Tennessee Sen. Sara Kyle (D)

TN - SB2326 Evidence - As introduced, permits victim of domestic violence to testify via two-way closed circuit television if the court finds that the victim would be traumatized by testifying in the courtroom with the defendant present. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7.

TN - SB961 TennCare - As introduced, directs the commissioner of finance and administration to request an appropriate waiver to extend TennCare eligibility to veterans under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148) on the basis of income on or before July 1, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - SB2300 Real Property - As enacted, expands the applicability of the Neighborhood Preservation Act to certain occupied buildings and residential properties by authorizing a person to bring a civil action against the owner of an occupied building or property that is not properly maintained or that fails to comply with certain ordinances or regulations. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2297 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Pay Equality Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB1375 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires any law enforcement officer responding to alleged domestic abuse who finds a minor may have been present for the alleged abuse to determine whether the child is a victim of abuse or neglect and, if so, report that fact to the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4 and Section 39-13-111.

TN - SB2314 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, permits a tenant who is the victim of sexual assault, domestic abuse, or stalking to terminate the tenant's lease under certain circumstances and gives the landlord a right of action against the perpetrator for damages due to broken lease. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 28.

TN - SB2308 Municipal Government - As introduced, requires a referendum be conducted before a publicly funded entity can be sold or leased; "sale or lease" means that more than 30 percent of the assets of the entity are subject to sale or lease. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51.

TN - SB957 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, increases maximum membership for the department of commerce and insurance's advisory committee from 12 members to 13 members. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB1370 Public Contracts - As introduced, enacts the "Public Construction Contractor Safety Act"; also requires the department of transportation to consider bidders' occupational safety and health record when awarding contracts. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 5.

TN - SB866 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires each state, county, and municipal law enforcement agency to collect and submit demographic data to the TBI on any person who is stopped by an officer employed by the agency; requires the TBI to compile and submit a report on the data to the general assembly and the governor on January 1 annually. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 10.

TN - SB654 Election Laws - As introduced, removes requirement that a person must pay outstanding child support obligations that accumulated during any period of incarceration to have right of suffrage restored. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29, Part 2.

TN - SB1673 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, adds the offense of human trafficking to the list of crimes that require the offender to register for the Tennessee sexual offender and violent sexual offender registration. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB657 Children - As introduced, requires a parent who has reasonable cause to believe a child is missing to report to law enforcement within 12 hours if the child is under nine years of age or 24 hours if the child is nine years of age or older; states that nothing shall prevent a parent from reporting a child missing or law enforcement from investigating a missing child as soon as a parent discovers that the child may be missing. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB864 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Pay Equality Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - SJR271 Memorials, Retirement - Pat Halloran.

TN - SB2318 Workers Compensation - As introduced, recreates the special joint committee on workers' compensation issues. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB2301 Lottery, Corporation - As introduced, recreates the select committee on the Tennessee education lottery corporation. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB2435 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes hospitals licensed by department of health or department of mental health and substance abuse services to electronically submit to the department of health the required joint annual report of statistical particulars relative to their patients for the previous fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 68.

TN - SB2279 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, allows petitioner to request expedited expunction in cases where the person was arrested or charged due to mistaken identity. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - SB665 Taxes, Excise - As enacted, exempts certain interests in qualified low-income community historic structures from excise tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.

TN - SB2305 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, requires payor banks to process items sequentially as indicated by the numbers on the bank drafts on the day items are charged against a customer's account; places limits on handling charges for insufficient funds if items are not processed sequentially. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 4, Part 4.

TN - SJR76 Memorials, Retirement - Sharon P. Isaacman.

TN - SB735 State Government - As introduced, revives and reinstates the Racing Control Act of 1987. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - SB1372 Victims' Rights - As enacted, requires a law enforcement officer, when the officer responds to a report of certain offenses related to domestic violence, to inform the victim of the statewide automated victim information and notification service and to provide certain informational materials, if available. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 38.

