Tennessee Sen. Ferrell Haile (R)

TN - Education (Senate)

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TN - Finance, Ways and Means (Senate)

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TN - Health and Welfare (Senate)

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1st Vice-chair

TN - Rules (Senate)

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TN - Pensions and Insurance

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TN - SB2422 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires landlords in the City of Hendersonville, upon adoption by a two-thirds vote of the legislative body, to register with the department of the city that enforces building codes. - Amends TCA Section 66-28-107.

TN - SB2738 Gallatin - Subject to local approval, prohibits the mayor and aldermen from being eligible for the succeeding term in the same office if such official has served more than one-half of a four-year term and the next two subsequent four-year terms, for a maximum of 10 years in that particular office. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953.

TN - SB2143 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to study and make recommendations concerning the availability of electronic textbooks for use of students in elementary and secondary schools to the education committees of the senate and the house of representatives by February 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1496 Eminent Domain - As enacted, revises provisions governing condemned property being offered for sale to the former owner. - Amends TCA Section 29-17-1005.

TN - SJR598 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Ron Becker, 2018 Sumner County Principal of the Year

TN - SJR334 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lucas Wayne Garrison, Valedictorian, Westmoreland High School

TN - SJR335 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tanner Henry Tanguis, Valedictorian, Westmoreland High School

TN - SB301 Telecommunications - As introduced, allows electric cooperatives to provide broadband internet access and related services without any limitations that are not otherwise placed on other private providers of telecommunication services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB2020 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, decreases from 60 days to 30 days the time in which a utilization review agent has to notify health care providers of a change in preauthorization requirements that affects cancer patients. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 56.

TN - SB238 Equalization Board - As enacted, changes the standard of review for property tax appeals by limiting review to the record before the hearing examiner. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-1505 and Section 67-5-1506.

TN - SJR928 Memorials, Retirement - Frederick A. "Rick" Brooks

TN - SB2425 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, removes the requirement that each metropolitan planning organization's policy board ensures that the votes for any local government official be equally weighted and not based on population. - Amends TCA Section 64-8-301.

TN - SB998 Education - As enacted, recognizes students who earn a composite score of 19 on the ACT, or an equivalent score on the SAT, and who also earn a capstone industry certification as promoted by the department of education, as a Tennessee Tri-Star Scholar upon graduation; requires schools to recognize the student as a Tennessee Tri-Star Scholar at the school's graduation ceremony. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - SB597 Disabled Persons - As enacted, allows disabled adults to have paid personal aides to perform health maintenance tasks for them. - Amends TCA Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1463 Gallatin - Subject to local approval, prohibits the mayor and aldermen from being eligible for the succeeding term in the same office if such official has served more than one-half of a four-year term and the next two subsequent four-year terms, for a maximum of 10 years in that particular office. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended.

TN - SB821 Adoption - As introduced, permits a surrender that is not made before a judge or chancellor to be valid for use in adoptions in this state, if the surrender was made in accordance with the laws of the state or territory in which the surrender was executed. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - SJR908 Memorials, Recognition - Mark Beeler, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - SJR593 General Assembly, Directed Studies - Directs the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations to study the overall effects on public education relative to having multiple school districts operating in the same county.

TN - SB822 Public Employees - As enacted, authorizes the state and local governments to provide health insurance benefits to the immediate family members of first responders killed in the line of duty for a period of two years after the death of the first responder; requires the state to reimburse local governments that provide such benefits. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27.

TN - SB599 Budget Procedures - As introduced, requires an increase of 2 percent in department of children's services contracts when state budget increases by 3 percent or more from the immediately preceding year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 37.

TN - SJR744 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Senior Stars

TN - SB148 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, authorizes the City of Millersville, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than 2.5 percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Millersville; the ordinance must set forth the manner of collection and administration of the privilege tax; requires that all proceeds received by the municipality from the tax be used for tourism development. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425.

