Tennessee Sen. Jeff Yarbro (D)

TN - Finance, Ways and Means (Senate)

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TN - Health and Welfare (Senate)

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TN - State and Local Government (Senate)

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TN - Transportation and Safety (Senate)

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TN - Calendar (Senate)

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TN - Rules (Senate)

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TN - SB462 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires that a health benefit plan issued, entered into, or renewed on or after January 1, 2020, provide, at a minimum, coverage for certain items or services, immunizations, preventive care, and screenings. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - SB956 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires youth development centers, jails, and the department of correction to provide free telephone calls between minors and their parents or guardians. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 41.

TN - SJR491 Memorials, Retirement - Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos

TN - SB2047 TennCare - As introduced, enacts the "Close the Tennessee Medicare Coverage Gap Act," which requires the bureau to establish an alternative benefit plan consistent with federal requirements through which certain individuals between 19 and 65 years of age will receive benefits if not presently covered by TennCare. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB1044 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, exempts from real estate transfer tax, the transfer of any real estate where the transferor is a member, stock holder, or partner, the transferee is a limited liability company, corporation, or partnership, and the real estate so conveyed serves as a capital contribution to the business entity; also exempts transfers where the transferor is an LLC, corporation, or partnership, the transferee is an existing member, stock holder, or partner, and the property conveyed services as a distribution from the business entity. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-409.

TN - SB1179 Local Government, General - As introduced, negates mandatory application of certain laws on local governments that are not fully funded; prohibits an agency of state government from creating a new fee that will impact local governments in any year in which the general state revenues to the agency have decreased from the previous year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 53; Title 10; Title 12; Title 41 and Title 50.

TN - SB955 Civil Procedure - As enacted, allows a party or non-party making certain filings with a court to redact portions of a person's social security number, taxpayer identification number, birth date, or financial account number or the name of a minor when included in the filing, unless such information is otherwise required by statute, rule, or order. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 19; Title 20; Title 21; Title 24; Title 27 and Title 28.

TN - SB765 Guardians and Conservators - As introduced, decreases from 60 to 40 years the age at which a disabled person with no family member or other person, bank, or corporation willing and able to serve as conservator may be appointed a district public guardian. - Amends TCA Title 34, Chapter 7.

TN - SB773 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, changes from October 1 to October 31 of each year the date by which the department of labor and workforce development must provide data on the state's anticipated workforce needs and other information to the commission. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.

TN - SB1116 Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to submit to the centers for medicare and medicaid services, within 120 days, a waiver amendment to the TennCare II waiver or new waiver to improve access to and quality of evidence-based home visitation services for the families of babies suffering from neo-natal abstinence syndrome or related conditions. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - SB378 TennCare - As introduced, removes the requirement that the governor receive authorization by the general assembly prior to making any decision or obligating the state with regard to the expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - SB1115 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, requires department of economic and community development to report annually to office of legislative budget analysis in addition to senate and house finance, ways and means committees regarding the Tennessee job skills program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 9, Chapter 16; Title 9, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 16; Title 13, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 50, Chapter 7; Title 64, Chapter 6; Title 65, Chapter 5 and Title 67.

TN - SB938 Correctional Programs - As introduced, enacts the "Private Prison Alignment Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 41.

TN - SB2643 Election Laws - As introduced, prohibits the use of weighted voting, the use of barcodes and Quick Response codes on ballots, and any other type of fractional cumulative voting in statewide and local elections in this state; requires the administrator of elections of each county to implement a biennial review system for purposes of compliance and certify compliance to the coordinator of elections. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB464 TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid pursuant to the Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of the expansion. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SR182 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Kathryn Edwards, 2020 John Howland Award

TN - SB465 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates exceptions to offenses for underage consumption, public intoxication, and certain other offenses involving controlled substances for persons who request medical assistance in response to the possible overdose of another person. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 16; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 57 and Title 63.

TN - SB772 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires commissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of correction, to study the use of a shared data system to monitor individuals from their release from a correctional facility to employment and report their findings jointly to the state and local government committee of the senate and the state government committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 71.

TN - SB2048 TennCare - As introduced, expands the role of the office of inspector general to include an independent, nonpartisan office with the responsibility of ensuring that state officials and state employees meet the highest standards for integrity, efficiency, and accountability. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 25.

TN - SB1028 Children - As introduced, allows a child care agency to provide an annual report of its work to the department of children's services electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 37 and Title 71.

TN - SB777 Election Laws - As introduced, requires department of safety to automatically register a qualified person to vote from information on an application for a driver license or photo identification card unless the person opts out; designates certain other state departments, and agencies and offices thereof, as voter registration agencies; requires such agencies to automatically register a qualified person to vote from information on an application for services unless the person opts out. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 4.

TN - SB2706 State Inmates - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to review the death of any inmate incarcerated in a state correctional facility at the time of the inmate's death and to provide a detailed report of the findings to the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives and an annual report summarizing all reviews of inmate deaths conducted in the prior year. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4 and Title 41.

TN - SB1877 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, establishes the rural remote worker relocation incentive program, which provides grants to eligible new remote workers to live in distressed rural counties. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - SB2942 General Assembly - As introduced, reduces the salary for members of the general assembly to $11,333 per year beginning with the election of the 113th General Assembly. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-107.

TN - SB1027 Workers Compensation - As introduced, changes from December 31 to December 15 of each year the date by which the bureau of workers' compensation must report to the advisory council on workers' compensation, the chair of the commerce and labor committee of the senate, and the chair of the consumer and human resources committee of the house of representatives regarding all of the covered employers that failed to obtain coverage or self-insure during the previous fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - SB2712 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires landlords in counties with a population greater than 75,000 to provide security deposit alternatives to tenants. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 28.

TN - SB957 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, enacts the Truth in Teacher Pay Act; requires the salary schedules approved by the state board of education to reflect certain increases to the instructional salaries and wages component of the BEP in the general appropriations act. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2656 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, allows the commissioner of finance and administration, the commissioner of general services, and the comptroller of the treasury to have a designee serve on the information systems council. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 12.

TN - SB2269 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires that the family life curriculum adopted by the state board of education or an LEA include information on the prevention of dating violence. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 13.

TN - SB1507 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the department of revenue to report to the fiscal review committee and transportation committees on the actual or estimated number of passenger motor vehicles that have been issued stickers or decals to use the HOV lane. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-188.

