Tennessee Rep. Ron M. Gant (R)

TN - HJR193 Memorials, Death - Preston King

TN - HJR587 Memorials, Professional Achievement - AHC McNairy County, 2018 Silver Achievement in Quality Award

TN - HB508 Corporations, Not for Profit - As introduced, clarifies the name of an office within the office of the Attorney General; permits a not-for-profit hospital to electronically submit a request for an informal conference with the commissioner of health if the commissioner issues a certain civil penalty to the hospital; prohibits the commissioner from exercising certain enforcement measures. - Amends TCA Title 48; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB211 Registers of Deeds - As introduced, deletes requirement that 52 percent of the 5 percent commission retained by county registers for collecting and reporting recordation tax must be remitted to state treasurer and credited to state general fund. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-409.

TN - HJR167 Memorials, Recognition - Emmett Bolyard

TN - HB212 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from the sales and use tax the sale of platinum, gold, or silver bullion, the sale of numismatic coins that are sold for less than $10,000, and the sale of numismatic coins at a national, statewide, or multi-county trade show. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB956 Public Utilities - As introduced, prohibits public utilities from requiring governmental entities to pay a deposit as a precondition for service. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - HB328 Health Care - As introduced, exempts medical laboratory personnel employed by privately owned labs while performing work at a medical laboratory from the requirements of the Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act. - Amends TCA Section 68-1-901; Title 68, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HJR166 Memorials, Recognition - Alex Haley, Black History Month

TN - HB992 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts certain sales of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium coins and bullion from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB271 Contractors - As introduced, prohibits the inclusion of a condition precedent for payment clause in construction contracts that precludes a prime contractor from having to pay a remote contractor for services rendered until the prime contractor is paid by the construction owner client. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6; Title 66, Chapter 11 and Title 66, Chapter 34.

TN - HB386 Psychologists - As introduced, changes from five years to six years the time frame during which board members are ineligible for reappointment after completion of their term. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 11.

TN - HJR393 Memorials, Death - James E. "Shorty" Smith

TN - HJR168 Memorials, Recognition - Tim Mast

TN - HB955 Public Utilities - As introduced, prohibits a public utility from charging a deposit as a precondition of providing utility service to persons who have been customers for at least five years and whose accounts have been in good standing for at least five years. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - HB957 Local Government, General - As introduced, allows governmental entities to publish notices on their websites in lieu of other methods of publication. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 8, Chapter 21.

TN - HB146 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, removes the requirement that a property and casualty insurer that has a specified medical expense benefit payable without regard to fault, and that does not permit assignment of the benefit, establish a process to disburse funds in the names of the insured and the healthcare provider as joint payees. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HJR98 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Alicia Tull, McNairy County Teacher of the Year

TN - HB1459 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the age to access or use tobacco and vapor products from 18 to 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB272 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, revises provisions governing commissions under the Tennessee Insurance Producer Licensing Act of 2002. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6 and Title 56, Chapter 8.

TN - HJR44 Memorials, Recognition - Town of Oakland, Centennial

TN - HB1200 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, limits a natural gas utility system that is operating in a county having a population of less than 336,400 according to the 2010 federal census and that is devoting revenues derived from the system to funding chambers of commerce and economic and community organizations in accordance with an ordinance or resolution adopted by the governing body of the municipality to only make contributions from its enterprise revenues. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34.

TN - HB951 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, exempts from licensure requirements person providing direct care services to no more than three people receiving services through consumer direction in a medicaid home- and community-based services program. - Amends TCA Section 33-2-402 and Section 33-2-403.

TN - HJR4 Memorials, Professional Achievement - David Poile, U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame

TN - HB932 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, clarifies the priority an employer, person, corporation, or institution must give to all orders of income assignment against an individual for child, medical, or spousal support; removes references to the Tennessee Judicial Council, which terminated June 30, 2009. - Amends TCA Section 36-5-406 and Section 36-5-501(j)(2)(A).

TN - HB233 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor of possessing, owning, selling, transferring, or manufacturing cock fighting paraphernalia with the intent that the paraphernalia be used in promoting, facilitating, training for, or furthering cock fighting. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1154 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, adds the word "valor" to the Silver Star specialty license plate. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB75 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, increases the period in which notice must be given to the health services and development agency that a health care institution has changed ownership from 30 to 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 68.

TN - HB901 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes the enhanced maximum fine of up to $15,000 applicable to aggravated assault when committed against an identifiable employee or contractor of a utility who is discharging or attempting to discharge such person's official duties. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 65, Chapter 35.

