Tennessee Rep. Mike Carter (R)

TN - Civil Justice (House)

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TN - Civil Justice Subcommittee (House)

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TN - Ethics (House)

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TN - Finance, Ways and Means (House)

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TN - HB1650 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products - As introduced, restricts the use of state gasoline tax revenues distributed to the highway fund, counties, and cities to the construction, improvement, and maintenance of highways and bridges; prohibits the use of such revenue for pedestrian, bicycle, and other nonvehicular facilities. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67, Chapter 3.

TN - HB608 Annexation - As enacted, removes provisions related to annexation by ordinance, to effectuate the provisions of Chapter 707 of the Public Acts of 2014 to abolish annexation by ordinance; authorizes, in certain circumstances and counties, a municipality, by resolution, to propose annexation of territory that does not adjoin the boundary of the main part of the municipality if the territory proposed for annexation is entirely contained within the municipality's urban growth boundary. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - HB2385 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, requires appellate court judges appointed in 2014 who have not yet stood for election to stand for retention election in the regular August election of 2016; deletes references to the judicial performance evaluation commission. - Amends TCA Title 17.

TN - HB1564 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, redefines "autonomous technology" for purposes of provision whereby no political subdivision may by ordinance, resolution, or any other means prohibit within the jurisdictional boundaries of the political subdivision the use of a motor vehicle equipped with autonomous technology if the motor vehicle otherwise complies with all safety regulations of the political subdivision; clarifies the definition of "autonomous technology" applicable to the provisions governing electronic displays, such as televisions, in motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 54, Chapter 1; Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - HB835 Civil Procedure - As introduced, creates the civil justice reform commission to study possible reforms to increase access to the civil justice system; requires the commission to report findings and recommendations to the judiciary committee of the senate, the civil justice committee of the house, the governor, and the supreme court by January 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 19; Title 20; Title 21; Title 22; Title 24 and Title 40.

TN - HB792 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, establishes procedure for the appointment and confirmation of appellate court judges in accordance with Article VI, Section 3 of the Tennessee Constitution. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 6; Title 16; Title 17 and Title 38, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1306 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, requires any meeting of supreme court justices where voting for a candidate for the office of attorney general and reporter occurs to be subject to the open meetings law. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44; Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 16.

TN - HB2383 Students - As introduced, requires each LEA to annually report to the department of education the number and types of task forces, programs, and initiatives established concerning harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyber-bullying. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-403; Section 37-1-604 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 45.

TN - HB2384 Real Property - As introduced, creates various causes of action for members of a homeowners' association against a homeowners' association; authorizes a declarant of a homeowners' association to retain full control of a project until its completion. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - HB778 Annexation - As introduced, authorizes nonresident property owners to vote in an annexation referendum; creates an alternative process to annex territory by referendum at a town hall meeting. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - HJR525 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article II, Section 28, of the Constitution of Tennessee to prohibit the legislature from imposing a state property tax on real property.

TN - HB662 Annexation - As introduced, defines, for the purpose of consensual annexation, property that is primarily being used for agricultural purposes; authorizes an aggrieved property owner to petition the county legislative body for a designation that the owner’s property is primarily being used for agricultural purposes. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - HJR186 Memorials, Recognition - Trevor Matich.

TN - HJR423 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Noah Campbell Cuttle, Salutatorian, Ooltewah High School.

TN - HJR422 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Bailey Nicole Lowe, Valedictorian, Ooltewah High School.

TN - HB2381 Water Authorities - As enacted, sunsets the Hamilton County water and wastewater treatment authority created pursuant to this state's Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act, July 1, 2021; revises other provisions regarding the Act. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 6.

TN - HB2386 Courts, General Sessions - As introduced, changes from October 1 to September 1 of the year a judge is elected, the date on which a county must be in one class in order for a judge's salary not to be diminished due to the county subsequently being moved to a lower class based on a subsequent federal census. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15.

TN - HB2388 Contracts - As introduced, prohibits arbitration in causes of action arising out of consumer contracts. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 47.

TN - HB544 Courts, General Sessions - As introduced, enacts the "Senior General Sessions and Juvenile Judge Enabling Act"; enables the creation of a program whereby the supreme court can designate a senior general sessions or juvenile judge to relieve court congestion in a needed area; funding to come from an increase of $1.00 on the $5.00 fee assessed against each traffic citation resulting in conviction. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15 and Title 55, Chapter 10.

