Tennessee Rep. Ryan A. Haynes (R)

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TN - HJR102 Memorials, Recognition - Helping Hands and Linking Arms Day of Service

TN - HB401 Adoption - As enacted, establishes a procedure for relinquishing rights relating to an embryo. - Amends TCA Title 34; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB1037 DNA and Genetic Testing - As enacted, provides that a criminal prosecution may be commenced by the issuance of a warrant identifying the offender by a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) profile; applicable to commencement of prosecution for any offense, regardless of when committed, except those offenses for which prosecution is barred on July 1, 2013, because the applicable time limitation set out has expired. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB1112 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires reductions in force or other such dismissals of teacher and nonlicensed LEA employees to be based on evaluations of performance; requires only those teachers rated in the three highest categories, based on evaluations, to be placed on a reemployment list; revises other provisions related to dismissal or suspension of teachers. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-511.

TN - HB1526 Evidence - As enacted, enacts the "Chris Newsom Act", which creates presumption to successor trial and appellate judges that if the original trial judge dismisses the jury following a unanimous verdict, that the judge exercised his or her duties as the 13th juror and approves the verdict. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 18, Part 1.

TN - HB402 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, changes a terminating event for receipt of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship from attempt at any postsecondary institution of a specified number of semester hours to receipt of the scholarship for a fixed number of full-time equivalent semesters. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB398 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, requires the commissioner of financial institutions to prepare and submit annually, instead of biennally, an analysis and recapitulation of certain information on title pledge lenders. - Amends TCA Title 45.

TN - HB978 Damages - As introduced, limits recovery for medical costs in personal injury or wrongful death actions to amounts paid by or on behalf of the claimant, amounts necessary to satisfy unpaid charges for medical care, and amounts necessary to satisfy future medical charges. - Amends TCA Title 24 and Title 29.

TN - HB872 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, revises the security interest provision for companies that finance insurance premiums to clarify that the assignment and security interest of premiums finances is perfected. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 37.

TN - HJR825 Memorials, Interns - Garrah Janee Carter-Mason.

TN - HJR960 Memorials, Recognition - Katie Christine Middleton.

TN - HB1525 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires TACIR to report annually to the state and local government committee of the senate and the state government committee of the house on whether the wholesale power supply arrangements between the TVA and municipal utilities and electric cooperatives are likely to change in the future in a way that could affect payments in lieu of taxes from the TVA to the state and local governments. - Amends TCA Section 4-10-112; Title 7, Chapter 39, Part 4 and Title 7, Chapter 52, Part 3.

TN - HB1801 Public Property - As enacted, authorizes any public building authority to establish and charge certain fees for parking. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 55.

TN - HR53 Memorials, Interns - Paul Marsh

TN - HB399 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As introduced, enhances penalties for sale or possession of certain controlled substances within thousand feet of hospitals, alcohol and drug treatment centers, and methadone clinics. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HJR826 Memorials, Interns - Kara Lee Arnold.

TN - HB1758 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, allows teachers scoring "significantly above expectations" on each of their last three evaluations to petition the commissioner of education for a waiver of any requirement for the renewal of their licenses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB918 University of Tennessee - As introduced, authorizes university to guaranty obligations of an entity proposing operation of a proton therapy center up to $98,000,000. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HR40 Memorials, Recognition - Alexandra Sexton, Prudential Spirit of Community Award

TN - HB667 Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, requires commissioner of revenue to develop alternate audit procedures for licensed publicly traded companies subject to 15 percent gross receipts tax on sales of alcoholic beverages for on premises consumption. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.

TN - HB1524 Victims' Rights - As introduced, requires a photograph of a victim of a violent crime, taken prior to the crime, to be admitted at trial during the state's case-in-chief if the victim is unable to testify or be present at trial. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1528 State Employees - As enacted, enacts the "Three Stars of Tennessee Award" to recognize peace officers, firefighters, and medical first responders killed or who suffered a career-ending injury in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1802 Local Government, General - As introduced, prohibits the department of revenue from collecting any fee from counties or cities who remit tax proceeds to the department; prohibits the department from deducting or retaining any fee from the proceeds of state-shared taxes distributed to the counties or cities. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 67.

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TN - HB400 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, changes the number of full-time employees an employer must have from 25 to 100 or less before an employer may reject a contract's point of service option. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 32.

TN - HB2240 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, makes various changes and additions to present law concerning consumption of alcoholic beverages on premises; authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at certain premier type tourists resorts. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-202 and Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HB975 Lottery, Charitable - As enacted, extends deadline for application for 2013-2014 annual events for three days after effective date of act. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - HB200 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, changes the per-gallon tax levied on manufacturers of high alcohol content beer to the beer tax rate instead of the wine tax rate; clarifies where it is lawful to manufacture intoxicating liquors or intoxicating drinks without the requirement of holding a referendum first; creates direct beer shipper's license to be issued through the alcoholic beverage commission that would allow an in-state or out-of-state entity to ship beer or high alcohol content beer or both directly to consumers age 21 or older in this state for personal use. - Amends TCA Title 57.

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

TN - HB1655 Juries and Jurors - As introduced, provides that a person, who is seventy years of age or older, will be excused from jury duty upon asking the court to be excused; authorizes the court to require sufficient proof of age prior to excusing such person. - Amends TCA Title 22.