TN - HB316 Firefighters - As introduced, creates a presumption that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by certain cancers occurred in the course of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2.

TN - HJR475 Memorials, Sports - University of Memphis men's basketball team

TN - HB720 Health Care - As introduced, clarifies that a written request for a hospital to provide a more detailed statement of services received and expenses incurred by a patient must be received by the hospital within one year of the patient's discharge in order for the hospital to be required to respond. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB938 Schools, Charter - As introduced, extends the initial student application period, from 30 days to 45 days, for all students zoned to attend, or who are currently enrolled in, a school that is eligible to be placed in the achievement school district to enroll in a charter school authorized by the achievement school district. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HJR613 Memorials, Government Officials - Designates House Seat 34 in the House Chamber of the State Capitol as the "Charles Sargent Memorial."

TN - HB950 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, splits the electronic monitoring indigency fund into two accounts to be used to pay for ignition interlock devices for indigent defendants and to pay, subject to local matching funds, for transdermal monitoring devices, other alcohol and drug monitoring devices, and global positioning monitoring devices for indigent defendants. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 69, Chapter 9.

TN - HB1063 Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "Main Street Historic Tourism and Revitalization Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11, Part 1; Title 56, Chapter 4 and Title 67.

TN - HB1354 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission to include data from the Tennessee Promise scholarship program report created in collaboration with the Tennessee student assistance corporation in the annual Tennessee postsecondary education fact book. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB797 Licenses - As introduced, requires the Tennessee auctioneer commission to post the names of persons whose licenses have been suspended, revoked, or not renewed as a result of fraud and other violations. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 5; Title 55, Chapter 17, Part 1 and Title 62, Chapter 19.

TN - HB1028 Taxes - As introduced, requires that “net earnings” or “net loss” be defined as federal taxable income or loss according to the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.

TN - HB249 Elder Abuse - As enacted, creates the elder abuse task force. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 71 and Chapter 961 of the Public Acts of 2014.

TN - HB1029 Abortion - As introduced, enacts the "Human Life Protection Act," which bans abortion in this state effective upon the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade or amending the U.S. Constitution to allow states to prohibit abortion; creates exception for situations where the abortion is necessary to prevent the death of pregnant woman or prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of major bodily function; prohibits prosecution of a woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-5116; Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 9; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 68 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB498 TennCare - As introduced, reduces the time period from 30 days to 15 days for an enrollee or applicant for medical assistance to mail documentation of a material change affecting the enrollee or applicant's TennCare application. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Deborah Means Henderson

TN - HJR223 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

TN - HB930 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, extends reporting requirement to department of revenue by wholesalers of food, candy, or nonalcoholic beverages regarding net sales of such products to retailers by deleting provision that repeals such requirement on July 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-410.

TN - HB925 Mining and Quarrying - As enacted, relieves the commissioner of labor and workforce development of responsibilities concerning mine rescue operations; deletes statutes establishing the mine rescue corps within the department of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 59, Chapter 12.

TN - HJR72 Memorials, Recognition - Isabella Wren Sullivan, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR171 Memorials, Sports - Bob Kesling, Voice of the Vols

TN - HB199 Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, clarifies that the definition of the practice of nursing does not prevent qualified registered nurses from making determinations that patients are experiencing emergency medical conditions, in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 68.

TN - HJR433 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Julie Schwarz, 2018 Christ the Teacher Award

TN - HB167 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires a mandatory 30-day sentence for theft of a firearm; creates the Class D felony offense of bringing a telecommunication device into a penal institution; revises other various provisions of criminal law. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HJR175 Memorials, Death - Kenneth "Rance" Roby

TN - HJR73 Memorials, Personal Achievement - John W. Huffman, Eagle Scout

TN - HB416 Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits a trustee or former trustee of a board of trustees of a hospital authority from entering into an arrangement for employment or the provision of labor or services with the authority until at least 12 months have expired following the trustee or former trustee's tenure of service on the board. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 68.

TN - HB940 Schools, Charter - As introduced, changes, from December 1 to December 31, the annual date by which the state board of education is required to publicly report the total amount of authorizer fees collected in the previous school year and the authorizing obligations fulfilled using the fee. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HJR139 Memorials, Death - Samuel W. Bartholomew, Jr.

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

TN - HR86 Memorials, Interns - Shane Richards

TN - HR87 Memorials, Interns - Hailey Ragsdale

TN - HB658 Law Enforcement - As introduced, limits the authority of a community oversight board to the review and consideration of matters reported to it and the issuance of advisory reports and recommendations to agencies involved in public safety and the administration of justice. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB952 Education - As introduced, transfers, from the state board of education to the department of education, the authority to accept and administer federal funds for the purpose of promoting public education; designates the department of education as the state board for career and technical education; grants the department of education the authority to administer annual appropriations made for career and technical education; removes provision for grants to public four-year institutions of higher education for research in career and technical education. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-202; Title 49, Chapter 11; Section 49-3-201; Section 49-3-302 and Section 49-3-318.

