Tennessee Rep. Mike Stewart (D)

TN - Civil Justice (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Civil Justice Subcommittee (House)

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chair

TN - Ethics (House)

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chair

TN - Local Government (House)

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vice-chair

TN - HB2430 Human Rights - As introduced, establishes certain rights related to offering compassionate aid to persons in economic distress. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21.

TN - HB725 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the commissioner to develop a plan for ensuring that 90 percent of pregnant women in this state have access to prenatal care and to report findings to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate by February 1, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB727 Paternity - As introduced, extends the deadline for putative fathers to give notice of an address or telephone number change from 10 days to 15 days. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68.

TN - HB2019 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, redefines "industrial machinery" to exempt from sales and use tax machinery utilized in the design and manufacture of firearms equipped with integral devices that permit a user to program the firearm to operate only for specified person designated by the user through computerized locking devices or other means integral and permanently part of the firearm, when the machinery is utilized by a person whose principle business is fabricating or processing tangible personal property for resale. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB2021 Unknown

TN - HB2123 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Kenneth and Madge Tullis, JD, Suicide Prevention Training Act of 2014," which requires certain health professionals to complete suicide assessment and prevention training. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB732 Social Workers - As introduced, extends duration that special volunteer social worker licenses remain valid before renewal is required from two to three years. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB730 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, deletes obsolete language for spring sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB728 Education - As introduced, repeals the Virtual Public Schools Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 16, Part 2.

TN - HB346 Children - As introduced, enacts the "Access to Pediatric Rare Disease Treatment Information Act." - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB733 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, increases from a $1,000 maximum amount to a $1,500 maximum amount, that the commissioner of financial institutions may order as a civil penalty for a person to pay for a violation of the Tennessee Money Transmitter Act of 1994; increases by the same amount for per day assessments for continuing violations. - Amends TCA Title 45.

TN - HB2283 Evidence - As introduced, revises requirements for identifying medical bills in civil actions to allow patients and their caretakers to prove up such documents. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 63, Chapter 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB2022 Unknown

TN - HB2018 Unknown

TN - HB731 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, authorizes comptroller of the treasury, the secretary of state and the state treasurer to appoint designees to serve in their place on the commission. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2017 Unknown

TN - HB724 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, for Davidson, Shelby, Hamilton, and Knox counties, revises the definition of "certain unfunded pension obligations" for which such local governments may issue bonds; revises related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 21.

TN - HB94 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, prohibits an insurance company from increasing a premium or cancelling a homeowner's insurance policy solely on the basis of an inquiry or inquiries by an insured regarding the insured's homeowner's policy or a loss under the policy. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 66.

TN - HB2015 Unknown

TN - HB1893 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to submit to the governor and general assembly findings and recommendations concerning the efficiency and effectiveness of the model teen learning centers prior to December 15, rather than January 15. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB726 Election Laws - As introduced, requires state election commission to create a Tennessee voter bill of rights in consultation with the coordinator of elections and county election commissions. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1953 Courts, Administrative Office of the - As introduced, requires the AOC to issue registration numbers to any person seeking to serve process for the courts of this state who is not less than eighteen years of age; requires a registration number to be included on the return for any process served. - Amends TCA Title 20.

TN - HB2020 Unknown

TN - HB2016 Unknown

TN - HB226 Evidence - As introduced, prohibits a court, grand jury, general assembly or other administrative body from requiring the news media or press to disclose the identity of individuals who participate in online services offered by the news media or press in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 24-1-208.

TN - HB2013 Unknown

TN - HB2014 Unknown

TN - HB723 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, authorizes governmental entities to include language stating maximum penalty for offense of theft in signs warning public that theft of material from stone walls is theft. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - HB722 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, prohibits discrimination by a utility district on account of creed, color, religion, sex, age or national origin in provision or laying out of utility services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 7, Chapter 82; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB729 Sentencing - As introduced, increases from 10 to 15 the number of days prior to a sentencing hearing that a presentence report shall be filed. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB290 TennCare - As introduced, with respect to the Medicaid program, authorizes the department of finance and administration to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to either the extent permitted or required by law. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB256 Nuisances - As enacted, authorizes the court to include in its order of abatement, costs for public services required to abate or manage the nuisance, which may include law enforcement costs, if any, caused by the public nuisance. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2266 Welfare - As enacted, requires the commissioner of human services, in consultation with various governmental and non-governmental entities that serve poor people, to conduct a study of poverty in Tennessee and submit a state anti-poverty plan to the governor and the general assembly by January 15, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB2285 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires any pending order of protection or restraining order to be served on domestic violence offender before release following the mandatory twelve-hour holding period; directs a copy of protection order to be issued to any court in which the respondent or petitioner are parties to an action. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - HB300 Real Property - As enacted, authorizes the private sale of certain real or personal property owned by local governments of the state to certain nonprofits for historical or cultural conservation; requires a majority vote of the local legislative body in order for a political subdivision of the state to dispose of property by private negotiation and sale under this bill. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 12.

