Tennessee Sen. Sara Kyle (D)

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TN - SB2407 Education - As introduced, requires each local board of education and governing body of a charter school to post the board's or governing body's policy governing background check procedures for contract workers and volunteers to the board's or governing body's website. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - SB2701 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, requires, subject to appropriation, that the amount appropriated to the BEP to fund the instructional salaries and wages component be increased in the fiscal year immediately following a school year in which the ESA program enrolls participating students in an amount equal to the ESA funds awarded, and the costs to the state of overseeing and administering the ESA program in the immediately preceding school year or fiscal year, as applicable. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 26.

TN - SB812 Public Employees - As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration to disclose on the department's website certain information related to state-funded travel for public employees to events at which state vendors or potential vendors are present. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 8; Title 12; Title 41 and Title 49.

TN - SB742 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for aggravated assault and reckless endangerment when committed from within a motor vehicle; requires the court to revoke a defendant's license for up to one year following any period of confinement imposed; requires that a motor vehicle used in a second or subsequent offense be seized and forfeited. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40.

TN - SB2565 Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, requires insurance companies that provide personal private passenger automobile insurance policies that exclude commercial transportation services to notify insureds in writing of such exclusion; requires insured to sign the notice acknowledging such exclusion. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 56.

TN - SB1722 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, repeals the law that allows handgun carry permit holders to transport or store a firearm or firearm ammunition in the permit holder's motor vehicle while on or utilizing a public or private parking area if the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 49 and Title 50.

TN - SB946 Taxes - As introduced, eliminates the 4 percent state sales tax on food for human consumption; increases the tax on cigarettes from three cents per cigarette to 8.35 cents per cigarette; increases the tax on other tobacco products from 6.6 percent to 17 percent of the wholesale cost price. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB949 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to provide weekly mental health counseling to each child in a detention or shelter care facility; requires mental health providers to be licensed and consider the findings and recommendations of any validated risk and needs assessment or individualized case plan relevant to the child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 37; Title 56; Title 63; Title 71 and Chapter 1052 of the Public Acts of 2018.

TN - SB738 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, raises the minimum age from 18 to 21 to purchase any tobacco or vapor products; creates a Class C misdemeanor of selling or distributing flavored electronic cigarettes; increases the tax rate on cigarettes by 1.25 cents per cigarette. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-113; Title 39 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10.

TN - SB2444 Traffic Safety - As introduced, increases the punishment by one classification level for an offense committed by a motor vehicle operator that contributes to an accident resulting in bodily injury to a motorcycle rider. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10.

TN - SB1313 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, extends the date, from January 1, 2020, to February 1, 2020, before which the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations must submit a report on its study of global positioning monitoring as a condition of bail to the speakers and chairs of the judiciary committees of the senate and the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-111; Title 40, Chapter 11 and Chapter 827 of the Public Acts of 2018.

TN - SB1047 Taxes - As introduced, clarifies the "Taxpayer Bill of Rights" provision requiring the department to keep confidential the financial information provided by a taxpayer. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB1128 Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, revises requirements for certificate to practice as a registered nurse first assistant. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - SB2329 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor the penalty for health officers or other individuals violating certain laws with regard to sexually transmitted diseases. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 40 and Title 68, Chapter 10.

TN - SB1936 Expunction - As introduced, removes misdemeanor driving under the influence of an intoxicant from the list of offenses that are ineligible for expunction. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32; Title 40, Chapter 35 and Title 55.

TN - SB1315 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, revises certain reckless endangerment provisions; establishes enhanced punishment for certain acts of reckless endangerment; establishes enhanced punishment for acts constituting "community terrorism." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - SB1720 Controlled Substances - As introduced, declares that a person who holds a valid medical marijuana patient identification card issued by another state does not commit an offense in this state if the person possesses marijuana not in excess of one-half ounce. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - SB2266 Election Laws - As introduced, permits any registered Tennessee voter to vote absentee for any reason after providing a certification as to the identity of the voter in the application for a ballot; requires an absentee ballot to be counted for the election in which the ballot is cast; deletes the requirement that a voter who registers by mail must vote the first time in person. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB1422 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to immediately commence a local investigation upon receipt of a report of child abuse or brutality from a person tasked with the education, health, or welfare of the child; requires certain actions by the investigator; adds the district attorney to whom the department must provide a report of the fatality or near fatality of a child under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB1788 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, increases, from $7.25 to $15, the minimum hourly wage for employees within the state. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - SJR475 Memorials, Recognition - LaStacia S. Cloyd, 2019 Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis Youth of the Year