TN - HB2387 Eminent Domain - As introduced, permits owner of land subject to a regulatory taking to file a petition for a jury of inquest or sue for damages; requires that reasonable costs, disbursements, and expenses be paid to a successful plaintiff in addition to any damages awarded. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 29; Title 42, Chapter 6 and Title 44.

TN - HB780 Annexation - As introduced, in certain circumstances, permits a municipality to amend a plan of services by resolution of the governing body only after a public hearing for which notice has been published at least 30 days, instead of 15 days, in advance in a newspaper of general circulation. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - HB2408 Telecommunications - As introduced, changes from January 31 to December 1 the date for which the comptroller of the treasury, in cooperation with the TRA, must provide an annual report to the general assembly on the status of the provision of broadband services in historically unserved areas by telecommunications joint ventures. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 12 and Title 65.

TN - HB1998 Healthcare Liability - As introduced, redefines "passive investor" for purposes of determining liability in a healthcare liability action from any entity that has an ownership interest in a healthcare provider but that does not directly participate in the day-to-day decision making or operations of the healthcare provider to any entity that has an ownership interest of less than five percent in a healthcare provider. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 26.

TN - HB188 Comptroller, State - As enacted, alters the penalty imposed on a municipality for violating the Municipal Finance Officer Certification and Education Act from $50.00 per day to a sales tax revenue reduction in an amount not to exceed 15 percent of the total amount due to the municipality in a fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 6-56-407.

TN - HB2307 Annexation - As introduced, deletes the limitation allowing noncontiguous annexation by resolution to occur in only a county having a population according to the most recent decennial census that is greater than 44.5 percent and 50,000 of its population in the preceding decennial census. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51, Part 1.

TN - HB720 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As enacted, specifies that the seizure and forfeiture of vehicles is applicable after certain DUI convictions, rather than violations. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10.

TN - HB2382 Annexation - As introduced, defines "property being used primarily for agricultural purposes" for purposes of annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6.

TN - HB610 Real Property - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Homeowners Association Act." - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - HB52 Clerks, Court - As enacted, allows court clerk, subject to approval of the judge, to accept a lump-sum partial payment in full settlement for all court costs, fees, and litigation taxes owed; provided, that the amount has been in default for at least five years and the amount settled upon is 50 percent or more of the combined outstanding balance. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 24, Part 1.

TN - HB1734 Courts, Supreme Court of Tennessee - As enacted, authorizes the supreme court, upon its own motion, to assume jurisdiction over an application for interlocutory or extraordinary appeal that is filed with an intermediate state appellate court. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 3.

TN - HB16 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, deletes authorization for hospitals that are otherwise subject to the open meetings and records laws to have closed meetings and confidential records concerning marketing strategies and strategic plans. - Amends TCA Section 68-11-238.

TN - HB609 Divorce, Annulment and Alimony - As enacted, requires account balances, accrued benefits, or other values of vested and unvested pension benefits, vested and unvested stock option rights, retirement and other fringe benefits relating to employment prior to the date of marriage together with the appreciation of the value be treated as separate property for purposes of division of property in a divorce or legal separation. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 4.

TN - HB282 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, confers upon the attorney general and reporter concurrent jurisdiction and authority to investigate and initiate criminal prosecutions in cases involving corruption of a public official and misuse of office by a public official; defines public official as someone holding an elected office in any branch of state government or a political subdivision. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB661 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, permits a magistrate to impose additional conditions of release or bail on a defendant arrested for child abuse, neglect, or endangerment or aggravated child abuse, neglect, or endangerment who is a threat to the alleged victim. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4 and Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - HB777 Fiscal Review Committee - As introduced, enacts the "Fiscal Note Integrity Act of 2015." - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4 and Title 9.

TN - HB779 Municipal Government - As introduced, abolishes deannexation by ordinance; requires the reallocation of certain municipal highway funds if a municipality deannexes city roadways; revises various other provisions governing deannexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 54.

TN - HB1339 Welfare - As enacted, prohibits recipients of public assistance benefits from using an EBT card at a tobacco retailer to purchase certain tobacco products; prohibits tobacco retailers from permitting the purchase of tobacco products or nicotine products with an EBT card; requires the department of human services to notify public assistance recipients of this prohibition. - Amends TCA Section 71-3-126.