TN - HB258 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, enacts the "Sergeant Daniel Baker Act," which removes the appeal to the court of criminal appeals in death penalty cases; provides for automatic direct review by the Tennessee supreme court for convictions for which a sentence of death is imposed. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Representative Ron Lollar

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

TN - HR51 Lottery, Charitable - Approves 2019-2020 annual gaming events by the house of representatives.

TN - HB131 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, urges the department of revenue to study the enforcement of disabled parking violations; requires department to report its findings and recommendations on or before February 1, 2020, to the transportation and safety committee of the senate and transportation committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 1.

TN - HJR103 Memorials, Recognition - African-American Breast Cancer Awareness Week, September 8-14, 2019

TN - HR73 Memorials, Death - George Klein

TN - HB945 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to submit an annual report to the education committees of both houses on school districts that offer a career and technical education program in agriculture, food, and natural resources, and on students enrolled in the program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 11.

TN - HB634 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts water furnished by a utility district and used exclusively in a farming operation from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB944 Education - As introduced, establishes the Governor's Civics Seal to recognize public schools and local education agencies implementing high-quality civic education programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - HB1135 Health Care - As introduced, permits advanced practice nurses and physician assistants who are prescribers at community mental health centers to arrange for chart review by and site visits with collaborating physicians by means of HIPAA-compliant electronic information systems. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 19; Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - HJR513 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly C. Robertson

TN - HJR515 Memorials, Death - Gladys Margaret Endsley McKinsey

TN - HB935 Opioids - As introduced, clarifies that per-encounter opioid treatment by a healthcare practitioner operates as an exception to the prohibition on treatment of a patient with an opioid more frequently than once every 10 days. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1.

TN - HB933 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes state and national criminal history background checks and investigations of employees and contractors of the department who are likely to have access to individuals with disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 12.

TN - HB1509 Bond Issues - As introduced, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $124 million.

TN - HB1508 Appropriations - As introduced, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2018, and July 1, 2019.

TN - HJR195 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. David "Hank" Wright, Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - HJR231 Memorials, Death - Sam Powell

TN - HB494 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, eliminates the special privilege tax on ammunition. - Amends TCA Section 8-8-201 and Title 70, Chapter 3.

TN - HB942 Controlled Substances - As introduced, increases the penalty to a Class B felony for 15 grams or more or a Class A felony for 150 grams or more of fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or any fentanyl derivative or analogue. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB841 Health Care - As introduced, reduces the amount of time, from 60 to 30 days, that a health facility must renew its license following the expiration of such license, and if not renewed within 30 days following expiration, the licensee must reapply for licensure in accordance with the rules established by the board for licensing health care facilities. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 68.

TN - HB151 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, makes various changes to the “Tennessee Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act,” which include excluding from coverage certain persons receiving payments through structured settlements, establishing procedures during delinquency proceedings, setting the amount of assessments for long-term care insurance written by impaired or insolvent member insurers, and other changes. - Amends TCA Section 56-12-202; Section 56-12-203; Section 56-12-204; Section 56-12-205; Section 56-12-207; Section 56-12-208 and Section 56-12-218.

TN - HB937 Local Government, General - As enacted, increases pay supplement from $600 to $800 for police officers and firefighters who complete 40 hours of in-service training. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24, Part 2 and Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - HB1264 Handgun Permits - As introduced, creates a concealed handgun carry permit, which allows a person to carry a concealed handgun; redesignates the existing handgun carry permit as an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 33; Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - HJR382 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Marjorie Jean Yaeger, 90th birthday

TN - HJR575 Memorials, Recognition - Maryville High School, 100th anniversary

TN - HB929 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes department of revenue to suspend or revoke the registration, license plate, permit, or certificate of title issued to any vehicle assigned to a motor carrier that has been prohibited from operating by the federal motor carrier safety administration; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 1.

TN - HJR1 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes teen suicide as a health crisis in Tennessee.

TN - HB934 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, makes various changes to the state's special education laws; transfers, from the state board of education to the department of education, control over the state's special schools. - Amends TCA Section 4-5-322; Title 49, Chapter 10 and Title 49, Chapter 50.

TN - HB347 Public Officials - As enacted, clarifies that a county judicial commissioner or magistrate may administer the oath of office to an elected or appointed official. - Amends TCA Section 8-18-109.