TN - SB2655 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to post to its website in a manner accessible to the general public its most recent annual report to the general assembly regarding its estate recovery collection activities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1016 Immigration - As introduced, directs the comptroller of the treasury to study the economic impact to the state and local governments as the result of the passage and approval of chapter 973 of the Public Acts of 2018 regarding sanctuary policies, and to report to the senate state and local committee and the state government committee and local government committee of the house of representatives by January 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2705 Election Laws - As introduced, makes various revisions to provisions related to county administrator of elections and county election commissions. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB1042 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, requires TSAC to award an amount representing the full cost per credit hour of a course taken at a community college in the state university and community college system for each of the first eight courses taken under a dual enrollment grant. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1043 Search & Seizure - As introduced, prohibits a law enforcement officer from seizing or destroying a person's photograph or recording of an event or person if it is not illegal and the person is in a place the person has a right to be when photographed or recorded; allows law enforcement to petition court for a copy of certain photographic or recorded material. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB2573 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, changes from 14 to 21 the number of days notice that is required to be given to a child's parent, guardian, or custodian prior to a hearing to transfer the child from juvenile court to criminal court. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - SB2574 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes, from November 1 to November 15, the date by which the commissioner's annual report must be published. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - SB2654 Election Laws - As introduced, requires new amendments or additions to political party rules to take effect 10 business days, instead of 10 days, after being filed with the secretary of state and the coordinator of elections. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB763 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires a degree-granting postsecondary educational institution to designate a staff member to serve as a homeless-student liaison to assist homeless students who are enrolled in the institution, and to develop a plan to provide homeless students who are enrolled in the institution access to housing resources, if the institution offers housing resources. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR1354 Memorials, Death - Anna Shepherd

TN - SB1014 Election Laws - As introduced, requires, rather than permits, an elections officer to escort a voter who is a person with a disability or who is visibly pregnant or frail to the front of the line at a polling place at the request of the voter. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB954 Civil Procedure - As introduced, extends the statute of limitations for civil actions based on child sexual abuse from three years from the time of discovery of the abuse by the injured person to five years from discovery of the abuse. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3 and Title 40.

TN - SB2267 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As introduced, enacts the "Recovery Program for Pregnant Women and Women with Newborns Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 33; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SJR184 Memorials, Recognition - Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital, 100th anniversary

TN - SB975 Veterans - As introduced, authorizes the military department to issue per diem, not to exceed $20.00, to defray the cost of one meal for members of volunteer honor guards appearing at veterans' funerals, subject to availability of funds. - Amends TCA Title 58.

TN - SB2711 Election Laws - As introduced, increases time allowed for a person to register to vote from 30 days before an election to 25 days before an election. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB2709 Election Laws - As introduced, requires the county election commission to designate restroom facilities in each building in which the election is held that are for the use of workers or volunteers working for a campaign; prohibits county election commissions from prohibiting workers or volunteers from using the designated restroom facilities if the worker or volunteer covers or removes clothing and accoutrements bearing campaign material. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 7.

TN - SJR1314 Memorials, Death - John Prine

TN - SB1919 Employees, Employers - As introduced, creates the Tennessee future of work commission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - SB2239 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, recreates the select oversight committee on corrections. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - SJR158 Memorials, Death - Louise Ellis Clifton

TN - SB1793 Opioids - As introduced, enacts the "Opioid Addiction Recovery Program for Pregnant Women and Women with Newborns Act," - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 33; Title 37; Title 49; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2575 Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to call and send text messages and email notifications to voters whose registration may be purged as a result of the address verification program, with instruction on how the voters may verify or correct their address information. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2.

TN - SB381 Inheritance Laws - As enacted, prohibits a person who intentionally killed the decedent from filing a wrongful death action based on the death of the decedent or sharing any portion of a wrongful death settlement or judgment resulting from the death of the decedent. - Amends TCA Section 31-1-106.

TN - SB940 Election Laws - As introduced, permits a person at least 16 years of age but not more than 18 years of age to be registered to vote upon turning 18 years of age through submittal of an application for a driver's permit, driver license, or photo identification license with the department of safety. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB767 Controlled Substances - As introduced, permits a prescriber who is not a patient's obstetrical or gynecological provider to prescribe buprenorphine products to certain patients if the prescriber is a member of the same specialty practice group as the patient's obstetrical or gynecological provider. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - SB958 Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, prohibits the removal of pregnant prisoners to a state penitentiary or branch prison for safekeeping; prohibits solitary confinement of pregnant prisoners. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - SB1893 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each high school to designate an apprenticeship training program contact; requires the department to compile and publish a list of the apprenticeship program contacts. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 62 and Title 67.

TN - SB1879 Children - As introduced, changes from October 1 to October 15 the date by which a child care program certified by the department of education must submit its annual report to the commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - SB1114 State Government - As introduced, creates the state government advisory task force on community resilience. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

TN - SB2642 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a county administrator of elections to make available to that county's election commissioners all election-related information held by the county administrator of elections during regular business hours; requires the state election commission to promulgate rules providing standard operating procedures regarding election day procedures and chain of custody of election records. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 11 and Title 2, Chapter 12.

TN - SJR169 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment of Article II, Section 4 to establish an independent redistricting commission for senatorial and representative districts.

TN - SB1917 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, that the BEP fund one full-time teaching positions for every 20 average daily membership in grades kindergarten-12. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2582 Zoning - As introduced, exempts Nashville-Davidson County from the prohibition on enacting laws that require existing or newly constructed private residential or commercial units to be sold or rented at below market rates. - Amends TCA Section 66-35-102.

TN - SB2710 Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to designate public institutions of higher education with 8,000 or more enrolled students as polling places during early voting in federal and state general elections and presidential primaries for a period of at least five days. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 2, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB934 Redistricting, Legislative - As introduced, imposes public notice and public input requirements on a redistricting committee and upon consideration of a final redistricting plan. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 16, Part 1 and Title 3.

TN - SB2659 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires local boards of education to notify the commissioner of education when a board declares itself to be a high performing school district; requires the commissioner to maintain a list of high performing school districts on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB379 Employees, Employers - As enacted, authorizes a county, municipal, or metropolitan government to seek an injunction against a person who harasses an employee of the county, municipal, or metropolitan government, or any agency thereof, if the harassment related to the person's status as an employee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 50.

