Tennessee Sen. Dolores Gresham (R)

TN - Commerce and Labor (Senate)

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Member

TN - Education (Senate)

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Chair

TN - Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources (Senate)

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Member

TN - SB296 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, updates a code section in the teacher training provisions to eliminate a predecessor name for the Tennessee independent colleges and universities association so that the code uses the current correct name. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2511 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, encourages LEAs to select textbooks for economics that contain information about student loans and home mortgages. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR237 Memorials, Sports - Haywood High School boys' basketball team, TSSAA Class AA State Champions.

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

TN - SB1733 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, during the time in which a nonstate entity administers the state's refugee resettlement program, prohibits state funds being expended in support of the program or other refugee resettlement activities in the state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 71.

TN - SR96 Memorials, Death - David C. Stewart

TN - SB532 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, requires, in certain circumstances, local government officials to be notified within 10 days when a certificate of need application is filed for a nonresidential substitution-based treatment center for opiate addiction; allows local government officials to testify at hearing conducted by the health services and development agency related to certificate of need applications. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 16.

TN - SB1736 Weapons - As enacted, provides immunity from civil liability to a person, business, or other entity that owns, controls, or manages property and has the authority to prohibit weapons on that property by positing, with respect to any claim based on the person's, business's, or other entity's failure to adopt such a policy. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB2509 Education - As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability to report the results of the review on school improvement plans to the education committee of the senate and the education administration and planning committee of the house no later than March 15, 2017, and annually thereafter. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SR97 Memorials, Death - Lieutenant James Edward Earnest

TN - SB2516 University of Tennessee - As introduced, reconstitutes the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee system. - Amends TCA Section 49-9-201; Section 49-9-202; Section 49-9-203; Section 49-9-204; Section 49-9-205 and Section 49-9-206.

TN - SB879 Schools, Charter - As introduced, increases charter school application fees from $500 per application to $5,000 for new applications and $1,000 for renewal applications; institutes authorizer fees; requires the department of education to verify annually that LEAs are providing the amount of funding to charter schools required by law; alters LEAs' responsibilities in providing facilities for charter school use. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - SB2510 Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, moves root planing, periodontal maintenance, and administering local anesthesia and nitrous oxide by dental hygienists from direct to general supervision; adds certain prescriptive authority; authorizes use of teledentistry with dental hygienists in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2262 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires department to publish its annual report concerning virtual schools on the department's web site. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - SJR58 Memorials, Death - Anne Elizabeth Hezel Thompson.

TN - SJR443 Memorials, Death - David Morrison, Sr.

TN - SB537 Students - As enacted, prohibits an LEA from requiring more than the minimum graduation requirements for students enrolling or transferring in the 11th grade or later who are in the custody of the department of children's services to receive a full diploma. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - SJR87 Memorials, Death - Kathy Coatney Mays of Jacks Creek.

TN - SB2503 DUI Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a person who has been convicted of a fourth or subsequent violation of driving under the influence from driving within the state, including prohibiting the issuance of a restricted driver license to such a person. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SR10 Memorials, Sports - Fayette Nationals baseball team, 2014 Dixie Youth Champions.

TN - SR55 Memorials, Death - Warner A. Ross.

TN - SB692 Schools, Charter - As introduced, permits a charter school to contract with nonprofit or for-profit entities for the operation or management of the school subject to certain conditions. - Amends TCA Section 49-13-124.

TN - SR95 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Katlyn Bryant, Prudential Spirit of Community Award

TN - SR8 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Leigh Shockey, Tennessee Board of Regents

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

TN - SB422 Purchasing and Procurement - As enacted, requires the department of education to purchase technology, Internet, Internet connectivity, or e-learning services pursuant to a competitive purchasing process prescribed by an RFP. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - SB455 Education - As introduced, permits an LEA that offers a voluntary prekindergarten program to elect to offer the program either in the school year or in the summer. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SR118 Memorials, Recognition - Hayes Family Reunion

TN - SB1638 Education - As enacted, revises the investigative and reporting responsibilities of the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller and makes other changes concerning the collection and reporting of data related to education. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 10, Chapter 7; Section 49-1-106; Section 49-1-107; Section 49-1-302; Section 49-1-613; Section 49-1-908; Section 49-4-903; Section 49-6-109 and Section 49-6-4216.

