Tennessee Rep. Ron M. Gant (R)

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TN - Select Committee on Rules (House)

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TN - Facilities, Licensure, and Regulations Subcommittee (House)

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TN - HJR167 Memorials, Recognition - Emmett Bolyard

TN - HB2072 Oakland - Subject to local approval, adds an alderman position to the board; requires the board to appoint a town manager as chief administrative officer; and sets purchasing limits by ordinance in accordance with state law. - Amends Chapter 167 of the Private Acts of 1994; and any other acts amendatory thereto.

TN - HB2676 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax; establishes requirements for payment of annual professional registration fee for nonresidents engaged in certain professions. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 19; Title 23; Title 48, Chapter 1; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 67.

TN - HB2005 Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As introduced, extends the notice period that a commissioner is entitled to prior to a hearing to defend charges that may result in the commissioner's removal from not less than 10 business days before the hearing to not less than 14 business days before the hearing. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HB1633 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, requires a municipal utility board or the municipal governing body, and the comptroller, to establish procedures and guidelines for a natural gas utility system to devote revenues derived from the system to fund chambers of commerce or economic and community organizations; requires certain financial reporting by entities receiving such funds. - Amends TCA Section 7-34-115.

TN - HB1859 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, clarifies that the rebuttable presumption that a person signing an insurance contract or application has read, understands, and accepts the contents of the contract, and the rebuttable presumption that an insured accepts coverage under an insurance contract through the payment of an insurance premium apply in all actions against insurance agents, producers, brokers, administrators, and companies, and the employees and contractors of insurance companies. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-135.

TN - HJR926 Memorials, Death - Arthur David "Butch" Rhea

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

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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2706 Contractors - As enacted, revises various provisions governing contractors. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 66.

TN - HB2000 Taxes, Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, exempts smokeless nicotine products from the tax on tobacco products and cigarettes. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1001 and Section 67-4-1005.

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 - HB2677 Juries and Jurors - As introduced, exempts from jury service, upon request and sufficient proof, persons 75 years of age or older with a medical condition that would make service an undue hardship. - Amends TCA Title 22.

TN - HB2678 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the statutorily required report by the department on the status of grants under the broadband accessibility grant program, including progress toward increased access to and adoption of broadband services, by January 31 in any year in which grants are distributed under the program. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7.

TN - HB1639 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, provides that legal service plans entered into by a person and certain intermediary organizations are not considered legal insurance for the purposes of the Tennessee Legal Insurance Act. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 67.

TN - HB2870 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, prohibits a health insurance entity from recouping a payment made to a healthcare provider for services that should have been fully or partially covered under a third-party automobile accident insurance policy that provides health benefits until the entity exercises its right of subrogation by seeking indemnification from the automobile accident insurance carrier. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2301 Taxes, Excise - As introduced, establishes a statutory mechanism for automatic adjustments to the current excise tax rate of 6.5 percent based on economic conditions. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-5202 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.

TN - HJR168 Memorials, Recognition - Tim Mast

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

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1929 State Government - As introduced, prohibits the governor from making a decision or obligating the state of Tennessee in any way with regard to resettlement of refugees unless authorized by joint resolution of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 71.

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

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

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 - HJR193 Memorials, Death - Preston King

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 - HB283 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, 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 - 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 - HB924 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, 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 - HB926 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, revises provisions governing grants made by the department to fund reentry programs that reduce recidivism and probation revocations; redefines recidivism. - Amends TCA Title 40.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB941 Expunction - As enacted, 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 - HB943 Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, 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 - HB945 Education - As enacted, establishes the Agriculture Education and Youth Participation Task Force. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 11.

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 enacted, abolishes the division of consumer affairs in the department of commerce and insurance and transfers the responsibilities of the division concerning the consumer protection laws to the attorney general and reporter; authorizes a court to order the parties to engage in pre-trial mediation in the course of any action brought in the name of the state pursuant to the Consumer Protection Act; authorizes the division of consumer affairs in the office of the attorney general and reporter to facilitate communication between a complainant and person identified in a complaint in an effort to encourage mutually agreeable resolutions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 47, Chapter 23 and Title 63.

TN - HB950 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, 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 - 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 - HB952 Education - As enacted, 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; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-202; Title 49, Chapter 11; Section 49-3-201; Section 49-3-302 and Section 49-3-318.

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

TN - HB1364 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, 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 - HB1280 TennCare - As enacted, 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB930 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends expiration date of reporting requirement to department of revenue by wholesalers of food, candy, or nonalcoholic beverages regarding net sales of such products to retailers from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2022; revises other provisions related to required reports. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-410.