TN - SB1880 Education - As introduced, requires each local board of education and governing body of a charter school to post its policy governing background check procedures for contract workers and volunteers to the local board's or governing body's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR183 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages the bureau of TennCare to seek an appropriate federal Section 1115 demonstration waiver in order to expand access to evidence-based home visitation services for pregnant women and parents with infants facing medical, social, or environmental risks; encourages seeking additional funding opportunities for the home visitation programs.

TN - SB1020 Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, decreases from 30 to 25 the number of days in which an agency must establish a hearing date and set the case on the docket after a written claim is filed by a person asserting a claim to property seized under a forfeiture warrant. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - SB2579 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, permits, to the extent allowed by federal law, a healthcare provider to dispense an epinephrine auto-injector to a person without a prescription. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 16; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB1918 Education, Higher - As introduced, creates the Tennessee second chance scholarship program to award scholarships to assist persons who have been placed in the custody of the department of children's services in the person's pursuit of a postsecondary degree or credential. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1025 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires the court to order that a defendant convicted of domestic violence who transfers possession of firearms to a third party must have the third party complete and return to the court an affidavit certifying that the third party is not prohibited from possessing firearms, acknowledges receipt of firearms from the defendant, and accepts their responsibility under this section. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 40.

TN - SB1876 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, creates the Tennessee violence intervention program within the TBI to invest in evidence-based violence reduction initiatives. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2660 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission to submit a report to the governor and speakers of the senate and house of representatives by December 31, 2021, on issues of food insecurity among students at public institutions of higher education in this state and that identifies and describes the efforts of the institutions to address food insecurity among students. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49, Chapter 50; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8; Title 49, Chapter 9; Title 53 and Title 71.

TN - SB1031 State Government - As introduced, reduces from 10 to five business days within which the commissioner of correction must provide a report to the senator and representative of a constituent in their district who died in the custody of the department at a department facility. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SR191 Memorials, Death - Ashanti Nikole Posey

TN - SB1160 Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates receipts of highway revenues to the department of transportation; earmarks sufficient state funds for the purpose of funding any bill naming a highway or bridge in honor of a service member or a public safety official killed in the line of duty.

TN - SJR490 Memorials, Interns - Jeffery Dalton Slatton

TN - SB1908 Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires the state board of education to adopt a policy that ensures uniform administration of unpaid meal charges in LEAs and guarantees that students are not prevented from receiving nutritious meals because of an unpaid meal charge. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2707 TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medical assistance pursuant to the Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of the expansion. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2581 Beer - As introduced, extends the period after a homemade beer contest, competition, or other event held at a permitted beer manufacturer's premises that the homemade beer may remain at the premises, from 24 hours after the end of the event to 36 hours after the event. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5, Part 1.

TN - SJR1315 Memorials, Death - Ashanti Nikole Posey

TN - SB1018 Courts, Supreme Court of Tennessee - As introduced, increases from 20 to 25 the number of days' notice the supreme court must give prior to holding a special term for the trial of causes the court deems essential to the public interest. - Amends TCA Title 16.

TN - SB1757 General Assembly - As introduced, creates a select oversight committee on corrections. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - SB2661 Taxes - As introduced, changes, from March 31 to April 15, the date by which TDOT must transmit a report to the governor and the speakers of the general assembly regarding the programs receiving funds generated by the bottlers and manufacturers soft drink privilege tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 4 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 5.

TN - SB2658 Education, State Board of - As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15 the date by which the state board of education, in association with the commissioner of education, must submit an annual report on teacher, student, and school performance to the governor and to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 6; Title 37; Title 41 and Title 49.

TN - SB778 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, requires a judge, at the time of sentencing, to notify a person convicted of a misdemeanor offense that is eligible for expunction of the person's eligibility to have all public records of the conviction destroyed and the time period after which the person can petition for expunction of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - SB1015 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, increases from 10 to 15 the number of days before trial in which a person who intends to rely on an affirmative defense must notify the district attorney general in writing of such intention. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB976 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As enacted, clarifies that if, pursuant to current law, a local government appropriates nonrecurring funds for priority schools, evidenced by a written agreement with the LEA establishing the nonrecurring use of the funds, then such funds must be excluded from the maintenance of local funding requirement and from any apportionment requirement under the present law provisions governing the local tax levy for each year that the school is identified as a priority school plus one additional year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB759 State Government - As enacted, requires agencies to ensure the provision of appropriate accommodations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if the agency requires a person applying for a license to engage in an occupation, trade, or profession in this state to take an examination; not applicable to an examination mandated and administered pursuant to federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SB931 Immigration - As introduced, excludes certain state and local governmental entities from the prohibition on adopting or enacting sanctuary policies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1916 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, the BEP formula to fund at least one full-time school nurse position and one full-time school counselor position for each school in an LEA; increases, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, the number of regular education teaching positions funded through the BEP. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - SJR171 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages the bureau of TennCare to improve access to and quality of treatment for eligible Tennessee residents suffering from addiction to opiates and other substances by means of an appropriate federal Section 1115 waiver for medicaid services.

TN - SB775 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the board of regents, the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee, and the state university boards to create and approve a policy requiring public institutions of higher education to compensate adjunct professors at least $1,000 per credit hour taught. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB930 Political Parties - As introduced, extends the time given to state executive committees for each political party to post schedule of public appearances for gubernatorial candidates, from 15 to 20 days. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB2708 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, authorizes state coordinator of elections to make available on its website the certificate of voting rights restoration form and the written statement explaining the form and the procedure by which a person can apply for a voter registration card and become eligible to vote. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.

TN - SB776 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, sets the BEP instructional salary unit cost for the 2019-2020 fiscal year at the statewide average licensed teacher salary. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2578 Education - As introduced, authorizes LEAs serving any of the grades three through 12 to offer advanced mathematics courses; requires an LEA that offers advanced mathematics courses to place students achieving a benchmark score as determined by the state board of education on the end-of-grade or end-of-course test in mathematics in an advanced course for the next mathematics course in which the student will enroll; adds other requirements concerning advanced mathematics courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2268 Public Records - As enacted, permits a political subdivision to release the name or photograph of a minor victim of a criminal offense for the purpose of memorializing the victim in a memorial garden, if the custodial parent or legal guardian of the victim has consented to the release. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1860 Probation and Parole - As introduced, removes salary for board of parole members; authorizes payment of travel expenses only for members who attend parole hearings and board meetings. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 28.