TN - HJR226 Memorials, Interns - Charleigh Cagle

TN - HR42 Memorials, Recognition - K-9 Veterans

TN - HB634 TennCare - As introduced, requires bureau to annually notify members of the general assembly of any co-payment system involving for TennCare Medicaid members and TennCare Standard members with regard to medical benefits and pharmacy benefits. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1523 Election Laws - As enacted, revises various election law provisions. - Amends TCA Section 2-19-107; Section 2-2-107; Section 2-2-109; Section 2-2-201; Section 2-3-109; Section 2-3-204; Section 2-4-106; Section 2-5-102; Section 2-5-106; Section 2-6-103 and Section 40-20-113.

TN - HJR96 Memorials, Recognition - Kerbela Shrine Corvette Unit, 30th anniversary

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

TN - HB2104 Mental Illness - As enacted, extends pilot project for assisted outpatient treatment for two years until June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 6, Part 6.

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

TN - HB2105 Workers Compensation - As enacted, revised various provisions relative to certain employment not covered under the workers' compensation law. - Amends TCA Section 50-6-106.

TN - HR167 Memorials, Recognition - Alexandra Christopoulos, 2014 Prudential Spirit of Community Award.

TN - HB1527 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, enacts the "Channon Christian Act", which clarifies rule of evidence regarding certain character evidence. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1.

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

TN - HB2118 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, revises various provisions relating to when certain financial institutions may pay out the proceeds of checks made payable to a deceased individual. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 5; Title 4, Chapter 4; Title 45, Chapter 2; Title 45, Chapter 3 and Title 45, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1398 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, prohibits expenditure of state funds to pay the public indebtedness of any municipality; specifies that this prohibition does not preclude any municipality from utilizing its allocation of state-shared taxes for the purpose of paying its public indebtedness. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 56; Title 9, Chapter 1; Title 9, Chapter 3; Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 9, Chapter 21.

TN - HB2362 Courts, Criminal - As introduced, provides that either party in a criminal trial may request in writing that the judge be drug tested; if the judge tests positive for an illegal drug, a substitute judge is appointed; if the test is negative, no request is made, or it was for a legal prescription drug, the trial resumes and neither side can assert on appeal that the judge was impaired by drugs. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 18, Part 1.

TN - HB1495 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, authorizes community mental health centers and federally qualified health centers to employ physicians, except anesthesiologists, emergency department physicians, pathologists or radiologists. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.

TN - HB220 Fiscal Review Committee - As enacted, requires committee to include impact to commerce statement in fiscal note for bills and resolutions referred to certain committees. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1904 TennCare - As enacted, provides that an individual who is an inmate of a public institution will have eligibility for medical assistance suspended but not terminated during periods of actual incarceration; an individual who is an inmate of a public institution will be eligible for temporary reinstatement of medical assistance for care received outside of a jail or correctional facility in a hospital or other health care facility for more than 24 hours; and a public institution may make efforts to establish eligibility for or renew assistance for such individuals prior to their release from the public institution. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 33; Title 38; Title 41; Title 56 and Title 71.

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

TN - HB369 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, gives teachers who teach in multiple subject areas until January 1, 2014, to pass the content area tests in the subject areas in which they are teaching. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-6006.

TN - HB1944 Public Records - As enacted, designates as confidential bank account information of current and former public employees and applicants for public employment, and certain information received, compiled or maintained by employees of the treasury department's investment division. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504.

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

TN - HB858 Indigents - As introduced, prior to waiving the court costs and lititigation tax owed by a defendant in a criminal case, the judge must conduct an indigency determination hearing if one has not already been conducted. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 40, Chapter 25.

TN - HB977 Taxes - As introduced, replaces incorrect code references, including a reference to the tax on annuity receipts for excise tax purposes, and a reference to the definition of "medical equipment" for purposes of a certain franchise/excise tax credit, among other provisions. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1551 Courts, General Sessions - As introduced, changes the date for determining which class a county is in for purposes of compensating general sessions judges from September 1 to October 1. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15.

TN - HB1274 Bonds and Undertakings, Regulation of - As introduced, requires any local government that proposes to issue indebtedness on or after July 1, 2013, to obtain approval of the state funding board, under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 9.

TN - HB1031 Domestic Violence - As introduced, imposes a $10.00 admission fee on each customer who enters an adult-oriented establishment that provides live nude entertainment and permits the on-site consumption of alcoholic beverages to be used for providing grants for sexual assault programs and the raising of awareness of sexual violence. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51 and Title 71, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB2348 Education - As enacted, prohibits intentional destruction of imagination library program books intended to be delivered to children enrolled in the program; requires best efforts to deliver books or, in the alternative, to make the books available for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten or elementary programs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 52, Part 1.

TN - HB2117 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, creates cause of action against a person who, in connection with the assertion of a United States patent, sends, or causes any person to send, any written or electronic communication that states that the intended recipient or any affiliated person is infringing or has infringed a patent and bears liability or owes compensation to another person, in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 29.

TN - HB441 Correctional Programs - As enacted, revises code to conform to current practice of state and local government committee by correcting inconsistent provisions in the code. - Amends TCA Section 41-24-104.

TN - HB1043 Controlled Substances - As enacted, redefines "imitation controlled substance" for purposes of the offense of knowingly manufacturing, delivering, selling, or possessing with the intent to sell, deliver or manufacture an imitation controlled substance. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB2211 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, revises certain provisions governing projects and qualified public use facilities to change the amount of the aggregate investment of public or private funds from "in excess of $200 million" to "in excess of $75 million". - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53 and Title 7, Chapter 88.

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

TN - HB938 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, authorizes collection of certain charges by health care providers for voluntary provision of health care services when forwarded to sponsoring organization. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 7.

