Tennessee Rep. Ryan Williams (R)

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TN - HJR904 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Jimmy Eldridge

TN - HJR349 Memorials, Recognition - Daniel C. Hicks

TN - HJR876 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Roger Kane

TN - HB2603 Licenses - As enacted, requires persons subject to licensure as emergency medical services personnel to notify the emergency medical services board of convictions and pending charges of commission of a felony or misdemeanor within 10 business days of the occurrence of such actions. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - HB433 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires state institutions of higher education to develop and implement uniform procedures for awarding academic credit through course equivalencies for military education, training, experience, and occupational specialties; provides methods for implementation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.

TN - HB894 Handgun Permits - As introduced, requires the department of safety to promulgate rules regarding requirements for handgun safety course instruction, including qualifications of handgun safety schools and instructors, required for handgun carry permits; authorizes a permit holder to convert an eight-year permit into a lifetime permit at any time. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2123 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, clarifies certain code references to account for the state university boards established by the FOCUS Act; reduces the number of student members on the higher education commission to a single voting member and revises the nominating process for that student member; removes the alumni requirement for appointments to the board of regents. - Amends TCA Section 8-30-102; Section 8-36-714; Section 8-50-809; Section 49-7-206; Section 49-7-211; Section 49-8-201; Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1; Section 49-7-1003 and Section 49-7-204.

TN - HB900 Welfare - As introduced, requires the inspector general within the department of finance and administration and the director of the Tennessee bureau of investigation to present their annual reports regarding investigating and prosecuting TennCare fraud to the health and welfare committee of the senate and the health committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 13; Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB2292 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation and the department of revenue to jointly study expansion of the tire pre-disposal fee program to sales of used tires and report to certain committees of the general assembly by January 10, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 16 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB598 Driver Licenses - As introduced, waives the driver license fee for inmates released from incarceration, under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB496 Real Property - As introduced, prohibits a planning commission or local legislative body from requiring a landowner to transfer ownership of land along an existing public right of way to the local government as a condition of approving the subdivision of property without first purchasing the property; permits landowner subject to regulatory taking to petition for a jury of inquest or sue for damages including reasonable costs and attorney's fees. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 29; Title 42, Chapter 6; Title 44 and Title 54.

TN - HB601 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, specifies that a property tax lien does not attach to an easement appurtenant upon property that is a servient estate or to an easement in gross that was assessed separately from the property by either the county assessor of property or the office of state assessed properties in the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 21; Title 26; Title 35; Title 40; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - HB693 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, requires the commissioner of revenue to annually report the amount of disaster relief refunds issued by the department. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - HB387 Medical Occupations - As enacted, revises definitions related to practice of chiropractic; changes requirements related to composition, powers, and duties of the board of chiropractic examiners. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2126 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, designates board of trustees for the Tennessee consolidated retirement system instead of the consolidated retirement board as serving among the trustees for the optional retirement program; makes various revisions to the administration of deferred or tax-sheltered compensation plans for state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 25, Part 2.

TN - HB467 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires an insured that has paid premiums for full replacement contents coverage for losses from catastrophic wildfires to be paid the full amount of the coverage purchased without the necessity of purchasing replacement items prior to being compensated. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB2643 General Assembly - As enacted, designates the public space constructed on top of the parking garage attached to the Cordell Hull Building as the "Beth Harwell Plaza"; designates the new tunnel that connects the Cordell Hull Building to the State Capitol as the "Ron Ramsey Tunnel". - Amends TCA Title 3.

TN - HB951 Public Utility Commission - As introduced, requires that copies of the authority's final decisions or orders be delivered or mailed to each party or to the party's attorney of record within five days after the entry of the final decision or order. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 35; Title 47; Title 48; Title 64; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - HB767 Education - As introduced, exempts employers and employees who have been convicted of certain disqualifying offenses from the prohibition on coming into direct contact with school children or children in a child care program, if 20 or more years have elapsed between the date of conviction of the offense and the date on which the criminal history records check is conducted. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB2347 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires the commerce and labor committee of the senate, the insurance and banking committee of the house of representatives, and the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives to recommend any necessary changes to the Access Tennessee Act of 2006 by February 1 after conducting the committees' annual review of the act. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 9; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HR9 Memorials, Recognition - Putnam County, 175th anniversary

TN - HJR654 Memorials, Heroism - Putnam County Sheriff's Office and Putnam County Emergency Medical Services

TN - HJR908 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Marc Gravitt

TN - HB599 County Government - As introduced, prohibits county charters from being interpreted or amended in a manner inconsistent with state law with respect to the duties, qualifications, and privileges of the constitutional county offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, or trustee. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HB1844 State Government - As introduced, requires policy for lease payments for space occupied by state agencies to be established by the commissioner of finance and administration, instead of the commissioner of general services, and approved by the state building commission. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 12.