TN - HB1364 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, rewrites the criminal offense of female genital mutilation; extends the statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions or civil actions for female genital mutilation. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB810 Medical Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Graduate Physicians Act." - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB924 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, authorizes automobile transporters meeting certain length limitations to operate on the national network of highways; revises related vehicle size, weight, and load provisions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 7.

TN - HB557 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau of TennCare to provide notice to the chair of the health and welfare committee of the senate and the chair of the health committee of the house of representatives prior to reducing payments on a pro rata basis. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1138 Taxes, Amusement - As enacted, exempts from the tax admission, dues, fees, or other charges paid to any person principally engaged in offering services or facilities for the development or preservation of physical fitness through exercise or other active physical fitness conditioning. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 2 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB1139 Governor - As introduced, extends the time from 90 to 120 days after the end of the fiscal year in which a nonprofit Books to Birth partner has to annually submit to the governor and the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives a complete and detailed report setting forth its operation and accomplishments. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB953 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA to make certain interest inventories available to students in grades five through nine; requires an LEA to administer a career aptitude assessment to students in grades seven or eight. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-412.

TN - HB1245 Consumer Protection - As introduced, increases from $10,000 to $25,000 the civil penalty amount per violation that the attorney general and reporter may recover in an action against a person who commits the offense of caller identification spoofing; clarifies that each call received by a subscriber wherein the caller identification information is misleading or inaccurate constitutes a separate violation for purposes of imposing the civil penalty. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 65.

TN - HB1462 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the period within which an applicant for a certificate of need for a nonresidential substitution-based treatment center for opiate addiction must notify the chief executive officer of the county or municipality of the filing of the application if it involves a healthcare facility in which the county or municipality is the lessor of the facility or real property on which it sits. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 16.

TN - HB531 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, makes permanent the provision that is set to expire July 1, 2019, allowing counties to provide 2 percent matching funds for state-aid highway funds rather than 25 percent. - Amends TCA Section 54-4-404.

TN - HB77 Abortion - As introduced, prohibits abortions from the point a fetal heartbeat is detected; creates exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HB176 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, expands types of crop insurance offered under a limited lines producer license to include damage to crops caused by unfavorable weather conditions, fire or lightning, flood, insect infestation, disease, or other yield-reducing conditions or perils, in addition to present coverage for hail. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 56, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1257 Courts - As introduced, requires that appointments to the offices of senior judge, chancellor, circuit court judge, criminal court judge, or judge of any other trial court of record, district attorney general, and district public defender be confirmed by general assembly before appointees take office. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17 and Title 38, Chapter 6.

TN - HB517 Managed Care Organizations - As introduced, requires the speakers of the house of representatives and the senate to appoint a committee to study managed care organizations and this state's expenditures on services for patients in areas of care, including a review of the expenditures for similar services in other state medicaid programs; requires the committee to submit a report to the governor and the members of the general assembly by January 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB923 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, converts the department's construction manager/general contractor services (CM/GC) pilot program into a fully authorized project delivery method; establishes limitations for CM/GC contracts. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 1.

TN - HR80 Memorials, Retirement - John S. Aitken

TN - HB1498 Mental Illness - As introduced, permits a court to commit a person scheduled to be released from a correctional facility to the custody of the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services for inpatient treatment based on clear and convincing evidence that the person poses a substantial likelihood of serious harm if released from custody. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

TN - HB843 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, makes various changes concerning the prescription of certain Scheduled controlled substances. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 4.

TN - HB164 Traffic Safety - As introduced, expands the current offense for talking on handheld devices while driving within marked school zones to talking on such devices on any road, highway, or street. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1107 Public Records - As enacted, requires that personally identifying information contained in motor vehicle accident reports be treated as confidential information and restricted from public disclosure; creates exceptions; revises other provisions governing motor vehicle accident reports. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 1.

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

TN - HB396 Fees - As introduced, clarifies that the sales prices for accounting, legal, or other professional services provided within a central business improvement district located within a tourism development zone are not subject to an additional fee. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 88, Part 1.

TN - HJR141 Memorials, Government Officials - Designates House Hearing Room I as the "Charles Sargent Memorial Hearing Room."

TN - HB943 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, reinstates service credits and salary increases that were suspended during 2009-2010 for assistant public defenders and assistant district attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 7, Part 2.

TN - HB931 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, delays effective date of certain streamlined sales tax provisions until July 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 67; Chapter 72 of the Public Acts of 2011; Chapter 193 of the Public Acts of 2017; Chapter 273 of the Public Acts of 2015; Chapter 480 of the Public Acts of 2013; Chapter 530 of the Public Acts of 2009 and Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007.