TN - HB980 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires limited lines licensure for the sale or offer of coverage under a policy of self-service storage insurance. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6 and Title 66, Chapter 31.

TN - HB1752 Charitable Solicitations - As enacted, decreases the registration renewal fee for charitable organizations intending to solicit contributions from or within Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.

TN - HB2338 Lobbying, Lobbyists - As introduced, redefines "lobby" to include communications by certain governmental employees but excludes communications by certain local government officials to their respective members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB339 Students - As enacted, allows students who enter the military or national guard during high school and complete basic training before high school graduation to receive credit toward graduation for basic training. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB590 Annexation - As introduced, requires, prior to a municipality annexing within its urban growth boundary, the approval of a majority vote of qualified voters in the territory proposed for annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - HB1679 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, allocates sales and use tax revenues for a commercial development district to an eligible county or a municipality within the eligible county, or an industrial development corporation established by such eligible county or municipality, that submits a completed application to the commissioner of finance and administration together with an application fee in an amount established by the department; establishes requirements for such allocation. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1549 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Data Accessibility, Transparency and Accountability Act"; establishes requirements for the adoption of educational standards and the requesting of proposals for student assessments; prohibits the state from adopting common core standards in any subjects other than math and English language arts; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1154 Budget Procedures - As enacted, requires the state funding board to study issues concerning the "Copeland Cap." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - HB2143 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, allows the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at a facility in Loudon County on Tellico Lake that has a marina and championship golf course and at the Cedar Bluff Racquet Club in Knoxville. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - HB1223 Employees, Employers - As enacted, removes provision that specifies that the amount of wages agreed upon between employer and employee, or employee representative, in a workshop or factory, constitutes a basis for litigation in civil cases; instead specifies that the department of labor and workforce development is required to enforce the present law prohibition against any proprietor, foreman, owner or other person to employ, permitting or suffering to work for hire, in, about, or in connection with any workshop or factory any person whatsoever without first informing the employee of the amount of wages to be paid for the labor. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2, Part 1 and Title 50, Chapter 4, Part 1.

TN - HB1241 Fireworks - As introduced, exempts from local regulation of fireworks the sale and use of fireworks and certain novelty non-explosive devices; prohibits local governments from prohibiting the sale of certain items. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104, Part 1.

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

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

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

TN - HB1431 Taxes - As enacted, authorizes, instead of requires, approval by the comptroller and attorney general for compromises of state tax liabilities; allows taxpayers to request informal conferences disputing proposed notices of assessments; requires any suit challenging an assessment to be filed within 90 days from the date of final assessment; revises other provisions regarding issuing and disputing assessments. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 1.

TN - HB129 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the offense of solicitation of a minor to include solicitations by adults, that if completed, would constitute trafficking for commercial sex acts, patronizing prostitution, promoting prostitution or aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1294 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, creates offense of prescription drug fraud, which is using fraud or forgery to obtain a controlled substance and adds the theft of identifying information used to prescribe a controlled substance to offense of identity theft. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53.

TN - HB903 Beer - As enacted, allows beer manufacturer that is also licensed as restaurant or limited service restaurant for purposes of selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises to sell beer manufactured at such brew pub for off premises consumption. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1199 Eminent Domain - As enacted, provides that in any case in which a county or a municipality exercises the power of eminent domain, and the condemning entity determines the property condemned or taken by eminent domain is not used for the purpose or purposes for which it was condemned or for some other authorized public use, or if the condemning entity subsequently decides to sell it within 10 years of being condemned or taken, the property must be first offered for sale to the person or persons from whom the property was condemned or taken. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 17.

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

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

TN - HB1776 Capitol - As enacted, requires the state capitol commission to study the feasibility of placing a visual depiction of the national motto of the United States in the tunnel leading from Charlotte Avenue to the state capitol building and report recommendations as to the type and placement of the visual depiction and an estimated cost thereof to the speaker of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives by May 1, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 8.

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

TN - HB442 Unemployment Compensation - As introduced, revises the types of employees that are counted for purposes of determining whether a religious, charitable or educational employer is required to pay unemployment premiums by counting only paid or compensated employees instead of all employees including non-paid employees. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1697 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state board of education to include cursive writing in the course of instruction in all public schools through the curriculum standards, at the appropriate grade level, as determined by the board. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

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

TN - HB239 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires every LEA to make at least one early postsecondary opportunity available for high school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB443 Credit and Debit Cards - As enacted, specifies circumstances under which certain records will be considered records of a creditor and under which the records custodian may testify with respect to such records as if they are records of the creditor. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 22.

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

TN - HB264 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, changes from 30 to 35 days the time within which request for judicial review of an order revoking the license of a dental service plan corporation must be made. - Amends TCA Title 56.

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

TN - HB1480 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates an exception to the offense of carrying a firearm in public without a handgun carry permit that the person carrying or possessing a firearm or ammunition in a motor vehicle is not otherwise prohibited from carrying a firearm and is in lawful possession of the motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

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

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

TN - HB193 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, lowers the state sales tax on food and food ingredients for human consumption from 5.25 percent to 5 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1293 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

TN - HB967 Healthcare Liability - As enacted, provides for the destruction of any protected health information obtained in course of interviews with claimant's healthcare providers at the end of litigation and requires a qualified protective order to provide that participation in interview by treating healthcare provider is voluntary. - Amends TCA Section 29-26-121(f)(1)(C).

