Tennessee Sen. Lee Harris (D)

TN - SB1852 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, prohibits political subdivisions from making substantial changes to retirement and pension plans for employees who are 65 years of age or older, unless those employees approve it or state or federal law mandates the change. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - SB1094 Schools, Charter - As introduced, increases from 90 days to 120 days prior to the delayed opening of a charter school the time within which the commissioner of education must verify that no material changes have been made to the information and documents filed by the charter school sponsor. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - SB2662 Millington - As introduced, subject to local approval, staggers terms of office for aldermen; moves the date of city elections for mayor and aldermen to coincide with the November general elections; repeals requirement that the board of mayor and aldermen appoint a personnel board. - Amends Chapter 238 of the Acts of 1903; as amended and rewritten.

TN - SB731 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires any ordinance or resolution proposing the issuance of debt to finance improvements to private or public use buildings to be approved by voters in a referendum, if the amount of the debt exceeds 10 percent of the local government's operating budget. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9, Chapter 21; Title 48 and Title 67.

TN - SB953 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, extends group insurance to state employees who have been employed by the state for at least 60 days instead of 24 months and who will work 640 hours instead of 1,450 hours within a fiscal year whether compensated on hourly, daily, monthly, or piecework basis. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27.

TN - SB2047 Courts, Municipal - As introduced, extends the time permitted for appeal of a city court judgment from 10 calendar days, excluding Sundays, to 10 business days. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 21; Title 6, Chapter 54; Title 16, Chapter 17; Title 16, Chapter 18 and Title 55.

TN - SB1071 Budget Procedures - As introduced, deletes requirements that budget document include personal income statement for calendar year 1977 and actual state appropriations for fiscal year 1977–1978. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-5203.

TN - SB1075 Redistricting, Legislative - As introduced, requires use of adjusted population data relative to incarcerated individuals for congressional, legislative, and county redistricting plans, beginning April 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 16; Title 3, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 5, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - SB1085 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, grants LEAs the same flexibility as public charter schools to allow the LEAs to be more creative and innovative, including the authority to apply for the waiver of laws and state board rules. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 13; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2328 Securities - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for a person who knowingly issues, or significantly contributes to the issuance of, a credit rating for a security in which the rating is materially false or misleading. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 48, Chapter 1.

TN - SB1086 Consumer Protection - As introduced, revises the requirement that a retailer reimburse a customer for mailing costs incurred in returning clothing for removal of an anti-theft security tag to make it applicable if the customer resides more than a 30-minute, instead of a 15-minute, commute from the retailer. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB2217 Bonds and Undertakings, Regulation of - As introduced, requires the comptroller to establish a statewide pay-for-success pilot program for the purpose of increasing funding, through social impact bond proceeds, to pay providers of preventative services and to improve the lives of individuals who are incarcerated or have been released from a correctional facility. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 9.

TN - SB2147 Consumer Protection - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of agriculture to distribute the required annual report titled "Annual Report on the Quality of Kerosene and Motor Fuel in Tennessee" in an electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 65 and Title 66.

TN - SB2036 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits a person who has been convicted of certain state or federal criminal offenses from owning a business that sells firearms or firearm ammunition at retail or possessing any ownership interest in such a firearms business. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB1066 Employees, Employers - As introduced, clarifies that employee handbooks must include the leave statute for adoption, pregnancy, and childbirth in subsequent editions occurring after May 27, 2005. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - SB1364 Sentencing - As introduced, eliminates the death penalty as a sentence for first degree murder. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1009 Attorneys at Law - As introduced, requires that the rules adopted by the supreme court that establish compensation rates for appointed counsel of indigent defendants set a minimum hourly rate of $100. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 14.

TN - SB1855 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, establishes the offense of theft of a firearm, which is graded as one classification higher than the value of the firearm under the grading of theft. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB2046 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development to set the state’s minimum hourly wage rate at not less than $10.10 per hour, adjusted annually to reflect inflation in accordance with the consumer price index; establishes a cause of action for employees if employers violate the state’s minimum hourly wage rate; sets the wage rate paid to blind persons employed by the state to the greater of the state minimum hourly wage rate or the federal minimum wage. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 13; Title 39; Title 50; Title 67 and Title 71.