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 - 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 - HB940 Schools, Charter - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Public Charter Schools Act of 2002; creates public charter school commission. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB942 Controlled Substances - As enacted, 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 - HB944 Education - As enacted, 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 - 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 - HB949 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, 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 - 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 - HB176 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, 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 - 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 - HJR171 Memorials, Sports - Bob Kesling, Voice of the Vols

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

TN - HB658 Law Enforcement - As enacted, establishes certain parameters regarding the authority of a community oversight board and certain requirements for those serving on such a board. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

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 - HB167 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a mandatory 30-day sentence for theft of a firearm; revises penalty for offense of failure to appear; revises other various provisions of criminal law. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

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 - 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 - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

TN - HB1139 Governor - As enacted, establishes a governor's office of faith-based and community initiatives. - Amends TCA Title 4.

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

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

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

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 - 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 - HB1029 Abortion - As enacted, enacts the "Human Life Protection Act," which bans abortion in this state effective on the 30th day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade or an amendment to 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 - HR3 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

TN - HB498 TennCare - As enacted, directs the commissioner of finance and administration to submit to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services a waiver or waivers pursuant to Section 1115 of the Social Security Act for the purpose of establishing a distinct Katie Beckett program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HJR118 Memorials, Recognition - Kathy Moore, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

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

TN - HJR231 Memorials, Death - Sam Powell

TN - HR20 Memorials, Recognition - President Ronald Reagan

TN - HJR223 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

TN - HB1264 Handgun Permits - As enacted, 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 - 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 - HJR1 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes teen suicide as a health crisis in Tennessee.

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

TN - HB104 Medical Occupations - As enacted, deletes age requirement and certain other requirements for persons practicing ultrasound sonography in a nonclinical 3D/4D ultrasound boutique setting. - Amends TCA Title 63.

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

TN - HB316 Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "Barry Brady Act," which creates a presumption that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by certain cancers arose out of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2.

TN - HB557 TennCare - As enacted, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1135 Health Care - As enacted, 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 certain 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1508 Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2018, and July 1, 2019.

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

TN - HB1510 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, revises certain provisions governing the distribution of revenue under the Business Tax Act; provides, in regard to the provisions governing financing under the Development District Act of 1965, that appropriations to the department of economic and community development for economic development district grants may be reduced in the amount of $174,000 (recurring) for the transfer of such amount to the commission on children and youth for the sole purpose of making a grant in such amount to the Tennessee CASA Association. - 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 - 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 - HB1245 Consumer Protection - As enacted, increases from $10,000 to $30,000 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; encourages carriers offering telephone services in this state to adopt certain technologies and measures. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 65.

TN - HB381 Public Contracts - As enacted, authorizes utility districts and utility authorities to contract for construction management services during local construction projects. - Amends TCA Section 12-4-107.

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

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

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

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

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 - HB634 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends to "water" the sales tax exemption that applies to the sale to a qualified farmer or nurseryman of electricity, natural gas and liquefied gas, including, but not limited to, propane and butane used directly in the production of food or fiber for human or animal consumption or to aid in the growing of a horticultural product for sale. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1498 Mental Illness - As enacted, revises provisions concerning judicial commitment of certain persons in the custody of the department of correction. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB1271 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, extends the exemption from sales and use tax on trailers used to transport livestock when such trailer is sold to a qualified farmer or nurseryman to also exempt such sales of trailers used to transport farm products, nursery stock, or equipment, supplies or products used in agriculture, or for other agricultural purposes relating to the operation and maintenance of a farm. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 67.

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 - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

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 - HR73 Memorials, Death - George Klein

TN - HB1368 Public Records - As introduced, requires public records commission to annually report any changes to the public records laws in this state to the general assembly not later than December 31 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HB396 Local Government, General - As enacted, clarifies applicable date in regard to a hotel facility under the Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998 and the apportionment and distribution of the incremental increase in local sales and use tax revenue associated with the qualified hotel facility. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 88, Part 1.

TN - HJR438 Memorials, Recognition - Shannon McCloud

TN - HB797 Auctions and Auctioneers - As enacted, revises various provisions governing auctions. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 5; Title 55, Chapter 17, Part 1 and Title 62, Chapter 19.

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

TN - HR86 Memorials, Interns - Shane Richards

TN - HR87 Memorials, Interns - Hailey Ragsdale

TN - HB164 Traffic Safety - As enacted, prohibits a person from physically holding or supporting, with any part of the person's body, a wireless telecommunications device or stand-alone electronic device while operating a motor vehicle; imposes other similar restrictions on activities such as texting; creates certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Representative Ron Lollar

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

TN - HB1028 Taxes, Excise - As enacted, revises provisions governing net earnings and net losses for purposes of the Excise Tax Law of 1999. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.