TN - HB244 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the offense of unlawful use of a firearm without the owner's effective consent. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB521 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, disallows as a defense to offenses of sexual exploitation of a minor, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor that the minor consented to the conduct constituting the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB128 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, requires rather than permits that restitution to the victim be paid by the defendant for the offenses of patronizing prostitution, trafficking for commercial sex acts, solicitation of a minor for sexual purposes, and enlisting or paying a minor to engage in child pornography. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-118.

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

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

TN - HB2339 Beer - As enacted, authorizes a county or city to issue permits not only to the owner of a business engaged in the sale, distribution, manufacture, or storage of beer, but also to the entity responsible for the premises for which the permit is sought. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - HB639 Unemployment Compensation - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding unemployment insurance, including provisions governing the waiver of the collection of overpayments. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7.

TN - HB192 Taxes, Income - As enacted, increases the annual income a person at least 65 years of age may earn and still be exempt from the Hall income tax from $26,200 to $33,000 for single filers and from $37,000 to $59,000 for persons filing jointly. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB378 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, requires the department of economic and community development to execute a separate agreement in conjunction with any FastTrack economic development grant or loan contract that reserves the right of the department to recover the amount of money, grants, funds, or other incentives disbursed by the department, in whole or in part, if the person or entity benefitting from such money, grants, funds, or other incentives fails to fulfill the commitments made by such person or entity to the department. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7 and Title 64, Chapter 6.

TN - HB868 Controlled Substances - As enacted, prohibits pain management clinics from dispensing controlled substances; specifies that act does not prohibit a medical doctor, osteopathic physician, advanced practice nurse with certificates of fitness to prescribe, or physician assistant working at a pain management clinic from providing to that practitioner's patient, without charge, a sample of a schedule IV or schedule V controlled substance in a quantity limited to an amount that is adequate to treat the patient for a maximum of 72 hours. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53; Title 63 and Chapter 880 of the Private Acts of 2012.

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

TN - HB1483 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, broadens scope of handgun permit holder's right to transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in certain motor vehicle parking lots without criminal liability under Tennessee law, unless expressly prohibited by federal law. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1313(a).

TN - HB1161 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires trial courts to verify income and property of defendants seeking court-appointed counsel in non-capital criminal cases; creates a judgment lien in favor of state against defendants for unpaid attorney's fees and costs; provides that willful nonpayment of the judgment is criminal contempt; increases professional privilege tax for deposit in indigent defense fund; requires supreme court to adopt rules concerning qualifications and appointment of private attorneys; prohibits a criminal trial court from granting a new trial after a jury returns with a guilty verdict if the court disagrees with the jury about the weight of the evidence. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14; Title 16; Title 37; Title 40, Chapter 18; Title 40, Chapter 14 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

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

TN - HB1403 Comptroller, State - As enacted, revises provisions governing the allocation and distribution of liquor-by-the-drink tax proceeds to local governments for education purposes; creates a legal mechanism whereby a local school board may seek relief in chancery court against a political subdivision that does not make the required distributions of gross receipts liquor-by-the-drink tax proceeds; authorizes certain political subdivisions and school systems to negotiate agreements for the local portion of the gross receipts liquor-by-the-drink tax that are owed by the political subdivision to the school system under the distribution formula, as it existed before July 1, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 49; Title 57 and Title 67.

TN - HB746 Education - As enacted, adds to provisions governing students with a parent in the armed forces being given excused absences to additionally provide for up to 10 days cumulatively within the school year for visitation during the member's deployment cycle; cumulative number of excused absences under this provision and present provision for visitation with parent when the member is granted rest and recuperation leave and is stationed out of the country may not exceed 10 days. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1877 Domestic Violence - As enacted, specifies that in divorce proceeding involving domestic abuse within the marriage, any debt owed for any batterer's intervention or rehabilitation programs will be attributed to the abuser only. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - HB2371 Annexation - As enacted, establishes a moratorium on annexation by ordinance or resolution; revises other provisions governing annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

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

TN - HB196 Sentencing - As enacted, redefines "criminal gang offense" under present law regarding enhanced penalties for gang offenses. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-121.

TN - HB29 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the University of Tennessee Botanical Gardens as the official state botanical garden. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB1943 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, confers civil immunity upon a person who forcibly enters a motor vehicle for purpose of removing a minor locked or trapped inside the vehicle if the person has good faith belief that the minor is in imminent danger of suffering harm if not immediately removed. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 34, Part 2.

TN - HB1736 Special License Plates - As enacted, revises and clarifies various provisions of law regarding veteran and military-related license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4 and Chapter 318 of the Public Acts of 2013.

TN - HR1 Unknown

TN - HR13 Memorials, Recognition - Niki Brown

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

TN - HR4 Unknown

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

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

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

TN - HR83 Memorials, Interns - Alex Uhlmann

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

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

TN - HR5 Unknown

TN - HR2 Unknown

TN - HR56 Memorials, Recognition - Rev. Joan Cooper Burnett

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

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

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

TN - HR205 Memorials, Interns - Michael Patrick Olson.

