Tennessee Sen. Jim Tracy (R)

TN - Commerce and Labor (Senate)

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Member

TN - Transportation and Safety (Senate)

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Chair

TN - Pensions and Insurance

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Member

TN - SB1679 Inheritance Laws - As introduced, eliminates a surviving spouse's right to inherit the elective share of a deceased spouse's estate; deletes all references to the elective share. - Amends TCA Section 16-16-201; Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Section 34-6-108; Section 35-16-104; Section 39-11-712 and Section 53-11-452.

TN - SB1658 Sheriffs - As enacted, authorizes sheriffs and deputy sheriffs to retain service weapon upon retirement and completion of honorable service and approval by 2/3 vote of county legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8, Part 2.

TN - SJR42 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Alexandra Motlow Richman, State Forestry Commission

TN - SB417 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, defines genuine signatures for purposes of initiating a customer petition of utility district rates; modifies hearing procedures; makes the comptroller or the comptroller's designee the chair of the utility management review board; and revises other various provisions of law governing utility districts. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82.

TN - SB444 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires any quote for automobile liability insurance to include the cost of uninsured motorist coverage. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 56.

TN - SB1657 Election Laws - As introduced, adopts the interstate compact to elect the president by national popular vote. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 15.

TN - SB1971 Highway Signs - As enacted, specifies that TDOT has sole and exclusive jurisdiction over the design, erection, installation, and maintenance of TODS signs located within the right-of-way of any highway designated as part of the state highway system, including TODS signs within the corporate limits of municipalities; creates certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 5.

TN - SB126 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, defines "curbstoning" as the practice of selling, or offering to sell, a motor vehicle that is not titled in the seller's name by a person engaged primarily in the sale of used motor vehicles who is not licensed to sell motor vehicles in this state and permits state entities to seize vehicles offered for sale as part of a curbstoning scheme. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2; Title 55, Chapter 16; Title 55, Chapter 17, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 3.

TN - SB1127 Recycling - As introduced, prohibits owners and operators of sanitary landfills located within a 15-mile radius of a site where asphalt roofing shingles are recycled pursuant to the issuance of a permit-by-rule from accepting, for disposal, loads of whole or processed asphalt roofing shingles; requires the underground storage tanks and solid waste disposal control board to post on its web site the name and address of each site at which the recycling of asphalt roof shingles is approved pursuant to the issuance of a permit-by-rule; requires permittees to annually report to the board information concerning recycling asphalt shingles. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211 and Title 68, Chapter 213.

TN - SB2331 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes any nonprofit organization owning any vehicle that may be legally operated upon the streets or highways of this state with a regular vehicle registration to operate or move, through an authorized agent or employee, the vehicle upon any highway of the state without registering the vehicle; requires display of a special purpose plate issued to the owner. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - SB1661 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, adds a former or current judicial commissioner to the board of judicial conduct to be appointed by the governor from nominees supplied by the judicial commissioners association of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 5.

TN - SB135 Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, urges the department to study military veterans' access to public transportation, as well as the feasibility and costs of improving their mobility. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 54; Title 64 and Title 67.

TN - SB1664 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, alters requirements for retired teachers to return to teaching without loss of retirement benefits. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - SB904 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, establishes restitution for certain offenses involving wild game and requires that hunting and fishing privileges be revoked until restitution is paid. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - SB291 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, broadens the definition of a covered building for purposes of sinkhole insurance coverage to include the residential structure and the contents of the personal property contained within the structure. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-130.

TN - SB129 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, allows stickers for disabled drivers' license plates to be affixed on any license plate, instead of only on new specialty earmarked plates. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - SB329 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, exempts certain products and services from regulation under the Tennessee Legal Insurance Act. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SJR106 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages local education agencies to require every student in grades K–5 to participate in a physical education class at least two times per week during the school year.

TN - SB1667 Law Enforcement - As enacted, specifies that the authorization for a law enforcement officer to carry firearms at all times, regardless of the officer's regular duties, unless otherwise prohibited by federal law, court order, or otherwise by law, applies to a sheriff who has been certified by the POST commission, and a deputy sheriff employed by a county as a court officer or corrections officer as authorized in writing by the sheriff. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1350.

TN - SB327 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, allows dealers, when reporting and remitting sales taxes to the department of revenue, to retain a certain portion of such taxes in order to compensate for costs incurred in accounting for and remitting such taxes; establishes certain maximum limitations for certain dealers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 5.