TN - HB1872 Powers of Attorney - As introduced, establishes a process by which an attorney in fact can petition a court to establish a lost power of attorney instrument. - Amends TCA Title 34, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR869 Memorials, Public Service - Representative David Alexander

TN - HB695 Education - As enacted, adds to and clarifies law concerning teacher training. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.

TN - HB1477 Lottery, Charitable - As enacted, extends application deadline for the 2017-2018 annual event period for five days after this act becomes law; requires payment of a $50.00 initial application fee at the time of submission of an annual event application and payment of the remainder of the application fee when the financial accounting is filed within 90 days after the event date. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - HB893 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires that the value of real property assessed for property tax purposes be ascertained from evidence of its sound, intrinsic, and immediate value, for purposes of sale between a willing seller and buyer without consideration of speculative values, and when appropriate, subject to the Agricultural, Forest and Open Space Land Act of 1976; provides that evidence includes an independent appraisal commissioned by the owner of the residential property. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 39 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB694 Drugs, Synthetic or Analogue - As enacted, excludes from the definition of marijuana a cannabidiol product approved as a prescription medication by the United States Food and Drug Administration. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-402.

TN - HB814 Business and Commerce - As introduced, establishes the Tennessee horse racing commission to regulate horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 44; Title 62 and Title 67.

TN - HB18 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires coverage for refills of prescription eye drops in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB897 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, for any FDA-approved procedure or treatment that is selected by an insured but not covered in the insured's health benefit plan, requires an insurer to pay up to the maximum amount provided in the health benefit plan for an alternative covered procedure or treatment for the same underlying health issue. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB896 Animal Control - As introduced, requires a governmental animal control agency to prominently display its certification authorizing chemical capture of animals in its main facility. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HJR234 Memorials, Sports - Upperman High School Special Olympics basketball team

TN - HB602 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, exempts attorneys who are legally forbidden from practicing law from the professional privilege tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HJR879 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Steve McDaniel

TN - HJR878 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Mark Pody

TN - HB113 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, authorizes municipalities located in Putnam County to prohibit, by local ordinance, smoking on the grounds of an urban park center. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HJR870 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Jimmy Matlock

TN - HJR867 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Art Swann

TN - HJR875 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Harry Brooks

TN - HB384 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, establishes the Tennessee council on autism spectrum disorder. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

TN - HB144 Taxes - As introduced, permits the court in a tax collection proceeding to enter on the tax books a copy of the court order. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1927 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, establishes circumstances under healthcare facilities and mental healthcare facilities may differentiate between licensed physicians based on a physician's maintenance of certification in medical staff privileging and credentialing; establishes other requirements in regard to maintenance of certification. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 68.

TN - HJR874 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Sheila Butt

TN - HB888 Students - As introduced, requires students in public schools and public institutions of higher education to use restrooms and locker rooms that are assigned to persons of the same sex as that shown on the students' birth certificates. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1003 Board of Regents - As enacted, makes various technical corrections to the FOCUS Act related to the appointment of student and faculty board members. - Amends TCA Section 49-8-201.

TN - HB597 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, establishes provisions governing licensure of engineers for certain persons with a master's degree from an approved institution who have passed Fundamentals of Engineering Examination. - Amends TCA Section 62-2-401.

TN - HJR799 Memorials, Recognition - Habitat for Humanity in Tennessee, 40th anniversary

TN - HB2121 Medical Occupations - As introduced, extends the time period for reporting name and address changes to the division of health related boards from 30 to 45 days. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HJR1008 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Denounces white nationalists and neo-Nazi groups.

TN - HB637 Cooperatives - As introduced, decreases the maximum number of members in which any electrical cooperative's bylaws may allow a cooperative member to vote for as proxy from 10 members to 7 members. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - HB891 Business Organizations - As introduced, exempts certain transactions by limited liability companies from the Tennessee Real Estate Broker License Act of 1973. - Amends TCA Title 48; Title 62 and Title 66.

