Tennessee Sen. Rusty Crowe (R)

TN - Education (Senate)

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2nd vice-chair

TN - Government Operations (Senate)

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2nd vice-chair

TN - Health and Welfare (Senate)

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chair

TN - SB872 Treasurer, State - As introduced, authorizes the treasury department to utilize the attorney general, or an assistant designated by the attorney general, to assist the department in providing legal services regarding deferred or tax-sheltered compensation plans for state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25, Part 1.

TN - SB416 Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, requires persons to register on or after July 1, 2013, with the board of funeral directors and embalmers prior to operating a removal service that arranges, directs, supervises or performs the transportation of human remains; clarifies other provisions related to licensure and regulation. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 47 and Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1412 Carter County - As introduced, subject to local approval, gives the Carter County landfill committee power to hire and fire the landfill director and excercise oversight of the landfill. - Amends Chapter.

TN - SB1854 Education - As introduced, permits LEAs to amend and correct testing and demographic data released by the department of education within 10 days of the data release. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - SB1260 Education - As introduced, authorizes the department of education to create a pilot project to explore methods of providing comprehensive school safety and mental health services through LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2229 Unknown

TN - SB424 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, clarifies functions performed by alcohol and drug abuse counselors. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 24, Part 6.

TN - SB1784 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the Watauga Fife and Drum Corps as the official state fife and drum corps. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - SJR490 Memorials, Recognition - June Barrett, Crumley House founder, 2013 Purpose Prize Fellow of Encore.org.

TN - SB1169 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, establishes tax relief program for victims of natural disasters in Tennessee occurring between August 4, 2012, and August 6, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB1855 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes the department of transportation to develop an electronic procedure to store outstanding certificates of title in lieu of paper documents when possible. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SB871 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, permits bona fide Tennessee residents who attend certain non-SACS accredited out-of-state boarding schools to qualify for Tennessee HOPE scholarships. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB417 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, limits duration that a tenured teacher may be suspended pending investigation to 90 days only if the matter investigated is not the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation or a DCS investigation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 5.

TN - SB1852 Disabled Persons - As enacted, elevates from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the penalty for knowingly abusing, neglecting or exploiting an adult who is unable to manage his or her resources or carry out the activities of daily living due to mental or physical dysfunctions or advanced age; requires certain notifications; establishes elder abuse task force. - Amends TCA Section 71-6-117.

TN - SB870 County Officers - As introduced, permits constables to post and mail detainer summonses in addition to sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. - Amends TCA Section 29-18-115.

TN - SB1600 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, requires persons with intellectual disabilities on the waiting list for services to be enrolled in the self-determination waiver when their caregivers attain the age of 75. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.

TN - SB681 Local Government, General - As introduced, enacts the "Safe Schools Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 49.

TN - SB873 State Employees - As enacted, authorizes state employees to serve as election officials at the polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - SJR185 Memorials, Death - Carol Hensley Singletary

TN - SB2431 Public Contracts - As introduced, expands the requirement for all state agencies to actively solicit bids and proposals from service-disabled veteran-owned businesses to any veteran-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12, Chapter 3 and Title 12, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1785 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, authorizes counties and municipalities to ban smoking within 50 feet of a building owned or used by the county or municipality for governmental purposes the same as such entities may now prohibit smoking within 50 feet of a hospital. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15.

TN - SB868 Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, increases the time within which an action for injury to the person must be commenced from one year from the date the cause of action accrues to two years. - Amends TCA Section 28-3-104.

TN - SJR235 Memorials, Death - Dr. Burgin E. Dossett, Jr.

TN - SB869 Annexation - As introduced, requires, prior to a municipality annexing within its urban growth boundary, the approval of a majority vote of qualified voters in the territory proposed for annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - SB2233 Unknown

TN - SJR762 Memorials, Recognition - East Tennessee State University and University School, All Years' Reunion.

TN - SB258 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, adds "computed tomography" to the list of healthcare services that shall be initiated only after applying and receiving a certificate of need. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - SJR508 Naming and Designating - March 22nd, "Lynch Syndrome Hereditary Cancer Day".

TN - SB2228 Civil Procedure - As enacted, permits courts and not just chancellors to reopen bidding on judicial sales; clarifies that a court clerk is empowered to take certain actions regarding the acceptance of an advance bid and the reopening of bidding at no additional fee, commission or cost, but the clerk is not to take those actions if a court order specifically prohibits the acceptance of an advance bid. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2435 Education - As introduced, creates a TVAAS study committee to review the methodology and nature of the statistical estimates produced by TVAAS. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR796 Memorials, Death - Dr. Herman A. Stribling, Jr.

TN - SB2231 Unknown

TN - SR88 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Parker Smith, Tennessee board of regents.

TN - SB415 Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, adds certain grounds upon which the board of funeral directors and embalmers may refuse to grant or may suspend, revoke or refuse to renew a license, including owning 5 percent or more of any hospice providing hospice services. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 62, Chapter 5 and Title 68.

TN - SB1779 Education - As introduced, deletes the requirement that the comptroller approve requests for proposals submitted by an LEA to purchase certain Internet services; requires the state department of education to develop policies governing such LEA purchases. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - SB874 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires that a person be in full compliance with the Financial Responsibility Law of 1977, by purchasing auto insurance, prior to getting the vehicle registration approved or renewed. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2437 County Officers - As introduced, requires candidates for the office of constable in Washington County to have at least one year of law enforcement experience and be certified by a licensed health care provider as being free from any disorder that would impair the candidate's ability to perform any essential function of the job. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - SJR70 Memorials, Death - Dr. Donald R. Jeanes

TN - SJR709 Memorials, Sports - Elizabethton High School, Class AA State Champions.

TN - SJR262 Memorials, Retirement - Judge Lynn Brown

TN - SJR607 Memorials, Congratulations - East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine, 40th anniversary.

TN - SB259 Special License Plates - As enacted, decreases the minimum order requirement for renewal of any cultural or new specialty earmarked license plate and any collegiate plates for four-year colleges or universities located outside Tennessee from 1,000 to 800. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1261 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires persons applying for a free memorial registration plate as a military medal recipient to provide the department a DD214 form and a copy of the orders awarding the medal. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-236.

TN - SB1778 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows a Tennessee student graduating from an out-of-state boarding school that is accredited by a member of the National Association of Independent Schools Commission on Accreditation to be eligible for Tennessee HOPE lottery scholarship, if the student meets all other applicable requirements for the scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB1783 Sentencing - As introduced, increases penalty for offense of evading arrest in motor vehicle from Class D to Class C felony if the evading results in death or injury to an innocent bystander or 3rd party. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 6.

TN - SB1384 Health Care - As introduced, requires the Tennessee emergency medical services board to annually report to the board of pharmacy, the board of medical examiners, the board of osteopathic examination and board for licensing health care facilities concerning any needs for modifications to existing rules and protocols for emergency medical services. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 9; Title 68, Chapter 11 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - SB2433 Recreational Areas - As enacted, authorizes certain counties to create recreation boards to be composed of nine members representing each civil district within such counties in lieu of present law requirement that boards be composed of five members, with up to two school staff members. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 24, Part 1.

TN - SB719 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows dependent children of certain workers assigned to work full time in a foreign nation to be eligible for the Tennessee HOPE lottery scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB788 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, redefines "cost of doing business by the retailer" from 8 percent of basic costs of cigarettes to retailer to 15 percent of basic costs of cigarettes to retailer. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 25, Part 3.