TN - SB1492 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, allows owners and operators of vehicles with an illuminated check engine light to elect to have the tailpipe test performed in lieu of the onboard diagnostics test. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 201.

TN - SJR480 Memorials, Recognition - Gallatin, "Nicest Place in America"

TN - SB1495 Consumer Protection - As enacted, revises provisions governing the use of tanning devices by minors. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 117, Part 1.

TN - SB1493 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, clarifies that "balloon indebtedness" under the Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986 includes the refinancing of a debt that creates a final maturity date that is 31 or more years from the original date of issuance. - Amends TCA Section 9-21-134.

TN - SJR909 Memorials, Recognition - PANDAS Awareness Day, October 9, 2018

TN - SB362 Adoption - As introduced, permits a parent to complete documents and forms necessary to execute a surrender or parental consent prior to the birth of a child; deems invalid a surrender or parental consent filed prior to a child's birth until after the birth of the child and the expiration of any applicable waiting period. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - SJR600 Memorials, Recognition - David Collins, 2017-2018 LifeChanger of the Year nominee

TN - SB1852 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, requires any person operating in this state as a pharmacy benefits manager to be licensed by the department of commerce and insurance prior to operating. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6, Part 4 and Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

TN - SB2025 Controlled Substances - As enacted, authorizes a partial fill of a prescription of a controlled substance; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - SJR36 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Matthew Pinson

TN - SB376 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, changes the time period from seven days to five business days for a nursing home to request a waiver of regulations relating to nursing home administrators after an unexpected loss. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB2752 Portland - Subject to local approval, authorizes the appointment of a city administrator; removes city council approval for city officers appointed by the mayor, except for the attorney, judge, and recorder; specifies new duties of the mayor. - Amends Chapter 568 of the Private Acts of 1939; as amended.

TN - SB2019 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires identification of a physician licensed in this state and a meeting with the enrollee's physician when a claim is denied on the basis of medical necessity. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SJR450 Memorials, Sports - Scott Wietecha, 2017 St. Jude Rock 'n' Roll Nashville Marathon

TN - SJR553 Memorials, Retirement - Gary Harris

TN - SJR13 Memorials, Recognition - Donald W. Bandy, Sumner Countian of the Year

TN - SB2018 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to create a policy to allow a parent or a parent's designee to observe instruction and other school activities involving the parent's student upon request. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR136 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Marty Stuart, 25th anniversary as a member of Grand Ole Opry

TN - SJR465 Memorials, Recognition - Lieutenant Colonel Richard T. Willbanks, U.S. Army

TN - SB361 State Employees - As enacted, extends state employee defense protections to foster parents under contract with agencies under contract with the state and not just to foster parents under contract with the state. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 42 and Title 9, Chapter 8.

TN - SB2297 Fairs - As enacted, revises the composition of the state fair board and one of the board's powers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Section 5-9-102 and Title 43.

TN - SB1903 Adoption - As introduced, prohibits vacating an otherwise valid order of adoption because the order was not completed within one year of the filing of the petition. - Amends TCA Section 36-1-119.

TN - SB2021 Surplus Property - As introduced, requires the commissioner of general services, upon completing an inventory of state-owned real property, to electronically file a copy of the complete inventory with the governor, state treasurer, secretary of state, and other public officials and departments as designated by the governor rather than filing a physical copy of such inventories. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 2.

TN - SJR37 Memorials, Recognition - Welch College, 75th anniversary

TN - SB2022 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to accept allegations of opioid abuse or diversion and to publicize a means of reporting allegations of such; prohibits civil liability for or firing of a person who reports suspected abuse or diversion. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 63.

TN - SB2023 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is deaf or hard of hearing to request that the department of safety include such designation in the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database; enacts other related provisions in regard to such designation. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SJR336 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kiersten Shanay Maxwell, Valedictorian, Westmoreland High School

TN - SJR277 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Charles Moffatt, Good Scout Award

TN - SB2016 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, designates board of trustees for the Tennessee consolidated retirement system instead of the consolidated retirement board as serving among the trustees for the optional retirement program; makes various revisions to the administration of deferred or tax-sheltered compensation plans for state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 25, Part 2.