TN - HJR513 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly C. Robertson

TN - HJR515 Memorials, Death - Gladys Margaret Endsley McKinsey

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Deborah Means Henderson

TN - HR80 Memorials, Retirement - John S. Aitken

TN - HB1354 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires each state institution of higher education to do the following: develop and implement a suicide prevention plan for students, faculty, and staff; and provide the plan to students, faculty, and staff at least once each semester. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HJR631 Memorials, Recognition - Shelby County, Bicentennial

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

TN - HB909 Elder Abuse - As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - HJR629 Memorials, Recognition - City of Memphis, Bicentennial

TN - HJR630 Memorials, Recognition - Memphis Light, Gas and Water, 80th anniversary

TN - HJR644 Memorials, Retirement - Helen Ford

TN - HB786 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, makes various changes to law concerning pharmacy benefits managers. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

TN - HB1460 Handgun Permits - As enacted, waives the fee for obtaining a lifetime handgun carry permit for former law enforcement officers who served at least 10 years and left the law enforcement agency while in good standing. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HJR636 Memorials, Retirement - State Trooper Joe Wynne

TN - HB91 Education - As enacted, authorizes LEAs that receive pre-kindergarten program approval to utilize a comparable alternative measure of student growth approved by the state board of education and adopted by the LEA, rather than the pre-k/kindergarten growth portfolio model approved by the state board of education in the evaluation of pre-kindergarten and kindergarten teachers; creates portfolio review committee. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HJR688 Memorials, Death - William B. "Bill" Whitson

TN - HJR691 Memorials, Public Service - Scott W. Gilmer

TN - HJR683 Memorials, Recognition - Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Week, February 7-14, 2020

TN - HB1697 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, enacts the "Food Tax Holiday Act," which exempts the retail sale of food and food ingredients from sales tax for the months of June and July in 2020. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1689 Students - As introduced, prohibits a student from participating in a single-sex interscholastic sport or athletic event provided by the student's public school unless the student verifies with the public school that the student is of the respective sex. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1690 Correctional Programs - As introduced, requires the department of correction to pay an additional $5.00 per day recidivism-reduction stipend for certain county jails housing convicted felons, in which the felons attend evidence-based programs to reduce recidivism rates upon release. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 8, Chapter 26; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB1692 Education - As introduced, requires a student in any grade kindergarten through three to attend summer school if the student's teacher determines that the student is not academically prepared to advance to the next grade level and that grade retention may benefit the student. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR701 Memorials, Sports - Maryville High School, 2019 TSSAA Class 6A Football State Champions

TN - HB1592 Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation - As introduced, requires the corporation to establish a four-year pilot program to award completion grants to Tennessee Promise scholarship students who have an immediate financial need or who are experiencing a financial hardship that may prevent the student from completing a postsecondary degree or credential. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1699 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, makes various changes to the law concerning the electronic delivery of health care and its coverage under insurance policies. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Section 63-1-155.

TN - HR194 Memorials, Recognition - Christopher Clark

TN - HR195 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor J. L. Payne

TN - HB1917 Health Care - As enacted, adds nonopioid medicinal drugs or drug products, occupational therapy, and interventional procedures or treatments to the alternative treatments that must be disclosed and explained by a healthcare practitioner to a patient or the patient's legal representative as a prerequisite to obtaining informed consent to treatment with an opioid. - Amends TCA Section 63-1-164.

TN - HJR741 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Affirms the constitutional duty and exclusive authority and power of the General Assembly to appropriate public moneys and balance the state budget.

TN - HJR752 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - James Haltom, Claims Commission

TN - HB2217 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Licensing Innovation Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56, Chapter 1; Title 62 and Title 63.

TN - HB2015 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, allocates sales and use tax revenues for a special district to an eligible county or a municipality within the eligible county that is economically distressed for the purpose of funding certain capital outlay or other projects; establishes requirements for such allocation. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2208 Pest Control - As enacted, repeals requirement that aerial applicators of pesticides notify the department of agriculture prior to making aerial applications of pesticides via an online reporting system. - Amends TCA Section 43-8-302 and Section 43-8-312.

