Tennessee Sen. Doug Overbey (R)

TN - Finance, Ways and Means (Senate)

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2nd vice-chair

TN - Health and Welfare (Senate)

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member

TN - Judiciary (Senate)

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1st vice-chair

TN - Ethics (Senate)

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chair

TN - Rules (Senate)

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member

TN - Fiscal Review

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member

TN - Pensions and Insurance

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member

TN - SB327 Financial Disclosure - As enacted, requires certain disclosures by members of the general assembly regarding travel expenses paid on behalf of the member. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10, Part 1; Title 3, Chapter 6 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 5.

TN - SB267 Marriage - As enacted, adds federal administrative law judges to the list of officials authorized to solemnize marriages. - Amends TCA Section 36-3-301.

TN - SB174 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, adds pliable plastic approved by the commissioner of safety as a material that may be used as a red warning flag on a load projecting from certain motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SB191 Health Care - As introduced, removes specific reference to the department of finance and administration's option to create a 24-hour, seven day a week health care safety net hotline to assist those in need of health care in the department's medical health care safety net. - Amends TCA Section 71-5-148.

TN - SB371 Unclaimed Property - As enacted, enacts the "Uniform Unclaimed Property Act." - Amends TCA Title 30; Title 45; Title 48; Title 56; Title 66 and Title 67.

TN - SJR19 Memorials, Recognition - Maryville, Tennessee Main Street Community

TN - SJR305 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Gary Daniel Burns, Salutatarian, William Blount High School

TN - SB565 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Revised Uniform Athlete Agents Act of 2015." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB36 Highway Signs - As enacted, expands the area, from only Sevierville to include all of Sevier County, that is exempted from the required removal of tourist-oriented directional signs erected by an entity other than the department of transportation. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 5, Part 13.

TN - SB360 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, requires the department of agriculture's annual report on efforts to enforce the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco and Vapor Products Act be posted on the department's website for dissemination to the public and submitted electronically to the general assembly on or before January 15 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47; Title 49; Title 62; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB178 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, requires an advisory committee appointed by the commissioner to assist the department to meet with the commissioner or the commissioner's designee annually and to report its findings to the department by September 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB964 Natural Disasters - As enacted, authorizes a county highway department to perform work as part of a municipality or county's plan for providing assistance for natural disaster relief to private residential property. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-1601.

TN - SB372 Real Property - As introduced, clarifies that a local government may regulate and tax a short-term rental unit that is located within the local government's jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SJR251 Memorials, Retirement - Chris Hamby

TN - SB194 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises provisions governing lights displayed on vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8 and Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 4.

TN - SB377 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, requires that campaign funds be deposited into a financial institution insured by the FDIC or the national credit union administration that is authorized to do business in this state. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

TN - SB170 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of commerce and insurance to promulgate rules for the operation of automobile clubs and associations. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SJR21 Memorials, Sports - Alcoa High School, 2016 TSSAA Division I Class 3A Football State Champions

TN - SB396 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, authorizes a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system to nominate a subsequent spouse to receive certain optional retirement allowances of the member upon the member's death. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - SJR249 Memorials, Recognition - Smoky Mountain Field School, 40th anniversary

TN - SB213 Courts, Administrative Office of the - As enacted, authorizes the administrative director to obtain a criminal history background check through the TBI and FBI on any applicant for employment; permits the administrative director to establish the job titles or classifications to which the background check requirement applies; and requires the office to pay for the cost of the background checks. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 3, Part 8.

TN - SB181 Taxes - As introduced, permits the court in a tax collection proceeding to enter on the tax books a copy of the court order. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SJR22 Memorials, Death - Harold "Sonny" Lambert

TN - SB268 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, specifies that any person licensed by the board of pharmacy and holding a valid wholesaler license will be considered to be licensed as a drug distributor until such a time when the board can promulgate rules to implement the third-party logistic provider (3PL) licensing process. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - SB409 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, establishes and revises certain provisions related to exemptions for persons affected by certain natural disasters. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB184 DNA and Genetic Testing - As introduced, states that the board of medical examiners is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to administer the Genetic Counselors' Licensing Act. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - SB171 Uniform Commercial Code - As introduced, increases from 30 days to 60 days of debtor possession of the collateral the time during which a purchase-money security interest can be perfected and take priority over a conflicting security interest as to identifiable proceeds from the collateral. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB173 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, authorizes the state board for licensing alarm systems contractors to fill a vacancy on the board from lists of nominees submitted by interested burglar and fire alarm organizations until the governor makes an appointment if the governor fails to appoint a successor after 60 days, instead of the current 90 days, following the vacancy occurring. - Amends TCA Title 62.

