Tennessee Rep. Mike Turner (D)

TN - Calendar and Rules (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Consumer and Human Resources (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Government Operations (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Health (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Health Subcommittee (House)

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chair

TN - HB1013 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, requires the executive director of the alcoholic beverage commission to report the manner and time frame of communications between the commission and the local beer boards under the pilot project established in certain counties. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1; Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 2 and Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 3.

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 - HB1011 Sentencing - As introduced, provides that an offender who uses a deadly weapon to commit a sexual assault and a deadly weapon is not an essential element of the offense must serve 100 percent of the sentence imposed by the court without parole. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 5.

TN - HB2403 Budget Procedures - As introduced, requires two-thirds vote of both houses to exceed Copeland spending cap; requires speaker to announce that cap has been exceeded at time of passage and upon adjournment of the annual session of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1; Title 3, Chapter 2 and Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 52.

TN - HB1006 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes the issuance of licenses to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises of certain live music venues. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1213 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, extends from 2014 to 2020 the authority of metropolitan governments to impose a hotel occupancy tax in excess of $2.00, the revenues from which are placed in an event and marketing fund to be attached to a convention and visitors bureau. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - HB1012 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, revises the offense of displaying an imitation firearm in a public place by requiring that the display was in a way that would cause a reasonable person to fear "serious bodily injury" to themselves or another instead of "bodily injury"; increases violation from Class B to Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1016 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, gives nontraditional students who receive a Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant and obtain a diploma from a Tennessee technology center a pathway to qualify for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB1015 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, authorizes the chief executive officer or the plan administrator to transmit a report on the actuarial and financial status of the retirement plan in effect for employees of the local government unit in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 9; Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.

TN - HB2198 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, permits a Tennessee HOPE scholarship recipient to omit the grades from one semester from the recipient's HOPE cumulative grade point average without penalty. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

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 - HB2202 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, requires appropriate training be provided to newly appointed members of health related and regulatory boards prior to beginning their service on such boards. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 62, Chapter 76, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB1010 Election Laws - As introduced, permits any registered Tennessee voter to vote absentee; requires the county election commission to establish a permanent absentee voting register. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1009 Contractors - As introduced, subjects certain contractors submitting bids on certain public projects to penalties for failing to register with the department of revenue and intentionally misclassifying individuals as independent contractors to avoid financial implications under other laws; authorizes the department of revenue, the chief procurement officer and the department of labor and workforce development to coordinate enforcement of such provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 62.

TN - HB1462 Lottery, Charitable - As enacted, extends deadline for applications for 2013-2014 annual events for three days after effective date of this act. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - HB2201 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an offense of photographing or recording the intimate parts of another where the parties agree that the image shall remain private and distributing the image with the intent to cause emotional distress, and the depicted person suffers emotional distress. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB1017 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows a student receiving college credit for dual enrollment or dual credit courses to include, at the student's discretion, the grades from such courses in the student's lottery grade point average. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB2405 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, expands definition of "urban park center" for purposes of on-premises consumption; expands definition of "sports authority facility" to include minor, as well as major, baseball leagues for purposes of on-premises consumption. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2404 Metropolitan Government - As enacted, increases, from five to six, the number of members on the event and marketing fund committee of Metro Nashville by adding an appointee who owns or operates a business within the central business improvement district. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 4.

TN - HJR131 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment to limit consecutive service of senators and representatives to six general assemblies.

TN - HB1008 State Government - As introduced, re-establishes select joint committees on corrections, children and youth, and TennCare. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 37 and Title 71.

TN - HJR857 Memorials, Sports - East Nashville Magnet School boys' basketball team, Class AA Runner Up.

TN - HB1214 Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires radiologist assistants to work in the employ or at the direction of a radiologist when practicing radiology assistance. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB2200 Evidence - As enacted, prohibits any employer from introducing the results of a voice stress analysis performed on an employee to prove misconduct by the employee at any hearing or other employment procedure in which the employee is entitled to due process. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 50.

TN - HJR846 Memorials, Public Service - Herbert Douglas Hardcastle.