TN - HB727 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires students to complete one year of instruction in American government and one year of instruction in Tennessee history between grades 7 and 12 to receive a high school diploma, with various exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB950 Telecommunications - As introduced, allows electric cooperatives to provide broadband internet access and related services without any limitations that are not otherwise placed on other private providers of telecommunication services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB559 Child Abuse - As introduced, requires a mandatory report of child sexual abuse to include the name, address, telephone number, and age of the child, the name, address, and telephone number of the person responsible for the care of the child, and the facts requiring the report. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HJR238 Memorials, Sports - Upperman High School girls' basketball team TSSAA Division I Class AA State Champions

TN - HB898 Health Care - As introduced, requires a healthcare provider to provide, within two business days of a request by a patient or prospective patient, the estimated amount for a single procedure or episode of care, unless a medical emergency exists. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB425 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, revises certain provisions governing delinquent property taxes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1941 General Assembly - As introduced, requires facilities manager to ensure the official flag of the general assembly is flown outside the Cordell Hull Building. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3.

TN - HB640 Education - As introduced, requires a local board of education to hold a hearing within 30 days of, rather than within a reasonable time after, its receipt of an application for a hearing to contest the reasonableness of a student assignment. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR872 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Tilman Goins

TN - HJR87 Memorials, Recognition - Smith-Hughes Act, 100th anniversary

TN - HB892 Marriage - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Natural Marriage Defense Act," which states the policy of Tennessee to defend natural marriage between one man and one woman regardless of any court decision to the contrary. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - HB1917 Labor - As enacted, extends repeal date for the Go Build Tennessee Program, from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2024; deletes restriction that funds collected from contractor licensing revenue be used only to fund career and technical education programs and other certified and nationally accredited programs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 41 and Title 62, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HJR906 Memorials, Public Service - Speaker Beth Harwell

TN - HJR907 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Dawn White

TN - HB696 Medical Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Doctor of Medical Science Act." - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB6 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, allocates state sales tax revenue derived from sales of admissions to events of a major league soccer franchise to the municipality in which a sports authority is organized and has secured the franchise. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB895 Statutes and Codification - As introduced, declares that human life begins with fertilization, cloning, or its functional equivalent, at which time all legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood attach. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3.

TN - HB562 Contractors - As introduced, enacts the "Limited Licensed HVAC Contractors' Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 62, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2124 TennCare - As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration to seek a waiver amendment to the TennCare II waiver to require participation in work or related activities by certain enrollees and to make certain benefit changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HR104 Memorials, Interns - Sam Nelson

TN - HB1004 Education, Higher - As enacted, revises various provisions in higher education to include all state governing boards and not just the board of regents or the UT system due to the implementation of the FOCUS Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 14; Section 49-7-118 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 30.

TN - HJR873 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Charles Sargent

TN - HJR934 Memorials, Public Service - Representative John Forgety

TN - HJR728 Naming and Designating - August 2018, "Shingles Awareness and Improvement Month"

TN - HB600 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for the offenses of disorderly conduct from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3.

TN - HB294 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, includes within the offense of especially aggravated stalking a person 18 years of age or older who commits the offense of stalking or aggravated stalking against a victim who is less than 12 years of age at any time during the person's course of conduct. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-315.

TN - HJR905 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Kevin Brooks

TN - HJR954 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Judd Matheny

TN - HB92 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, authorizes a court to terminate parental rights of one parent if that parent is convicted of attempted first degree or second degree murder or attempted voluntary manslaughter of the child's other parent. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HJR328 Memorials, Death - James "Ken" Sparks

TN - HJR32 Naming and Designating - "Child Abuse Prevention Month," April 2017

TN - HR345 Memorials, Interns - John Hitchcock

TN - HB2348 Controlled Substances - As enacted, requires a prescriber to provide certain information prior to prescribing more than a three-day supply of an opioid or an opioid dosage that exceeds a total of a 180 morphine milligram equivalent dose to a woman of childbearing age. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - HB2122 Medical Occupations - As introduced, establishes a license for a new practitioner. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB2125 Annexation - As enacted, specifies circumstances in which a referendum will not be required to effectuate annexation of territory; schedules provision to expire January 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Section 6-51-104.

TN - HB603 Children - As enacted, authorizes a physician to provide peripartum analgesia and peripartum care to a minor who is at least 14 years of age without the knowledge or consent of a parent. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR871 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Judd Matheny

TN - HJR868 Memorials, Public Service - Speaker Beth Harwell

TN - HB890 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, authorizes the board of claims to hear claims for compensation by persons whose convictions are vacated based on DNA evidence after serving at least 25 years in prison and to grant appropriate relief. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 40.

TN - HJR217 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Grant William Gammon, Eagle Scout

TN - HJR877 Memorials, Public Service - Representative Courtney Rogers

TN - HB1462 Budget Procedures - As enacted, requires that estimates of the state funding board be adopted by a majority vote. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - HB413 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, creates a task force to study the issues created by the maintenance of certification process for Tennessee physicians; prohibits board of medical examiners and board of osteopathic examination from taking certain action on a license based on nonparticipation in any form of maintenance of licensure. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56, Chapter 7; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 9 and Title 68.