TN - SB260 Special License Plates - As introduced, authorizes issuance of new specialty earmarked license plates for Sons of the American Revolution; allocates 50 percent of proceeds to the Tennessee Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SJR541 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Supports patient-centered palliative care in Tennessee.

TN - SB1853 Medical Occupations - As enacted, adds to the information each board regulating a provider must collect and provide to the department of health in order for the department to create individual profiles on licensees, the name of the supervising physician of a nurse practitioner who holds a certificate of fitness and of a physician assistant; revises related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 67.

TN - SJR60 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment of the Tennessee Constitution to authorize lotteries to benefit 501(c)(19) organizations when such lotteries are authorized by a two-thirds vote of the General Assembly.

TN - SB2232 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, establishes a local disaster relief fund from which sales tax refunds may be made to individuals whose residences were damaged by a disaster. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 58 and Title 67.

TN - SB1781 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, revises provisions governing the registration and operation of medium speed vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 39; Title 47; Title 55, Chapter 1; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 50; Title 55, Chapter 8; Title 55, Chapter 9 and Title 70.

TN - SB1173 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, establishes a process for reimbursing physicians for services rendered during the pendency of a credentialing application before a health insurance entity. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SJR107 Memorials, Recognition - Dave Mullins

TN - SB2430 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, authorizes medical laboratories that are attached to hospitals to share the reports of examinations of human specimens with the patient in an electronic health record through the hospital's portal as well as the ordering health care provider. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 29.

TN - SB256 Naming and Designating - As enacted, declares the third week of June as "Lymphedema Awareness Week." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - SJR144 Memorials, Death - Patsy McKinney Dugger

TN - SB2434 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, makes out-of-state medical laboratories subject to rebate prohibition in medical laboratory statute and other provisions of that statute deemed necessary by the medical laboratory board to protect the public. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 29.

TN - SB2432 County Officers - As introduced, permits constables to post and mail detainer summonses in addition to sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. - Amends TCA Section 29-18-115.

TN - SJR570 Memorials, Recognition - State of Franklin chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.

TN - SJR748 Memorials, Interns - Bethany Jackson.

TN - SB418 Lottery, Charitable - As enacted, extends deadline for application for 2013-2014 annual events for three days after effective date of act. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - SJR172 Memorials, Death - Kim DeGennaro

TN - SJR676 Memorials, Sports - Elizabethton High School, Class AA girls basketball state champions.

TN - SB257 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, replaces current universal do not resuscitate order statute with a new provision authorizing physician orders for scope of treatment (POST). - Amends TCA Title 32, Chapter 11; Title 34, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - SB1782 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, authorizes community mental health centers and federally qualified health centers to employ physicians, except anesthesiologists, emergency department physicians, pathologists or radiologists. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1259 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires customer approval prior to sale, consolidation or merger of Hampton Utility District of Carter County. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82, Part 2.

TN - SR56 Memorials, Interns - Brittany Bolton

TN - SJR750 Memorials, Death - Jane Elizabeth Humphreys Agriesti.

TN - SJR105 Memorials, Recognition - Dennis Lee Vonderfecht

TN - SJR747 Memorials, Recognition - East Tennessee State University, All Years' Reunion.

TN - SJR106 Memorials, Recognition - Gary Mabrey

TN - SB1658 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, extends the period of limitation of prosecution for certain sexual offenses committed against a child to twenty-five years from the date the child becomes eighteen years of age. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 2.

TN - SJR300 Memorials, Sports - Milligan College Women's Basketball Team, 2013 Appalachian Athletic Conference Champions

TN - SJR588 Memorials, Recognition - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, 100th year anniversary.

TN - SB1856 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to adopt a salary schedule that is identical in either structure or designated salary levels or both to the salary schedule the LEA had in place during the 2012-2013 school year, with such schedule containing steps for each year of service up to and including 20 years and for the attainment of advanced degrees at the level of masters, masters plus 45 hours of graduate credit, specialist in education and doctor of education or doctor of philosophy; the schedule may not result in the reduction of the salary of a teacher employed by the LEA at the time of the adoption of the salary schedule. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - SJR590 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges Federal Aviation Administration to institute protective measures for musical instruments.

TN - SJR183 Memorials, Heroism - Commemorates Vietnam Veterans Day and 40th anniversary of withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam.

TN - SJR540 Memorials, Recognition - Billy Graham.

TN - SJR749 Memorials, Recognition - The late SP4 Floyd Watsel "Jason" Lamb, Jr., U.S. Army.

TN - SB1780 Elder Abuse - As introduced, creates a Class D felony for the offense of knowingly abusing or grossly neglecting a disabled adult or elderly person that results in mental or physical harm. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 71, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1155 Highway Signs - As introduced, provides for modification of language on existing welcome signs for Bristol to read "Bristol - The Birthplace of Country Music."

TN - SB1156 County Government - As enacted, authorizes the county budget committee in Sullivan County to have between five and nine members, one of which will be the county mayor; the number of members will be annually determined by the county legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 5.

TN - SB1718 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes the department of transportation to authorize the state treasurer to establish a program for the sale of nonrefundable gift vouchers, gift cards, rebates, incentives, debit cards or any other form of electronic payments for special license plate fees. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB734 Safety - As introduced, requires certain persons who install and maintain elevators to be licensed. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 121.

TN - HB1368 Veterans - As introduced, creates a grant program to assist veterans with the creation and opening of small businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 58.

TN - HB1372 Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Veterans Education Transition Support Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2037 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, requires the treasurer to recommend to the TCRS board of trustees a funding policy with respect to TCRS; enacts the "Public Employee Defined Benefit Financial Security Act of 2014"; revises other benefit-related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 37, Part 3 and Title 9, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1381 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to adopt a salary schedule that is identical in either structure or designated salary levels or both to the salary schedule the LEA had in place during the 2012-2013 school year, with such schedule containing steps for each year of service up to and including 20 years and for the attainment of advanced degrees at the level of masters, masters plus 45 hours of graduate credit, specialist in education and doctor of education or doctor of philosophy; the schedule may not result in the reduction of the salary of a teacher employed by the LEA at the time of the adoption of the salary schedule. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2453 Education - As enacted, requires that LEAs make all teaching materials, including handouts readily available for review upon request by the parents or legal guardians and that the official operating policies of boards of education must provide that a parent or legal guardian is entitled to review tests that are developed by and graded by a teacher of the parent or legal guardian's child; revises other provisions relative to parental inspection of school materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 70.

TN - HB87 County Government - As enacted, authorizes the county budget committee in Sullivan County to have between five and nine members, one of which will be the county mayor; the number of members will be annually determined by the county legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 5.

TN - HB119 Welfare - As enacted, prohibits recipients of public assistance from using electronic benefit transfer cards to purchase certain goods or services in certain establishments. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB128 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, requires rather than permits that restitution to the victim be paid by the defendant for the offenses of patronizing prostitution, trafficking for commercial sex acts, solicitation of a minor for sexual purposes, and enlisting or paying a minor to engage in child pornography. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-118.