TN - SB656 Students - As enacted, requires a school in which a child who is a suspected victim of child sexual abuse that occurred while the child was under the supervision or care of the school to make reasonable accommodations to separate the alleged victim of child sexual abuse from the alleged perpetrator. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.

TN - SB655 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, requires a driver who approaches a stationary solid waste vehicle to treat the vehicle in the same manner as approaching a stationary recovery or highway maintenance vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - SB660 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, enacts the "Medical Cannabis Access Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 2; Title 39; Title 43; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB2321 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, permits a metropolitan government or municipality to conduct an advisory referendum on whether possession of one ounce of marijuana or less should be decriminalized. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 7.

TN - SB2490 Cosmetology - As introduced, increases the period of time in which a license holder must notify the board of cosmetology and barber examiners of an address change from 30 days to 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2290 Children - As introduced, recreates the select committee on children and youth. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 37 and Title 68.

TN - SB2286 Courts, Administrative Office of the - As introduced, requires claims submitted by guardians ad litem in child custody actions to be reviewed by the AOC for reasonableness before fees or costs may be assessed by the court. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 34; Title 36 and Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - SB867 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, increases, from 30 days to 45 days, the amount of time in which to file a written claim requesting a hearing to assert a claim on seized property; increases, from 30 days to 45 days, the amount of time from the day the claim is filed that the agency has to schedule a hearing. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 53; Title 55; Title 57; Title 59; Title 67 and Title 70.

TN - SB2269 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a person who commits an assault at a sporting event from remaining on or entering the property during the same or another sporting event for the period of time determined by property management; punishes the entering of property during the established period of time as criminal trespass. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2283 Vital Records - As introduced, allows amendment of birth certificate to reflect a change in gender. - Amends TCA Section 68-3-203.

TN - SB658 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes any person over the age of 17 by election day to serve as a poll watcher or poll worker; provided, that the person has not been convicted of violation of any election law. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB1374 Domestic Violence - As introduced, directs funds from domestic assault fines to be used to pay for global positioning monitoring for indigent domestic abuse and stalking defendants; requires forms for bail in domestic abuse and stalking cases to indicate that global positioning monitoring was considered as a condition of bail and whether the monitoring requirement was imposed. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-111 and Title 40, Chapter 11.

TN - SB1368 Drugs, Synthetic or Analogue - As introduced, requires the district attorneys general conference to report to the senate judiciary committee and the house criminal justice committee concerning the issue of synthetic drugs on or before January 31, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SR20 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Frank L. Watson III, Tennessee Ethics Commission

TN - SB962 Health Care - As introduced, increases the cap on the amount healthcare providers can charge for copying medical records, other than for records involving workers' compensation cases, from $20.00 for the first five pages and 50 cents per page for each page copied after the first five pages, to $25.00 for the first five pages and 50 cents per page for each page copied after the first five pages. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB2433 Consumer Protection - As introduced, extends from 10 days to 14 days the period by which a health club is required to notify the commissioner of commerce and insurance of any change in ownership or the sale of the health club. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB861 Healthcare Liability - As introduced, authorizes, rather than requires, a court to grant a petition for a qualified protective order in healthcare liability actions. - Amends TCA Section 29-26-121.

TN - SB494 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires that appropriate district attorneys general receive 30 days' notice, instead of 20 days' notice, before a court may hear a petition seeking the restoration of citizenship rights of a person who has been convicted of a felony. - Amends TCA Section 2-19-143; Title 2, Chapter 2, Part 1; Section 8-21-401; Title 40, Chapter 24; Title 40, Chapter 29; Title 40, Chapter 20; Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3; Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 5; Section 55-12-129 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.

TN - SB2278 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for reckless endangerment by discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle from a Class E felony to a Class C felony, and specifies that each person endangered by the conduct constitutes a separate offense. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-103.

