that a parent was convicted of rape of a child; revises existing provisions regarding termination of parental rights based on a parent being convicted of rape or aggravated rape. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.

TN - SB2024 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, removes the requirement that an automobile retail seller must insure its GAP waiver obligation when the automobile retail seller does not assign the financing agreement of which a GAP waiver is a part to anyone other than the retail seller's related finance company. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 59.

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

TN - SB2085 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, confers upon general assembly or governor the authority to direct attorney general and reporter to initiate a civil action on behalf of the state and upon general assembly and governor the authority to direct the attorney general to cease a civil action initiated by the attorney general; allows the general assembly to employ outside counsel to advise on additional matters than is currently permitted. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6.

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

TN - 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 - SB869 Annexation - As introduced, requires, prior to a municipality annexing within its urban growth boundary, the approval of a majority vote of qualified voters in the territory proposed for annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - SB1033 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class D felony offense of promoting travel for prostitution; adds the purchase of another person for the purpose of providing a commercial sex act to the types of conduct that constitute the criminal offense of trafficking a person for a commercial sex act; revises other provisions related to sexual servitude and commercial sex acts. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

TN - SB832 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, eliminates release eligibility for a person committing attempted first degree murder where the victim suffers serious bodily injury, on or after July 1, 2013, until the person has served 85 percent of the sentence imposed by the court less sentence credits earned and retained. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2160 Unknown

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 - SB1757 Search & Seizure - As enacted, prohibits a law enforcement officer from searching, examining, extracting or duplicating cellular telephone data, even if incident to a lawful arrest, unless the officer has obtained a search warrant, the owner gives informed consent, the telephone has been abandoned, or exigent circumstances exist; makes any such data illegally obtained inadmissible as evidence in a court or administrative hearing. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB1605 School Transportation - As introduced, permits use of a school bus, regardless of years of service or mileage driven, if the bus is found to be safe for continued use upon inspection; requires school buses to be inspected at least annually. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21.

TN - SB1391 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, provides that a woman may be prosecuted for assault for the illegal use of a narcotic drug while pregnant, if her child is born addicted to or harmed by the narcotic drug; law expires July 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB1313 Local Government, General - As introduced, requires all counties of the state to provide and maintain ambulance services. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 61 and Title 68.

TN - SB1028 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting a person for trafficking a person for a commercial sex act, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, and exploitation of a minor by electronic means if the offense was committed against a child on or after July 1, 2013, to be 15 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age; changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting a person for patronizing prostitution and promoting prostitution if the offense was committed against a child on or after July 1, to be 10 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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 - SB107 General Assembly - As enacted, beginning November 4, 2014, limits per diem payments to certain members; revises mileage allowance for certain members.

TN - SB108 Public Records - As enacted, makes confidential and not open for public inspection all information contained in and pertaining to a handgun carry permit application or renewal application and the status of a handgun carry permit; creates exceptions to such confidentiality. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB600 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, exempts a transferree of a vehicle from paying any fee for issuance or assignment of a certificate of title or registration when transferring a vehicle purchased from a dealer if such transfer takes place within 30 days from the date of the purchase from the dealer and is between persons who are married, lineal relatives, or spouses of lineal relatives or siblings. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SB1387 TennCare - As introduced, prohibits Tennessee from participating in any Medicaid expansion authorized under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - SB1818 Day Care - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor when a child care agency operator, licensee or employee intentionally administers medication without the parent's written authorization or the direction of a licensed medical practitioner. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3.

TN - SB1481 Securities - As enacted, creates the "Invest Tennessee Exemption" permitting the intra-state sale of certain securities that do not exceed $1 million. - Amends TCA Title 48.

TN - SB1037 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the offense of organ trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 68, Chapter 30, Part 4.

TN - SB447 Sexual Offenses - As introduced, changes "sexual servitude" definition to "commercial sex acts," increases penalties for criminal gang members committing trafficking for commercial sex acts, removes defense that victim was a police officer and a minor victim consented from offenses of commercial sex trafficking and patronizing prostitution and makes patronizing prostitution of a minor a "sexual offense" for purposes of the sex offender registry. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB244 Welfare - As enacted, prohibits recipients of public assistance from using electronic benefit transfer cards to purchase certain goods or services in certain establishments. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - SB2525 Local Government, General - As introduced, revises the provisions governing altering or revising the budget of the county department of education. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.

TN - SB2645 Ashland City - As introduced, subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 121 of the Private Acts of 2004; as amended.

TN - SB2350 Law Enforcement - As enacted, permits electronic citations for certain traffic offenses; establishes a $5.00 electronic citation fee for each citation resulting in conviction. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 2.