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

TN - HB542 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, requires a pharmacist to make every reasonable effort to prevent the abuse of drugs which the pharmacist dispenses; makes it a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by fine only, for the owner, manager or operator of a pharmacy to knowingly restrict or interfere with, or knowingly require a protocol or procedure that restricts or interferes with, a pharmacist's professional duty to counsel with patients and to evaluate the patients' appropriate pharmaceutical needs and the exercise of the pharmacist's professional judgment as to whether it is appropriate to dispense a legend drug to a patient. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 56; Title 63, Chapter 1; Title 63, Chapter 10; Title 67 and Title 68.

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

TN - HB228 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, establishes monitoring and audit requirements by the department of finance and administration of the pharmacy benefit manager's compliance with state pharmacy benefit contracts. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

TN - HB1064 Education - As enacted, revises provisions governing the hiring of persons who have committed certain criminal offenses. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.

TN - HB2267 Litter Control - As enacted, enhances the fine for the offense of aggravated criminal littering when the amount of litter exceeds 100 pounds in weight or 30 cubic feet in volume from no greater than $2,500 to between $2,500 and $4,000. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7, Part 3; Section 5-1-115; Section 6-54-113; Title 7, Chapter 63, Part 2; Section 13-21-204; Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 5; Title 54, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Section 55-10-420.

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 - HB1763 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "True Origin of Goods Act". - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - HB1721 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, enacts the "Equity for Entrepreneurs Act"; allows franchise and excise tax credits of $5,000 for eligible start-up small businesses that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

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

TN - HB1574 Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises provisions governing the sale of products containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

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 - HB2385 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, deletes the provision that terminates the Commercial Breeder Act on June 30, 2014. - Amends Chapter 591 of the Public Acts of 200.

TN - HB1713 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, deletes the Intractable Pain Treatment Act. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB291 Education - As introduced, eliminates outdated 1977 travel reimbursement of 15 cents per mile for high school counselors serving more than one school that originally only applied to Monroe County. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1341 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, authorizes .25 percent fee on sale of goods and services within a central business improvement district located wholly within a tourism development zone in metropolitan governments for the purpose of convention recruitment, event promotion and security. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 88 and Title 67.

TN - HB2408 Gates - As introduced, subject to local approval, increases length of terms for the board of mayor and aldermen from two to four years; moves the election of the board of mayor and aldermen to coincide with the regular November election beginning in 2016; extends the two-year term of the board of mayor and aldermen elected in June, 2013, to the date of the board's first regular meeting in December, 2016, following the November election. - Amends Chapter 286 of the Private Acts of 1943; as amended.

TN - HB1846 Education - As enacted, enacts "The Tennessee Community Schools Act". - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB517 Child Abuse - As introduced, requires a child advocacy center to perform the initial forensic interview with a child who is the victim of alleged child sexual abuse and any subsequent interviews found necessary by the child protective team to be conducted in a neutral setting. - Amends TCA Title 37.

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

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

TN - HB1722 Securities - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Investment Exemption Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13 and Title 48.

TN - HB718 Business and Commerce - As enacted, enacts the "Made in Tennessee Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7.

TN - HB610 Wine & Wineries - As enacted, authorizes any city or county that has held and passed a referendum authorizing either retail package stores or sales of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises to hold a referendum that authorizes the sale of wine in retail food stores; creates permit to sell wine at retail food stores; revises other provisions governing the sale of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 57.