TN - SB2281 Education - As introduced, adds skateboard safety to the bicycle safety curriculum the department of education is urged to develop. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2280 State Employees - As introduced, revises provisions prohibiting a state employer from discriminating between employees by paying employees unequal wages on the basis of sex. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - SB863 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires that offenders' community reentry programs include ability to obtain a 12-month deferral of fines and costs for traffic offenses and a restricted driver license for work only. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 16; Title 18; Title 28; Title 33; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.

TN - SB2341 Probation and Parole - As enacted, specifies that a person with a felony sentence of two years or less who is placed on probation based on reaching their release eligibility date may have their probation revoked pursuant to a revocation proceeding; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB653 Employees, Employers - As introduced, increases certain penalties for violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1972. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 3.

TN - SB495 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class E felony of intentionally possessing a firearm that the person knows or reasonably should know is stolen. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB662 Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires employers to provide employees four hours of leave, paid or unpaid, each year for parental involvement in schools, subject to certain conditions; establishes a private cause of action for employer violations. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2440 State Employees - As enacted, prohibits a state employer from inquiring about an applicant's criminal history on an initial application form for employment under certain circumstances; excludes certain state employers from this prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 1.

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

TN - SB955 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, increases the number of days that a county highway department has to remove signs notifying the public of a proposed landfill from 10 days to 12 days after the conclusion of all hearings related to the proposed landfill. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB2295 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to annually report to the chairs of the house health committee and the senate health and welfare committee on the effect of the mental health parity laws on the quantity and quality of mental health services delivered in the state. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB1366 Child Abuse - As introduced, requires the department of children's services to develop instructional guidelines for child safety training programs for members of professions that frequently deal with children who may be at risk of abuse; requires certain licensing boards to create child safety training programs; requires certain professionals to complete the appropriate child safety training program prior to license renewal. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

TN - SB1371 Eminent Domain - As introduced, requires notice of filing of a condemnation petition to be by certified mail return receipt requested; requires notice to include certain statements concerning respondent's rights to contest or appeal condemnation proceedings; awards respondent costs for damages or destruction to property if condemnation is abandoned or unsuccessful; increases, from 30 days to 90 days, notice of the filing of a petition to institute condemnation proceedings before additional steps may be taken. - Amends TCA Title 29.

TN - SB1373 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, requires each local education agency (LEA) that provides transportation services to submit to the department the names of persons authorized to drive a school bus; requires the department to maintain a database of all those persons authorized to drive a school bus and notify the appropriate LEA if the driver license or driving privileges of a listed person have been suspended or revoked; imposes a fee of $20.00 for each school bus endorsement or renewal thereof. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21; Title 55, Chapter 50; Title 55, Chapter 52 and Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5.

TN - SB2320 Municipal Government - As introduced, exempts home rule municipalities from the requirement that municipal civil service boards use the contested case procedures in the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act when conducting a hearing that affects the employment status of a civil service employee. - Amends TCA Title 27, Chapter 9.

TN - SB2436 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, creates a study committee within the general assembly to study juvenile use of firearms in criminal activity. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - SB2276 Probation and Parole - As introduced, adds as a possible condition of probation that the court may impose participation in an alcohol and drug treatment program, if the defendant was charged with a drug offense, is pregnant or was pregnant at the time the offense was committed, and the defendant's use of alcohol or drugs was a contributing factor in the defendant's unlawful conduct. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Chapter 820 of the Public Acts of 2014.

TN - SB2288 Child Abuse - As introduced, prohibits the return of a child who has been abused to any person who engaged in or failed to protect the child from the abuse without certain court findings; requires the termination of department of children's service employee who violates the prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB2289 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, makes it an offense for a prisoner to have sexual contact with certain penal institution staff; imposes increased penalties for sexual offenses committed against certain employees or volunteers of a penal institution; requires the department to provide a report of sexual offenses that occur in all correctional institutions; protects employees who report or cooperate with the department from retaliation or adverse action. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5; Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 4 and Title 41.

