Tennessee Sen. Jack Johnson (R)

TN - Commerce and Labor (Senate)

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chair

TN - Government Operations (Senate)

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member

TN - State and Local Government (Senate)

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1st vice-chair

TN - SJR438 Memorials, Death - Jose Fernandez

TN - SJR201 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Sara Garner, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SB2104 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, increases the time alcoholic beverages may be sold at certain theaters from one hour prior to, during, and one hour after the performance to 90 minutes prior to, during, and 90 minutes after the performance. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - SJR277 Memorials, Retirement - Paula McCord.

TN - SB2113 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, removes the requirement that in order for a retail food store to obtain a license to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises that the premises and business for on-premises consumption be separate and distinct from the retail food store; authorizes the alcoholic beverage commission to issue a limited license to a retail food store authorizing a restaurant within a retail food store to serve wine but no other alcoholic beverages within a designated area within the retail food store. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 8 and Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1904 Immigration - As introduced, removes present exemption for private employers with less than six employees from employment verification requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - SJR3 Memorials, Recognition - Les Leverett.

TN - SB1698 Taxes, Litigation - As enacted, allows Williamson County, upon the adoption of a resolution by a 2/3 majority vote of the county legislative body, to assess a privilege tax on litigation in civil cases in an amount not to exceed $25.00 per case to be used exclusively for personnel and operating costs of the circuit court located in that county; excludes original proceedings brought in juvenile court. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.

TN - SJR284 Memorials, Personal Achievement - David O. Hancock, Eagle Scout.

TN - SJR113 Memorials, Recognition - Trinity Elementary School, National Blue Ribbon School.

TN - SB1115 Driver Licenses - As introduced, under certain circumstances, exempts volunteer drivers that transport passengers without compensation from the medical card and exam requirements for commercial driver licenses. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - SB638 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the “Neighborhood Protection Act.” - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2111 Public Employees - As introduced, clarifies that local government authorities or local education authorities may adopt or make available voluntary benefits that are treated as supplemental benefits and are deemed not to be a "group health plan" when established in accordance with the appropriate federal statutes or regulations that define the term "group health plan." - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - SB1113 Wine & Wineries - As enacted, revises the provisions governing the issuance of a self-distribution permit to a winery. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-207.

TN - SJR466 Naming and Designating - "Star Spangled Banner Day," September 14, 2016

TN - SJR409 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Tim Stillings, TSBA 2015 School Board Member of the Year/C. Hal Henard Distinguished Service Award

TN - SB330 Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, clarifies that the Prevailing Wage Act applies only to state highway construction projects and does not apply to private roads. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 4.

TN - SJR455 Memorials, Sports - Independence High School, TSSAA Division I Class 5A state footbal champions

TN - SJR116 Memorials, Retirement - DeWayne Perry.

TN - SJR69 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Igor Babailov.

TN - SJR4 Memorials, Death - George Hamilton IV.

TN - SJR176 Memorials, Death - Thomas Murdic.

TN - SB2106 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of using an unmanned aircraft to fly within 250 feet of a critical infrastructure facility for the purpose of conducting surveillance of, gathering evidence or collecting information about, or photographically or electronically recording, critical infrastructure data. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB503 Business and Commerce - As introduced, increases the membership of the film, entertainment, and music commission from nine members to 11 members; requires that two members instead of one member be appointed from each of the film, television, and music segments of the industry. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SB923 Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires that sales of gift cards be made person-to-person and requires nonrenewal and suspension of eligibility for reissuance of a violator's business tax license. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 48 and Title 67.

TN - SJR207 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Joe Lacher, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SB636 Gambling - As enacted, repeals the Racing Control Act of 1987. - Repeals TCA Title 4, Chapter 36.

TN - SJR117 Memorials, Recognition - Hillsboro Elementary-Middle School, National Blue Ribbon School.

TN - SJR200 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Mackenzie Grosser, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR210 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amanda Smith, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SB1620 Boats, Boating - As enacted, permits the operation of personal watercraft without the use of a lanyard type engine cutoff switch if no lanyard was installed on the watercraft at the time of production by the manufacturer. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9, Part 5.

TN - SB2108 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, allows state licensed or certified real estate appraisers to comply with a standard of valuation practice other than the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice when performing an appraisal for any purpose other than a federally related transaction. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 39.

TN - SJR15 Memorials, Retirement - Lt. Richard Verbosky, Franklin Police Department.