TN - HB1287 Consumer Protection - As enacted, revises provisions governing the rating of motion pictures and admittance of minors to certain movies; prohibits promoting a motion picture as having a rating other than the rating that has been assigned to it. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1268 Building Commission, State - As enacted, encourages the commission to prescribe high performance building requirements and other standards, and promulgate rules, which meet or exceed the 2005 Sustainable Design Guidelines that the commission implemented, that are necessary to ensure all state buildings perform in an energy efficient manner; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 43 and Title 49, Chapter 17.

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 - HB2007 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Animal Abuser Registration Act". - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 44.

TN - HB1074 Military - As enacted, authorizes public employees who are in the military to use five days of sick leave in lieu of annual leave after the employee has received 20 working days of compensation so the employee does not have to take leave without pay when called to military duties. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33, Part 1.

TN - HB2349 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Teach First Act," which requires the commissioner of education to be a licensed teacher for at least ten years prior to the appointment as commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 8 and Title 49.

TN - HB1385 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, creates the "Koozer-Kuhn Medical Cannabis Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 2; Title 39; Title 43; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1080 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, exempts speech pathologists from the professional privilege tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HB591 Search & Seizure - As enacted, enacts the "Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act." - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.

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

TN - HB2005 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Work-Share Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - HB867 Public Health - As enacted, requires schools and other organizations conducting youth athletic programs to adopt concussion policies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68, Chapter 55.

TN - HB288 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Jacob Nunley Act," which requires immunization against meningococcal disease for incoming students at public institutions of higher learning who live in on-campus housing. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 4; Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB1723 TennCare - As introduced, with respect to the Medicaid program, authorizes the department of finance and administration to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to the full extent permitted so long as the federal matching rate for the expansion population remains at 100 percent. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

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 - 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 - HB1873 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, requires, for any FastTrack grant or loan contract awarded after July 1, 2014, the department of economic and community development to publish all baseline reports or annual reports filed with the department on its web site within 90 days of receipt; requires that a one-time report be filed for certain FastTrack grants or loans awarded between May 27, 2005, and January 1, 2011. - Amends TCA Title 4.

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

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

TN - HB1466 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, establishes requirements for obtaining identification when certain drugs are dispensed. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 11, Part 3.

TN - HB2337 Domestic Violence - As enacted, specifies, in regard to the 30-day and 90-day sentences to confinement for second and third convictions of domestic assault that results in bodily injury, that the respective sentence has to be served on consecutive days; specifies that individuals convicted of domestic assault that results in bodily injury must serve at least the minimum sentence day for day, and serve the difference between the time actually served and the maximum sentence on probation. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HB516 Children - As introduced, creates the department of children's services oversight committee. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 37.

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

TN - HB1109 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, authorizes a court restoring a person's rights of citizenship following conviction for a crime to also grant a certificate of employability; provides certain immunity to employers who hire a person who has been issued a certificate; enacts other provisions related to the certificate of employability. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.

TN - HB253 Unemployment Compensation - As introduced, implements a self-employment assistance program for persons who are eligible for regular unemployment compensation. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7.

TN - HB927 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, expands definition of harassment and bullying in schools to include conduct based on actual or perceived demographic traits, requires review of anti-bullying policies at least once every three years, clarifies that such policies apply to students, school staff and volunteers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HB1694 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, sets minimum wage at $8.25 per hour for certain employers who do not offer health benefits to employees and employees' dependents, subject to exceptions for certain types of employment. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - HR1 Unknown

TN - HR13 Memorials, Recognition - Niki Brown

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

TN - HR4 Unknown

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

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

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

TN - HR83 Memorials, Interns - Alex Uhlmann

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

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

TN - HR5 Unknown

TN - HR2 Unknown

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

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

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

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

TN - HR135 Memorials, Interns - Zane Wyrick

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

TN - HR3 Unknown

TN - HR120 Memorials, Interns - Alexis Darvin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR217 Memorials, Recognition - Carolyn House Stewart

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR393 Memorials, Death - Cindy Leigh McAfee

TN - HJR802 Memorials, Recognition - Cane Ridge Community Club.

TN - HJR837 Memorials, Recognition - Jaliyah Peterson, Miss Black Clarksville 2014.

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

TN - HJR847 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses profound regret for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans.