TN - SB1861 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, removes telegraph services from the list of services provided by a municipality operating an electric plant. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - SJR761 Memorials, Death - Carrie McLaughlin Gentry

TN - SB1796 Employees, Employers - As enacted, prohibits marketplace platforms from keeping tips intended for marketplace contractors. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 56 and Title 62.

TN - SB771 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes the department to create a mental health professional education loan forgiveness program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB974 TennCare - As introduced, directs the commissioner of finance and administration to seek a federal waiver to establish VolunteerCare and permits persons who are 55 years of age or older to purchase healthcare coverage through the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SJR174 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment of Article VI, Section 5 to provide for popular election of the attorney general and reporter for a regular term of four years.

TN - SB1017 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a brief summary of any question, regardless of length, submitted to the people for a vote. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB936 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Teacher Residency Program Grant Act"; requires the department to establish and administer a program of grants for university teacher preparation programs and LEAs to create teacher residency programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1032 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products - As introduced, allows persons operating a terminal in this state to file their report with the department of revenue in electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SJR173 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment to allow people to propose laws by initiative.

TN - SJR272 Memorials, Death - Sherry Elaine Cannady Henderson

TN - SB935 Redistricting, Congressional - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Congressional Redistricting Commission Act," which establishes a five-member congressional redistricting commission beginning in January 2021. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 16; Title 3, Chapter 1; Title 4, Chapter 16, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 4.

TN - SB959 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, adds children's bicycles to the list of items exempt from sales tax when purchased during the annual sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - SB1021 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, changes, from March 15 to March 1, the annual date before which the commission must publish the Tennessee Postsecondary Education Fact Book. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB380 Employees, Employers - As introduced, makes it a discriminatory practice for a person who is paying a non-employee for labor or services to engage in harassment of the non-employee because of the non-employee's sex; holds such persons liable for the actions of their employees in engaging in such harassment under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - SB2577 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Freedom to Work Act." - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - SB2576 Education - As introduced, removes the provisions of law regarding denial of a driver license or learner's permit to persons under 18 who are not enrolled in and making satisfactory progress in high school. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3017 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - SB2645 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, includes vapor products and e-cigarettes in the statutory definition of "tobacco products"; levies, in a manner the same as cigarettes, a tax on liquid nicotine for vapor products. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 47; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB764 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, increases from one to two the number of additional dual enrollment courses a student may take under a dual enrollment grant under certain circumstances; allows an eligible student to receive a dual enrollment grant for no more than 10 courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB929 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, changes the date by which TACIR must report its findings concerning its study of a franchise and excise tax credit for certain shippers from February 1, 2020, to January 15, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7 and Title 67.

TN - SB1026 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to conduct a study of programs to integrate persons formerly incarcerated into the workforce and community. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 71.

TN - SB761 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a county election commission to maintain certain office hours on Sundays for purposes of early voting. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB461 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Save Tennessee Call Center Jobs Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - SB1794 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to submit, on or before December 1 of each year, a report to members of finance, ways and means committees summarizing amounts of federal block grants and purposes for which funds were expended, including any unexpended or returned portions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 71.

TN - SJR182 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages the bureau of TennCare to seek an appropriate federal Section 1115 demonstration waiver in order to expand access to evidence-based home visitation services for pregnant women and parents with infants facing medical, social, or environmental risks; encourages seeking additional funding opportunities for the home visitation programs.

TN - SB762 Election Laws - As introduced, permits any registered Tennessee voter to vote absentee for any reason after providing a certification as to the identity of the voter in the application for a ballot; requires an absentee ballot to be counted for the election in which the ballot is cast; deletes the requirement that a voter who registers by mail must vote the first time in person. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB937 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, directs the department of health and the department of commerce and insurance to promulgate rules for the issuance of temporary occupational licenses to spouses of members of the armed forces of the United States. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB770 Election Laws - As introduced, disqualifies a member of a county election commission from continuing to serve on the commission if the member's spouse, parent, sibling, or child qualifies for any public office. - Amends TCA Section 2-12-102.

TN - SJR577 Memorials, Death - Jonathan Craig Stewart

TN - SB1230 Education, Higher - As introduced, changes, from February 1 to January 15, the date by which each governing board must provide a report to the office of legislative budget analysis with information regarding expenditures of revenues derived from any tuition and fees increase in the previous full academic year. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB998 Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, provides for the registration of eligible voters upon the submission by the department to the appropriate county election commission of an eligible voter's application for a driver license or photo identification card; establishes methods by which a person may decline to be registered to vote in such a manner. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB1029 TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid pursuant to the Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of the expansion. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SB463 Human Rights Commission - As introduced, expands commission duties to include recommending methods to eliminate discrimination and intergroup tensions, and furnishing technical assistance to facilitate progress in human relations. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21.

TN - SB1117 Health Care - As introduced, allows the controlled substance database committee to submit formal recommendations regarding rulemaking to the commissioner of agriculture electronically. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB999 Licenses - As introduced, authorizes the reinstatement of professional and occupational licenses under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 32; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB769 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, authorizes state treasurer to make deposits to facilitate the bank local community deposit program. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 45.

TN - SB926 Consumer Protection - As introduced, extends the number of days a business may advertise that it is going out of business from 90 to 120 days. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB941 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, establishes the office of apprenticeship and work-study programs within the department; provides a tax credit to entities that participate in the programs; and reinstates certain apprenticeship programs for certain professional boards and commissions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 62 and Title 67.

TN - SB774 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Preexisting Conditions Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SJR172 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Authorizes governor to expand medicaid eligibility.

TN - SB2046 Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As introduced, creates the Tennessee violence intervention program within the department's office of criminal justice programs to invest in evidence-based violence reduction initiatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38, Chapter 6; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SJR81 Memorials, Recognition - Tom Cigarran, Chairman of the Board of Nashville Predators

TN - SB766 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, in Davidson County, requires that tree density be considered as a factor in determining the value of residential property. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB928 Health Care - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to submit a report by not later than January 1, instead of February 1, of each year to the governor and to each house of the general assembly regarding the department's nursing home inspection and enforcement activities during the previous year. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB1878 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, authorizes a franchise and excise tax credit equal to a percentage of the amount of human capital investment, which is defined as the amount incurred or paid by an employer for certain activities, including job training and work education programs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - SB2657 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from 60 to 65 the number of days by which the department must submit any new policies adopted by the department for review by the judiciary committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives having oversight over children and families. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 6; Title 37; Title 41 and Title 49.