TN - HB2209 Food and Food Products - As enacted, repeals the Tennessee Egg Law, which establishes a licensure system for certain persons who buy, sell, trade, traffic, or process eggs in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 43-1-701; Title 53, Chapter 1, Part 2 and Title 53, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2210 Weights and Measures - As enacted, replaces the statutory list of standard of weights and measures for agricultural products with a requirement that the commissioner of agriculture establish weights and measures by rule. - Amends TCA Section 47-26-101.

TN - HB2211 Agriculture - As introduced, replaces the present law prohibition against transporting rooted hemp without a hemp producer license with a prohibition against production of hemp without a license; deletes an obsolete reference to a prior set of administrative rules for the state hemp program. - Amends TCA Section 39-15-407; Section 39-17-1503 and Title 43, Chapter 27.

TN - HB2212 Adoption - As introduced, removes the adoption contact veto registry and revises other provisions governing adoption. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1 and Section 68-3-313.

TN - HB2213 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, changes the requirements for persons who have an ownership interest in an appraisal management company in order for the company to be registered; removes the current exception to an appraisal management company otherwise being prohibited from removing an appraiser from its appraiser panel or refusing to assign requests for real estate appraisal services to an appraiser without meeting certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 39, Part 4.

TN - HB2214 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Insurance Modernization Act." - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 2, Part 2; Title 56, Chapter 5, Part 1 and Title 56, Chapter 54.

TN - HB2215 Private Protective Services - As enacted, changes the fingerprint requirement for contract security company licensee applicants and security guard/officer applicants from three sets of classifiable fingerprints to one set of classifiable electronic fingerprints; reduces from three to one the number of photographs a security guard/officer applicant must submit; and makes certain other changes to the Private Protective Services Licensing and Regulatory Act. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-114 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - HB2216 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, requires automobile clubs to file an application for certificate of authority prior to commencement of operations; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 18.

TN - HB2248 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires county clerks to remit to the commissioner, instead of commissioner or commissioner's designee, the remaining $5.50 of the $10.00 issuance fee received by county clerks for issuing temporary operation permits; authorizes commissioner's designee to issue temporary trailer permits. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-115.

TN - HB2249 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, requires marketplace facilitators to remit sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2250 Health Care - As enacted, extends the CoverKids program from June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Section 71-3-1113.

TN - HB2251 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, extends the Access Tennessee health insurance program from June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-2916.

TN - HB2252 Estates - As introduced, sets time limits on the filing of claims by the bureau of TennCare against TennCare recipients' estates. - Amends TCA Section 30-2-310.

TN - HB2254 Boards and Commissions - As enacted, transfers responsibility for administration of the Tennessee sports hall of fame from the commissioner of tourist development to the hall's board of directors and makes other changes concerning the sports hall of fame. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 54.

TN - HB2253 TennCare - As introduced, changes the date the Access Tennessee annual report to the governor and comptroller of the treasury is due from October 1 of each year to December 31 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 29.

TN - HB2255 Advertising - As enacted, revises various provisions governing outdoor advertising; renames the Billboard Regulation and Control Act to be the Outdoor Advertising Control Act of 2020. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 17 and Title 54, Chapter 21.

TN - HB2256 Workers Compensation - As enacted, excludes construction services providers performing work in this state from certain provisions of the workers' compensation law, requires construction services providers to maintain workers' compensation insurance coverage while working in this state, and imposes liability on a successor in interest of a penalized construction services provider. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2257 Workers Compensation - As enacted, extends the deadline for an injured employee to file a claim for increased benefits with the bureau of workers' compensation; lengthens the period of time following an injury an employee has to provide notice to the bureau of workers' compensation of an injury and the failure of an employer to secure payment of compensation. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2258 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, specifies that theft of property is a Class E felony if the property obtained is a firearm worth less than $2,500. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-105.

TN - HB2260 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds a sentence enhancement factor for the offense of reckless endangerment if the victim of the offense was a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other specified person in the performance of an official duty and the defendant knew or should have known that the victim was such an officer or employee. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-114.

TN - HB2261 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to include information on certificates of employability in the existing prerelease orientation for inmates concerning relevant post-release or parole issues. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 12; Title 40 and Section 62-76-104.

TN - HB2262 Sentencing - As introduced, requires the board of parole to include the offenses of which a paroled person was convicted when forwarding the names of all persons released on parole to the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 22 and Title 40.

TN - HB2263 Abortion - As enacted, creates the Class C felony of performing or inducing, or attempting to perform or induce, an abortion upon a pregnant woman whose unborn child has a fetal heartbeat; creates other criminal offenses related to the performance of an abortion; requires that certain information regarding reversing chemical abortions be provided; revises and enacts other abortion-related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 37-10-304 and Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2.

