Tennessee Rep. Mike Sparks (R)

TN - Local Government (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Transportation (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Transportation Subcommittee (House)

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chair

TN - HB495 Local Government, General - As introduced, prohibits impact fees or adequate facilities taxes from being imposed on age-exclusive developments for persons 55 and older if children as permanent residents are also excluded; clarifies present acts imposing impact fees and adequate facilities taxes may be revised to reduce the fee or tax or remove types of property from being subject to such fees or taxes. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-2913.

TN - HB2438 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, clarifies that the person committing the offense of display of materials harmful to minors is the person responsible for displaying the visual depiction that contains material harmful to minors, which may include a retail store owner, retail store employee, distributor, supplier, or wholesaler of the material; increases offense from Class C to Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

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 - HB1774 Ethics - As enacted, prohibits any public officer or employee of a governing authority who is involved in making or administering a contract with a private entity that is governed by the private probation services council and that provides probation services from deriving any direct benefit from the contract. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 40.

TN - HB1772 Personal Property - As enacted, prohibits an individual, business or agency involved in the repossession of a vehicle from abandoning any personal property found in or on the vehicle for a period of 14 days following the repossession; establishes provisions governing the property being reclaimed by the owner. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 30; Title 47; Title 55, Chapter 5; Title 62 and Title 66.

TN - HB223 Motor Vehicle Commission - As enacted, adds a non-franchise motor vehicle dealer as a member of the motor vehicle commission; increases quorum requirement by one person. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - HB656 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, revises various provisions governing property taxation and boards of equalization. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB2478 Short Term Loans and Lenders - As introduced, imposes an annual fee of $1,000 due by December 31 of each year for each office operated by licensed deferred presentment service businesses. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 17 and Title 67.

TN - HB403 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes a freight motor vehicle to exceed the maximum gross weight requirements by a certain amount if such motor vehicle has idle-reduction technology or other emissions-reduction technology installed. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 7.

TN - HB602 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires the board for licensing health care facilities and board of medical examiners to make recommendations to the commissioner of health concerning regulation of outpatient cosmetic procedures; commissioner of health is to review the reports and make recommendations to the house health committee and the senate health and welfare committee. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB465 Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, urges commissioner to use wildflowers native to each grand division in new wildflower plantings. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB225 Nuisances - As enacted, designates any place in which the sale or possession with intent to sell of drug paraphernalia is carried on or permitted as a nuisance. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3 and Title 39.

TN - HB469 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires department of transportation to prepare a long-range transportation plan that includes state-controlled bridges and highway improvements that will be revised and submitted annually to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12; Title 47; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB1771 Short Term Loans and Lenders - As introduced, imposes an annual privilege tax of $1,000 due by December 31 of each year for each office operated by licensed deferred presentment service businesses. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 17 and Title 67.

TN - HB436 Local Government, General - As introduced, permits a county or municipal correctional officer to carry a firearm if the officer has successfully completed firearms training in accordance with the department of correction standards. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB593 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires that all written and oral examinations administered to applicants for a driver license, intermediate driver license, temporary driver license, or temporary intermediate driver license shall be in English only. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HB2340 Mass Transit - As enacted, directs the department of transportation to conduct a preliminary study to determine the feasibility of a monorail public transportation system along the Nashville southeast corridor that connects downtown Murfreesboro to downtown Nashville along interstate 24.

TN - HB2515 Rutherford County - As introduced, subject to local approval, requires that one road board member of road board district 5, instead of road board district 1, be elected at the August 2012 election; requires that one road board member of road board district 1, instead of road board district 5, be elected at the August 2014 election; replaces erroneous reference to “county judge” with “county executive”. - Amends Chapter 55 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended.

TN - HB1773 Civil Procedure - As introduced, permits radio stations that receive public funding to sufficiently publish legal or public notice by announcing the complete notice on air and contemporaneously publishing the information on their web site. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 30, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB601 Grand Juries - As introduced, prohibits a person from serving as a grand jury foreman for more than four years. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 20; Title 22 and Title 40.

