Tennessee Sen. Bill Ketron (R)

TN - Finance, Ways and Means (Senate)

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Member

TN - State and Local Government (Senate)

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Member

TN - Ethics (Senate)

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2nd Vice-chair

TN - Fiscal Review

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Chair

TN - SB176 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, decreases from 24 hours to 12 hours the time in which a drop shipper must report purchaser information after receiving an order. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10.

TN - SB1038 Taxes, Gross Receipts - As introduced, increases from three years to four years the duty of a taxpayer to preserve records showing the gross amount of sales tax owed to the state and the amount of such person's gross receipts taxable under the Business Tax Act. - Amends TCA Title 67 and Chapter 808 of the Public Acts of 1976.

TN - SB380 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, for property tax assessment purposes, changes the classification of property of local exchange telephone companies and telephone cooperatives from public utility to industrial and commercial property; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1997 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, deletes the four-year property tax exemption for newly constructed facilities and plants owned by electric cooperatives. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 25 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1030 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, clarifies that the definition of "food and food ingredients" includes substances sold for digestion by humans; requires aviation fuel dealers to file a quarterly report on tax paid not later than 45 days, instead of 30 days, after the last day of the preceding calendar quarter. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SR94 Memorials, Sports - Matthew Sells, 2016 TSSAA wrestling Division I AAA 160-pound weight class champion

TN - SB2094 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, allows applicants for retail food store wine license to seek certificate of compliance from local government and receive approval letter from commission prior to July 1, 2016; allows wholesalers to solicit orders from retail food stores and deliver wine prior to July 1, 2016; clarifies when retail package store may deliver to customers; limits retail package store licenses to two per owner. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-406 and Section 57-3-803.

TN - SB178 Cosmetology - As introduced, allows a person to obtain a cosmetology or barber instructor's license not only by taking certain instructor training courses, but alternatively by having a bachelor of science degree from an accredited college or university, by having taught elementary or secondary education for three years, and by having been a licensed and practicing cosmetologist or barber for 10 consecutive years. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4.

TN - SB644 Workers Compensation - As introduced, removes the reciprocity provision that out-of-state employees who are temporarily performing services in this state are exempt from the Tennessee Workers' Compensation Law when certain requirements are met for purposes of construction services providers, and instead, requires that out-of-state construction services providers and their employers comply with the Tennessee Workers' Compensation Law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 56.

TN - SR84 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Jackson Vaught, Vanderbilt's Outstanding Senior

TN - SB384 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, changes the time period for the revocation or suspension of a manufacturer's license for mislabeling of whiskey from not less than one year to not greater than one year. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB1026 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, allows producers of motor vehicles who lease vehicles to eligible employees to sell the vehicle to a franchised dealer after the lease, and allows the franchised dealer to purchase no more than 30 of the vehicles per month, but prohibits the sale of the vehicle for 90 days from the time in which the motor vehicle was purchased by the franchised dealer. - Amends TCA Section 55-17-123.

TN - SJR472 Memorials, Heroism - Murfreesboro Fire and Rescue Department Special Ops personnel

TN - SB174 Workers Compensation - As enacted, includes as information open for public inspection the workers' compensation policy cancellation date and the policy reinstatement date. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 4.

TN - SJR502 Memorials, Death - Harry Albert Haines

TN - SB1035 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, prohibits a local government from imposing a fee, on or after July 1, 2015, in excess of $200 for the issuance of a permit authorizing excavation, demolition, or similar operations for below-ground utilities in any right-of-way. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 54 and Title 65.

TN - SB2007 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, requires removal of members for failure to attend at least 50 percent of all regularly scheduled board meetings, rather than for having three consecutive unexcused absences; deletes procedure for removal by court order or petition of board or local governing body. - Amends TCA Section 7-86-105 and Section 7-86-314.

TN - SB1027 Newspapers and Publications - As introduced, requires all legal notices required by statute to be published in a newspaper of general circulation to be posted on the administrative register web site within the secretary of state's web site by the entity required to post such notice. - Amends TCA Title 1.

TN - SB1998 Clerks, Court - As enacted, authorizes the clerk in any court where electronic filing, signing, or verification of papers is authorized by court rule to assess a transaction fee for each filing submitted on an individual basis or by use of an annual subscription fee. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 4.

TN - SJR246 Naming and Designating - "Arabian Horse Day," June 21, 2015.

TN - SB381 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, removes the tax exemption for certain machinery used for the manufacture of firearms. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-102.

TN - SB19 Clerks, Court - As enacted, allows court clerk, subject to approval of the judge, to accept a lump-sum partial payment in full settlement for all court costs, fees, and litigation taxes owed; provided, that the amount has been in default for at least five years and the amount settled upon is 50 percent or more of the combined outstanding balance. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 24, Part 1.

TN - SB1996 Public Officials - As enacted, authorizes purchase of insurance to protect against breach of fiduciary duty by public officials and employees. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - SB2100 Taxes, Litigation - As enacted, authorizes Rutherford County to levy an additional litigation tax to be used for construction and maintenance of a jail, workhouse, juvenile detention center, or courthouse project. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.

TN - SB2010 State Symbols - As introduced, designates the state flag's center emblem of a blue circle with three white five-pointed stars as the official state symbol. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SR37 Memorials, Interns - Elizabeth Tullos.