TN - SB670 DUI Offenses - As enacted, revises various provisions of the ignition interlock law. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SB514 Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits public institutions of higher education from disciplining or discriminating against a student in a counseling, social work, or psychology program because the student refuses to counsel or serve a client as to goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with a sincerely held religious belief of the student, if the student refers the client to a counselor who will provide the counseling or services. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB775 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, repeals the Access Improvement Fund Act of 1971. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 2.

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 - SB1032 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, raises the classification of the offense of promoting prostitution of a minor from a Class E felony to a Class A or B felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

TN - SB804 TennCare - As enacted, prohibits the governor from making any decision or obligating the state in any way with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program, pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, unless authorized by joint resolution of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - SB1836 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, prohibits expenditure of state funds to pay the public indebtedness of any municipality; specifies that this prohibition does not preclude any municipality from utilizing its allocation of state-shared taxes for the purpose of paying its public indebtedness. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 56; Title 9, Chapter 1; Title 9, Chapter 3; Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 9, Chapter 21.

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

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

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

TN - SB1034 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, provides that termination of parental or guardianship rights may be initiated if a parent or guardian has been convicted of trafficking for a commercial sex act. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - SB852 Energy - As enacted, enacts the "Energy Independence Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 67 and Title 68.

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 - SB1030 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, disallows as a defense to offenses of sexual exploitation of a minor, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor that the minor consented to the conduct constituting the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1036 Human Rights - As enacted, establishes human trafficking task force. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 38 and Title 71, Chapter 1.

TN - SB1835 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Data Accessibility, Transparency and Accountability Act"; establishes requirements for the adoption of educational standards and the requesting of proposals for student assessments; prohibits the state from adopting common core standards in any subjects other than math and English language arts; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1830 Public Records - As enacted, removes certain references to storage of electronic public records in CD-ROM's and instead authorizes storage in any appropriate electronic medium. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1480 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, requires that the reimbursement of property taxes paid by the state to eligible veterans who are disabled shall be paid on the first $200,000, instead of $175,000, of the full market value of the veteran's property. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704.

TN - SB56 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, provides that doctrine of joint and several liability does not apply in civil actions governed by comparative fault; preserves the doctrine of joint and several liability among manufacturers only in a product liability, but only if such action is based upon a theory of strict liability or breach of warranty. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - SB1186 Education - As enacted, exempts from the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act of 1974 an educational instruction that: does not lead to a degree; is regulated by the federal aviation administration; and is offered by a postsecondary educational institution that does not require students receiving the instruction to enter into written or oral contracts of indebtedness. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1733 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, protects the right of a person to transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in a privately owned vehicle; prevents any owner, lessee or manager of real property from taking adverse action against a person transporting or storing a firearm or ammunition; creates a civil cause of action for damages. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

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

TN - SB2601 Burns - As introduced, subject to local approval, creates the position of vice-mayor, to be selected from the board of commissioners. - Amends Chapter 193 of the Private Acts of 1953; as rewritten and amended.

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

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

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

TN - SB2031 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, broadens scope of handgun permit holder's right to transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in certain motor vehicle parking lots without criminal liability under Tennessee law, unless expressly prohibited by federal law. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1313(a).

TN - SB979 Public Health - As enacted, requires hospitals to give patients, upon discharge, certain information concerning influenza and vaccines. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - SB1027 Evidence - As enacted, provides that victims 13 and under of trafficking for commercial sex acts and patronizing prostitution may, under certain circumstances, testify outside the courtroom by closed circuit television. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB1994 Law Enforcement - As introduced, provides that an officer’s designated beneficiary shall receive a cash salary supplement for annual training despite the officer's failure to complete the required in-service training, if the failure is due to the death of the officer. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8.

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

TN - SB264 Education - As enacted, revises provision for expulsion of a student who commits battery upon an LEA employee or school resource officer to instead require expulsion of a student who commits aggravated assault against such a person. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1869 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of health to seek recovery of unpaid penalties assessed against deficient nursing homes in general sessions court, as an alternative to circuit or chancery court. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB2464 Annexation - As enacted, establishes a moratorium on annexation by ordinance or resolution; revises other provisions governing annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

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 - 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 - SB1821 Taxes, Inheritance Gift - As enacted, for tax years 2014 and 2015, annually raises the gross amount of a small estate that is below the statutory exemption and is not required to file a short form inheritance tax return. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 8.

