Tennessee Rep. Matthew Hill (R)

TN - Calendar and Rules (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Finance, Ways and Means (House)

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member

TN - Local Government (House)

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chair

TN - Local Government Subcommittee (House)

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chair

TN - HB886 State Employees - As introduced, changes the maximum period that a preferred service employee may be required to perform a majority of the duties of a job that is in a higher classification without the commissioner's approval from 90 to 100 days. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30.

TN - HB526 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, permits bona fide Tennessee residents who attend certain non-SACS accredited out-of-state boarding schools to qualify for Tennessee HOPE scholarships. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HJR310 Memorials, Recognition - Julia Loyd, Jonesborough Genealogical Society Hall of Fame

TN - HB557 Local Government, General - As introduced, enacts the "Safe Schools Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 49.

TN - HB1923 Driver Licenses - As introduced, under certain conditions, requires persons convicted of DUI offenses to be issued restricted driver licenses that restrict them from purchasing alcoholic beverages for certain periods of time following the conviction. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 55, Chapter 10; Title 55, Chapter 50 and Title 57.

TN - HB1747 Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, requires "sexual offender" to be displayed in red three times on the face of any driver license or identification card issued by the department of safety to a registered sexual offender. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

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

TN - HJR367 Memorials, Death - Hubert Clyde Hill

TN - HJR774 Memorials, Recognition - Alaina Wood, Governor's Volunteer Star of the Year.

TN - HB644 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, redefines "cost of doing business by the retailer" from 8 percent of basic costs of cigarettes to retailer to 15 percent of basic costs of cigarettes to retailer. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 25, Part 3.

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

TN - HB204 Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, revises continuing education requirement in the practice under written protocol provision to specify that the continuing education be approved by the American or Tennessee Dental Hygienists Association. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB2223 Civil Procedure - As enacted, permits courts and not just chancellors to reopen bidding on judicial sales; clarifies that a court clerk is empowered to take certain actions regarding the acceptance of an advance bid and the reopening of bidding at no additional fee, commission or cost, but the clerk is not to take those actions if a court order specifically prohibits the acceptance of an advance bid. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1220 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, requires evidence other than absence from residence to support disciplinary action based on abuse of sick leave for law enforcement and fire department employees; prohibits home visits by government employers for purpose of determining whether sick employee is home. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 50.

TN - HB687 Special License Plates - As enacted, decreases the minimum order requirement for renewal of any cultural or new specialty earmarked license plate and any collegiate plates for four-year colleges or universities located outside Tennessee from 1,000 to 800. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HJR733 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Gayle Hughes, Johnson City Schools High School Teacher of the Year.

TN - HR138 Memorials, Interns - Shelby Rogers

TN - HB2224 County Officers - As introduced, permits constables to post and mail detainer summonses in addition to sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. - Amends TCA Section 29-18-115.

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Recognition - Trevor Shropshire, U.S. Naval Academy

TN - HR137 Memorials, Interns - Garrett Cote

TN - HJR735 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Penny Reece-Wrigley, Johnson City Elementary School Teacher of the Year.

TN - HJR662 Memorials, Death - Catherine Hulse.

TN - HB963 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts diabetic testing supplies from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HJR307 Memorials, Recognition - Jones Caldwell Hine, WWII veteran

TN - HJR28 Memorials, Death - Joseph W. Corso

TN - HB688 County Officers - As introduced, permits constables to post and mail detainer summonses in addition to sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. - Amends TCA Section 29-18-115.

TN - HJR309 Memorials, Recognition - Margaret S. Holley, Jonesborough Genealogical Society Hall of Fame

TN - HJR569 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Austin Lee Gardner, Eagle Scout.

TN - HJR568 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Ian Nathaniel Wilson, Eagle Scout.

TN - HJR566 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Eric John Yother, Eagle Scout.

TN - HJR570 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Ronald Curtis Zimmern, Jr. , Eagle Scout.

TN - HJR696 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Sheldon Kappel, eagle scout.