TN - SB2293 Child Abuse - As introduced, prohibits the department of children's services from publicly disclosing the identity of an alleged perpetrator of child abuse or neglect prior to a finding by the department that the allegations are substantiated; specifies that the department may participate in or release information regarding an ongoing criminal case in which the alleged perpetrator has been charged or indicted. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB2299 Schools, Charter - As introduced, requires that the state and local per pupil share of funding for a charter school student who returns to an LEA-operated school be withheld from future payments to the charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 13 and Title 49, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2302 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, subject to annual appropriation, requires each state employee to receive 2.5 percent cost of living salary increase at the beginning of the next pay period following the employee's state employment anniversary date. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 9.

TN - SB2307 Consumer Protection - As introduced, makes requesting a person to provide the person's social security number an unfair or deceptive act under the Consumer Protection Act of 1977, unless the request is required by federal or state law, or any rule promulgated pursuant to such federal or state law. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

TN - SB2322 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a minimum wage of $15.00 as of July 1; provides a minimum wage for employees in the service industry who receive tips and employees that are compensated solely by gratuities; authorizes the department of labor and workforce development to promulgate rules in compliance with federal law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2325 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, allows a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking to terminate a lease or rental agreement if notice and documentation that the tenant is a victim are presented to the landlord; specifies that a perpetrator of certain offenses remains liable for rent and damages under a lease or rental agreement even if the perpetrator is ordered to vacate the premises by a protection order. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 66.

TN - SB2438 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, increases the number of days within which a registrant with the division of health related boards must notify the division of a change in address from 30 days to 45 days. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB371 Human Rights - As introduced, adds sexual orientation and gender identity or expression to the list of characteristics protected from discrimination or harassment in employment, public accommodations, housing, financing, insurance, education, in places where alcoholic beverages are consumed, real estate, public utilities, tax exemptions, the profession of healing arts, health facilities, and welfare in the state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 39; Title 49; Title 50; Title 56; Title 57; Title 62; Title 63; Title 65; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB667 Education - As enacted, encourages LEAs, in consultation with local law enforcement, to institute at least one domestic violence awareness education program per year for middle and high schools; requires each program to be developmentally appropriate based on the students' age and maturity level. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB496 Short Term Loans and Lenders - As introduced, prohibits any short-term lender from assessing an interest rate for any short-term lending transaction that exceeds 28 percent per annum; and authorizes the commissioner of financial institutions to determine appropriate civil penalties. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

TN - SJR77 Memorials, Retirement - Candy Toler.

TN - SB2315 Victims' Rights - As enacted, increases from $750 to $1,000 the maximum amount payable by the criminal injuries compensation fund for the provision of forensic medical examinations performed on victims of sexually oriented crimes. - Amends TCA Section 29-13-118.

TN - SB2282 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies the offense of harassment with respect to the methods by which harassment may occur and broadens the offense to include the methods available through modern technology. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-308.

TN - SB2284 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, creates a domestic violence offender registry to be maintained by the TBI. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - SB1674 Traffic Safety - As introduced, deletes requirement that the child safety seat for a child age one through three weighing more than 20 pounds be secured in a forward-facing position. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 6.

TN - SB2285 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, reduces the state sales and use tax rate on retail sales of diapers, feminine hygiene products, and nonexempt over-the-counter drugs from seven percent to five percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB734 Environmental Preservation - As introduced, requires operators of truck stops, travel centers, and diesel refueling centers to conduct soil and water testing of the property on which such establishments are located, and on land contiguous to the property, for contamination from petroleum products. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 215.

TN - SB1428 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, prohibits the issuance or renewal of the Sons of Confederate Veterans special license plate for motor vehicles and motorcycles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB736 Driver Licenses - As introduced, revises provisions governing punishment for offense of driving on a revoked, cancelled, or suspended driver license. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 5.

TN - SJR347 Memorials, Retirement - Michael Kyle.

TN - SB2102 Public Records - As introduced, clarifies that the visual and audio images of a person who is captured in a law enforcement officer's body camera are confidential if the person was not the subject of the officer's investigation, was in a lawful place, was not engaged in illegal activity, and had a reasonable expectation of privacy. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 38, Chapter 8.

