Tennessee Sen. Steven Dickerson (R)

TN - Education (Senate)

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2nd vice-chair

TN - Finance, Ways and Means (Senate)

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member

TN - Health and Welfare (Senate)

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member

TN - SB1899 Education - As enacted, makes certain changes to the requirements for voluntary pre-k programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - SB765 Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, declares that if the department has entered into a contract with a business entity for titling and registration services and that contract is being rescinded and canceled, the effective date of the cancellation is 30 calendar days, instead of 30 business days, after notice of the cancellation is provided. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56 and Title 65.

TN - SB2350 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, authorizes Davidson County and municipalities located in Sullivan County to prohibit, by local ordinance, smoking on the grounds of a swimming pool or outdoor amphitheater owned or operated by the local government. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - SB2358 Disabled Persons - As introduced, makes various revisions to the Tennessee Disability Act, such as expanding the disability protections for employers subject to the Act, as required by federal law. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-103.

TN - SB2347 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, removes the requirement that affiliates of the direct writer of insurance policies bearing the actual risk of loss under a reinsurance arrangement must qualify, on a consolidated basis, for premium tax reductions themselves had they been the direct writer in order for the direct writer to receive the reduction. - Amends TCA Section 56-4-210.

TN - SB2343 Orders of Protection - As enacted, removes the exclusion of petitioners who are victims of sexual assault or stalking from the provisions whereby an order of protection may direct the respondent to vacate home shared with the petitioner or to provide suitable housing alternative for the petitioner. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6.

TN - SB2342 Evidence - As enacted, requires that all biological evidence collected for a criminal offense or offenses in which one or more of the defendants received a sentence of death based upon the same criminal acts, whether the defendants were tried separately or together, be preserved until all defendants receiving a death sentence based on the same conduct are executed, otherwise die, or all related charges for which the defendants were convicted are dismissed. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB309 Medical Occupations - As introduced, changes the offense of practicing medicine or surgery without first complying with requirements relating to the practice of medicine or surgery, including licensure requirements, from a Class B misdemeanor to a Class C misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63.

TN - SB2432 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes review panel for reviewing exclusions and waivers under the Mental Health, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and/or Treatment, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and Personal Support Services Licensure Law to elect officers as it deems necessary in addition to a chair and a vice chair. - Amends TCA Section 33-2-403 and Section 33-2-402.

TN - SB769 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes the alcoholic beverage commission to issue temporary licenses for consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises, subject to payment of a $50.00 licensing fee; revises certain provisions regarding the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at a club. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1017 Charitable Solicitations - As enacted, establishes requirements for charitable donation receptacles; requires certain signage to disclose how proceeds from donated items will be used. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101.

TN - SB2346 Public Records - As introduced, requires a state agency, institution, and political subdivision to post the electronic mail communications policy on the web site of the agency, institution, and political subdivision. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 6 and Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

TN - SB872 Unemployment Compensation - As introduced, prohibits the commissioner of labor and workforce development from promulgating a rule that would allow a substitute teacher to be eligible for unemployment benefits from the school district for which the teacher is working, unless there has been a separation between the teacher and the school district. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7, Part 2.

TN - SB1046 Traffic Safety - As enacted, extends the rules of the road requiring drivers to yield the right-of-way at intersections and other locations to the operation of vehicles on drives open to public use and frequented by the public at large. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - SB188 Driver Licenses - As introduced, exempts law enforcement emergency response vehicles operated by law enforcement personnel in an official capacity from the requirement that the operator possess a commercial driver license. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - SB1011 Human Rights - As introduced, establishes certain rights related to offering compassionate aid to persons in economic distress. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - SB674 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, allows candidate and political campaign committee to accept digital currency as a contribution; requires increase in value of digital currency to be reported as interest on statements filed with the registry of election finance; requires candidate to sell digital currency and deposit proceeds before spending the funds. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.

TN - SB745 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, revises provisions governing the issuance of a retail food store wine license to a retail food store located within a shopping center or other development. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3.

TN - SJR530 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Kathryn Capizzi, 2016 Prudential Spirit of Community Award

TN - SJR90 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - William L. Campbell Sr., State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - SB2360 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, revises provisions governing penalties imposed on server permit holders for certain violations; requires any employee, representative, or agent of a permittee whose duties include verifying that a person is 21 years of age or older for the purpose of authorizing the person access to the premises of the permittee to require each person seeking access to the premises whose physical appearance does not reasonably demonstrate an age of 50 years or older to present a valid, government-issued document or other acceptable form of identification that includes the photograph and birth date of the person. - Amends TCA Section 57-1-201; Section 57-3-204; Section 57-3-704; Section 57-3-706; Section 57-3-818 and Title 57, Chapter 5, Part 6.