TN - SB397 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, under certain circumstances, prohibits the state from entering into, or renewing, a contract with a pharmacy benefits manager where the pharmacy benefits manager has an ownership interest in a pharmacy in its network, or the pharmacy has an ownership interest in the pharmacy benefits manager. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SR189 Memorials, Interns - La'Ken Brazzle

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 - SJR599 Memorials, Public Service - Barbara Brake

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 - SB1850 Public Health - As introduced, expands Non-Smoker Protection Act to include vaping. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 18.

TN - SJR332 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Alexa Brooke McCormick, Valedictorian, Westmoreland High School

TN - SB2420 Municipal Government - As enacted, authorizes the City of Hendersonville to add the storm water user's fee to the real property tax notice, subject to passage of an ordinance by a two-thirds majority of the legislative body. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-103.

TN - SJR468 Memorials, Recognition - Hartsville, 200th anniversary

TN - SB149 School Transportation - As introduced, places restrictions on receiving school bus driver license endorsements or being hired as a school bus driver for drivers who have committed serious traffic violations, including excessive speeding or reckless driving. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55.

TN - SB823 Driver Licenses - As enacted, permits a judge to consider a criminal defendant's participation in recovery court as a hardship sufficient to order the stay of a criminal defendant's driver license revocation for failing to pay fines, court costs, and litigation taxes. - Amends TCA Section 40-24-105.

TN - SB2144 Education - As introduced, authorizes the office of research and accountability (OREA) to study the participation of children in child care programs that are operating at the school that children participating in the child care program attend. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - SB2026 TennCare - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment of 2018." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5 and Chapter 364 of the Public Acts of 2017.

TN - SB1462 Gallatin - Subject to local approval, authorizes the mayor or a member of the city council to run for another public office while mayor or council member, as applicable. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended.

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

TN - SB2142 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, requires that certain controlled substances be dispensed by a pharmacy in a lockable container. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - SB2024 Industrial Development - As enacted, revises provisions governing allocation of certain payments in lieu of taxes and the Tennessee central economic authority. - Amends TCA Section 67-9-102.

TN - SR54 Memorials, Interns - Kaleigh Chitwood

TN - SJR333 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tammy Sueann Wheeley, Salutatorian, Westmoreland High School

TN - SB2423 Courts - As introduced, changes, from February 1 to February 15, the date by which the department of children's services must provide the annual report on zero to three court programs to the civil justice committee of the house of representatives and the judiciary committee of the senate. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SJR733 Memorials, Recognition - David Collins, 2017-2018 LifeChanger of the Year Award

TN - SB598 Education - As enacted, requires LEAs to ensure schools provide parents and guardians with information about influenza and the effectiveness of vaccination at the beginning of each school year; requires nonpublic schools to provide parents and guardians with information about influenza and the effectiveness of vaccination at the beginning of each school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 50 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB363 Local Government, General - As enacted, clarifies that no local government has the authority to enact a law that would place requirements regarding inclusionary, affordable, or below market value housing when entitlements, variances, or any other form of permit or authorization is sought from the local government; prohibits a local governmental unit from conditioning development entitlements through amendment to the zoning map on the allocation of existing or newly constructed private residential or commercial rental units to be sold or rented at below market rates. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13 and Title 66.

TN - SB1448 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, authorizes the City of Portland to levy a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy by a two-thirds vote of its governing body. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.

TN - SB1494 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding eligible persons on referral list for services. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 71.

TN - SB1902 Adoption - As introduced, requires court hearing adoption to suspend proceeding if putative father or established father is served with notice of the adoption but does nothing until time court is scheduled to declare father in default; court to hold hearing within 30 days of date scheduled for adoption hearing to determine if there are grounds to terminate the parental rights of the father. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - SB2421 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, authorizes the City of Hendersonville, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than 2.75 percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Hendersonville; requires the ordinance to set forth the manner of collection and administration of the privilege tax; requires that all proceeds received by the municipality from the tax be used for tourism development. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425.