TN - HB192 Taxes, Income - As enacted, increases the annual income a person at least 65 years of age may earn and still be exempt from the Hall income tax from $26,200 to $33,000 for single filers and from $37,000 to $59,000 for persons filing jointly. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB862 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows dependent children of certain workers assigned to work full time in a foreign nation to be eligible for the Tennessee HOPE lottery scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB1062 Wine & Wineries - As enacted, authorizes a winery licensed under the Grape and Wine Law that has a total annual wine production of 50,000 gallons or less to obtain an additional self-distribution permit from the alcoholic beverage commission in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-207.

TN - HB500 Unknown

TN - HB742 Evidence - As enacted, provides that victims 13 and under of trafficking for commercial sex acts and patronizing prostitution may, under certain circumstances, testify outside the courtroom by closed circuit television. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB1050 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, adds a person who physically possesses or controls a child to those from whose custody a child can be removed if the child is subject to an immediate threat to the child's health or safety and there is no less drastic alternative to removal. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB1074 Military - As enacted, authorizes public employees who are in the military to use five days of sick leave in lieu of annual leave after the employee has received 20 working days of compensation so the employee does not have to take leave without pay when called to military duties. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33, Part 1.

TN - HB1528 State Employees - As enacted, enacts the "Three Stars of Tennessee Award" to recognize peace officers, firefighters, and medical first responders killed or who suffered a career-ending injury in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2255 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, enacts the "911 Funding Modernization and IP Transition Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86; Section 9-8-307; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 65.

TN - HB2303 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Health Care Provider Stability Act". - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2263 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, enacts the "Educator Respect and Accountability Act of 2014." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2188 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, revises various present law provisions governing the statute of limitations for certain sexual offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1238 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes the issuance of a Native American Indian Association special license plate, with funds allocated to the Native American Indian Association of Tennessee, Inc., to be used exclusively for the association's emergency assistance and education program. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1265 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires health insurance policies to cover screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

TN - HB709 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting a person for trafficking a person for a commercial sex act, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, and exploitation of a minor by electronic means if the offense was committed against a child on or after July 1, 2013, to be 15 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age; changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting a person for patronizing prostitution and promoting prostitution if the offense was committed against a child on or after July 1, to be 10 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB919 Human Rights - As enacted, establishes human trafficking task force. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 38 and Title 71, Chapter 1.

TN - HB746 Education - As enacted, adds to provisions governing students with a parent in the armed forces being given excused absences to additionally provide for up to 10 days cumulatively within the school year for visitation during the member's deployment cycle; cumulative number of excused absences under this provision and present provision for visitation with parent when the member is granted rest and recuperation leave and is stationed out of the country may not exceed 10 days. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB710 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, provides that termination of parental or guardianship rights may be initiated if a parent or guardian has been convicted of trafficking for a commercial sex act. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB339 Students - As enacted, allows students who enter the military or national guard during high school and complete basic training before high school graduation to receive credit toward graduation for basic training. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB966 Education - As enacted, revises provision for expulsion of a student who commits battery upon an LEA employee or school resource officer to instead require expulsion of a student who commits aggravated assault against such a person. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1248 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires persons applying for a free memorial registration plate as a military medal recipient to provide the department a DD214 form and a copy of the orders awarding the medal. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-236.

TN - HB790 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee state veterans' home board, June 30, 2015; requires the division of state audit to return to the Tennessee state veterans' home board in 2014 for the purpose of conducting a limited audit to review actions taken to address the issues raised in the findings of the September 2012 audit report for the board. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 58, Chapter 7.

TN - HB645 Mental Illness - As enacted, requires certain mental health professionals to report threats of bodily harm or death made by service recipients in certain situations; requires court clerks to report certain information regarding persons ordered to commitment or adjudicated as mental defective; establishes other requirements that relate to regulating firearm ownership by mental health patients. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 65.

TN - HB520 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, raises the classification of the offense of promoting prostitution of a minor from a Class E felony to a Class A or B felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB521 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, disallows as a defense to offenses of sexual exploitation of a minor, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor that the minor consented to the conduct constituting the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB591 Search & Seizure - As enacted, enacts the "Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act." - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.

TN - HB542 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, requires a pharmacist to make every reasonable effort to prevent the abuse of drugs which the pharmacist dispenses; makes it a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by fine only, for the owner, manager or operator of a pharmacy to knowingly restrict or interfere with, or knowingly require a protocol or procedure that restricts or interferes with, a pharmacist's professional duty to counsel with patients and to evaluate the patients' appropriate pharmaceutical needs and the exercise of the pharmacist's professional judgment as to whether it is appropriate to dispense a legend drug to a patient. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 56; Title 63, Chapter 1; Title 63, Chapter 10; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB1369 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the Honor and Remember flag as the official state symbol of remembrance to honor fallen military service members. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB2184 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, makes out-of-state medical laboratories subject to rebate prohibition in medical laboratory statute and other provisions of that statute deemed necessary by the medical laboratory board to protect the public. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 29.

TN - HB1376 Education - As introduced, permits LEAs to amend and correct testing and demographic data released by the department of education within 10 days of the data release. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - HB1105 Education - As introduced, authorizes the department of education to create a pilot project to explore methods of providing comprehensive school safety and mental health services through LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1121 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises provisions governing certain agreements entered into between HMOs and physician-hospital organizations where the risks are transferred to the organization or another provider. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2027 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a winery or farm wine producer to conduct business at satellite locations; requires all payments to wholesalers by licensees be made by electronic funds transfer, credit card, debit card, or such other method that will facilitate full payment at or near the time of delivery; revises other various provisions governing alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HB941 Education - As enacted, requires each LEA to develop a policy whereby the LEA provides for an open enrollment period during which parents or guardians may choose from a list of the LEA schools with available space and request a transfer. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1164 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, exempts certain persons from having certain qualifications to perform certain tests in certain medical laboratories. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 29.

TN - HB687 Special License Plates - As enacted, decreases the minimum order requirement for renewal of any cultural or new specialty earmarked license plate and any collegiate plates for four-year colleges or universities located outside Tennessee from 1,000 to 800. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2342 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, specifies circumstances under which a nursing home may divide and relocate a portion of its licensed beds (each being a qualified partial relocation). - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB2171 Medical Occupations - As enacted, adds to the information each board regulating a provider must collect and provide to the department of health in order for the department to create individual profiles on licensees, the name of the supervising physician of a nurse practitioner who holds a certificate of fitness and of a physician assistant; revises related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 67.

TN - HB578 State Employees - As enacted, authorizes state employees to serve as election officials at the polling place. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB590 Annexation - As introduced, requires, prior to a municipality annexing within its urban growth boundary, the approval of a majority vote of qualified voters in the territory proposed for annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - HB644 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, redefines "cost of doing business by the retailer" from 8 percent of basic costs of cigarettes to retailer to 15 percent of basic costs of cigarettes to retailer. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 25, Part 3.

TN - HB1662 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the Watauga Fife and Drum Corps as the official state fife and drum corps. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB848 Military - As enacted, revises provisions regarding pay requirements, service without compensation, and reimbursement requirements regarding state guard service; specifies when governor may call members to service. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1467 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, requires persons with intellectual disabilities on the waiting list for services to be enrolled in the self-determination waiver when their caregivers attain the age of 75. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.

