Tennessee Rep. Mary Littleton (R)

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TN - Judiciary (House)

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TN - Children and Families Subcommittee (House)

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TN - HB2624 Health Care - As introduced, urges department of health to conduct a study of the effectiveness of medical assisted treatment programs, including whether they should be required to be provided onsite or through referral in intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization, and residential levels of care; requires the department to report its findings and recommendations, on or before February 15, 2021, to the health and welfare committee of the senate and health committee of the house of representatives if such study is conducted. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB976 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, changes from March 1 to February 15 the date by which the executive director of the commission must file an annual report concerning rules promulgated during the prior year with the state and local government committee of the senate and the state government committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HB1634 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires that the actual costs of providing services in child and spousal support cases and the clerks of court reimbursement rates be set according to the Study of Actual Costs of Activities by Clerks of Court for Child and Spousal Support Cases and Determination of Actual Costs for Reimbursement by the department of human services - revised report of study dated November 18, 1998; deletes the present law provisions that require the comptroller to conduct a study of the costs and issue a biennial report. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - HR372 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Sheriff Jeff Bledsoe, Executive Director of the Tennessee Sheriffs' Association

TN - HB2009 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the offense of negligently, by act or omission, engaging in conduct that places a child in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1852 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires the supervising official at a secure detention or correctional facility housing juveniles to immediately report any security breach to local law enforcement; allows supervising official failing to report to be charged with the offense of permitting or facilitating escape; requires the department of children's services to include additional information in the department's annual report. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - HB973 Domestic Violence - As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor offense for a criminal defendant in a domestic assault case, or a person acting at the defendant's direction, by persuasion or any other means that do not constitute coercion to intentionally influence or attempt to influence a witness or prospective witness to engage in certain behavior. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 35; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1828 Charitable Solicitations - As enacted, revises the annual filing fee payable to the secretary of state by certain qualified charitable organizations seeking to solicit contributions in this state. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.

TN - HB970 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires that the family life curriculum used in public schools include instruction on the detection, intervention, prevention, and treatment of human trafficking in which the victim is a child; requires each local board of education to require that each teacher employed by the board receive a one-time in-service training on the detection, intervention, prevention, and treatment of human trafficking in which the victim is a child, which must be accomplished through the viewing of a video recording approved by the LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR999 Memorials, Congratulations - Taiwan

TN - HJR61 Memorials, Recognition - Griffin Mechanical, LLC, TNCPE Excellence Award

TN - HB2625 Health Care - As enacted, requires, by no later than January 1, 2021, the departments of health and mental health and substance abuse services, and the bureau of TennCare to collaborate to develop educational materials for providers and facilities where medication assisted treatment including treatment involving controlled substances is prescribed or provided; requires that the materials be made available to prescribers of such treatment for substance abuse disorder. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2589 Purchasing and Procurement - As introduced, increases from $10,000 or more to $25,000 or more, the amount for which a local board of education or the governing body of a public charter school must make purchases or expenditures by competitive bids; requires the amount to be increased each fiscal year, beginning with the 2021-2022 fiscal year, by the greater of 2 percent or the rate of inflation. - Amends TCA Section 12-3-1212; Section 49-13-111 and Section 49-2-203.

TN - HB1717 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts military veterans with 100 percent service-connected permanent and total disability from the sales tax on food and food ingredients. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB830 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the Class C felony of aggravated unlawful photographing when the defendant knowingly photographs a minor when the minor has a reasonable expectation of privacy, the photograph depicts the minor in a state of nudity, and the photography was taken for the purpose of sexual gratification of the defendant; requires a person convicted of aggravated unlawful photographing to register as a sexual offender. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2928 Ashland City - Subject to local approval, authorizes the mayor to designate a financial director to assist with the budget and manage all financial affairs of the city; authorizes city recorder to have a designee in the city recorder's absence at meetings. - Amends Chapter 121 of the Private Acts of 2004; as amended.

TN - HR223 Memorials, Recognition - Drew Williams

TN - HB2061 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires department of safety to distribute to entities contracting with the department to issue driver licenses an additional fee of $6.00 per license for administrative costs. - Amends TCA Section 55-50-331.

TN - HR330 Memorials, Recognition - Patti Baldini

TN - HR373 Memorials, Congratulations - Taiwan

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

TN - HB2588 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires that the parent educational seminar include at least one 30-minute video on adverse childhood experiences created by the department of children's services in conjunction with the commission on children and youth or as part of the Building Strong Brains Tennessee public awareness campaign; adds to that the requirement of attendance by parents at the parent educational seminar may be waived upon motion by either party and the agreement of the court upon the showing of good cause. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6.

TN - HR203 Memorials, Recognition - Lindy Murff, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HB118 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, authorizes the City of Ashland City, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than 2.5 percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Ashland City; the ordinance must set forth the manner of collection and administration of the privilege tax; requires that all proceeds received by the municipality from the tax be used for tourism development. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425.