TN - SR93 Memorials, Sports - Nick Boykin, 2016 TSSAA wrestling Division 1 AAA 285-pound weight class champion

TN - SB2517 Zoning - As introduced, increases, from five to nine, the maximum number of members who may be appointed to county and municipal boards of zoning appeals. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1039 Education - As enacted, requires certain institutions to report nonimmigrant student enrollment to the department of safety. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Title 49.

TN - SR22 Naming and Designating - "Tall Cedars Week," March 15–21, 2015.

TN - SB1746 Fiscal Review Committee - As introduced, increases the period in which the fiscal review committee may comment on a proposed contract from 40 business days to 45 business days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 41 and Title 49.

TN - SB2017 Interstate Compacts - As introduced, authorizes Tennessee's participation in Article V conventions to propose amendments to the United States Constitution, through the adoption of the "Compact for a Balanced Budget." - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 18.

TN - SB179 Fiscal Review Committee - As enacted, requires chair and vice chair of committee to be members of opposite houses; requires chair and vice chair positions to rotate between houses every two years. - Amends TCA Section 3-7-101(e).

TN - SB643 Wine & Wineries - As enacted, specifies that a winery or farm winery permit holder may sell at retail, in addition to its own wine, items related to or incidental to the use, consumption, dispensing, or storage of wine; prohibits a winery or farm winery permit holder from selling at retail distilled spirits, wine not manufactured or bottled on the premises, and beer; further specifies that a winery or farm winery permit holder may hold a restaurant license or a beer permit, and, if it holds such a license or permit, may engage in the activities permitted under those licenses or permits. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-207.

TN - SB1032 Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, creates certain tort liability protections for contractors providing direct client services for the department of children's services, the department of mental health and substance abuse services, and the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 9, Chapter 8 and Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - SJR145 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jennings Jones, District Attorney General for the 16th Judicial District.

TN - SB2091 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an insurance policy that provides benefits for anti-cancer medications that are injected or intravenously administered by a healthcare provider and anti-cancer medications that are patient administered from requiring a higher copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amount. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

TN - SB170 Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the month of September as "Tennessee Archaeology Awareness Month" to encourage citizens to learn more about prehistoric and historic archaeology in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4.

TN - SJR425 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Amy Gullion, education standards recommendation committee for English language arts and mathematics

TN - SB375 Beer - As introduced, allows a student taking a beer manufacturing course in higher education to taste beer as long as the student is 18 years of age, under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2009 Museums - As introduced, requires that the appointing authorities to the Douglas Henry state museum commission strive to ensure that each member appointed has knowledge of and an appreciation for Tennessee history and the role of this state in the development of the United States. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 20, Part 3.

TN - SB2001 Education - As introduced, creates the "Governor's Three Star Physical Education and Literacy Program." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1988 Public Utilities - As enacted, extends the terms, conditions, obligations, and rights of a privilege or franchise for the provision of natural gas service furnished to certain municipalities, and in those municipalities, until approval of a subsequent privilege or franchise. - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 65.

TN - SB645 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, requires that schools change, by school year 2015–2016, their student discipline code and school policies relative to the use and possession of smoking and tobacco products on school property to include electronic cigarettes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 40.

TN - SB1029 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, clarifies that "municipality" includes any city of more than 925 persons instead of 1,000 persons; removes provision from certificate of compliance requiring mayor to state opinion that applicant will not violate any alcoholic beverage related laws; requires a person to have a nonresident seller's permit if selling or distributing any alcoholic beverages to a licensed manufacturer. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB646 Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the department of human services from seeking, applying for, accepting, or renewing a waiver from the work requirements of the food stamp (SNAP) program under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 3.

TN - SJR501 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Hunter N. Jones, 2016 National Chief of the Order of the Arrow

TN - SB2012 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, allows a student, who has completed at least 60 hours of coursework and is taking a required course for a bachelor's degree designed to train industry professionals in the production of fermented or distilled food or beverage products, to taste alcoholic beverages as part of instruction in the required course, under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 57.

TN - SB2005 Consumer Protection - As enacted, redefines the time period within which a business must notify a consumer if the consumer's personal information that was held by the business was obtained by an unauthorized person from immediate notification to no later than 45 days; includes employees of the business who use the information in an unlawful manner as unauthorized persons, thus triggering the notice requirements. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SJR234 Memorials, Recognition - Debria G. Tyler, Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year.

TN - SB378 Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits employers from terminating employees who are canine search and rescue volunteers solely because such volunteer is absent from work or is late to work in order to respond to a search and rescue. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - SB1993 Murfreesboro - As introduced, subject to local approval, reduces the number of readings required for adoption of ordinances by the city council, from three to two. - Amends Chapter 429 of the Private Acts of 1931; as amended.

TN - SB1025 Education - As introduced, requires all public school students in grades K-5 to participate in a physical education class at least two times per week. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1040 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, requires the attorney general and reporter to report to the department of justice that a no-go zone exists within political subdivisions of the state; requires the attorney general to take all necessary steps to eliminate the no-go zone to enforce compliance with state and federal law. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 3.