TN - SB1660 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, authorizes the wildlife resources director to issue permanent lifetime sportsman licenses to residents with a 100 percent permanent and total service-connected disability or a less than 100 percent service-connected disability for which the person is compensated at 100 percent due to unemployability. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - SJR394 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for law enforcement.

TN - SB130 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes various new special license plates and grants additional time for certain plates to meet the minimum order requirement. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SJR279 Memorials, Interns - Zachary Ty Carden.

TN - SB1472 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to perform certain duties, such as develop subrecipient monitoring plans utilizing analytic procedures; conduct unannounced and announced site visits of subrecipients; and conduct criminal history background checks on each applicant of the subrecipient or sponsoring organization during the application process and at any time during participation in a food program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 39, Chapter 16.

TN - SB1968 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, imposes costs for failure to pay or answer a citation for violating posted speed limits; requires convictions for third and subsequent speeding violations to be reported to department of safety and subjects persons convicted to license suspension and revocation. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - SB1969 Garnishments and Executions - As enacted, revises provisions governing the garnishment of earnings; changes references from garnishment of "salaries, wages or other compensation" to garnishment of "earnings". - Amends TCA Title 26, Chapter 2 and Title 29, Chapter 7.

TN - SB131 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires commissioners appointed by the county legislative body to oversee bridge repairs to report all completed repairs to the county legislative body within 60 days of the repair, rather than at the next meeting of the county legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - SB133 Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, specifies that the department's quarterly report on highway road projects be submitted to the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house, and the chairs of the transportation committees instead of submitted to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - SB1650 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes off-highway vehicles on State Route 167 in Johnson County from Roan Creek Campground to Doe Mountain. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 25, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - SB1652 Education - As introduced, requires the state board of education to promulgate a rule permitting the length of the school term to be calculated by instructional hours as well as the current number of instructional days. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3004.

TN - SB1653 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, each LEA to offer students in each of its high schools the opportunity to take at least six early postsecondary credit courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1654 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, encourages public school teachers to be Promise scholarship mentors by crediting them with one day of in-service for volunteering as mentors; encourages retired teachers to be Promise scholarship mentors by granting them one year of eligibility for the state employee discount program for volunteering as mentors. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11 and Title 49.

TN - SB1655 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class C misdemeanor of driving a motor vehicle and talking on a hand-held mobile telephone; creates the juvenile act of persons under 18 driving a motor vehicle and using a hands-free device to talk on a mobile telephone or transmit or read written messages; provides affirmative defense for emergencies, and exception for persons 18 and older using hands-free device. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - SB1656 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, requires forfeiture of retirement benefits of teachers who become members of TCRS or other public pension systems on or after July 1, 2016, if convicted of any misdemeanor sexual offense arising out of the teacher's employment or official capacity. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - SB1659 Aircraft and Airports - As enacted, under certain circumstances, authorizes an airport authority to sell an aircraft abandoned on the airport authority's property; establishes procedures for conducting the sale, notifying interested parties, and enforcing a lien for unpaid storage fees. - Amends TCA Title 42; Title 47 and Title 66, Chapter 29.

TN - SB1411 Petersburg - As introduced, amends the charter of the Town of Petersburg to remove the requirement that the recorder, chief of police, and judge live within the town limits. - Amends Chapter 272 of the Acts of 1901; as amended and rewritten.

TN - SB1680 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, allows children of full-time public school support staff employees to receive the 25 percent tuition discount that children of full-time public school teachers, full-time LEA technology coordinators, and retired public school teachers receive. - Amends TCA Section 49-7-119.

TN - SB2116 Welfare - As introduced, limits cash withdrawals to $25.00 daily for cash benefits under the temporary assistance to needy families program with electronic benefits transfer card from an automated teller machine or a point-of-sale terminal; authorizes commissioner of human services to raise or rescind the cash limit to comply with federal law or maintain federal funding. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3.

TN - SB2117 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, opens membership of the directors of schools association to include affiliate membership to principals and assistant principals and to system-wide supervisors; requires that membership fees be set in bylaws instead of constitution; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 21.

TN - SB186 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, authorizes the City of Fayetteville, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than five percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Fayetteville; the ordinance must set forth the manner of collection and administration of the privilege tax; requires that all proceeds received by the municipality from the tax be used for tourism development. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425.