TN - HJR23 Memorials, Recognition - Expresses appreciation and thanks to entities and persons providing assistance during the Smoky Mountain wildfires.

TN - HJR21 Memorials, Sports - Whitehaven High School, TSSAA Class 6A State Football Champions

TN - HJR22 Memorials, Death - Michael E. Anderson

TN - HJR25 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Rep. Johnny Shaw, birthday

TN - HJR62 Memorials, Death - Avon Rollins, Sr.

TN - HJR35 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 3, 2017

TN - HJR67 Memorials, Death - Brock Wyatt Blick

TN - HJR34 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Tammy Letzler and Kim Cox

TN - HJR66 Memorials, Recognition - Chalan Gabriella Sanders, World's Pre-Teen Miss Tennessee Tourism

TN - HJR64 Memorials, Death - Chattanooga school bus victims

TN - HJR44 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Confirms the appointment of persons to the state university board of Tennessee Technological University.

TN - HB508 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates a private cause of action for a party that is adversely affected by a local ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment on firearms that is preempted by state law; restricts certain actions by local government in regard to handgun carry permittees. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB696 Medical Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Doctor of Medical Science Act." - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - HB695 Education - As enacted, adds to and clarifies law concerning teacher training. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.

TN - HB960 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, prohibits a health insurance entity from taking certain actions with respect to coverage of prescription drugs outside of open enrollment periods. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HJR75 Memorials, Retirement - David Gregory

TN - HB1061 Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "Historic Rehabilitation Investment Incentive Act." - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 4.

TN - HJR91 Memorials, Heroism - Officer Joseph Miranne, Officer Jason Berrios, and Officer Anthony Oliveto of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

TN - HJR98 Memorials, Recognition - V. Lynn Evans

TN - HJR1306 Memorials, Retirement - Denise Sims

TN - HR95 Memorials, Recognition - Clayborn Temple

TN - HB322 School Transportation - As enacted, establishes a school transportation supervisor program for the monitoring and oversight of transportation services for local education authorities and charter schools; requires new school bus drivers to complete a training program prior to transporting students; requires a driver to be at least 25 years of age to receive an initial school bus driver license endorsement. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21; Section 55-50-302 and Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 6.

TN - HR171 Memorials, Recognition - Tim Shaw

TN - HJR197 Memorials, Death - Dr. Gene Caldwell

TN - HJR561 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jack Lowery, President of Tennessee Road Builders Association

TN - HR24 Memorials, Recognition - Alzheimer's and other dementia awareness

TN - HJR593 Memorials, Sports - Nashville Predators, NHL Western Conference champions

TN - HJR204 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Altha Stewart, President-elect of American Psychiatric Association

TN - HB2294 Local Government, General - As enacted, allows a municipal legislative body to authorize, by ordinance passed by 2/3 vote, a member of the body who is deployed for 13 months or less while serving as a member to attend and vote in sessions through the use of two-way electronic audio-video communication during the deployment. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.

TN - HJR205 Memorials, Death - Dr. Luther M. Kindall

TN - HJR577 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Roland Donnelly-Bullington, Salutatorian, Central High School

TN - HJR578 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Elizabeth A. Mulhearn, Valedictorian, Central High School

TN - HJR262 Memorials, Recognition - The Lee Sisters of Memphis

TN - HR250 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Travis McKinney, Keller Williams Realty International Rookie of the Year

TN - HB689 Handgun Permits - As enacted, creates an exemption to the firing range component of the training that is required in order to obtain a handgun carry permit for applicants who submit proof to the department of safety that they have successfully passed small arms qualification training or combat pistol training in any branch of the United States armed forces. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HJR454 Memorials, Interns - Daniel H. Cox

TN - HJR641 Memorials, Congratulations - Taiwan

TN - HJR735 Memorials, Retirement - Ed Cromer

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Death - Barbara Rodgers Alston

TN - HJR831 Memorials, Recognition - Jamita Swearengen, 2018 Social Justice Honoree

TN - HJR736 Memorials, Death - E. Claude Gardner

TN - HJR832 Memorials, Recognition - Deidre Malone, 2018 Social Justice Honoree

TN - HJR754 Memorials, Sports - Gibbs High School wrestling team, TSSAA Class A-AA dual state champion

TN - HB1765 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, consolidates provisions governing earthquake and fire drills. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB1549 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, exempts certain supervisors, principals, and public school teachers from having to take an assessment to advance or renew a teaching license under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HJR601 Memorials, Personal Occasion - J.B. "Buddy" Glassman, 80th birthday

TN - HJR639 Memorials, Death - Reverend Dwight Montgomery

TN - HJR636 Memorials, Death - Jesse Wilburn

TN - HR185 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 2, 2018

TN - HJR605 Memorials, Sports - Union City High School football team, TSSAA Division I Class 2A State Champions

TN - HR184 Memorials, Public Service - Thistle Farms

TN - HJR648 General Assembly - Provides for affixing plaque at Representative Lois DeBerry's desk in House chambers to commemorate her legislative service.