TN - SB1797 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, requires the state to provide employees compensation equivalent to at least $15.00 per hour. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 9; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 54.

TN - SB1030 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to provide a written report to the judiciary committees of the senate and the house, the state and local government committee of the senate, and the state government committee of the house by February 1, 2020, and by February 1 each year thereafter, detailing the institutional efficiency modifications made at each correctional facility and private contract prison in this state the prior year. - Amends TCA Title 41.

TN - SB382 Taxes - As introduced, deletes exemption from sales and use tax for industrial machinery; deletes credit against franchise and excise tax liability for industrial machinery purchases. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2641 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, prohibits private employers with 50 or more employees and public employers from making employment decisions with regard to an applicant or current employee based on wage or salary history. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 12 and Title 50.

TN - SB927 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, changes, from November 1 to October 1, the date by which the BEP review committee must provide the annual report on the BEP to the governor, the state board of education, the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives, and the education committees of the senate and the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB758 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Pregnant Workers Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - SJR1260 Memorials, Interns - Bianca McNeary

TN - SB760 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to provide students with characteristics of dyslexia appropriate tiered dyslexia-specific intervention through services provided by a teacher trained in dyslexia intervention; requires the department of education to employ at least one dyslexia specialist beginning with the 2019-2020 fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - SB2021 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires youth development centers, jails, and the department of correction to provide free telephone calls between minors and their parents or guardians. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 41.

TN - SB2580 Agriculture - As introduced, places various limits and restrictions on availability and use of neonicotinoid pesticides. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44, Chapter 15 and Title 62, Chapter 21.

TN - SJR614 Memorials, Public Service - Matt Anderson

TN - SJR394 Memorials, Retirement - Chancellor Claudia C. Bonnyman

TN - SB953 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to establish a process by which the department will reimburse the parent of an economically disadvantaged student for fees and costs associated with taking one advanced placement examination that are not otherwise reimbursed, paid, or subsidized by any entity or program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB768 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, requires the driver of any vehicle involved in an accident with a pedestrian or bicyclist to stop at scene of accident and to report accident. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 1.

TN - SJR202 Memorials, Death - David Williams II

TN - SB2644 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, prohibits political campaign committees from using campaign funds for any other purpose other than a contribution or expenditure; prohibits the disbursement of campaign funds of a political campaign committee for a candidate's or a multicandidate political campaign committee officer's own personal use. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10; Title 3 and Title 4, Chapter 55.

TN - SB1875 Election Laws - As introduced, revises the required arrangement for names on ballots. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 5, Part 2.

TN - SB939 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Medical Assistance Savings Act" to require health insurance policies to cover a dependent child until the child reaches 26 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB1041 Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As introduced, expands the definition of cremation, for the purposes of regulating operators of crematory facilities, to include additional processes such as alkaline hydrolysis. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - SJR170 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Authorizes governor to expand medicaid eligibility in accordance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to fully combat the opioid crisis in Tennessee.

TN - SB1795 Hearing and Hearing Aids - As introduced, enacts the "Hearing Enhancement Aid Reimbursement (HEAR) Act." - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1061 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires the department of correction, in partnership with the Tennessee higher education commission and the board of regents, to develop and submit to the general assembly an annual report detailing the higher education opportunities available to eligible incarcerated individuals in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41; Title 49 and Title 50.

TN - SB78 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, urges the department of revenue to study the enforcement of disabled parking violations; requires department to report its findings and recommendations on or before February 1, 2020, to the transportation and safety committee of the senate and transportation committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 1.

TN - SB2124 Public Health - As enacted, creates the Tennessee rare disease advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2635 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates "Women's Suffrage Day" as a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - SB500 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates December 1 of each year as "Mrs. Rosa L. Parks Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - SB222 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor of possessing, owning, selling, transferring, or manufacturing cock fighting paraphernalia with the intent that the paraphernalia be used in promoting, facilitating, training for, or furthering cock fighting. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB823 Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation - As enacted, requires TSAC to promulgate rules designating pregnancy as an approved medical leave of absence for purposes of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SB310 Education - As enacted, directs the Tennessee School for the Deaf, together with the West Tennessee School for the Deaf, to establish a one-year deaf mentor pilot project to assist families and agencies in implementing bilingual and bicultural home-based programming for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 9.

TN - SB798 Controlled Substances - As enacted, increases the penalty to a Class B felony for 15 grams or more or a Class A felony for 150 grams or more of fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or any fentanyl derivative or analogue. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - SB1214 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates June 27 of each year as "Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - SB986 Sexual Harassment - As introduced, creates a cause of action for sexual harassment for a person providing services pursuant to a contract and against the entity for which the person is under contract under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - SB1175 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires each state institution of higher education to do the following: develop and implement a suicide prevention plan for students, faculty, and staff; and provide the plan to students, faculty, and staff at least once each semester. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB75 State Inmates - As enacted, requires custodians of state correctional facilities to provide feminine hygiene products, moisturizing soap that is not lye-based, toothbrushes and toothpaste, and any other healthcare product a custodian deems appropriate to women prisoners at no charge and in an appropriate quantity. - Amends TCA Title 41.

TN - SB2464 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, enacts the "Holly Bobo Act," which expands the bureau's endangered child and young adult alert program to include endangered persons under 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB204 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, changes from once every five years to once every four years the timeframe during which social workers, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, pastoral counselors, alcohol and drug abuse counselors, and occupational therapists must complete an approved suicide prevention training program. - Amends TCA Section 63-1-125.

TN - SB2202 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, makes various changes to state law to reflect the change in federal law that raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 years of age to 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-113; Title 39, Chapter 15 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - SB1097 Civil Procedure - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Public Participation Act," which creates a process by which a person may petition a court to dismiss a legal action that is based on the person's exercise of the right to free speech, right to petition, or right of association. - Amends TCA Title 20.

TN - SB649 Courts - As enacted, makes various changes to zero to three courts, including adding five additional safe baby courts and extending such courts to January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 36; Title 37 and Chapter 366 of the Public Acts of 2017.