TN - SJR463 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Shirley C. Raines, University of Memphis

TN - SJR194 Memorials, Sports - Jackson County High School Lady Blue Devils basketball team, Class A State Champion

TN - SJR170 Memorials, Retirement - Mary-Margaret Collier

TN - SJR381 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Gene Elsea

TN - SJR325 Memorials, Interns - Katelyn M. Holland

TN - SJR324 Memorials, Interns - Amanda Hill

TN - SJR268 Memorials, Recognition - Leigh Ann Tuohy

TN - SJR267 Memorials, Recognition - Michael Oher

TN - SJR211 Memorials, Retirement - Carol C. Sheridan

TN - SJR184 Memorials, Retirement - Jan McNally

TN - SJR171 Memorials, Death - Lieutenant Colonel Bill Rhea Starnes

TN - SJR169 Memorials, Public Service - Tom Fleming

TN - SJR164 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emily West, Salutatorian, White County High School

TN - SJR130 Naming and Designating - "National Crime Victims' Rights Week," April 21-27, 2013

TN - SJR129 Naming and Designating - "Police Memorial Week" in Tennessee, May 13-17, 2013

TN - SJR103 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article III, Section 12 of the Constitution of Tennessee to provide for the exercise of powers and duties of the governor during disability.

TN - SJR74 Memorials, Recognition - Bishop Brandon B. Porter

TN - SR17 Firearms and Ammunition - Expresses the will and intention of the senate to resist any effort by the federal government to restrict or abolish rights that are guaranteed to the people by the Second Amendment to the United State Constitution.

TN - SB1161 Education - As enacted, adds to provisions governing students with a parent in the armed forces being given excused absences to additionally provide for up to 10 days cumulatively within the school year for visitation during the member's deployment cycle; cumulative number of excused absences under this provision and present provision for visitation with parent when the member is granted rest and recuperation leave and is stationed out of the country may not exceed 10 days. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1286 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires health insurance policies to cover screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

TN - SB1130 Wine & Wineries - As enacted, authorizes a winery licensed under the Grape and Wine Law that has a total annual wine production of 50,000 gallons or less to obtain an additional self-distribution permit from the alcoholic beverage commission in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-207.

TN - SB1036 Human Rights - As enacted, establishes human trafficking task force. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 38 and Title 71, Chapter 1.

TN - SB1292 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises provisions governing certain agreements entered into between HMOs and physician-hospital organizations where the risks are transferred to the organization or another provider. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1175 Education - As enacted, requires each LEA to develop a policy whereby the LEA provides for an open enrollment period during which parents or guardians may choose from a list of the LEA schools with available space and request a transfer. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1038 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, redefines "unlawful debt" under the provisions governing organized crime to add debt incurred or contracted in violation of certain sex offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1033 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class D felony offense of promoting travel for prostitution; adds the purchase of another person for the purpose of providing a commercial sex act to the types of conduct that constitute the criminal offense of trafficking a person for a commercial sex act; revises other provisions related to sexual servitude and commercial sex acts. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1030 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, disallows as a defense to offenses of sexual exploitation of a minor, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor that the minor consented to the conduct constituting the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1028 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting a person for trafficking a person for a commercial sex act, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor, and exploitation of a minor by electronic means if the offense was committed against a child on or after July 1, 2013, to be 15 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age; changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting a person for patronizing prostitution and promoting prostitution if the offense was committed against a child on or after July 1, to be 10 years from the date the child becomes 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1006 Military - As enacted, revises provisions regarding pay requirements, service without compensation, and reimbursement requirements regarding state guard service; specifies when governor may call members to service. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1.

TN - SB978 Education, Higher - As enacted, redefines "institution" for purposes of the Tennessee State School Bond Authority Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 12.

TN - SB962 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, requires a pharmacist to make every reasonable effort to prevent the abuse of drugs which the pharmacist dispenses; makes it a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by fine only, for the owner, manager or operator of a pharmacy to knowingly restrict or interfere with, or knowingly require a protocol or procedure that restricts or interferes with, a pharmacist's professional duty to counsel with patients and to evaluate the patients' appropriate pharmaceutical needs and the exercise of the pharmacist's professional judgment as to whether it is appropriate to dispense a legend drug to a patient. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 56; Title 63, Chapter 1; Title 63, Chapter 10; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB795 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the allocation of state or local public funds, personnel or property to the regulation or enforcement of any federal law, executive order, rule or regulation, or any treaty signed by the United States, that becomes effective on or after January 1, 2013, that imposes restrictions on citizens who lawfully possess or carry firearms in this state. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB710 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, changes a terminating event for receipt of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship from attempt at any postsecondary institution of a specified number of semester hours to receipt of the scholarship for a fixed number of full-time equivalent semesters. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB667 Military - As enacted, authorizes public employees who are in the military to use five days of sick leave in lieu of annual leave after the employee has received 20 working days of compensation so the employee does not have to take leave without pay when called to military duties. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33, Part 1.

TN - SB652 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes the issuance of a Native American Indian Association special license plate, with funds allocated to the Native American Indian Association of Tennessee, Inc., to be used exclusively for the association's emergency assistance and education program. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB643 Education, Higher - As enacted, renames the state technology centers to be "state colleges of applied technology" instead of "state technology centers". - Amends TCA Section 4-3-1405; Section 8-50-114; Section 39-13-114; Title 49; Section 54-5-708 and Section 67-6-329.

TN - SB595 Unknown

TN - SB543 Education - As enacted, allows retired teachers' children who are under 24 years of age to receive a 25 percent discount at any state-operated institution of higher learning; provided, that the parent retired with 30 years of full-time creditable service in Tennessee public schools or received disability retirement after a minimum of 25 years of full-time creditable service in Tennessee public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB515 Safety - As introduced, requires certain persons who install and maintain elevators to be licensed. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 121.

TN - SB302 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires local education agencies to continue to pay teacher's full benefits including, but not limited to health insurance benefits, for teachers who are victims of violent crime during the course of employment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - SB199 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, lowers the state sales tax on food and food ingredients for human consumption from 5.25 percent to 5 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB118 State Government - As enacted, designates official Tennessee War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission.

TN - SB116 Fiscal Review Committee - As enacted, requires committee to include impact to commerce statement in fiscal note for bills and resolutions referred to certain committees. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 2.

TN - SB36 Unknown

TN - SB79 Education, Higher - As introduced, creates the office of higher education ombudsperson within the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1333 Health Care - As introduced, requires the Tennessee emergency medical services board to annually report to the board of pharmacy, the board of medical examiners, the board of osteopathic examination and board for licensing health care facilities concerning any needs for modifications to existing rules and protocols for emergency medical services. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 9; Title 68, Chapter 11 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - HB1218 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the allocation of state or local public funds, personnel or property to the regulation or enforcement of any federal law, executive order, rule or regulation, or any treaty signed by the United States, that becomes effective on or after January 1, 2013, that imposes restrictions on citizens who lawfully possess or carry firearms in this state. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB975 Lottery, Charitable - As enacted, extends deadline for application for 2013-2014 annual events for three days after effective date of act. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - HB579 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires that a person be in full compliance with the Financial Responsibility Law of 1977, by purchasing auto insurance, prior to getting the vehicle registration approved or renewed. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB526 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, permits bona fide Tennessee residents who attend certain non-SACS accredited out-of-state boarding schools to qualify for Tennessee HOPE scholarships. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB193 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, lowers the state sales tax on food and food ingredients for human consumption from 5.25 percent to 5 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB445 Education, Higher - As enacted, redefines "institution" for purposes of the Tennessee State School Bond Authority Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 12.