TN - SB372 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires that all services, not just the focus of the services, that are provided by the department must further the best interest of the child. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB2294 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates offense of recklessly leaving a loaded firearm unattended and readily accessible to a child under 13 years of age; creates certain defense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB733 Election Laws - As enacted, requires county election commissions to notify the secretary of state's division of elections prior to implementing an Internet electronic filing process. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB2298 Sex Discrimination - As introduced, enacts the “Tennessee Pay Equality Act.” - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - SB2292 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, imposes requirements on physicians who prescribe drugs to treat erectile dysfunction; excludes erectile dysfunction drugs from coverage under state employee group insurance plan; prohibits state fund being expended on those drugs unless required by federal law. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9 and Title 53.

TN - SB2303 Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Maternal Mortality Review and Prevention Act of 2016". - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB2316 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes the department to electronically report to the commissioner of correction mental health examination findings of inmates eligible for release when such examinations are requested by the commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - SB959 Education - As introduced, authorizes electronic formats of the annual reports required to be provided to the education committees of the senate and house by the consortium for cooperative innovative education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1367 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to study issues concerning the regulation of swingers clubs and report to the general assembly by December 1, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 62; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB2324 Cosmetology - As introduced, requires cosmetologists, manicurists, aestheticians, or natural hair stylists who obtain a license on or after July 1, 2016, to submit proof of compliance with continuing education hours within 60 days of their license renewal; permits the board to fund a scholarship program for cosmetology programs at publicly funded colleges, universities, and secondary schools. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1369 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, permits an applicant for approval as a bonding company owner to be a corporation that is owned and controlled by an insurer authorized to write surety in this state or a subsidiary corporation of the insurer. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 3.

TN - SB2323 Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires that the annual summary of reports of state department and agency programs be submitted by the commissioner of labor and workforce development to the governor and the general assembly no later than March 1 of each year instead of annually. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB868 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement officers to wear wide angle body cameras that record video footage while on duty, if funded by grants, private donations, or federal funds. - Amends TCA Title 38.

TN - SB2296 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires the state treasurer to submit an annual report by March 1, 2017, and March 1 in subsequent years, to the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees of both houses on investments of federal funds, which funds have been received by the state and for which the investments are required by applicable federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 71.

TN - SB2437 Welfare - As introduced, requires the department of health to make its monthly summary statement showing the amount paid and total number of persons assisted available on the department web site. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB2310 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates Class C misdemeanor of advertising a firearm for sale if the seller intends to sell the firearm, or does sell the firearm, without conducting a background check on the buyer. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB1675 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires, rather than permits, the use of global positioning monitoring as a condition of bail for any person charged with a domestic violence offense, stalking, or a violation of an order of protection issued pursuant to title 36, chapter 3, part 6. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 13; Section 39-17-315 and Title 40, Chapter 11.

TN - SB2304 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, requires the TBI to provide to the commissioner of health and to the general assembly an annual report on all law enforcement-related deaths that occurred in the prior calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 68.

TN - SB1377 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds drug fraud to the crimes for which a person may have the public records of the person's conviction expunged. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - SB869 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, changes time within which an order must be issued following an administrative hearing concerning a nursing home from 10 to 12 working days. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB2309 General Assembly - As introduced, restores the joint select committee on business taxes. - Amends TCA Title 3.

TN - SB862 Cosmetology - As introduced, requires cosmetologists, manicurists, aestheticians, or natural hair stylists who obtain a license on or after July 1, 2015, to submit proof of compliance with continuing education hours within 60 days of their license renewal; mandates a $2.00 fee for the issuance or renewal of a cosmetology license; authorizes the board to put the $2.00 fee into a fund that establishes a program to provide funds for cosmetology programs at publicly funded colleges, universities, and secondary schools. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 4.