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

TN - HR3 Unknown

TN - HR120 Memorials, Interns - Alexis Darvin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR293 Memorials, Recognition - Boy Scouts of America

TN - HJR217 Memorials, Recognition - Carolyn House Stewart

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR129 Memorials, Sports - Phillip Fulmer, College Football Hall of Fame

TN - HJR109 Memorials, Sports - Sophia Schuburt, Girls Golf Champion

TN - HJR393 Memorials, Death - Cindy Leigh McAfee

TN - HJR112 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville Girls Tennis Team, State Runner-Up

TN - HJR233 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville girls' basketball team

TN - HJR113 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville Girls Volleyball Team, State Runner-Up

TN - HJR108 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville, 2012 Varsity Football Team, State Champion

TN - HJR18 Memorials, Recognition - United Way, 125th anniversary

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

TN - HJR114 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville, Girls Soccer Team, State Runner-Up

TN - HJR111 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville, Girls' Varsity Cross Country Team, State Champion

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

TN - HJR110 Memorials, Sports - Christian Academy of Knoxville, Boys Soccer State Champions

TN - HJR281 Memorials, Public Service - Dr. Nell Mohney, Diamond of Distinction

TN - HJR277 Memorials, Professional Achievement - MaryStewart Lewis, 2013 Woman of Distinction

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

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

TN - HJR2 Unknown

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

TN - HJR32 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Beverly Marrero

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

TN - HJR163 Memorials, Retirement - Sandy Sain

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

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

TN - HJR106 Memorials, Death - Marcellas Brooks

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR287 Memorials, Recognition - Mei Li Zuber, 2013 Young Woman of Distinction

TN - HJR505 Memorials, Interns - Sommerie Denise Wade

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR291 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Julie Betts Brandao, 2013 Woman of Distinction

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Public Service - Sara Kyle

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

TN - HJR30 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Jeanne Richardson

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

TN - HJR31 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Mike Kernell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR292 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kim Chapman, 2013 Woman of Distinction

TN - HJR647 Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Lee.

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

TN - HJR275 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kristina Montague, 2013 Woman of Distinction

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR890 Memorials, Death - Gail Kerr.

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

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

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

TN - HJR225 Memorials, Recognition - Pettus L. Read

TN - HJR297 Memorials, Recognition - Harold D. Morrell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR444 Memorials, Recognition - Rev. Walter Smith

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

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

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

TN - HJR283 Memorials, Recognition - Alarie Gage, 2013 Young Woman of Distinction

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

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

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

TN - HJR298 Memorials, Recognition - Jonah and Emory Marlin

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

TN - HJR740 Memorials, Retirement - Doyle Thomas Grant.

TN - HJR572 Memorials, Sports - Bobby Davis.

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR288 Memorials, Recognition - Savannah Clay, Young Women of Distinction

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

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

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

TN - HJR165 Memorials, Death - Donald "Duck" Dunn

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

TN - SB1715 Election Laws - As enacted, revises various election law provisions. - Amends TCA Section 2-19-107; Section 2-2-107; Section 2-2-109; Section 2-2-201; Section 2-3-109; Section 2-3-204; Section 2-4-106; Section 2-5-102; Section 2-5-106; Section 2-6-103 and Section 40-20-113.

TN - SB1919 Charitable Solicitations - As enacted, decreases the registration renewal fee for charitable organizations intending to solicit contributions from or within Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.

TN - SB1147 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires limited lines licensure for the sale or offer of coverage under a policy of self-service storage insurance. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6 and Title 66, Chapter 31.

TN - SB477 Students - As enacted, allows students who enter the military or national guard during high school and complete basic training before high school graduation to receive credit toward graduation for basic training. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1184 Damages - As introduced, limits recovery for medical costs in personal injury or wrongful death actions to amounts paid by or on behalf of the claimant, amounts necessary to satisfy unpaid charges for medical care, and amounts necessary to satisfy future medical charges. - Amends TCA Title 24 and Title 29.

TN - SB1295 Employees, Employers - As enacted, removes provision that specifies that the amount of wages agreed upon between employer and employee, or employee representative, in a workshop or factory, constitutes a basis for litigation in civil cases; instead specifies that the department of labor and workforce development is required to enforce the present law prohibition against any proprietor, foreman, owner or other person to employ, permitting or suffering to work for hire, in, about, or in connection with any workshop or factory any person whatsoever without first informing the employee of the amount of wages to be paid for the labor. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2, Part 1 and Title 50, Chapter 4, Part 1.

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

TN - SB2023 TennCare - As enacted, provides that an individual who is an inmate of a public institution will have eligibility for medical assistance suspended but not terminated during periods of actual incarceration; an individual who is an inmate of a public institution will be eligible for temporary reinstatement of medical assistance for care received outside of a jail or correctional facility in a hospital or other health care facility for more than 24 hours; and a public institution may make efforts to establish eligibility for or renew assistance for such individuals prior to their release from the public institution. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 33; Title 38; Title 41; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB1726 Victims' Rights - As introduced, requires a photograph of a victim of a violent crime, taken prior to the crime, to be admitted at trial during the state's case-in-chief if the victim is unable to testify or be present at trial. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1362 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB831 DNA and Genetic Testing - As enacted, provides that a criminal prosecution may be commenced by the issuance of a warrant identifying the offender by a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) profile; applicable to commencement of prosecution for any offense, regardless of when committed, except those offenses for which prosecution is barred on July 1, 2013, because the applicable time limitation set out has expired. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - SB1708 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, allocates sales and use tax revenues for a commercial development district to an eligible county or a municipality within the eligible county, or an industrial development corporation established by such eligible county or municipality, that submits a completed application to the commissioner of finance and administration together with an application fee in an amount established by the department; establishes requirements for such allocation. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2542 Courts, Criminal - As introduced, provides that either party in a criminal trial may request in writing that the judge be drug tested; if the judge tests positive for an illegal drug, a substitute judge is appointed; if the test is negative, no request is made, or it was for a legal prescription drug, the trial resumes and neither side can assert on appeal that the judge was impaired by drugs. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 18, Part 1.