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

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

TN - HJR2 Unknown

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

TN - HJR32 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Beverly Marrero

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

TN - HJR163 Memorials, Retirement - Sandy Sain

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

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

TN - HJR106 Memorials, Death - Marcellas Brooks

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR505 Memorials, Interns - Sommerie Denise Wade

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR518 Memorials, Interns - Jada Denise Flowers

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

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

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

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Public Service - Sara Kyle

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

TN - HJR30 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Jeanne Richardson

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

TN - HJR31 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Mike Kernell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR436 Memorials, Retirement - David Norton

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

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

TN - HJR647 Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Lee.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR225 Memorials, Recognition - Pettus L. Read

TN - HJR297 Memorials, Recognition - Harold D. Morrell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR444 Memorials, Recognition - Rev. Walter Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR298 Memorials, Recognition - Jonah and Emory Marlin

TN - HJR740 Memorials, Retirement - Doyle Thomas Grant.

TN - HJR572 Memorials, Sports - Bobby Davis.

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

TN - HJR211 Memorials, Public Service - Eddie Bryan

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

TN - HJR930 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the department of labor to increase enforcement of T.C.A. 50-2-202 which governs gender pay equity in the state of Tennessee.

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

TN - HJR910 Memorials, Sports - South Nashville All Stars Little League, U.S. Little League World Series participants.

TN - HJR125 Memorials, Recognition - Belmont Homework Hotline

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

TN - HJR755 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Demetria Kalodimos.

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

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 - HJR165 Memorials, Death - Donald "Duck" Dunn

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

TN - SB809 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, authorizes comptroller of the treasury, the secretary of state and the state treasurer to appoint designees to serve in their place on the commission. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2118 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, redefines "industrial machinery" to exempt from sales and use tax machinery utilized in the design and manufacture of firearms equipped with integral devices that permit a user to program the firearm to operate only for specified person designated by the user through computerized locking devices or other means integral and permanently part of the firearm, when the machinery is utilized by a person whose principle business is fabricating or processing tangible personal property for resale. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB574 Children - As introduced, creates the department of children's services oversight committee. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 37.

TN - SB2536 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Teach First Act," which requires the commissioner of education to be a licensed teacher for at least ten years prior to the appointment as commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 8 and Title 49.

TN - SB1307 Building Commission, State - As enacted, encourages the commission to prescribe high performance building requirements and other standards, and promulgate rules, which meet or exceed the 2005 Sustainable Design Guidelines that the commission implemented, that are necessary to ensure all state buildings perform in an energy efficient manner; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 43 and Title 49, Chapter 17.

TN - SB2150 Litter Control - As enacted, enhances the fine for the offense of aggravated criminal littering when the amount of litter exceeds 100 pounds in weight or 30 cubic feet in volume from no greater than $2,500 to between $2,500 and $4,000. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7, Part 3; Section 5-1-115; Section 6-54-113; Title 7, Chapter 63, Part 2; Section 13-21-204; Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 5; Title 54, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Section 55-10-420.

TN - SB1062 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, authorizes governmental entities to include language stating maximum penalty for offense of theft in signs warning public that theft of material from stone walls is theft. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - SB667 Military - As enacted, authorizes public employees who are in the military to use five days of sick leave in lieu of annual leave after the employee has received 20 working days of compensation so the employee does not have to take leave without pay when called to military duties. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33, Part 1.

TN - SB262 Education - As introduced, eliminates outdated 1977 travel reimbursement of 15 cents per mile for high school counselors serving more than one school that originally only applied to Monroe County. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1794 Domestic Violence - As enacted, specifies, in regard to the 30-day and 90-day sentences to confinement for second and third convictions of domestic assault that results in bodily injury, that the respective sentence has to be served on consecutive days; specifies that individuals convicted of domestic assault that results in bodily injury must serve at least the minimum sentence day for day, and serve the difference between the time actually served and the maximum sentence on probation. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - SB1140 Consumer Protection - As enacted, revises provisions governing the rating of motion pictures and admittance of minors to certain movies; prohibits promoting a motion picture as having a rating other than the rating that has been assigned to it. - Amends TCA Title 39.

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 - SB1040 Nuisances - As enacted, authorizes the court to include in its order of abatement, costs for public services required to abate or manage the nuisance, which may include law enforcement costs, if any, caused by the public nuisance. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3.

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 - SB296 Paternity - As introduced, extends the deadline for putative fathers to give notice of an address or telephone number change from 10 days to 15 days. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68.