TN - SB1320 Arrests - As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer to issue a citation in lieu of continued custody of a person arrested for a misdemeanor violation of simple possession of a controlled substance, unless the officer determines, based on the person's previous failure to appear in court, that a reasonable likelihood exists that the arrested person will fail to appear in court. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 40, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1593 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Anti-Lunch Shaming Act"; prohibits a school from taking certain actions against a student who cannot pay for a meal, or who has accumulated a meal debt; requires a school to provide a United States department of agriculture reimbursable meal to each student who requests one; requires a school to assist parents and guardians with obtaining free or reduced-price meals for the parent's or guardian's eligible student. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - SB740 Courts, Administrative Office of the - As introduced, requires administrative director of the administrative office of the courts to develop and administer a text messaging program to remind criminal defendants to appear at their scheduled hearings in municipal and criminal courts. - Amends TCA Title 16.

TN - SB1314 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, prohibits local governments from reducing the post-employment benefits of retired employees without the written consent of the employee; prohibits local governments from raising premiums for such benefit plans at a rate that exceeds the average annual rate of inflation. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 56.

TN - SB1420 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires that contracts with governmental entities for professional or technical services in excess of $100,000 include a provision requiring the contractor to utilize software that verifies that hours billed for work being done remotely on a computer are legitimate. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1725 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, adds as a ground for termination of parental rights a finding by a court that a parent committed an act of nonconsensual sexual penetration from which act the child was conceived; gives the other parent standing to file a petition for termination of parental rights of the offending parent; includes a finding by a court that a parent committed an act of nonconsensual sexual penetration from which act the child was conceived as a basis for denial of custody, visitation, and inheritance rights. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1 and Title 36, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2566 Education, Higher - As introduced, extends the date from March 15 to April 1 by which the Tennessee higher education commission must publish the Tennessee Postsecondary Education Fact Book each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB419 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to gather certain data regarding asthma morbidity, causal factors, and services; assess patterns of medical care and population-based health services; develop and maintain measures to track and report asthma development and treatment rates; report to relevant legislative committees and on its website asthma development and treatment rates; and guide the development of public health programs and asthma policy. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB2440 Election Laws - As introduced, enacts the "Time Off for Democracy Act". - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2441 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an exception to the offense of simple possession of marijuana for persons with a valid, state-issued medical marijuana identification card who obtained the marijuana pursuant to a valid physician's recommendation. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - SB2442 Animal Control - As introduced, requires an animal owner's relative to retrieve the animal from an animal control agency within seven days of the owner's death; permits the animal control agency to treat the animal as an abandoned animal if the relative has not retrieved the animal within seven days. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 63, Chapter 12 and Title 68.

TN - SB2445 Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, requires state-wide grant programs operated by the THDA through the Tennessee housing trust fund to consider applicant homeowners eligible if the applicant is making property tax payments via a written, approved payment plan and not just if the applicant has paid property taxes in full. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23.

TN - SB2446 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, each Title I public high school to provide at least one driver education course for its students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2259 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates April 23 of each year as day of special observance to be known as "Administrative Assistants Day." - Amends TCA Title 15.

TN - SB2448 Election Laws - As introduced, permits the use of a photo identification card issued by this state, the United States, or an accredited postsecondary institution of education in this state for purposes of verifying the identity of an eligible voter. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 7.

TN - SB2447 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a magistrate imposing global positioning monitoring on a defendant as a condition for bail for an offense involving domestic violence to inform the victim of how to obtain a copy of the defendant's conditions of bail including any geographic restrictions. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - SB2263 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies to preserve dashboard camera video recordings a minimum of two years for motor vehicle accidents involving a law enforcement vehicle that results in injury to or death of any person. - Amends TCA Title 38.