TN - SB1058 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Community Schools Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 24.

TN - SB2511 Public Defenders - As enacted, reinstates service credits and salary increases that were suspended during 2009-2010 for district public defender investigators. - Amends TCA Title 1 and Title 8, Chapter 14.

TN - SB2897 Open Meetings - As introduced, authorizes the governing body of the city of Crossville to allow participation in public meetings by electronic or other means. - Amends TCA Section 8-44-108.

TN - SB2742 Victims' Rights - As introduced, prohibits requiring an advocate to disclose certain information in regard to a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking in a judicial, legislative, or administrative proceeding unless the victim gives express written consent. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 36 and Title 39.

TN - SB1176 Tickets, Admission - As enacted, requires a ticket reseller using a tentative ticket policy to make certain disclosures during a resale transaction of tickets that are not owned or possessed by the reseller, under a contract for transfer to the reseller, in the reseller's possession at time of sale; requires the reseller to provide a refund if unsuccessful in securing the tickets; deems a violation to be a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 47.

TN - SB2552 Health Care - As enacted, requires, by no later than January 1, 2021, the departments of health and mental health and substance abuse services, and the bureau of TennCare to collaborate to develop educational materials for providers and facilities where medication assisted treatment including treatment involving controlled substances is prescribed or provided; requires that the materials be made available to prescribers of such treatment for substance abuse disorder. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1839 Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As enacted, requires a physician to provide prenatal and postpartum medical care to pregnant prisoners and detainees; requires correctional institutions to provide pregnant prisoners nutritionally appropriate meals and supplemental provisions. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2.

TN - SB2520 Employees, Employers - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Pregnant Workers Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB815 Employees, Employers - As enacted, adds private employers to the types of employers subject to the requirements of the Healthy Workplace Act; clarifies that the Healthy Workplace Act does not create a cause of action against an employer who does not adopt the model policy created by TACIR or adopt a policy that conforms to the requirements set out in TACIR'S policy. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.

TN - SB1578 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Debra Johnson Act," which authorizes the department to contribute state funds toward the funeral and burial expenses of a correctional employee killed in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 6.

TN - SB28 Public Health - As enacted, creates the state Alzheimer's disease and related dementia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 14 and Title 71.

TN - SB504 Education - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to offer internship programs for elective credits in the high school curriculum through cooperative agreements with local and state governments. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1151 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop a state plan for computer science in grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB33 Education - As enacted, prohibits the Tennessee School for the Blind, the Tennessee School for the Deaf, the West Tennessee School for the Deaf, and the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute from sharing the same president, director of schools, or officers at the same time. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB844 Veterans - As enacted, eliminates the fee for interment of an eligible veteran's most recent spouse in a state veterans' cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

TN - SB193 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes a person who registered to vote by mail or online and who is voting for the first time to vote absentee by applying to vote absentee at any county election commission office. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB2115 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, allows a manufacturer to sell product transferred between different sites owned by the same manufacturer upon certain conditions. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-202.

TN - SB827 Expunction - As introduced, clarifies that a person seeking expunction of multiple offenses must petition the court in which the most recent conviction occurred; requires the clerk to serve the petition on the district attorney general for that judicial district and any other judicial district in which the person was convicted of an offense sought to be expunged. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - SB984 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, designates the Third Coast Comedy Club in Nashville as a community theater for purposes of consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - SB535 Tourist Development, Dept. of - As enacted, designates Reelfoot Lake as a Tennessee Heritage Site; authorizes commissioner to strategically market Reelfoot Lake for tourism development. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22 and Title 11.

TN - SB2503 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires public institutions of higher education to provide each student with a detailed and completed current-year federal college financing plan; imposes other requirements for such institutions to provide certain information when a student is finalizing acceptance of a financial aid package. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB932 Local Government, General - As introduced, permits local authorities to regulate the use of tobacco products in public places, places of employment, and parks. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1551.

TN - SB2032 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires that the parent educational seminar include at least one 30-minute video on adverse childhood experiences created by the department of children's services in conjunction with the commission on children and youth or as part of the Building Strong Brains Tennessee public awareness campaign; adds to that the requirement of attendance by parents at the parent educational seminar may be waived upon motion by either party and the agreement of the court upon the showing of good cause. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1747 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, provides for restrictions or a ban on ownership of a companion animal by certain persons convicted of certain offenses against animals. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 1.

TN - SB624 Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) - As enacted, enacts the "Facilitating Business Rapid Response to State Declared Disaster Act." - Amends TCA Title 58; Title 62; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB195 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, enacts the "Proton Therapy Access Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB476 TennCare - As enacted, directs the commissioner of finance and administration to submit to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services a waiver or waivers pursuant to Section 1115 of the Social Security Act for the purpose of establishing a distinct Katie Beckett program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB173 Traffic Safety - As enacted, prohibits a person from physically holding or supporting, with any part of the person's body, a wireless telecommunications device or stand-alone electronic device while operating a motor vehicle; imposes other similar restrictions on activities such as texting; creates certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - SB667 Courts - As enacted, revises provisions governing compensation for court reporters and fees for transcripts. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 20, Chapter 9, Part 6; Title 20, Chapter 9, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 14, Part 3.

TN - SB972 Health Care - As enacted, permits advanced practice nurses and physician assistants who are prescribers at community mental health centers to arrange for chart review by and site visits with certain collaborating physicians by means of HIPAA-compliant electronic information systems. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 19; Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1046 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to provide free feminine hygiene products in eligible public high schools. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - SB317 Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, clarifies that the definition of the practice of nursing does not prevent qualified registered nurses from making determinations that patients are experiencing emergency medical conditions, in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 68.

TN - SB1576 Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As enacted, increases, from $2.93 billion to $4 billion, the maximum aggregate principal amount for which the agency may issue bonds and notes at any one time. - Amends TCA Section 13-23-121.

TN - SB2487 Beer - As enacted, authorizes beer retailers to sell beer, from their own inventory, online for curbside pickup at the beer retailer's location; requires that the employee bringing beer to a vehicle for curbside pickup verify that the recipient of the beer is 21 years of age or older. - Amends TCA Section 57-5-103.