TN - HB2199 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, allows licensed establishments within the central business improvement district in Davidson County to sell alcoholic beverages and beer in to-go containers. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2197 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires the central procurement office to establish an online database and makes other various changes to the public contracting laws of the state. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 10 and Title 12.

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

TN - HB1014 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, allows holders of a wholesale liquor license to sell on credit for not more than 10 business days, rather than 10 calendar days. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HJR199 Memorials, Recognition - Issac Litton High School

TN - HJR163 Memorials, Retirement - Sandy Sain

TN - HB1007 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, deletes obsolete language for spring sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6; Title 67, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 8, Part 2.

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

TN - HB2406 Alcohol Offenses, Sales - As enacted, revises various provisions relating to restaurants and limited service restaurants and the sale of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

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 - HB1265 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires health insurance policies to cover screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

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 - HB2342 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, specifies circumstances under which a nursing home may divide and relocate a portion of its licensed beds (each being a qualified partial relocation). - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB1962 Employees, Employers - As introduced, adds the outcome measurements and the actual cost to the employer report submitted to the department of economic and community development by the employers receiving the job skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - HB972 Tennessee Regulatory Authority - As enacted, revises various provisions pertaining to the TRA's power to regulate telecommunications providers. - Amends TCA Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB1844 Water Pollution - As introduced, prohibits issuance of a water quality control permit that would alter any ridgeline that is more than 1,800 feet above sea level. - Amends TCA Title 59 and Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

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 - HB1000 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Fairness in Ticketing Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 62.

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

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 - HB2346 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, creates an underground utility damage enforcement board to resolve complaints related to underground utility damage; requires participation in the one-call service for certain utilities; and makes other changes related to preventing damage to underground utilities. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 65.

TN - HB1686 Judgments - As enacted, provides that a civil judgment or restitution order converted to civil judgment is valid until paid in full rather than renewed every 10 years if the judgment is based upon injury or death caused by criminal conduct and the judgment debtor was convicted of a criminal offense for such conduct. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

TN - HB884 Ethics - As introduced, excludes state party executive committee members from public official disclosure of interests requirements. - Amends TCA Section 2-10-102 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 5.

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 - HB2490 Firefighters - As introduced, enacts the "Firefighter Training Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 68.

TN - HB2255 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, enacts the "911 Funding Modernization and IP Transition Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86; Section 9-8-307; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 65.

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 - HB2288 Veterans - As introduced, allows eligible veteran and veteran's spouse to be interred at no cost if buried in a Tennessee veterans’ cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

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 - HB1554 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, regulates the use of maximum allowable cost lists by pharmacy benefit managers and covered entities. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

TN - HB1301 Public Employees - As introduced, requires municipalities, counties and other political subdivisions to grant leave of absence to full-time employees for service in the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38.

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 - HB43 Water Pollution - As introduced, prohibits issuance of a water quality control permit that would alter any ridgeline that is more than 2,000 feet above sea level. - Amends TCA Title 59 and Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

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

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

TN - 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 - 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 - HB1728 Aircraft and Airports - As introduced, requires any metropolitan airport authority to approve certain proposed fee increases by its governing body; to impose and assess fees consistently; and to grant users equal access to the airport. - Amends TCA Title 42, Chapter 4, Part 1.

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 - HB1555 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, regulates dispensing of immediate methamphetamine precursor by making it a controlled substance requiring a prescription - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 53, Chapter 11 and Title 63, Chapter 10.

TN - HB2027 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a winery or farm wine producer to conduct business at satellite locations; requires all payments to wholesalers by licensees be made by electronic funds transfer, credit card, debit card, or such other method that will facilitate full payment at or near the time of delivery; revises other various provisions governing alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HB898 Political Parties - As introduced, requires statewide political party to hold primary election for nominations for judge, chancellor, district attorney general and public defender in multi-county judicial districts. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HR30 Memorials, Recognition - Second Annual House Homecoming, Wednesday, March 27, 2013

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 - 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 - HR151 Memorials, Recognition - Third Annual House Homecoming, Tuesday, March 18, 2014.