TN - SB658 Special License Plates - As introduced, provides for issuance of Tennessee Cave Salamander special license plate; proceeds to be deposited in the wildlife resources fund. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - SB1029 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds to the definition of criminal gang offenses, the commission or attempted commission, facilitation of, solicitation of, or conspiracy to commit the offense of trafficking for commercial sex acts. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1935 Local Government, General - As introduced, grants local legislative bodies the power to line item veto over administrative spending in a school district's proposed budget when the administrative spending exceeds 10 percent of the proposed budget. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.

TN - SB1632 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, revises pharmacy practices of local health departments; grants commissioner of health certain rulemaking authority. - Amends TCA Section 63-10-205.

TN - SB783 Unemployment Compensation - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding unemployment insurance, including provisions governing the waiver of the collection of overpayments. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7.

TN - SB2237 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, permits a nursing home facility to convert a licensed nursing home bed to a reserved nursing home bed right if certain conditions are met, including that the licensed nursing home bed has been voluntarily removed from the license of the nursing home. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB828 Sentencing - As enacted, prohibits any release eligibility for a person committing aggravated child neglect or endangerment, on or after July 1, 2013, until the person has served 70 percent of the sentence imposed by the court less sentence credits earned and retained. - Amends TCA Titles 39 and 40.

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 - SB1660 Child Abuse - As enacted, adds the offense of promoting prostitution to the list of offenses constituting severe child abuse. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - SB1774 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates an exception to the offense of carrying a firearm in public without a handgun carry permit that the person carrying or possessing a firearm or ammunition in a motor vehicle is not otherwise prohibited from carrying a firearm and is in lawful possession of the motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

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 - SB1797 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, enacts the "Channon Christian Act", which clarifies rule of evidence regarding certain character evidence. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1.

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

TN - SB2254 Privacy, Confidentiality - As enacted, prevents certain disclosures of information regarding victims of sexual offenses. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 16, Chapter 3, Part 4.

TN - SB2257 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, provides that duty-free teacher time for instructional planning shall be allocated on an individual basis. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - SB1038 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, redefines "unlawful debt" under the provisions governing organized crime to add debt incurred or contracted in violation of certain sex offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1035 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, requires rather than permits that restitution to the victim be paid by the defendant for the offenses of patronizing prostitution, trafficking for commercial sex acts, solicitation of a minor for sexual purposes, and enlisting or paying a minor to engage in child pornography. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-118.

TN - SB742 Public Employees - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding social security, including, among other things, the deletion of provisions regarding administrative costs paid by subdivisions; recovery of delinquencies and penalties and contracts assuring social security contributions; appropriations for contributions and administrative costs; payments to the treasury department; appropriation estimates; sick payments on account of illness or accident disability to an employee. - Amends TCA Section 4-3-2403 and Title 8, Chapter 38.

TN - SB176 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to investigate certain actions of fraud, theft or misconduct in department programs. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapters 1, 3 and 5.

TN - SB177 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires adult day care and child care agencies potential employees to submit to a review to determine if person has committed abuse or "neglect," instead of "gross neglect," of a child or adult. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapters 2 and 3.

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

TN - SB453 Dickson County - As enacted, deletes the exemption of Dickson County from certain minimum training requirements for firefighters. - Amends TCA Section 4-24-112.

TN - SB1881 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state board of education to include cursive writing in the course of instruction in all public schools through the curriculum standards, at the appropriate grade level, as determined by the board. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - SB1496 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, permits a person with a handgun carry permit to carry a firearm in any state, county or municipal park or other recreation area; deletes provisions allowing local governments to prohibit carrying in parks by resolution or ordinance. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB1312 Controlled Substances - As enacted, changes the name of the methamphetamine registry to the drug offender registry and requires that all felony drug offenders be placed on the registry; extends the amount of time that drug offenders will be placed on the registry from seven to 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - SB2587 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45 days, the prior notice period before a health insurance carrier can alter its payment or fee schedules. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1944 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony, the criminal penalty for observation without consent if victim is a minor and five years younger than the defendant. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-607.

TN - SB1796 Evidence - As enacted, enacts the "Chris Newsom Act", which creates presumption to successor trial and appellate judges that if the original trial judge dismisses the jury following a unanimous verdict, that the judge exercised his or her duties as the 13th juror and approves the verdict. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 18, Part 1.

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

TN - SB579 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises offense of unlawful photographing in violation of privacy and offense of observation without consent to increase penalty in certain situations when the victim is younger than 13 years of age; adds to the list of offenses that constitute a "sexual offense" for purposes of the sex offender registry observation without consent when the offense is classified as a Class E or D felony and unlawful photographing when the offense is classified as a Class E or D felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.