TN - HB224 Welfare - As introduced, restricts the acceptance of food stamps for the sale of certain goods and services. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3.

TN - HJR766 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Tori Ruis, Tennessee Assistant Principal of the Year.

TN - HB438 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, extends the deadline for the Tennessee bureau of investigation to report to the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives regarding costs associated with conducting background checks from February 1 to March 1. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 68.

TN - HB2050 Unknown

TN - HB2051 Unknown

TN - HB437 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, revises the distance at which a horn or other sounding device on a motor vehicle must be heard; authorizes department of safety to set the fee for furnishing of driver records to certain persons and companies. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB2437 Education, Higher - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Parents' and Students' Tuition Relief Act" to study the impact of providing a 25 percent tuition discount to parents and dependents of parents who simultaneously attend any state college or university within the state. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HR91 Memorials, Interns - Ashley Nicole North

TN - HB1775 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows a part-time employee of state college of applied technology to enroll in one course per semester at state supported higher education institute without paying the tuition charges or maintenance fees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB1399 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, declares that the general assembly occupies the whole field of regulation of firearms, ammunition, components of firearms or ammunition, or combinations thereof, prohibiting local regulation, with certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1314.

TN - HB1434 Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes any entity contracting with the department of safety to charge an additional fee of $4.00 for administrative costs related to the issuance, examination, and renewal of driver licenses, in the same manner as county clerks. - Amends TCA Section 55-50-331.

TN - HB1952 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, prohibits the use of drones to interfere with private citizens who are lawfully hunting or fishing in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 4, Part 3.

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 - HB863 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, removes the ability for a producer of motor vehicles to enter into certain lease transactions for certain vehicles to the producer's employees; increases from three to four the number of vehicles that a producer may lease to full-time employees and specifically authorizes producers to lease up to four vehicles to leased employees of producers who work on site at a producer's facility in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 55-17-123.

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

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

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

TN - 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 - HB2249 Textbooks - As enacted, restructures the textbook commission and the textbook selection process; renames the commission to be the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

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 - HB1830 Eminent Domain - As enacted, reorganizes existing eminent domain law in Tennessee Code Annotated. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 29; Title 42; Title 54; Title 59; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

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 - HB1513 Controlled Substances - As enacted, adds "25H-NBOMe" as a new hallucinogen to the controlled substances in Schedule I and adds "Quinolinylindolecarboxesters" and "(1-Aminocarbonyl) propylindazolecarboxamides" to synthetic cannabinoids. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

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

TN - HB1848 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, creates the Tennessee rural teachers scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB6 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, enacts the "School Security Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

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

TN - HB1687 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, specifies that it is not a defense to prosecution for the offense of bribery of a public servant that the person who sought to influence a public official took action on behalf of a public or private organization, corporation, union, agency or other entity, for purposes of an organizing campaign or any other lawful purpose; revises offense of extortion; redefines "riot". - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 39, Chapter 16 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

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

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

TN - HB236 Education, Higher - As enacted, renames the state technology centers to be "state colleges of applied technology" instead of "state technology centers". - Amends TCA Section 4-3-1405; Section 8-50-114; Section 39-13-114; Title 49; Section 54-5-708 and Section 67-6-329.

TN - HB1396 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, allows a person who is not in compliance with child support obligations to receive a restricted driver license that permits driving to and from the person's regular place of employment or school. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5.

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 - HB1906 Education - As enacted, allows LEAs to teach the history of traditional winter celebrations; allows students and staff to use traditional greetings of such celebrations; and allows LEAs to display winter celebration scenes or symbols under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

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 - HB1108 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, makes various changes to the expunction law such as establishing the procedure for appeal from a denial of an expunction petition, allowing more than one conviction to be expunged if all the offenses are eligible and they were part of the same criminal episode and clarifying that an order of expunction results in a clean record for all types of expunctions. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB1803 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises provisions governing motor vehicle producers leasing vehicles to eligible employees. - Amends TCA Section 55-17-123.