TN - SB171 Workers Compensation - As enacted, prohibits an insurance company from charging a premium for any individual determined to be an independent contractor; requires additional defense costs and loss adjustment costs be reported to the commissioner of commerce and insurance as supplementary rate and loss costs information. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 56, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2095 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, increases commission from three members to seven members, with the additional members being appointed by the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house, with two appointments each. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 57, Chapter 1.

TN - SB1037 Education - As introduced, requires school districts to develop policies against harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyber-bullying after consultation with parents, guardians, employees, volunteers, students, administrators, and community representatives; requires schools to adopt the policies that are developed. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 45.

TN - SR23 Memorials, Retirement - Murfreesboro Police Department Assistant Chief Roy Fields.

TN - SB2463 Financial Responsibility Law - As enacted, beginning January 1, 2017, increases the minimum single policy limit, cash deposit, and bond amount required for proof of insurance under the Tennessee Financial Responsibility Law of 1977. - Amends TCA Section 55-12-102.

TN - SB173 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires that when an application for a license to sell insurance is denied by the commissioner of commerce and insurance, the denial be governed by the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6.

TN - SB18 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at: Sugar Hollow Marina in Campbell County; and any establishment in Eagleville that is licensed to serve beer and wine for on-premises consumption; authorizes sale for on-premises consumption at RedTail Mountain Resort in Johnson County as a premier type tourist resort instead of a restaurant. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2015 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, extends from 30 days to 60 days the time within which a person may petition for review of a civil penalty that is assessed under the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco and Vapor Products Act. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB1173 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, extends present use valuation of certain residential property zoned for commercial use to the unmarried surviving spouse; removes the requirement that the county commission determine that the number of complaints made to any county board of equalization is sufficiently numerous to justify such action in order to appoint hearing officers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1036 Fire Prevention and Investigation - As enacted, makes various changes to the use of smoke alarms in one-family and two-family rental units, one-family and two-family dwellings, apartment buildings, and hotels. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 28; Title 68, Chapter 102 and Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - SB1995 County Officers - As enacted, deletes all language and cross references for revenue commissioners. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 8, Part 6; Section 8-18-109 and Section 8-21-803.

TN - SB2013 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to provide planning models for relocating, hauling, composting, and other processing of yard waste and food waste. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - SB2008 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, changes the sales tax holiday from the weekend beginning on the first Friday of August to the weekend beginning on the last Friday of July. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-393.

TN - SR91 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Annie R. Zachery, 100th birthday

TN - SR92 Memorials, Recognition - Paige Martin, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - SB2097 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, requires healthcare providers to provide certain women at risk of contracting cytomegalovirus (CMV) with information concerning CMV; specifies that there is no liability for failure to comply with the requirement to provide the information. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB2011 Municipal Government - As introduced, exempts the booking and processing area used by a municipal police department for photographing and fingerprinting defendants and the room used by general sessions courts to hold prisoners in the courthouse who have been transferred from jail to the courthouse for arraignments and preliminary hearings from the standards of the Tennessee state corrections institute. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 4.

TN - SJR479 Memorials, Recognition - National Park Service, 100th anniversary

TN - SB374 Alcohol Offenses, Sales - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor for sale of powdered or crystalline alcohol. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 57.

TN - SB1999 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department of correction to pay, within 120 days of the bill being submitted, any bill of costs or other fees owed to a county by the department as the result of a criminal conviction in that county. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 25, Part 1.

TN - SB2000 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies that for the offense of trafficking for a commercial sex act it is not a defense to prosecution that the intended victim was a law enforcement officer or that the victim is a minor who consented to the act or acts constituting the offense. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-309.

TN - SB2006 Zoning - As enacted, increases number of members who may be elected to serve on boards of zoning appeals in certain counties and municipalities, as determined by local legislative bodies. - Amends TCA Section 13-7-106 and Section 13-7-205.

TN - SB373 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, extends the statute of limitations for commission of the offense of promotion of prostitution involving a minor on or after July 1, 2015, from 10 years from the date that the minor becomes 18 years of age to 25 years from the date that the minor becomes 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 2.

TN - SB376 Beer - As enacted, allows a person to make beer without a license or permit under certain circumstances; allows homemade beer in certain exhibitions, contests, and competitions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 7 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2003 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, reduces from 80 to 75 the age a custodial parent or other custodial caregiver of a person with an intellectual disability who is on the waiting list for services must reach before the individual with intellectual disabilities must be placed on the self-determination waiver or similarly capped medical assistance waiver within six months. - Amends TCA Section 33-5-112.

TN - SB1994 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, applies salvage, nonrepairable, rebuilt, and flood vehicle certificate of title requirements to motorcycles. - Amends TCA Section 55-3-211.

TN - SB2096 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, clarifies what items a manufacturer may use when having tastings on premises; enacts other tasting-related provisions; revises provisions governing permits to solicit orders. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-202.

TN - SR66 Memorials, Retirement - Sandra Kersey

TN - SR68 Memorials, Professional Achievement - John Floyd, Business Legend of the Year

TN - SR38 Memorials, Interns - Erin Gardner.

TN - SB180 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, specifies that property used in the course of, intended for use in the course of, derived from, or realized through certain terrorist acts is subject to forfeiture; creates a civil action for damages for a person injured as a result of certain terrorist acts. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - SR83 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Ian Flinn, Doctor of the Day

TN - SB648 Financial Responsibility Law - As enacted, enacts the "James Lee Atwood Jr. Law," which establishes an electronic insurance verification program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Section 9-4-603; Title 10; Title 12; Title 55, Chapter 12; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 56.