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

TN - SB1851 Adoption - As enacted, revises various provisions governing adoption. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2017 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, extends homebound instruction to all students, instead of only pregnant students, who have a medical condition that prevents the student from attending regular classes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 11.

TN - SB888 Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Fair Repair Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 55 and Title 62.

TN - SB824 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Student Due Process Protection Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 24 and Title 49.

TN - SB834 Mental Illness - As enacted, requires, in certain circumstances, the instant check unit of the TBI to contact the chief law enforcement officer of a jurisdiction where a person who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution attempts to purchase a firearm; requires the reporting of certain other information of persons involuntarily committed. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33 and Section 38-6-109.

TN - SB1041 Controlled Substances - As enacted, requires the department of health to identify high-risk prescribers; requires the commissioner of health to report certain information concerning births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and opioid use by women of childbearing age; requires bureau of TennCare to issue appropriate requests for information for program initiatives aimed at primary prevention and secondary prevention of births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and the use of opioids by women of childbearing age enrolled in the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB675 Local Government, General - As introduced, limits the purposes for which a local government can issue identification cards; limits the uses of local government-issued identification cards. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5 and Title 6.

TN - SB1471 Education - As enacted, revises the date by which the state board of education must require a course in Tennessee history for students from the 2018-2019 school year to the 2019-2020 school year. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1015 and Chapter 482 of the Public Acts of 2017.

TN - SB1487 Senior Citizens - As enacted, exempts certain religious organizations and religious institutions that provide limited respite care services programs from licensure for providing adult day care. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - SB2737 Gallatin - As enacted, authorizes the City of Gallatin to levy a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy by a two-thirds vote of its governing body. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.

TN - SJR661 Memorials, Recognition - Baylee Huffines, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - SB887 Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Zero to Three Court Initiative" to create five additional zero to three court programs throughout the state to be administered by the department of children’s services. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SJR796 Memorials, Death - Mayor John Coombs

TN - SJR743 Memorials, Retirement - David Collins

TN - SB392 TennCare - As introduced, prohibits certain direct and indirect charges to a pharmacist by a pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) or a health insurance entity; requires PBMs and auditing entities to make certain registrations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - SB1486 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, adds debit card fraud to the definition of unlawful conduct that must be reported to the comptroller of the treasury; adds certain certified public accountants and firms to those with a duty to report unlawful conduct to the comptroller; removes immunity from those reporters who knowingly provide false information. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 5.

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 - SB469 Real Property - As enacted, prohibits a homeowners' association from adopting or enforcing a dedicatory instrument provision that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, a property owner from displaying the flag of the United States of America or an official or replica flag of any branch of the United States armed forces on the property owner's property; allows certain restrictions regarding display. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 66.

TN - SB2014 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises provisions governing background checks for teachers and other positons requiring proximity to children; requires participation in rap back program; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2148 TennCare - As enacted, requires that a waiver amendment to the existing TennCare II waiver that requires elective abortion providers be excluded from participation as providers in the TennCare program be submitted to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services for approval. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - SB2099 Controlled Substances - As enacted, permits the direct administration of buprenorphine mono or buprenorphine without the use of naloxone as a treatment for substance use disorder under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 53, Chapter 11 and Title 63.

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 - SB200 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, includes within the offense of especially aggravated stalking a person 18 years of age or older who commits the offense of stalking or aggravated stalking against a victim who is less than 12 years of age at any time during the person's course of conduct. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-315.