TN - SB1732 Education - As introduced, creates a pilot program to provide grants to elementary and middle schools to implement the Leader in Me® pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - SB1707 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, prohibits school districts and state special schools from paying through payroll deduction their professional employees' dues to a professional employee association. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-204 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 6.

TN - SB1708 Education, Higher - As enacted, extends the Tennessee Promise scholarship to dependents of Tennessee military parents who are stationed outside of the state. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-708.

TN - SB1709 Education, Higher - As introduced, permits a child of a state employee or a public school teacher to continue to receive a tuition discount for graduate-level studies if the child graduates with an undergraduate degree within four years of first receiving the discount. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-115 and Section 49-7-119.

TN - SB1710 Education - As introduced, requires the annual report of the commissioner of education to include an evaluation of the alignment of the TCAP assessments with the curriculum standards as indicated by student test scores. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1734 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, requires THEC to establish and ensure that all postsecondary institutions cooperatively provide for an integrated system of postsecondary education; directs THEC to maintain and publish on its web site a list of postsecondary educational institutions that possess certain characteristics. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1735 Education - As enacted, allows a student attending a Tennessee school for the first time rather than attending a Tennessee public school for the first time to be eligible for an individualized education account, if the student also meets other requirements; allows the department of education to remit funds to individualized education accounts at least quarterly rather than quarterly. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14.

TN - SB1022 Education - As introduced, requires approval by the senate and the house before new standards or changes to curriculum standards adopted by the state board of education become effective. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1023 Water - As introduced, requires water treatment plant operators to take periodic readings of fluoride content in treated water and to report the results of the readings to the department of environment and conservation; restricts the addition of fluoride to treated water containing certain existing levels of fluoride. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 7.

TN - SB1591 State Employees - As introduced, allows a retired law enforcement officer with 25 years creditable service in any law enforcement agency in the state to enroll in one class per semester at any state institution of higher learning without paying tuition and fees. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-114.

TN - SB530 Special License Plates - As introduced, permits the issuance of "Tennessee Association of Realtors" new specialty earmarked license plates for motorcycles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - SB531 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, authorizes professional bondsmen to charge up to 15 percent rather than 10 percent of the face value of a criminal appearance bond if the defendant is not a resident of the state. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 3.

TN - SB533 County Government - As enacted, allows removal of overgrown vegetation and accumulated debris on owner-occupied residential property in Henderson County. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 1.

TN - SB535 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, requires a county-wide referendum for a county to increase local option to a rate already operative in a city or town instead of a referendum open only to county voters residing outside the city or town. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-706(b)(1).

TN - SB2652 Saulsbury - As introduced, subject to local approval, reduces the number of aldermen from six to five. - Amends Chapter 336 of the Acts of 1901; as amended.

TN - SB538 County Officers - As enacted, removes obsolete and contradictory language concerning temporary superintendents of schools. - Amends TCA Section 8-48-206.

TN - SB539 Education - As introduced, requires an LEA to close a virtual school that demonstrates student-achievement growth at a level of "significantly below expectations" for three consecutive years. - Amends TCA Section 49-16-213.

TN - SB2657 Hardeman County - As introduced, subject to local approval, authorizes collection of solid waste disposal fee with the county property tax; requires disposal fee to be distinguished from the property tax amount on the tax notice.

TN - SB445 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, prohibits the department of human services from deducting the $25.00 child support enforcement fee required to be collected by the federal government from child support awards, and requires instead that the noncustodial parent pay the fee in addition to any child support owed to the custodial parent. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 36, Chapter 5 and Title 71, Chapter 1.

