Tennessee Sen. Ferrell Haile (R)

TN - Finance, Ways and Means (Senate)

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Member

TN - Government Operations (Senate)

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1st Vice-chair

TN - SB497 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, authorizes the synchronization of a patient's medications and regulates patient cost-sharing and pharmacist dispensing fees affected by a synchronization. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB440 Adoption - As enacted, reduces the time for revoking a surrender in regard to the person's child from 10 to three calendar days following the surrender. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - SJR180 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hayley Andrews, Salutatorian, Westmoreland High School.

TN - SB46 Adoption - As enacted, requires that the family life curriculum, to the extent that the topic and the manner of communication is age-appropriate, inform students, in all LEAs, concerning the process of adoption and its benefits. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 13.

TN - SB593 Sentencing - As enacted, creates a new sentencing enhancement factor when the defendant committed the offense of robbery, aggravated robbery, or especially aggravated robbery on the premises of a licensed pharmacy in an effort to unlawfully obtain, sell, give, or exchange a controlled substance, controlled substance analogue, or other illegal drug. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-114.

TN - SB1562 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, renames the Four Lake regional industrial development authority to the Tennessee central economic authority. - Amends TCA Section 4-29-239; Title 64, Chapter 5, Part 2 and Title 67, Chapter 9, Part 1.

TN - SB45 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, prohibits the retail sale of products containing dextromethorphan to persons who are less than 18 years of age; prohibits the purchase of products containing dextromethorphan by persons who are less than 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 53.

TN - SB2330 Abortion - As introduced, requires the bureau of TennCare to report to the chair of the health and welfare committee of the senate and the chair of the health committee of the house by January 31 of each year on the number of abortions paid for by the medical assistance program during the prior calendar year that comply with the exceptions permitted by budget statute. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 37; Title 39; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB136 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, authorizes ECD to make grants of $35,000 annually over a four-year period to assist any manufacturing facility in an eligible county, if the facility creates 60 jobs within 24 months from beginning production and if other criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

TN - SB2020 Fees - As introduced, requires a financial institution that adopts a written policy stating that notary records are a record of the financial institution to give a copy of the written policy to the individual receiving notary services. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21.

TN - SB413 Local Government, General - As enacted, adds all county, municipal, and metropolitan governments to the list of entities required to establish internal controls to ensure compliance with applicable law, prevent waste, and ensure operations are properly recorded. - Amends TCA Section 9-18-102.

TN - SB1636 Real Property - As enacted, prohibits a local governmental unit from enacting zoning regulations that require the allocation of a percentage of existing or newly constructed private residential or commercial rental units for long-term retention as affordable or workforce housing. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 35.

TN - SB2019 Education, Higher - As introduced, specifies due process requirements for students of public higher education institutions in disciplinary proceedings involving allegations of sexual violence or other criminal activity. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB908 Local Government, General - As introduced, increases period of advance public notice required before a hearing is held on a petition to establish a housing authority from 10 days to 20 days. - Amends TCA Title 13.

TN - SB1810 Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, grants the court discretion to waive the requirement that a fiduciary request court approval for any change in the nature of any investment if a minimum balance is maintained and other requirements are met; adds income-producing property to list of approved investments. - Amends TCA Title 34, Chapter 1 and Title 35, Chapter 3.

TN - SB1811 Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes the exclusion of residents of correctional institutions from being considered in reapportionment. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 41.

TN - SB1020 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, requires governmental entities that regulate professions and trades to give electronic notice of any meeting 30 days in advance instead of 45 days in advance when rule or fee changes are on the agenda. - Amends TCA Title 62.

TN - SJR32 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Capps, musical career.

TN - SB1413 Westmoreland - As introduced, subject to local approval, exempts the city recorder from the requirement that office holders reside within two miles of the city limits; eliminates durational residency requirement of six months for an eligible appointment to the office of city recorder. - Amends Chapter 306 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended.