TN - SB1018 Education, Higher - As enacted, exempts education courses that are solely to prepare students for graduate or professional school entrance exams and professional licensure exams from the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act of 1974. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 20.

TN - SB128 Education - As introduced, extends the authorization for the energy efficient schools council to award grants or loans for energy efficient capital outlay projects to allow awards to charter schools and the achievement school district in addition to public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 17 and Section 49-4-940.

TN - SB159 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires a person licensed as an apprentice occupational education teacher who is seeking to obtain a professional occupational education license to successfully complete a teacher education program of nine semester hours, unless the teacher met this requirement at the time of employment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 11 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2119 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, extends the Class C misdemeanor offense of consuming an alcoholic beverage or possessing an open alcoholic beverage container in an operating motor vehicle to passengers. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - SB1973 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, increases age of persons allowed to use tobacco and vapor products from 18 years of age to 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 39 and Title 68.

TN - SB1749 Auditing - As introduced, increases by 30 days the time period in which a county mayor has to appoint an attorney to bring suit after receiving a report from auditors that sums cannot be collected without suit; increases by 30 days the time period in which the comptroller of the treasury has to appoint an attorney to bring such suits if the county mayor fails or refuses to bring such suits. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 3.

TN - SB1095 Motor Vehicle Commission - As introduced, requires that in making appointments to the motor vehicle commission, the governor strive to ensure that at least one person serving on the commission is a woman. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 55 and Title 56.

TN - SB1967 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to provide an annual report to the education committee of the senate and the education instruction and programs committee of the house of representatives, regarding the physical education programs and activity for each LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB620 Codes - As introduced, exempts local jurisdictions that have an established codes department from audit of its records and transactions by the state fire marshal; removes provision of law stating that state building codes supersede all less stringent provisions of municipal ordinances. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - SB621 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, defines funeral merchandise for prearrangement insurance policies; revises provisions governing funeral merchandise. - Amends TCA Title 46 and Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - SB816 Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires the state board of education to submit a biennial report by March 1 on the policy review of LEA employees recommending the use of psychotropic drugs to treat elementary or secondary school students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - SB443 Traffic Safety - As introduced, revises the fines for failing to use a seat belt and increases the maximum fine for texting while driving from a $50.00 to a fine of $250. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8 and Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 6.

TN - SB817 Common Carriers - As enacted, revises provisions governing overweight loads that are permitted and nondivisable. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 7.

TN - SB818 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, requires the commissioner to annually report the amount of disaster relief refunds issued by the department. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - SB2659 Metropolitan Government - As introduced, subject to local approval, authorizes the metropolitan council of the metropolitan government of Lynchburg, Moore County to direct the county election commission to conduct an advisory, nonbinding referendum on the question of whether to levy a property tax increase, with the proceeds from such increase to be used exclusively to fund public school renovations.

TN - SB1662 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts the sale of all gold and silver bullion that is used as a medium of exchange, security, or commodity from sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB328 Public Records - As introduced, allows a record custodian to assess a reasonable charge for producing a record for inspection if the custodian incurs costs; requires the office of open records to establish a schedule of reasonable charges for the inspection of records. - Amends TCA Section 8-4-604 and Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

TN - SB2333 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, allows a motor vehicle to be operated, or to be equipped with, an integrated electronic display visible to the operator while the motor vehicle's autonomous technology is engaged. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8 and Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 1.

TN - SB2334 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, prohibits certain persons engaged in the business of towing or storing motor vehicles from charging a storage fee for any day on which the vehicle is not available for release to the owner, lienholder, or insurer, unless such failure to release is based on a hold placed on the vehicle by law enforcement; requires such businesses to release the vehicle to the insurer or lienholder, or an authorized agent or representative, upon the insurer's or lienholder's payment of reasonable charges due, without requiring additional consent from the owner of the vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 55, Chapter 23 and Title 66.

TN - SB362 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, increases the license fee for automobile clubs or associations; deletes the license requirement for agents of automobile clubs or associations. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 18.

TN - SB905 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, enacts the "Travel Insurance Producer Limited License Act." - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR280 Memorials, Interns - Allen Kyle Harvey.

TN - SJR142 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the State Board of Education to approve teacher training programs for occupational teacher licensure that utilize online components in delivery method.

TN - SJR287 Memorials, Recognition - Australian Shepherd Club of America 2015 National Specialty Show.