TN - SB20 Local Government, General - As enacted, expands presumptive disability in acquiring certain infectious diseases in the line of duty by emergency rescue workers to include the hepatitis C virus. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-209.

TN - SB647 Codes - As enacted, revises and enacts requirements governing carbon monoxide alarms in certain hotels. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - SB2093 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, enacts the "Public-Private Transportation Act of 2016." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 9; Title 12; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - SB1028 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, clarifies that it is not an unfair trade practice for an insurer to make or offer a discount in premium to producers and employees of the insurer. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SR67 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Chris Jones, Leadership Rutherford Pinnacle Award

TN - SB1031 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, under certain circumstances, prohibits the state from disbursing federal funds it receives on behalf of a few local government units if the state did not apply for those funds on behalf of all local government units of the same type. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 7; Title 4, Chapter 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB1033 Children - As introduced, requires certain screenings for cytomegalovirus for certain women and newborns. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SJR503 Memorials, Recognition - National Park Service, 100th anniversary

TN - SB175 Insurance, Fire and Casualty - As introduced, revises various provisions regulating insurance of property destroyed by fire. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - SB379 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, requires that all underground utilities owned by an operator that are installed on or after January 1, 2017, be installed in a manner that will make those underground utilities locatable using a generally accepted electronic locating method; revises other various provisions of the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 65.

TN - SB382 Planning, Public - As enacted, creates new methods of guaranteeing infrastructure improvements before final subdivision plat approval by regional or municipal planning commissions; eliminates criminal penalty for transferring land before subdivision plat approval and before recording plat with county register. - Amends TCA Section 13-3-403; Section 13-3-410; Section 13-4-303 and Section 13-4-306.

TN - SR71 Memorials, Recognition - Mark Follis, Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the Year

TN - SB1174 Rutherford County - As introduced, exempts the Rutherford County legislative body from establishing, constructing, or maintaining portable, movable, or stationary workhouses. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8 and Title 41.

TN - SR70 Memorials, Retirement - Glenn Chrisman

TN - SB2002 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, makes various revisions to an LEA’s policies on harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyber-bullying; requires that an investigation be initiated within 48 hours and that an appropriate intervention be initiated within 20 calendar days of receipt of the report. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 45.

TN - SJR493 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Ian Flinn, Doctor of the Day

TN - SJR488 Memorials, Recognition - Sarah Cannon Center for Blood Cancer at TriStar Centennial Chemotherapy Team

TN - SB1034 Health Care - As introduced, establishes a program to facilitate the development of stroke treatment capabilities in hospitals and other healthcare settings in the state. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB2092 Health Care - As enacted, establishes a stroke best practices and treatment guidelines task force under the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

TN - SJR533 Memorials, Recognition - Smart911 Awareness Day

TN - SJR134 Memorials, Recognition - Evan Cope, Chair of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

TN - SJR146 Memorials, Recognition - Ginny Williams, Governor's Volunteer Stars Awards.

TN - SJR147 Memorials, Recognition - Leanna Edwards, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award.

TN - SJR168 Memorials, Recognition - Celebrate G.R.I.T.S. (Girls Really Into Shooting) Days in Tennessee.

TN - SJR169 Memorials, Recognition - Michael Zietz, Prudential Spirit of Community Award recipient.

TN - SB177 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, increases the fines for failure to use safety belts; designates a portion of the revenue from the fines to the division of vocational rehabilitation and a portion to the state general fund. - Amends TCA Section 55-9-603.

TN - SB172 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, clarifies that no person loaning money that is secured by real property may require insurance that exceeds the replacement cost of the structures or the expected replacement value of the structures on the real property. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 8.

TN - SB2014 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, increases the amount of time that underground utility operators are afforded to stake the location of their utilities upon receiving notice of an emergency excavation or demolition from two to three hours. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 65.

TN - SJR133 Memorials, Retirement - Bill Burleigh, Operation Stand Down.

TN - SB2099 Employees, Employers - As introduced, authorizes any employee or employer who is harmed as a result of a violation of the present state statutory right to a secret ballot election to seek relief in chancery court. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 9.

TN - SB17 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, requires that persons with intellectual disabilities on the waiting list for services be enrolled in the self-determination waiver when their caregivers attain the age of 80. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.

TN - SJR80 Memorials, Congress - Opposes a "national school board" and supports passage of the Every Child Ready for College or Career Act.

TN - SB2101 Election Laws - As enacted, allows Rutherford County to participate in a pilot project for establishing convenient voting centers for use on election day upon super majority vote of the county election commission. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3.

TN - SB1024 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of causing a person under 18 years of age to attend an animal fight; increases the penalty for the offense of being a spectator at an animal fight to a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-203.

TN - SJR107 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Opposes a "National School Board."

TN - SB377 Purchasing and Procurement - As enacted, enacts the "Iran Divestment Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 56; Title 12; Title 41, Chapter 22 and Title 49, Chapter 3.

TN - SB2004 Fiscal Review Committee - As enacted, increases from 60 days to 90 days from the end of the annual legislative session the time frame for public chapter review of estimated versus actual cost by fiscal review committee staff. - Amends TCA Section 3-2-107(c)(1).