TN - HB2229 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, prohibits school districts and state special schools from paying through payroll deduction their professional employees' dues to a professional employee association. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-204 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 6.

TN - HB1840 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, declares that no person providing counseling or therapy services will be required to counsel or serve a client as to goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with the sincerely held principles of the counselor or therapist; requires such counselor or therapist to refer the client to another counselor or therapist; creates immunity for such action; maintains liability for counselors who will not counsel a client based on the counselor's religious beliefs when the individual seeking or undergoing the counseling is in imminent danger of harming themselves or others. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB31 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, deletes the Intractable Pain Act. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB210 School Vouchers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Choice and Opportunity Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1429 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, prohibits a person who is registered, or required to register, as a violent sexual offender or offender against children pursuant to the Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act to knowingly establish a primary or secondary residence or any other living accommodation in any public institution of higher education's on-campus student residence facilities, including dormitories and apartments. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB1415 Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $261,000,000 from excess state tax revenues over collected in fiscal year 2014–2015 to the department of transportation to be used for backlog transportation road projects. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - HB425 Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Kenneth Harry-Hill Tennessee Veterans Health Care Act of 2015," which may also be known as the "Mission Tennessee for Veterans Program". - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1722 Education - As enacted, requires that the display of the American flag on school property and at school events conform to the requirements of federal law; requires a local board of education to permit display of the American flag, if the display conforms to the requirements of federal law. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB625 Water Authorities - As introduced, clarifies that the Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act does not create a private right of action with regard to rates, fees, or charges. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 6.

TN - HB74 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes, upon proper showing by the department that a prisoner was released in error, the sentencing judge or the judge in the county from which the individual was released to issue a warrant for the retaking of the prisoner; authorizes law enforcement officers and certain employees of the department to act on the warrant. - Amends TCA Section 41-1-117.

TN - HB2131 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, prohibits public postsecondary institutions from taking any adverse action against an employee or student solely for such person's lawful transportation and storage of a firearm or ammunition in the person's parked motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB2572 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, makes various technical, non-substantive revisions to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, including clarifying the effective date and clarifying the definition of initiating tribunal. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5 and Chapter 901 of the Public Acts of 2010.

TN - HB1861 Consumer Protection - As introduced, provides that misrepresenting geographic business information in a telephone directory or directory assistance database, or on the Internet, is an unfair or deceptive act if the information is published after July 1, 2009, rather than July 1, 2008. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - HB2425 Handgun Permits - As enacted, lowers the age for receiving a handgun carry permit from 21 years of age to 18 years of age for persons who are an honorably discharged or retired veteran of the U.S. armed forces or a service member on active duty status. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HB1532 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, allows the Tennessee POST commission to deny a retired law enforcement officer's application to carry as a law enforcement officer if the retired officer is prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm, or obtaining a handgun carry permit, or if the retired officer has certain DUI convictions. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - HB197 Controlled Substances - As enacted, authorizes use of cannabidiol oil with less than 0.9 percent of tetrahydrocannabinol to treat intractable seizures or epilepsy in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 43, Chapter 26.

TN - HB1407 Education, Higher - As enacted, grants in-state tuition and fees at public higher education institutions to certain dependent children of military parents regardless of place of residency if the military parent perished as the result of a targeted attack that occurred in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB10 Students - As enacted, requires a student, during the student's high school career, to take a United States civics test. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1905 Education - As enacted, requires each local school board to adopt a policy on the inclusion of religion in curriculum and instructional materials; requires each LEA to create a syllabus to be made public for grades six through 12 on social studies, science, math, and English language arts courses; requires the state board to initiate a revision process for the social studies standards adopted in 2013; requires teacher training institutions to instruct candidates regarding constitutionally permissible instruction of religious content. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - HB699 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, establishes requirements and protections for healthcare providers that practice telehealth. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB2149 Veterans - As enacted, expands eligibility for a Fallen Heroes Medal to service members killed in attacks specifically targeting service members and under other circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 58-3-113.

TN - HB1151 Textbooks - As introduced, permits citizen groups to submit error reports detailing any errors in textbooks used in public schools in this state to the textbooks and instructional materials commission; creates an appeal process before a joint education committee; implements various provisions of law to address errors in textbooks. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2192 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, revises various provisions governing the 911 fee collection practice. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86.