TN - SJR241 Naming and Designating - Margaret "Maggi" Britton Vaughn, Poet Laureate of Tennessee.

TN - SB1435 Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $261,000,000 from excess state tax revenues over collected in fiscal year 2014–2015 to the department of transportation to be used for backlog transportation road projects. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - SB1970 Traffic Safety - As introduced, deletes obsolete ignition interlock program development fee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - SJR440 Memorials, Death - Dixie Ann Featherstone Parker

TN - SJR441 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Digital Learning Project

TN - SJR446 Memorials, Retirement - Police Chief Glenn Chrisman, retirement

TN - SB425 Equalization Board - As introduced, relieves the commissioner of revenue from the duty of preparing and transmitting to the general assembly a report on the work of the board. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB1649 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor offenses for supervisors or employees who make false statements or engage in other activity to hinder an audit conducted by or on behalf of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 4.

TN - SJR518 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Leith Konyndyk, National Wild Turkey Federation's Tennessee State Law Enforcement Officer of the Year

TN - SB5 Education - As introduced, establishes standards review and development committees and advisory teams comprised of Tennessee teachers, higher education faculty members, and parents to propose world-class, highly rigorous K-12 English language arts and mathematics standards for use in public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - SB1663 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, makes sex offender registration for persons convicted of misdemeanor unlawful photographing in violation of privacy discretionary instead of mandatory; the judge may order registration after taking into account the facts and circumstances surrounding the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 6 and Title 40, Chapter 39.

TN - SJR139 Memorials, Recognition - Claire Martin, 2015 Prudential Spirit of Community Award.

TN - SJR478 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Madelyn Hufstedler Shelton, 100th birthday

TN - SB2332 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, specifies that animal owners may record inspections of their animals by audiovisual means. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 44; Title 53 and Title 63, Chapter 12.

TN - SB1965 Employees, Employers - As enacted, makes various changes to the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act, including requiring, beginning January 1, 2017, a private employer with 50 or more employees to enroll in the E-verify program. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5, Part 11 and Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 7.

TN - SB1651 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, creates a lifetime nonresident sportsman license for nonresidents who own real property in this state. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - SB2118 Education - As enacted, requires referees or officiates of interscholastic athletic events to submit to a criminal background investigation and provide a fingerprint sample; exempts the referees and officiates from the criminal background investigation and requirement to provide a fingerprint sample if they have undergone a satisfactory background check as a condition of registration for work as an official for interscholastic athletic contests. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 4.

TN - SB127 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, enacts the "Go Build Tennessee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 62, Chapter 6.

TN - SB132 Traffic Safety - As introduced, deletes obsolete ignition interlock program development fee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - SB134 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain specified persons, and provides for the placement of other certain signage. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - SB2115 Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $100,000,000 from excess state tax revenues over collected in fiscal year 2014-2015 to the various counties to be used for county transportation projects; allocates funds in the same manner as county aid funding. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - SB1972 Estates - As enacted, increases the maximum amount of a life insurance policy from $7,500 to $15,000 in order that a photocopy of a certificate of death, along with certain statements, may constitute proof of death; authorizes certain financial institutions and associations to pay out all accounts of certain deceased, and checks payable to certain decedents or their estates, to certain creditors, relatives, and representatives as long as the sums do not exceed $10,000 in the aggregate. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 56.

TN - SB1473 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain specified persons, and provides for the placement of other certain signage. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - SB297 Education - As introduced, allows the department of education to post its annual report on its web site in lieu of distributing the report to certain persons and entities. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR475 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Captain William Oscar Pointer, 100th birthday

TN - SB1666 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes a 25 percent tuition discount at any state-operated institution of higher education for full-time certified public school teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB1964 Common Carriers - As enacted, revises provisions governing overweight and overdimensional loads that are permitted and nondivisible. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 7.

TN - SB290 Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Truth in Caller ID Act." - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 65, Chapter 4, Part 4.

TN - SB619 Deeds - As enacted, clarifies who is to receive notice of certain sales of real property. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 5, Part 1 and Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 25.

TN - SB412 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, revises provisions governing authority to reduce maximum gross weight of freight motor vehicles over certain county roads. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 54, Chapter 7 and Title 55.