TN - HJR125 Memorials, Recognition - Belmont Homework Hotline

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

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

TN - HJR647 Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Lee.

TN - HJR553 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Acknowledges, renounces, and expresses regret for the Removal Act of 1830 and the Trail of Tears.

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR755 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Demetria Kalodimos.

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 - HJR909 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Charles Curtiss.

TN - HJR106 Memorials, Death - Marcellas Brooks

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 - HJR297 Memorials, Recognition - Harold D. Morrell

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

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

TN - HJR211 Memorials, Public Service - Eddie Bryan

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 - HJR802 Memorials, Recognition - Cane Ridge Community Club.

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 - 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 - HJR46 Memorials, Death - Major L. DeBerry

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

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Public Service - Sara Kyle

TN - HJR301 Memorials, Recognition - Oak Ridge Children's Museum, 40th anniversary

TN - HJR302 Memorials, Recognition - Oak Ridge, 70th anniversary

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR740 Memorials, Retirement - Doyle Thomas Grant.

TN - HJR798 Memorials, Recognition - Coalition of 100 Black Women.

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

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

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

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 - 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 - SB1120 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, revises the offense of displaying an imitation firearm in a public place by requiring that the display was in a way that would cause a reasonable person to fear "serious bodily injury" to themselves or another instead of "bodily injury"; increases violation from Class B to Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB813 Sentencing - As introduced, provides that an offender who uses a deadly weapon to commit a sexual assault and a deadly weapon is not an essential element of the offense must serve 100 percent of the sentence imposed by the court without parole. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 5.

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 - SB2142 Unknown

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 - SB2588 Firefighters - As introduced, enacts the "Firefighter Training Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 68.

TN - SB1991 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, regulates the use of maximum allowable cost lists by pharmacy benefit managers and covered entities. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

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 - SB814 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, requires the executive director of the alcoholic beverage commission to report the manner and time frame of communications between the commission and the local beer boards under the pilot project established in certain counties. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1; Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 2 and Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 3.

TN - SB99 Water Pollution - As introduced, prohibits issuance of a water quality control permit that would alter any ridgeline that is more than 2,000 feet above sea level. - Amends TCA Title 59 and Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - SB2484 Metropolitan Government - As enacted, increases, from five to six, the number of members on the event and marketing fund committee of Metro Nashville by adding an appointee who owns or operates a business within the central business improvement district. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 4.

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

TN - 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 - 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 - SB526 Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires radiologist assistants to work in the employ or at the direction of a radiologist when practicing radiology assistance. - Amends TCA Title 63.

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 - SB812 Contractors - As introduced, subjects certain contractors submitting bids on certain public projects to penalties for failing to register with the department of revenue and intentionally misclassifying individuals as independent contractors to avoid financial implications under other laws; authorizes the department of revenue, the chief procurement officer and the department of labor and workforce development to coordinate enforcement of such provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 62.

TN - SB1651 Lottery, Charitable - As enacted, extends deadline for applications for 2013-2014 annual events for three days after effective date of this act. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - SB2086 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an offense of photographing or recording the intimate parts of another where the parties agree that the image shall remain private and distributing the image with the intent to cause emotional distress, and the depicted person suffers emotional distress. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 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 - 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 - SB2217 Veterans - As introduced, allows eligible veteran and veteran's spouse to be interred at no cost if buried in a Tennessee veterans’ cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1286 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires health insurance policies to cover screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

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 - SB2407 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, enacts the "911 Funding Modernization and IP Transition Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86; Section 9-8-307; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 65.

TN - SB707 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, extends from 2014 to 2020 the authority of metropolitan governments to impose a hotel occupancy tax in excess of $2.00, the revenues from which are placed in an event and marketing fund to be attached to a convention and visitors bureau. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 4, Part 2.

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

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

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 - SB2470 Budget Procedures - As introduced, requires two-thirds vote of both houses to exceed Copeland spending cap; requires speaker to announce that cap has been exceeded at time of passage and upon adjournment of the annual session of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1; Title 3, Chapter 2 and Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 52.