TN - HB362 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires local education agencies to continue to pay teacher's full benefits including, but not limited to health insurance benefits, for teachers who are victims of violent crime during the course of employment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB358 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, redefines "unlawful debt" under the provisions governing organized crime to add debt incurred or contracted in violation of certain sex offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB355 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, clarifies functions performed by alcohol and drug abuse counselors. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 24, Part 6.

TN - HB333 Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, requires persons to register on or after July 1, 2013, with the board of funeral directors and embalmers prior to operating a removal service that arranges, directs, supervises or performs the transportation of human remains; clarifies other provisions related to licensure and regulation. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 47 and Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - HB241 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, establishes an additional award, the STEM stipend, from net lottery proceeds for Tennessee HOPE scholarship recipients who are majoring in STEM fields; sets STEM stipend at $1,000 for the 2013-2014 academic year subject to appropriation and sufficient net lottery proceeds. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB221 Education - As enacted, allows an LEA, in its discretion, to determine whether to continue employment of a nontenured teacher who taught in a school prior to the school's transfer to the ASD. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-614.

TN - HB250 Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, adds certain grounds upon which the board of funeral directors and embalmers may refuse to grant or may suspend, revoke or refuse to renew a license, including owning 5 percent or more of any hospice providing hospice services. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 62, Chapter 5 and Title 68.

TN - HB236 Education, Higher - As enacted, renames the state technology centers to be "state colleges of applied technology" instead of "state technology centers". - Amends TCA Section 4-3-1405; Section 8-50-114; Section 39-13-114; Title 49; Section 54-5-708 and Section 67-6-329.

TN - HB130 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class D felony offense of promoting travel for prostitution; adds the purchase of another person for the purpose of providing a commercial sex act to the types of conduct that constitute the criminal offense of trafficking a person for a commercial sex act; revises other provisions related to sexual servitude and commercial sex acts. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB123 Veterans - As introduced, enacts the "Military Education Assistance for Tennessee Act," which provides eligibility for in state tuition to certain honorably discharged veterans; creates tuition waiver program for members of the Tennessee state guard with at least one year of service and tuition discount program for the spouses of such members. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB91 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, limits duration that a tenured teacher may be suspended pending investigation to 90 days only if the matter investigated is not the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation or a DCS investigation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 5.

TN - HB32 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, details and limits which distinctive memorial registration plates may be issued to recipients of distinguished military decorations. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - SJR323 Memorials, Heroism - Staff Sergeant Christopher M. Ward, U.S. Army

TN - SJR318 Memorials, Interns - Keitorria L. Edmonds

TN - SJR244 Memorials, Interns - Michael Maren

TN - SJR205 Naming and Designating - "A Soldier's Child Day," June 2, 2013

TN - SJR284 Memorials, Recognition - Emergency Medical Services Week, May 19-25, 2013

TN - SJR118 Highway Signs - Names bridge on S.R. 109 in Sumner County in honor of Walter T. Durham, Tennessee's State Historian.

TN - SJR111 Memorials, Government Officials - Urges department of environment and conservation and federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to study feasibility of reestablishing plant and animal species native to Tennessee’s coalfield areas.

TN - SJR75 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Robert Glenn Parson and Ruth Parsons, 50th wedding anniversary

TN - SJR201 Memorials, Retirement - Nat Johnson

TN - SJR146 Memorials, Retirement - David N. McGriff, Sr.

TN - SJR98 Memorials, Death - Jeanne Stephenson Bodfish, Comptroller of the Treasury

TN - SJR79 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Clayton Stout, Tennessee fish and wildlife commission.

TN - SJR33 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Sheriff Ron "Hoss" Seals, Sheriff of the Year

TN - SJR29 Memorials, Death - Lois Lee Cochran Coleman

TN - SJR28 Memorials, Recognition - Trudy Hughes, YWCA's Tribute to Women award

TN - SR29 Memorials, Recognition - March of Dimes, 75th anniversary

TN - SJR26 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Renda Crowe, 2012-13 Tennessee Teacher of the Year for East Grand Division

TN - SJR20 Memorials, Recognition - Grand Junction, Tennessee, Bird Dog and Field Trial Capital of the World

TN - SJR12 Memorials, Recognition - Jim Ed Brown, 50th Anniversary as member of the Grand Ole Opry

TN - SJR3 Memorials, Death - Evelyon Vanderpool Hilleary

TN - SB1390 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, adds a person who physically possesses or controls a child to those from whose custody a child can be removed if the child is subject to an immediate threat to the child's health or safety and there is no less drastic alternative to removal. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB1269 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, exempts certain persons from having certain qualifications to perform certain tests in certain medical laboratories. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 29.

TN - SB1265 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows any child of a public school teacher who is enrolled in a state institution of higher learning and receiving a tuition discount to continue to receive that discount if their parent retires after 30 years of full-time creditable service while the child is enrolled. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1152 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, details and limits which distinctive memorial registration plates may be issued to recipients of distinguished military decorations. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - SB1034 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, provides that termination of parental or guardianship rights may be initiated if a parent or guardian has been convicted of trafficking for a commercial sex act. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - SB1032 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, raises the classification of the offense of promoting prostitution of a minor from a Class E felony to a Class A or B felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1035 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, requires rather than permits that restitution to the victim be paid by the defendant for the offenses of patronizing prostitution, trafficking for commercial sex acts, solicitation of a minor for sexual purposes, and enlisting or paying a minor to engage in child pornography. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-118.

TN - SB1027 Evidence - As enacted, provides that victims 13 and under of trafficking for commercial sex acts and patronizing prostitution may, under certain circumstances, testify outside the courtroom by closed circuit television. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB994 Budget Procedures - As enacted, requires the governor to include an allocation to the reserve for revenue fluctuations equal to an amount sufficient to maintain the reserve at 8 percent, instead of 5 or 10 percent, of estimated state tax revenues allocated to the general fund and the education trust fund, or at 8 percent of the estimated growth in state tax revenues to such funds, whichever amount is lesser. - Amends TCA Title 9.

TN - SB796 Search & Seizure - As enacted, enacts the "Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act." - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.

TN - SB789 Mental Illness - As enacted, requires certain mental health professionals to report threats of bodily harm or death made by service recipients in certain situations; requires court clerks to report certain information regarding persons ordered to commitment or adjudicated as mental defective; establishes other requirements that relate to regulating firearm ownership by mental health patients. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 65.

TN - SB570 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, enacts the "School Security Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB364 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee state veterans' home board, June 30, 2015; requires the division of state audit to return to the Tennessee state veterans' home board in 2014 for the purpose of conducting a limited audit to review actions taken to address the issues raised in the findings of the September 2012 audit report for the board. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 58, Chapter 7.

TN - SB477 Students - As enacted, allows students who enter the military or national guard during high school and complete basic training before high school graduation to receive credit toward graduation for basic training. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB264 Education - As enacted, revises provision for expulsion of a student who commits battery upon an LEA employee or school resource officer to instead require expulsion of a student who commits aggravated assault against such a person. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB233 Education - As enacted, allows an LEA, in its discretion, to determine whether to continue employment of a nontenured teacher who taught in a school prior to the school's transfer to the ASD. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-614.