TN - SB2138 Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2016." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4.

TN - SJR186 Memorials, Recognition - Ransom Jones, Rutherford County Election Commission.

TN - SJR184 Memorials, Recognition - Richard Reeves, Rutherford County Election Commission.

TN - SJR185 Memorials, Recognition - Felicia Hix, Rutherford County Election Commission.

TN - SB2016 Telecommunications - As introduced, requires a municipality to create an annual summary documenting, at a minimum, costs dedicated to telecommunications services for regulatory purposes. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - SB16 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, authorizes the TBI to employ, effective July 1, 2015, four additional special agents for the purpose of training other officers, investigating and assisting in the prosecution of human trafficking cases; directs TBI to develop and provide a course of instruction to other officers and departments in the recognition, detection, and prosecution of human trafficking cases. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR509 Memorials, Recognition - Sarah Cannon Center for Blood Cancer at TriStar Centennial

TN - SB2098 Education - As enacted, requires the principal of a school to allow a patriotic society the opportunity to speak with students during school hours. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - SB109 DUI Offenses - As enacted, directs the commissioner of education to develop guidelines for LEAs to create an annual report that informs students of the death of any person 18 years of age or younger who died as a result of a person 18 years of age or younger driving under the influence of an intoxicant or drug. - Amends TCA Section 4-3-2014 and Section 49-1-219.

TN - SB1160 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, allows a person who is mandated to comply with the requirements of sex offender registry, based solely upon a conviction for aggravated prostitution may petition the sentencing court for termination of the registration requirements based on the person's status as a victim of: a human trafficking offense, a sexual offense, or domestic abuse. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - SB2086 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes Pigeon Forge adopt an ordinance to prohibit the construction or operation of any licensed manufacturer within 1,000 feet of the state right-of-way of U.S. Highway 441 within the corporate limits of such city; not applicable to any licensed manufacturer in operation and open to the public before or on the effective date of this act. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 2 and Title 57, Chapter 3.

TN - SB2089 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes the City of Gatlinburg to adopt an ordinance imposing a minimum distance, not to exceed 1,000 feet, between distilleries manufacturing distilled spirits; the ordinance will not apply to or affect any licensed distillery in operation and open to the public prior to the effective date of this act; specifies that a distillery exempt from an ordinance adopted pursuant to this act will remain so exempt upon the transfer of any ownership interest in the distillery to a successor in interest. - Amends TCA Section 57-2-103 and Section 57-3-202.

TN - SB2548 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases penalty for TennCare fraud from Class E felony to Class D felony; creates specific fines for first and subsequent convictions for TennCare fraud. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 26.

TN - SB1184 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, authorizes Johnson City to adjust its hotel-motel tax rate one time and limits the amount of the increase to two percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.

TN - SB105 Workers Compensation - As enacted, specifies that no party may settle a claim for permanent disability benefits unless the settlement agreement is approved by a workers' compensation judge and that any settlement not so approved is void; revises other various provisions of the Workers‘ Compensation Law. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 14; Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 4; Title 50, Chapter 6; Title 50, Chapter 9 and Title 50, Chapter 3, Part 7.

TN - SB92 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, makes various changes to the regulation of petroleum underground storage tanks and waste; gives an owner or operator of an underground tank the option to request a refund of the annual fee or a waiver or reduction of the penalties in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211, Part 1; Title 68, Chapter 212 and Title 68, Chapter 215, Part 1.

TN - SB1796 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As enacted, increases the amount on which property tax reimbursement will be paid from the first $23,000 to the first $23,500 for low-income, elderly homeowners and for disabled homeowners; removes the income limitation applicable for tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1546 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee rehabilitative initiative in correction (TRICOR) board for two years to June 30, 2018; removes the TRICOR board's authority to nominate members for appointment to the board; removes the executive director of TRICOR from the board; adds the commissioner of correction, or the commissioner's designee, as a member of the TRICOR board, who will vote only to break a tie vote of the other board members; removes the authority of the commissioner of correction to reject the board's choice for executive director and to remove an executive director so that the board will be solely vested with the authority to appoint and remove the executive director. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Section 8-30-102; Title 41, Chapter 6, Part 2 and Title 41, Chapter 22.

TN - SB2584 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, requires the commissioner of children's services to report annually to the governor, the chief clerk of the senate, and the chief clerk of the house on probation and juvenile justice evidence-based treatment services; requires other reporting by juvenile court clerks. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB2344 Alcohol Offenses, Sales - As enacted, revises provisions governing violations and penalties relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB61 Textbooks - As introduced, creates a study committee to make recommendations on the transition from traditional textbooks to free, online textbooks and course materials by the public higher education institutions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB75 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to disclose certain information about children adopted from the department's guardianship to the adoptive family; requires the department to promulgate rules to govern the operation of a foster parent advocacy program. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Section 37-2-415.

TN - SB1879 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises provisions governing delivery and transportation of alcoholic beverages and beer. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 57.

TN - SB27 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Individualized Education Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2394 Education, Higher - As enacted, revises provisions regarding reporting of nonimmigrant students by higher education institutions; authorizes the commissioner of safety to issue a subpoena for valid law enforcement purposes to an institution of higher education in this state to compel the production of certain information with regard to nonimmigrant students possessing either an F-1 or M-1 student visa for instruction at the institution. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Title 49.