TN - SB1059 Public Employees - As enacted, increases the compensation from $25,000 to a $250,000 annuity payable in five annual installments of $50,000, paid to the estate of a firefighter, volunteer rescue squad worker, or law enforcement officer who dies in the line of duty; revises related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - SB1806 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, prohibits the department and the state board of education from mandating assessments for any grades or subjects beyond those mandated during the 2016-2017 school year until the 2020-2021 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - SB270 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, exempts certain active, volunteer firefighters and rescue squad members from payment of the regular registration fee at the time of renewal for license plate issued to the volunteer firefighter or rescue squad member; authorizes a county legislative body to waive the motor vehicle tax for motor vehicles receiving the exemption from the registration fee, if the waiver is approved in the same manner as the adoption of the motor vehicle tax. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB511 Consumer Protection - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor, civil penalties enforceable by the attorney general and reporter, and a private right of action related to "spoofing" of caller identification, facsimile, and text messaging services. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 65, Chapter 4, Part 4.

TN - SB2494 Public Health - As enacted, establishes order of priority of entities to be awarded funds that become available to the department of health for family planning programs, in excess of funds needed to operate family planning programs in county or district health departments. - Amends TCA Section 68-34-105.

TN - SB2393 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Community Schools Act; authorizes LEAs to collaborate with community partners to establish community schools; authorizes the department of education, subject to the availability of funding, to award transformational community schools grants to assist priority and focus schools in implementing a community school program as part of a school turnaround strategy. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 24.

TN - SB1651 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, revises provisions governing relocation of one parent. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB429 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, authorizes the department of health to establish a prescription drug donation repository program. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB25 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, reestablishes, from $100,000 to $175,000, the first portion of home value for which real property tax relief will be reimbursed to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - SB2248 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, conditions courts' authority to order acquisition and maintenance of health insurance coverage under a child support award upon the availability of reasonable and affordable health insurance. - Amends TCA Section 36-5-101.

TN - SB2257 Controlled Substances - As enacted, makes various changes to the requirements for prescribing, dispensing, and reporting of opioids. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - SB1040 Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "Historic Rehabilitation Investment Incentive Act." - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2426 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, declares settlement agreement provisions that have purpose or effect of concealing details relating to claim of child sexual abuse, except for identifying information concerning victim, as void and unenforceable and contrary to public policy of state. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 29, Chapter 34, Part 1.

TN - SB161 School Vouchers - As introduced, enacts the "Opportunity Scholarship Pilot Program." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 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 - SB2121 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, clarifies that sales and use tax on sales of water by public utility and sales of natural gas, propane, and electricity sold directly to consumer for non-residential uses only applies to charges on a customer's monthly bill for metered usage, a monthly minimum bill, a monthly customer charged, or a monthly deman charge. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - SB2015 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, prohibits LEAs from entering into a non-disclosure agreement during, or as a prerequisite to, settlement for any act of sexual misconduct; prohibits employees from assisting others in obtaining employment if the employee knows that the person has engaged in sexual misconduct involving a minor or student. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2159 Capitol - As enacted, directs the state capitol commission, subject to funding from nonstate sources, to place a POW-MIA Chair of Honor on the capitol grounds.

TN - SB197 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, establishes factors a court must consider when sentencing a juvenile who has been transferred and convicted in adult court; establishes a maximum number of years, depending on whether the crime results in death or not, a juvenile can be required to serve for adult crimes; and makes the provisions retroactive to juveniles serving adult sentences prior to effective date. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - SB709 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires the commissioners of health and mental health and substance abuse services to produce guidelines on nonresidential buprenorphine treatment by January 1, 2018, and to annually update those guidelines. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2656 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, subject to certain federal approval, abolishes certain vehicle inspection and maintenance programs to maintain compliance with national ambient air quality standards and enacts related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 68.

TN - SB2362 Health Care - As enacted, revises provisions governing the reporting of a patient's involuntary commitment to an inpatient treatment facility to local law enforcement so that the information may be reported to the FBI-NICS Index and the department of safety; specifies that a pharmacy or pharmacist has the right to provide an insured information regarding the amount of the insured's cost share for a prescription drug. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1935 Victims' Rights - As enacted, requires the secretary of state to establish a crime victim address confidentiality program for victims of domestic abuse, stalking, human trafficking, and sexual offenses; establishes how a substitute address may be used by a program participant in lieu of a confidential address. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 38.