TN - HJR637 Memorials, Death - Bernal E. Smith II

TN - HJR638 Memorials, Recognition - W.C. Handy Heritage Awards

TN - HJR642 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Robin Copp, 2017-2018 Tennessee Department of Education Principal of the Year

TN - HB482 Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the new Tennessee Bureau of Investigation crime lab and consolidated regional headquarters to be constructed in Madison County as the "Special Agent De'Greaun ReShun Frazier TBI Crime Lab and Regional Headquarters."

TN - HJR789 Memorials, Recognition - The Links Days on Capitol Hill

TN - HJR140 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bev Johnson, 30th anniversary with 1070 WDIA-AM

TN - HJR783 Memorials, Retirement - Edwin D. Brown

TN - HB538 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Campus Free Speech Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR143 Memorials, Recognition - Matthew Niswander

TN - HB887 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a person to declare a statewide political party affiliation before voting in a primary election. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HJR721 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jeff Drake, Tennessee Forestry Association 2017 Master Logger of the Year

TN - HJR722 Memorials, Retirement - Shirley Jones

TN - HB529 Telecommunications - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Broadband Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7; Title 7, Chapter 59, Part 3; Title 65, Chapter 25 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.

TN - HB2293 Uniform Commercial Code - As introduced, makes available to all Tennessee residents the streamlined process in current law for certain public officials to contest Uniform Commercial Code financing statements that they believe to lack any legal basis. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 9, Part 5.

TN - HJR529 Memorials, Recognition - Fred L. Davis

TN - HB1169 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, enacts the "Senator Douglas Henry Tennessee History Act". - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB976 Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, requires that documents of anatomical gifts made after July 1, 2017, specify whether the gift includes specific body parts or the entire body; requires certain notices by hospitals and nursing homes. - Amends TCA Section 5-50-352 and Title 68.

TN - HJR530 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. James Netters

TN - HB1221 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, authorizes district attorneys general and similar persons to carry firearms subject to training and certification requirements if certain requirements met. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1350.

TN - HB1967 Consumer Protection - As introduced, makes various changes to state law related to gift certificates, such as requiring certain gift certificates to have longer expiration dates; prohibiting dormancy or inactivity fees; and authorizing activation or issuance fees up to certain limits. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 66.

TN - HB530 Education, Higher - As enacted, replaces the Tennessee National Guard Tuition Assistance Act with the Tennessee Support, Training, and Renewing Opportunity for National Guardsmen (STRONG) Act of 2017. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 10.

TN - HB2315 Immigration - As enacted, prohibits state and local governmental entities and officials from adopting sanctuary policies; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2248 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Fresh Start Act". - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 76, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2420 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates certain facilities in Jackson, Claiborne, and Grundy counties as premier type tourist resorts for purposes of on-premises consumption. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - HB1498 Senior Citizens - As enacted, exempts certain religious organizations and religious institutions that provide limited respite care services programs from licensure for providing adult day care. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HJR741 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses strong support for President Trump's proposal to construct a secure border wall and urges Congress to immediately take action to fund the construction.

TN - HB2247 Education - As enacted, requires that each year at least 30 percent, instead of 70 percent, of the items on state assessments in grades 3-8 and end of course examinations in high school be fresh, nonredundant items that did not appear on the tests in the previous two years, instead of the previous four years for grades 3-8 and the previous three years for high school tests. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-610.

TN - HB1457 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, establishes the Tennessee taxpayer relief and recession reserve; clarifies that deposits into the reserve for revenue fluctuation and the relief and recession reserve do not count toward the Copeland Cap; provides an automatic, temporary sales tax reduction when there are sufficient over collections to offset the loss of revenue. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - HR267 Memorials, Sports - Mt. Juliet League, Incorporated

TN - HB1870 Education - As enacted, revises provisions governing special education and special education services associations, - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10.

TN - HR71 Memorials, Recognition - Scott Golden

TN - HB1821 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, removes requirement that state-operated medical laboratories and public health laboratory personnel who work at medical laboratories operated by the state be regulated under the Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-5001; Section 68-1-901; Title 68, Chapter 12; Title 68, Chapter 29; Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 32.