TN - HB609 Registers of Deeds - As enacted, allows a register of deeds to store local government records, in addition to storage in the register's office, in a suitable facility; defines suitable facility as one that will secure records against theft and natural disasters. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HR82 Memorials, Recognition - Iron Lodge #503, 140th anniversary

TN - HB320 Barbers and/or Cosmetologists - As enacted, exempts a person who engages in hair braiding from the cosmetologist licensure requirements if certain requirements met. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2590 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, allows an elected official of any county or municipality in the actual discharge of official duties who has a valid handgun carry permit to carry inside a building in which judicial proceedings are in progress, but not in the room in which judicial proceedings are in progress; allows the county attorney in the actual discharge of official duties who has a valid handgun carry permit to carry inside a building in which judicial proceedings are in progress, but not in the room in which judicial proceedings are in progress. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

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

TN - HB2584 Sexual Offenders - As introduced, expands the sexual offenses for which a defendant is required to submit to an evaluation for and be subject to a standardized plan of sex offender treatment as part of the defendant's sentence. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 7.

TN - HB2585 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer to notify the department of children's services when a person under 18 years of age is taken into custody for suspicion of committing the offense of prostitution. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HB2586 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates "Women's Suffrage Day" as a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HJR742 Memorials, Death - Elizabeth Blair Allen Daniel

TN - HB1537 Burns - Subject to local approval, moves the date of election from May to November; extends the terms, from two years to four years, for the mayor and commissioner. - Amends amend Chapter 89 of the Private Acts of 2008.

TN - HB509 Children - As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding child abuse; revises certain provisions regarding detention of juveniles. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB974 TennCare - As introduced, reduces the time period, from 30 to 15 days, for an enrollee or applicant for medical assistance to mail documentation of a material change affecting the enrollee's or applicant's TennCare application. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1829 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, adds a representative of the alcoholic beverage commission to the human trafficking advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 30 and Title 57, Chapter 1.

TN - HB258 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, enacts the "Sergeant Daniel Baker Act," which removes the appeal to the court of criminal appeals in death penalty cases; provides for automatic direct review by the Tennessee supreme court for convictions for which a sentence of death is imposed. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HR224 Memorials, Recognition - Jannan Wine, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HR225 Memorials, Recognition - Dale Ragan, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HB1718 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, increases the maximum age for a victim of aggravated rape of a child from three years of age to eight years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HR204 Memorials, Recognition - Emily Johnston, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HR18 Memorials, Heroism - Kyle Ruf

TN - HB257 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class D felony offense for entity or person who knowingly uses a communication or electronic device to obtain information concerning an elderly adult's medical condition or health, sends unsolicited or specifically refused medical supplies to the elderly adult, and files a claim or submits a bill with the state Medicare plan for reimbursement. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 5 and Title 71.

TN - HB975 Wine & Wineries - As introduced, increases from 18 percent by volume to 24 percent by volume the alcohol content of wine that can be sold in grocery stores; changes the definition of wine for purposes of sales in grocery stores so that wine includes alcohol derived from wine that has added flavorings and additives. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HB972 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class C felony offense of communicating a threat of public harm; authorizes juvenile detention for juveniles communicating a threat of public harm. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB2355 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, allows a manufacturer to sell product transferred between different sites owned by the same manufacturer upon certain conditions. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-202.

TN - HB2357 Children - As enacted, increases the timeframe within which the mother of a newborn may surrender custody of the child to an approved medical facility without criminal liability from within 72 hours of birth to within two weeks. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Section 68-11-255.

TN - HB2358 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, decreases penalty for manufacturer mislabeling whiskey as Tennessee whiskey from suspension or revocation of the manufacturer's license for a period of not less than one year to a period of not greater than one year. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HB2359 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from 60 days to 30 business days of adoption, the time within which the department must submit any new departmental policies for review by the judiciary committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives having oversight over children and families. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HJR601 Memorials, Recognition - CareNet Pregnancy Medical Center, 25th anniversary

TN - HB2356 Sexual Offenses - As introduced, states that a victim of sexual battery is incapable of consenting to sexual contact with a physician, psychologist, therapist, or certain other professionals during the course of receiving treatment for a mental, emotional, or physical condition or interpersonal relationship. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HJR320 Memorials, Retirement - Chief Marcel Coulon, Ashland City Police Department

TN - HB122 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, requires a court ordering grandparent visitation to include at least two visits per month with the grandparent; provided, that the court may order less frequent visitation if agreed to by the grandparent. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HJR276 Memorials, Sports - Cheatham County Central High School girls' basketball team, TSSAA Divison I Class AA state champions

TN - HJR60 Memorials, Congratulations - Taiwan

TN - HB68 Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the Robert Spicer Memorial Buck Dance Championship as the official buck dancing competition of the State of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB971 Beer - As introduced, redefines "beer" such that the sale, distribution, and manufacture of beer with an alcoholic content of 18 percent by volume or less is regulated by counties and of greater than 18 percent by volume is regulated by the alcoholic beverage commission. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1168 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates offenses related to the possession, sale, distribution, and transport of child-like sex dolls. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HJR229 Memorials, Recognition - Edwin Seagraves, Prudential Spirit of Community Award

TN - HB989 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from March 1 to April 1 the date by which the department must appear before the appropriate committees in the senate and the house of representatives for a review of the department's policies that affect the children it serves. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 41; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HJR413 Memorials, Recognition - Mary Bell

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

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

TN - HB1264 Handgun Permits - As enacted, creates a concealed handgun carry permit, which allows a person to carry a concealed handgun; redesignates the existing handgun carry permit as an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 33; Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - HB1364 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, rewrites the criminal offense of female genital mutilation; extends the statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions or civil actions for female genital mutilation. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1459 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the age to access or use tobacco and vapor products from 18 to 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB933 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes state and national criminal history background checks and investigations of employees and contractors of the department who are likely to have access to individuals with disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 12.