TN - SB208 Veterans - As introduced, enacts the "Military Education Assistance for Tennessee Act," which provides eligibility for in state tuition to certain honorably discharged veterans; creates tuition waiver program for members of the Tennessee state guard with at least one year of service and tuition discount program for the spouses of such members. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB198 Taxes, Income - As enacted, increases the annual income a person at least 65 years of age may earn and still be exempt from the Hall income tax from $26,200 to $33,000 for single filers and from $37,000 to $59,000 for persons filing jointly. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - SB244 Welfare - As enacted, prohibits recipients of public assistance from using electronic benefit transfer cards to purchase certain goods or services in certain establishments. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - SB193 Veterans' Affairs, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes department to establish veteran cemeteries, in addition to the three cemeteries required under present law, as needed, by using federal planning criteria in order to receive federal grant funding to assist with establishing the additional cemeteries. - Amends TCA Section 46-6-101.

TN - SB20 Education - As introduced, requires the adoption of a disruptive student removal policy by local boards of education and establishes procedures that the policy must follow. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB19 Unknown

TN - SB10 Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires the department of safety to waive the driving skills test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members applying for commercial driver licenses; identifies certain alternative requirements, which include operating a commercial motor vehicle in the military in combination with a good driving record. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HB1378 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires customer approval prior to sale, consolidation or merger of Hampton Utility District of Carter County. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82, Part 2.

TN - HB1357 Carter County - As introduced, subject to local approval, gives the Carter County landfill committee power to hire and fire the landfill director and excercise oversight of the landfill. - Amends Chapter.

TN - HB1216 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows any child of a public school teacher who is enrolled in a state institution of higher learning and receiving a tuition discount to continue to receive that discount if their parent retires after 30 years of full-time creditable service while the child is enrolled. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1019 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, replaces current universal do not resuscitate order statute with a new provision authorizing physician orders for scope of treatment (POST). - Amends TCA Title 32, Chapter 11; Title 34, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB951 Treasurer, State - As introduced, authorizes the treasury department to utilize the attorney general, or an assistant designated by the attorney general, to assist the department in providing legal services regarding deferred or tax-sheltered compensation plans for state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25, Part 1.

TN - HB922 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, establishes tax relief program for victims of natural disasters in Tennessee occurring between August 4, 2012, and August 6, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB699 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, establishes a process for reimbursing physicians for services rendered during the pendency of a credentialing application before a health insurance entity. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB688 County Officers - As introduced, permits constables to post and mail detainer summonses in addition to sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. - Amends TCA Section 29-18-115.

TN - HB557 Local Government, General - As introduced, enacts the "Safe Schools Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 49.

TN - HB402 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, changes a terminating event for receipt of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship from attempt at any postsecondary institution of a specified number of semester hours to receipt of the scholarship for a fixed number of full-time equivalent semesters. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB330 Budget Procedures - As enacted, requires the governor to include an allocation to the reserve for revenue fluctuations equal to an amount sufficient to maintain the reserve at 8 percent, instead of 5 or 10 percent, of estimated state tax revenues allocated to the general fund and the education trust fund, or at 8 percent of the estimated growth in state tax revenues to such funds, whichever amount is lesser. - Amends TCA Title 9.

TN - HB344 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, adds "computed tomography" to the list of healthcare services that shall be initiated only after applying and receiving a certificate of need. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB283 Education - As enacted, allows retired teachers' children who are under 24 years of age to receive a 25 percent discount at any state-operated institution of higher learning; provided, that the parent retired with 30 years of full-time creditable service in Tennessee public schools or received disability retirement after a minimum of 25 years of full-time creditable service in Tennessee public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB220 Fiscal Review Committee - As enacted, requires committee to include impact to commerce statement in fiscal note for bills and resolutions referred to certain committees. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 2.

TN - HB187 Veterans' Affairs, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes department to establish veteran cemeteries, in addition to the three cemeteries required under present law, as needed, by using federal planning criteria in order to receive federal grant funding to assist with establishing the additional cemeteries. - Amends TCA Section 46-6-101.

TN - HB95 State Government - As enacted, designates official Tennessee War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission.

TN - HB25 Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires the department of safety to waive the driving skills test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members applying for commercial driver licenses; identifies certain alternative requirements, which include operating a commercial motor vehicle in the military in combination with a good driving record. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HB67 Naming and Designating - As enacted, declares the third week of June as "Lymphedema Awareness Week." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB66 Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, increases the time within which an action for injury to the person must be commenced from one year from the date the cause of action accrues to two years. - Amends TCA Section 28-3-104.

TN - HB52 Education, Higher - As introduced, creates the office of higher education ombudsperson within the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB21 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, creates the "Tennessee STEP UP" scholarship program for postsecondary education for students with intellectual disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB6 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, enacts the "School Security Act of 2013." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR456 Memorials, Retirement - Bill Bradley

TN - SJR449 Memorials, Death - Alphonso "Al" Bodie

TN - SJR447 Memorials, Interns - Andrea Bennett

TN - HB1390 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires the assessor, upon application of an owner of property that qualifies for federal low-income housing tax credits, to value the property based on actual income derived from the property without consideration of any value attributable to the low-income housing tax credits. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2139 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, authorizes collaborative pharmacy practice. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10; Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2327 Public Contracts - As introduced, expands the requirement for all state agencies to actively solicit bids and proposals from service-disabled veteran-owned businesses to any veteran-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12, Chapter 3 and Title 12, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2355 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, extends the period of limitation of prosecution for certain sexual offenses committed against a child to twenty-five years from the date the child becomes eighteen years of age. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2456 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the commissioner of health to develop a plan for a network of providers and health agreements to provide primary care for uninsured persons at local health departments. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1428 Veterans - As introduced, creates a grant program to assist veterans with the creation and opening of small businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 58.

TN - SJR474 Memorials, Death - Walter Thomas Durham

TN - HB2223 Civil Procedure - As enacted, permits courts and not just chancellors to reopen bidding on judicial sales; clarifies that a court clerk is empowered to take certain actions regarding the acceptance of an advance bid and the reopening of bidding at no additional fee, commission or cost, but the clerk is not to take those actions if a court order specifically prohibits the acceptance of an advance bid. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2244 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, establishes a local disaster relief fund from which sales tax refunds may be made to individuals whose residences were damaged by a disaster. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 58 and Title 67.

TN - HB2249 Textbooks - As enacted, restructures the textbook commission and the textbook selection process; renames the commission to be the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB2310 Fees - As introduced, requires department of revenue to pay fees to county clerks for issuing certificates of title. - Amends TCA Section 55-6-104.

TN - SB2427 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Health Care Provider Stability Act". - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2316 Education - As introduced, creates a TVAAS study committee to review the methodology and nature of the statistical estimates produced by TVAAS. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2325 County Officers - As introduced, requires candidates for the office of constable in Washington County to have at least one year of law enforcement experience and be certified by a licensed health care provider as being free from any disorder that would impair the candidate's ability to perform any essential function of the job. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - SB2559 Education - As enacted, requires that LEAs make all teaching materials, including handouts readily available for review upon request by the parents or legal guardians and that the official operating policies of boards of education must provide that a parent or legal guardian is entitled to review tests that are developed by and graded by a teacher of the parent or legal guardian's child; revises other provisions relative to parental inspection of school materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 70.

TN - SJR477 Memorials, Recognition - James G. Neeley.

TN - HB1384 Naming and Designating - As enacted, names new Tennessee State Veterans Home in Montgomery County in honor of Brigadier General (Retired) Wendell H. Gilbert, United States Army.