TN - SB2482 Alcohol Offenses, Sales - As enacted, revises various provisions relating to restaurants and limited service restaurants and the sale of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB1739 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, allows licensed establishments within the central business improvement district in Davidson County to sell alcoholic beverages and beer in to-go containers. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - SB609 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Fairness in Ticketing Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 62.

TN - SB2429 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, specifies circumstances under which a nursing home may divide and relocate a portion of its licensed beds (each being a qualified partial relocation). - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - SB1925 Water Pollution - As introduced, prohibits issuance of a water quality control permit that would alter any ridgeline that is more than 1,800 feet above sea level. - Amends TCA Title 59 and Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - SB2486 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, expands definition of "urban park center" for purposes of on-premises consumption; expands definition of "sports authority facility" to include minor, as well as major, baseball leagues for purposes of on-premises consumption. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2211 Employees, Employers - As introduced, adds the outcome measurements and the actual cost to the employer report submitted to the department of economic and community development by the employers receiving the job skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB810 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, gives nontraditional students who receive a Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant and obtain a diploma from a Tennessee technology center a pathway to qualify for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

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 - SB855 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes the issuance of licenses to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises of certain live music venues. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

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 - SB1122 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, deletes obsolete language for spring sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6; Title 67, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 8, Part 2.

TN - SB1301 Public Employees - As introduced, requires municipalities, counties and other political subdivisions to grant leave of absence to full-time employees for service in the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38.

TN - SB815 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, allows holders of a wholesale liquor license to sell on credit for not more than 10 business days, rather than 10 calendar days. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB1180 Tennessee Regulatory Authority - As enacted, revises various provisions pertaining to the TRA's power to regulate telecommunications providers. - Amends TCA Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - SB1119 State Government - As introduced, re-establishes select joint committees on corrections, children and youth, and TennCare. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 37 and Title 71.

TN - SB1135 Ethics - As introduced, excludes state party executive committee members from public official disclosure of interests requirements. - Amends TCA Section 2-10-102 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 5.

TN - SB1450 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, requires appropriate training be provided to newly appointed members of health related and regulatory boards prior to beginning their service on such boards. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 62, Chapter 76, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - SB2144 Evidence - As enacted, prohibits any employer from introducing the results of a voice stress analysis performed on an employee to prove misconduct by the employee at any hearing or other employment procedure in which the employee is entitled to due process. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 50.

TN - SB1953 Judgments - As enacted, provides that a civil judgment or restitution order converted to civil judgment is valid until paid in full rather than renewed every 10 years if the judgment is based upon injury or death caused by criminal conduct and the judgment debtor was convicted of a criminal offense for such conduct. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

TN - SB2394 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires the central procurement office to establish an online database and makes other various changes to the public contracting laws of the state. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 10 and Title 12.

TN - SB811 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows a student receiving college credit for dual enrollment or dual credit courses to include, at the student's discretion, the grades from such courses in the student's lottery grade point average. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

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 - SB2415 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a winery or farm wine producer to conduct business at satellite locations; requires all payments to wholesalers by licensees be made by electronic funds transfer, credit card, debit card, or such other method that will facilitate full payment at or near the time of delivery; revises other various provisions governing alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB2279 Aircraft and Airports - As introduced, requires any metropolitan airport authority to approve certain proposed fee increases by its governing body; to impose and assess fees consistently; and to grant users equal access to the airport. - Amends TCA Title 42, Chapter 4, Part 1.

TN - SB1647 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, regulates dispensing of immediate methamphetamine precursor by making it a controlled substance requiring a prescription - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 53, Chapter 11 and Title 63, Chapter 10.

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 - 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 - SB87 Election Laws - As introduced, permits any registered Tennessee voter to vote absentee; requires the county election commission to establish a permanent absentee voting register. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB297 Political Parties - As introduced, requires statewide political party to hold primary election for nominations for judge, chancellor, district attorney general and public defender in multi-county judicial districts. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

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 - SB1121 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, authorizes the chief executive officer or the plan administrator to transmit a report on the actuarial and financial status of the retirement plan in effect for employees of the local government unit in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 9; Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.