TN - HB2133 Telecommunications - As introduced, revises provisions relative to providing broadband Internet services. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - HB810 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, prohibits sexual offenders and violent sexual offenders from being alone with minors in a private place; makes clarifications to the registry such as requiring the offender to divulge social media names. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - HB2129 Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2016." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4.

TN - HB1736 Handgun Permits - As enacted, permits full-time employees of state public colleges or universities who possess handgun carry permit to carry a handgun while on property owned, operated, or controlled by the employing college or university if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB962 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of causing a person under 18 years of age to attend an animal fight; increases the penalty for the offense of being a spectator at an animal fight to a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-203.

TN - HB2068 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, revises provisions governing construction of the Act and hearings regarding rules; requires an agency to demonstrate by convincing evidence, certain factors that justify continued existence of an agency rule. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.

TN - HB718 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, declares the week that includes the third Thursday in November as "Agricultural Literacy Week." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB986 Eminent Domain - As introduced, revises provisions governing condemned property being offered for sale to the former owner. - Amends TCA Section 29-17-1005.

TN - HB1438 Military - As enacted, enacts the "National Guard Force Protection Act of 2016". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 58.

TN - HB41 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, revises provisions governing 12-hour hold period for persons charged with domestic violence or elder abuse offense; makes hold period mandatory unless the magistrate or other official duly authorized to release the offender finds that the offender is not a threat to the alleged victim. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - HB1368 Abortion - As enacted, requires facilities or physician offices where more than 50 abortions are performed in a calendar year to be licensed as ambulatory surgical treatment centers. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB1372 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, places certain restrictions on the use of traffic enforcement cameras as basis for issuing speeding tickets. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-198.

TN - HB994 Employees, Employers - As enacted, creates a cause of action against an employer for discharge or adverse employment action based solely on transportation or storage of a firearm or firearm ammunition in an employer parking lot. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1464 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, contingent upon monthly surplus state tax revenues exceeding $5 million, allocates 25 percent of the surplus revenues to the priority transportation project fund to be used exclusively for essential transportation projects; requires commissioner of transportation to recommend the top 100 projects to be funded; authorizes general assembly to appropriate from fund to implement all or part of the projects recommended. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - HB1318 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, specifies that it is not an offense to take a black vulture in this state and that state resources may not be used to enforce any prohibition against taking black vultures in this state. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - HB1626 Statutes and Codification - As enacted, codifies the acts of the 2015 legislative session.

TN - HB1501 General Assembly - As introduced, establishes parameters for biennial September sessions. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3.

TN - HB1549 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, makes various technical revisions to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5 and Chapter 901 of the Public Acts of 2010.

TN - HB854 Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Criminal Justice Veterans Compensation Act of 2015" or the "CJVC Act." - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - HB2156 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As enacted, increases the amount on which property tax reimbursement will be paid from the first $23,000 to the first $23,500 for low-income, elderly homeowners and for disabled homeowners; removes the income limitation applicable for tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1892 Water Pollution - As enacted, prohibits any NPDES permit that is issued to a municipal separate storm sewer system ("MS4") administrator in this state from imposing post-construction stormwater requirements, except to the extent necessary to comply with the minimum requirements of federal law; prohibits the state from requiring any entity that administers a MS4 under an NPDES permit to impose control measures for post-construction stormwater that exceed the minimum requirements of federal law; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB1416 Traffic Safety - As enacted, enacts the "Slow Poke Law," which prohibits the operation of vehicles in the left lane of interstates and multilane divided highways, except for passing and other purposes. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB216 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, requires, instead of authorizes, the government operations committees to review every rule promulgated pursuant to the UAPA; makes other various changes to the rulemaking process under the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5, Part 2.

TN - HB2142 Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $100,000,000 from excess state tax revenues over collected in fiscal year 2014-2015 to the various counties to be used for county transportation projects; allocates funds in the same manner as county aid funding. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - HB2047 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, authorize TBI investigators, without a request from the district attorney general, to investigate criminal offenses related to arson and explosives. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB537 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, adds animals to the existing procedure that confers immunity from liability on a person for damage caused by breaking into a locked vehicle for the purpose of extracting a child in danger. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 34, Part 2.

TN - HB1530 Foster Care - As enacted, creates the reasonable and prudent parent standard to be used by a caregiver when determining whether to allow a foster child to participate in activities; exempts a caregiver acting in compliance with the standard from civil liability relating to injuries the child may incur in such activities. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 4.