TN - SB2264 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits the sale, manufacture, and distribution of a product that contains asbestos. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 47 and Title 68.

TN - SB2265 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits leaving a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle or boat or a motor vehicle or boat that contains only persons under 18 years of age, if the firearm is not kept from ordinary observation and secured, violation of which is punishable only by fine of $50 or $100 for a second or subsequent offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB414 Election Laws - As introduced, deletes provision prohibiting the issuance of a retailer's license to a public officer or employee. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3.

TN - SB951 Special License Plates - As introduced, prohibits expenditure of proceeds received by nonprofit organization from sale of specialty license plates to pay attorney's fees, court costs, or other expenses attributable to lawsuit filed against state or local government. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB418 Food and Food Products - As introduced, creates a task force to study the development of initiatives to reduce the waste of food in this state. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 68.

TN - SB1786 Public Employees - As introduced, provides paid family and medical leave for state employees and teachers. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - SB255 Sex Discrimination - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Pay Equality Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB2462 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, encourages all employers in this state to provide a paid day off each Veterans' Day for all employees of the employer who are veterans. - Amends TCA Title 15 and Title 58.

TN - SJR880 Memorials, Death - Christine Anderson-Grandberry

TN - SB2439 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each LEA and public charter school governing body to report to the department of education the amount of state and local funds spent on preparing for and administering standardized tests each school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB254 TennCare - As introduced, directs the commissioner of finance and administration to seek a federal waiver to establish VolunteerCare and permits persons who are 55 years of age or older to purchase healthcare coverage through the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB2240 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, clarifies that it is an offense for a person to purchase or possess a firearm in this state if the person has been prohibited from purchasing or possessing under the laws of another state and not just Tennessee law or federal law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB950 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "No Credit Check in Employment Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - SB2725 Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits a public institution of higher education from punishing a student athlete based on a gift, benefit, or inducement given to the student athlete or the student athlete's family by a booster. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB2729 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires the assessor of property to advise the county or municipal tax collector of a revised assessment based on commercial and industrial tangible personal property that is destroyed, demolished, or substantially damaged by fire, flood, wind, or any other disaster. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2387 Juries and Jurors - As introduced, allows a breastfeeding mother to be excused from serving as a juror; requires a breastfeeding mother to provide the court with a supporting medical statement from a licensed physician and take any action necessary to obtain a ruling on a request to be excused no later than the date that the person is scheduled to appear for jury duty. - Amends TCA Title 22, Chapter 1 and Title 22, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2403 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for failure of a driver involved in a motor vehicle accident to stop at the scene of the accident from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony when the person knew or should have known that the accident resulted in injury. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - SB2404 Workers Compensation - As introduced, revises provisions governing penalties for noncompliance with workers' compensation coverage requirements. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2405 State Employees - As introduced, increases, from three to five, the number of state employee members on the state insurance committee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 8 and Title 56.

TN - SB2408 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, prohibits public funds from being expended to pay a claim or action resulting from an incident of sexual harassment or a sexual crime in which a public official is found guilty or responsible. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 29.

TN - SB2443 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires the landlord to give the tenant 60 days' notice prior to the termination of a residential lease agreement. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - SB417 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, prohibits issuance of a permit, waiver, or variance to construct or expand a landfill within five miles of a residence; requires department of environment and conservation to organize meetings between violators and affected citizens upon the filing of a petition by such citizens to review violations and remedial actions. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Chapter 169 of the Private Acts of 1990.

TN - SB1644 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs to develop and implement a "Stop the Bleed" program that provides limited civil immunity to LEAs, schools, and LEA employees for personal injuries resulting from the use of items in a bleeding control kit; establishes requirements for the program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2698 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development to set the minimum hourly wage not less than $15.00 per hour, to be adjusted annually to reflect inflation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 13; Title 39; Title 50; Title 67 and Title 71.