TN - SB2523 Lobbying, Lobbyists - As introduced, redefines "lobby" to include communications by certain governmental employees but excludes communications by certain local government officials to their respective members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - SB1030 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, disallows as a defense to offenses of sexual exploitation of a minor, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor that the minor consented to the conduct constituting the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB116 Fiscal Review Committee - As enacted, requires committee to include impact to commerce statement in fiscal note for bills and resolutions referred to certain committees. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1691 State Employees - As enacted, enacts the "Three Stars of Tennessee Award" to recognize peace officers, firefighters, and medical first responders killed or who suffered a career-ending injury in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2072 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, confers civil immunity upon a person who forcibly enters a motor vehicle for purpose of removing a minor locked or trapped inside the vehicle if the person has good faith belief that the minor is in imminent danger of suffering harm if not immediately removed. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 34, Part 2.

TN - SB1717 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires TACIR to report annually to the state and local government committee of the senate and the state government committee of the house on whether the wholesale power supply arrangements between the TVA and municipal utilities and electric cooperatives are likely to change in the future in a way that could affect payments in lieu of taxes from the TVA to the state and local governments. - Amends TCA Section 4-10-112; Title 7, Chapter 39, Part 4 and Title 7, Chapter 52, Part 3.

TN - SB614 Controlled Substances - As enacted, redefines "imitation controlled substance" for purposes of the offense of knowingly manufacturing, delivering, selling, or possessing with the intent to sell, deliver or manufacture an imitation controlled substance. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - SB224 Credit and Debit Cards - As enacted, specifies circumstances under which certain records will be considered records of a creditor and under which the records custodian may testify with respect to such records as if they are records of the creditor. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 22.

TN - SB2314 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, allows the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at a facility in Loudon County on Tellico Lake that has a marina and championship golf course and at the Cedar Bluff Racquet Club in Knoxville. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - SB2256 Mental Illness - As enacted, extends pilot project for assisted outpatient treatment for two years until June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 6, Part 6.

TN - SB1996 Local Government, General - As introduced, prohibits the department of revenue from collecting any fee from counties or cities who remit tax proceeds to the department; prohibits the department from deducting or retaining any fee from the proceeds of state-shared taxes distributed to the counties or cities. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - SB2489 Beer - As enacted, authorizes a county or city to issue permits not only to the owner of a business engaged in the sale, distribution, manufacture, or storage of beer, but also to the entity responsible for the premises for which the permit is sought. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

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

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

TN - SB287 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, requires the commissioner of financial institutions to prepare and submit annually, instead of biennally, an analysis and recapitulation of certain information on title pledge lenders. - Amends TCA Title 45.

TN - SB720 Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, requires commissioner of revenue to develop alternate audit procedures for licensed publicly traded companies subject to 15 percent gross receipts tax on sales of alcoholic beverages for on premises consumption. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.

TN - SB2086 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an offense of photographing or recording the intimate parts of another where the parties agree that the image shall remain private and distributing the image with the intent to cause emotional distress, and the depicted person suffers emotional distress. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - SB273 Healthcare Liability - As enacted, provides for the destruction of any protected health information obtained in course of interviews with claimant's healthcare providers at the end of litigation and requires a qualified protective order to provide that participation in interview by treating healthcare provider is voluntary. - Amends TCA Section 29-26-121(f)(1)(C).

TN - SB610 Correctional Programs - As enacted, revises code to conform to current practice of state and local government committee by correcting inconsistent provisions in the code. - Amends TCA Section 41-24-104.

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

TN - SB446 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the offense of solicitation of a minor to include solicitations by adults, that if completed, would constitute trafficking for commercial sex acts, patronizing prostitution, promoting prostitution or aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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

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

TN - SB2265 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, makes various changes and additions to present law concerning consumption of alcoholic beverages on premises; authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at certain premier type tourists resorts. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-202 and Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - SB289 Beer - As enacted, redefines "beer" and "high alcohol content beer"; revises various provisions regarding high alcohol content beer. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB1967 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, creates cause of action against a person who, in connection with the assertion of a United States patent, sends, or causes any person to send, any written or electronic communication that states that the intended recipient or any affiliated person is infringing or has infringed a patent and bears liability or owes compensation to another person, in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 29.

TN - SB203 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires every LEA to make at least one early postsecondary opportunity available for high school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB31 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As introduced, enhances penalties for sale or possession of certain controlled substances within thousand feet of hospitals, alcohol and drug treatment centers, and methadone clinics. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - SB2251 Workers Compensation - As enacted, revised various provisions relative to certain employment not covered under the workers' compensation law. - Amends TCA Section 50-6-106.

TN - SB1913 Special License Plates - As enacted, revises and clarifies various provisions of law regarding veteran and military-related license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4 and Chapter 318 of the Public Acts of 2013.

TN - SB1201 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, authorizes collection of certain charges by health care providers for voluntary provision of health care services when forwarded to sponsoring organization. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 7.

TN - SB2326 Public Records - As enacted, designates as confidential bank account information of current and former public employees and applicants for public employment, and certain information received, compiled or maintained by employees of the treasury department's investment division. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504.

TN - SB1149 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires reductions in force or other such dismissals of teacher and nonlicensed LEA employees to be based on evaluations of performance; requires only those teachers rated in the three highest categories, based on evaluations, to be placed on a reemployment list; revises other provisions related to dismissal or suspension of teachers. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-511.