TN - HB180 DUI Offenses - As enacted, reorganizes DUI statutes; clarifies punishment for offenses. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 42; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB887 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows retired state employees to take one class without charge per semester at public institutions of higher education; allows spouses of state employees to receive a 25 percent discount on tuition at public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-114; Section 8-50-115 and Section 49-7-113.

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

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

TN - HB1282 Handgun Permits - As enacted, limits 10-year period that person must wait between exiting a drug or alcohol program or hospital before being eligible for a handgun carry permit to three years if the applicant entered rehab voluntarily; 10-year period still applies to those who enter rehab pursuant to a court order. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HB500 Unknown

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

TN - HB1849 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires that evaluations of teachers be based on student performance only in subjects that were tested and in which the teacher taught the students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2, and Title 49, Chapter 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 - 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 - HB1493 Recycling - As introduced, prohibits owners and operators of sanitary landfills located within a 25 mile radius of sites where asphalt roofing shingles are recycled pursuant to the issuance of a permit-by-rule from accepting, for disposal, loads of whole or processed asphalt roofing shingles; requires the underground storage tanks and solid waste disposal control board to post on its web site the name and address of each site at which the recycling of asphalt roof shingles is approved pursuant to the issuance of a permit-by-rule. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211 and Title 68, Chapter 213.

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 - HB1285 Education - As enacted, specifies that any barber school or school of cosmetology whose authorization by the department of commerce is denied by the United States department of education for student financial aid purposes may seek authorization from the Tennessee higher education commission under the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act and will thereafter be subject to all requirements of the Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1950 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5 and Chapter 250 of the Public Acts of 2013.

TN - HB1367 Taxes, Income - As introduced, beginning January 1, 2015, annually reduces the rate of the Hall Income Tax and increases the portion of taxes distributed to cities and counties in which the taxpayers are located; beginning January 1, 2018, requires 100 percent of the tax revenue collected by the state be distributed to the cities and counties. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

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

TN - HB52 Education, Higher - As introduced, creates the office of higher education ombudsperson within the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1948 Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates June 6 as "Transverse Myelitis Awareness Day". - Amends TCA Title 15.

TN - HB1121 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises provisions governing certain agreements entered into between HMOs and physician-hospital organizations where the risks are transferred to the organization or another provider. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

TN - HB1264 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, enacts the "Addison Sharp Prescription Regulatory Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - HB860 Students - As enacted, modifies student discipline in case of physical attack. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB916 Correctional Programs - As introduced, broadens the board of the Tennessee corrections institute's authority to refuse to waive the minimum qualifications requirements for certain employees to include employees who suffer from certain mental illnesses or have been convicted of a felony or domestic assault. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2388 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, defines "curbstoning" as the practice of selling, or offering to sell, a motor vehicle that is not titled in the seller's name by a person lacking a license to sell motor vehicles in this state and permits state entities to seize vehicles offered for sale as part of a curbstoning scheme. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2; Title 55, Chapter 16, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 17, Part 1.

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

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

TN - 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 - HB1078 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, specifies that, upon the seizure of any personal property subject to forfeiture and where the person in possession is not being arrested, the seizing officer must provide the person found in possession of the property, if known, a notice of the forfeiture warrant hearing; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6 and Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2.

TN - HB2156 Mass Transit - As enacted, establishes requirements that must be met in order for a local government or any transit authority created by any local government to construct, maintain or operate any bus rapid transit system using a separate lane, or other separate right-of-way, dedicated to the use of such bus rapid transit system on any state highway or state highway right-of-way. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 54; Title 64 and Title 67.

TN - HR185 Memorials, Government Officials - Urges U.S. department of state to decree that building the Keystone XL Pipeline serves the national interest, and recommends that Keystone SL be granted the presidential permit necessary to begin construction of the pipeline.

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 - HR56 Memorials, Recognition - Rev. Joan Cooper Burnett

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

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

TN - HR5 Unknown

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

TN - HR2 Unknown

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

TN - HJR124 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges establishment of Veterans Courts across Tennessee and urges the administrative office of the courts to pursue any and all available federal funding for such an initiative.