TN - SB1073 Budget Procedures - As introduced, assigns the state employee staff responsible for the administration of the group insurance for state officials and employees to the department of finance and administration; authorizes grant payments under the grant assistance program for nursing home care to be made either monthly or quarterly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71.

TN - SJR456 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment of Article II, Section 3 to impose term limits of 12 consecutive years in each house for members of the general assembly.

TN - SB2449 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, requires boards and commissions that appoint executive directors to appoint persons from different grand divisions of this state on a rotating basis; exempts boards and commissions that are required to appoint executive directors who reside outside of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - SB2039 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, permits a student with a documented learning disability who is unable to take 12 semester hours as required for the Tennessee Promise scholarship to be eligible for the scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SJR35 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - William Troutt, State Board of Education

TN - SB2468 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires TBI to consult with the department of safety and the FBI to determine whether any handgun carry permit holders are on the federally maintained no fly list and report the number of permit holders on the list to the general assembly prior to January 15 each year. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB2048 Sentencing - As introduced, eliminates the death sentence as a penalty for first degree murder. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SR45 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Elexis Houston, Salutatorian, Memphis Central High School.

TN - SR1 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - William Evans, UT Board of Trustees

TN - SB2457 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, requires TSAC to annually prepare a status report for the governor and general assembly on the Tennessee HOPE foster child tuition grant program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1089 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, prohibits the court from awarding any form of custody to a parent who is indicted for aggravated child abuse, sexual abuse of a child, or severe child sexual abuse while indictment is still pending, unless presumption of substantial risk of harm to child is overcome; allows supervised visitation. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SJR302 Memorials, Interns - Alexander Boulton.

TN - SB1926 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires fiscal review committee to review and approve competitively bid, state service contracts exceeding $1,000,000. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 9 and Title 12.

TN - SR52 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Curtica Jackson, Valedictorian, Hamilton High School.

TN - SB1074 TennCare - As enacted, authorizes TennCare to provide medical assistance for sickle cell disease management services and public education campaign activities specifically related to sickle cell disease. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2040 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires each state agency to strive to ensure that at least 12.5 percent of all agency contracts are awarded to minority-owned businesses, woman-owned businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned businesses, or small businesses. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 11.

TN - SR54 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cenetria Crockett, Salutatorian, Westwood High School.

TN - SB2494 General Assembly - As introduced, creates the select oversight committee on general services. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.

TN - SB1856 Education, Higher - As introduced, changes the date by which the Tennessee Promise scholarship community service requirement for a fall semester must be fulfilled from August 1 to July 1, beginning with the 2017-2018 academic year. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-708.

TN - SB1065 Fireworks - As introduced, permits the sale of consumer fireworks in Shelby County. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.

TN - SR47 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Gregory Martin, Valedictorian, George Washington Carver High School.

TN - SB2216 Sentencing - As introduced, permits certain inmates to receive a sentence reduction credit of 15 percent of the sentence imposed for successfully receiving a high school diploma or graduate equivalency diploma while in prison. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - SB2452 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, requires the commissioner of revenue to annually report the amount of disaster relief refunds issued by the department. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB1069 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, increases the age of a vehicle a dismantler, recycler, or scrap metal processor may purchase without obtaining a certificate of title from 12 years or older to 15 years or older; increases the age of a vehicle that may be disposed of to a demolisher without a certificate of title from over 10 years old to over 15 years old. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SB1432 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits a handgun carry permit holder from carrying a firearm when entering a public park or an event occurring at the park if a ticket or pass is required for entry and the park is owned or operated by a county or municipality, an instrumentality, or a company contracting with the government to conduct the event; prohibits firearms in arenas, stadiums, and structures where a professional sports team plays, practices, or trains. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB1078 General Assembly - As introduced, enacts the "Housekeeping Expenditure and Lawmaker Transparency on Healthcare (H.E.A.L.T.H.) Act," which requires the office of legislative administration to publish an annual report indicating which members of the general assembly are enrolled in the state group health plan. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 10.

TN - SB2139 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires that a juvenile court proceeding involving allegations that the juvenile was illegally in possession of a firearm be given priority in scheduling and be heard by the court as soon as is practicable. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 40.