TN - SB85 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, extends the tax on intermediate care facilities; changes references from "intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded (ICF/MR)" to "intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID)". - Amends TCA Section 68-11-830.

TN - SB2071 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, revises provisions governing the transfer of cases involving child support or child custody. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5, Part 30.

TN - SB1876 Animal Control - As enacted, specifies that local governments may authorize an animal control agency to seize or take into custody any dog found trespassing on the premises of another person. - Amends TCA Section 44-8-408.

TN - SB1962 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes to the offense of stalking, including redefining "course of conduct". - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 14; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39.

TN - SB1845 Students - As introduced, requires each LEA to annually report to the department of education the number and types of task forces, programs, and initiatives established concerning harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyber-bullying. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-403; Section 37-1-604 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 45.

TN - SB2546 Privacy, Confidentiality - As enacted, makes confidential the identities of vendors providing the state with goods and services used to protect government property or government employee or citizen information; allows governmental entity to vote to make information about such goods and services provided to the entity confidential. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - SB799 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, exempts compressed natural gas from sales tax in the same manner that the present law exempts motor fuel and liquified gas from sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 3 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1171 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, allows permit holders to carry handguns in parks and other public recreation areas owned or operated by local governments except when the property is in use by a school for an athletic event or other school-related activity; prohibits permit holders from carrying handguns in parks and other such areas that are owned or operated by a school; removes authority of local governments to prohibit handguns in parks by posting. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB1967 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to provide an annual report to the education committee of the senate and the education instruction and programs committee of the house of representatives, regarding the physical education programs and activity for each LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1817 Annexation - As introduced, deletes the limitation allowing noncontiguous annexation by resolution to occur in only a county having a population according to the most recent decennial census that is greater than 44.5 percent and 50,000 of its population in the preceding decennial census. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51, Part 1.

TN - SB2239 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, changes date for annual sales tax holiday from the first weekend in August to the last weekend in July each year. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-393.

TN - SB76 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, consolidates annual reports on foster children and child care agencies into a comprehensive annual report made by the department; removes reporting requirement concerning shifting responsibility for foster children who move from one placement to another within the county probation department or children's services department. - Amends TCA Section 37-2-205; Section 37-2-411 and Section 37-5-519.

TN - SB93 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, removes the commissioner of financial institutions' authority to use a multi-state automated licensing system as an agent for channeling information pursuant to the Flexible Credit Act; requires a flex loan licensee to consent to a criminal history records check and to provide fingerprints to the commissioner of financial institutions when the licensee is applying to renew the license, if so requested by the commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 12.

TN - SB151 Education - As introduced, urges the department of education to include the proper use and positioning of bicycle helmets in its pilot bicycle safety curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1325 Air Pollution - As enacted, requires TACIR, upon submission of the final state plan for regulating carbon dioxide emissions from covered electric-generating units by the department of environment and conservation to EPA, to prepare a report that assesses certain effects of the state plan; creates certain exceptions to creating the report. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 68.

TN - SB1928 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Government Imposter and Deceptive Advertisements Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB1948 Fees - As enacted, makes permanent the $2.00 increases to the filing fees charged by court clerks and data fee entry chargeable by clerks that are scheduled to expire July 1, 2016. - Amends Chapter 1039 of the Public Acts of 2012.

TN - SB2530 Foster Care - As enacted, creates the reasonable and prudent parent standard to be used by a caregiver when determining whether to allow a foster child to participate in activities; exempts a caregiver acting in compliance with the standard from civil liability relating to injuries the child may incur in such activities. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 4.

TN - SB1672 Public Contracts - As introduced, allows construction design professionals under contract with certain state agencies to bill and receive payment monthly; specifies services that are included in the basic services fee and the services that will require additional compensation. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12, Chapter 4 and Title 62.

TN - SB2518 Education - As enacted, requires that the display of the American flag on school property and at school events conform to the requirements of federal law; requires a local board of education to permit display of the American flag, if the display conforms to the requirements of federal law. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2547 Computers and Electronic Processing - As enacted, authorizes the department of finance and administration to manage online payments to state government; authorizes the charging of additional fees to cover the cost of accepting online payments; clarifies that an online payment through the state portal does not discharge an obligation to the state until the state receives actual final payment. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10.

TN - SB2049 Law Enforcement - As enacted, encourages TBI to develop an activation card for law enforcement use in connection with the missing citizen alert program to help locate missing citizens who have wandered due to dementia or physical impairment. - Amends TCA Section 38-6-121.

TN - SB1460 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, in selecting local bridge projects to receive state-aid funds, authorizes department of transportation to give higher priority to bridges with high traffic volume or high accident rates; in selecting local road projects to receive state-aid funds, adds accident rates as a factor to be considered by the department. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55; Title 64; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - SB369 Elder Abuse - As introduced, expands the offense of aggravated stalking to include a person who commits stalking against a victim who is at least 65 years of age when the person stalking is five or more years younger than the victim. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3 and Title 71, Chapter 6.

TN - SB976 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires the executive director of THEC to convene representatives from UT and the board of regents to create, revise, and adopt policies to assist veterans and military service members with higher education programs; makes other various revisions to the eligibility and in-state tuition guidelines of the Tennessee Veterans Education Transition Support Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.