TN - SB292 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, allows a teacher to remove a disruptive student from the classroom pursuant to local board policies. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB293 Schools, Charter - As enacted, requires charter schools authorized by the achievement school district (ASD) to conduct an initial student application period of at least 30 days; specifies that if the ASD authorizes a charter school, the ASD will receive an annual authorizer fee of up to three percent of the charter school's per student state and local funding. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB294 Education, Higher - As introduced, eliminates an unused definition from the lottery scholarship provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB295 Education - As introduced, encourages LEAs to incorporate music and art in their pre-kindergarten programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2498 Education, Higher - As introduced, clarifies that tuition credits or refunds during military service are to be given to students called to active duty while attending Tennessee colleges of applied technology as well as state universities and community colleges. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB298 Education, Higher - As introduced, updates the lottery scholarship program's list of regional accrediting associations to reflect recent changes in the identities of the associations. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2499 Education - As enacted, changes various references from "curriculum" to "standards" in present law in order to clarify that the state board of education is responsible for academic standards and local boards are responsible for curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2500 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, creates a franchise and excise tax credit for donation of funds to LEAs and public schools to fund certain educational expenditures. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

TN - SB2504 Disabled Persons - As enacted, authorizes use of individual education account funds for contributions to an achieving a better life experience (ABLE) account for the benefit of a participating student; specifies that funds may only be used for the student's education expenses; requires that all revenues collected by the ABLE program remain with the program; revises other provisions regarding the program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14 and Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 8.

TN - SB2507 Education, Higher - As introduced, creates a tuition-freeze program for certain higher education students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SB513 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires public institutions of higher education to accept from a student proof of the student's prior or current military service as proof of any immunization required of the student for enrollment at the institution. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-124.

TN - SB342 Education - As introduced, requires an LEA to close a virtual school that demonstrates student-achievement growth at a level of "significantly below expectations" for three consecutive years; removes the repeal provision of the Tennessee Virtual Schools Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 16, Part 2.

TN - SB343 Education - As enacted, extends the date of the repeal of the Virtual Public Schools Act from June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2019. - Amends TCA Section 49-16-216.

TN - SB2512 Telecommunications - As introduced, changes from January 31 to December 1 the date for which the comptroller of the treasury, in cooperation with the TRA, must provide an annual report to the general assembly on the status of the provision of broadband services in historically unserved areas by telecommunications joint ventures. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 12 and Title 65.

TN - SB2514 Education - As introduced, requires all LEA personnel to verify that the LEA's policy on use of the Internet has been read prior to accepting an employment contract or at the renewal of an employment contract. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2515 University of Tennessee - As introduced, prohibits the University of Tennessee board of trustees from raising tuition or fees, either in-state or out-of-state, at any of its institutions until after the 2020-2021 academic year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SB2306 Education, Higher - As introduced, enacts the "Tuition Stability Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SR30 Memorials, Recognition - ThyssenKrupp Elevator Manufacturing, LEED certification.

TN - SJR118 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Jason Robinson, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - SR19 Memorials, Death - Evangeline Brewer Shaw.

TN - SR24 Memorials, Death - David George Young.

TN - SB71 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, prohibits the department of human services from deducting the $25.00 child support enforcement fee required to be collected by the federal government from child support awards, and requires instead that the noncustodial parent pay the fee in addition to any child support owed to the custodial parent. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 36, Chapter 5 and Title 71, Chapter 1.

TN - SJR461 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article XI, Section 12 of the Constitution of Tennessee to affirm the general assembly's full discretion to determine the funding and eligibility for public schools.

TN - SB701 Fireworks - As introduced, prohibits the sale of Class C common fireworks in Fayette County, except within one-half mile of the intersection of an interstate highway or similar restricted-access arterial road with another highway. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.