TN - SR59 Memorials, Interns - Stephen Fetcher.

TN - SB1635 Special License Plates - As enacted, expands eligibility for the issuance of an amateur radio license plate without the $25.00 additional fee to registrants who provide emergency services as part of a squad and whose qualifications are approved by the county emergency management director. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - SB435 Public Records - As enacted, authorizes all county registers of deeds, instead of the register of deeds in five counties, to redact social security numbers from recorded documents at the request of certain persons where practicable for the register. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - SB909 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, makes governmental entity immune from liability for all dues, fees, and assessments for all parcels purchased at tax sales. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SJR267 Memorials, Retirement - William L. Crook.

TN - SJR244 Memorials, Recognition - Motohiko Kato, Consul-General of Japan.

TN - SJR521 Memorials, Sports - Beech High School wrestling team, two state titles

TN - SB2018 Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to implement a database no later than January 1, 2018, for licensees providing deferred presentment and flex loan transactions to ensure that customers are not exceeding certain limits under present law for such transactions; requires licensees to conduct database checks before entering into such transactions; authorizes a fee to be charged per transaction. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 1; Title 45, Chapter 12 and Title 45, Chapter 17.

TN - SJR496 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Clint Satterfield, TSSAA Hall of Fame

TN - SB437 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires a person who commits theft or robbery within or on the premises of a licensed pharmacy for the purpose of obtaining, selling, delivering, giving, or exchanging a controlled substance to serve at least the minimum sentence for the offender's appropriate range of sentence and be subject to increased fines. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 4; Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 40, Chapter 35 and Title 41.

TN - SB439 Education - As introduced, allows a student's parent or the student's teacher to view a state-required standardized summative assessment taken by the student and the student's answers subject to certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1019 Revenue, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department of revenue to annually check the list of recipients of disabled parking placards against the department of health's death records and invalidate any placards issued to a person who is deceased. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21.

TN - SJR178 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Grant N. Garrison, Valedictorian, Westmoreland High School.

TN - SB1481 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, directs the office of the attorney general to prepare a statement of a property owner's rights during any condemnation proceeding and to post the statement on its web site; requires that information regarding how to access the statement be sent together with any notice of the filing of a petition to institute condemnation proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 17 and Title 29, Chapter 16.

TN - SB436 Local Government, General - As enacted, removes time limitation on county legislative body's election to include certain personnel in the definition of "law enforcement officer" for purposes of the provisions governing the presumption that certain health impairments resulting in a law enforcement officer's death or personal injury are attributable to injury suffered in the course of employment, unless otherwise shown by medical evidence. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51.

TN - SB156 Chiropractors - As introduced, increases from $50.00 to $100 the per diem for members of the board of chiropractic examiners; replaces the secretary of the board's monthly salary of $100 with the same per diem as other board members. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 4.

TN - SB438 Attorney General and Reporter - As introduced, directs the office of the attorney general to prepare a written statement of a property owner's rights during any condemnation proceeding and to post the statement on its web site; requires that the statement be sent together with any notice of the filing of a petition to institute condemnation proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 16 and Title 29, Chapter 17.

TN - SJR527 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Olivia Wright, 2016 Prudential Spirit of Community Award

TN - SJR36 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Susan Lanigan, Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation Board of Directors

TN - SJR179 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sara Kennedy, Valedictorian, Westmoreland High School.

TN - SB1482 Election Laws - As introduced, excludes residents of state correctional institutions from being considered in reapportionment. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 41.

TN - SB595 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, adds the vapor from electronic cigarettes to the definition of what "smoking" is for purposes of the "Children's Act for Clean Indoor Air." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 16.

TN - SB794 Pest Control - As introduced, redefines "certified applicator" for purposes of the Tennessee Application of Pesticides Act of 1978 from an individual certified to use, buy, sell, or supervise the use of pesticides to an individual who is authorized to directly or indirectly use, buy, sell, or supervise the use of pesticides. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 21.