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

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

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

TN - SB198 Taxes, Income - As enacted, increases the annual income a person at least 65 years of age may earn and still be exempt from the Hall income tax from $26,200 to $33,000 for single filers and from $37,000 to $59,000 for persons filing jointly. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - SB1836 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, prohibits expenditure of state funds to pay the public indebtedness of any municipality; specifies that this prohibition does not preclude any municipality from utilizing its allocation of state-shared taxes for the purpose of paying its public indebtedness. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 56; Title 9, Chapter 1; Title 9, Chapter 3; Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 9, Chapter 21.

TN - SB435 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, changes from 30 to 35 days the time within which request for judicial review of an order revoking the license of a dental service plan corporation must be made. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB71 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the University of Tennessee Botanical Gardens as the official state botanical garden. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - SB268 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, gives teachers who teach in multiple subject areas until January 1, 2014, to pass the content area tests in the subject areas in which they are teaching. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-6006.

TN - SB2462 Education - As enacted, prohibits intentional destruction of imagination library program books intended to be delivered to children enrolled in the program; requires best efforts to deliver books or, in the alternative, to make the books available for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten or elementary programs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 52, Part 1.

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

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

TN - SB1179 Taxes - As introduced, replaces incorrect code references, including a reference to the tax on annuity receipts for excise tax purposes, and a reference to the definition of "medical equipment" for purposes of a certain franchise/excise tax credit, among other provisions. - Amends TCA Title 67.

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

TN - SB1235 Budget Procedures - As enacted, requires the state funding board to study issues concerning the "Copeland Cap." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 67.

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

TN - SB747 Beer - As enacted, allows beer manufacturer that is also licensed as restaurant or limited service restaurant for purposes of selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises to sell beer manufactured at such brew pub for off premises consumption. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1321 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the offense of unlawful use of a firearm without the owner's effective consent. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB473 Adoption - As enacted, establishes a procedure for relinquishing rights relating to an embryo. - Amends TCA Title 34; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SB596 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, revises the security interest provision for companies that finance insurance premiums to clarify that the assignment and security interest of premiums finances is perfected. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 37.

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

TN - SB711 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, changes the per-gallon tax levied on manufacturers of high alcohol content beer to the beer tax rate instead of the wine tax rate; clarifies where it is lawful to manufacture intoxicating liquors or intoxicating drinks without the requirement of holding a referendum first; creates direct beer shipper's license to be issued through the alcoholic beverage commission that would allow an in-state or out-of-state entity to ship beer or high alcohol content beer or both directly to consumers age 21 or older in this state for personal use. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB783 Unemployment Compensation - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding unemployment insurance, including provisions governing the waiver of the collection of overpayments. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1858 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, revises certain provisions governing projects and qualified public use facilities to change the amount of the aggregate investment of public or private funds from "in excess of $200 million" to "in excess of $75 million". - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53 and Title 7, Chapter 88.

TN - SB1323 Domestic Violence - As introduced, imposes a $10.00 admission fee on each customer who enters an adult-oriented establishment that provides live nude entertainment and permits the on-site consumption of alcoholic beverages to be used for providing grants for sexual assault programs and the raising of awareness of sexual violence. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51 and Title 71, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - SB1774 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates an exception to the offense of carrying a firearm in public without a handgun carry permit that the person carrying or possessing a firearm or ammunition in a motor vehicle is not otherwise prohibited from carrying a firearm and is in lawful possession of the motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB1812 Juries and Jurors - As introduced, provides that a person, who is seventy years of age or older, will be excused from jury duty upon asking the court to be excused; authorizes the court to require sufficient proof of age prior to excusing such person. - Amends TCA Title 22.

TN - SB1813 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, allows teachers scoring "significantly above expectations" on each of their last three evaluations to petition the commissioner of education for a waiver of any requirement for the renewal of their licenses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2259 Public Property - As enacted, authorizes any public building authority to establish and charge certain fees for parking. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 55.

TN - SB1035 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, requires rather than permits that restitution to the victim be paid by the defendant for the offenses of patronizing prostitution, trafficking for commercial sex acts, solicitation of a minor for sexual purposes, and enlisting or paying a minor to engage in child pornography. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-118.

TN - SB275 Bonds and Undertakings, Regulation of - As introduced, requires any local government that proposes to issue indebtedness on or after July 1, 2013, to obtain approval of the state funding board, under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 9.

TN - SB418 Lottery, Charitable - As enacted, extends deadline for application for 2013-2014 annual events for three days after effective date of act. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - SB1296 Fireworks - As introduced, exempts from local regulation of fireworks the sale and use of fireworks and certain novelty non-explosive devices; prohibits local governments from prohibiting the sale of certain items. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104, Part 1.

TN - SB959 Eminent Domain - As enacted, provides that in any case in which a county or a municipality exercises the power of eminent domain, and the condemning entity determines the property condemned or taken by eminent domain is not used for the purpose or purposes for which it was condemned or for some other authorized public use, or if the condemning entity subsequently decides to sell it within 10 years of being condemned or taken, the property must be first offered for sale to the person or persons from whom the property was condemned or taken. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 17.

TN - SB805 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, changes the number of full-time employees an employer must have from 25 to 100 or less before an employer may reject a contract's point of service option. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 32.

TN - SB1782 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, authorizes community mental health centers and federally qualified health centers to employ physicians, except anesthesiologists, emergency department physicians, pathologists or radiologists. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.

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

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

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

TN - SB1835 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Data Accessibility, Transparency and Accountability Act"; establishes requirements for the adoption of educational standards and the requesting of proposals for student assessments; prohibits the state from adopting common core standards in any subjects other than math and English language arts; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1747 Courts, General Sessions - As introduced, changes the date for determining which class a county is in for purposes of compensating general sessions judges from September 1 to October 1. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15.