TN - SB2506 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, creates a competitive grant program for award of funds for certain charter school and rural school facility projects. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SR99 Memorials, Interns - Blake Roller

TN - SB4 Education - As introduced, creates the Tennessee standards commission to recommend curriculum standards to the state board for adoption. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB482 Education, State Board of - As enacted, allows the state board to meet in locations other than Nashville by revising the requirement that the state board meet at least quarterly in Nashville to instead require that the state board meet at least quarterly, with at least two meetings held in Nashville. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-301.

TN - SB341 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, authorizes the state board of education to make policies concerning the revocation of licenses and certificates for misconduct. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302.

TN - SJR59 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recommends all school administrators, teachers, parents, and students be educated about the potential health impact of heavy backpacks and take proactive measures to avoid injury.

TN - SB1731 Education, State Board of - As enacted, provides for an annual authorizer fee to be paid to the state board if the state board is the chartering authority of a charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - SJR74 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Kurt Holbert, Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - SB2508 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises provisions governing the evaluation of teachers and principals. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR86 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Judge Charles "Chip" Cary, 2015 Hardeman County Person of the Year.

TN - SB1021 Education - As enacted, authorizes and encourages local education agencies to adopt as their course of instruction in character education the Congressional Medal of Honor Character Development Program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB624 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows recipients of the HiSET high school equivalency credential to be eligible for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship; modifies the requirement for receipt of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship by GED recipients to conform the required GED score to the scale used for the new version of the GED. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB2505 Victims' Rights - As introduced, permits compensation to be awarded to a court appointed special advocates program if an employee or volunteer with the program filed the claim or assisted the claimant in filing for compensation in the same manner that compensation is awarded to attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 13.

TN - SR28 Memorials, Recognition - Recognizing the women in STEM during Women's History Month.

TN - SB2513 Textbooks - As introduced, allows LEAs to use funds obtained by selling unusable or replaced textbooks for technology in addition to textbooks and instructional materials. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB299 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SR76 Memorials, Death - Jerome Dennis Majkrzak

TN - SB300 Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop a school grading system that assigns A, B, C, D, and F letter grades to schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2497 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Course Access Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2502 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the higher education funding formula to be based in part on first year postgraduation job placement rates; requires THEC to study the feasibility of students whose majors have extremely low Tennessee job placement rates becoming ineligible for state guaranteed student loans; creates a state lottery funded Skills for Tomorrow supplemental award for students in high demand fields with low supply of Tennessee qualified workers. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SB536 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, authorizes state reimbursement for certain utility relocation costs in Hardin County, subject to review and approval by the commissioner of transportation. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 5, Part 8.

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 - SB2635 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop procedures for identifying characteristics of dyslexia through the universal screening process required by the existing RTI2 framework or other available means; requires every LEA to implement the dyslexia screening procedures; specifies that dyslexia screening may be requested for any student by the student's parent or guardian, teacher, counselor, or school psychologist; creates the dyslexia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49.

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

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

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

TN - SJR308 Memorials, Death - Dr. Samuel Edgar McFadden.

TN - SJR37 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Roy Harmon, Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation Board of Directors

TN - SJR140 Memorials, Recognition - Recognizing the women in STEM during Women's History Month.

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

TN - SB878 Education, Higher - As enacted, creates the higher education foundation investment pool; allows higher education foundations to participate in the investment pool; requires the state treasurer to invest and manage funds in the pool. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SJR119 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Susan Bunch, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - SB845 Municipal Government - As enacted, revises provisions governing the repeal of or amendment to an ordinance increasing the number of county commissioners in cities that incorporate under general law with a city manager-commission charter. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 12.

TN - SJR120 Memorials, Recognition - Senator Mildred Jolly Lashlee.

TN - SB2501 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, creates eligibility requirements for applicants to a teacher training program; requires applicants to attain a minimum ACT or GED score and a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or graduate with an associate degree with a cumulative grade point average of a 3.0 for all college coursework. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.