TN - SB1966 Sentencing - As enacted, requires a minimum sentence of 30 days in confinement upon conviction for flight from or attempt to elude a law enforcement officer in a motor vehicle or 60 days if the flight or attempt to elude creates a risk of death or injury to others, including pursuing law enforcement officers; adds intentionally concealing oneself to offense as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Section 39-16-603.

TN - SB185 Beer - As enacted, requires, after July 1, 2015, that an applicant for a beer permit must have been a citizen or lawful resident of the U.S. for at least one year immediately preceding the application date in order for the county to issue the permit. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1665 Handgun Permits - As enacted, imposes a reduced fee for a lifetime handgun carry permit for certain retired federal, state, and local law enforcement officers. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - SB1474 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes the issuance of certain new specialty earmarked plates; extends the minimum order deadline for certain plates; revises other special license plate provisions. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB3 Education - As introduced, establishes standards review and development committees and advisory teams comprised of Tennessee teachers, higher education faculty members, and parents to propose world-class, highly rigorous K-12 English language arts and mathematics standards for use in public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - SB1997 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, deletes the four-year property tax exemption for newly constructed facilities and plants owned by electric cooperatives. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 25 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1760 Military - As enacted, creates civil immunity for certain members of the national guard who use force against another, including by discharging a personally owned firearm, in certain situations. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2591 Nuisances - As enacted, imposes same burden of proof in nuisance actions based on changed farming operations as presently applied to nuisance actions based on established farming operations. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3; Section 39-17-415; Section 43-1-701; Title 43, Chapter 26 and Title 44, Chapter 18.

TN - SB453 Education - As enacted, requires the Tennessee STEM innovation network to establish STEM innovation hubs in rural areas of the state and in Northwest Tennessee; requires the Tennessee STEM innovation network to provide a middle school curriculum on the variety and benefits of STEM careers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1026 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, allows producers of motor vehicles who lease vehicles to eligible employees to sell the vehicle to a franchised dealer after the lease, and allows the franchised dealer to purchase no more than 30 of the vehicles per month, but prohibits the sale of the vehicle for 90 days from the time in which the motor vehicle was purchased by the franchised dealer. - Amends TCA Section 55-17-123.

TN - SB1484 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, deletes the Save the Tax Relief Act. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - SB280 Controlled Substances - As enacted, authorizes use of cannabidiol oil with less than 0.9 percent of tetrahydrocannabinol to treat intractable seizures or epilepsy in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 43, Chapter 26.

TN - SB1796 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As enacted, increases the amount on which property tax reimbursement will be paid from the first $23,000 to the first $23,500 for low-income, elderly homeowners and for disabled homeowners; removes the income limitation applicable for tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1461 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, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2394 Education, Higher - As enacted, revises provisions regarding reporting of nonimmigrant students by higher education institutions; authorizes the commissioner of safety to issue a subpoena for valid law enforcement purposes to an institution of higher education in this state to compel the production of certain information with regard to nonimmigrant students possessing either an F-1 or M-1 student visa for instruction at the institution. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38 and Title 49.

TN - SB1163 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state board of education to implement a process whereby the set of standards known as the Common Core State Standards adopted in 2010 will be reviewed and replaced with new sets of standards; requires the state board of education or the department of education to cancel any memorandum of understanding concerning the Common Core State Standards entered into with the national governor's association and the council of chief state school officers; establishes advisory teams and a standards recommendation committee; revises other provisions regarding curriculum standards. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB108 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, increases the fee for recording liens, encumbrances, and mortgages on certificates of title from $5.50 to $11.00; revises other provisions related to titling and registering vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 2; Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 55, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2532 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding accreditation and reinsurance of insurance companies. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 11; Title 56, Chapter 2; Title 56, Chapter 22 and Title 56, Chapter 45.

TN - SB293 Schools, Charter - As enacted, requires charter schools authorized by the achievement school district (ASD) to conduct an initial student application period of at least 30 days; specifies that if the ASD authorizes a charter school, the ASD will receive an annual authorizer fee of up to three percent of the charter school's per student state and local funding. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB88 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, deletes the current schedule for the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program that requires testing to occur during a two-week window by the first Monday on or after April 22; authorizes the commissioner of education to establish a schedule for the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-6002.

TN - SB2142 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, removes termination date of July 1, 2016, from the County Bridge Relief Act of 2014; permanently authorizes counties to use an unexpended balance of state-aid bridge grant funds to pay the local share of project costs for replacing or improving county bridges. - Amends TCA Section 54-4-507.