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

TN - SB1165 Indigents - As introduced, prior to waiving the court costs and lititigation tax owed by a defendant in a criminal case, the judge must conduct an indigency determination hearing if one has not already been conducted. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 40, Chapter 25.

TN - SB1881 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state board of education to include cursive writing in the course of instruction in all public schools through the curriculum standards, at the appropriate grade level, as determined by the board. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - SB1194 University of Tennessee - As introduced, authorizes university to guaranty obligations of an entity proposing operation of a proton therapy center up to $98,000,000. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SB202 Sentencing - As enacted, redefines "criminal gang offense" under present law regarding enhanced penalties for gang offenses. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-121.

TN - SB2096 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, revises various provisions relating to when certain financial institutions may pay out the proceeds of checks made payable to a deceased individual. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 5; Title 4, Chapter 4; Title 45, Chapter 2; Title 45, Chapter 3 and Title 45, Chapter 4.

TN - SB778 TennCare - As introduced, requires bureau to annually notify members of the general assembly of any co-payment system involving for TennCare Medicaid members and TennCare Standard members with regard to medical benefits and pharmacy benefits. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2464 Annexation - As enacted, establishes a moratorium on annexation by ordinance or resolution; revises other provisions governing annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

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

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

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

TN - SB199 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, lowers the state sales tax on food and food ingredients for human consumption from 5.25 percent to 5 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1161 Education - As enacted, adds to provisions governing students with a parent in the armed forces being given excused absences to additionally provide for up to 10 days cumulatively within the school year for visitation during the member's deployment cycle; cumulative number of excused absences under this provision and present provision for visitation with parent when the member is granted rest and recuperation leave and is stationed out of the country may not exceed 10 days. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1909 Domestic Violence - As enacted, specifies that in divorce proceeding involving domestic abuse within the marriage, any debt owed for any batterer's intervention or rehabilitation programs will be attributed to the abuser only. - Amends TCA Title 36.

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

TN - SB2031 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, broadens scope of handgun permit holder's right to transport and store a firearm or firearm ammunition in certain motor vehicle parking lots without criminal liability under Tennessee law, unless expressly prohibited by federal law. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1313(a).

TN - SB710 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, changes a terminating event for receipt of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship from attempt at any postsecondary institution of a specified number of semester hours to receipt of the scholarship for a fixed number of full-time equivalent semesters. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB605 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, requires the department of economic and community development to execute a separate agreement in conjunction with any FastTrack economic development grant or loan contract that reserves the right of the department to recover the amount of money, grants, funds, or other incentives disbursed by the department, in whole or in part, if the person or entity benefitting from such money, grants, funds, or other incentives fails to fulfill the commitments made by such person or entity to the department. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7 and Title 64, Chapter 6.

TN - SB705 Controlled Substances - As enacted, prohibits pain management clinics from dispensing controlled substances; specifies that act does not prohibit a medical doctor, osteopathic physician, advanced practice nurse with certificates of fitness to prescribe, or physician assistant working at a pain management clinic from providing to that practitioner's patient, without charge, a sample of a schedule IV or schedule V controlled substance in a quantity limited to an amount that is adequate to treat the patient for a maximum of 72 hours. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53; Title 63 and Chapter 880 of the Private Acts of 2012.

TN - SB969 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires trial courts to verify income and property of defendants seeking court-appointed counsel in non-capital criminal cases; creates a judgment lien in favor of state against defendants for unpaid attorney's fees and costs; provides that willful nonpayment of the judgment is criminal contempt; increases professional privilege tax for deposit in indigent defense fund; requires supreme court to adopt rules concerning qualifications and appointment of private attorneys; prohibits a criminal trial court from granting a new trial after a jury returns with a guilty verdict if the court disagrees with the jury about the weight of the evidence. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14; Title 16; Title 37; Title 40, Chapter 18; Title 40, Chapter 14 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - SB1464 Comptroller, State - As enacted, revises provisions governing the allocation and distribution of liquor-by-the-drink tax proceeds to local governments for education purposes; creates a legal mechanism whereby a local school board may seek relief in chancery court against a political subdivision that does not make the required distributions of gross receipts liquor-by-the-drink tax proceeds; authorizes certain political subdivisions and school systems to negotiate agreements for the local portion of the gross receipts liquor-by-the-drink tax that are owed by the political subdivision to the school system under the distribution formula, as it existed before July 1, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 49; Title 57 and Title 67.

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

TN - SB1797 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, enacts the "Channon Christian Act", which clarifies rule of evidence regarding certain character evidence. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB1635 Taxes - As enacted, authorizes, instead of requires, approval by the comptroller and attorney general for compromises of state tax liabilities; allows taxpayers to request informal conferences disputing proposed notices of assessments; requires any suit challenging an assessment to be filed within 90 days from the date of final assessment; revises other provisions regarding issuing and disputing assessments. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 1.

TN - SB457 Unemployment Compensation - As introduced, revises the types of employees that are counted for purposes of determining whether a religious, charitable or educational employer is required to pay unemployment premiums by counting only paid or compensated employees instead of all employees including non-paid employees. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1796 Evidence - As enacted, enacts the "Chris Newsom Act", which creates presumption to successor trial and appellate judges that if the original trial judge dismisses the jury following a unanimous verdict, that the judge exercised his or her duties as the 13th juror and approves the verdict. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 18, Part 1.

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

TN - SB1363 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, creates offense of prescription drug fraud, which is using fraud or forgery to obtain a controlled substance and adds the theft of identifying information used to prescribe a controlled substance to offense of identity theft. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53.