TN - HB2575 Handgun Permits - As enacted, makes various changes to handgun carry permits, including extending permit renewals to occur every eight years and lowering the initial application fee from $115 to $100. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HB813 Taxes, Income - As enacted, reduces Hall income tax from six percent to five percent; expresses legislative intent that the tax be statutorily reduced by one percent annually beginning with the first annual session of the 110th general assembly; eliminates the tax for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2307 Annexation - As introduced, deletes the limitation allowing noncontiguous annexation by resolution to occur in only a county having a population according to the most recent decennial census that is greater than 44.5 percent and 50,000 of its population in the preceding decennial census. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51, Part 1.

TN - HB1505 Sentencing - As enacted, adds Class E felony vandalism to the offenses for which a person's sentence may be enhanced if the offense is committed during the time and place of a declared emergency. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 1.

TN - HB25 Medical Occupations - As enacted, adds dry needling to scope of practice of a physical therapist. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1742 Election Laws - As enacted, establishes an online voter registration system beginning July 1, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB586 Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires an application for approval of a transfer of structured settlement payment rights to be made by the transferee and permits the application to be brought in the county in which the payee resides or where the settlement was approved or judgment rendered in the underlying tort claim, or in the court or before the authority that approved the structured settlement agreement; revises other provisions regarding structured settlements. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18, Part 26.

TN - HB1049 School Vouchers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Choice & Opportunity Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HB99 DUI Offenses - As enacted, makes certain technical corrections to statutes regarding driving under the influence. - Amends TCA Section 55-10-401 and Section 55-10-402.

TN - HB677 State Symbols - As introduced, designates the Barrett Model 82A1 rifle as the official state firearm. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB2069 Education, Higher - As introduced, enacts the "Tuition Stability Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB1303 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, allows each municipality operating an electric plant to provide services outside its electric system service area. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 52.

TN - HB98 DUI Offenses - As enacted, directs the commissioner of education to develop guidelines for LEAs to create an annual report that informs students of the death of any person 18 years of age or younger who died as a result of a person 18 years of age or younger driving under the influence of an intoxicant or drug. - Amends TCA Section 4-3-2014 and Section 49-1-219.

TN - HB1674 Public Contracts - As enacted, prohibits the state or any local government from requiring a company bidding or contracting to provide services on a public construction project to employ individuals who reside within the jurisdiction of the state or local government or who are within a specific income range, unless otherwise required by federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 62.

TN - HB899 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, removes the tax exemption for certain machinery used for the manufacture of firearms. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-102.

TN - HB1369 Adoption - As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding adoption, including provisions governing termination of parental rights, abandonment, and surrender. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - HB2421 Law Enforcement - As enacted, encourages TBI to develop an activation card for law enforcement use in connection with the missing citizen alert program to help locate missing citizens who have wandered due to dementia or physical impairment. - Amends TCA Section 38-6-121.

TN - HB1451 University of Tennessee - As introduced, requires all intercollegiate women's athletic teams at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to be called the "Lady Volunteers" or "Lady Vols" for all official school purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1035 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state board of education to implement a process whereby the set of standards known as the Common Core State Standards adopted in 2010 will be reviewed and replaced with new sets of standards; requires the state board of education or the department of education to cancel any memorandum of understanding concerning the Common Core State Standards entered into with the national governor's association and the council of chief state school officers; establishes advisory teams and a standards recommendation committee; revises other provisions regarding curriculum standards. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2429 Education, Higher - As enacted, revises provisions regarding reporting of nonimmigrant students by higher education institutions; authorizes the commissioner of safety to issue a subpoena for valid law enforcement purposes to an institution of higher education in this state to compel the production of certain information with regard to nonimmigrant students possessing either an F-1 or M-1 student visa for instruction at the institution. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Title 49.

TN - HB1413 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires that any petition regarding child custody include an affirmative statement setting out all applicable adjudications, if the petitioner knows whether a child has ever been adjudicated by a court as a dependent and neglected or abused child or whether any party to the action has ever been adjudicated by a court as the perpetrator of dependency and neglect or abuse of a minor child; authorizes court to order DCS to disclose certain information. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.