TN - SB1443 Naming and Designating - As enacted, names new Tennessee State Veterans Home in Montgomery County in honor of Brigadier General (Retired) Wendell H. Gilbert, United States Army.

TN - SJR469 Memorials, Death - Donald William Jackson

TN - SB1602 Textbooks - As enacted, restructures the textbook commission and the textbook selection process; renames the commission to be the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SJR491 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses Tennessee's sovereignty over education standards and assessments.

TN - SB1691 State Employees - As enacted, enacts the "Three Stars of Tennessee Award" to recognize peace officers, firefighters, and medical first responders killed or who suffered a career-ending injury in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1531 Education - As introduced, deletes the requirement that the comptroller approve requests for proposals submitted by an LEA to purchase certain Internet services; requires the state department of education to develop policies governing such LEA purchases. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - HB1648 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, revises provisions governing the registration and operation of medium speed vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 39; Title 47; Title 55, Chapter 1; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 50; Title 55, Chapter 8; Title 55, Chapter 9 and Title 70.

TN - SJR523 Memorials, Death - Regen Morris

TN - SJR526 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Charles Traughber, Tennessee ethics commission.

TN - SJR528 Memorials, Retirement - Reverend Harold A. Middlebrook, Sr.

TN - HB1857 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, requires the executive director of THEC to convene an accessibility task force to develop recommendations for the general assembly related to ensuring accessibility of digital curricula for students with disabilities at state institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 20.

TN - SJR535 Naming and Designating - Youth Art Month.

TN - HB1923 Driver Licenses - As introduced, under certain conditions, requires persons convicted of DUI offenses to be issued restricted driver licenses that restrict them from purchasing alcoholic beverages for certain periods of time following the conviction. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 55, Chapter 10; Title 55, Chapter 50 and Title 57.

TN - HB2004 Public Employees - As introduced, adds emergency medical services personnel and 911 operators to persons who may receive compensation when killed in the line of duty; increases amount of such compensation from $25,000 to $1,000,000 for all who qualify. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - SJR548 Memorials, Death - Speaker Pro Tempore Emeritus Lois M. DeBerry.

TN - SJR549 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Gregg Jones.

TN - SJR552 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Susan Whitaker.

TN - SJR562 Memorials, Death - George Jones.

TN - SR69 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Senator Randy McNally, 59th birthday.

TN - SB2429 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, specifies circumstances under which a nursing home may divide and relocate a portion of its licensed beds (each being a qualified partial relocation). - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - SB1431 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the Honor and Remember flag as the official state symbol of remembrance to honor fallen military service members. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - SB1671 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires the assessor, upon application of an owner of property that qualifies for federal low-income housing tax credits, to value the property based on actual income derived from the property without consideration of any value attributable to the low-income housing tax credits. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1495 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, authorizes community mental health centers and federally qualified health centers to employ physicians, except anesthesiologists, emergency department physicians, pathologists or radiologists. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR496 Memorials, Death - Harriett Lavinia Howard

TN - HB1499 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, authorizes counties and municipalities to ban smoking within 50 feet of a building owned or used by the county or municipality for governmental purposes the same as such entities may now prohibit smoking within 50 feet of a hospital. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15.

TN - HB1500 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows a Tennessee student graduating from an out-of-state boarding school that is accredited by a member of the National Association of Independent Schools Commission on Accreditation to be eligible for Tennessee HOPE lottery scholarship, if the student meets all other applicable requirements for the scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SJR518 Memorials, Death - John Madison Smartt.

TN - HB1707 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes the department of transportation to develop an electronic procedure to store outstanding certificates of title in lieu of paper documents when possible. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB1740 Recreational Areas - As enacted, authorizes certain counties to create recreation boards to be composed of nine members representing each civil district within such counties in lieu of present law requirement that boards be composed of five members, with up to two school staff members. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 24, Part 1.

TN - HB1747 Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, requires "sexual offender" to be displayed in red three times on the face of any driver license or identification card issued by the department of safety to a registered sexual offender. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB1768 Disabled Persons - As enacted, elevates from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the penalty for knowingly abusing, neglecting or exploiting an adult who is unable to manage his or her resources or carry out the activities of daily living due to mental or physical dysfunctions or advanced age; requires certain notifications; establishes elder abuse task force. - Amends TCA Section 71-6-117.

TN - SB1992 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, authorizes collaborative pharmacy practice. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10; Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

TN - SB2047 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, enacts the "Educator Respect and Accountability Act of 2014." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2061 Public Employees - As introduced, adds emergency medical services personnel and 911 operators to persons who may receive compensation when killed in the line of duty; increases amount of such compensation from $25,000 to $1,000,000 for all who qualify. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9 and Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - SJR542 Memorials, Death - K.S. "Bud" Adams, Jr.

TN - SJR561 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Connie Smith, 49th anniversary as a member of the Grand Ole Opry and 50th anniversary of her country music career.

TN - HB2224 County Officers - As introduced, permits constables to post and mail detainer summonses in addition to sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. - Amends TCA Section 29-18-115.

TN - SJR564 Memorials, Recognition - 2013-2014 Tennessee State FFA Officers.

TN - SB2407 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, enacts the "911 Funding Modernization and IP Transition Act of 2014". - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86; Section 9-8-307; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 65.

TN - HB2299 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, authorizes medical laboratories that are attached to hospitals to share the reports of examinations of human specimens with the patient in an electronic health record through the hospital's portal as well as the ordering health care provider. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 29.

TN - SB1692 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, requires the executive director of THEC to convene an accessibility task force to develop recommendations for the general assembly related to ensuring accessibility of digital curricula for students with disabilities at state institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 20.

TN - SJR498 Memorials, Congratulations - State of Tennessee, dismissal of Arlington Developmental Center lawsuit.

TN - HB1511 Sentencing - As introduced, increases penalty for offense of evading arrest in motor vehicle from Class D to Class C felony if the evading results in death or injury to an innocent bystander or 3rd party. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 6.

TN - SJR587 Memorials, Recognition - First Tennessee, 150th anniversary.

TN - SJR606 Memorials, Death - Lisa Huffstetler.

TN - SJR482 Memorials, Recognition - Recognizes February 10, 1954, as the anniversary of the addition of the words, “under God,” to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.

TN - SB1654 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, requires TBI to update the missing children's web page to reflect that a missing child has been recovered. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB1560 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes the department of transportation to authorize the state treasurer to establish a program for the sale of nonrefundable gift vouchers, gift cards, rebates, incentives, debit cards or any other form of electronic payments for special license plate fees. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1995 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, requires TBI to update the missing children's web page to reflect that a missing child has been recovered. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SJR505 Memorials, Government Officials - Requests State Capitol Commission to initiate creation and placement in State Capitol of monument to honor David Crockett.

TN - SB2230 Unknown

TN - SB1433 Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Veterans Education Transition Support Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SJR602 Memorials, Retirement - Arlene Martin-Norman.

TN - SJR629 Memorials, Retirement - Chief Warrant Officer Five Billy Cook, United States Army.

TN - SJR628 Memorials, Retirement - Chief Warrant Officer Five Karl H. Maier.