TN - HB949 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, enacts the Governor's Investment in Vocational Education Act; specifies that financial assistance received for all dual enrollment courses attempted after the fourth dual enrollment course reduces any subsequent award of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-930.

TN - HJR412 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Cookie Hopper, Miss Anderson County 2019

TN - HJR411 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Lily Steed, Miss Oak Ridge 2019

TN - HB936 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, specifies that when an applicant for a permit to conduct surface coal mining operations is objected to and an informal conference called by the commissioner to resolve a conflict between the applicant and person objecting to the application is not held, that the commissioner shall either approve or disapprove a new application, rather than a new amendment to the original application, within 60 business days of receipt of the new application. - Amends TCA Title 59, Chapter 8 and Chapter 839 of the Public Acts of 2018.

TN - HJR416 Memorials, Recognition - YWCA Greater Memphis, 100th anniversary

TN - HB946 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA to report to the department of education, for each year that the LEA receives an increase in state funding for instructional wages and salaries, how the increase was utilized by the LEA; requires the department of education to report the information to the BEP review committee; requires the BEP review committee to include the information in its annual report on the BEP. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-306.

TN - HB16 Statutes and Codification - As enacted, codifies the Acts of the 2018 regular session.

TN - HB947 Education - As enacted, requires, instead of authorizes, the Tennessee school safety center to establish school safety grants to assist LEAs in funding programs that address school safety; revises other various provisions regarding school safety grants. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-1004 and Section 49-6-4302.

TN - HB948 Consumer Protection - As introduced, transfers responsibilities concerning the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 from the department of commerce and insurance to the attorney general and reporter; creates a division of consumer affairs within the office of the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 47, Chapter 23 and Title 63.

TN - HB1271 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts from sales and use tax the sale of agricultural trailers and agricultural vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - HB926 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the clerk of the court to send a copy of each judgment document for all felony convictions to the department regardless of location of sentence service in order to avoid a delay of the release of some offenders. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB229 Registers of Deeds - As introduced, over a three-year period, deletes requirement that 52 percent of the 5 percent commission retained by county registers for collecting and reporting recordation tax must be remitted to state treasurer and credited to state general fund. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-409.

TN - HB941 Expunction - As introduced, removes $180 fee for an individual petitioning the court for an expunction of certain criminal offenses; removes $350 fee for a defendant applying for expunction of an offense following the completion of a diversion program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB104 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, expands the number of legislative committees to which health-related boards must submit reports on board vacancies. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB283 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the punishment for a conviction of aggravated rape of a child from 15 to 60 years in prison and a fine of up to $50,000 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HR20 Memorials, Recognition - President Ronald Reagan

TN - HJR438 Memorials, Recognition - Shannon McCloud

TN - HJR385 Memorials, Recognition - Jaynee K. Day and Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee

TN - HB1280 TennCare - As introduced, directs the governor, through the commissioner of finance and administration, to submit a waiver amendment to the centers for medicare and medicaid services to provide TennCare II funding by means of a block grant indexed for inflation and population growth. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB999 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the bluetick coonhound as the official state dog. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB928 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises the use of student growth data for purposes of a teacher's or principal's annual evaluation; deletes obsolete provisions regarding the use of student growth data; excludes, for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years, student growth evaluation composites generated by assessments administered in the 2017-2018 school year if the exclusion results in a higher evaluation score for the teacher. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302.

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

TN - HB739 State Universities - As introduced, changes, from within the first year of service to within the first six months of service, the time in which a state university board member appointed or selected on or after July 1, 2019, must attend an orientation administered by the Tennessee higher education commission. - Amends TCA Section 49-8-201.

TN - HR64 Memorials, Recognition - Social Work Month, March 2019

TN - HR3 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

TN - HB927 State Inmates - As introduced, clarifies that a warden may have the body of an inmate who dies in a penitentiary buried or cremated. - Amends TCA Title 41.

TN - HB631 Fiduciaries - As introduced, enacts the "Uniform Fiduciary Income and Principal Act." - Amends TCA Title 35 and Title 67.

TN - HB1510 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, makes statutory revisions necessary for implementation of the annual appropriations act. - Amends amend TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71.

TN - HR53 Memorials, Recognition - Manny and Adele Macca, Manny's House of Pizza

TN - HJR409 Memorials, Recognition - Blount County Public Library, 100th anniversary

TN - HB37 Public Health - As introduced, creates the state Alzheimer's disease and related dementia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 14 and Title 71.