TN - HB2264 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, requires each dealer of aviation fuel to file a quarterly report, instead of monthly report, stating the total amount in gallons of aviation fuel sold and the dollar amount collected from such sales. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2267 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education, in coordination with the department of mental health and substance abuse services, to submit a report to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives regarding state-funded mental and behavioral health services available to elementary and secondary school students on or before December 31 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 16; Title 33 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2269 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, makes various changes to state law to reflect the change in federal law that raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 years of age to 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-113; Title 39, Chapter 15 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB1575 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds imminent danger of serious sexual abuse as a justification for the use of deadly force in self-defense and to defenses of duress and use of deadly force by law enforcement officer; defines serious sexual abuse as rape, aggravated rape, rape of a child, or aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1640 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes issuance of a Linemen Power Tennessee new specialty earmarked license plate to operators of vehicles that are used for passenger transport, owned by an entity that is subject to the Rural Electric and Community Services Cooperative Act, and that have a maximum gross weight less than 9,000 pounds. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HJR786 Memorials, Death - Sterling Haskel "Hack" Ayers

TN - HB2817 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, extends from 30 days to 45 days the time within which the issuing judge is required to report to the attorney general following the expiration, extension, or denial of an order authorizing a wire, oral, or electronic interception. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 33; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 70 and Title 71.

TN - HB2822 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, clarifies that fees paid by a defendant requesting pretrial diversion are to be deposited in the general fund; specifies the remittance and allowed uses of certain fees under the sexual offender registry provisions; makes other statutory revisions necessary to implementation of the annual appropriations act. - Amends 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 - HB2818 Education - As enacted, authorizes the state board of education to promulgate emergency rules as necessary to address any issues created by school closures due to the outbreak of COVID-19 during the 2019-2020 school year; requires the commissioner of education to waive certain requirements; establishes other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2819 Budget Procedures - As enacted, authorizes the index of appropriations from state tax revenues for 2019-2020 fiscal year to exceed the index of estimated growth in the state's economy by $629 million or 3.6 percent.

TN - HB2820 Bond Issues - As enacted, authorizes the state of Tennessee, acting by resolution of its funding board, to issue and sell general obligations bonds of the state in amounts not to exceed $124 million.

TN - HB2821 Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020.

TN - HB1923 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, requires persons working with certain electrical equipment to meet certain requirements; makes that electrical equipment subject to inspection by the state electrical inspector; prohibits liability against certain electric systems arising from those persons working with that electrical equipment; requires copies of the national standards to be available for public viewing. - Amends TCA Section 68-101-104.

TN - HB1175 TennCare - As enacted, requires the bureau of TennCare to reimburse an ambulance service provider that provides a covered service to a TennCare recipient at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers; requires the bureau to seek an intergovernmental transfer of funds for the sole purpose of increasing the rate of reimbursement to ambulance service providers that provide covered services to TennCare recipients at a rate greater than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HR218 Memorials, Death - David C. Driver, Jr.

TN - HJR818 Memorials, Recognition - Harriet Tubman Day

TN - HJR810 Memorials, Recognition - Helen Abbott, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HB787 Veterans Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to provide training in suicide prevention to the employees of the department who directly interact with veterans. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2161 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, prohibits a person from preparing or issuing a certificate of property or casualty insurance coverage that contains false or misleading information regarding the underlying insurance policy and limits the uses of certificates of insurance. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 56.

TN - HB2568 Abortion - As introduced, requires any facility in which more than 50 abortions were performed during the previous calendar year to post a sign informing patients that a chemical abortion may be reversed following the first dose of a two-dose treatment; requires a patient to receive similar notice prior to and after having the first dose of a chemical abortion; provides criminal penalties and civil actions for any violation of the act. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2268 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, decreases, from $400 to $200, the amount of the annual professional privilege tax imposed on certain occupations. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HJR819 Memorials, Recognition - Michael W. Rallings, Living Legend Awards

TN - HB641 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, increases, from 15 to 20, the number of days after the end of each calendar month, within which a qualified public depository must submit to the state treasurer a report of the average daily balance of all secured public deposits held by the depository. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - HB2218 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class D felony for a person to knowingly and with unlawful intent possess a telecommunication device while present in any penal institution without the express written consent of the chief administrator of the institution. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB2219 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, increases the time the department shall notify the victim witness coordinator of the county of conviction of a scheduled parole hearing date when the inmate will be eligible for parole consideration from within 90 days of receipt of a judgment of conviction to within 120 days of such receipt. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB2220 Guardians and Conservators - As introduced, allows an action for the appointment of a conservator to be brought in Davidson County if the person is incarcerated in an institution of the department of correction, or in the county where the person is involuntarily hospitalized if the person is involuntarily hospitalized in an institution of the department of mental health and substance abuse services. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 34, Chapter 3 and Title 71.