TN - SB2176 Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes the comptroller to allow a municipality to submit two annual budgets every two years (a "biennial budget"), if the comptroller or the comptroller's designee determines that the municipality operates with sufficient financial resources to more than adequately service its issued debt. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 6 and Title 9, Chapter 21.

TN - SB2195 Attorneys at Law - As introduced, increases amount paid to court appointed counsel for indigent criminal defendants to $75.00 per hour. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 14, Part 2.

TN - SB967 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As introduced, clarifies that persons licensed as alcohol and drug abuse counselors may hold themselves out to the public as being licensed by using a title on signs, letterheads, telephone listings, and other forms of professional identification. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 24, Part 6.

TN - SB594 Domestic Violence - As enacted, requires an investigator or law enforcement officer investigating possible domestic abuse or child abuse involving a hearing-impaired child to interview the child using an interpreter outside the presence of the child's parent or family member; permits the interpreter to interpret using video remote interpreting. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Section 39-13-111.

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 - SJR476 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Maury and Gail Davis

TN - SJR236 Memorials, Retirement - Lucy Oldham.

TN - SB919 Trademarks and Trade Names - As introduced, makes it a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 to incorporate a registered trademark in a URL in a manner that violates federal law; allows the incorporation of a registered trademark in the post-domain path of a URL. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 47.

TN - SB1560 Wills - As enacted, revises provisions governing witness signatures on certain wills. - Amends TCA Title 32.

TN - SB1809 Zoning - As enacted, reduces from 30 days to 15 days the notice Davidson County must provide prior to a public hearing on an amendment to a county zoning ordinance. - Amends TCA Section 13-7-105.

TN - SB880 Eminent Domain - As introduced, revises provisions governing condemned property being offered for sale to the former owner. - Amends TCA Section 29-17-1005.

TN - SB157 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, deletes the Intractable Pain Act. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB886 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, establishes certain procedures for the petitioning of a court for relief from firearms disabilities established for a prior judicial commitment or adjudication order for mental illness. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 10; Title 16, Chapter 11; Title 16, Chapter 15; Title 16, Chapter 16 and Section 39-17-1351.

TN - SB718 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, permits dependents of military service members to retain priority for receiving home and community-based services under a federal waiver in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1899 Education - As enacted, makes certain changes to the requirements for voluntary pre-k programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB1393 Adoption - As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding adoption, including provisions governing termination of parental rights, abandonment, and surrender. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - SB1582 DUI Offenses - As enacted, allows a court to order a person convicted of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol to be subject to monitoring using a transdermal monitoring device, electronic monitoring with random alcohol or drug testing, global positioning monitoring, or any other monitoring device necessary to ensure compliance with the conditions of probation or the results of any clinical substance abuse assessment. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2 and Title 55.

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 - SB1398 Courts - As enacted, permits a county that has elected to permit judicial commissioners to receive continuing education from the general sessions judge that appointed the commissioners, rather than the judicial commissioners association of Tennessee or the Tennessee court clerks association, to rescind that action by two-thirds majority vote; requires Robertson County to be subject to a $2.00 litigation tax to fund continuing education for judicial commissioners. - Amends TCA Section 40-1-111 and Section 67-4-602.

TN - SB111 Controlled Substances - As enacted, changes the limit calculations for intermediate methamphetamine precursors from the total amount of the base ephedrine and pseudoephedrine in a product to the amount of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine base, or their salts, isomers, or salts of isomers contained in a product. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-431.

TN - SB87 Education - As enacted, changes references in the code from vocational education to career and technical education; changes references in the code from the board for vocational education to the board for career and technical education. - Amends TCA Section 37-2-417; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 11; Title 49, Chapter 12; Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 5; Title 49, Chapter 50; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Section 62-4-122.