TN - HB2643 General Assembly - As enacted, designates the public space constructed on top of the parking garage attached to the Cordell Hull Building as the "Beth Harwell Plaza"; designates the new tunnel that connects the Cordell Hull Building to the State Capitol as the "Ron Ramsey Tunnel". - Amends TCA Title 3.

TN - HB2114 Education, Higher - As introduced, enacts the "Complete College Tennessee Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7; Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - HB268 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, exempts certain active, volunteer firefighters and rescue squad members from payment of the regular registration fee at the time of renewal for license plate issued to the volunteer firefighter or rescue squad member; authorizes a county legislative body to waive the motor vehicle tax for motor vehicles receiving the exemption from the registration fee, if the waiver is approved in the same manner as the adoption of the motor vehicle tax. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2179 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, excludes from the definition of "pre-need funeral contract" and regulation, as a contract of insurance, a travel protection agreement for the coordination and arranging of all professional services related to the preparation for the purpose of transportation and subsequent transportation of a dead human body. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 4.

TN - HJR1071 Memorials, Recognition - Wilson County Fair, 2017 Triple A division champion

TN - HJR1176 Memorials, Retirement - Allen Morgan

TN - HB1491 Firefighters - As introduced, creates a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter's cancer that causes a disabling health condition is a result of the firefighter's duties as a firefighter. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HJR696 Memorials, Personal Occasion - James R. Fitzhugh, 95th birthday

TN - HJR1073 Memorials, Retirement - Ted Hackney

TN - HB1993 Controlled Substances - As enacted, requires health care prescribers to issue prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances electronically by July 1, 2020, with certain exceptions; establishes other provisions regarding electronic prescriptions. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1818 Trusts - As enacted, expands the persons to whom a private trust company may do business with and limits the ability of the commissioner of financial institutions to modify or revoke certain exemptions granted to a private trust company. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 1 and Title 45, Chapter 2, Part 20.

TN - HB165 Veterans - As enacted, authorizes private employers to give hiring preference to honorably discharged veterans, spouses of veterans with service-connected disabilities, unremarried widows or widowers of veterans who died of service-connected disabilities, and unremarried widows or widowers of members of the military who died in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB899 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, prohibits certain health benefit plans that provide coverage for cancer therapy from holding proton radiation therapy to a higher standard of clinical evidence for medical policy benefit coverage decisions than the health plan requires for coverage of any other radiation therapy treatment. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HR213 Memorials, Recognition - Sidney Raphael Branch, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR1016 Memorials, Retirement - Mark S. Freedman

TN - HJR699 Memorials, Death - Denise LaSalle

TN - HB2279 Telecommunications - As enacted, enacts the "Competitive Wireless Broadband Investment, Deployment, and Safety Act of 2018" and requires TACIR to study certain items relating to deployment. - Amends TCA Title 13.

TN - HJR940 Memorials, Death - Alma Tate

TN - HJR686 Memorials, Recognition - Oak Ridge Schools

TN - HB2130 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Stolen Valor Act". - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 3 and Section 58-1-602.

TN - HJR1005 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Susan Ritter, State Executive Officer of the Year

TN - HB2025 Victims' Rights - As enacted, requires the secretary of state to establish a crime victim address confidentiality program for victims of domestic abuse, stalking, human trafficking, and sexual offenses; establishes how a substitute address may be used by a program participant in lieu of a confidential address. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 38.

TN - HB2112 Taxes - As enacted, establishes a method of apportionment that may be elected by financial asset management companies for franchise and excise tax purposes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

TN - HB2174 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the department and state board of education to provide certain information regarding Bible curricula and courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR252 Memorials, Sports - Summertown High School girls' basketball team

TN - HB2153 Milk, Dairy Products - As enacted, authorizes the labeling of any milk sold in this state as "Local Tennessee Milk", or a statement that indicates the milk is Tennessee milk, if the milk contains only milk produced in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 53 and Title 57.

TN - HB1961 Public Health - As enacted, enacts the "Suicide Mortality Review and Prevention Act of 2018." - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 3.

TN - HJR740 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment to prohibit the general assembly from levying a state tax on real property and to remove provisions authorizing the general assembly to tax certain tangible personal property.

TN - HB1532 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, reduces the department of revenue's administration fee of 1.125 percent imposed on local governments for remittance of local option sales tax by 0.375 percent annually for the next three fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2181 Probation and Parole - As enacted, establishes framework for the department of correction making four $250,000 grants to local sheriff departments or probation offices for the purpose of funding reentry programs designed to reduce recidivism and probation revocations. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

TN - HR143 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Camerin Morganfield, Valedictorian, East High School

TN - HB372 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, enacts the "Tom Cronan Physical Education Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB290 TennCare - As introduced, reestablishes the TennCare advisory commission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB744 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, creates a Second Amendment sales tax holiday for the first weekend of September of each year for firearms and ammunition. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB889 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, enables a police officer who is a member of the state retirement system to be eligible for service retirement upon completion of 25 years of creditable service. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.