TN - SJR491 Naming and Designating - "Physician Anesthesiologists Week," January 31-February 6, 2016

TN - SJR183 Memorials, Death - Doris K. Bonanno.

TN - SB2355 Safety - As introduced, authorizes the metropolitan Davidson County government to regulate blasting; provided, that the local regulations are no less stringent than the state's blasting regulations. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 59, Chapter 8 and Title 68, Chapter 105.

TN - SB1388 Right to Die - As introduced, allows a declarant or someone acting on a declarant's behalf to deliver a copy of a living will to the attending physician or other concerned healthcare provider by electronic means. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 32; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB307 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - As enacted, requires DIDD to adopt policies and procedures regarding the development of appropriations requested for family support; requires, unless the commissioner determines an exigent circumstance exists, DIDD to seek the state family support council's input prior to adopting certain policies and procedures; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.

TN - SJR296 Memorials, Interns - Braden Stover.

TN - SJR432 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - D. Anne Davis, heritage conservation trust fund board

TN - SB358 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, prohibits a managed health insurance issuer that has contracted with a physician's practice to be a part of that health insurance plan's network of providers from directly contacting, or employing an agent to directly contact, a patient of a physician's practice in an effort to change a referral for services to another provider, unless certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB2353 Taxes - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to enter into an agreement with a taxpayer consenting to a tax refund claim being filed beyond the three-year period required by present law, if the taxpayer affirms the overpayment is the result of negligence or fraud by the taxpayer's accountant. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 1, Part 18 and Title 67, Chapter 1, Part 8.

TN - SB2344 Alcohol Offenses, Sales - As enacted, revises provisions governing violations and penalties relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SJR51 Memorials, Retirement - Reverend Joseph Patrick Breen.

TN - SB609 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, clarifies that credit for previous service only applies to service provided to the employer or its predecessor and not service in any other capacity. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.

TN - SB1907 Domestic Violence - As introduced, authorizes the AOC and clerks of court to publish on their web sites forms necessary for a person to seek a protection order for domestic abuse. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39.

TN - SB1470 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes the Metropolitan Nashville local board of education to conduct meetings by electronic means under the same circumstances as other local boards of education. - Amends TCA Section 49-2-203.

TN - SB1013 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, allows the commissioner to assign certain schools or grade configurations within certain schools to the ASD unless the parents of 60 percent of the children enrolled at the school object by petition, at which time the commissioner and the LEA may agree to certain alternate interventions for the school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - SB675 Workers Compensation - As introduced, requires that the annual report of the workers' compensation advisory council be distributed to the chief clerk of the house and chief clerk of the senate, who are to distribute the report to any requesting member of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

TN - SB799 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, exempts compressed natural gas from sales tax in the same manner that the present law exempts motor fuel and liquified gas from sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 3 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1906 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to provide access to standardized forms for health care insurance claims on the commissioner's web site. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - SB2352 Energy - As introduced, enacts the "Property Assessed Clean Energy Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 68.

TN - SJR529 Memorials, Recognition - Chelstin Wildun, 2016 Prudential Spirit of Community Award

TN - SB1612 Birth Control - As introduced, includes nurses as individuals who may refer a minor to a physician to provide contraceptive supplies to the minor. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB2348 Real Property - As introduced, requires a seller to disclose if residential property is located on a private road. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 5.

TN - SB2356 Mining and Quarrying - As introduced, prohibits the issuance of a permit in relation to the operation of a rock quarry on land that is located within 2,000 feet of a property line of a park or community education center, 500 feet of any other property line, or 1,200 feet of a residential structure. - Amends TCA Title 59; Title 69, Chapter 11 and Title 69, Chapter 3.

TN - SB1244 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes satellite facility for a manufacturer at Belle Meade Plantation to serve samples and sell bottled alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 2.

TN - SJR428 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Charles Hankla, heritage conservation trust fund board

TN - SB2359 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, authorizes municipalities, instead of all cities and towns, to employ deputy property assessors to assist and advise the property assessor. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SJR57 Memorials, Death - Cecil D. Branstetter.

TN - SJR497 Memorials, Recognition - Lupus Awareness Month

TN - SJR490 Memorials, Public Service - James H. Fyke

TN - SB601 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires all health insurance coverage to provide coverage for abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drugs at the same price as other opioid analgesic drugs. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB2349 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, prohibits smoking on the grounds of any property owned by the state or any political subdivision of the state. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - SJR60 Memorials, Recognition - University School of Nashville, 100th anniversary.