TN - HB2221 Sentencing - As introduced, prohibits an offender who has been convicted of a sexual offense from being eligible for a community-based alternative to incarceration. - Amends TCA Section 40-36-106.

TN - HB2222 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As enacted, designates Sherwood Forest in Franklin County and Walnut Knob in Smith County as Class II natural areas. - Amends TCA Section 11-14-108.

TN - HB2223 Food and Food Products - As enacted, corrects a cross-reference in regard to the standards that apply to certain donations of food; changes the level of carelessness that gives rise to liability for damage caused by certain food donors from negligence to gross negligence; makes other changes concerning food donations. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 13.

TN - HB2224 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, changes due dates and content requirements for reports that the department makes concerning permitting efficiency, the Tire Environmental Act, solid waste disposal, and hazardous waste management. - Amends TCA Section 4-3-506; Section 68-211-305; Section 68-212-118 and Section 68-212-212.

TN - HB2225 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to commission employees of the department who have completed the required training as law enforcement officers; permits law enforcement officers within the division of parks and recreation to provide assistance outside of state parks and recreation areas. - Amends TCA Section 11-1-101; Section 11-3-107; Section 59-8-308 and Section 59-8-404.

TN - HB2226 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, extends from 90 to 180 days the maximum duration a contract to operate facilities or to conduct business operations within state parks can be when the contract is made without public advertisement of a request for proposals due to the previous contract having expired or been terminated. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30, Part 1; Title 8, Chapter 30, Part 2 and Title 11, Chapter 3.

TN - HJR822 Victims' Rights - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 35 of the Constitution of Tennessee for the purpose of rewriting the rights to which crime victims are entitled.

TN - HB2227 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, authorizes tax credits for privilege and excise taxes equal to 75 percent of the purchase price of brownfield property purchased in a tier 3 or tier 4 enhancement county for the purpose of a qualified development project; makes other revisions regarding tax credits for brownfield properties. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-2009.

TN - HJR912 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jeremy Nagoshiner, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board

TN - HJR913 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Earl S. Worsham, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board

TN - HJR914 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Madge Cleveland, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board

TN - HJR917 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - David Golden, Registry of Election Finance

TN - HJR915 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Aaron Ellison, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board

TN - HJR916 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Charles Hankla, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board

TN - HJR918 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Paige Burcham Dennis, Registry of Election Finance

TN - HB2653 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of disseminating a photograph of an inmate at a state penal institution that was taken during a visitation period. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 47.

TN - HB2228 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, redefines "qualified production company" for the purpose of receiving franchise and excise tax credit from an entity incurring $1 million of qualified expenses incurred in this state necessary for the production of a movie or episodic television program to an entity incurring $2 million of such qualified expenses. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-2109 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB2778 State Government - As introduced, designates the Holy Bible as the official state book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2229 Education - As introduced, establishes various requirements relating to literacy instruction provided to students in any of the grades kindergarten through two; establishes methods of evaluating the reading proficiency of students in any of the grades kindergarten through three; establishes requirements relating to literacy instruction provided to teaching candidates; establishes various studies and review processes relating to the state's accountability model and the licensure process for teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2230 Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the department to require its employees and contractors who have elevated and privileged access to data and personal information to submit to a background check to be performed by the TBI as a condition of employment. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2240 Public Records - As introduced, allows a state agency to disclose to another state agency the identity of any individual or organization the agency is investigating or pursuing a civil, administrative, or criminal matter against; requires a state governmental agency to disclose investigative records to another state agency upon written request. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504.

TN - HB1620 Driver Licenses - As enacted, adds documentation a veteran may submit to the department of safety to have military service indicated on a driver license to allow an honorably discharged veteran to submit a certified copy of the veteran's AGO Form 53-55 or NAVPERS 553 showing the dates of service. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HB2241 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, expands the requirements for recovery of reasonable expenses and attorney's fees by a party issued a notice of violation by an agency in a contested case hearing to include both that the party prevailed on the merits of all allegations in the notice and that the agency issued the notice to harass, cause unnecessary delay, or cause needless expense to the party. - Amends TCA Section 4-5-325 and Section 63-1-144.