TN - HJR17 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee recognizing that our liberties do not come from government, but from Almighty God.

TN - HB397 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, establishes a victims of human trafficking fund in the state treasury to provide comprehensive treatment and support services to victims of human trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 2; Section 39-13-314 and Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 7.

TN - HB41 Handgun Permits - As enacted, requires that the following language be printed on the back of handgun carry permit cards: This permit is valid beyond the expiration date if the permit holder can provide documentation of the holder's active military status and duty station outside Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

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

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

TN - HB681 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, revises the Volunteer Public Education Trust Fund Act of 1985; designates the commissioner of education and state treasurer as trustees of the fund. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 4.

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

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

TN - HB608 Courts - As introduced, adds an additional trial court in the 23rd judicial district comprised of Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, and Stewart counties effective September 1, 2019, with the additional judge or chancellor to be appointed by the governor; authorizes the voters of the 23rd judicial district to elect the additional judge or chancellor at the August 2020 general election to serve until September 1, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 17 and Title 18.

TN - HB345 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, extends the hours during which a manufacturer may sell its product at retail on Sunday on its licensed premises from 12:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m.; deletes repeal provision, thereby clarifying that a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages may, on and after July 1, 2019, continue to have a direct or indirect interest in an establishment with a license authorizing consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises if the interest is held in an irrevocable trust. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-202 and Section 57-4-110.

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

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

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

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

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

TN - HB62 Disabled Persons - As enacted, enacts the "Dynamic Accessibility Act," which provides for a modern symbol of access for disabled persons. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 12; Title 55 and Title 68.

TN - HJR231 Memorials, Death - Sam Powell

TN - HJR118 Memorials, Recognition - Kathy Moore, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HB716 DUI Offenses - As introduced, creates per se DUI offense of driving while the person's blood includes any amount of Schedule I controlled substance or Schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance that cannot be dispensed without a prescription when the person does not have a valid prescription; enhances criminal penalties for impaired driving within a school zone. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

TN - HB999 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the bluetick coonhound as the official state dog. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB551 Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) - As enacted, enacts the "Facilitating Business Rapid Response to State Declared Disaster Act." - Amends TCA Title 58; Title 62; Title 67 and Title 68.

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

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

TN - HB1192 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the department of education and public schools to commemorate the centennial of women's suffrage and recognize the Tennesseans who were instrumental in securing all women the right to vote for the purpose of educating students about the ratification of the nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution on August 18, 1920, and to educate students on the state of Tennessee's fundamental role in guaranteeing all women the right to vote. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1028.

TN - HB1257 Courts - As introduced, requires that appointments to the offices of senior judge, chancellor, circuit court judge, criminal court judge, or judge of any other trial court of record, district attorney general, and district public defender be confirmed by general assembly before appointees take office. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17 and Title 38, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1265 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, requires the department of economic and community development to execute a separate agreement in conjunction with any capital grant contract awarded pursuant to provisions governing the state building commission for economic development purposes; deletes certain provisions regarding tax credits. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 67.

TN - HB288 Adoption - As enacted, allows for the modification and enforcement of a contract for post-adoption contact between certain parties. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1.

TN - HJR223 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

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

TN - HR57 General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Juvenile Procedure as promulgated by the Supreme Court.

TN - HB917 Child Abuse - As enacted, creates the Class A misdemeanor and Class E felony offenses of withdrawing, transferring, or altering a child's school enrollment with intent to hinder an active child abuse or child neglect investigation. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB1047 Courts - As enacted, makes various changes to zero to three courts, including adding five additional safe baby courts and extending such courts to January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 36; Title 37 and Chapter 366 of the Public Acts of 2017.

TN - HB167 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a mandatory 30-day sentence for theft of a firearm; revises penalty for offense of failure to appear; revises other various provisions of criminal law. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB1187 Veterans - As enacted, eliminates the fee for interment of an eligible veteran's most recent spouse in a state veterans' cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

TN - HB921 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires a maximum caseload of 20 for case managers; creates a maximum caseload of 10 for foster care case managers; requires the department to comply with the maximum caseload ratios. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - HB407 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, prohibits a sexual offender from conducting overnight visit at a residence in which a minor resides or is present, in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39.

TN - HB249 Elder Abuse - As enacted, creates the elder abuse task force. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 71 and Chapter 961 of the Public Acts of 2014.

TN - HB951 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, exempts from licensure requirements person providing direct care services to no more than three people receiving services through consumer direction in a medicaid home- and community-based services program. - Amends TCA Section 33-2-402 and Section 33-2-403.