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 - 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 - HJR664 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Katherine and Brandon Whitt.

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 - HJR761 Memorials, Sports - Blackman High School cheerleaders.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR890 Memorials, Death - Gail Kerr.

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

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

TN - HJR677 Memorials, Recognition - Bill and Kathryn Jones, Rutherford County Family YMCA Humanitarian of the Year Award.

TN - HJR106 Memorials, Death - Marcellas Brooks

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

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

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

TN - HJR217 Memorials, Recognition - Carolyn House Stewart

TN - HJR225 Memorials, Recognition - Pettus L. Read

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

TN - HJR297 Memorials, Recognition - Harold D. Morrell

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

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

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

TN - HJR293 Memorials, Recognition - Boy Scouts of America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR32 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Beverly Marrero

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Public Service - Sara Kyle

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

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

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 - HJR219 Memorials, Sports - Riverdale High School girls' basketball team, Divison I Class AAA State Champions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR2 Unknown

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

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

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

TN - HJR505 Memorials, Interns - Sommerie Denise Wade

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

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

TN - HJR681 Memorials, Recognition - William Ransom Jones, Sr.

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

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

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

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

TN - SB1891 Ethics - As enacted, prohibits any public officer or employee of a governing authority who is involved in making or administering a contract with a private entity that is governed by the private probation services council and that provides probation services from deriving any direct benefit from the contract. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 40.

TN - SB1612 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, declares that the general assembly occupies the whole field of regulation of firearms, ammunition, components of firearms or ammunition, or combinations thereof, prohibiting local regulation, with certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1314.

TN - SB65 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes a freight motor vehicle to exceed the maximum gross weight requirements by a certain amount if such motor vehicle has idle-reduction technology or other emissions-reduction technology installed. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 7.

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

TN - SB1292 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises provisions governing certain agreements entered into between HMOs and physician-hospital organizations where the risks are transferred to the organization or another provider. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

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

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

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

TN - SB1590 Short Term Loans and Lenders - As introduced, imposes an annual privilege tax of $1,000 due by December 31 of each year for each office operated by licensed deferred presentment service businesses. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 17 and Title 67.

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

TN - SB1777 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, prohibits the use of drones to interfere with private citizens who are lawfully hunting or fishing in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 4, Part 3.

TN - SB1890 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows a part-time employee of state college of applied technology to enroll in one course per semester at state supported higher education institute without paying the tuition charges or maintenance fees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB1927 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, creates the Tennessee rural teachers scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB635 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires the board for licensing health care facilities and board of medical examiners to make recommendations to the commissioner of health concerning regulation of outpatient cosmetic procedures; commissioner of health is to review the reports and make recommendations to the house health committee and the senate health and welfare committee. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB1908 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5 and Chapter 250 of the Public Acts of 2013.

TN - SB2253 Unknown

TN - SB2515 Mass Transit - As enacted, directs the department of transportation to conduct a preliminary study to determine the feasibility of a monorail public transportation system along the Nashville southeast corridor that connects downtown Murfreesboro to downtown Nashville along interstate 24.

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

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

TN - 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 - SB701 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, makes various changes to the expunction law such as establishing the procedure for appeal from a denial of an expunction petition, allowing more than one conviction to be expunged if all the offenses are eligible and they were part of the same criminal episode and clarifying that an order of expunction results in a clean record for all types of expunctions. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - SB1799 Recycling - As introduced, prohibits owners and operators of sanitary landfills located within a 25 mile radius of sites where asphalt roofing shingles are recycled pursuant to the issuance of a permit-by-rule from accepting, for disposal, loads of whole or processed asphalt roofing shingles; requires the underground storage tanks and solid waste disposal control board to post on its web site the name and address of each site at which the recycling of asphalt roof shingles is approved pursuant to the issuance of a permit-by-rule. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211 and Title 68, Chapter 213.

TN - SB643 Education, Higher - As enacted, renames the state technology centers to be "state colleges of applied technology" instead of "state technology centers". - Amends TCA Section 4-3-1405; Section 8-50-114; Section 39-13-114; Title 49; Section 54-5-708 and Section 67-6-329.