TN - SB144 Business Organizations - As enacted, establishes requirements for the payment of claims by a dissolved corporation; revises other various provisions related to corporations. - Amends TCA Title 48.

TN - SB640 Beer - As introduced, authorizes a beer manufacturer operating as a retailer to sell beer directly to another retailer if located in the same county; allows a beer manufacturer to operate as a retailer at the manufacturer's location or a site contiguous thereto in counties with a population greater than 25,000 instead of 75,000. - Amends TCA Section 57-5-101.

TN - SB511 Consumer Protection - As introduced, decreases the filing fee for the registration of litigation financiers who are not business entities or partnerships in this state, from $100 to $50.00. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB540 Local Government, General - As enacted, permits the board of commissioners of a city incorporated under the city manager–commission charter to pass ordinances by means of a consent calendar. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 20.

TN - SB505 Real Property - As enacted, removes an obsolete reference to the "southern standard building code" and makes other nonsubstantive, technical changes to the Horizontal Property Act. - Amends TCA Title 66.

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

TN - SB920 Telecommunications - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury, in cooperation with the Tennessee regulatory authority, to provide the annual report on the status of the provision of broadband services by telecommunications joint ventures to the chairs of the business and utilities committee of the house and the senate commerce and labor committee; changes the due date for the report from January 31 to January 15. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7 and Title 65, Chapter 21.

TN - SJR70 Memorials, Death - Iris Violet May Lawrence “Dixie” Hall.

TN - SB1700 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products - As introduced, removes statutory allocations to the general fund from certain fuel tax revenues; reallocates certain allocations. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 9.

TN - SJR227 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Elizabeth Belk, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR217 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brandyn Steen, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SB913 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, expands the definition of "theater" for purposes of the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption to include certain movie theaters that have a beer permit and serve prepared food to patrons; removes requirement that wine and beer only be sold at a theater in an area accessible only to persons 21 years of age or older. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - SJR499 Memorials, Recognition - Keith Bilbrey

TN - SJR5 Memorials, Death - Eugene Wade.

TN - SJR228 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Michelle Augusty, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

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

TN - SJR218 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Blake Wiedman, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SB2105 Real Property - As introduced, provides that a purchaser of a parcel of land in a tax lien sale has no obligation to purchase insurance on the parcel during the redemption period and that the purchaser is not liable for damage that occurs to the property during the redemption period unless it is caused by intentional acts of the purchaser. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 66 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1877 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, permits a person who owns real property and who has not paid taxes on a portion of real property for more than 20 years to bring any action to recover the property if the failure to pay taxes was due to the error of a land surveyor. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 66 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SJR408 Memorials, Recognition - Franklin Special School District, 2015 School Board of the Year

TN - SB316 Credit and Debit Cards - As enacted, establishes certain requirements for a payment acquirer that contracts directly with a merchant to provide payment services. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - SB1880 Workers Compensation - As enacted, revises various provisions governing workers' compensation in regard to the case management system and settlements. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 56.

TN - SJR225 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Joanna Collins, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SB509 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, prohibits certain use of an unmanned aircraft to intentionally capture an image over certain open-air events and firework displays; prohibits use of unmanned aircraft over grounds of a correctional facility. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB508 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes a person to purchase, without having a motor vehicle dealer license, a limited number of nonrepairable vehicles, salvage vehicles, or a combination of nonrepairable and salvage vehicles from an automobile auction if the automobile auction primarily sells motor vehicles on consignment. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17.

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

TN - SB910 Public Records - As enacted, changes references from "social security numbers" to "personally identifying information" in provisions regarding the redaction of certain information in public records to conform with other recently enacted laws. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

TN - SB1618 Courts - As introduced, authorizes a court presiding over a legal proceeding to authorize a witness to utilize the assistance of a courthouse facility dog during testimony. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 1; Title 24, Chapter 1 and Title 40, Chapter 17.

TN - SB1639 Public Records - As enacted, specifies that records received for surveys created, obtained, or compiled by the comptroller of the treasury are confidential; exempts surveys conducted by the office of open records counsel from this confidentiality requirement. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10, Chapter 7, and Title 49.

TN - SB2110 Employees, Employers - As introduced, removes obsolete reference to the employee misclassification advisory task force. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 50; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - SB1870 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, decreases the tax on the privilege of engaging in the profession of real estate broker from $400 annually to $200 annually. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - SB917 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, creates a delivery service license that will authorize a delivery service that delivers prepared food from restaurants to customers to also deliver sealed packages of alcoholic beverages or beer or both sold by a licensed retailer of alcoholic beverages; establishes requirements for such a license. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2109 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Fantasy Sports Act". - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 39; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 67.