TN - SB81 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, authorizes the state board of examiners for architects and engineers to deny certain certificates of registration to persons with felony convictions; removes certain board notifications to governmental entities when revoking or suspending certificates of registration; revises other various provisions governing certain regulatory boards. - Amends TCA Title 62.

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 - 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 - SB2057 Controlled Substances - As enacted, specifies that, on and after July 1, 2016, a new applicant may only qualify as a pain management specialist through board certification by the American board of interventional pain physicians (ABIPP) by passing parts 1 and 2 of its examination, and holding an unencumbered Tennessee license, and maintaining the minimum number of CME hours in pain management to satisfy retention of ABIPP diplomate status. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - SB1789 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, allows a pharmacy to designate a pharmacy services administrative organization to file and handle an appeal challenging the maximum allowable cost set for a particular drug or medical product or device on behalf of the pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

TN - SB604 Education - As enacted, enacts "The Educator Protection Act of 2015." - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8.

TN - SB2242 Education, State Board of - As introduced, institutes a two-year waiver of the use of student growth data from the TNReady assessment in teacher evaluations; requires the state board, in consultation with the department of education, to study, and to provide a written report on, the TNReady assessment to the education committees of the senate and the house. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302.

TN - SB2399 DUI Offenses - As enacted, authorizes the use of the ignition interlock fund to assist with the costs of other monitoring devices; renames the fund the "DUI monitoring fund" and limits the amounts to be expended from the fund; revises provisions governing service of a sentence for a DUI conviction in an alternative facility. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 55.

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

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 - 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 - 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 - SB1553 Military - As enacted, enacts the "National Guard Force Protection Act of 2016". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 58.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - SB633 Education - As enacted, prohibits schools from requiring students or parents to provide information on firearm ownership; prohibits LEAs from requiring employees to provide information on firearm ownership; prohibits adverse disciplinary or employment action based on information of firearm ownership that is voluntarily provided. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - SB704 Agriculture - As enacted, specifies that the annual planting and harvest seasons for the state extend from January 1 to December 31 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 70, Chapter 8, Part 2.

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 - 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 - SB456 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As enacted, requires use of transdermal monitoring on certain persons charged with vehicular assault, vehicular homicide, or aggravated vehicular homicide who have certain prior alcohol-related motor vehicle convictions; creates offense of tampering with or removing monitoring device. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - SB1119 Courts, General Sessions - As enacted, removes the restriction that prohibits Davidson County from imposing a litigation tax on cases in general sessions court with proceeds to support the general sessions court. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15.

TN - SB2357 Mining and Quarrying - As introduced, enacts the "Dam Safety Act" to prohibit the issuance of a permit to conduct surface mining on land that is located within one mile of a dam operated by the U.S. army corps of engineers. - Amends TCA Title 59; Title 69, Chapter 11 and Title 69, Chapter 3.

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 - SB610 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, revises provisions governing 12-hour hold period for persons charged with domestic violence or elder abuse offense; makes hold period mandatory unless the magistrate or other official duly authorized to release the offender finds that the offender is not a threat to the alleged victim. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - SB326 Estates - As enacted, enacts the "Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act." - Amends TCA Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 34; Title 35 and Title 39.

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 - SB1223 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, establishes requirements and protections for healthcare providers that practice telehealth. - Amends TCA Title 63.

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 - SB1572 Sentencing - As enacted, punishes sixth offense DUI as a Class C felony; clarifies "prior convictions" for purposes of enhancing a DUI sentence; removes Class E felony designation for third or subsequent conviction for simple possession or casual exchange of a controlled substance in certain situations; removes mandatory 24-hour litter removal requirement for first DUI offenders. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - SB2060 Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises the provisions governing the dispensing of an opioid or benzodiazepine by a physician practice that provides healthcare services. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - SB1436 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires that any petition regarding child custody include an affirmative statement setting out all applicable adjudications, if the petitioner knows whether a child has ever been adjudicated by a court as a dependent and neglected or abused child or whether any party to the action has ever been adjudicated by a court as the perpetrator of dependency and neglect or abuse of a minor child; authorizes court to order DCS to disclose certain information. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.