TN - HJR308 Memorials, Heroism - John Edward Cole, WWII veteran

TN - HR50 Memorials, Death - Janet Wirth Pickler

TN - HJR734 Memorials, Professional Achievement - David Ollis, Middle School Teacher of the Year Johnson City Schools.

TN - HB2481 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits the department from requiring any LEA to record by audio or visual means any student or teacher in the classroom. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR901 Memorials, Sports - Calvin C. "Bud" Willis.

TN - HJR29 Memorials, Death - John W. McKinney, Jr.

TN - HB922 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, establishes tax relief program for victims of natural disasters in Tennessee occurring between August 4, 2012, and August 6, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HJR567 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Paul Marcus Arrowood, Eagle Scout.

TN - HJR565 Memorials, Academic Achievement - David Crockett High School.

TN - HB1105 Education - As introduced, authorizes the department of education to create a pilot project to explore methods of providing comprehensive school safety and mental health services through LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HB2161 Fiscal Review Committee - As introduced, requires committee to review contracts that result in layoffs of state employees; requires committee as part of reviewing proposed contracts to consider whether existing state employees can perform the tasks in such proposed contracts. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 7.

TN - HB931 Public Defenders - As introduced, creates 31 additional district public defender positions with the executive director of the district public defenders conference filing a report with each speaker recommending in which districts the additional positions will be employed. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14, Part 2.

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

TN - HB222 Schools, Home - As enacted, allows home school students to participate in extracurricular athletics if certain standards met. - Amends TCA Section 49-50-801 and Title 49, 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 - HB2409 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, provides, effective September 1, 2014, that only those persons who want to carry a handgun concealed are required to have a handgun permit, and permits conversion of handgun carry permit upon its expiration to a concealed carry permit by regular renewal process. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 70.

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

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

TN - 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 - 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 - HB1485 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain specified persons, and provides for the placement of other certain signage. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HB1916 Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes the county election commissions in counties that share a municipality to designate, by agreement, a polling place and early voting location within the limits of the municipality and within 500 feet of the country boundary line; authorizes voters residing within the limits of a municipality that is located within two counties to vote at the location established by such agreement. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - HB1248 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires persons applying for a free memorial registration plate as a military medal recipient to provide the department a DD214 form and a copy of the orders awarding the medal. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-236.

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 - 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 - HB314 Traffic Safety - As introduced, prohibits the use of unmanned traffic enforcement cameras in certain areas of Bluff City. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1043 Controlled Substances - As enacted, redefines "imitation controlled substance" for purposes of the offense of knowingly manufacturing, delivering, selling, or possessing with the intent to sell, deliver or manufacture an imitation controlled substance. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB2086 Unknown

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

TN - HB331 Controlled Substances - As introduced, reduces from 45 to 30 days the time a clerk has to forward to TBI the judgment and date of birth of a person convicted of a methampheamine offense and authorizes a $15.00 fee to the clerk for forwarding the judgment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 4 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

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

TN - HB1661 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a person convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine to serve at least 180 days in confinement and a person convicted of possession of methamphetamine to serve at least 30 days in confinement; specifies that the minimum mandatory sentences will not prohibit persons who are convicted of methamphetamine offenses from participating in a drug or recovery court and receiving sentence credit for up to the full amount of the mandatory minimum sentence. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB1134 Taxes, Privilege - As enacted, removes NBA and NHL players from being subject to the occupational privilege tax; removal of NBA players from being subject to tax to take effect June 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HB2410 Election Laws - As enacted, prohibits a representative of the United Nations from monitoring elections in this state if the representative appears without a treaty ratified by the United States senate stating that the UN can monitor elections in this state. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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

TN - HB2325 County Officers - As introduced, requires candidates for the office of constable in Washington County to have at least one year of law enforcement experience and be certified by a licensed health care provider as being free from any disorder that would impair the candidate's ability to perform any essential function of the job. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - HB1129 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, establishes requirements for curriculum regarding certain American documents; revises provisions regarding curriculum for educating students about government; revises other related provisions; requires report by state board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1547 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

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

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

TN - HB1647 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, enacts the "County Bridge Relief Act of 2014" for fiscal years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016; authorizes counties to use an unexpended balance of state-aid bridge grant funds to pay the local share of project costs required by present law. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 11, Part 2 and Title 54, Chapter 4.