TN - HB2208 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows private certified firearms instructors to train teachers in certain distressed rural counties who are allowed to carry concealed firearms on school property as well as being taught by the local law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-816.

TN - HR144 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Leonica Clear, Valedictorian, Melrose High School

TN - HR145 Memorials, Academic Achievement - JerMeiah Clay, Salutatorian, East High School

TN - HB704 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, requires that campaign funds be deposited into a financial institution insured by the FDIC or the national credit union administration that is authorized to do business in this state. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

TN - HR148 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Angela Taylor, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HB1856 Adoption - As enacted, revises various provisions governing adoption. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - HB727 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires students to complete one year of instruction in American government and one year of instruction in Tennessee history between grades 7 and 12 to receive a high school diploma, with various exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1368 Public Employees - As enacted, increases the compensation from $25,000 to a $250,000 annuity payable in five annual installments of $50,000, paid to the estate of a firefighter, volunteer rescue squad worker, or law enforcement officer who dies in the line of duty; revises related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - HJR709 Memorials, Sports - Gibbs High School softball team, TSSAA Division I Class AAA State Champions

TN - HJR657 Memorials, Death - Representative Raymond Walker

TN - HJR582 Memorials, Death - Iyalode Nkechi Kianga Ajanaku

TN - HR263 Memorials, Public Service - Roger Campbell

TN - HB1742 Election Laws - As introduced, restricts political activity of members of the registry of election finance only during the duration of their term rather than during their term and one year subsequent to their term. - Amends TCA Section 2-10-203(j).

TN - HJR909 Memorials, Recognition - Hillsman Lee Wright

TN - HJR957 Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee Volunteers men's basketball team

TN - HJR141 Memorials, Recognition - Deanie Parker

TN - HJR729 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel.

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Sports - Wayne County High School football team

TN - HJR737 Memorials, Death - Dr. David Millhorn

TN - HR146 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Markila Tate, Salutatorian, Melrose High School

TN - HB1782 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, subject to certain federal approval, abolishes certain vehicle inspection and maintenance programs to maintain compliance with national ambient air quality standards and enacts related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 68.

TN - HJR810 Memorials, Recognition - Terri Lee Freeman, 2018 Social Justice Honoree

TN - HJR731 Memorials, Recognition - Second Lieutenant Albert Louis Young of the Tuskegee Airmen

TN - HB770 Public Health - As enacted, authorizes, if approved by the department of health, any nongovernmental organization, including an organization that promotes scientifically proven ways of mitigating health risks associated with drug use and other high-risk behaviors, to establish and operate a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB126 School Vouchers - As introduced, enacts the "Opportunity Scholarship Pilot Program." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1739 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, requires state agencies to conduct economic impact analyses of administrative rules on persons residing in or doing business in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.

TN - HR147 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Vivica Martin, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HJR117 Memorials, Sports - Preston Rice, Wayne County High School, 2016 Mr. Football, Division I Class 1A Back

TN - HJR121 Memorials, Public Service - Sue Creasy

TN - HJR656 Memorials, Sports - Phillip Edward Fulmer, Sr., Director of Athletics at the University of Tennessee

TN - HB2065 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is deaf or hard of hearing to request that the department of safety include such designation in the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database; enacts other related provisions in regard to such designation. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB1819 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, broadens the definition of financial institution to include a trust company and institutions that are organized under the laws of other states for purposes of conversion of charter and resulting institutions; requires a financial institution that results from a conversion to have its principal place of business in this state. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 1; Title 45, Chapter 11 and Title 45, Chapter 2.

TN - HJR119 Memorials, Sports - Hardin County High School boys' bowling team, 2017 TSSAA State Champions

TN - HJR650 Memorials, Death - John H. "Jack" Morris III

TN - HB2326 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Rural Hospital Transformation Act of 2018." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2159 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act of 2018." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - HB1599 Education - As enacted, creates a liability framework for an employer that accepts or employs a student who is participating in work-based learning coordinated through the student's LEA or a state institution of higher education, including, but not limited to, Tennessee colleges of applied technology; establishes a qualified work-based learning student grant program. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 67.