TN - SB676 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, declares the week that includes the third Thursday in November as "Agricultural Literacy Week." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1712 Education, Higher - As introduced, permits undergraduate students to attend public institutions of higher education, except the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, without payment of out-of-state tuition and fees if they are United States citizens and meet certain academic requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SB534 Municipal Government - As introduced, allows municipalities to publish public notices in alternative forms, instead of publishing the notices in a newspaper of general circulation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 54, Part 5; Title 7 and Title 8.

TN - SB340 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, permits county, city, or metropolitan school boards to shift funds after the local legislative body has approved the school system's budget from one budget category to another without further approval, except for funds specifically appropriated for repair and renovation of school facilities or capital improvements. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1711 Education - As introduced, requires LEAs to have senior year remedial programs for students who test less than college ready on the ACT given in their junior year of high school. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1750 Public Records - As introduced, changes the date by which the office of open records counsel and the advisory committee on open government must provide its yearly report from March 1 to April 1. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 10.

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

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 - SB1760 Military - As enacted, creates civil immunity for certain members of the national guard who use force against another, including by discharging a personally owned firearm, in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1.

TN - SB1345 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires all campuses of public higher education institutions operated by the board of regents or University of Tennessee board of trustees to hold observances for Veterans Day on or near the day recognized as the national day of observance. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB2591 Nuisances - As enacted, imposes same burden of proof in nuisance actions based on changed farming operations as presently applied to nuisance actions based on established farming operations. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3; Section 39-17-415; Section 43-1-701; Title 43, Chapter 26 and Title 44, Chapter 18.

TN - SB453 Education - As enacted, requires the Tennessee STEM innovation network to establish STEM innovation hubs in rural areas of the state and in Northwest Tennessee; requires the Tennessee STEM innovation network to provide a middle school curriculum on the variety and benefits of STEM careers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1927 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to post on the department’s web site all legislation enacted by the general assembly related to the rights of students and parents or legal guardians; requires the LEA to provide a link to the list on the web site of the LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - SB1484 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, deletes the Save the Tax Relief Act. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

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 - 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 - SB455 Education - As introduced, permits an LEA that offers a voluntary prekindergarten program to elect to offer the program either in the school year or in the summer. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2375 Zoning - As enacted, authorizes zoning consideration of temporary family healthcare structures; adds a requirement that, as part of the plan to expand cost-effective community-based residential alternatives to institutional care as required by the Long-Term Care Community Choices Act of 2008, the bureau of TennCare must seek written guidance from the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services regarding whether a temporary family healthcare structure may be covered in whole or in part under the program established by the Long-Term Care Community Choices Act of 2008. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2122 Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, authorizes advanced practice registered nurses who provide services in a free clinic or engage in the voluntary provision of healthcare services and physician assistants who provide services in a free or reduced fee clinic under the Volunteer Healthcare Services Act to arrange for required chart reviews by a supervising physician in the physician's office or remotely via HIPAA-compliant electronic means instead of at the clinic site. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 19; Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1222 Abortion - As enacted, implements 48-hour waiting period on procuring an abortion; establishes requirements for informed consent; provides medical emergency exception. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 9 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

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 - SB1472 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to perform certain duties, such as develop subrecipient monitoring plans utilizing analytic procedures; conduct unannounced and announced site visits of subrecipients; and conduct criminal history background checks on each applicant of the subrecipient or sponsoring organization during the application process and at any time during participation in a food program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 39, Chapter 16.

TN - SB1656 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, requires forfeiture of retirement benefits of teachers who become members of TCRS or other public pension systems on or after July 1, 2016, if convicted of any misdemeanor sexual offense arising out of the teacher's employment or official capacity. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

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 - SB68 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, extends liability protections to landowners who have activities involving sporting clays, shooting sports, and target shooting, including archery and shooting range activities, occurring on the landowner's property. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB1991 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, prohibits public postsecondary institutions from taking any adverse action against an employee or student solely for such person's lawful transportation and storage of a firearm or ammunition in the person's parked motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB189 Schools, Charter - As enacted, allows the governing body of a charter school to choose the insurance plans offered to the school's teachers and other full-time permanent employees; removes requirement that charter school employees participate in the state group insurance plan. - Amends TCA Section 49-13-119.