TN - SB175 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires a dental service plan corporation to show ability to pay the greater of operating expenses for six months or $10,000, instead of $2,500, in order to apply for and obtain a license to operate a dental service plan. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB1063 Notary Public - As introduced, reduces from 40 to 30 days the amount of notice to be given before a deposition of a notary public may be taken, whether a suit be pending or not, if the opposing party is out of the state. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47 and Title 55.

TN - SB179 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, deletes obsolete requirement that the commissioner conduct a study of impediments to insurance for the use of justifiable force and report the results of that study to the general assembly and governor no later than March 1, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB177 Workers Compensation - As introduced, changes the date by which the bureau of workers' compensation must produce its report of all the employers that failed to obtain coverage or self-insure during the previous fiscal year from December 31 to December 15. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB183 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, requires an agency to provide a copy of an emergency rule prior to the rule's effective date to any person requesting a copy before such date. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SJR343 Memorials, Interns - Kiley Hoppe

TN - SJR392 Memorials, Recognition - Hannah Dove Maurice, Boys and Girls Clubs of the Smoky Mountains Youth of the Year

TN - SB182 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, clarifies that any proceeding to revoke an insurance agent or solicitor's license for violating an insurance law is conducted pursuant to the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB721 Medical Occupations - As introduced, amends qualification and record-keeping requirements related to central service technicians. - Amends TCA Section 68-11-239.

TN - SB187 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, increases the time an alarm system contractor has to furnish the state board for licensing alarm system contractors certain identifying information regarding an employee from 30 days to 31 days from the beginning of employment. - Amends TCA Title 62.

TN - SJR341 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Carson Rule Morgan, Salutatorian, Heritage High School

TN - SB198 Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, exempts retired judges from the duty to attend annual meetings of the state judicial conference. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 3.

TN - SB723 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Campus Free Speech Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR303 Memorials, Recognition - Aubrey Randy Burleson, 2017 Community Leadership Award

TN - SJR302 Memorials, Recognition - Sam Milhollin, 2017 Youth Leadership Award

TN - SJR20 Memorials, Recognition - Dorothy Mitchell-Kincaid, East Tennessee Appalachian Hero Award

TN - SJR342 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Josie Brook Nash, Valedictorian, Heritage High School

TN - SB369 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, clarifies that quality improvement committees apply to osteopathic doctors; updates references to the repealed Tennessee Peer Review Act of 1967. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 32, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 9, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - SB186 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, increases from a Class C to a Class B misdemeanor the penalty for violations of provisions concerning the organization, operation, and solicitation of members for an automobile club or association. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 18.

TN - SB196 Education - As enacted, revises provisions governing truancy and attendance supervisors. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.

TN - SJR304 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Raiha Abbas, Valedictorian, William Blount High School

TN - SB193 Taxes, Income - As enacted, exempts persons who are 100 or older from the Hall income tax for tax years beginning January 1, 2018, and thereafter. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - SB189 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, requires an agency to provide a copy of emergency rules filed with the secretary of state to any person upon request. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SB185 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, extends the Nursing Home Assessment Trust Fund by one year, to terminate on June 30, 2018, and revises certain long-term care provisions. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB866 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, creates the unruly act of illegal use of a telecommunication device. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - SB199 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, establishes the Tennessee council on autism spectrum disorder. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

TN - SB114 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, authorizes local governing bodies, by a two-thirds vote, to prorate the 2016 tax assessment for a homeowner's real property or business owner's personal property, if the property was damaged as a result of a FEMA certified disaster between September 1, 2016, and December 31, 2016; expires on December 31, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR18 Memorials, Recognition - Linda Ogle, Tennessee Boys & Girls Clubs Hall of Fame

TN - SB195 Health Care - As enacted, adds healthcare services provided to a patient at a public elementary or secondary school to the current definition of telehealth services for which health insurance entities are required to reimburse in a manner that is consistent with reimbursement for in-person encounters; requires that the public elementary or secondary school be staffed by a healthcare service provider and equipped to engage in such services. - Amends TCA Title 56; Section 63-1-155 and Title 71.

TN - SJR16 Naming and Designating - "DIPG Awareness Day," May 17, 2017

TN - SJR23 Memorials, Death - Officer Kenny Moats

TN - SB969 Taxes - As enacted, expands tax credits for financial institutions that make loans or contributions to eligible housing entities that create or develop low-income housing. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SJR17 Memorials, Death - Sue Morton Swann

TN - SB214 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2017." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5 and Chapter 854 of the Public Acts of 2016.