TN - SB2699 Courts, General Sessions - As introduced, prohibits a general sessions court clerk from collecting a fine, costs, or litigation taxes that have been in default for at least 15 years following the year in which the fine, costs, or litigation taxes became delinquent. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 18; Title 28; Title 29 and Title 40.

TN - SB2700 Debtor Creditor Relations - As introduced, enacts the "Medical Debt Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 47; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SJR760 Memorials, Death - Lisa Powers Cooper

TN - SB1319 Election Laws - As introduced, allows a voter to take photographs or videos of only the voters marked ballot on a mobile electronic or communication device in a polling place; authorizes poll watchers and election officials to prohibit any disruptive activity that threatens the voting process or the privacy of a voter. - Amends TCA Section 2-7-142.

TN - SB741 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes state agencies to provide child care services for state employees, with the department tasked to approve, administer, and coordinate such services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - SB2402 Health Care - As introduced, requires healthcare facilities and providers to post a price for each healthcare service offered and to accept the price as payment in full if any patient or third-party payer on behalf of the patient pays the price in full within 30 days after the date the healthcare service was provided. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68, Chapter 11 and Title 71.

TN - SB1348 Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires that the annual summary of reports of state department and agency programs relating to occupational safety and health 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. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 62.

TN - SB1316 Courts - As introduced, authorizes the creation of first responder treatment court programs; creates a $50.00 fee for drug-related criminal convictions in counties establishing or operating a first responder treatment court program. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 4 and Title 16.

TN - SB947 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, adds a religious exemption from the requirement to register a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2406 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, requires, at the time of hire, that if an entity that employs drivers or that contracts with drivers who use the drivers' personal vehicles for the delivery of the entity's goods or services, does not provide automobile insurance coverage to those drivers, the entity must inform the driver that the drivers' automobile insurance may not cover commercial uses. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 56.

TN - SB1807 Orders of Protection - As introduced, allows a court to issue an emergency protection order upon a finding that a person poses an imminent risk of harm to the person or others if allowed to purchase or possess a firearm; authorizes a family member, household member, intimate partner, or law enforcement officer to petition for such an order. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.

TN - SB415 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires certain insurers that provide major medical insurance coverage to make available on an optional basis as part of or as an endorsement to each policy that is issued, delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 2020, coverage for stem cell therapy. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB253 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, phases out the professional privilege tax over a four-year period for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - SB257 Controlled Substances - As introduced, updates the definition of "marijuana" for purposes of taxation on unauthorized substances to match the definition of "marijuana" as it applies to criminal offenses. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 33; Title 38, Chapter 3; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43; Title 50; Title 53; Title 55; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB256 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, decriminalizes the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 40.

TN - SB1322 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires each local law enforcement agency to enter into an agreement with the Tennessee bureau of investigation to require the TBI to investigate any officer-involved shooting that occurs within the jurisdiction of the law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 8, Chapter 7 and Title 38.

TN - SB1317 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, changes from five days to one business day, the timeframe by which the department of human services must send notice of an administrative order of seizure or sale of assets to the child support obligor. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1312 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of leaving a firearm or ammunition in a motor vehicle or boat without the firearm or ammunition being stored in a locked cabinet, safe, vault, case, or secured with a firearm locking device if the vehicle or boat is left unattended or with a person under 18 years of age; directs fines collected be deposited in the criminal injuries compensation fund and the domestic violence community education fund. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB952 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, prohibits the issuance or renewal of the Sons of Confederate Veterans specialty license plate for motor vehicles and motorcycles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB260 Controlled Substances - As introduced, declares that a person who holds a valid medical marijuana patient identification card issued by another state does not commit an offense in this state if the person possesses, or distributes to another cardholder, marijuana not in excess of one-half ounce. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - SB943 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, authorizes the issuance of an extreme risk protection order that a law enforcement officer may seek to prevent a restrained person from being able to lawfully possess a firearm when the officer believes that the person is a danger to the person or another. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB1858 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Family Insurance Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 50.