TN - SB2451 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, increases the number of days from 60 to 75 after the close of each fiscal year within which the department must prepare and print an annual report for the governor and members of the general assembly accounting for the expenditure of the operations and expenditures of all funds under the medical assistance act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB2215 Public Contracts - As introduced, clarifies that all state agencies shall set annual state agency-level internal goals for minority-owned business, woman-owned business, service-disabled veteran-owned business, and small business contracting and shall strive to achieve the goals. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 11.

TN - SB1072 Bond Issues - As introduced, authorizes the state of Tennessee, acting by resolution of its funding board, to issue and sell its interest-bearing bonds and bond anticipation notes for certain purposes.

TN - SB2327 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, creates a study committee to study the feasibility of creating a public rating agency to rate securities independent of private sector rating agencies. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 9.

TN - SB1068 Election Laws - As introduced, increases, from 15 days to 30 days, the amount of time in which to cure a defect in the documentation required to initiate a petition for a recall election. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 17; Title 18 and Title 49.

TN - SB1925 Sentencing - As introduced, specifies that violations of drug-free school zones that occur when schools are not in session for five consecutive days or more are not subject to enhanced and mandatory minimum sentences. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-432.

TN - SB1853 Energy - As introduced, enacts the "Cogeneration and Distributed Generation Act." - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - SB2453 Appropriations - As introduced, 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 - SB1093 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, sets a maximum fee of $20.00 for towing firms to charge to release a motor vehicle attached for towing, but not yet transported to another location, when the motor vehicle is parked without authority on private property; provides that a violation is a Class C misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SJR351 Memorials, Interns - Alexander Ulysses Boulton.

TN - SR48 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Demetrius Lesean Moore, Salutatorian, George Washington Carver High School.

TN - SB1081 Public Contracts - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee First Act." - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 67.

TN - SB815 Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, requires that the reports on the performance of private prison contractors by the commissioner of correction and the comptroller of the treasury be submitted to the fiscal review committee, in addition to the state and local government committee of the senate and the state government committee of the house. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 24.

TN - SB1092 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the state fire marshal, in consultation with TACIR, to submit a report to the local government committee of the house and the state and local government committee of the senate addressing fire safety standards affecting places of worship. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 29; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB1087 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to develop a mentorship program that teams successful large enterprises, as mentors, with emerging small businesses, as mentees. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SB1857 Financial Disclosure - As introduced, prohibits certain public employees and officials from owning shares of stocks or investments in privately held prison companies on or after January 1, 2017; requires such employees or officials who own holdings or stock in privately held prison companies prior to January 1, 2017, to disclose such investments or holdings and divest of such stock or investments by January 1, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 67.

TN - SB1088 Education, State Board of - As enacted, prohibits the state board from denying instructional leadership licensure based solely on the applicant completing a leadership preparation program located outside of this state. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1077 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, deletes obsolete reference to division of juvenile probation from statute relating to the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 37.

TN - SB2041 General Assembly - As introduced, prohibits use of official letterhead of the general assembly by members for purposes of making a sentencing recommendation or comment to a court. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - SB2038 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, requires the TBI to report to the general assembly by March 1 annually the number of Tennessee handgun carry permit holders who are also on the no-fly list maintained by the FBI. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39.

TN - SB954 School Transportation - As introduced, requires any bus ordered or purchased on or after July 1, 2016, to be equipped with a restraint system; requires any bus that is currently used to transport students be equipped with a restraint system by July 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 6.

TN - SB2037 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department of labor and workforce development, in consultation with the department of corrections, if so requested, to report to the governor and general assembly on existing pilot programs that focus on work programs for the successful reentry of individuals to the workforce who have been convicted of a felony. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41 and Title 50.

TN - SB1084 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, requires the annual TBI report on crime to contain demographic data, including the percentage of suspects, victims, and convicted offenders based on race, gender, age, nationality, and any other appropriate demographic, as determined by the director of TBI. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2450 Water Pollution - As enacted, expands the notice requirement when lead is present in the drinking water supply. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 12; Title 45; Title 47; Title 50; Title 56; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB2042 Education - As introduced, recreates the special joint committee on education. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 49.

TN - SB2044 Education - As introduced, prohibits virtual schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SR51 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Marqueta Triplett, Salutatorian, Hamilton High School.