TN - SJR205 Memorials, Retirement - Benny Hammonds

TN - SB188 TennCare - As enacted, authorizes certain law enforcement officers employed by the office of inspector general within the department of finance and administration to make arrests for offenses involving criminal fraud and abuse of the TennCare program and any other violations of state criminal law related to the operation of TennCare. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1232 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires state institutions of higher education to develop and implement uniform procedures for awarding academic credit through course equivalencies for military education, training, experience, and occupational specialties; provides methods for implementation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.

TN - SB948 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, enacts the "Voluntary Employee Retirement Accounts Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 8 and Title 9.

TN - SB119 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the offense of theft to include evading a component of an anti-shoplifting device, interfering with a fire alarm system, or using any artifice or article to commit or facilitate a theft, and makes other various changes; punishes a fifth or subsequent conviction in a two-year period one classification higher and imposes a fine of not less than $300 nor more than the maximum amount established for the appropriate offense classification. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-146.

TN - SB1241 Sentencing - As enacted, increases penalty for unlawfully possessing a firearm with a prior conviction for a felony involving use of force or violence from Class C felony to Class B felony; increases from Class D felony to Class C felony penalty for person unlawfully possessing firearm with prior felony drug offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

TN - SB546 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, allows a person engaged in an occupation subject to the occupational privilege tax who is or is older than the age for full social security benefits and who earns no more than $16,000 per year from the taxable occupation to receive a 75 percent rebate on that person's occupational privilege tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - SB788 State Government - As introduced, creates the Task Force on Government Spending and Accountability. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 9.

TN - SB1233 Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the new Tennessee Bureau of Investigation crime lab and consolidated regional headquarters to be constructed in Madison County as the "Special Agent De'Greaun ReShun Frazier TBI Crime Lab and Regional Headquarters."

TN - SB298 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, creates a task force to study the issues created by the maintenance of certification process for Tennessee physicians; prohibits board of medical examiners and board of osteopathic examination from taking certain action on a license based on nonparticipation in any form of maintenance of licensure. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56, Chapter 7; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 9 and Title 68.

TN - SB156 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, removes the 90-day limitation on a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system working as a substitute teacher. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 49.

TN - SB614 Education - As enacted, adds to and clarifies law concerning teacher training. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.

TN - SB590 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates March 4 of each year as "Tennessee Missing Children's Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15.

TN - SB1206 Mental Illness - As enacted, establishes procedures to be followed by the trial court for the diagnosis, evaluation, and initial treatment of persons found not guilty by reason of insanity for first degree murder or certain other Class A felonies. - Amends TCA Section 33-7-303.

TN - SB242 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board for licensing healthcare facilities one year to June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - SB398 TennCare - As enacted, requires the bureau of TennCare to develop and implement a temporary medication therapy management pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SB631 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires students to complete one year of instruction in American government and one year of instruction in Tennessee history between grades 7 and 12 to receive a high school diploma, with various exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB24 Handgun Permits - As enacted, exempts active-duty military service members and veterans who have specialties as military police, special operations, or special forces from handgun carry permit firing range requirements. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB120 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Organized Retail Crime Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1.

TN - SB720 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, creates the Tennessee middle college scholarship, funded by net lottery proceeds. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1224 Public Contracts - As enacted, adds "businesses owned by persons with disabilities" to the Tennessee Minority-Owned, Woman-Owned and Small Business Procurement and Contracting Act; requires that the annual report made by the chief procurement officer concerning the awarding of purchases to minority-owned business, woman-owned business, service-disabled veteran-owned business, or small business and the total value of awards made also include the total dollar amount of purchases awarded to all businesses in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 12.

TN - SB551 Sentencing - As enacted, increases classification of offense of patronizing prostitution from a Class B to a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 3 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - SB864 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, enacts the "Senator Douglas Henry Tennessee History Act". - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB1267 Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Financial Exploitation Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 45; Title 47, Chapter 30; Title 48, Chapter 1 and Title 71, Chapter 6.

TN - SB229 Domestic Violence - As enacted, requires the court to give a defendant intending to plead guilty to a domestic violence offense notice of the firearm dispossession consequences of a domestic violence conviction and sets out a procedure for a person convicted of domestic violence to terminate possession of all firearms. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-111 and Section 40-14-109.

TN - SB461 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, expands to include pharmacists in the prohibition on discrimination by managed health insurance issuers against optometrists, ophthalmologists, podiatrists, and chiropractors solely on the basis of their license or certification, if such providers are acting within the scope of their license or certification. - Amends TCA Section 56-32-129.