TN - SB2529 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, substitutes the commissioner of agriculture or a qualified agent of the commissioner for county agriculture extension agents as a person who is authorized to conduct livestock cruelty examinations; clarifies that livestock cruelty examinations conducted by licensed veterinarians are entitled to the same legal presumptions as other qualified examiners. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-211.

TN - SB1633 Cooperatives - As enacted, revises provisions governing unclaimed property and electric cooperatives. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 25 and Title 66, Chapter 29, Part 1.

TN - SB1953 Mass Transit - As enacted, revises the present law provisions governing overtaking on the right in regard to the operation of mass transit buses on shoulders and rights-of-way. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55; Title 64 and Title 65.

TN - SB1382 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, clarifies that an electronic version is acceptable for the annual compliance report on capital cases submitted by the administrative office of the courts to the chief clerks of the senate and house and chairs of the appropriate committees. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB72 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits the state from operating a health insurance exchange, pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; the prohibition is contingent on a certain disposition of King v. Burwell by the U.S. supreme court. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1626 Election Laws - As enacted, establishes an online voter registration system beginning July 1, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - SB2183 Health Care - As enacted, redefines "traumatic brain injury residential home"; requires that any TBI residential home currently operating be licensed by the board for licensing healthcare facilities by January 1, 2017. - Amends TCA Section 68-11-201 and Section 68-11-273.

TN - SB116 Veterans' Affairs, Dept. of - As enacted, changes the name of the department to the department of veterans services. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - SB103 Labor - As enacted, allows employees covered by the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act to be covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1972. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - SB1929 Immigration - As introduced, requires the Tennessee office for refugees to notify the governor and the commissioner of safety of certain information concerning any refugee selected for resettlement in this state who has lived within a certain period of time in a country designated by the U.S. secretary of state as a state sponsor of terrorism. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SB2115 Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $100,000,000 from excess state tax revenues over collected in fiscal year 2014-2015 to the various counties to be used for county transportation projects; allocates funds in the same manner as county aid funding. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - SB43 Evidence - As enacted, adds certain offenses to the list of crimes eligible for the interception of communications for evidence. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - SB1972 Estates - As enacted, increases the maximum amount of a life insurance policy from $7,500 to $15,000 in order that a photocopy of a certificate of death, along with certain statements, may constitute proof of death; authorizes certain financial institutions and associations to pay out all accounts of certain deceased, and checks payable to certain decedents or their estates, to certain creditors, relatives, and representatives as long as the sums do not exceed $10,000 in the aggregate. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 56.

TN - SB1989 Safety - As enacted, authorizes certain entities to stock epinephrine auto-injectors on their premises; authorizes employees, agents, and laypersons to provide or administer an epinephrine auto-injector under certain circumstances; requires the secretary of state to provide any rule promulgated to implement this act to the chairs of the health committee of the house and the health and welfare committee of the senate after approval by the attorney general at the same time that the rule is to be made available to the government operations committees. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - SB1832 Environmental Preservation - As introduced, creates the forum on Tennessee's great outdoors for the purpose of conducting a comprehensive review of the health and status of this state's natural resources and outdoor recreation needs and opportunities. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB117 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, enacts the "Protection of Volunteer-Insured Drivers of the Elderly (PROVIDE) Act." - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 34, Part 2.

TN - SB1628 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, expands eligibility for new and vacated beds in ICF/MR facilities to individuals from the home- and community- based services waivers and the waiting list for individuals with intellectual disabilities under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 71-5-105(b)(2).

TN - SB2210 Firefighters - As introduced, creates a three-year pilot program to be developed by the state fire marshal's office that provides grants to volunteer firefighters. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24.

TN - SB62 Election Laws - As enacted, lowers number of registered voter signatures required on a nominating petition for a delegate to a national convention of a political party from 100 to 25. - Amends TCA Section 2-13-305.

TN - SB1108 State Government - As introduced, designates the Holy Bible as the official state book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - SB840 Election Laws - As introduced, allows counties to participate in pilot project for establishing convenient voting centers for use on election day upon super majority vote of the county election commission. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3.

TN - SB906 Election Laws - As introduced, requires certain counties to act upon request for voter registration lists within seven business days instead of seven days; allows reasons for rejection or modification of the request to be sent via electronic mail or facsimile transmission. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1321 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates May 11 of each year as "Police Memorial Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - SB902 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Cancer Patient Choice Act." - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63.

TN - SB428 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, deletes the requirement of intent to cause bodily injury from aggravated assault involving strangulation or attempted strangulation. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-102.

TN - SB32 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, for tax years beginning January 1, 2015, increases the income exemption level for the Hall income tax to be $37,000 for single filers and $68,000 for joint filers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - SB937 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Healthcare Provider Stability Act." - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - SB47 Taxes, Income - As enacted, reduces Hall income tax from six percent to five percent; expresses legislative intent that the tax be statutorily reduced by one percent annually beginning with the first annual session of the 110th general assembly; eliminates the tax for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - SB102 Unemployment Compensation - As enacted, authorizes individuals or entities to correspond with the department of labor and workforce development through electronic means; requires employers to file a portion of the wage and premium report electronically in a format prescribed by the commissioner; revises other various unemployment compensation provisions. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7, Part 1; Section 50-7-304; Section 50-7-404; Section 50-7-501; Section 50-7-503 and Section 50-7-715.