TN - SB552 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, revises the distance at which a horn or other sounding device on a motor vehicle must be heard; authorizes department of safety to set the fee for furnishing of driver records to certain persons and companies. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SB186 DUI Offenses - As enacted, reorganizes DUI statutes; clarifies punishment for offenses. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 42; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - SB2028 Eminent Domain - As enacted, reorganizes existing eminent domain law in Tennessee Code Annotated. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 29; Title 42; Title 54; Title 59; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

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

TN - SB1638 Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes any entity contracting with the department of safety to charge an additional fee of $4.00 for administrative costs related to the issuance, examination, and renewal of driver licenses, in the same manner as county clerks. - Amends TCA Section 55-50-331.

TN - SB946 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, extends the deadline for the Tennessee bureau of investigation to report to the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives regarding costs associated with conducting background checks from February 1 to March 1. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 68.

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 - 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 - SB1662 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, specifies that it is not a defense to prosecution for the offense of bribery of a public servant that the person who sought to influence a public official took action on behalf of a public or private organization, corporation, union, agency or other entity, for purposes of an organizing campaign or any other lawful purpose; revises offense of extortion; redefines "riot". - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 39, Chapter 16 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

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

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

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

TN - SB676 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, enacts the "Addison Sharp Prescription Regulatory Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - SB801 Local Government, General - As introduced, prohibits impact fees or adequate facilities taxes from being imposed on age-exclusive developments for persons 55 and older if children as permanent residents are also excluded; clarifies present acts imposing impact fees and adequate facilities taxes may be revised to reduce the fee or tax or remove types of property from being subject to such fees or taxes. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-2913.

TN - SB1602 Textbooks - As enacted, restructures the textbook commission and the textbook selection process; renames the commission to be the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

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

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

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 - SB1766 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises provisions governing motor vehicle producers leasing vehicles to eligible employees. - Amends TCA Section 55-17-123.

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

TN - SB1427 Taxes, Income - As introduced, beginning January 1, 2015, annually reduces the rate of the Hall Income Tax and increases the portion of taxes distributed to cities and counties in which the taxpayers are located; beginning January 1, 2018, requires 100 percent of the tax revenue collected by the state be distributed to the cities and counties. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

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

TN - SB113 Students - As enacted, modifies student discipline in case of physical attack. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2569 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, defines "curbstoning" as the practice of selling, or offering to sell, a motor vehicle that is not titled in the seller's name by a person lacking a license to sell motor vehicles in this state and permits state entities to seize vehicles offered for sale as part of a curbstoning scheme. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2; Title 55, Chapter 16, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - SB891 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, specifies that, upon the seizure of any personal property subject to forfeiture and where the person in possession is not being arrested, the seizing officer must provide the person found in possession of the property, if known, a notice of the forfeiture warrant hearing; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6 and Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2.

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 - SB877 Motor Vehicle Commission - As enacted, adds a non-franchise motor vehicle dealer as a member of the motor vehicle commission; increases quorum requirement by one person. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - SB2347 Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates June 6 as "Transverse Myelitis Awareness Day". - Amends TCA Title 15.

TN - SB633 Nuisances - As enacted, designates any place in which the sale or possession with intent to sell of drug paraphernalia is carried on or permitted as a nuisance. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3 and Title 39.

TN - SB650 Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, urges commissioner to use wildflowers native to each grand division in new wildflower plantings. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - SB79 Education, Higher - As introduced, creates the office of higher education ombudsperson within the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

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 - SB1789 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, allows a person who is not in compliance with child support obligations to receive a restricted driver license that permits driving to and from the person's regular place of employment or school. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5.