TN - SB797 Expunction - As enacted, removes $180 fee for an individual petitioning the court for an expunction of certain criminal offenses; removes $350 fee for a defendant applying for expunction of an offense following the completion of a diversion program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - SB2017 Dentists and Dentistry - As enacted, permits a dentist to supervise up to 10 dental hygienists when providing dental services on a volunteer basis through a nonprofit provider of free mobile clinics. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5.

TN - SB598 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates any facility on the campus of a public institution of higher education that is designed and used for school-sanctioned sporting events as a sports authority facility for purposes of consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB1892 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, makes various changes to the law concerning the electronic delivery of health care and its coverage under insurance policies. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Section 63-1-155.

TN - SB578 Public Defenders - As enacted, creates the district public defender appellate division, including authorization for six appellate attorney positions. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14.

TN - SB1442 Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "Barry Brady Act," which creates a presumption that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by certain cancers arose out of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2.

TN - SB2734 Sentencing - As enacted, revises provisions governing drug-free school zones and school safety zones and sentences related to violations. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Section 49-2-116.

TN - SB46 Disabled Persons - As enacted, enacts the "Dynamic Accessibility Act," which provides for a modern symbol of access for disabled persons. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 12; Title 55 and Title 68.

TN - SB1060 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, authorizes nonphysician healthcare providers who are otherwise permitted to prescribe Schedule II or III drugs to also prescribe a buprenorphine product for the treatment of opioid use disorder if certain requirements met. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB1552 State Symbols - As enacted, designates "The Volunteer State" as the official nickname of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - SB16 Gambling - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Sports Gaming Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 5; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - SB170 Education - As enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools to adopt a trauma-informed discipline policy; requires the department of education to develop guidance on trauma-informed discipline practices that LEAs must use to develop a trauma-informed discipline policy. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SR167 Memorials, Recognition - Office of Legislative Budget Analysis of the 111th General Assembly

TN - SR166 Memorials, Recognition - Office of Legal Services of the 111th General Assembly

TN - SR165 Memorials, Recognition - Office of Legislative Administration of the 111th General Assembly

TN - SR169 Memorials, Recognition - Office of Legislative Information Systems of the 111th General Assembly

TN - SR156 Memorials, Death - Dr. Beverly Jean Williams-Cleaves

TN - SR164 Memorials, Recognition - Office of the Chief Clerk of the Senate of the 111th General Assembly

TN - SR4 Memorials, Recognition - Emery Brett Coffey, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - SR170 Memorials, Recognition - Office of Facilities Management of the 111th General Assembly

TN - SR168 Memorials, Recognition - Fiscal Review Committee of the 111th General Assembly

TN - SR172 Memorials, Death - Judge Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr.

TN - SR186 Memorials, Death - Dr. Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr.

TN - SR171 Memorials, Recognition - Senate employees of the 111th General Assembly

TN - SR98 Memorials, Death - Ronald Fritts "Ronnie" Pratt

TN - SR25 Memorials, Recognition - Sierra Salandy, Miss Black Tennessee U.S. Ambassador 2019

TN - SJR676 Memorials, Recognition - Ellie Estes, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR663 Memorials, Recognition - Rob Eakin, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR846 Memorials, Death - Reuben Scott "Rube" Rhea, Jr.

TN - SJR1089 Memorials, Recognition - National Nurses Day, May 6, 2020

TN - SJR6 Memorials, Death - Willard Lacy Upchurch

TN - SJR149 Memorials, Death - John William Graham

TN - SJR639 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Representative Barbara Cooper, 90th birthday

TN - SJR1092 Memorials, Recognition - Occupational Therapy Month, April 2020

TN - SJR1228 Memorials, Recognition - Colonel Warner A. Ross II

TN - SJR652 Memorials, Recognition - William L. Upchurch, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR79 Memorials, Retirement - Jed DeKalb

TN - SJR514 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Rosalind Kurita

TN - SJR164 Memorials, Public Service - Jim Henry

TN - SJR63 Memorials, Death - Congresswoman Marilyn Lloyd

TN - SJR197 Memorials, Recognition - Camp Clements

TN - SJR13 Memorials, Recognition - Adelee Traylor Seidel, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR659 Memorials, Recognition - Tyler Cauble, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR760 Memorials, Death - Lisa Powers Cooper

TN - SJR1087 Memorials, Recognition - National Emergency Medical Services Week, May 17-23, 2020

TN - SJR704 Memorials, Retirement - Trooper Donnie E. Williams

TN - SJR670 Memorials, Recognition - Jordan Thomas, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR1356 Memorials, Death - Anna Shepherd

TN - SJR66 Memorials, Public Service - Commissioner Many-Bears Grinder

TN - SJR15 Memorials, Recognition - Susan E. Pogue, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR1086 Memorials, Recognition - Hospital Week, May 10-16, 2020

TN - SJR1352 Memorials, Recognition - Americans with Disabilities Act, thirtieth anniversary

TN - SJR1090 Memorials, Recognition - Physical Therapy Month, October 2020

TN - SJR1091 Memorials, Recognition - Speech Therapy Month, May 2020

TN - SJR1229 Memorials, Death - Peggy Williams Daniel

TN - SJR1094 Memorials, Recognition - National Rehabilitation Awareness Week, September 13-19, 2020

TN - SJR671 Memorials, Recognition - Jeanette Opheim, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR867 Memorials, Public Service - Dr. Curtis C. Sexton

TN - SJR27 Memorials, Recognition - John R. Burch III, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR73 Memorials, Public Service - Commissioner Larry Martin

TN - SJR1406 Memorials, Death - Officer Destin Legieza, Brentwood Police Department

TN - SJR1272 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Anthony S. Fauci

TN - SJR534 Memorials, Recognition - Kathleen O'Brien

TN - SJR662 Memorials, Recognition - Samantha Simpson, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR1225 Memorials, Recognition - Ollie Otter Child Safety Foundation

TN - SJR711 Memorials, Death - Sterling Haskel Ayers

TN - SJR672 Memorials, Recognition - Elam Freeman, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR1330 Memorials, Death - Johnny Majors

TN - SJR120 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Neel Durbin, Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - SJR28 Memorials, Recognition - Harris Delchamps, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR732 Memorials, Recognition - Navy Week, March 30-April 5, 2020

TN - SJR723 Game and Fish Laws - Urges the federal government, TVA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and TWRA to assist in the control of the Asian carp invasion in Tennessee waters.