TN - SB2382 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, adds provisions regarding those qualified to be a medical laboratory director or a medical laboratory supervisor. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 29.

TN - SB1336 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, enacts the "Save the Tax Relief Act." - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - SB1992 Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to establish a model policy on suicide prevention; requires an LEA to adopt its own policy or the model policy on suicide prevention. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 49.

TN - SB1973 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, increases age of persons allowed to use tobacco and vapor products from 18 years of age to 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 39 and Title 68.

TN - SB1619 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires that any state mandated health benefit that takes effect on or after the effective date of this act apply not only to private health insurance issuers but also any managed care organization contracting with the state to provide insurance through the TennCare program and state or local insurance program. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB605 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, enacts the "Community College Reconnect Grant." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB819 Healthcare Liability - As enacted, limits who may be named as defendants in a healthcare liability action; provides that in the event a person, entity, or healthcare provider receives notice of a potential claim for healthcare liability, the person, entity, or healthcare provider must, within 30 days of receiving the notice, based upon any reasonable knowledge and information available, provide written notice to the potential claimant of any other person, entity, or healthcare provider who may be a properly named defendant. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 26, Part 1.

TN - SB2598 Education, Higher - As enacted, permits THEC to designate private nonprofit institutions of higher education as Tennessee VETS campuses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.

TN - SB2186 Education - As enacted, requires each local school board to adopt a policy on the inclusion of religion in curriculum and instructional materials; requires each LEA to create a syllabus to be made public for grades six through 12 on social studies, science, math, and English language arts courses; requires the state board to initiate a revision process for the social studies standards adopted in 2013; requires teacher training institutions to instruct candidates regarding constitutionally permissible instruction of religious content. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

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 - 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 - SB2540 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Student Assessment Transparency Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - SB1682 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, revises the offense of sexual contact with a minor by an authority figure to eliminate the requirement that a minor be between 13 and 18 years of age to qualify for this offense, so that a minor includes any person less than 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2565 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As enacted, eliminates an obsolete provision concerning the BEP; revises the BEP calculation; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - SB2376 Handgun Permits - As enacted, permits full-time employees of state public colleges or universities who possess handgun carry permit to carry a handgun while on property owned, operated, or controlled by the employing college or university if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - SB1490 Handgun Permits - As enacted, removes the five-year time frame requirement from the exemption to the handgun safety course requirement for applicants who successfully completed all handgun training of not less than four hours as required by any branch of the military within five years from the date the application for a handgun carry permit is filed. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB1649 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor offenses for supervisors or employees who make false statements or engage in other activity to hinder an audit conducted by or on behalf of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 4.

TN - SB600 Education - As introduced, allows parents to petition, subject to certain conditions, for the restructuring of a school through the transformation or turnaround model or as a charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB740 Schools, Charter - As introduced, allows formation of charter schools for students with specific academic needs; allows such charter schools to establish academic admission criteria. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

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 - SB1752 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes issuance of Combat Action new specialty earmarked license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1441 Veterans - As enacted, expands eligibility for a Fallen Heroes Medal to service members killed in attacks specifically targeting service members and under other circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 58-3-113.

TN - SB2373 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises provisions governing coverage of telehealth services. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-1002.

TN - SB2595 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, revises the provisions governing eligibility and funding for the community college reconnect grant. - Amends Chapter 363 of the Public Acts of 2015.