TN - SB1045 Traffic Safety - As enacted, prohibits persons from loitering or conducting any commercial activity in, or in proximity to, the median of a state highway; creates a Class C misdemeanor offense that requires issuance of a warning citation for a first offense; creates certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - SB647 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee State Family Leave Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 50.

TN - SB2438 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts from sales tax purchases of gun safes and gun safety devices. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1785 Comptroller, State - As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability to conduct a study of before and after school programs available to K-12 students in this state and issue a report to the speaker and education committee of each chamber by February 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1787 School Vouchers - As introduced, deletes the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1789 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires, subject to appropriation by the general assembly, the department to expand the smart steps child care program such that assistance under the program is made available to all families residing in this state whose household gross income is below the 75th percentile of the state median income (SMI) for the state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 71.

TN - SB1721 Sex Discrimination - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Pay Equality Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB2324 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, specifies that the Tennessee Local Land Bank Program and the Neighborhood Preservation Act do not apply to property tax proceedings, property tax liens, or the enforcement of property tax liens. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 30; Title 13, Chapter 6 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2325 Election Laws - As introduced, requires administrators of elections to inform a person applying to vote online or by mail of a denial of voter registration by mail, telephone, and email within 110 days of the denial. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2326 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, in the case of certain persons who are eligible for restoration of citizenship rights, authorizes the pardoning authority or agent or officer of the supervising or incarcerating authority that issues the certificate of restoration, to forward a copy of the certificate by mail or email to the state coordinator of elections. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.

TN - SB2327 Education - As introduced, requires the commissioner of education to provide the revised BEP funding formula to the fiscal review committee, in addition to the legislature's budget analysis office, no later than January 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 37 and Title 49.

TN - SB2328 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Mental Healthcare and Substance Abuse Services Network Adequacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB1724 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts feminine hygiene products from sales tax on the annual sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1318 Election Laws - As introduced, permits the use of a photo identification card issued by this state, the United States, or an accredited postsecondary institution of education in this state for purposes of verifying the identity of an eligible voter. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 7.

TN - SJR536 Memorials, Recognition - Mary Cordelia Beasley Hudson

TN - SB945 Disabled Persons - As introduced, enacts the "Medicaid Buy-in for Working People with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB1723 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, requires that retired state employees receive equal increases in retirement benefits if raises for current state employees are provided. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 9; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 54.

TN - SB944 Education - As introduced, prohibits the operation of a virtual school by an LEA after July 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR165 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to the constitution to authorize casino gambling with revenues designated for education, infrastructure, and local governments.

TN - SB258 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offense of reckless endangerment to include a person's reckless failure to render inoperable or safely secure or lock a firearm, resulting in a child under 13 years of age gaining possession of the firearm and injuring or killing the child or another. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-103.

TN - SB1310 Business and Commerce - As introduced, enacts certain provisions relative to business or industries undergoing a reduction in operations that negatively impacts employees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 10; Title 50; Title 64 and Title 67.

TN - SB259 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires local education agencies to develop and implement a "Stop the Bleed" program that requires each school in the LEA to place a bleeding control kit within the school; requires the department of education to develop a bleeding control kit training program for LEA employees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR237 Memorials, Death - Mindy Diament

TN - SB1333 State Employees - As introduced, increases monetary compensation of at least $1,000 for each full-time and part-time state employee.

TN - SB948 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, requires employers to pay minimum wages to employees, starting with $10.00 per hour effective January 1, 2020, and increased by $1.00 per hour for the next two years to achieve a minimum wage of $12.00 beginning January 1, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - SB416 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to conduct a study to determine the amount of insurance policies that provide benefits for neurological disorders and the amount of claims for treatment of autism spectrum disorder within such policies; requires the commissioner to report to the commerce committees no later than January 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 56.

TN - SB1048 Taxes - As introduced, reduces from 90 to 60 days, the period in which a dealer via signed statement can deduct on a return sales tax collected but not yet remitted to the commissioner of revenue for refunded items. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB1321 Law Enforcement - As introduced, creates Class E felony of law enforcement officer operating a law enforcement body camera in any manner that would prevent the creation of evidence with the intent to obstruct justice. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Title 39.