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 - HB1927 Handgun Permits - As introduced, provides that any person honorably discharged from any branch of the United States armed forces, who is on active duty in any branch of the armed forces or who is currently serving in the national guard or armed forces reserve who makes initial application for a handgun carry permit only has to pay that portion of the initial application fee that is necessary to conduct the required criminal history record checks. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB145 Securities - As enacted, exempts certain unsolicited transactions from certain requirements of securities law. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 1, 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 - 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 - HB394 Local Government, General - As enacted, revises the Community Gardening Act to remove the process for a permit from the commissioner of agriculture for using vacant public land for gardening and makes various revisions to the Act regarding community gardens and local regulation of such gardens. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 43; Title 49; Title 67 and Title 71.

TN - HB192 Taxes, Income - As enacted, increases the annual income a person at least 65 years of age may earn and still be exempt from the Hall income tax from $26,200 to $33,000 for single filers and from $37,000 to $59,000 for persons filing jointly. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2, Part 1.

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

TN - HR3 Unknown

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

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

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

TN - HR13 Memorials, Recognition - Niki Brown

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

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

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

TN - HR4 Unknown

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

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

TN - HR120 Memorials, Interns - Alexis Darvin

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

TN - HR205 Memorials, Interns - Michael Patrick Olson.

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

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

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

TN - HR1 Unknown

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

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

TN - HR83 Memorials, Interns - Alex Uhlmann

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

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

TN - HR57 Memorials, Death - Angela Jones

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

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

TN - HR23 Memorials, Death - Harry Eleas

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

TN - HR5 Unknown

TN - HR82 Memorials, Death - Harry Eleas

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 - 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 - HJR347 Memorials, Congratulations - Principal Teresa Leonard, Boones Creek Elementary, Value Added Achievement Award

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 - HJR298 Memorials, Recognition - Jonah and Emory Marlin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR49 Memorials, Death - James "Buddy" King

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HJR58 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Clayton Stout, Tennessee fish and wildlife commission.

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

TN - SB2498 Election Laws - As enacted, prohibits a representative of the United Nations from monitoring elections in this state if the representative appears without a treaty ratified by the United States senate stating that the UN can monitor elections in this state. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - SB1169 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, establishes tax relief program for victims of natural disasters in Tennessee occurring between August 4, 2012, and August 6, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB1247 Taxes, Privilege - As enacted, removes NBA and NHL players from being subject to the occupational privilege tax; removal of NBA players from being subject to tax to take effect June 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - SB1260 Education - As introduced, authorizes the department of education to create a pilot project to explore methods of providing comprehensive school safety and mental health services through LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - 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 - SB2432 County Officers - As introduced, permits constables to post and mail detainer summonses in addition to sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. - Amends TCA Section 29-18-115.

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 - SB614 Controlled Substances - As enacted, redefines "imitation controlled substance" for purposes of the offense of knowingly manufacturing, delivering, selling, or possessing with the intent to sell, deliver or manufacture an imitation controlled substance. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

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

TN - SB871 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, permits bona fide Tennessee residents who attend certain non-SACS accredited out-of-state boarding schools to qualify for Tennessee HOPE scholarships. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB870 County Officers - As introduced, permits constables to post and mail detainer summonses in addition to sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. - Amends TCA Section 29-18-115.

TN - SB1793 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

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 - SB553 Controlled Substances - As introduced, reduces from 45 to 30 days the time a clerk has to forward to TBI the judgment and date of birth of a person convicted of a methampheamine offense and authorizes a $15.00 fee to the clerk for forwarding the judgment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 4 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

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 - SB681 Local Government, General - As introduced, enacts the "Safe Schools Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 49.

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 - SB680 Public Defenders - As introduced, creates 31 additional district public defender positions with the executive director of the district public defenders conference filing a report with each speaker recommending in which districts the additional positions will be employed. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14, Part 2.