TN - SB2395 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, prohibits law enforcement officers of this state and its political subdivisions from enforcing provisions of international law and treaties that limit gun rights under Article I, Section 26 of the state constitution. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB1934 Agriculture - As enacted, specifies that the commissioner of agriculture has exclusive authority and jurisdiction over all matters related to the regulation of seed except as otherwise provided by the Tennessee Drug Control Act or any other state statute; requires commissioner to maintain a scheme for regulating seed that is uniform across the state. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 10.

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 - SB1431 Education, Higher - As enacted, grants in-state tuition and fees at public higher education institutions to certain dependent children of military parents regardless of place of residency if the military parent perished as the result of a targeted attack that occurred in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SB1477 Handgun Permits - As enacted, reduces the fee for lifetime handgun carry permit, effective January 1, 2017, from $500 to be an amount equal to the regular carry permit fee plus $200, which under present law will equal $300 for the lifetime permit. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - SB1584 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, revises various provisions governing Tennessee STEP UP scholarships. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-943.

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 - SB2566 Handgun Permits - As enacted, makes various changes to handgun carry permits, including extending permit renewals to occur every eight years and lowering the initial application fee from $115 to $100. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - SB1280 Abortion - As enacted, requires facilities or physician offices where more than 50 abortions are performed in a calendar year to be licensed as ambulatory surgical treatment centers. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11.

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 - SB1621 Public Contracts - As enacted, prohibits the state or any local government from requiring a company bidding or contracting to provide services on a public construction project to employ individuals who reside within the jurisdiction of the state or local government or who are within a specific income range, unless otherwise required by federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 62.

TN - SB2332 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, specifies that animal owners may record inspections of their animals by audiovisual means. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 44; Title 53 and Title 63, Chapter 12.

TN - SB2568 Abortion - As enacted, establishes requirements regarding the disposition of aborted fetuses and fetal tissue, including reporting requirements and requirements for interim inspections of and certain reporting by facilities where surgical abortions are performed. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2 and Title 68.

TN - SB2522 Abortion - As introduced, revises provisions governing fetal tissue obtained as a result of a medical or surgical abortion. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 30, Part 1.

TN - SB999 School Vouchers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Choice & Opportunity Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2238 Handgun Permits - As enacted, lowers the age for receiving a handgun carry permit from 21 years of age to 18 years of age for persons who are an honorably discharged or retired veteran of the U.S. armed forces or a service member on active duty status. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - SB119 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Teaching Evaluation Enhancement Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 5.

TN - SB721 Workers Compensation - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Employee Injury Benefit Alternative." - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 56.

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 - SB122 School Vouchers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Choice and Opportunity Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

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 - SB2443 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, enacts the "Health Care Empowerment Act". - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - SB1598 Education - As enacted, authorizes local boards of education to admit pupils from outside their respective local school systems at any time without the approval of the previous LEA; adds that in cases where an LEA has created a regional school with a specific focus on STEM, local BEP school funds will also follow the student into the LEA to which the student is transferring and no tuition may be charged by the receiving LEA; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 3.

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 - 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 - SB711 Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Criminal Justice Veterans Compensation Act of 2015" or the "CJVC Act." - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - SB89 Schools, Charter - As introduced, establishes provisions to govern initial enrollment of students within charter schools authorized by the achievement school district. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

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

TN - SB1159 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Pregnant Workers Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - SB779 Election Laws - As introduced, creates term of office for county administrator of elections to coincide with the term of the county election commission; allows county election commission to consider political party affiliation when appointing an administrator of elections. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 12.

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 - SB889 Healthcare Liability - As enacted, places restrictions on the use of certain surveys, inspections, and investigations of a healthcare provider in healthcare liability actions. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 26, Part 1.

TN - SB2469 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Right to Earn a Living Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 38; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 67.