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 - SB56 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows students who are eligible for the Tennessee Promise scholarship, but who cannot enroll in and attend college in the fall semester after completion of high school because of certain military commitments, to enroll in and attend college in the first term beginning after completion of the student's military commitments without loss of Promise scholarship eligibility. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-708.

TN - SB1114 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Aron's Law," which makes the knowing killing of a police dog, fire dog, search and rescue dog, or police horse a Class E felony, unless the offense would be a higher classification based on the animal’s value, in which case, knowingly killing the animal will be punished as theft of property. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-205.

TN - SB1467 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, prohibits state funds for metropolitan transportation planning from being released to, or expended by, a metropolitan planning organization (MPO) unless the MPO's policy board ensures that the number of votes for any local government official is equally weighted and that one voting member residing within the MPO's boundaries is chosen by the Tennessee county highway officials association. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 51 and Title 64, Chapter 8, Part 3.

TN - SB1670 Children - As enacted, expands the authority of a court to order grandparent visitation when the child is not in the custody of the parent and when the grandparent's relationship has been severely reduced. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - SB2132 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, removes annual income limit of $60,000 for disabled veterans seeking property tax relief; increases disabled veteran's reimbursement amount from $100,000 to $175,000 of the full market value of veteran's residence. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - SB936 Optometry - As introduced, authorizes the practice of optometry in space leased from manufacturers or retailers of ophthalmic materials, or general retailers, only where the optometrist's practice meets specific criteria for maintaining separation from the lessors; prohibits manufacturers and wholesalers from controlling or attempting to control the professional judgment or practice of an optometrist. - Amends TCA Section 63-8-113 and Section 63-8-125.

TN - SB1005 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, enacts the "County Road Relief Act of 2015." - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 4; Title 54, Chapter 9 and Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 9.

TN - SB667 Education - As enacted, encourages LEAs, in consultation with local law enforcement, to institute at least one domestic violence awareness education program per year for middle and high schools; requires each program to be developmentally appropriate based on the students' age and maturity level. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

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 - 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 - SB33 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, exempts diabetic testing supplies from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

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 - SB933 Evidence - As enacted, provides that in a prosecution for any criminal homicide, an appropriate photograph of the victim while still alive will be admissible evidence when offered by the district attorney to show the general appearance and condition of the victim while alive. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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 - SB1882 TennCare - As introduced, establishes medication therapy management as a component of the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1677 Birth Control - As enacted, authorizes a pharmacist to provide hormonal contraceptives according to a valid collaborative pharmacy practice agreement containing a nonpatient-specific prescriptive order and standardized procedures developed and executed by one or more authorized prescribers, in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - SB2531 Paternity - As enacted, defines the term "putative father"; makes various changes to the termination of parental rights of a putative father. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

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 - SB811 Health Care - As enacted, enacts the “Tennessee Right to Try Act.” - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

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 - SB2403 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, authorizes the chief medical officer of the department of health to implement a state-wide collaborative pharmacy practice agreement for opioid antagonist therapy with pharmacists. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1.

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

TN - SR25 Memorials, Recognition - Sigma Phi Epsilon, 54th Grand Chapter Conclave.

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 - SJR404 Memorials, Recognition - Mayor Megan Barry.

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

TN - SJR100 Memorials, Recognition - University School of Nashville, 100th anniversary.

TN - SJR413 Memorials, Retirement - Brian Signaigo

TN - SJR495 Memorials, Death - Harold Weddington

TN - SJR309 Memorials, Recognition - Nashville General Hospital, 125th anniversary.

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

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

TN - SJR88 TennCare - Requests the governor to apply for an appropriate federal waiver in order to implement the TennCare Opt Out program as a small pilot project within the TennCare program.

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 - 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 - SJR514 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Larry D. Calhoun

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 - 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 - 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