TN - SB1080 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Cost Accountability and Verification Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SR46 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emma Sidney Donnelly-Bullington, Valedictorian, Memphis Central High School.

TN - SR133 Memorials, Public Service - Dr. Elma Hubbard Mardis, Memphis Housing Authority

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

TN - SB1854 Sentencing - As introduced, reconstitutes the Tennessee sentencing commission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 40.

TN - SB2454 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts sellers with total gross sales of less than $1,000,000 from retailer accountability provisions. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 4.

TN - SJR457 Memorials, Recognition - Mr. Cupid Douglass, Civil War soldier

TN - SR57 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Ethel Lee Bowen Brown.

TN - SB1079 Real Property - As introduced, requires a homeowner’s association to provide certain records to a unit owner upon written request. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - SB1070 Appropriations - As introduced, makes appropriations for the purpose of defraying the expenses of certain legislative enactments passed during the 2015 session of the 109th General Assembly.

TN - SB2456 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 67.

TN - SB1064 Recycling - As enacted, revises provisions governing state government recycling efforts; encourages state facilities to offer recycling opportunities. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - SB1082 Textbooks - As enacted, requires the textbook commission to study the age and physical status of textbooks used in public schools of this state and issue a written report to the members of the general assembly, by January 1, 2016, detailing the average age, physical condition, and cost to replace outdated textbooks, and solutions to avoiding the use of textbooks that are over 10 years old. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1063 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development to set the state’s minimum hourly wage rate at not less than $10.10 per hour, adjusted annually to reflect inflation in accordance with the consumer price index; establishes a cause of action for employees if employers violate the state’s minimum hourly wage rate; sets the wage rate paid to blind persons employed by the state to the greater of the state minimum hourly wage rate or the federal minimum wage. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 13; Title 39; Title 50; Title 67 and Title 71.

TN - SB1062 State Government - As introduced, removes conviction-related questions on job applications for employment with certain state agencies and political subdivisions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21 and Title 50.

TN - SR50 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Mia Jamison, Salutatorian, Middle College High School.

TN - SB1067 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, enacts the "Making Work Pay Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB1083 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, establishes an interagency council on homelessness. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - SB2035 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, authorizes the issuance of gun violence restraining orders. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SR49 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kayla Harper, Valedictorian, Middle College High School.

TN - SB2043 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, prohibits a person who is registered, or required to register, as a violent sexual offender or offender against children pursuant to the Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act to knowingly establish a primary or secondary residence or any other living accommodation in any public institution of higher education's on-campus student residence facilities, including dormitories and apartments. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SR53 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jaylon S.D. Lane, Valedictorian, Westwood High School.

TN - SB361 Traffic Safety - As introduced, on or after July 1, 2015, bans the use of unmanned traffic enforcement cameras by political subdivisions unless any fines, fees, or additional court costs collected by a local government through the use of unmanned traffic enforcement cameras are transferred to the state for student assistance award purposes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 4 and Section 55-8-198.

TN - SB2442 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, authorizes the department of health to require certain prescription drug manufacturers to disclose price and cost information; authorizes the department to set maximum prices for certain prescription drugs. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

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 - SB2455 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to annually report on the availability and content of driver education and training courses in public schools to the education committee of the senate and the education instruction and programs committee of the house. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1091 Municipal Government - As introduced, requires municipalities having populations of 40,000 or more to develop plans to provide emergency backup systems for the continued operation of water and electric essential services, and to conduct a study of their existing water supplies every five years. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 58; Title 65 and Title 69.

TN - SB1076 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires that any person convicted for the unlawful sale, gift, or loan of a firearm to a minor or intoxicated person be punished as criminally responsible for any resulting crime; requires the person serve all the time sentenced without parole. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 40.

TN - SB2448 Election Laws - As introduced, removes requirement that voter needs photograph identification prior to voting; restores former requirement that voter present identification such as social security cared or credit card for purpose of comparing signature on the application for ballot. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB1061 Employees, Employers - As introduced, redefines drug in the drug-free workplace program; authorizes employers, in determining what actions to take with a positive drug test, to consider whether the employee was under the influence of the drug or alcohol while the employee performed duties within the employee’s scope of employment; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.