TN - HR20 Memorials, Recognition - President Ronald Reagan

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

TN - HB932 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, clarifies the priority an employer, person, corporation, or institution must give to all orders of income assignment against an individual for child, medical, or spousal support; removes references to the Tennessee Judicial Council, which terminated June 30, 2009. - Amends TCA Section 36-5-406 and Section 36-5-501(j)(2)(A).

TN - HB1318 Law Enforcement - As enacted, authorizes the chief law enforcement officer of a state or local law enforcement agency to establish policies regarding off-duty use of law enforcement vehicles to provide an enhanced security presence at vulnerable locations, which include places of worship, schools, and parks. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 3.

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

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

TN - HB943 Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, reinstates service credits and salary increases that were suspended during 2009-2010 for assistant public defenders and assistant district attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 7, Part 2.

TN - HB192 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, confers civil immunity on a local government for any defect or malfunction in a software program intended to assist families of non-communicative persons register with law enforcement if designed and distributed in good faith by the local government and without cost; provides exception to immunity for claims based on gross negligence, willful misconduct, or bad faith. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86; Title 9; Title 36 and Title 38.

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

TN - HB942 Controlled Substances - As enacted, increases the penalty to a Class B felony for 15 grams or more or a Class A felony for 150 grams or more of fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or any fentanyl derivative or analogue. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB946 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA to report to the department of education, for each year that the LEA receives an increase in state funding for instructional wages and salaries, how the increase was utilized by the LEA; requires the department of education to report the information to the BEP review committee; requires the BEP review committee to include the information in its annual report on the BEP. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-306.

TN - HB867 Child Abuse - As enacted, requires that the district attorney for the judicial district in which a child was located, in addition to the appropriate legislative members, be given a copy of the report of the fatality or near fatality of: a child in the custody of the department; a child who is the subject of an investigation by the department; or a child whose fatality or near fatality resulted in an investigation into the safety of another child in the home; authorizes district attorney to communicate with the appropriate legislators about the report and its contents or about any other otherwise confidential information that legislators may have acquired. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB642 Public Defenders - As enacted, creates the district public defender appellate division, including authorization for six appellate attorney positions. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14.

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

TN - HJR319 Memorials, Recognition - Governor Frank G. Clement

TN - HB761 DUI Offenses - As enacted, revises provisions governing blood and breath tests for determining the presence of drugs and alcohol. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 40, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

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

TN - HB531 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, makes permanent the provision that is set to expire July 1, 2019, allowing counties to provide 2 percent matching funds for state-aid highway funds rather than 25 percent. - Amends TCA Section 54-4-404.

TN - HB634 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends to "water" the sales tax exemption that applies to the sale to a qualified farmer or nurseryman of electricity, natural gas and liquefied gas, including, but not limited to, propane and butane used directly in the production of food or fiber for human or animal consumption or to aid in the growing of a horticultural product for sale. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1400 District Attorneys - As introduced, creates 11 additional assistant district attorney general positions, 10 additional secretarial positions, four additional victim-witness coordinator positions, and five additional criminal investigator positions to be designated in judicial districts as provided in a report prepared by the district attorneys general conference. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB674 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, revises various provisions related to stepparent visitation. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - HB838 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, adds conviction of a new sexual offense, violent sexual offense, or violent juvenile sexual offense as violation of the Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act of 2004. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39.

TN - HJR385 Memorials, Recognition - Jaynee K. Day and Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee

TN - HB1340 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Leigh Ann Act," which creates a Class A misdemeanor of violating a no contact order issued to a domestic violence victim as part of a disposition in any criminal court. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-113.

TN - HJR205 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lynne "Michelle" Bowman, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - HJR382 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Marjorie Jean Yaeger, 90th birthday

TN - HJR392 Memorials, Interns - Shahil Patel

TN - HJR391 Memorials, Interns - Cayce Daniel

TN - HB966 Death - As enacted, authorizes the development and use of a commemorative certificate of nonviable birth. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB934 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, makes various changes to the state's special education laws; transfers, from the state board of education to the department of education, control over the state's special schools. - Amends TCA Section 4-5-322; Title 49, Chapter 10 and Title 49, Chapter 50.

TN - HB1526 Dickson County - Subject to local approval, changes the county highway engineer position from elected to appointed and changes the county highway engineer's duties to only be the duties as provided in Tennessee County Uniform Highway Law. - Amends amend Chapter 38 of the Private Acts of 2018.

TN - HB909 Elder Abuse - As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - HB516 Domestic Violence - As enacted, imposes a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $2,500 for a violation of an order of protection. - Amends TCA Title 39.

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

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

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

TN - HB228 Public Health - As enacted, rewrites provisions governing limited pilot project for certification of a training program offered by an EMT/AEMT training center; creates limited pilot project for purpose of determining the impact of such training centers. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - HB1139 Governor - As enacted, establishes a governor's office of faith-based and community initiatives. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB97 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, limits the places in which one may use vapor products. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 16.