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 - SB794 Local Government, General - As introduced, permits a county or municipal correctional officer to carry a firearm if the officer has successfully completed firearms training in accordance with the department of correction standards. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - SB1002 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, revises various provisions governing property taxation and boards of equalization. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB714 Handgun Permits - As enacted, limits 10-year period that person must wait between exiting a drug or alcohol program or hospital before being eligible for a handgun carry permit to three years if the applicant entered rehab voluntarily; 10-year period still applies to those who enter rehab pursuant to a court order. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - SB649 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires department of transportation to prepare a long-range transportation plan that includes state-controlled bridges and highway improvements that will be revised and submitted annually to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12; Title 47; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

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 - SB2606 Rutherford County - As introduced, subject to local approval, requires that one road board member of road board district 5, instead of road board district 1, be elected at the August 2012 election; requires that one road board member of road board district 1, instead of road board district 5, be elected at the August 2014 election; replaces erroneous reference to “county judge” with “county executive”. - Amends Chapter 55 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended.

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

TN - SB1358 Education - As enacted, specifies that any barber school or school of cosmetology whose authorization by the department of commerce is denied by the United States department of education for student financial aid purposes may seek authorization from the Tennessee higher education commission under the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act and will thereafter be subject to all requirements of the Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1928 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires that evaluations of teachers be based on student performance only in subjects that were tested and in which the teacher taught the students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2, and Title 49, Chapter 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 - SB900 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires that all written and oral examinations administered to applicants for a driver license, intermediate driver license, temporary driver license, or temporary intermediate driver license shall be in English only. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - SB2243 Mass Transit - As enacted, establishes requirements that must be met in order for a local government or any transit authority created by any local government to construct, maintain or operate any bus rapid transit system using a separate lane, or other separate right-of-way, dedicated to the use of such bus rapid transit system on any state highway or state highway right-of-way. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 54; Title 64 and Title 67.

TN - SB2336 Unknown

TN - SB249 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, removes the ability for a producer of motor vehicles to enter into certain lease transactions for certain vehicles to the producer's employees; increases from three to four the number of vehicles that a producer may lease to full-time employees and specifically authorizes producers to lease up to four vehicles to leased employees of producers who work on site at a producer's facility in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 55-17-123.

TN - SB1164 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows retired state employees to take one class without charge per semester at public institutions of higher education; allows spouses of state employees to receive a 25 percent discount on tuition at public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-114; Section 8-50-115 and Section 49-7-113.

TN - SB1508 Controlled Substances - As enacted, adds "25H-NBOMe" as a new hallucinogen to the controlled substances in Schedule I and adds "Quinolinylindolecarboxesters" and "(1-Aminocarbonyl) propylindazolecarboxamides" to synthetic cannabinoids. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

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 - SB1844 Personal Property - As enacted, prohibits an individual, business or agency involved in the repossession of a vehicle from abandoning any personal property found in or on the vehicle for a period of 14 days following the repossession; establishes provisions governing the property being reclaimed by the owner. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 30; Title 47; Title 55, Chapter 5; Title 62 and Title 66.

TN - SB630 Correctional Programs - As introduced, broadens the board of the Tennessee corrections institute's authority to refuse to waive the minimum qualifications requirements for certain employees to include employees who suffer from certain mental illnesses or have been convicted of a felony or domestic assault. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 7.

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 - 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 - SB2545 Short Term Loans and Lenders - As introduced, imposes an annual fee of $1,000 due by December 31 of each year for each office operated by licensed deferred presentment service businesses. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 17 and Title 67.

TN - SB2449 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, clarifies that the person committing the offense of display of materials harmful to minors is the person responsible for displaying the visual depiction that contains material harmful to minors, which may include a retail store owner, retail store employee, distributor, supplier, or wholesaler of the material; increases offense from Class C to Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

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

TN - SB1889 Civil Procedure - As introduced, permits radio stations that receive public funding to sufficiently publish legal or public notice by announcing the complete notice on air and contemporaneously publishing the information on their web site. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 30, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB227 Grand Juries - As introduced, prohibits a person from serving as a grand jury foreman for more than four years. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 20; Title 22 and Title 40.

TN - SB1425 Education - As enacted, allows LEAs to teach the history of traditional winter celebrations; allows students and staff to use traditional greetings of such celebrations; and allows LEAs to display winter celebration scenes or symbols under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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