TN - SB2084 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, revises various present law provisions governing the statute of limitations for certain sexual offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1954 Boats, Boating - As enacted, enacts the "Noah Dean and Nate Act" to lessen the likelihood of electric shock drowning near marinas and boat docks. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

TN - HB1892 Boats, Boating - As enacted, enacts the "Noah Dean and Nate Act" to lessen the likelihood of electric shock drowning near marinas and boat docks. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

TN - SB2004 Civil Procedure - As enacted, waives governmental immunity for claims against any governmental entity under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (“USERRA”), 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301-4334. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20, Part 2.

TN - HB1918 Civil Procedure - As enacted, waives governmental immunity for claims against any governmental entity under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (“USERRA”), 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301-4334. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20, Part 2.

TN - HB2257 Health Care - As enacted, creates an autism spectrum disorder task force to study and make recommendations to the general assembly regarding ways to improve access to programs and services for early screening, diagnosis, and treatment of autism spectrum disorders in this state. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 68.

TN - SB2415 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a winery or farm wine producer to conduct business at satellite locations; requires all payments to wholesalers by licensees be made by electronic funds transfer, credit card, debit card, or such other method that will facilitate full payment at or near the time of delivery; revises other various provisions governing alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB2538 Health Care - As enacted, creates an autism spectrum disorder task force to study and make recommendations to the general assembly regarding ways to improve access to programs and services for early screening, diagnosis, and treatment of autism spectrum disorders in this state. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 68.

TN - HB2371 Annexation - As enacted, establishes a moratorium on annexation by ordinance or resolution; revises other provisions governing annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - SB2464 Annexation - As enacted, establishes a moratorium on annexation by ordinance or resolution; revises other provisions governing annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - SR93 Memorials, Government Officials - Urges the Tennessee Valley Authority and local power companies to continue expanding opportunities for Tennesseans and businesses to utilize renewable energy.

TN - SJR649 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Division of Forestry, 100th anniversary.

TN - HB1697 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state board of education to include cursive writing in the course of instruction in all public schools through the curriculum standards, at the appropriate grade level, as determined by the board. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - HB1938 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, permits continued property tax exemption for property financed by certain federal programs, when the loan has been paid in full and the property continues to be used for elderly persons or persons with disabilities; revises the provisions regarding projects with 12 units. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 2.

TN - SB2283 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, permits continued property tax exemption for property financed by certain federal programs, when the loan has been paid in full and the property continues to be used for elderly persons or persons with disabilities; revises the provisions regarding projects with 12 units. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 2.

TN - SB2342 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, prohibits the establishment of rules, policies or guidelines that require classroom or position observation results to be aligned with TVAAS data. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2264 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, prohibits the establishment of rules, policies or guidelines that require classroom or position observation results to be aligned with TVAAS data. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2093 Children - As enacted, makes dependent children, who are four years of age whose parent was killed, died as direct result of injuries received or has been officially reported as being either a prisoner of war or missing in action while serving honorably as a member of the United States armed forces during a qualified period of armed conflict, or was formerly a prisoner of war or missing in action under such circumstances, eligible to attend pilot pre-kindergarten programs and requires licensed child care agencies to prioritize such children on any waiting list for admission; changes the date by which a child from a family that qualifies for free and reduced price lunch must be four years of age, in order to qualify for participation in the programs of community-based early childhood education and pre-kindergarten programs from September 30 to August 15. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB1969 Children - As enacted, makes dependent children, who are four years of age whose parent was killed, died as direct result of injuries received or has been officially reported as being either a prisoner of war or missing in action while serving honorably as a member of the United States armed forces during a qualified period of armed conflict, or was formerly a prisoner of war or missing in action under such circumstances, eligible to attend pilot pre-kindergarten programs and requires licensed child care agencies to prioritize such children on any waiting list for admission; changes the date by which a child from a family that qualifies for free and reduced price lunch must be four years of age, in order to qualify for participation in the programs of community-based early childhood education and pre-kindergarten programs from September 30 to August 15. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - HB2326 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, increases the penalty for patronizing a prostitute under age 18 from a Class E felony to a Class A felony; increases the penalty for patronizing a prostitute with an intellectual disability from a Class E felony to a Class B felony; specifies that it is not a defense that the subject of the offense is a law enforcement officer or that the victim of the offense is a minor who consented to the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB2170 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts from sales tax, any motor vehicle sold to a veteran or service member who has a service-connected disability and who is eligible for a United States Department of Veterans Affairs automobile grant under the "Disabled Veterans' and Servicemen's Automobile Assistance Act of 1970". - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2097 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, encourages the department of transportation to transfer a certain state-owned portion of land between Belmont Boulevard and Interstate 65 in Davidson County to the Metropolitan Government in perpetuity so long as the property is maintained as parkland; directs the department to erect suitable markers at the intersection of Gale Lane and Lealand Lane in Davidson County, on land currently leased to the Metropolitan Government for parkland, designating the area as the "Senator Douglas Henry Urban Conservation District".

TN - SB2490 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, encourages the department of transportation to transfer a certain state-owned portion of land between Belmont Boulevard and Interstate 65 in Davidson County to the Metropolitan Government in perpetuity so long as the property is maintained as parkland; directs the department to erect suitable markers at the intersection of Gale Lane and Lealand Lane in Davidson County, on land currently leased to the Metropolitan Government for parkland, designating the area as the "Senator Douglas Henry Urban Conservation District".

TN - SB1430 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts from sales tax, any motor vehicle sold to a veteran or service member who has a service-connected disability and who is eligible for a United States Department of Veterans Affairs automobile grant under the "Disabled Veterans' and Servicemen's Automobile Assistance Act of 1970". - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1815 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, increases the penalty for patronizing a prostitute under age 18 from a Class E felony to a Class A felony; increases the penalty for patronizing a prostitute with an intellectual disability from a Class E felony to a Class B felony; specifies that it is not a defense that the subject of the offense is a law enforcement officer or that the victim of the offense is a minor who consented to the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - SB1881 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the state board of education to include cursive writing in the course of instruction in all public schools through the curriculum standards, at the appropriate grade level, as determined by the board. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - SJR697 Memorials, Death - Ted Houston Welch.

TN - SJR715 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourage schools to have their students recite the first official salute to the Tennessee Flag.

TN - SJR733 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Lowe Finney.

TN - SJR746 Memorials, Interns - Joshua Bennett.

TN - SJR711 Memorials, Recognition - Nashville Local Organizing Committee for the Women's Final Four.

TN - SJR695 Memorials, Sports - Watson and Mack Brown, winningest brother coaching tandem in NCAA Division I history.

TN - SB2079 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, requires the treasurer to recommend to the TCRS board of trustees a funding policy with respect to TCRS; enacts the "Public Employee Defined Benefit Financial Security Act of 2014"; revises other benefit-related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 37, Part 3 and Title 9, Chapter 3.

TN - SJR765 Memorials, Sports - Meigs County High School boys basketball team.

TN - SJR764 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Ronnie and Emily Townes, 50th wedding anniversary.

TN - SJR766 Memorials, Sports - 2013-2014 Meigs County Lady Tigers girls basketball team.

TN - SJR760 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Charlotte Burks.

TN - SJR710 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses opposition to U.S. Army proposal to eliminate Kiowa helicopters from Army and National Guard units.

TN - SJR793 Memorials, Recognition - Recognizes April 2014 as the Month of the Military Child.

TN - SJR782 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Douglas S. Henry.

TN - HB89 Highway Signs - As introduced, provides for modification of language on existing welcome signs for Bristol to read "Bristol - The Birthplace of Country Music."