TN - HB2445 Law Enforcement - As enacted, authorizes law enforcement officers to administer epinephrine in emergency situations in certain circumstances; authorizes physicians to prescribe epinephrine to a law enforcement agency for use by officers in emergency situations; adds immunity from civil liability for pharmacists based on any injury to an individual who is harmed by the administration of the epinephrine dispensed by the pharmacist and prescribed by a physician pursuant to this bill, unless the pharmacist acts with reckless disregard for safety. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1246 Workers Compensation - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Volunteer Firefighter Protection Act," which defines "earnings," for purposes of the average weekly earnings of a volunteer firefighter, as the volunteer firefighter's call rate multiplied by 40 hours per week, regardless of the actual hours worked in a week. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2040 Zoning - As enacted, authorizes zoning consideration of temporary family healthcare structures; adds a requirement that, as part of the plan to expand cost-effective community-based residential alternatives to institutional care as required by the Long-Term Care Community Choices Act of 2008, the bureau of TennCare must seek written guidance from the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services regarding whether a temporary family healthcare structure may be covered in whole or in part under the program established by the Long-Term Care Community Choices Act of 2008. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB714 Healthcare Liability - As enacted, places restrictions on the use of certain surveys, inspections, and investigations of a healthcare provider in healthcare liability actions. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 26, Part 1.

TN - HB147 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Animal Abuser Registration Act." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 44.

TN - HB684 Handgun Permits - As introduced, enacts the "Open Carry Firearms Freedom Act of 2015." - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 70.

TN - HB460 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates May 11 of each year as "Police Memorial Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2200 Education - As introduced, makes various revisions to the ASD, including requiring schools assigned to the ASD on or after July 1, 2016, be in the bottom 2.5 percent of schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - HB1665 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, revises eligibility requirements for home school students and students who graduate from an ineligible high school to receive the general assembly merit scholarship. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-916.

TN - HB615 State Government - As introduced, designates the Holy Bible as the official state book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1929 Military - As enacted, creates civil immunity for certain members of the national guard who use force against another, including by discharging a personally owned firearm, in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2433 Therapists, Physical and Occupational - As enacted, enacts the "Physical Therapy Licensure Compact". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 13.

TN - HB2401 Liens - As enacted, revises provisions governing liens under the Tennessee Condominium Act of 2008. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 27.

TN - HB143 Health Care - As enacted, enacts the “Tennessee Right to Try Act.” - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB110 Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, delineates the only requirements that shall apply to the use of non-OEM aftermarket crash parts in the repair of an insured’s or third-party claimant’s motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB2570 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, enacts the "Rural Economic Opportunity Act of 2016"; authorizes a job tax credit for qualified business enterprises located in tier 4 enhancement counties; specifies the minimum jobs criteria and requirements to qualify for the credit; establishes the propelling rural economic progress (P.R.E.P.) fund; establishes guidelines for making grants from the P.R.E.P. fund. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1572 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee rehabilitative initiative in correction (TRICOR) board for two years to June 30, 2018; removes the TRICOR board's authority to nominate members for appointment to the board; removes the executive director of TRICOR from the board; adds the commissioner of correction, or the commissioner's designee, as a member of the TRICOR board, who will vote only to break a tie vote of the other board members; removes the authority of the commissioner of correction to reject the board's choice for executive director and to remove an executive director so that the board will be solely vested with the authority to appoint and remove the executive director. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Section 8-30-102; Title 41, Chapter 6, Part 2 and Title 41, Chapter 22.

TN - HB1291 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Aron's Law," which makes the knowing killing of a police dog, fire dog, search and rescue dog, or police horse a Class E felony, unless the offense would be a higher classification based on the animal’s value, in which case, knowingly killing the animal will be punished as theft of property. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-205.

TN - HB1660 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, deletes the July 1, 2016, termination date for legislation permitting the prosecution of a woman for assault of a fetus based on her illegal use of narcotic drugs while pregnant and creating the affirmative defense that the woman completed an addiction recovery program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Chapter 820 of the Public Acts of 2014.

TN - HB2063 Education, Higher - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Student Free Speech Protection Act"; requires the governing boards of each state institution to adopt the freedom of speech and expression policy to protect student speech and activity. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB1424 Handgun Permits - As enacted, reduces the fee for lifetime handgun carry permit, effective January 1, 2017, from $500 to be an amount equal to the regular carry permit fee plus $200, which under present law will equal $300 for the lifetime permit. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HB1489 Naming and Designating - As enacted, names the new high school to be constructed for the Tennessee School for the Deaf in honor of Alan J. Mealka.