TN - HB2171 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts printers and monitors that are $200 or less per item from sales tax on the annual sales tax holiday; increases, from $1,500 to $2,000, the maximum sales price for a computer to qualify as exempt on the annual sales tax holiday; exempts school calculators with a sales price of $150 or less from sales tax on the sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1860 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts from sales and use tax, bees, hives, and beekeeping equipment sold to consumers for noncommercial purposes. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1997 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises provisions governing background checks for teachers and other positons requiring proximity to children; requires participation in rap back program; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1858 Highway Signs - As enacted, directs the department of transportation to erect signs acknowledging each branch of the military within the segment designated as the "Veterans Memorial Mile" in Knox County; authorizes representatives from each branch to work with the department to donate money, trees, shrubs, flowers, or other installations for beautification or decorative purposes along the corridor. - Amends TCA Title 54; Title 55; Chapter 85 of the Public Acts of 2011 and Chapter 641 of the Public Acts of 2012.

TN - HB1558 Special License Plates - As enacted, makes any person licensed as an amateur radio operator eligible to purchase an amateur radio special license plate, rather than allowing only certain persons to purchase such plates. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 54, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - HJR595 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tennessee Speech and Debate Society

TN - HB1367 Taxes - As enacted, revises various provisions concerning the taxation of modern market telecommunications providers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR118 Memorials, Sports - Hardin County High School Lady Tigers bowling team, 2017 state champions

TN - HB531 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, enacts the Tennessee reconnect grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB11 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Hearing Protection Act," which deletes the prohibition on possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a firearm silencer. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1301 and Section 39-17-1302.

TN - HR6 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Confirms the appointment of persons to the state university board of Tennessee Technological University.

TN - HB1041 Sentencing - As enacted, establishes a sentencing enhancement factor for defendants who are illegally or unlawfully in the United States. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HJR183 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Ruby Lopp, 102nd birthday

TN - HB278 Food and Food Products - As enacted, adds beekeeping to practices included in the Tennessee Community Gardening Act. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 44, Chapter 15.

TN - HJR120 Memorials, Public Service - Bonnie Merriman

TN - HJR184 Memorials, Recognition - Morgan Mathis, 2016 ANTSO National Miss

TN - HJR145 Memorials, Public Service - Stancil Ford

TN - HJR185 Memorials, Recognition - Darryl Worley

TN - HB1189 Abortion - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Infants Protection Act," which prohibits abortion of a viable fetus except in a medical emergency and requires testing to determine viability if a woman is at least 20 weeks pregnant. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2.

TN - HJR806 Memorials, Recognition - Maya Hill, Mary D. Shane-Miss AKA Outstanding Undergraduate Soror Award

TN - HJR833 Memorials, Recognition - Ethel Hedgeman Lyle

TN - HB2169 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates August 18 of each year as "Febb Burn Day" to honor her role in the enfranchisement of women. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1139 General Assembly - As introduced, reduces from 12 to six months the time during which a former member's email will be forwarded to a private email address. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1.

TN - HJR800 Memorials, Recognition - Beatrice Williams, Mary B. Conner Sisterly Relations Award

TN - HJR803 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Janice Garrett Booker, Vanessa Rogers Long Humanitarian Award

TN - HJR108 Memorials, Recognition - World Sickle Cell Day

TN - HJR801 Memorials, Recognition - Annie L. Barnes, Omicron Omega Golden Soror of the Year

TN - HJR808 Memorials, Recognition - Lillian Williams, Velma Lois Jones-New Soror of the Year

TN - HJR805 Memorials, Recognition - Kimberly JoAnne Reid, Mary D. Shane-Miss AKA Outstanding Undergraduate Soror Award

TN - HJR802 Memorials, Recognition - Nedra Butler-Ross, Reva Allman-Name That Soror Award

TN - HJR807 Memorials, Recognition - Anesha Hines, Velma Lois Jones-New Soror of the Year Award

TN - HB2291 Election Laws - As introduced, grants control of the selection of legal representation for a county election commission to the municipality's governing body or county commission, as applicable, except in contested election cases and in instances where the governing body or county commission does not retain counsel; prohibits a county election commission from settling claims without approval of the county commission. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 12, Part 1.

TN - HJR779 Memorials, Recognition - Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 995

TN - HJR804 Memorials, Recognition - Lauryn Joiner, Mary D. Shane-Miss AKA Outstanding Undergraduate Soror Award

TN - HB275 Financial Disclosure - As enacted, requires certain disclosures by members of the general assembly regarding travel expenses paid on behalf of the member. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10, Part 1; Title 3, Chapter 6 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 5.

TN - HJR226 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 33 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the criminal punishment exception from slavery and involuntary servitude prohibition.

TN - HJR1292 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Rhedona Rose, state university board of Tennessee Technological University

TN - HJR1303 Memorials, Recognition - National Federation of Independent Business, 75th Anniversary