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

TN - SB1999 Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department of correction to pay, within 120 days of the bill being submitted, any bill of costs or other fees owed to a county by the department as the result of a criminal conviction in that county. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 25, Part 1.

TN - SB482 Education, State Board of - As enacted, allows the state board to meet in locations other than Nashville by revising the requirement that the state board meet at least quarterly in Nashville to instead require that the state board meet at least quarterly, with at least two meetings held in Nashville. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-301.

TN - SB2561 Managed Care Organizations - As enacted, extends the effectiveness of certain rules governing risk sharing agreements. - Amends the termination date of Chapter 409 of the Public Acts of 2013.

TN - SB2518 Education - As enacted, requires that the display of the American flag on school property and at school events conform to the requirements of federal law; requires a local board of education to permit display of the American flag, if the display conforms to the requirements of federal law. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2049 Law Enforcement - As enacted, encourages TBI to develop an activation card for law enforcement use in connection with the missing citizen alert program to help locate missing citizens who have wandered due to dementia or physical impairment. - Amends TCA Section 38-6-121.

TN - SB976 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires the executive director of THEC to convene representatives from UT and the board of regents to create, revise, and adopt policies to assist veterans and military service members with higher education programs; makes other various revisions to the eligibility and in-state tuition guidelines of the Tennessee Veterans Education Transition Support Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.

TN - SB2529 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, substitutes the commissioner of agriculture or a qualified agent of the commissioner for county agriculture extension agents as a person who is authorized to conduct livestock cruelty examinations; clarifies that livestock cruelty examinations conducted by licensed veterinarians are entitled to the same legal presumptions as other qualified examiners. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-211.

TN - SB1731 Education, State Board of - As enacted, provides for an annual authorizer fee to be paid to the state board if the state board is the chartering authority of a charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - SB2093 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, enacts the "Public-Private Transportation Act of 2016." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 9; Title 12; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - SB1098 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, makes various changes to the regulation of motor vehicle dismantlers and recyclers and scrap metal processors, including imposing a temporary $250 fee on certain licensed motor vehicle dismantlers and recyclers and scrap metal processors to be used for the implementation and administration of reporting systems. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3.

TN - SB43 Evidence - As enacted, adds certain offenses to the list of crimes eligible for the interception of communications for evidence. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - SB2443 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, enacts the "Health Care Empowerment Act". - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1989 Safety - As enacted, authorizes certain entities to stock epinephrine auto-injectors on their premises; authorizes employees, agents, and laypersons to provide or administer an epinephrine auto-injector under certain circumstances; requires the secretary of state to provide any rule promulgated to implement this act to the chairs of the health committee of the house and the health and welfare committee of the senate after approval by the attorney general at the same time that the rule is to be made available to the government operations committees. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

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

TN - SB1832 Environmental Preservation - As introduced, creates the forum on Tennessee's great outdoors for the purpose of conducting a comprehensive review of the health and status of this state's natural resources and outdoor recreation needs and opportunities. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB2635 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop procedures for identifying characteristics of dyslexia through the universal screening process required by the existing RTI2 framework or other available means; requires every LEA to implement the dyslexia screening procedures; specifies that dyslexia screening may be requested for any student by the student's parent or guardian, teacher, counselor, or school psychologist; creates the dyslexia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49.

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

TN - SB1108 State Government - As introduced, designates the Holy Bible as the official state book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - SB1321 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates May 11 of each year as "Police Memorial Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2541 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, deletes the requirement of the state board to develop a standard form to collect statistical information of zero tolerance violations in the local schools to be annually reported by the director of schools; requires the department to analyze the data on zero tolerance collected from the local and county school boards and include the information in the student discipline report; deletes the requirement that the department track all expelled students and their progress. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 42.

TN - SB32 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, for tax years beginning January 1, 2015, increases the income exemption level for the Hall income tax to be $37,000 for single filers and $68,000 for joint filers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - SB47 Taxes, Income - As enacted, reduces Hall income tax from six percent to five percent; expresses legislative intent that the tax be statutorily reduced by one percent annually beginning with the first annual session of the 110th general assembly; eliminates the tax for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - SB17 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, requires that persons with intellectual disabilities on the waiting list for services be enrolled in the self-determination waiver when their caregivers attain the age of 80. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.