TN - HB1039 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, revises apportionment and distribution provisions of the Border Region Retail Tourism Development District Act. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 40 and Title 67, Chapter 1, Part 17.

TN - HB243 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires all campuses of public higher education institutions operated by the board of regents or University of Tennessee board of trustees to hold observances for Veterans Day on or near the day recognized as the national day of observance. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB2510 Traffic Safety - As enacted, requires that every notice of violation or citation issued that is based solely upon evidence obtained from any traffic enforcement camera used to enforce or monitor traffic violations of the requirement that motor vehicles stop at a red light, include a disclaimer stating that nonpayment of the notice or citation cannot adversely affect the person's credit score or report, driver's license, and/or automobile insurance rates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB979 Religion and Religious Organizations - As enacted, prohibits a state or local government entity, except for courts, from subpoenaing a clergy member's sermon for a civil or administrative action. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-407 and Title 24.

TN - HR82 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Chulisia K. Pierce, Valedictorian, Memphis Health Careers Academy.

TN - HR171 Memorials, Recognition - Stephen McNeil, FFA State Sentinel

TN - HR84 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dellarontay A. Readus, Valedictorian, Melrose High School.

TN - HR109 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tito Hunter, Valedictorian, Trezevant High School.

TN - HR76 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Asha A. Cathey, Salutatorian, Melrose High School.

TN - HR78 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Eric Sah, Salutatorian, White Station High School.

TN - HR117 Memorials, Interns - Antonio Briggs.

TN - HR5 Memorials, Congress - Urge Congress to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

TN - HR80 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Taylor Nicole Haywood, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences.

TN - HR77 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Linnie Jiang, Valedictorian, White Station High School.

TN - HR37 Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee at Martin Men's Rodeo Team, NIRA National Champions.

TN - HR2 Memorials, Recognition - Fort Campbell.

TN - HR81 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Chelsey Danielle Jones, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences.

TN - HR1 Memorials, Retirement - Chaplain (Colonel) Phillip M. Armstrong.

TN - HR167 Memorials, Recognition - Madison Benson, FFA West Tennessee State Vice President

TN - HR168 Memorials, Recognition - Emily White, FFA East Tennessee State Vice President

TN - HR172 Memorials, Recognition - Derek Anderson, FFA Middle Tennessee State Vice President

TN - HR112 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jason Zeng, Salutatorian, Bartlett High School.

TN - HR170 Memorials, Recognition - Chad Lewis, FFA State Treasurer

TN - HR164 Memorials, Retirement - Judge Walter F. Williams

TN - HR169 Memorials, Recognition - Chelsea Wattenbarger, FFA State Reporter

TN - HR161 Memorials, Public Service - Pastor Matt Anzivino

TN - HR166 Memorials, Recognition - Dalton Teel, FFA State Secretary

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Thadijah Jeanne Burks.

TN - HR39 Memorials, Recognition - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority.

TN - HR79 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kelly Yuan, Salutatorian, White Station High School.

TN - HR83 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cartavius L. Turner, Salutatorian, Memphis Health Careers Academy.

TN - HR165 Memorials, Recognition - Chelsea Sanders, FFA State President

TN - HR108 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brianna Parrish, Salutatorian, Trezevant High School.

TN - HR49 Memorials, Congratulations - Nelson Lundberg, high school graduation.

TN - HR6 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association Go Red for Women.

TN - HR141 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Roy W. Ellison, 100th birthday

TN - HR126 Memorials, Retirement - Larry K. Scroggs

TN - HR111 Memorials, Interns - D'John W. Moore.

TN - HR128 Memorials, Recognition - Domtar, 100th anniversary in Kingsport

TN - HR152 Memorials, Recognition - Director General Huei-Yuan Tai

TN - HJR133 Memorials, Death - Henry Abbott Callaway Jr., M.D.

TN - HJR233 Memorials, Recognition - Vanecia Belser Kimbrow, I AM A VOTER Strategic Collaborative.

TN - HJR472 Memorials, Death - Gunnery Sergeant Thomas J. Sullivan, United States Marine Corps

TN - HJR183 Memorials, Recognition - Honors and commends the members of the Gold Star Mothers and Gold Star Families.

TN - HJR204 Memorials, Recognition - Celebrate September 2015 as "American Indian Heritage Month" in Tennessee.