TN - SB1699 Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, repeals obsolete fancy fresh egg marketing program. - Repeals TCA Section 53-2-106.

TN - SB1701 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, allows state licensed or certified real estate appraisers to comply with a standard of valuation practice other than the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice when performing an appraisal for any purpose other than a federal-related transaction; prohibits the real estate appraisers commission from disciplining an appraiser for a violation of a standard of valuation practice other than the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 39, Part 1 and Title 62, Chapter 39, Part 3.

TN - SB912 Zoning - As introduced, increases, from 15 days to 30 days, the notice requirement for a hearing on a zoning ordinance or any amendment to a zoning ordinance. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 13; Title 42; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB635 County Officers - As introduced, removes obsolete and contradictory language concerning temporary superintendents of schools. - Amends TCA Section 8-48-206.

TN - SB1878 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows a law enforcement officer who is carrying a firearm on school grounds when not engaged in the actual discharge of the officer's official duties to give notice that the officer is carrying the weapon not only to the principal or an appropriate person in the principal's office but also to the assistant principal. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1052 Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, requires transportation network companies and any drivers providing services for a transportation network company to comply with certain insurance requirements. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 56.

TN - SB1552 Taxes, Income - As introduced, decreases Hall income tax rate from six percent to 5.5 percent for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - SB507 Insurance, Liability - As introduced, enacts the "Insurance Costs Reduction Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB501 Business and Commerce - As introduced, clarifies that the Annual Report on the Quality of Kerosene and Motor Fuel in Tennessee may be compiled and transmitted in electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB690 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As enacted, clarifies that evidence introduced in an administrative or judicial proceeding concerning the assessment of property is not confidential, unless made confidential by a protective order of the judge in the proceeding. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-303.

TN - SB637 Sentencing - As enacted, permits a court to order a qualified defendant to serve a period or periods of confinement in the local jail or workhouse not to exceed a total 30 days as a reasonable condition of judicial diversion. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - SB510 Banks and Financial Institutions - As enacted, revises the definition of a domestic holding company with respect to credit card state banks; extends the provisions permitting a domestic holding company to organize a credit card state bank to July 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 2, Part 19.

TN - SB506 Workers Compensation - As introduced, reduces the amount a medical provider may charge an employee for medical reports, medical records, or documents relating to a workers' compensation claim from $10.00 for the first 20 pages to $10.00 for the first 30 pages. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 56 and Title 67.

TN - SJR283 Memorials, Interns - Charles Chadwell.

TN - SJR71 Memorials, Recognition - Hiram Masonic Lodge #7, need for historical restoration.

TN - SB543 Education, Higher - As enacted, revises provisions governing authorization for barber and cosmetology schools for purposes of meeting federal student financial aid eligibility requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 62.

TN - SB2114 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, permits medical students to apply for exemption from medical licensure requirements while practicing within the scope of certain training programs. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

TN - SB498 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, requires a seller of antiques, used or scrap jewelry, and precious metals to provide the seller’s actual address, not mailing address, in transaction records. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 1, Part 2 and Title 62.

TN - SB1551 Taxes, Income - As introduced, for tax years beginning January 1, 2016, increases the income exemption levels for taxpayers 65 years of age or older from $37,000 to $50,000 for single filers and from $68,000 to $100,000 for joint filers. - Amends TCA Section 67-2-104.

TN - SB1434 Contracts - As introduced, prohibits local governments from requiring a company bidding on a local construction project to employ individuals that reside within the jurisdiction of the local government. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 62.

TN - SB915 Welfare - As introduced, requires a summary suspension order of an adult day care's license to be reviewed by a hearing officer within seven calendar days instead of five working days. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 2, Part 4.

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

TN - SB1215 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, requires the chief law enforcement officer of a jurisdiction to certify the transfer or making of a firearm, as required by the National Firearms Act, within 15 days if the person is not prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm by law; permits an applicant to appeal a denial to the circuit or chancery court. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1361.