TN - HB1977 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As introduced, enacts the "Stopping Addiction and Fostering Excellence (SAFE) Act." - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 33; Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2027 Handgun Permits - As introduced, extends the validity of newly issued or renewed enhanced handgun carry permits for the lifetime of the permit holder, unless the permit holder no longer meets the requirements for an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2242 Lottery, Corporation - As enacted, lowers amount of prize winnings from $5,000 to $3,500 for when the Tennessee education lottery corporation is to provide the department of human services information on an individual collecting such prize. - Amends TCA Section 4-51-133.

TN - HB2231 Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As enacted, renames the office of information resources in the department of finance and administration as the division of strategic technology solutions; makes other revisions related to the department. - Amends TCA Section 2-10-211; Title 3, Chapter 6; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10; Section 71-5-192 and Section 71-5-2517.

TN - HR214 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the department of education to enroll students in the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot program no earlier than the 2021-2022 school year.

TN - HB2505 Public Health - As enacted, creates the Tennessee rare disease advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1883 Boats, Boating - As introduced, aligns penalties for boating under the influence with the penalties for driving under the influence; clarifies that the offenses of vehicular assault, aggravated vehicular assault, vehicular homicide, and aggravated vehicular homicide may be committed by a person boating under the influence. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-106; Section 39-13-115; Section 39-13-213; Section 39-13-218 and Title 69, Chapter 9, Part 2.

TN - HB2232 Public Property - As introduced, deletes requirement that on June 30, 2013, the commissioner of finance and administration transfer from the special trust fund to the general fund, a certain amount for funding transition costs related to the closure of Lakeshore Mental Health Institute; redirects the expenditure of certain trust proceeds used by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities and the department of mental health and substance abuse services. - Amends TCA Section 12-2-117.

TN - HB2243 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, revises the provisions governing the department's mandatory child care agency report card system and its separate and voluntary child care agency rated licensing system and implements a quality assessment and rating system for the purpose of evaluating licensed and approved child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2233 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, changes the target amount to be maintained in the reserve for revenue fluctuations from 8 percent to 10 percent of the estimated state tax revenues to be allocated to the general fund and the education trust fund for each fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-211.

TN - HB2244 Mental Illness - As introduced, authorizes a licensed advance practice nurse or a licensed physician assistant, as long as either is working under the supervision of a licensed physician, to examine a detainee transported to a state-owned or state-operated hospital or treatment resource to determine whether the detainee is subject to admission; authorizes the nurse or physician assistant to complete a certificate of need for the emergency diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment. - Amends TCA Section 33-6-407 and Section 33-6-426.

TN - HB2234 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, removes requirement that all individuals who control a private trust company must be family members; authorizes commissioner of financial institutions to publicly disclose any written agreement jointly issued to a bank by the commissioner, FDIC, and federal reserve board or board's designee. - Amends TCA Section 45-2-1603 and Section 45-2-2001.

TN - HB2235 Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As enacted, allows the commissioner to require applicants for money transmitter licensure to consent to a criminal history records check and to submit a fingerprint sample; revises other provisions regarding money transmitters. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 7, Part 2.

TN - HB2236 Conservation - As enacted, requires the commissioner of general services instead of the commissioner of finance and administration to certify by January 1 of each year to the comptroller of the treasury information necessary to identify property rendered tax exempt by acquisition by the state during the prior fiscal year for conservation and preservation. - Amends TCA Section 11-14-406 and Section 11-7-109.

TN - HB2237 Public Contracts - As introduced, revises certain provisions concerning public procurement. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56; Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 1 and Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HB2238 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, changes references to summary suspension of a license to include other licensure restriction or action within the context of a contested case hearing; expands references for disciplinary proceedings against health-related licensees to include all boards, councils, committees, agencies, or regulatory programs. - Amends TCA Section 4-5-320; Section 63-1-120 and Section 63-1-139.

TN - HB2239 Controlled Substances - As introduced, makes certain changes regarding the controlled substance database. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10, Part 3.

TN - HB2245 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, reclassifies from preferred service position to executive service position an employee of the department who is a psychiatric hospital assistant superintendent, psychiatric hospital administrator, or psychiatric hospital nurse executive. - Amends TCA Section 8-30-202.

TN - HB2246 Education, Higher - As introduced, extends eligibility for tuition reimbursement provided to members of the Tennessee national guard under the STRONG Act of 2017 to include technical certificates and diplomas and certain graduate programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 10.

TN - HB2247 Taxes - As introduced, tolls the six-year period in which taxes may be collected upon imposition of a bankruptcy stay or filing of other proceeding prohibiting collection action. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1975 Education, State Board of - As enacted, adds offenses to the list of offenses for which, upon conviction, the state board of education automatically revokes a teacher's or administrator's license. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-417.