TN - SB1593 Evidence - As enacted, prohibits the exclusion from a criminal trial of certain out-of-court, non-testimonial statements made by a child under 12 years of age that describe any sexual act or act of physical violence directed against the child. - Amends TCA Title 24.

TN - SB365 Welfare - As enacted, enacts the "Program Integrity Act of 2017," which establishes certain requirements for benefit eligibility. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 1 and Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 3.

TN - SB2011 Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires a director of schools, director of public charter school, or director of a nonpublic school who learns of the conviction of a licensed educator employed by the LEA for certain offenses to report the conviction to the state board; authorizes the state board to reprimand such a director for failure to report; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - SB1608 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, adds as a ground on which termination of parental rights may be based the fact that the parent or legal guardian has been convicted of attempted first degree murder or attempted second degree murder of the child's other parent or legal guardian; revises provisions regarding similar ground based on civil liability or conviction for intentional and wrongful death. - Amends TCA Section 36-1-113.

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 - SB704 TennCare - As enacted, enacts the "Ground Ambulance Service Provider Assessment Act." - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - SB2258 Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding the scheduling of controlled substances and their analogues and derivatives, including updated identifications of drugs categorized in Schedules I–V; authorizes sentence reduction credits for prisoners who successfully complete intensive substance use disorder treatment program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - SB2013 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises the teacher code of ethics; requires annual professional development for teachers on the teacher code of ethics; requires teacher preparation programs to include training for all students on the teacher code of ethics. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2621 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act of 2018." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - SB806 Public Health - As enacted, authorizes, if approved by the department of health, any nongovernmental organization, including an organization that promotes scientifically proven ways of mitigating health risks associated with drug use and other high-risk behaviors, to establish and operate a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB1797 Public Employees - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Public Safety Behavioral Health Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 50; Title 58; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB1386 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop an evidence-based training program on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) for school leaders and teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1502 Education - As introduced, requires driver education courses to include an area of instruction on the impact of talking and texting on a mobile phone on a student's driving abilities. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB2465 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Fresh Start Act". - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 76, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 1.

TN - SB1717 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Organized Retail Crime Prevention Act. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-113.

TN - SB524 Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the state board to adopt a policy allowing American sign language courses to satisfy the foreign language credits required for graduation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - SB1353 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, removes the 150-mile radius restriction and penalty for motor vehicles that are not common carriers and are used to transport agricultural products, farm machinery, or farm supplies; classifies fluid milk products as a nondivisible load that cannot be reasonably dismantled or conveniently transported otherwise. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SB2012 Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the state board of education to develop a policy for transmittal of final disciplinary actions on educator licenses to the national clearinghouse administered by the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC); requires the state board to post on its website all of its final disciplinary actions on educator licenses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - SB922 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 for the patient administered anti-cancer medication than for the injected or intravenously administered anti-cancer medication. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

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

TN - SR223 Memorials, Public Service - Office of Facilities Management of the 110th General Assembly

TN - SR216 Memorials, Recognition - Senate employees of the 110th General Assembly

TN - SR217 Memorials, Public Service - Office of the Chief Clerk of the Senate of the 110th General Assembly

TN - SR218 Memorials, Recognition - Office of Legal Services of the 110th General Assembly

TN - SR220 Memorials, Recognition - Fiscal Review Committee of the 110th General Assembly

TN - SR151 Memorials, Death - Daniel McKenzie Speer

TN - SR221 Memorials, Public Service - Office of Legislative Administration of the 110th General Assembly

TN - SR222 Memorials, Public Service - Office of Legislative Information Systems of the 110th General Assembly

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

TN - SR219 Memorials, Recognition - Office of Legislative Budget Analysis of the 110th General Assembly

TN - SR156 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Emily Reynolds, Board of Regents

TN - SJR619 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the Commissioner of the Department of Health to designate Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias as a public health issue.