TN - HB947 Education - As enacted, requires, instead of authorizes, the Tennessee school safety center to establish school safety grants to assist LEAs in funding programs that address school safety; revises other various provisions regarding school safety grants. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-1004 and Section 49-6-4302.

TN - HR73 Memorials, Death - George Klein

TN - HJR412 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Cookie Hopper, Miss Anderson County 2019

TN - HJR411 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Lily Steed, Miss Oak Ridge 2019

TN - HJR409 Memorials, Recognition - Blount County Public Library, 100th anniversary

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

TN - HB304 Licenses - As enacted, revises provisions governing expedited issuance of certain professional licenses for certain armed forces members and their spouses to instead exempt such persons from licensure in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB1239 Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits governmental entities from contracting with a person who does not provide evidence of work authorization status for each individual to whom public money will be received under a public contract; requires private employers with at least six employees and governmental entities to verify the work authorization status of employees hired on or after January 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12 and Title 50.

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

TN - HB754 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for the transfer of a firearm to a person knowing that the person: has been judicially committed to a mental institution or adjudicated as a mental defective unless the person's right to possess firearms has been restored; or is receiving inpatient mental health or substance abuse treatment at a hospital or treatment resource. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB193 Expunction - As enacted, permits an eligible petitioner to have multiple, nonviolent convictions for offenses that resulted from the petitioner's status as a victim of human trafficking expunged if the expunction is in the best interest of justice and public safety and other requirements met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB705 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, adds the sale or distribution of a substance containing fentanyl, carfentanil, or any opiate with the intent and premeditation to commit murder as an aggravating circumstance for the imposition of the death penalty or imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole. - Amends TCA Title 39.

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

TN - HB1271 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, extends the exemption from sales and use tax on trailers used to transport livestock when such trailer is sold to a qualified farmer or nurseryman to also exempt such sales of trailers used to transport farm products, nursery stock, or equipment, supplies or products used in agriculture, or for other agricultural purposes relating to the operation and maintenance of a farm. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - HR77 Memorials, Recognition - Suzanne French

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Representative Ron Lollar

TN - HB1280 TennCare - As enacted, directs the governor, through the commissioner of finance and administration, to submit a waiver amendment to the centers for medicare and medicaid services to provide TennCare II funding by means of a block grant indexed for inflation and population growth. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71.

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

TN - HB1319 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, revises the provisions for judicial diversion for juvenile offenders under certain circumstances; clarifies offenses for which a juvenile offender may be committed to the department of children's services; authorizes probation for juvenile traffic offenders; clarifies various other provisions related to juvenile court proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB1320 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, clarifies that a child must have been "adjudicated delinquent" of specified offenses in order for the requirements that a child's school receive notification and that parents, guardians, and legal custodians notify a school principal, or a principal's designee. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-131(a)(2)(B) and Section 49-6-3051(b).

TN - HB1498 Mental Illness - As enacted, revises provisions concerning judicial commitment of certain persons in the custody of the department of correction. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB1315 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the department to seek a federal grant from the federal department of health and human services' health resources and services administration, or any other applicable entity, to develop a training program for certified nurse practitioners in treating and processing a minor who is a victim of certain sexual offenses; requires the training program to be free of charge for participants. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1354 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires each state institution of higher education to do the following: develop and implement a suicide prevention plan for students, faculty, and staff; and provide the plan to students, faculty, and staff at least once each semester. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR133 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges federal government to address internet safety.

TN - HR106 Memorials, Death - Sergeant Major John Wayne Oliphant, Sr.

TN - HJR438 Memorials, Recognition - Shannon McCloud

TN - HB839 Driver Licenses - As enacted, revises provisions governing payment plans for fines and costs and license suspension for failure to comply with plan. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 24, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 5.

TN - HJR513 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly C. Robertson

TN - HJR515 Memorials, Death - Gladys Margaret Endsley McKinsey

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Deborah Means Henderson

TN - HB944 Education - As enacted, establishes the Governor's Civics Seal to recognize public schools and local education agencies implementing high-quality civic education programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - HJR394 General Assembly, Studies - Urges governor to form an education task force to evaluate state testing, curriculum, and other mandated academic policies and procedures.

TN - HJR521 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Carma Dennis McGee, Tennessee Court of Appeals

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Khyiah K. Riviears

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

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

TN - HJR583 Memorials, Sports - Hunter Sturgill

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

TN - HB565 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, revises various provisions governing statutes of limitations for civil actions and criminal prosecutions for cases involving abuse against child; revises penalty for failure to report abuse. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 37 and Title 40.

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

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

TN - HB494 Taxes, Privilege - As enacted, eliminates the special privilege tax on ammunition. - Amends TCA Section 8-8-201 and Title 70, Chapter 3.

TN - HB37 Public Health - As enacted, creates the state Alzheimer's disease and related dementia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 14 and Title 71.

TN - HB786 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, makes various changes to law concerning pharmacy benefits managers. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

TN - HJR132 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for a teacher's bill of rights.

TN - HJR608 Memorials, Retirement - Vanessa M. Horner

TN - HB714 Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of safety to issue farm-related service industry employee restricted commercial driver licenses to persons who meet certain qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 55.