TN - SB1046 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to provide free feminine hygiene products in eligible public high schools. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - SB442 Education - As enacted, authorizes LEAs that receive pre-kindergarten program approval to utilize a comparable alternative measure of student growth approved by the state board of education and adopted by the LEA, rather than the pre-k/kindergarten growth portfolio model approved by the state board of education in the evaluation of pre-kindergarten and kindergarten teachers; creates portfolio review committee. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB368 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, removes the statute of limitations for prosecution of certain Class A or Class B felony sex offenses committed against a child on or after July 1, 2019, and deletes a provision that sets a lower statute of limitations for aggravated rape, rape of a child, rape, and aggravated rape of a child if notice of the offense is not given to law enforcement within three years of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - SB2464 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, enacts the "Holly Bobo Act," which expands the bureau's endangered child and young adult alert program to include endangered persons under 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB200 Workers Compensation - As introduced, creates a presumption that a firefighter or emergency medical services personnel diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sustained the injury in the line of duty for purposes of workers' compensation; allows for the presumption to be rebutted by evidence that the PTSD was caused by nonservice-connected risk factors or exposure. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 56.

TN - SB1061 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires the department of correction, in partnership with the Tennessee higher education commission and the board of regents, to develop and submit to the general assembly an annual report detailing the higher education opportunities available to eligible incarcerated individuals in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41; Title 49 and Title 50.

TN - SB16 Gambling - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Sports Gaming Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 5; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - SB1552 State Symbols - As enacted, designates "The Volunteer State" as the official nickname of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - SB486 Controlled Substances - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Cannabis Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38, Chapter 3; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43; Title 50; Title 53; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB2829 Expunction - As introduced, requires the court to notify a defendant at the time of sentencing if the conviction is for an expungeable offense and the time period after which a petition to expunge may be filed. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32; Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3 and Chapter 244 of the Public Acts of 2019.

TN - SB501 County Government - As enacted, prohibits interpreting or amending county charter in a manner inconsistent with state law with respect to the duties, qualifications, and privileges of the constitutional county offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, or trustee. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - SB673 Veterans Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to provide training in suicide prevention to the employees of the department who directly interact with veterans. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 3.

TN - SB36 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, enables a person who has been disqualified from exercising the right to vote due to a felony conviction to apply for restoration of voting rights if making payments in accordance with a payment plan for court costs, restitution, or overdue child support. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29, Part 2.

TN - SB2830 Expunction - As introduced, provides that the public records of a criminal defendant sentenced on or after July 1, 2020, are automatically expunged if the defendant has fulfilled the requirements for expunction by petitioning the court. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - SB1560 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages and beer for consumption on the premises of the Memphis Zoo during the zoo's regular operating hours. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-101.

TN - SB813 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of leaving a firearm or firearm ammunition unattended or with a person under 18 years of age in a motor vehicle or boat, if the firearm is not locked within a trunk, glove box, or interior of the person's motor vehicle or boat; punishable only by fine of at least $500. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB2635 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates "Women's Suffrage Day" as a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - SB55 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, creates the professional art therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of art therapy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 63.

TN - SB2202 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, makes various changes to state law to reflect the change in federal law that raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 years of age to 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-113; Title 39, Chapter 15 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - SB88 Expunction - As introduced, decreases from five to three years the amount of time from the completion of a person's sentence that must have elapsed before the person may apply for expunction of records. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32, Part 1.

TN - SB1039 Elder Abuse - As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - SB1415 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of possessing a firearm if a person has a prior conviction of stalking. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - SB346 Medical Occupations - As introduced, reduces the number of days from 15 to 10 that the comptroller has to determine whether certain financing agreements to fund a medical school under the Medical School Authorities Act is in compliance with the guidelines, rules, and regulations of the state funding board. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 33; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB345 Public Officials - As enacted, clarifies that a county judicial commissioner or magistrate may administer the oath of office to an elected or appointed official. - Amends TCA Section 8-18-109.