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

TN - SB2380 Welfare - As enacted, requires the commissioner of human services, in consultation with various governmental and non-governmental entities that serve poor people, to conduct a study of poverty in Tennessee and submit a state anti-poverty plan to the governor and the general assembly by January 15, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - SB2468 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, deletes the provision that terminates the Commercial Breeder Act on June 30, 2014. - Amends Chapter 591 of the Public Acts of 200.

TN - SB1978 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, requires, for any FastTrack grant or loan contract awarded after July 1, 2014, the department of economic and community development to publish all baseline reports or annual reports filed with the department on its web site within 90 days of receipt; requires that a one-time report be filed for certain FastTrack grants or loans awarded between May 27, 2005, and January 1, 2011. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SB2213 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Work-Share Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB1751 Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises provisions governing the sale of products containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - SB74 Real Property - As enacted, authorizes the private sale of certain real or personal property owned by local governments of the state to certain nonprofits for historical or cultural conservation; requires a majority vote of the local legislative body in order for a political subdivision of the state to dispose of property by private negotiation and sale under this bill. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 12.

TN - SB816 Election Laws - As introduced, requires state election commission to create a Tennessee voter bill of rights in consultation with the coordinator of elections and county election commissions. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB1060 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, increases from a $1,000 maximum amount to a $1,500 maximum amount, that the commissioner of financial institutions may order as a civil penalty for a person to pay for a violation of the Tennessee Money Transmitter Act of 1994; increases by the same amount for per day assessments for continuing violations. - Amends TCA Title 45.

TN - SB2451 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, creates the "Koozer-Kuhn Medical Cannabis Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 2; Title 39; Title 43; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 63 and Title 68.

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 - SB604 TennCare - As introduced, with respect to the Medicaid program, authorizes the department of finance and administration to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to either the extent permitted or required by law. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - SB2387 Evidence - As introduced, revises requirements for identifying medical bills in civil actions to allow patients and their caretakers to prove up such documents. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 63, Chapter 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - SB2145 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, sets minimum wage at $8.25 per hour for certain employers who do not offer health benefits to employees and employees' dependents, subject to exceptions for certain types of employment. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB2152 Unknown

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 - SB1238 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, exempts speech pathologists from the professional privilege tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - SB2120 Unknown

TN - SB2494 Gates - As introduced, subject to local approval, increases length of terms for the board of mayor and aldermen from two to four years; moves the election of the board of mayor and aldermen to coincide with the regular November election beginning in 2016; extends the two-year term of the board of mayor and aldermen elected in June, 2013, to the date of the board's first regular meeting in December, 2016, following the November election. - Amends Chapter 286 of the Private Acts of 1943; as amended.

TN - SB817 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the commissioner to develop a plan for ensuring that 90 percent of pregnant women in this state have access to prenatal care and to report findings to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate by February 1, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1977 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, enacts the "Equity for Entrepreneurs Act"; allows franchise and excise tax credits of $5,000 for eligible start-up small businesses that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

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

TN - SB875 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, for Davidson, Shelby, Hamilton, and Knox counties, revises the definition of "certain unfunded pension obligations" for which such local governments may issue bonds; revises related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 21.

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 - SB1957 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to submit to the governor and general assembly findings and recommendations concerning the efficiency and effectiveness of the model teen learning centers prior to December 15, rather than January 15. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - SB2224 Unknown

TN - SB2377 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Kenneth and Madge Tullis, JD, Suicide Prevention Training Act of 2014," which requires certain health professionals to complete suicide assessment and prevention training. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB2163 Unknown

TN - SB806 Business and Commerce - As enacted, enacts the "Made in Tennessee Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7.

TN - SB922 Education - As enacted, revises provisions governing the hiring of persons who have committed certain criminal offenses. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.