TN - HJR631 Memorials, Recognition - Shelby County, Bicentennial

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

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

TN - HJR644 Memorials, Retirement - Helen Ford

TN - HJR636 Memorials, Retirement - State Trooper Joe Wynne

TN - HB866 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, expands career and technical education programs to middle school grades; requires the board of career and technical education to plan facilities for comprehensive career and technical training for middle school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB605 Taxes - As enacted, specifies, for purposes of sales and use taxes, that "tangible personal property" does not include fiber-optic cable after it has become attached to a utility pole, building, or other structure or installed underground; deems such fiber-optic cable to be realty upon installation; deletes the excise tax credit for qualified broadband internet access equipment. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB91 Education - As enacted, authorizes LEAs that receive pre-kindergarten program approval to utilize a comparable alternative measure of student growth approved by the state board of education and adopted by the LEA, rather than the pre-k/kindergarten growth portfolio model approved by the state board of education in the evaluation of pre-kindergarten and kindergarten teachers; creates portfolio review committee. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB632 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the state board of education to award a teacher five additional professional development points if the teacher's overall evaluation demonstrates an overall performance effectiveness level of "above expectations" or "significantly above expectations" and the evaluation is based on the teacher's performance while employed at a school that is on the priority list or the focus list. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR708 Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee Volunteers football team

TN - HJR734 Memorials, Sports - Tennessee Titans

TN - HJR741 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Affirms the constitutional duty and exclusive authority and power of the General Assembly to appropriate public moneys and balance the state budget.

TN - HJR769 Memorials, Recognition - Second Amendment rally in Richmond, Virginia

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

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

TN - HB6543 Animal Control - As introduced, requires an animal owner's relative to retrieve the animal from an animal control agency within seven days of the owner's death; permits the animal control agency to treat the animal as an abandoned animal if the relative has not retrieved the animal within seven days. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 63, Chapter 12 and Title 68.

TN - HB2586 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates "Women's Suffrage Day" as a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2587 Health Care - As introduced, urges department of health to develop a standardized perinatal health curriculum for training community health workers in the provision of education to women of childbearing age that includes information concerning neonatal abstinence syndrome. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2588 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires that the parent educational seminar include at least one 30-minute video on adverse childhood experiences created by the department of children's services in conjunction with the commission on children and youth or as part of the Building Strong Brains Tennessee public awareness campaign; adds to that the requirement of attendance by parents at the parent educational seminar may be waived upon motion by either party and the agreement of the court upon the showing of good cause. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6.

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

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

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

TN - HB2589 Purchasing and Procurement - As introduced, increases from $10,000 or more to $25,000 or more, the amount for which a local board of education or the governing body of a public charter school must make purchases or expenditures by competitive bids; requires the amount to be increased each fiscal year, beginning with the 2021-2022 fiscal year, by the greater of 2 percent or the rate of inflation. - Amends TCA Section 12-3-1212; Section 49-13-111 and Section 49-2-203.

TN - HB2590 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, allows an elected official of any county or municipality in the actual discharge of official duties who has a valid handgun carry permit to carry inside a building in which judicial proceedings are in progress, but not in the room in which judicial proceedings are in progress; allows the county attorney in the actual discharge of official duties who has a valid handgun carry permit to carry inside a building in which judicial proceedings are in progress, but not in the room in which judicial proceedings are in progress. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2543 Animal Control - As introduced, requires an animal owner's relative to retrieve the animal from an animal control agency within seven days of the owner's death; permits the animal control agency to treat the animal as an abandoned animal if the relative has not retrieved the animal within seven days. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 63, Chapter 12 and Title 68.

TN - HB2660 Civil Procedure - As introduced, provides that a person who uses justifiable force against another may request a stay of proceedings in any civil action based on the use of force until the criminal investigation has concluded; creates an immunity hearing at which the court may dismiss an action that is barred by immunity. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB2661 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, permits a person to carry a handgun in a concealed manner; permits a person carrying a handgun in a concealed manner to carry in parks, higher education campuses, and areas posted by local governments in the same manner permitted by handgun carry permit holders. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Section 33-6-413; Section 38-8-116; Title 39; Section 50-1-312; Title 70, Chapter 4, Part 1 and Section 70-5-101.

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

TN - HJR818 Memorials, Recognition - Harriet Tubman Day

TN - HJR789 Memorials, Recognition - Stillbirth Awareness and Remembrance Day, October 12, 2020

TN - HB2778 State Government - As introduced, designates the Holy Bible as the official state book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - HR221 Memorials, Recognition - West Highland Rim Forestry Association, 2019 County Forestry Association of the Year

TN - HB2263 Abortion - As enacted, creates the Class C felony of performing or inducing, or attempting to perform or induce, an abortion upon a pregnant woman whose unborn child has a fetal heartbeat; creates other criminal offenses related to the performance of an abortion; requires that certain information regarding reversing chemical abortions be provided; revises and enacts other abortion-related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 37-10-304 and Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2.

TN - HB1933 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, requires training curriculum for 911 operators and public safety dispatchers to include guidelines for T-CPR; provides immunity from civil liability for emergency communication districts, the state, counties, and municipalities for employees who provide assistance or instruction on T-CPR to a caller or bystander on an emergency call. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 68.