TN - SB542 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits certain plans and entities entering into contracts to provide medical services pursuant to the Medical Assistance Act from denying certain dentists the right to participate in the provider network or from restricting enrollees from choosing certain dentists for the provision of dental services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

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 - SB1250 Employees, Employers - As introduced, makes it a Class A misdemeanor for any person to use threats of inflicting bodily injury with the intent to prevent any person from engaging in any lawful occupation because the person may be a business competitor; punishable by a fine only of not more than $1,000. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 50 and Title 62.

TN - SB1555 Local Government, General - As introduced, prohibits local governments from requiring a company bidding on a local construction project to employ individuals that reside within the jurisdiction of the local government. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 62.

TN - SB1623 General Assembly - As introduced, requires that legislation containing a mandated health benefit that excludes TennCare or any state insurance program from the application of the mandate be referred to the department of commerce and insurance and the bureau of TennCare in order that certain information may be evaluated and reported back to the appropriate standing committees. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB639 Mental Illness - As introduced, relieves mental health hospitals of the responsibility for paying healthcare services to a patient for which the hospitals are not licensed to provide; provides for billing of outside providers of healthcare services without the release of the patient from the mental health hospital. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB1873 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, permits medical students to apply for exemption from medical licensure requirements while practicing within the scope of certain training programs. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

TN - SB922 Unemployment Compensation - As introduced, allows employers who elect to reimburse the state for unemployment benefits paid in lieu of premiums to contest charges for employees that may have had a disqualifying event that makes the employee ineligible for unemployment benefits. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7.

TN - SB911 Credit and Debit Cards - As enacted, requires persons who lease payment card processing devices to merchants to provide certain information prominently in the written contract. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - SB2103 Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits a local government, as a condition of doing business within the jurisdictional boundaries of the local government or contracting with the local government, from prohibiting a private employer from requesting certain information on an application for employment or during the process of hiring a new employee. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-1802.

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

TN - SB691 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As enacted, requires that notification of proposed changes in individual property classifications or assessments to be made by either the state board of equalization or the assessment appeals commission on its own accord be given by September 1 of the year following the year for which the notice is given. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-1510.

TN - SB914 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, requires pharmacies contracting with TennCare to post in a conspicuous place seen by pharmacists and pharmacy technicians a printed notice regarding reporting TennCare fraud and abuse. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SJR114 Memorials, Recognition - Kenrose Elementary School, Blue Ribbon School.

TN - SJR221 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Emily Serck, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR115 Memorials, Death - Hunter Mitchell.

TN - SJR220 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Catherine Smith, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR219 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Catherine Stein, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SB499 Business and Commerce - As introduced, on or after January 1, 2016, requires counties and municipalities issuing or renewing business licenses to provide a means by which the taxpayer may apply for or renew such licenses by usage of the Internet. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SJR14 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Wendy Tucker, State Board of Education

TN - SJR229 Memorials, Professional Achievement - John Rader, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR222 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jennings Ragan, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR211 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brittany Wegusen, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR205 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kate Keene, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR208 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jena Locke, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR223 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Sarah Perry, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR213 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Anthony Ladd, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR204 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Alex E. Hughes, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR500 Memorials, Recognition - Hargus Robbins

TN - SJR407 Memorials, Death - Representative Clint Callicott

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

TN - SJR206 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Alex Kimerling, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SB2447 Education, Higher - As enacted, encourages all public institutions of higher education to offer instruction aimed at increasing the awareness and prevention of hate crime offenses, sexual battery, sexual harassment, and date rape to all entering freshmen during orientation or introductory studies; requires each public institution of higher education to require all entering freshmen, during orientation or introductory studies, to receive instruction aimed at increasing the awareness and prevention of sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual harassment, and date rape. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SB921 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, permits the commissioner of transportation to post maps, informational directories, and advertising pamphlets on the department’s web site to ensure the information is made widely available to the public. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 21.

TN - SJR215 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kelli Peterson, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR226 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jenna Castle, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SB1905 Immigration - As introduced, prohibits the availability of department of economic and community development grants, loans, and incentives to jurisdictions in which the local governmental entity has adopted ordinances or policies expressly prohibiting, or in which an official has materially interfered with, compliance with federal law pertaining to persons who reside in the state illegally, until compliance is proven; requires private employers with less than six employees to comply with employment verification requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - SB1881 Food and Food Products - As introduced, extends from 10 days to 10 business days the amount of time in which an operator has to file a request for a hearing with regard to a hold order placed by the commissioner of agriculture on any food that is in violation of the Tennessee Retail Food Safety Act. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 68.