TN - HB2090 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, extends to a rural health clinic the same authorization that a federally qualified health center has to employ a physician if the employment relationship is evidenced by a written contract, job description, or documentation containing language that does not restrict the physician from exercising independent medical judgment in diagnosing and treating patients. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2134 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Teacher's Discipline Act"; establishes a disciplinary process for students who have been removed from the classroom by the teacher. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1593 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, establishes requirements for peer-to-peer car sharing programs, and subjects such programs to certain existing laws. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 42; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HJR974 Memorials, Death - Victor Thompson

TN - HB2308 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, enacts the "Holly Bobo Act," which expands the bureau's endangered child and young adult alert program to include endangered persons under 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB2922 Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020.

TN - HB1791 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the West Tennessee River basin authority to June 30, 2028; adds an attendance requirement for board members; revises other provisions regarding the authority. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 64, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2923 Bond Issues - As introduced, authorizes the state, acting by resolution of its funding board, to issue and sell its interest-bearing bonds and bond anticipation notes for certain purposes. - Amends certain public acts authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds and bond anticipation notes. This act makes appropriations for an indefinite period of time for the purpose of allocating the proceeds of the bonds and notes authorized by this act.

TN - HB2924 Budget Procedures - As enacted, makes revisions to general law necessary to implement the annual appropriations act; requires dealers with physical presence in this state to register with department of revenue to collect and remit sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; 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 42; Title 43; Title 44; 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 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71.

TN - HB2925 Budget Procedures - As introduced, deletes requirements that budget document include personal income statement for calendar year 1977 and actual state appropriations for fiscal year 19771978. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-5203.

TN - HB2088 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, authorizes the state treasurer to enter into agreements with any federal reserve bank, instead of a federal reserve member bank or trust company located in Tennessee, for the purpose of transferring public funds and funds of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system through the facilities of the federal reserve banking system. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-308.

TN - HB2727 General Services, Dept. of - As introduced, clarifies that the fiscal review committee must be allowed to review noncompetitive procurement agreements; requires the chief procurement officer to report procurement contracts monthly to the fiscal review committee; revises various other provisions related to procurement of state contracts. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 49.

TN - HJR1053 Memorials, Retirement - Lloyd Hansen

TN - HB2769 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds the offense of trafficking a person for a commercial sex act to the meaning of predatory offenses for purposes of sentencing a person as a child sexual predator. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HB2620 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, raises the permissible fine for aggravated assault to no more than $15,000, in addition to any authorized term of imprisonment. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB225 Election Laws - As introduced, requires election officials to inspect filings for sufficiency and timeliness; establishes conclusive presumption that accepted filings are sufficient and timely filed. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB2588 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires that the parent educational seminar include at least one 30-minute video on adverse childhood experiences created by the department of children's services in conjunction with the commission on children and youth or as part of the Building Strong Brains Tennessee public awareness campaign; adds to that the requirement of attendance by parents at the parent educational seminar may be waived upon motion by either party and the agreement of the court upon the showing of good cause. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6.

TN - HR326 Memorials, Congratulations - Tennessee is well-suited to host the 2020 Republican National Convention.

TN - HJR1200 Memorials, Death - Johnny Majors

TN - HJR1209 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Requires the Secretary of State to include a section on the Bible in Tennessee in the Tennessee Blue Book.

TN - HB2705 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, creates a five-member Asian carp advisory commission to recommend methods and seek funding for the eradication of Asian carp from Tennessee waters. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 70.

TN - HR343 Memorials, Congratulations - Congratulates the House of Representatives for recognizing the need to amend the Constitution of this State to ensure that each bill passed by a house of the General Assembly is voted upon by both houses prior to adjournment.

TN - HR365 Memorials, Government Officials - Honors Secretary of State Tre Hargett

TN - HB2131 Museums - As enacted, designates the Tennessee state museum located at 1000 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard as the "Bill Haslam Center". - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 12.

TN - HB2623 Civil Procedure - As introduced, changes, from not less than five days to not less than seven days before a hearing, the time the opposing party has to file a response to a petition under the Tennessee Public Participation Act. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 20; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 47 and Title 49.

TN - HR351 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

TN - HB1424 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony for the failure to report known or suspected child sexual abuse. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2930 Bond Issues - As enacted, authorizes the state, acting by resolution of its funding board, to issue and sell its interest-bearing bonds and bond anticipation notes for certain purposes.

TN - HB825 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for theft of property that includes a firearm valued at less than $2,500 from a Class A misdemeanor or Class E felony, as applicable based on the value, to a Class D felony. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 35.