TN - SB1074 Child Abuse - As introduced, requires a child advocacy center to perform the initial forensic interview with a child who is the victim of alleged child sexual abuse and any subsequent interviews found necessary by the child protective team to be conducted in a neutral setting. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB557 Children - As introduced, enacts the "Access to Pediatric Rare Disease Treatment Information Act." - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB1124 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, expands definition of harassment and bullying in schools to include conduct based on actual or perceived demographic traits, requires review of anti-bullying policies at least once every three years, clarifies that such policies apply to students, school staff and volunteers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB63 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, establishes monitoring and audit requirements by the department of finance and administration of the pharmacy benefit manager's compliance with state pharmacy benefit contracts. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

TN - SB2164 Unknown

TN - SB2168 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires any pending order of protection or restraining order to be served on domestic violence offender before release following the mandatory twelve-hour holding period; directs a copy of protection order to be issued to any court in which the respondent or petitioner are parties to an action. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - SB93 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Jacob Nunley Act," which requires immunization against meningococcal disease for incoming students at public institutions of higher learning who live in on-campus housing. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 4; Title 49 and Title 68.

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

TN - SB2223 Unknown

TN - SB882 Public Health - As enacted, requires schools and other organizations conducting youth athletic programs to adopt concussion policies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68, Chapter 55.

TN - SB796 Search & Seizure - As enacted, enacts the "Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act." - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.

TN - SB2099 Securities - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Investment Exemption Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13 and Title 48.

TN - SB2453 Human Rights - As introduced, establishes certain rights related to offering compassionate aid to persons in economic distress. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21.

TN - SB96 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, prohibits an insurance company from increasing a premium or cancelling a homeowner's insurance policy solely on the basis of an inquiry or inquiries by an insured regarding the insured's homeowner's policy or a loss under the policy. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 66.

TN - SB1212 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, authorizes .25 percent fee on sale of goods and services within a central business improvement district located wholly within a tourism development zone in metropolitan governments for the purpose of convention recruitment, event promotion and security. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 88 and Title 67.

TN - SB2171 Unknown

TN - SB808 Sentencing - As introduced, increases from 10 to 15 the number of days prior to a sentencing hearing that a presentence report shall be filed. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1065 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, prohibits discrimination by a utility district on account of creed, color, religion, sex, age or national origin in provision or laying out of utility services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 7, Chapter 82; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - SB1061 Social Workers - As introduced, extends duration that special volunteer social worker licenses remain valid before renewal is required from two to three years. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - SB2162 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Animal Abuser Registration Act". - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 44.

TN - SB2225 Unknown

TN - SB807 Education - As introduced, repeals the Virtual Public Schools Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 16, Part 2.

TN - SB837 Wine & Wineries - As enacted, authorizes any city or county that has held and passed a referendum authorizing either retail package stores or sales of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises to hold a referendum that authorizes the sale of wine in retail food stores; creates permit to sell wine at retail food stores; revises other provisions governing the sale of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 57.

TN - SB580 Unemployment Compensation - As introduced, implements a self-employment assistance program for persons who are eligible for regular unemployment compensation. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1936 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "True Origin of Goods Act". - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB1924 Education - As enacted, enacts "The Tennessee Community Schools Act". - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2119 Unknown

TN - SB1975 TennCare - As introduced, with respect to the Medicaid program, authorizes the department of finance and administration to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to the full extent permitted so long as the federal matching rate for the expansion population remains at 100 percent. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - SB2121 Unknown

TN - SB106 Evidence - As introduced, prohibits a court, grand jury, general assembly or other administrative body from requiring the news media or press to disclose the identity of individuals who participate in online services offered by the news media or press in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 24-1-208.

TN - SB1832 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, establishes requirements for obtaining identification when certain drugs are dispensed. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 11, Part 3.

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

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

TN - SB1123 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, deletes obsolete language for spring sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67.

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

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

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

TN - SB962 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, requires a pharmacist to make every reasonable effort to prevent the abuse of drugs which the pharmacist dispenses; makes it a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by fine only, for the owner, manager or operator of a pharmacy to knowingly restrict or interfere with, or knowingly require a protocol or procedure that restricts or interferes with, a pharmacist's professional duty to counsel with patients and to evaluate the patients' appropriate pharmaceutical needs and the exercise of the pharmacist's professional judgment as to whether it is appropriate to dispense a legend drug to a patient. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 56; Title 63, Chapter 1; Title 63, Chapter 10; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB276 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, authorizes a court restoring a person's rights of citizenship following conviction for a crime to also grant a certificate of employability; provides certain immunity to employers who hire a person who has been issued a certificate; enacts other provisions related to the certificate of employability. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.

TN - SB1819 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, deletes the Intractable Pain Treatment Act. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

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