TN - SB661 Controlled Substances - As introduced, removes marijuana from the list of ingestible or inhalable substances for which an object can be designated as drug paraphernalia. - Amends TCA Section 29-38-104; Title 39; Title 40; Section 43-26-103; Title 53, Chapter 11, Part 2; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 28 and Section 71-3-1201.

TN - SB2439 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, permits the AOC to submit the annual report to the general assembly regarding compliance by the courts within the time limits established for capital cases and the reason for noncompliance by electronic delivery. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB2311 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires that when neither the seller nor purchaser of a firearm is a licensed gun dealer, the transaction must be completed through a licensed gun dealer and the dealer must perform the same background check required for purchases from licensed gun dealers. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB2287 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, prohibits the department of human services from withholding any portion of funds collected for the purpose of child support for any reason, including, but not limited to, for payment of fees owed by the obligee. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 71.

TN - SB960 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, revises the definition of "autism spectrum disorder" and the required insurance coverage of autism spectrum disorder. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - SB2312 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, limits the definition of infamous crimes for which a person's rights of citizenship shall be revoked to include only violent felonies. - Amends TCA Section 22-1-102; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1436 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires that any petition regarding child custody include an affirmative statement setting out all applicable adjudications, if the petitioner knows whether a child has ever been adjudicated by a court as a dependent and neglected or abused child or whether any party to the action has ever been adjudicated by a court as the perpetrator of dependency and neglect or abuse of a minor child; authorizes court to order DCS to disclose certain information. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.

TN - SB2291 Political Parties - As introduced, requires statewide political party to hold primary election for nominations for judge, chancellor, district attorney general, and public defender in multi-county judicial districts. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

TN - SB668 Domestic Violence - As enacted, requires that any pending order of protection or restraining order be served on a domestic violence offender before release, following the mandatory 12-hour holding period; directs that a copy of protection order be issued to any court in which the respondent and petitioner are parties to an action. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1, and Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - SB663 Employees, Employers - As introduced, authorizes the department of labor, subject to the availability of federal funding, to study the feasibility of the development or implementation of a paid family and medical leave program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - SB666 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, creates a new disposition option of taking a minor who violates curfew to a designated curfew center rather than juvenile court; revises other curfew provisions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 17.

TN - SB370 Claims Commission, Tennessee - As introduced, requires the party requesting a claim be transferred from the small claims docket to the regular claims docket to provide notice of the request to the commission which shall immediately notify any other party to the claim. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 29 and Title 37.

TN - SB1378 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Collateral Recovery Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 26; Title 40; Title 45; Title 47; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 66.

TN - SB659 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a minimum wage that increases annually on July 1; provides a minimum wage for employees in the service industry who receive tips and employees that are compensated solely by gratuities; authorizes the department to promulgate rules and regulations in compliance with federal law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2317 Real Property - As introduced, requires, with certain exceptions, a seller of residential real property to disclose in writing to the buyer of the property information relating to radon concentrations in the dwelling. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 5, Part 2.

TN - SB2441 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency that uses body cameras to adopt a written policy for the use of the cameras by its law enforcement officers; establishes certain requirements for the policies. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2319 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a state minimum wage for all employees of $10.00 per hour. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - SB865 Cosmetology - As introduced, requires the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners to post on its web site the fees set by the board for the replacement of a lost, misplaced, or mutilated license or a change of name or mailing address of any licensee. - Amends TCA Title 62.

TN - SB1676 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires the department of safety to develop a driver interaction with law enforcement informational video; beginning September 1, 2016, requires that the informational video be viewed by all first-time applicants for a driver license or intermediate driver license. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 55.

TN - SB956 Gas, Petroleum Products, Volatile Oils - As introduced, changes the annual deadline for distributing the Annual Report on the Quality of Kerosene and Motor Fuel in Tennessee from September 15 to September 30. - Amends TCA Title 47.