TN - SB750 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, creates the aeronautics economic development fund to be used by the department of transportation for program administration, marketing expenses, and program evaluation; authorizes the executive director of TWRA to use funds from the 1986 wetland acquisition fund to acquire the McCartt Tract and adjacent lands in Morgan County; authorizes certain fund expenditures. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 11; Title 13; Title 50; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - SB2101 Election Laws - As enacted, allows Rutherford County to participate in a pilot project for establishing convenient voting centers for use on election day upon super majority vote of the county election commission. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3.

TN - SB16 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, authorizes the TBI to employ, effective July 1, 2015, four additional special agents for the purpose of training other officers, investigating and assisting in the prosecution of human trafficking cases; directs TBI to develop and provide a course of instruction to other officers and departments in the recognition, detection, and prosecution of human trafficking cases. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1090 Veterans - As enacted, specifies that no fee may be charged for the interment of an eligible veteran in a state veterans' cemetery and limits the fee to $610 for the interment of an eligible veteran's spouse. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

TN - SB461 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows a child of a military parent to be eligible for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship if the child is classified as an in-state student at the time of application. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-926.

TN - SB2538 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, enacts the "Rural Economic Opportunity Act of 2016"; authorizes a job tax credit for qualified business enterprises located in tier 4 enhancement counties; specifies the minimum jobs criteria and requirements to qualify for the credit; establishes the propelling rural economic progress (P.R.E.P.) fund; establishes guidelines for making grants from the P.R.E.P. fund. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2098 Education - As enacted, requires the principal of a school to allow a patriotic society the opportunity to speak with students during school hours. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - SR94 Memorials, Sports - Matthew Sells, 2016 TSSAA wrestling Division I AAA 160-pound weight class champion

TN - SR84 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Jackson Vaught, Vanderbilt's Outstanding Senior

TN - SR37 Memorials, Interns - Elizabeth Tullos.

TN - SR93 Memorials, Sports - Nick Boykin, 2016 TSSAA wrestling Division 1 AAA 285-pound weight class champion

TN - SR23 Memorials, Retirement - Murfreesboro Police Department Assistant Chief Roy Fields.

TN - SR91 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Annie R. Zachery, 100th birthday

TN - SR92 Memorials, Recognition - Paige Martin, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - SR66 Memorials, Retirement - Sandra Kersey

TN - SR68 Memorials, Professional Achievement - John Floyd, Business Legend of the Year

TN - SR38 Memorials, Interns - Erin Gardner.

TN - SR83 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Ian Flinn, Doctor of the Day

TN - SR67 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Chris Jones, Leadership Rutherford Pinnacle Award

TN - SR65 Memorials, Death - Eleanor McNeil Massey.

TN - SR90 Memorials, Recognition - Chickasaw Council, Boy Scouts of America, 100th anniversary

TN - SR76 Memorials, Death - Jerome Dennis Majkrzak

TN - SR71 Memorials, Recognition - Mark Follis, Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the Year

TN - SR70 Memorials, Retirement - Glenn Chrisman

TN - SR64 Memorials, Retirement - Alice Wynelle Abbey.

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

TN - SJR517 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association, 60th anniversary

TN - SJR494 Memorials, Recognition - Barry Chism, Greenbrier Citizen of the Year

TN - SJR472 Memorials, Heroism - Murfreesboro Fire and Rescue Department Special Ops personnel

TN - SJR401 Memorials, Death - Leonard Keelon Bradley.

TN - SJR502 Memorials, Death - Harry Albert Haines

TN - SJR12 Memorials, Sports - University of Memphis football team and head coach Justin Fuente.

TN - SJR442 Memorials, Death - Charles Dudley Brewer, Sr,

TN - SJR58 Memorials, Death - Anne Elizabeth Hezel Thompson.

TN - SJR485 Memorials, Death - Joseph Dillman, death

TN - SJR145 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jennings Jones, District Attorney General for the 16th Judicial District.

TN - SJR505 Memorials, Recognition - Columbia State Community College, 50th anniversary

TN - SJR454 Memorials, Heroism - Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, U.S. Army

TN - SJR234 Memorials, Recognition - Debria G. Tyler, Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year.

TN - SJR499 Memorials, Recognition - Keith Bilbrey

TN - SJR479 Memorials, Recognition - National Park Service, 100th anniversary

TN - SJR498 Memorials, Recognition - Tommy Vallejos

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

TN - SJR72 Memorials, Recognition - Discovery School at Reeves-Rogers.