TN - SB2175 Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Commercial Dog Breeders Registration Act"; makes selling of dogs by unlicensed breeders, misrepresenting the condition of a dog for sale, or altering or falsifying a dog's health certificate a consumer protection violation. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 62.

TN - SB1232 Planning, Public - As enacted, establishes a means by which certain industrial, commercial, or business establishments will be allowed to continue in operation after the land on which it is located becomes subject to land use restrictions imposed pursuant to a redevelopment plan or the land use restrictions imposed on the land area are amended by a redevelopment plan; adds that any operation, rebuilding, or expansion of an off-site sign that has been in existence for 10 years or more will not be denied solely on the basis that the original permit for the sign does not exist to prove that it was a lawful use when constructed. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 20, Part 2 and Title 13, Chapter 7, Part 2.

TN - SB1090 Veterans - As enacted, specifies that no fee may be charged for the interment of an eligible veteran in a state veterans' cemetery and limits the fee to $610 for the interment of an eligible veteran's spouse. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2559 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, removes the limitation that a passenger car or passenger motor vehicle have a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of 8,500 pounds or less in order to be subject to the mandatory seat belt law. - Amends TCA Section 55-9-603.

TN - SR15 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Homer Malone, 71st birthday.

TN - SR65 Memorials, Death - Eleanor McNeil Massey.

TN - SR90 Memorials, Recognition - Chickasaw Council, Boy Scouts of America, 100th anniversary

TN - SR76 Memorials, Death - Jerome Dennis Majkrzak

TN - SR64 Memorials, Retirement - Alice Wynelle Abbey.

TN - SJR16 Memorials, Death - James Cecil “Little Jimmy” Dickens.

TN - SJR517 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association, 60th anniversary

TN - SJR494 Memorials, Recognition - Barry Chism, Greenbrier Citizen of the Year

TN - SJR401 Memorials, Death - Leonard Keelon Bradley.

TN - SJR12 Memorials, Sports - University of Memphis football team and head coach Justin Fuente.

TN - SJR442 Memorials, Death - Charles Dudley Brewer, Sr,

TN - SJR485 Memorials, Death - Joseph Dillman, death

TN - SJR454 Memorials, Heroism - Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, U.S. Army

TN - SJR446 Memorials, Retirement - Police Chief Glenn Chrisman, retirement

TN - SJR414 Memorials, Retirement - Justice Gary Wade

TN - SJR295 Memorials, Congratulations - Addison Dower and Matthew Russell, wedding.

TN - SJR72 Memorials, Recognition - Discovery School at Reeves-Rogers.

TN - SJR413 Memorials, Retirement - Brian Signaigo

TN - SJR495 Memorials, Death - Harold Weddington

TN - SJR399 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Cathy Whitehead, 2015–16 Tennessee Teacher of the Year.

TN - SJR439 Memorials, Death - Foy Walton Watson, Jr.

TN - SJR387 Memorials, Recognition - United States Senator Bob Corker.

TN - SJR407 Memorials, Death - Representative Clint Callicott

TN - SJR29 Memorials, Heroism - First Lieutenant Norman Edward Lane Jr., United States Marine Corps Reserve.

TN - SJR275 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hamilton High School Wildcats, boys' basketball Class AAA state champions.

TN - SJR412 Memorials, Personal Occasion - James and Louise Pulliam, 75th anniversary

TN - SJR1 Memorials, Death - Howard H. Baker Jr.

TN - SJR444 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Gladys Memphis Garland, 100th birthday

TN - SJR481 Memorials, Recognition - Marilyn Jackson, 2015 BPW Woman of Achievement

TN - SJR467 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Directs the commencement of legal action, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, from the federal government's mandated appropriation of state revenue and noncompliance with the Refugee Act.

TN - SJR475 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Captain William Oscar Pointer, 100th birthday

TN - SJR417 Memorials, Recognition - City of Knoxville, 225th anniversary

TN - SJR470 Memorials, Retirement - Lt. Preston Donaldson, Tennessee Highway Patrol

TN - SJR274 Memorials, Public Service - Senator James F. Kyle Jr.

TN - SJR148 Memorials, Recognition - Stax Museum of American Soul Music, 2015 Arts Leadership Award.

TN - SJR144 Memorials, Recognition - 2015 Tennessee State FFA Officers.

TN - SJR170 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and increasing incidents of anti-Semitism.

TN - SJR182 Memorials, Death - Senator Bobby Carter.

TN - SJR383 Memorials, Recognition - Luke Eppert.

TN - SJR477 Memorials, Retirement - Chief Warrant Officer Five Kenneth D. Poindexter, U.S. Army

TN - SJR121 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Les Leverett.

TN - SJR96 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - Urges observance of "Firefighters' Memorial Day" October 9, 2015, and "Volunteer Firefighters Week" March 1-7, 2015.

TN - SJR52 Memorials, Sports - Vanderbilt University baseball team, 2014 NCAA National Champions.

TN - SJR160 Memorials, Death - Charles Maurice Johnson.

TN - SJR512 Memorials, Death - Noble Cody

TN - SJR445 Memorials, Death - Exie "Bernice" Waddell