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 - SB750 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, creates the aeronautics economic development fund to be used by the department of transportation for program administration, marketing expenses, and program evaluation; authorizes the executive director of TWRA to use funds from the 1986 wetland acquisition fund to acquire the McCartt Tract and adjacent lands in Morgan County; authorizes certain fund expenditures. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 11; Title 13; Title 50; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - SB1912 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, prohibits the expenditure of state funds by the University of Tennessee to promote the use of gender neutral pronouns, to promote or inhibit the celebration of religious holidays, or to fund or support sex week; specifies that all funds in the budget of the office for diversity and inclusion at UT Knoxville, for fiscal year 2016-2017, be reallocated in the university's budget and used by the university solely for scholarships to be awarded through a minority engineering scholarship program; any such funds that are not used for minority engineering scholarships in fiscal year 2016-2017 will remain in the scholarship program for use in future fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.

TN - SB1556 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, declares that no person providing counseling or therapy services will be required to counsel or serve a client as to goals, outcomes, or behaviors that conflict with the sincerely held principles of the counselor or therapist; requires such counselor or therapist to refer the client to another counselor or therapist; creates immunity for such action; maintains liability for counselors who will not counsel a client based on the counselor's religious beliefs when the individual seeking or undergoing the counseling is in imminent danger of harming themselves or others. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - SB2137 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, enacts "Kari's Law," which requires an entity that owns or controls a telephone system that is capable of outbound dialing or access to configure the telephone system to allow a person initiating a 911 call on the telephone system direct access to 911 service without an additional code, digit, prefix, postfix, or trunk access code; and an entity that owns or operates a residential or business facility utilizing a telephone system so configured to configure the telephone system to provide notification to a central location on the site of the residential or business facility when a person within the facility dials 911. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 65 and Title 68.

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 - SB2588 Elder Abuse - As enacted, requires, by January 1, 2017, the district attorney general of each judicial district to establish, or cause to be established, a vulnerable adult protective investigative team (VAPIT). - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 6.

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 - SB2538 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, enacts the "Rural Economic Opportunity Act of 2016"; authorizes a job tax credit for qualified business enterprises located in tier 4 enhancement counties; specifies the minimum jobs criteria and requirements to qualify for the credit; establishes the propelling rural economic progress (P.R.E.P.) fund; establishes guidelines for making grants from the P.R.E.P. fund. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 67, Chapter 4.

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 - SB1105 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, prohibits supervisors from disciplining or discouraging teachers and other educators for reporting inaccuracies or errors or potentially inflammatory material in textbooks or other educational materials to supervisors, elected officials, or parents or guardians; prohibits requiring a teacher or other educator to agree not to report inaccuracies or errors or potentially inflammatory material in textbooks or other educational materials, as a condition of employment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SR89 Memorials, Recognition - Tommy Hopper, Madison County Republican Party Lifetime Achievement Award

TN - SR69 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John Tickle, UT board of trustees

TN - SR2 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Julia Wells, UT Board of Trustees

TN - SR9 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John Stites II, Tennessee Board of Regents

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

TN - SR72 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - MaryLou Apple, Tennessee board of regents

TN - SR65 Memorials, Death - Eleanor McNeil Massey.

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

TN - SR64 Memorials, Retirement - Alice Wynelle Abbey.

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

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

TN - SJR83 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Robert Kyle Mallory, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - SJR350 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Specialist Josh Webb, 2015 Tennessee National Guard Soldier of the Year.

TN - SJR458 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for the legalization of the sale of custom processed meat in Tennessee.

TN - SJR401 Memorials, Death - Leonard Keelon Bradley.

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

TN - SJR485 Memorials, Death - Joseph Dillman, death

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

TN - SJR33 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lillian Hartgrove, State Board of Education

TN - SJR118 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Jason Robinson, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - SJR441 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Digital Learning Project

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

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

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

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

TN - SJR407 Memorials, Death - Representative Clint Callicott

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

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

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

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

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 - SJR182 Memorials, Death - Senator Bobby Carter.

TN - SJR383 Memorials, Recognition - Luke Eppert.

TN - SJR119 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Susan Bunch, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

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

TN - SJR121 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Les Leverett.

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

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