TN - SJR503 Memorials, Recognition - National Park Service, 100th anniversary

TN - SJR413 Memorials, Retirement - Brian Signaigo

TN - SJR495 Memorials, Death - Harold Weddington

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

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

TN - SJR493 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Ian Flinn, Doctor of the Day

TN - SJR387 Memorials, Recognition - United States Senator Bob Corker.

TN - SJR407 Memorials, Death - Representative Clint Callicott

TN - SJR29 Memorials, Heroism - First Lieutenant Norman Edward Lane Jr., United States Marine Corps Reserve.

TN - SJR275 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hamilton High School Wildcats, boys' basketball Class AAA state champions.

TN - SJR412 Memorials, Personal Occasion - James and Louise Pulliam, 75th anniversary

TN - SJR1 Memorials, Death - Howard H. Baker Jr.

TN - SJR444 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Gladys Memphis Garland, 100th birthday

TN - SJR481 Memorials, Recognition - Marilyn Jackson, 2015 BPW Woman of Achievement

TN - SJR467 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Directs the commencement of legal action, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, from the federal government's mandated appropriation of state revenue and noncompliance with the Refugee Act.

TN - SJR488 Memorials, Recognition - Sarah Cannon Center for Blood Cancer at TriStar Centennial Chemotherapy Team

TN - SJR9 Memorials, Retirement - Tom Humphrey.

TN - SJR134 Memorials, Recognition - Evan Cope, Chair of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

TN - SJR470 Memorials, Retirement - Lt. Preston Donaldson, Tennessee Highway Patrol

TN - SJR274 Memorials, Public Service - Senator James F. Kyle Jr.

TN - SJR146 Memorials, Recognition - Ginny Williams, Governor's Volunteer Stars Awards.

TN - SJR147 Memorials, Recognition - Leanna Edwards, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award.

TN - SJR148 Memorials, Recognition - Stax Museum of American Soul Music, 2015 Arts Leadership Award.

TN - SJR28 Memorials, Recognition - Norman Smith Elementary.

TN - SJR168 Memorials, Recognition - Celebrate G.R.I.T.S. (Girls Really Into Shooting) Days in Tennessee.

TN - SJR169 Memorials, Recognition - Michael Zietz, Prudential Spirit of Community Award recipient.

TN - SJR144 Memorials, Recognition - 2015 Tennessee State FFA Officers.

TN - SJR170 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and increasing incidents of anti-Semitism.

TN - SJR182 Memorials, Death - Senator Bobby Carter.

TN - SJR383 Memorials, Recognition - Luke Eppert.

TN - SJR133 Memorials, Retirement - Bill Burleigh, Operation Stand Down.

TN - SJR477 Memorials, Retirement - Chief Warrant Officer Five Kenneth D. Poindexter, U.S. Army

TN - SJR55 Memorials, Death - John Lawrence Seigenthaler.

TN - SJR121 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Les Leverett.

TN - SJR80 Memorials, Congress - Opposes a "national school board" and supports passage of the Every Child Ready for College or Career Act.

TN - SJR161 Memorials, Sports - Maryville High School 2014 TSSAA Class 6A Football State Champions.

TN - SJR96 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - Urges observance of "Firefighters' Memorial Day" October 9, 2015, and "Volunteer Firefighters Week" March 1-7, 2015.

TN - SJR103 TennCare - Urges the United States department of health and human services to approve a block grant in order to fund services to the existing TennCare population and to expand the Medicaid program in this state to persons with incomes below 138 percent of the federal poverty line.

TN - SJR52 Memorials, Sports - Vanderbilt University baseball team, 2014 NCAA National Champions.

TN - SJR186 Memorials, Recognition - Ransom Jones, Rutherford County Election Commission.

TN - SJR184 Memorials, Recognition - Richard Reeves, Rutherford County Election Commission.

TN - SJR185 Memorials, Recognition - Felicia Hix, Rutherford County Election Commission.

TN - SJR160 Memorials, Death - Charles Maurice Johnson.

TN - SJR509 Memorials, Recognition - Sarah Cannon Center for Blood Cancer at TriStar Centennial

TN - SJR512 Memorials, Death - Noble Cody

TN - SJR445 Memorials, Death - Exie "Bernice" Waddell