TN - SB1679 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, enacts the "County Bridge Relief Act of 2014" for fiscal years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016; authorizes counties to use an unexpended balance of state-aid bridge grant funds to pay the local share of project costs required by present law. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 11, Part 2 and Title 54, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2092 Unknown

TN - SB2228 Civil Procedure - As enacted, permits courts and not just chancellors to reopen bidding on judicial sales; clarifies that a court clerk is empowered to take certain actions regarding the acceptance of an advance bid and the reopening of bidding at no additional fee, commission or cost, but the clerk is not to take those actions if a court order specifically prohibits the acceptance of an advance bid. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2229 Unknown

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

TN - SB240 Schools, Home - As enacted, allows home school students to participate in extracurricular athletics if certain standards met. - Amends TCA Section 49-50-801 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

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

TN - 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 - SB217 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts diabetic testing supplies from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

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

TN - SB1315 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, requires evidence other than absence from residence to support disciplinary action based on abuse of sick leave for law enforcement and fire department employees; prohibits home visits by government employers for purpose of determining whether sick employee is home. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 50.

TN - SB1901 Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes the county election commissions in counties that share a municipality to designate, by agreement, a polling place and early voting location within the limits of the municipality and within 500 feet of the country boundary line; authorizes voters residing within the limits of a municipality that is located within two counties to vote at the location established by such agreement. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB2582 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits the department from requiring any LEA to record by audio or visual means any student or teacher in the classroom. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2437 County Officers - As introduced, requires candidates for the office of constable in Washington County to have at least one year of law enforcement experience and be certified by a licensed health care provider as being free from any disorder that would impair the candidate's ability to perform any essential function of the job. - Amends TCA Title 8.

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

TN - SB259 Special License Plates - As enacted, decreases the minimum order requirement for renewal of any cultural or new specialty earmarked license plate and any collegiate plates for four-year colleges or universities located outside Tennessee from 1,000 to 800. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1261 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires persons applying for a free memorial registration plate as a military medal recipient to provide the department a DD214 form and a copy of the orders awarding the medal. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-236.

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

TN - 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 - SB788 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, redefines "cost of doing business by the retailer" from 8 percent of basic costs of cigarettes to retailer to 15 percent of basic costs of cigarettes to retailer. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 25, Part 3.

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 - 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 - SB198 Taxes, Income - As enacted, increases the annual income a person at least 65 years of age may earn and still be exempt from the Hall income tax from $26,200 to $33,000 for single filers and from $37,000 to $59,000 for persons filing jointly. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2, Part 1.

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 - SB1266 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, establishes requirements for curriculum regarding certain American documents; revises provisions regarding curriculum for educating students about government; revises other related provisions; requires report by state board of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2424 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, provides, effective September 1, 2014, that only those persons who want to carry a handgun concealed are required to have a handgun permit, and permits conversion of handgun carry permit upon its expiration to a concealed carry permit by regular renewal process. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 70.

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 - SB559 Traffic Safety - As introduced, prohibits the use of unmanned traffic enforcement cameras in certain areas of Bluff City. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - SB1166 State Employees - As introduced, changes the maximum period that a preferred service employee may be required to perform a majority of the duties of a job that is in a higher classification without the commissioner's approval from 90 to 100 days. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30.

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

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

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

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

TN - SB2021 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a person convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine to serve at least 180 days in confinement and a person convicted of possession of methamphetamine to serve at least 30 days in confinement; specifies that the minimum mandatory sentences will not prohibit persons who are convicted of methamphetamine offenses from participating in a drug or recovery court and receiving sentence credit for up to the full amount of the mandatory minimum sentence. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - SB528 Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, revises continuing education requirement in the practice under written protocol provision to specify that the continuing education be approved by the American or Tennessee Dental Hygienists Association. - Amends TCA Title 63.

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

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

TN - SB1587 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain specified persons, and provides for the placement of other certain signage. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - SB151 Securities - As enacted, exempts certain unsolicited transactions from certain requirements of securities law. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 1, Part 1.

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