TN - SB1622 Legal Services, Office of - As enacted, revises functions of the office of legal services including duties pertaining to the code commission and duties of the revisor of statutes within the office of legal services. - Amends TCA Section 1-1-101; Section 1-1-102 and Section 3-12-109.

TN - SB1216 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, clarifies procedure for dealing with excess tax sale proceeds; revises other provisions concerning delinquent property taxes and tax sales. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 5; Title 66 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

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

TN - SJR203 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Katherine Fowler, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SB1554 Beer - As introduced, authorizes a licensed brewer or manufacturer to serve samples of the beer on the premises to any person of legal drinking age. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1249 Revenue, Dept. of - As introduced, extends time commissioner has to deny request for expedited ruling and return the fee from seven days to 10 days from the date of the request. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB918 Statutes and Codification - As introduced, adds certain official terms and definitions that apply to the entire Tennessee Code Annotated. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 8.

TN - SJR212 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Daniel Horwitz, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR214 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Cayla Mackey, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibroris Foundation.

TN - SJR216 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amy Sanders, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SB2146 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires the department of commerce and insurance to provide a copy of the American National Standard Electrical Safety Code edition dated August 1, 2011, on the department's web site. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 64; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - SJR209 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Rebecca Lofty, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SB1872 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a utility district, municipality, county, authority, or other public corporation providing sewer service to enter into a written contract with a public water utility to obtain and use the public water utility's meter readings to bill its sewer service customers. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 10 and Title 65.

TN - SB1053 Business and Commerce - As introduced, requires any business entity that uses a digital network application to connect a business or a business's participant to a consumer in this state maintain an agent for service of process in this state. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56 and Title 65.

TN - SJR224 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Catrice James, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR122 Memorials, Recognition - Hiram Masonic Lodge #7, need for historical restoration.

TN - SJR202 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Rachel Albright, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

TN - SJR410 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Cordia Harrington, lottery corporation board of directors

TN - SB916 Wine & Wineries - As enacted, clarifies that samples of wine are not subject to the privilege tax levied on the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premise consumption at the winery or on the farm winery producer's premises; clarifies that wine sold in sealed containers is not subject to such tax at the winery or on the farm winery producer's premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-207 and Section 57-4-301.

TN - SB158 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates Class D felony of knowingly killing or causing serious physical harm to certain service animals; increases the penalty for knowingly harming a service animal to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2.

TN - SB2645 School Districts, Special - As introduced, pursuant to the request of the Franklin special school district of Williamson County, permits the district to issue bonds or notes in an amount not to exceed $12 million and to issue bond anticipation notes in an amount not to exceed $12 million. - Amends Chapter 563 of the Private Acts of 1949, as amended.

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

TN - SB502 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, allows the commissioner of commerce and insurance to compile and transmit the annual report on the captive insurance company program to the commerce and labor committee of the senate and the insurance and banking committee of the house in electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SJR230 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Lauren Jacques, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR85 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Jeffrey Wade Cook, Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - SB24 Recreational Areas - As enacted, specifies that climbing walls are not considered "amusement devices" and are not subject to regulation by the department of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 68.

TN - SB541 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, allows the assertion of the affirmative defense of solicitation and collection of charitable donations to the criminal offense of obstructing a highway in Williamson and Maury counties. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-307.

TN - SB1875 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, authorizes the City of Spring Hill to levy a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy by a 2/3 vote of its governing body; amount of tax not to exceed three percent of the consideration charged by the operator; proceeds to be used solely for tourism development purposes. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425.

TN - SB2120 Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, authorizes, in Williamson County, the clerks of special juvenile courts and courts of general sessions having juvenile court jurisdiction to collect $75.00 from any person whose case is adjudicated in various instances; designates the fees collected from such adjudications to be used exclusively for the creation and maintenance of new juvenile court facilities; requires vote of legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21; Title 16 and Title 37.

TN - SB1874 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, specifies that the report due by the department of transportation to state officials detailing the programs receiving funds from the bottle tax is due February 1 of each year instead of March 31. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-402.

TN - SB641 State Employees - As enacted, revises obsolete language concerning automatic salary advancements for certain state-employed administrative professionals. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-102.

TN - SB2112 Zoning - As introduced, increases the minimum continuing education training required for board of zoning appeals members from four hours per year to five hours per year. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1871 Business Organizations - As enacted, revises various provisions pertaining to dissolution of certain business entities. - Amends TCA Title 48.