Tennessee Sen. Rusty Crowe (R)

TN - Education (Senate)

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TN - Government Operations (Senate)

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TN - Health and Welfare (Senate)

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TN - SB2632 Bonds and Undertakings, Regulation of - As introduced, requires any county governing body that prepares a plan of debt reorganization to submit a copy of the plan to the comptroller of the treasury upon the comptroller's request. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5 and Title 9.

TN - SJR187 Memorials, Recognition - Caroline E. Kraft, Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year.

TN - SB1003 Recreational Vehicles - As enacted, creates an off-highway vehicle advisory committee to study the provision of safety training to off-highway vehicle operators, acquisition of potential private or public land as off-highway recreation areas, and funding sources for such training and acquisitions; requires the committee to report by January 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 55 and Title 70.

TN - SB193 Real Estate Agents and Brokers - As introduced, deletes the requirement that the executive director of the real estate commission pass the broker's examination. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 13.

TN - SJR523 Memorials, Death - Harry Morin Feigin

TN - SB1187 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, clarifies that, for certain criminal offenses, the word accident includes any crash or collision regardless of the level of care taken by the drivers involved or whether criminal conduct was involved. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - SB1408 Washington County - As introduced, subject to local approval, repeals private act that created the office of county zoning administrator, thus enabling the county to establish the position of county building commissioner pursuant to general law. - Repeals l Chapter 52 of the Private Acts of 1989.

TN - SB1184 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, authorizes Johnson City to adjust its hotel-motel tax rate one time and limits the amount of the increase to two percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.

TN - SB196 Podiatrists - As introduced, changes the minimum age for taking an examination for a podiatrist license from 18 to 24. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - SB1728 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As enacted, revises provisions governing industrial development corporations and payments in lieu of taxes made by the corporation's lessees. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9 and Title 13.

TN - SB1008 County Officers - As enacted, permits constables who have law enforcement powers to carry firearms at all times and in all places in Tennessee that other law enforcement officers are permitted to carry firearms; requires the constable to receive, at a minimum, 40 hours initial training, within one year of election, and eight hours annual in-service training in firearms qualification administered by a certified law enforcement firearms instructor. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB1745 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, establishes the day after Thanksgiving Day as Native American Heritage Day in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 15.

TN - SJR395 Memorials, Death - Robert "Bob" Burleson.

TN - SJR65 Memorials, Recognition - Johnson City/Jonesborough/Washington County Chamber of Commerce, 100th anniversary.

TN - SJR66 Memorials, Death - Howard H. Baker Jr.

TN - SB1186 Sexual Offenses - As introduced, increases from under 15 to under 18 the age of a child for a Class A felony offense of trafficking for commercial sex acts; adds affirmative defense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 3.

TN - SB2192 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to annually report to the health committee of the house and the health and welfare committee of the senate concerning revisions to the treatment guidelines and pain clinic guidelines. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB202 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, requires the governor to designate the first weekend in August of each calendar year as "Tennessee's Weekend of Prayer Over Students." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SJR400 Memorials, Death - Fred Dalton Thompson.

TN - SJR272 Memorials, Death - David F. Bautista.

TN - SJR520 Memorials, Retirement - Richard Storey

TN - SJR64 Memorials, Death - Lowell "Bud" Paxson.

TN - SB2191 Highway Patrol - As introduced, requires the department of safety to pay from existing budgeted funds a monthly amount to a retired highway patrol officer for the medical care of the retired canine to whom the officer was assigned if the canine is given to the care and custody of the officer upon retirement. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB1004 Lottery, Charitable - As enacted, extends deadline for applications for 2015-2016 annual events for three days after April 14, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17, Part 1.

TN - SB197 County Officers - As enacted, permits constables to post and mail detainer summonses in addition to sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. - Amends TCA Section 29-18-115.

TN - SB2045 Trusts - As introduced, authorizes a trustee to establish a single trust fund for all pre-need funeral contracts issued by multiple pre-need sellers, instead of having to establish a trust fund for each pre-need seller. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 4.

TN - SJR238 Memorials, Recognition - Jack Perkins.

TN - SB1406 Washington County - As introduced, subject to local approval, abolishes the office of county attorney and deletes the authority of the county commission to establish a separate office of county staff attorney in Washington County, thus enabling the county attorney to be hired pursuant to general law. - Amends Chapter 69 of the Private Acts of 2012.