TN - SB533 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts sales of gun safes from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB1178 Orders of Protection - As introduced, allows a law enforcement officer or person who has a relationship with the respondent to petition a court for the issuance of an extreme risk protection order based on clear and convincing evidence that the respondent poses a significant risk of causing personal injury to the respondent or others by possessing a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB28 Public Health - As enacted, creates the state Alzheimer's disease and related dementia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 14 and Title 71.

TN - SB849 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the age to access or use tobacco and vapor products from 18 to 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - SB1311 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to conduct an exit interview with the administrator of a home care organization after a licensure survey is performed to allow the administrator the opportunity to discuss the department's findings. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 68.

TN - SB977 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, extends eligibility for receipt of Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grants to students who are attending certain independent postsecondary institutions and who are otherwise eligible for the grants. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1161 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, creates a sales and use tax exemption on qualified building materials used in the construction, expansion, or renovation of one or more qualified, new, or expanded warehouse or distribution facilities, if the taxpayer or a lessor, or both, makes a capital investment of at least $1 billion in the construction or renovation of such facilities and related facilities at the same location within the qualified capital investment period. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB2457 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, authorizes public higher education institutions to submit to the department of revenue a list of employees for whom the institution is paying the professional privilege tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - SB438 Firefighters - As introduced, creates a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter's cancer that causes a disabling health condition is a result of the firefighter's duties as a firefighter. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - SB10 Sentencing - As enacted, enacts the "JaJuan Latham Act," which increases the penalty for an aggravated assault or homicide that occurs by a person discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle and the victim is a minor at the time of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2.

TN - SB793 Local Government, General - As enacted, increases pay supplement from $600 to $800 for police officers and firefighters who complete 40 hours of in-service training. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24, Part 2 and Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - SB46 Disabled Persons - As enacted, enacts the "Dynamic Accessibility Act," which provides for a modern symbol of access for disabled persons. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 12; Title 55 and Title 68.

TN - SB1 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, creates the Green Alert system within the TBI to assist in the identification and location of a missing veteran at risk. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB502 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, specifies that the seizure and forfeiture of vehicles is applicable after certain DUI violations, rather than convictions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10.

TN - SR4 Memorials, Recognition - Emery Brett Coffey, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - SR156 Memorials, Death - Dr. Beverly Jean Williams-Cleaves

TN - SR24 Memorials, Recognition - 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment

TN - SJR93 Memorials, Recognition - Chattanooga Times Free Press, 150th anniversary

TN - SJR79 Memorials, Retirement - Jed DeKalb

TN - SJR63 Memorials, Death - Congresswoman Marilyn Lloyd

TN - SJR765 Memorials, Recognition - Senator Shane Reeves, Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Rutherford Pinnacle Award

TN - SJR1225 Memorials, Recognition - Ollie Otter Child Safety Foundation

TN - SJR1229 Memorials, Death - Peggy Williams Daniel

TN - SJR214 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Commissioner Marie Williams, National Council for Behavioral Health 2019 Excellence in Advocacy Individual Achievement Award

TN - SJR1228 Memorials, Recognition - Colonel Warner A. Ross II

TN - SJR403 Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee Volunteers men's basketball team

TN - SJR16 Memorials, Recognition - Pirjin Tayip Laser, 2019 Nashville's Top 30 Under 30

TN - SJR159 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 33 of the Constitution of Tennessee removing the criminal punishment exception from slavery and involuntary servitude prohibition.

TN - SJR184 Memorials, Recognition - Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital, 100th anniversary

TN - SJR757 Memorials, Death - Sue K. Atchley

TN - SJR396 Memorials, Recognition - Phyllis Aluko, Chief Public Defender of Shelby County

TN - SJR704 Memorials, Retirement - Trooper Donnie E. Williams

TN - SJR731 Memorials, Death - Master Patrol Officer Spencer Daniel Bristol

TN - SJR883 Memorials, Death - Katherine Baker Mathis

TN - SJR158 Memorials, Death - Louise Ellis Clifton

TN - SJR190 Memorials, Death - Marvin Ballin

TN - SJR140 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amanda Parrish, Whitesburg Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR43 Memorials, Public Service - Commissioner David W. Purkey