TN - SJR282 Memorials, Interns - James R. Copley

TN - SJR256 Memorials, Death - Leo Willis Phillips

TN - SJR53 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for adult immunizations.

TN - SJR800 Memorials, Sports - Freed-Hardeman University women's basketball team

TN - SJR562 Memorials, Recognition - October 15, 2018, "SIDS and Sleep Related Infant Death Awareness and Remembrance Day" in Tennessee

TN - SJR43 Memorials, Retirement - Louise McKown

TN - SJR35 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes pornography as a public health hazard leading to a broad spectrum of individual and public health impacts and societal harms.

TN - SJR925 Memorials, Retirement - Smith County Mayor Michael Nesbitt

TN - SJR564 Naming and Designating - "Child Abuse Prevention Month," April 2018

TN - SJR951 Memorials, Public Service - Commissioner Robert Martineau

TN - SJR806 Memorials, Sports - Lipscomb University men's basketball team

TN - SJR514 Memorials, Death - Dr. E. Claude Gardner

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

TN - SJR759 Memorials, Death - Dr. Alan Tatum

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

TN - SJR548 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee General Assembly moves into Cordell Hull Building

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

TN - SJR596 Memorials, Recognition - First Lieutenant William McBryar

TN - SJR306 Memorials, Death - Garry Kreis

TN - SJR378 Memorials, Death - James Dewey Daane

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

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

TN - SJR978 Memorials, Heroism - James Shaw, Jr.

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

TN - SJR569 Memorials, Death - William Louis "Bill" Giannini

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

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

TN - SJR729 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Mae Beavers

TN - SJR23 Memorials, Death - Officer Kenny Moats

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 - SJR515 Memorials, Death - Elizabeth M. "Betty" Tinker

TN - SJR531 Memorials, Death - Senator Joe Haynes

TN - SJR563 Naming and Designating - Designates the week of May 13-19, 2018, as "Police Week" and May 15, 2018, as "Peace Officers Memorial Day" in Tennessee.

TN - SJR594 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Frank Cagle, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - SJR612 Memorials, Public Service - Mark Gwyn, Director of TBI

TN - SJR626 Memorials, Recognition - Survivors of the Holocaust

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

TN - SJR656 Memorials, Recognition - Imagination Library, 100 millionth donation

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

TN - SJR777 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Thelma Harper

TN - SJR782 Memorials, Public Service - Senator J. Douglas Overbey

TN - SJR783 Memorials, Retirement - Senator Bill Ketron

TN - SJR784 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Jim Tracy

TN - SJR807 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Lee Harris

TN - SJR824 Memorials, Death - Paul W. Harper

TN - SJR904 Memorials, Public Service - Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr.'s staff

TN - SJR914 Memorials, Death - Wanda Fay Bowling

TN - SJR946 Memorials, Retirement - Colonel Tracy Trott, Tennessee Highway Patrol

TN - SJR969 Memorials, Death - Ronald Lee Ermey

TN - SJR60 Memorials, Recognition - Randy Travis

TN - SJR547 Memorials, Death - George Edward Buxton York

TN - SJR814 Memorials, Death - Dwana Pusser Garrison

TN - SJR38 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Helen James

TN - SJR785 Memorials, Retirement - Jess O. Hale

TN - SJR781 Memorials, Recognition - Helen "Tootie" Haskins

TN - SJR449 Memorials, Death - Kathleen Starnes

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

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

TN - SJR976 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lang Wiseman, UT board of trustees

TN - SJR903 Memorials, Retirement - Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr.

TN - SJR271 Memorials, Death - Spencer Hays

TN - SJR17 Memorials, Death - Sue Morton Swann

TN - SJR358 Memorials, Congratulations - Senator Mark Green

TN - SJR725 Memorials, Retirement - Linda O'Neal

TN - SJR855 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - David F. Jones, Tennessee Public Utility Commission