TN - SB1179 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, increases time from 30 days to 30 business days for what is considered a "reasonable time" for purposes of when a person must respond to a request for information regarding a complaint. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB1180 County Government - As enacted, deletes an exemption for Washington County from the general law governing procedures for amending a county budget. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 9, Part 4.

TN - SB1722 TennCare - As enacted, enacts the "TennCare Omnibus Act of 2016". - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - SB1724 Foster Care - As introduced, permits a foster parent to petition the court for visitation with a foster child that has been removed from the foster parent's home due to no fault of the foster parent; requires a court ordering foster parent visitation to find a danger of substantial harm to the child and that visitation is in the best interests of the child. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SB1185 Planning, Public - As enacted, authorizes the city of Kingsport to participate in the Tennessee local land bank program. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 30.

TN - SB1727 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a person from intentionally concealing themselves from anyone a person knows to be a law enforcement officer if the person knows the officer is attempting to arrest the person or the person has been arrested. - Amends TCA Section 39-16-603.

TN - SB201 Medical Occupations - As enacted, deletes statement that a physician assistant's supervising physician have complete and absolute authority over the physician assistant's actions while retaining language that the physician assistant function under the control and responsibility of the physician. - Amends TCA Section 63-19-106.

TN - SB203 Veterans - As introduced, expands eligibility for sport hunting and fishing licenses without payment of a fee to all persons with a service-connected disability instead of only those persons having a service-connected disability of 30 percent or more that was acquired during war. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - SB424 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, deletes obsolete references to the state property tax from sections addressing county and municipal property taxes. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-102 and Section 67-5-103.

TN - SB2185 Schools, Home - As introduced, requires a parent of any student who is withdrawn from school mid-school year to be home schooled to notify the director of schools of the parent's intention to home school the student. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3050.

TN - SB2188 Child Abuse - As introduced, expands Class A misdemeanor of child neglect to include knowingly neglecting a child so as to place the child in substantial risk of harm or injury. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - SB2193 Handgun Permits - As introduced, changes the application fee for a lifetime handgun carry permit to vary based on the person's age at the time of application and whether the person is a current handgun carry permit holder. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - SB2428 Annexation - As introduced, deletes the limitation allowing noncontiguous annexation by resolution to occur in only a county having a population according to the most recent decennial census that is greater than 44.5 percent and 50,000 of its population in the preceding decennial census. - Amends TCA Section 6-51-104.

TN - SB2194 Schools, Home - As introduced, permits parents to enroll their children in online accredited schools as home school students. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3050.

TN - SB200 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at certain facilities in Jonesborough. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - SB1178 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires that the fees collected pursuant to the Postsecondary Education Authorization Act be separated from all other collections and expenditures of THEC. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 20.

TN - SB1726 Veterans - As introduced, encourages employers to provide paid or unpaid time off on Veterans Day for employees who are veterans. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 58.

TN - SJR162 Memorials, Death - Dr. Felix G. Line.

TN - SJR188 Memorials, Recognition - Whitney C. Andes, Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year.

TN - SB195 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, increases, from five percent to seven percent, the cap on hotel taxes in municipalities that have adopted home rule. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.

TN - SB1725 Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, creates the "Nurse Licensure Compact." - Amends and repeals portions of TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - SJR468 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Bobby G. Stout

TN - SB2430 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, enacts the "Municipal Energy Authority Act." - Amends TCA Title 7.

TN - SB1723 Medical Occupations - As enacted, authorizes a licensed podiatrist to supervise a physician assistant or an orthopedic physician assistant; requires compliance with certain statutory requirements and administrative rules; enacts other provisions related to such supervision. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 19 and Title 63, Chapter 3.

TN - SB2183 Health Care - As enacted, redefines "traumatic brain injury residential home"; requires that any TBI residential home currently operating be licensed by the board for licensing healthcare facilities by January 1, 2017. - Amends TCA Section 68-11-201 and Section 68-11-273.

TN - SJR381 Memorials, Interns - Jacob Lovell.

TN - SB2184 TennCare - As introduced, sets limits on the use of factors not under the control of a physician in determining reimbursement in an alternative payment system. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - SB2431 Food and Food Products - As introduced, increases the number of days in which the commissioner of health must grant or deny a request for a variance from the restrictions against bare hand contact with food from within 60 days to within 75 days. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 53; Title 57; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SR130 Memorials, Recognition - Upper East Tennessee Celtic Society, 25th anniversary

TN - SB1182 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, rewrites provisions governing human trafficking task force; requires TBI to form human trafficking advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 30; Title 38 and Title 71, Chapter 1.