TN - HB1805 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts the "Spencer Bristol Act," which increases the penalty for evading arrest that results in the serious bodily injury of a law enforcement officer to a Class C felony and evading arrest that results in the death of a law enforcement officer to a Class A felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 6.

TN - HB2708 Employees, Employers - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Pregnant Workers Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - HB2174 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts tangible personal property from the sales and use tax when sold by a charitable organization for fundraising purposes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HJR871 Memorials, Recognition - Nashville State Community College, 50th anniversary

TN - HB2461 Child Abuse - As enacted, creates a procedure for school teachers, school officials, and other school personnel to follow in regard to reporting suspected child abuse or child sexual abuse. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2243 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, revises the provisions governing the department's mandatory child care agency report card system and its separate and voluntary child care agency rated licensing system and implements a quality assessment and rating system for the purpose of evaluating licensed and approved child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 3.

TN - HB787 Veterans Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to provide training in suicide prevention to the employees of the department who directly interact with veterans. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 3.

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

TN - HB2293 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the offense of mail theft, which is intentionally obtaining mail from another person's mailbox or premises without the consent of the addressee and with the intent to deprive the addressee of the mail. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14.

TN - HB2328 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts "Eli's Law," which establishes procedures for placing newborns in the department's custody if the parent has a dependent or neglected child currently in the department's custody. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

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

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

TN - HB2817 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, extends from 30 days to 45 days the time within which the issuing judge is required to report to the attorney general following the expiration, extension, or denial of an order authorizing a wire, oral, or electronic interception. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 33; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 70 and Title 71.

TN - HJR748 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Reaffirms that Tennessee is a sanctuary for the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms.

TN - HB2676 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax; establishes requirements for payment of annual professional registration fee for nonresidents engaged in certain professions. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 19; Title 23; Title 48, Chapter 1; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 67.

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

TN - HJR885 Memorials, Recognition - President Donald J. Trump

TN - HB2162 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits a health benefit plan that provides coverage for advanced metastatic cancer and associated conditions from requiring an enrollee to have failed to successfully respond to a different drug or prove a history of failure to a different drug as a prerequisite to the plan providing coverage of a prescription drug approved by the United States food and drug administration. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

TN - HB1951 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, requires state agencies to hold rulemaking hearings when promulgating proposed administrative rules that may affect a person's rights. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5, Part 2.

TN - HB2171 Victims' Rights - As introduced, prohibits requiring an advocate to disclose certain information in regard to a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking in a judicial, legislative, or administrative proceeding unless the victim gives express written consent. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 36 and Title 39.

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

TN - HB2914 Dickson County - Subject to local approval, specifies that the General Sessions Court Clerk must serve as the Clerk of the Juvenile Court of Dickson County rather than the County Clerk. - Amends Chapter 267 of the Private Acts of 1982; as amended.

TN - HB1975 Education, State Board of - As enacted, adds offenses to the list of offenses for which, upon conviction, the state board of education automatically revokes a teacher's or administrator's license. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-417.

TN - HB2223 Food and Food Products - As enacted, corrects a cross-reference in regard to the standards that apply to certain donations of food; changes the level of carelessness that gives rise to liability for damage caused by certain food donors from negligence to gross negligence; makes other changes concerning food donations. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1988 District Attorneys - As introduced, authorizes prior service credits as a criminal investigator for law enforcement to creditable service calculation for persons employed as assistant district attorneys general. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2308 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, enacts the "Holly Bobo Act," which expands the bureau's endangered child and young adult alert program to include endangered persons under 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HJR812 Naming and Designating - "Child Abuse Prevention Month," April 2020

TN - HB2221 Sentencing - As introduced, prohibits an offender who has been convicted of a sexual offense from being eligible for a community-based alternative to incarceration. - Amends TCA Section 40-36-106.

TN - HJR974 Memorials, Death - Victor Thompson

TN - HB2258 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, specifies that theft of property is a Class E felony if the property obtained is a firearm worth less than $2,500. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-105.

TN - HJR1000 Memorials, Recognition - Sonia Hughes

TN - HB2772 Clerks, Court - As enacted, clarifies the requirements for a clerk of court to assess a fee for electronic filing, including authorization by local rule and compliance with technological standards promulgated by the supreme court. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 4.

TN - HB2505 Public Health - As enacted, creates the Tennessee rare disease advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1596 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Accessible Transportation and Mobility Act of 2020." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 23; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HJR1032 Memorials, Death - Sergeant Ronnie Henson

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

TN - HB1175 TennCare - As enacted, requires the bureau of TennCare to reimburse an ambulance service provider that provides a covered service to a TennCare recipient at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers; requires the bureau to seek an intergovernmental transfer of funds for the sole purpose of increasing the rate of reimbursement to ambulance service providers that provide covered services to TennCare recipients at a rate greater than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1604 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain persons. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HB2841 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or the director's designee, to report truant student absences to the appropriate judge if any tier of a progressive truancy intervention plan is unsuccessful, and before subsequent tiers are implemented, if the school can document that the student's parent or guardian is unwilling to cooperate in the truancy intervention plan. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

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

TN - HJR1053 Memorials, Retirement - Lloyd Hansen

TN - HB2769 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds the offense of trafficking a person for a commercial sex act to the meaning of predatory offenses for purposes of sentencing a person as a child sexual predator. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

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

TN - HB2770 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, makes a defendant charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child ineligible for judicial diversion. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-313.