TN - SJR498 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Liz Alvey

TN - SJR149 Memorials, Death - John William Graham

TN - SJR781 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 7, 2020

TN - SJR109 Memorials, Recognition - Jamie Woodson

TN - SJR66 Memorials, Public Service - Commissioner Many-Bears Grinder

TN - SJR72 Memorials, Public Service - Dr. Candice McQueen

TN - SJR965 Memorials, Professional Achievement - A.J. Whitten, Portland West Middle School, Teacher of the Year

TN - SJR711 Memorials, Death - Sterling Haskel Ayers

TN - SJR73 Memorials, Public Service - Commissioner Larry Martin

TN - SJR164 Memorials, Public Service - Jim Henry

TN - SJR338 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Mark Norris

TN - SJR745 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Larry Jensen, State Board of Education

TN - SJR713 Memorials, Death - Judge Timothy Ray Brock

TN - SJR732 Memorials, Recognition - Navy Week, March 30-April 5, 2020

TN - SJR723 Game and Fish Laws - Urges the federal government, TVA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and TWRA to assist in the control of the Asian carp invasion in Tennessee waters.

TN - SJR839 Memorials, Recognition - 25th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as national day of service

TN - SJR197 Memorials, Recognition - Camp Clements

TN - SJR95 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bev Johnson, Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame

TN - SJR514 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Rosalind Kurita

TN - SJR462 Memorials, Interns - Holdon Guy

TN - SJR488 Memorials, Sports - Coach Penny Hardaway

TN - SJR610 Memorials, Recognition - Tom Sorrells, REdl Hall of Fame

TN - SJR761 Memorials, Death - Carrie McLaughlin Gentry

TN - SJR752 Memorials, Death - Ronald Lewis Schlicher

TN - SJR712 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jonathan D. Cooper, Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers 2019-2020 President

TN - SJR70 Memorials, Death - Thomas "Tom" Jensen

TN - SJR6 Memorials, Death - Willard Lacy Upchurch

TN - SJR74 Memorials, Public Service - Commissioner Debbie Payne

TN - SJR322 Memorials, Sports - Westview High School girls' basketball team

TN - SJR77 Memorials, Retirement - Jill Bachus

TN - SJR50 Memorials, Recognition - Vice Mayor Jim Shulman

TN - SJR123 Memorials, Death - Bill Ortwein

TN - SJR725 Memorials, Retirement - Mary Jane Crockett-Green

TN - SJR729 Memorials, Death - William Miller "Bill" Vaughan

TN - SJR59 Memorials, Death - Senator Curtis Bentley "Ben" Atchley, Jr.

TN - SJR299 Memorials, Recognition - Eastanallee Baptist Church, 200th anniversary

TN - SJR175 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Tre Hargett, 50th birthday

TN - SJR69 Memorials, Public Service - Commissioner Bonnie Hommrich

TN - SJR108 Memorials, Retirement - Charlie Daniel

TN - SJR57 Memorials, Public Service - Commissioner Jai Templeton

TN - SJR52 Memorials, Recognition - Logan Grant

TN - SJR202 Memorials, Death - David Williams II

TN - SJR329 Memorials, Death - Staff Sergeant Alexander Scott Lawson, U.S. Army

TN - SJR615 Memorials, Recognition - Matthew Cook

TN - SJR76 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 1, 2019

TN - SJR67 Memorials, Public Service - Dr. Wendy J. Long

TN - SJR60 Memorials, Death - Edward Riley Anderson

TN - SJR238 Naming and Designating - "Sickle Cell Awareness Month" in Tennessee, November 2019

TN - SJR98 Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress and the United States Department of Health and Human Services to revise and update the Medicare Wage Index factor.

TN - SJR639 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Representative Barbara Cooper, 90th birthday

TN - SJR614 Memorials, Public Service - Matt Anderson

TN - SJR4 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Sheriff Jeff Bledsoe, Tennessee Sheriff of the Year