TN - SB194 Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, clarifies that the two members of the board of funeral directors and embalmers with a minimum of five consecutive years' experience in this state immediately preceding their appointment shall be licensed as funeral directors, embalmers, or both; and provides that if the board is inspecting a crematory facility in conjunction with an application for initial licensure, change of ownership, or change of location, the authorized representative conducting the inspection for the board shall also be a certified crematory operator. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 2.

TN - SB2187 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires any person who intentionally flees by means of locomotion from a law enforcement officer to be punished by confinement of not less than 15 days if the person is in unlawful possession of a deadly weapon at the time of arrest. - Amends TCA Section 39-16-603.

TN - SJR514 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Larry D. Calhoun

TN - SB2429 Handgun Permits - As introduced, requires the department of safety to reduce the initial application fee for a handgun carry permit by 25 percent for applicant who has relocated from Virginia to Tennessee within two years of applying for the permit. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - SJR175 Memorials, Death - Wallace Alley.

TN - SB199 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, redefines "cost of doing business by the retailer" for purposes of violations under the "Unfair Retailer's Cigarette Sales Law." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 25, Part 3.

TN - SB934 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, enacts the "Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11, Part 1; Title 56, Chapter 4 and Title 67.

TN - SJR269 Memorials, Retirement - Conley Jones.

TN - SB198 Elder Abuse - As enacted, extends the elder abuse task force from January 15, 2015, to January 15, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 71 and Chapter 961 of the Public Acts of 2014.

TN - SB1183 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, reauthorizes RedTail Mountain resort to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1.

TN - SB2190 Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, enacts the "Campbell/Falk Act," which establishes the right of certain persons to petition to require a conservator to grant communication, visitation, or other interaction with the respondent. - Amends TCA Title 34, Chapter 1; Title 34, Chapter 3 and Title 71, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB1181 Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires the one-year suspension of a driver license for failing to stop at the scene of an accident, if the person is also not in compliance with the Financial Responsibility Law; increases the penalty for failure to stop to a Class B misdemeanor if the damages are less than $500 or a Class A misdemeanor if the damages exceed $500. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 55, Chapter 12.

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

TN - SB1836 TennCare - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment of 2016" and continues the hospital payment rate corridors applicable to payments by managed care organizations to hospitals for services provided to TennCare enrollees established by 2015 annual coverage assessment. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5 and Chapter 276 of the Public Acts of 2015.

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

TN - SB1983 Students - As enacted, requires LEAs to provide students with certain periods of physical activity depending on grade level; deletes an obsolete reporting requirement; requires the office of coordinated school health in the department of education to provide an annual report regarding this act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1214 Dentists and Dentistry - As enacted, specifies that a person who authorizes the practice of teledentistry will be deemed to be practicing dentistry and subject to requirements governing dentistry; requires dentists who deliver services using teledentistry to establish protocols for the practice; enacts other provisions governing teledentistry. - Amends TCA Title 63.

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

TN - SB368 Military - As enacted, permits active duty members of the United States armed forces holding valid military commercial driver licenses whose duty station is located in this state to qualify for a waiver of the required commercial driver skills test. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

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

TN - SB125 TennCare - As enacted, enacts the "Annual Coverage Assessment Act of 2015." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5 and Chapter 877 of the Public Acts of 2014.

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

TN - SB1979 Medical Occupations - As enacted, creates a task force to study issues related to healthcare services; specifies that the task force will make a report and cease to exist by January 10, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7.

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

TN - SB1429 Veterinarians - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Veterinary Practice Act, such as specifying that the "practice of veterinary medicine" occurs wherever the patient is at the time services are rendered and authorizing the board of veterinary medical examiners to deny, suspend or revoke any license or to otherwise discipline an applicant or licensee who is found guilty by the board of practicing veterinary medicine without establishing and maintaining a valid veterinarian-client-patient relationship. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 12.

TN - SB1759 Public Health - As enacted, to the extent permitted by federal law, prohibits the department of health from counting the basic allowance for subsistence as income in determining eligibility of an applicant who is a member of the uniformed service for the special food program for women, infants, and children. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB2045 Trusts - As introduced, authorizes a trustee to establish a single trust fund for all pre-need funeral contracts issued by multiple pre-need sellers, instead of having to establish a trust fund for each pre-need seller. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 4.