TN - HB2620 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, raises the permissible fine for aggravated assault to no more than $15,000, in addition to any authorized term of imprisonment. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1278 Election Laws - As enacted, provides that if an incumbent member of the general assembly who has filed a petition for reelection is disqualified by the political party executive committee, then the incumbent member of the general assembly may file a new petition for the same office as a candidate for another political party or as an independent candidate. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 10.

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

TN - HJR1200 Memorials, Death - Johnny Majors

TN - HB2414 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, extends the exemption from licensure to hunt and fish on farmlands owned by a spouse, parent, or grandparent, to include spouses of children of landowners. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - HB1890 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, prohibits a pharmacy benefit manager and certain other third parties from taking certain actions against entities and pharmacies participating in the federal 340B drug discount program; creates a private cause of action against violators. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB1578 Local Government, General - As introduced, requires this state to refuse to consent to receive any refugees for purposes of resettlement; requires each local government within this state to refuse to consent to receive any refugees for purposes of resettlement unless resettlement within its jurisdiction is approved by a certain process. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.

TN - HR338 Memorials, Recognition - Veterans Awareness Day, March 26, 2020

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

TN - HB2568 Abortion - As introduced, requires any facility in which more than 50 abortions were performed during the previous calendar year to post a sign informing patients that a chemical abortion may be reversed following the first dose of a two-dose treatment; requires a patient to receive similar notice prior to and after having the first dose of a chemical abortion; provides criminal penalties and civil actions for any violation of the act. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1946 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, allows members of the United States armed forces and honorably discharged veterans who receive certified occupational training as a member of the United States armed forces to receive equivalent credit toward an occupational license relating to the training received. - Amends TCA Title 58; Title 62 and Title 63.

TN - HB38 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the period for which public notice must be given in advance of an LEA's acceptance of bids for contracts for the construction of a school building, or an addition to an existing school building, the cost of which exceeds $10,000. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2383 Public Records - As enacted, permits a political subdivision to release the name or photograph of a minor victim of a criminal offense for the purpose of memorializing the victim in a memorial garden, if the custodial parent or legal guardian of the victim has consented to the release. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2615 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, expands the unruly act of illegal use of a communication device by a minor to include possessing or transmitting an image of sexual activity involving a minor. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 10.

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

TN - HB2601 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires public institutions of higher education to provide each student with a detailed and completed current-year federal college financing plan; imposes other requirements for such institutions to provide certain information when a student is finalizing acceptance of a financial aid package. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2693 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, confers civil immunity upon a teacher, principal, school employee, or school bus driver properly using reasonable force to correct or restrain a student or prevent bodily harm or death to another person. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 41.

TN - HB2623 Civil Procedure - As introduced, changes, from not less than five days to not less than seven days before a hearing, the time the opposing party has to file a response to a petition under the Tennessee Public Participation Act. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 20; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 47 and Title 49.

TN - HJR1209 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Requires the Secretary of State to include a section on the Bible in Tennessee in the Tennessee Blue Book.

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

TN - HB1577 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a magistrate imposing global positioning monitoring on a defendant as a condition for bail for an offense involving domestic violence to inform the victim of how to obtain a copy of the defendant's conditions of bail including any geographic restrictions. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - HR343 Memorials, Congratulations - Congratulates the House of Representatives for recognizing the need to amend the Constitution of this State to ensure that each bill passed by a house of the General Assembly is voted upon by both houses prior to adjournment.

TN - HR354 Memorials, Recognition - Crossroads: Change in Rural America exhibition

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

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

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

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

TN - HB2867 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, defines physician to mean a person licensed in this state and in good standing, for purposes of requiring an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is deaf or hard of hearing and who seeks to request a designation in the VTRS database by application coupled with a physician's statement. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2113 Handgun Permits - As introduced, requires the acceptance of enhanced handgun carry permits and concealed handgun carry permits as valid forms of government-issued photo identification the same as a driver license for purposes of access to goods, services, and facilities. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HR363 Memorials, Public Service - Members of the Tennessee Highway Patrol and Tennessee National Guard who protect the State Capitol.

TN - HR365 Memorials, Government Officials - Honors Secretary of State Tre Hargett

TN - HB1387 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, requires out-of-state sellers with more than $100,000 in sales or more than 200 separate sales in this state during previous 12-month period to collect and remit sales tax to department of revenue rather than having in-state consumers remit the use tax for purchases made from such dealers. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 67; Chapter 72 of the Public Acts of 2011; Chapter 193 of the Public Acts of 2017; Chapter 273 of the Public Acts of 2015; Chapter 452 of the Public Acts of 2017; Chapter 480 of the Public Acts of 2013; Chapter 530 of the Public Acts of 2009 and Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007.