TN - SB2277 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, creates a domestic violence offender registry to be maintained by the TBI. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - SB958 Employees, Employers - As introduced, increases from five to seven the number of days that the commissioner of labor and workforce development has to respond to a request for the reasons that the commissioner denied a request for an exemption from child labor laws that was submitted by a minor and the minor's parents or guardian. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB2313 Health Care - As introduced, reestablishes the health equity commission. - Amends TCA Title 3.

TN - SB664 Education - As introduced, prohibits corporal punishment in public schools. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - SB1376 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of unlawful exposure, which is committed when a person distributes a private image of the intimate parts of another with the intent to cause emotional distress and the depicted person suffers emotional distress. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB2434 Employees, Employers - As introduced, clarifies that the annual summary of reports of state department and agency programs shall be submitted by the commissioner of labor and workforce development to the governor and the general assembly no later than March 1 of each year instead of annually. - Amends TCA Title 50.

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

TN - SB157 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, deletes the Intractable Pain Act. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

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

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

TN - SB2577 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As enacted, requires arresting agency to send fingerprint cards for DUI and other vehicular impairment offense arrests to TBI within five days of arrest for submission to NCIC and requires the clerks to send DUI convictions to TBI within seven days of conviction. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 55.

TN - SB1204 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Animal Abuser Registration Act." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 44.

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

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 - SB948 State Government - As introduced, abolishes the office of state geographer. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 5.

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 - 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 - SB1160 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, allows a person who is mandated to comply with the requirements of sex offender registry, based solely upon a conviction for aggravated prostitution may petition the sentencing court for termination of the registration requirements based on the person's status as a victim of: a human trafficking offense, a sexual offense, or domestic abuse. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

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 - 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 - 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 - SB1248 Controlled Substances - As introduced, permits an electronic format for the annual TennCare report on the use and cost of opioids and controlled substances in the program to the health committee of the house and the health and welfare committee of the senate. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 50; Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - SB373 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, extends the statute of limitations for commission of the offense of promotion of prostitution involving a minor on or after July 1, 2015, from 10 years from the date that the minor becomes 18 years of age to 25 years from the date that the minor becomes 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1197 Sentencing - As introduced, establishes the penalty for the offense of reckless endangerment as a Class D felony if the victim of the offense is eight years of age or younger. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1353 District Attorneys - As introduced, creates 31 additional assistant district attorney general positions effective October 1, 2015, in districts to be recommended by the district attorneys general conference; requires a report of the recommended districts be filed with the speakers of the senate and house. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2060 Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises the provisions governing the dispensing of an opioid or benzodiazepine by a physician practice that provides healthcare services. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - SB428 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, deletes the requirement of intent to cause bodily injury from aggravated assault involving strangulation or attempted strangulation. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-102.

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

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

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

TN - SR64 Memorials, Retirement - Alice Wynelle Abbey.

TN - SR76 Memorials, Death - Jerome Dennis Majkrzak

TN - SR65 Memorials, Death - Eleanor McNeil Massey.

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

TN - SR28 Memorials, Recognition - Recognizing the women in STEM during Women's History Month.

TN - SJR487 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - David Anthony Pickler, academic standards recommendation committee

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

TN - SJR414 Memorials, Retirement - Justice Gary Wade

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 - SJR413 Memorials, Retirement - Brian Signaigo

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

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

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

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

TN - SJR495 Memorials, Death - Harold Weddington

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

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

TN - SJR121 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Les Leverett.

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

TN - SJR182 Memorials, Death - Senator Bobby Carter.

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

TN - SJR407 Memorials, Death - Representative Clint Callicott

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

TN - SJR401 Memorials, Death - Leonard Keelon Bradley.

TN - SJR485 Memorials, Death - Joseph Dillman, death

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

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

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

TN - SJR120 Memorials, Recognition - Senator Mildred Jolly Lashlee.

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

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

TN - SJR383 Memorials, Recognition - Luke Eppert.

TN - SJR93 Health Care - Authorizes the Governor to do all that is necessary and appropriate to implement Insure Tennessee substantially as described in TennCare Demonstration Amendment #25.

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

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

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

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

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