TN - HJR56 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Deborah R. Williams, Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2014.

TN - HJR11 Memorials, Heroism - Jason Nelson.

TN - HJR57 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Affirms commitment to equal right to technology and information access for Tennesseans with disabilities.

TN - HJR187 Memorials, Professional Achievement - George Fraley.

TN - HJR458 Memorials, Death - Fred Dalton Thompson.

TN - HJR115 Memorials, Recognition - Speaker of the House Beth Harwell, Tennessee Federation of Republican Women.

TN - HJR12 Memorials, Recognition - Childhood apraxia of speech awareness.

TN - HJR475 Memorials, Death - Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Scott Smith, United States Navy

TN - HJR5 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Department of Transportation, 100th anniversary.

TN - HJR231 Naming and Designating - Designates the Barrett Model M82/M107 as the official rifle of the State of Tennessee.

TN - HJR563 Memorials, Recognition - Fisk University, 150th anniversary

TN - HJR385 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Amber J. Mitchell, Valedictorian, Northside High School.

TN - HJR597 Memorials, Recognition - Three Dog Night

TN - HJR6 Memorials, Public Service - Ed Haley.

TN - HJR24 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Bill Ketron, Chair, Fiscal Review Committee.

TN - HJR7 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Baeteena Black.

TN - HJR71 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee recognizing that our liberties do not come from governments, but from Almighty God, our Creator and Savior.

TN - HJR567 Memorials, Death - Reverend J. Fred Cloud

TN - HJR529 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses disagreement with the U.S. supreme court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges.

TN - HJR465 Memorials, Death - Dr. W.J. Julian, UT director of bands

TN - HJR471 Memorials, Death - Staff Sergeant David Allen Wyatt, United States Marine Corps

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Sergeant Carson Holmquist, United States Marine Corps

TN - HJR284 Memorials, Recognition - Honoring those who fought and died in World War II and commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe.

TN - HJR557 Memorials, Sports - 1966 Pearl High School varsity basketball team

TN - HJR3 Memorials, Professional Achievement - John Germ, president of Rotary International.

TN - HJR4 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Michael Monroe, Eagle Scout.

TN - HJR606 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Roger Jowers, Star of Life Award

TN - HJR473 Memorials, Death - Lance Corporal Squire K. (Skip) Wells, United States Marine Corps

TN - HJR546 Memorials, Sports - Trezevant High School, 2A state football champs

TN - HJR466 Memorials, Death - Former Representative Joe Burchfield

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - First Lady Crissy Haslam.

TN - HJR119 Memorials, Death - Garner "Mack" Goode Jr.

TN - HJR128 Memorials, Recognition - Congressman Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Federation of Republican Women.

TN - HJR43 Memorials, Recognition - Wade Norris, Tennessee Forestry Association 2014 Master Logger of the Year.

TN - HJR446 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Harris Taylor, Valedictorian, McGavock High School.

TN - HJR127 Memorials, Recognition - Congressman Diane Black, Tennessee Federation of Republican Women.

TN - HJR464 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Pete Claussen, heritage conservation trust fund board

TN - HJR196 Memorials, Recognition - Commemorates Autism Awareness Day in Tennessee.

TN - HJR174 Memorials, Recognition - Donna Morgan.

TN - HJR106 Memorials, Heroism - Andrew Michael Keith, Public Safety Medal of Valor.

TN - HJR384 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Nola G. Madison, Salutatorian, Northside High School.

TN - HJR216 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Richard Rhoda, Executive Director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

TN - HJR574 Memorials, Death - Maurice White

TN - HJR352 Memorials, Recognition - Brown, Davidson, Driver, Smith Family Reunion.

TN - HJR205 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Malcolm "Jimmy" Keep, World War II veteran.

TN - HJR129 Memorials, Recognition - Helen H. "Tootie" Haskins, Tennessee Federation of Republican Women.

TN - HJR558 Memorials, Recognition - Honors the City of Memphis's efforts to bring the 2016 4th Annual Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony to Memphis.

TN - HJR404 Memorials, Recognition - Joshua Jamahl Murray.

TN - HJR548 Memorials, Recognition - Hannah Robison, Miss Tennessee 2015

TN - HJR237 Memorials, Recognition - Honor the liberators and Holocaust survivors of Tennessee.

TN - HJR46 Memorials, Death - Harlan Mathews.