TN - SB1488 Fees - As enacted, authorizes sheriffs and constables to collect the same fee payment for unsuccessful service of process as successful service, provided, that service is attempted in accordance with the laws of the state. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-901.

TN - SB1336 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, enacts the "Save the Tax Relief Act." - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - SB1578 Veterans - As introduced, extends from three years to 10 years the time in which a veteran must enroll in a public institution of higher education after discharge to be exempt from paying out-of-state tuition or fees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 13.

TN - SB604 Education - As enacted, enacts "The Educator Protection Act of 2015." - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8.

TN - SB2242 Education, State Board of - As introduced, institutes a two-year waiver of the use of student growth data from the TNReady assessment in teacher evaluations; requires the state board, in consultation with the department of education, to study, and to provide a written report on, the TNReady assessment to the education committees of the senate and the house. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302.

TN - SB715 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, corrects a reference to the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act in the statute governing retirement credit for military service for state employees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 49.

TN - SB325 Lottery, Charitable - As enacted, establishes framework to allow qualified 501(c)(19) organizations to operate an annual gaming event; sets 501(c)(19) application submission deadline. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - SB2186 Education - As enacted, requires each local school board to adopt a policy on the inclusion of religion in curriculum and instructional materials; requires each LEA to create a syllabus to be made public for grades six through 12 on social studies, science, math, and English language arts courses; requires the state board to initiate a revision process for the social studies standards adopted in 2013; requires teacher training institutions to instruct candidates regarding constitutionally permissible instruction of religious content. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

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

TN - SB697 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, specifies that it is grounds for the termination of parental rights that the parent or guardian is convicted on or after July 1, 2015, of the offense of sex trafficking of children under federal law, or under the law of another state. - Amends TCA Section 36-1-113.

TN - SB2097 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, requires healthcare providers to provide certain women at risk of contracting cytomegalovirus (CMV) with information concerning CMV; specifies that there is no liability for failure to comply with the requirement to provide the information. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB985 Sports - As enacted, enacts the "Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB1490 Handgun Permits - As enacted, removes the five-year time frame requirement from the exemption to the handgun safety course requirement for applicants who successfully completed all handgun training of not less than four hours as required by any branch of the military within five years from the date the application for a handgun carry permit is filed. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB1752 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes issuance of Combat Action new specialty earmarked license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1441 Veterans - As enacted, expands eligibility for a Fallen Heroes Medal to service members killed in attacks specifically targeting service members and under other circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 58-3-113.

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

TN - SB2003 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, reduces from 80 to 75 the age a custodial parent or other custodial caregiver of a person with an intellectual disability who is on the waiting list for services must reach before the individual with intellectual disabilities must be placed on the self-determination waiver or similarly capped medical assistance waiver within six months. - Amends TCA Section 33-5-112.

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

TN - SB1431 Education, Higher - As enacted, grants in-state tuition and fees at public higher education institutions to certain dependent children of military parents regardless of place of residency if the military parent perished as the result of a targeted attack that occurred in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SB1820 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, entitles financial institutions to certain franchise and excise tax credits for making certain loans or other grants to community development enterprises. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

TN - SB1477 Handgun Permits - As enacted, reduces the fee for lifetime handgun carry permit, effective January 1, 2017, from $500 to be an amount equal to the regular carry permit fee plus $200, which under present law will equal $300 for the lifetime permit. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - SB1584 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, revises various provisions governing Tennessee STEP UP scholarships. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-943.

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

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

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

TN - SB1466 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, imposes licensure and other requirements on pain management clinics. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

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

TN - SB1021 Education - As enacted, authorizes and encourages local education agencies to adopt as their course of instruction in character education the Congressional Medal of Honor Character Development Program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1779 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, requires certain employees participating in TCRS to have a vesting percentage of 100 percent in retirement benefits upon attaining retirement age or completing certain years of service; revises other various provisions governing public employee benefits. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.

TN - SB1848 Elder Abuse - As enacted, revises requirements for criminal background checks in certain health care facilities; convenes working groups on elder abuse; revises other provisions relative to abuse of certain vulnerable persons. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 47; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB909 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, makes governmental entity immune from liability for all dues, fees, and assessments for all parcels purchased at tax sales. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB116 Veterans' Affairs, Dept. of - As enacted, changes the name of the department to the department of veterans services. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - SB994 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Hospital Cooperation Act of 1993, including provisions governing appeal by a person aggrieved by a decision of the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 13.