TN - SJR897 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Dwayne Wilson, 2019 Tennessee Tree Farmer of the Year

TN - SJR175 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Tre Hargett, 50th birthday

TN - SJR16 Memorials, Recognition - Pirjin Tayip Laser, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR655 Memorials, Recognition - Spencer Sweat, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR19 Memorials, Recognition - Elizabeth Anne Goldstein, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR34 Memorials, Recognition - Jennifer L. Lafferty, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR9 Memorials, Recognition - Emeline Thrash Dunn, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR53 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act of 2018 and the creation of a three-digit nationwide suicide and mental health crisis hotline in the United States.

TN - SJR667 Memorials, Recognition - Kelsie K. Lancaster, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR669 Memorials, Recognition - Patrick Thomas, Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR678 Memorials, Recognition - Ben Bartholomew, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR677 Memorials, Recognition - Daniel Goodman, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR661 Memorials, Recognition - Sarah Mathews, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR675 Memorials, Recognition - Coleman C. "Cole" Parrish, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR650 Memorials, Recognition - Ann H. Murphy, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR651 Memorials, Recognition - Ann Ralls Brown, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR654 Memorials, Recognition - Travis Frew, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR658 Memorials, Recognition - Sarah Neese, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR12 Memorials, Recognition - Al Dalton, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR32 Memorials, Recognition - Kaya Grace Porter, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR752 Memorials, Death - Ronald Lewis Schlicher

TN - SJR712 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jonathan D. Cooper, Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers 2019-2020 President

TN - SJR666 Memorials, Recognition - Racquel B. Martin, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR322 Memorials, Sports - Westview High School girls' basketball team

TN - SJR72 Memorials, Public Service - Dr. Candice McQueen

TN - SJR50 Memorials, Recognition - Vice Mayor Jim Shulman

TN - SJR14 Memorials, Recognition - Nora Snoddy, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR123 Memorials, Death - Bill Ortwein

TN - SJR729 Memorials, Death - William Miller "Bill" Vaughan

TN - SJR22 Memorials, Recognition - Stephen Richards, Jr., 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR713 Memorials, Death - Judge Timothy Ray Brock

TN - SJR842 Memorials, Retirement - Darrell Ailshie

TN - SJR76 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 1, 2019

TN - SJR657 Memorials, Recognition - Tiara Coleman, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR403 Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee Volunteers men's basketball team

TN - SJR29 Memorials, Recognition - Grant Adams, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR43 Memorials, Public Service - Commissioner David W. Purkey

TN - SJR673 Memorials, Recognition - Hannah Kay Hunt Freeman, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR18 Memorials, Recognition - Elizabeth "Lizzie" Eisen, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR59 Memorials, Death - Senator Curtis Bentley "Ben" Atchley, Jr.

TN - SJR69 Memorials, Public Service - Commissioner Bonnie Hommrich

TN - SJR369 Memorials, Retirement - Joseph Interrante

TN - SJR10 Memorials, Recognition - Rebecca Sheaffer Goodwin, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR35 Memorials, Recognition - Christopher J. Morris, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR668 Memorials, Recognition - Roger S. Waynick, Jr., 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR11 Memorials, Recognition - Casey L. Miller, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR74 Memorials, Public Service - Commissioner Debbie Payne

TN - SJR37 Memorials, Recognition - Brian Nock, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR24 Memorials, Recognition - Michael Hill, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR20 Memorials, Recognition - Zachary Brickner, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR17 Memorials, Recognition - Megan Beaven Feeman, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR156 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Deborah V. Loveless, 2018 Outstanding CPA in Government Career Contribution Award

TN - SJR25 Memorials, Recognition - Matthew A. Pierce, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR26 Memorials, Recognition - Josh Thompson, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR98 Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress and the United States Department of Health and Human Services to revise and update the Medicare Wage Index factor.

TN - SJR757 Memorials, Death - Sue K. Atchley

TN - SJR664 Memorials, Recognition - Mallory Acheson, Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR496 Memorials, Recognition - Dorothy "Dottie" Akers Thompson, Emory Valley Center Compassion Award

TN - SJR157 Memorials, Recognition - James R. Arnette, Jr.

TN - SJR36 Memorials, Recognition - Brennan H. N. McMurry, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR765 Memorials, Recognition - Senator Shane Reeves, Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Rutherford Pinnacle Award

TN - SJR656 Memorials, Recognition - Will Hatfield, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR38 Memorials, Recognition - Brandon Bocianski, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR1088 Memorials, Recognition - Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day

TN - SJR770 Memorials, Sports - East Nashville Magnet High School girls' track team, 2019 TSSAA Division I Small School State Champions

TN - SJR70 Memorials, Death - Thomas "Tom" Jensen

TN - SJR679 Memorials, Recognition - Danielle Johns, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR838 Memorials, Death - Senator Reginald Tate

TN - SJR660 Memorials, Recognition - Tabitha Robinson, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR338 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Mark Norris

TN - SJR52 Memorials, Recognition - Logan Grant

TN - SJR1093 Memorials, Recognition - Respiratory Therapy Week, October 25-31, 2020

TN - SJR60 Memorials, Death - Edward Riley Anderson

TN - SJR31 Memorials, Recognition - Lauren M. Spahn, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR665 Memorials, Recognition - Sam Deaton, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR731 Memorials, Death - Master Patrol Officer Spencer Daniel Bristol

TN - SJR30 Memorials, Recognition - Liz Rogers, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR21 Memorials, Recognition - Wade Nelson, Jr., 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR653 Memorials, Recognition - William Loeffel, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR214 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Commissioner Marie Williams, National Council for Behavioral Health 2019 Excellence in Advocacy Individual Achievement Award

TN - SJR67 Memorials, Public Service - Dr. Wendy J. Long

TN - SJR674 Memorials, Recognition - Courtney Lauren Vick, 2020 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR725 Memorials, Retirement - Mary Jane Crockett-Green

TN - SJR329 Memorials, Death - Staff Sergeant Alexander Scott Lawson, U.S. Army

TN - SJR23 Memorials, Recognition - Sam Ellis, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR108 Memorials, Retirement - Charlie Daniel

TN - SJR57 Memorials, Public Service - Commissioner Jai Templeton

TN - SJR33 Memorials, Recognition - Julie Anne Rousseau, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR200 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - James W. "Jimmy" Granbery, Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - SJR77 Memorials, Retirement - Jill Bachus