TN - SB1190 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires captive insurance companies to pay certain penalties and interest on the late payment of premium taxes; authorizes certain captive insurance companies to apply for and operate under a letter of dormancy; provides for the conversion of protected cells and pure captive insurance companies; revises certain compensation provisions regarding examinations of insurance companies. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Title 56, Chapter 13.

TN - SB544 Public Health - As enacted, requires comprehensive stroke centers and primary stroke centers, and encourages other hospitals, to report data on individuals with confirmed stroke to the ETSU College of Public Health on a quarterly basis. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 1.

TN - SB437 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding when a health insurance entity can make, and when a health insurance entity is required to notify a provider of, changes in the provider's fee schedule. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - SB553 Child Abuse - As enacted, adds the commission of trafficking for commercial sex act to the definitions of child sexual abuse and severe child abuse; redefines "caregiver" for the purposes of the laws governing the placement and custody of juveniles. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - SB1227 TennCare - As enacted, requires the bureau of TennCare to promulgate rules to promote the safe and responsible coverage of opioids for TennCare members who have the TennCare pharmacy benefit; requires report on rules to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - SR26 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Allan Benton, Tennessee Arts Commission's Governor's Arts Awards Folklife Heritage Award

TN - SR32 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - David Shepard, University of Tennessee Board of Trustees

TN - SR37 Memorials, Recognition - Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month, May 2017

TN - SR19 Memorials, Recognition - James L. Clayton, 2017 Governor's Arts Leadership Award

TN - SR36 Memorials, Recognition - The Junior League of Chattanooga, 100th anniversary

TN - SJR4 Memorials, Congress - Urges the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to locate a VA hospital in Knoxville.

TN - SJR320 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Association of Utility Districts, 60th anniversary

TN - SJR265 Memorials, Recognition - Great Smoky Mountains Association

TN - SJR281 Memorials, Recognition - Dupree Farms, Tennessee Century Farm

TN - SJR43 Memorials, Retirement - Louise McKown

TN - SJR268 Memorials, Recognition - TCAT Knoxville, 50th anniversary

TN - SJR325 Memorials, Death - Robert Fletcher Worthington, Jr.

TN - SJR176 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Kent Woods, Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - SJR78 Memorials, Recognition - National Speech and Debate Education Day

TN - SJR150 Memorials, Recognition - Akima Club, 70th anniversary

TN - SJR356 Memorials, Recognition - Tanya Tucker

TN - SJR454 Memorials, Retirement - John J. Sheridan

TN - SJR58 Memorials, Death - Edwin Hope Rayson

TN - SJR61 Memorials, Recognition - Criminal Court of Knox County, 110th anniversary

TN - SJR357 Memorials, Recognition - Loretta Lynn

TN - SJR123 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Mike Edwards, State Board of Education

TN - SJR175 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tom Midyett, State Forestry Commission

TN - SJR68 Memorials, Death - William "Bill" Lacy Carter, Jr.

TN - SJR458 Memorials, Congratulations - Congressman David Phillip "Phil" Roe and Clarinda Jeanes, wedding

TN - SJR142 Memorials, Retirement - Linda Penny

TN - SJR322 Memorials, Recognition - "Rocky Top," 50th anniversary

TN - SJR306 Memorials, Death - Garry Kreis

TN - SJR378 Memorials, Death - James Dewey Daane

TN - SJR1 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Joseph Hamilton

TN - SJR169 Memorials, Death - A.C. Clark

TN - SJR366 Memorials, Recognition - Senator Mike Bell, State Legislator of the Year for the United States

TN - SJR38 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Helen James

TN - SJR6 Memorials, Heroism - Principal Linda Buggs and the teachers of Grand Junction Elementary School

TN - SJR115 Naming and Designating - "Police Memorial Week," May 14–20, 2017

TN - SJR2 Memorials, Recognition - Recognizes Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Tennessee - Knoxville for their contributions to the discovery of element 117 and its naming as tennessine.

TN - SJR149 Memorials, Death - Lt. Colonel Robert Patrick Gleason

TN - SJR269 Memorials, Death - Vernon Neal

TN - SJR158 Memorials, Recognition - Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Celebration

TN - SJR89 Memorials, Death - Officer Eric Mumaw, Metro Nashville Police Department

TN - SJR76 Memorials, Recognition - Veterans Day on the Hill, February 8, 2017

TN - SJR60 Memorials, Recognition - Randy Travis

TN - SJR133 Memorials, Recognition - Gracie Gipson, Miss Tennessee Teen America

TN - SJR67 Memorials, Death - James "J.R." Rogers

TN - SJR212 Memorials, Retirement - Pam Fansler

TN - SJR358 Memorials, Congratulations - Senator Mark Green