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

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

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

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

TN - SB56 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows students who are eligible for the Tennessee Promise scholarship, but who cannot enroll in and attend college in the fall semester after completion of high school because of certain military commitments, to enroll in and attend college in the first term beginning after completion of the student's military commitments without loss of Promise scholarship eligibility. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-708.

TN - SB1830 Water Pollution - As enacted, prohibits any NPDES permit that is issued to a municipal separate storm sewer system ("MS4") administrator in this state from imposing post-construction stormwater requirements, except to the extent necessary to comply with the minimum requirements of federal law; prohibits the state from requiring any entity that administers a MS4 under an NPDES permit to impose control measures for post-construction stormwater that exceed the minimum requirements of federal law; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - SB2092 Health Care - As enacted, establishes a stroke best practices and treatment guidelines task force under the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

TN - SB2589 Public Health - As enacted, requires the commissioner of health to encourage public health organizations, the medical community, the department of education, the department of labor and workforce development, the department of general services, and other relevant stakeholders to examine the asthma prevention protocols posted on the web site of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and related information; requires the commissioner to include on the department of health web site the Internet links to the protocols to better assist people affected by environmental illnesses and multiple chemical sensitivities. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB63 Education - As enacted, permits a local board of education to refuse to accept federal funding for an education program without a penalty being assessed by a state agency or state official, unless such refusal would cause a loss of federal funding for all participating LEAs in the program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 2.

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

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

TN - SB2469 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Right to Earn a Living Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 38; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 67.

TN - SB1128 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, places certain restrictions on the use of traffic enforcement cameras as basis for issuing speeding tickets. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-198.

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

TN - SB937 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Healthcare Provider Stability Act." - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

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

TN - SB33 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, exempts diabetic testing supplies from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

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

TN - SB99 Abuse - As enacted, adds defined terms and rulemaking authority concerning the registry of persons who have abused, neglected, or misappropriated the property of vulnerable individuals; increases from 30 days to 60 days the time within which placement on the registry may be appealed based on administrative error. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 10.

TN - SB1882 TennCare - As introduced, establishes medication therapy management as a component of the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2138 Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2016." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4.

TN - SB1266 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, revises requirements for medical directors and others participating in the operation of a pain management clinic; revises provisions regarding the development of recommended treatment guidelines for prescribing controlled substances; requires the development of recommended pain clinic standards. - Amends TCA Title 63.

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

TN - SB2590 Military - As introduced, establishes standards for the wear and appearance of Tennessee state guard uniforms. - Amends TCA Section 58-1-304 and Title 58, Chapter 1, Part 4.

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 - SB2121 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises provisions regarding promoting prostitution; the dissemination of certain information by the TBI in regard to human trafficking; and the definition of "caregiver" for purposes of the laws governing juvenile courts and proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38 and Title 39.

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

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

TN - SB385 Medical Occupations - As enacted, adds dry needling to scope of practice of a physical therapist. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 13.

TN - SR15 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Homer Malone, 71st birthday.

TN - SR65 Memorials, Death - Eleanor McNeil Massey.

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

TN - SR76 Memorials, Death - Jerome Dennis Majkrzak

TN - SR64 Memorials, Retirement - Alice Wynelle Abbey.

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

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

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

TN - SJR401 Memorials, Death - Leonard Keelon Bradley.

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

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

TN - SJR485 Memorials, Death - Joseph Dillman, death

TN - SJR97 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - Expresses intent to enact legislation to designate a day in May of each year as "Police Memorial Day."

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

TN - SJR99 Memorials, Recognition - Sigma Phi Epsilon, 60th anniversary of chartering at East Tennessee State University.

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

TN - SJR100 Memorials, Recognition - University School of Nashville, 100th anniversary.

TN - SJR413 Memorials, Retirement - Brian Signaigo

TN - SJR495 Memorials, Death - Harold Weddington

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

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

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

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

TN - SJR407 Memorials, Death - Representative Clint Callicott

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - SJR175 Memorials, Death - Wallace Alley.

TN - SJR182 Memorials, Death - Senator Bobby Carter.

TN - SJR383 Memorials, Recognition - Luke Eppert.

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

TN - SJR121 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Les Leverett.

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

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

TN - SJR160 Memorials, Death - Charles Maurice Johnson.

TN - SJR512 Memorials, Death - Noble Cody

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