TN - SB367 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, sets requirements for radiological services that are provided in ambulatory surgical treatment centers. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - SB1468 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, increases the membership of the board for licensing health care facilities from 18 to 19 by adding a member representing ambulatory surgical treatment centers to the board. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - SB1739 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education, for purposes of determining overall student growth and achievement for a school under the jurisdiction of the ASD, to only consider the achievement growth of students originally zoned to the school prior to the school's placement under the jurisdiction of the ASD. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - SB360 Schools, Charter - As introduced, requires the department of education to adopt and publish, by August 1, 2015, uniform guidelines to be used by an LEA in which a charter school operates in submitting the LEA's annual report listing underutilized and vacant properties. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB873 Education - As introduced, specifies that students who obtain a HiSET diploma will be counted as graduates when calculating graduation rates in the same manner as students who obtain a GED credential. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1898 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, creates preference for retaining tenured teachers over nontenured teachers during a reduction of force; prohibits the dismissal of a tenured teacher in a reduction of force if another position is available in the system; prohibits the hiring of a nontenured teacher if a tenured teacher remains on the reemployment list. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2361 Public Contracts - As introduced, establishes an annual date of February 1 by which the contract subcommittee of the fiscal review committee is required to submit its annual report on the state's use of contract services to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 10; Title 12 and Title 41.

TN - SB512 Schools, Charter - As enacted, halts the closure at the end of the 2014–2015 school year of charter schools on the state's 2015 priority list; makes the 2017 priority list the first list for which charter schools appearing on a priority list must close at the end of the school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2351 Education - As introduced, makes various revisions to the ASD, including requiring schools assigned to the ASD on or after July 1, 2016, be in the bottom 2.5 percent of schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - SJR405 Memorials, Public Service - Jim Fyke

TN - SB1015 Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires that appropriate training be provided to newly appointed members of health related boards prior to beginning their service on such boards. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - SB2525 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, enacts the "Protection of Teachers Act"; creates preference for retaining tenured teachers over nontenured teachers during a reduction of force; prohibits the dismissal of a tenured teacher in a reduction of force if another position is available in the system; prohibits the hiring of a nontenured teacher if a tenured teacher remains on the reemployment list. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SJR55 Memorials, Death - John Lawrence Seigenthaler.

TN - SB1010 Metropolitan Government - As introduced, clarifies that the additional fee on the sales price of services sold within a certain central business improvement district does not apply to sales of accounting, legal, or other professional services. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 88 and Title 67.

TN - SB189 Schools, Charter - As enacted, allows the governing body of a charter school to choose the insurance plans offered to the school's teachers and other full-time permanent employees; removes requirement that charter school employees participate in the state group insurance plan. - Amends TCA Section 49-13-119.

TN - SB1469 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at Lillie Belle's in Franklin, Mt. Brushy in Morgan County, and the Salt Box Inn in Putnam County; revises description of Laurel Valley Golf Club (Blount County) for purposes of the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1014 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, revises definitions of prescription order and professional nursing in pharmacy and nursing statutes to include certain orders and activities of certified registered nurse anesthetists. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10 and Section 63-7-103.

TN - SB2345 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 - SB1740 Health Care - As enacted, authorizes a qualified physician assistant to evaluate and provide care to a youth athlete who suffered, or is suspected to have suffered, a concussion or head injury during the course of a school youth athletic activity. - Amends TCA Section 68-55-501.

TN - SB1177 Local Government, General - As introduced, deletes the limitation that certain local governments may only authorize the commercial use of pedal carriages and rickshaws in the city center; permits their use in entertainment, dining, scenic, and historic areas anywhere within the city limits, subject to certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 54; Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 55; Title 56 and Title 65, Chapter 15.

TN - SB1895 Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Nursing Delegation Act for Home and Community Living," which authorizes a registered nurse to delegate certain health maintenance tasks to an unlicensed person if the nurse adheres to a delegation process; limits liability of such nurses and unlicensed persons. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - SJR522 Memorials, Death - R. Clayton McWhorter

TN - SJR528 Memorials, Sports - Father Ryan High School wrestling team, TSSAA Division II State Duals Championship

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 - SB528 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, grants certain authority for sales for on-premises consumption to Belle Meade Plantation and George Jones Museum; prohibits advertising, describing, labeling, naming, selling, or referring to an intoxicating liquor for marketing or sales purposes as "Tennessee Moonshine" unless the intoxicating liquor is distilled in Tennessee; revises other provisions regarding sales of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB515 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires that nominees for student member on the Tennessee higher education commission be submitted to the governor by March 15 instead of April 15. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - SB1012 Law Enforcement - As enacted, permits a permanent legal resident of the United States who is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces to be employed as a police officer; requires such an officer to apply for or obtain citizenship within six years of the employment start date. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - SB611 Civil Procedure - As introduced, makes licensed social workers exempt from subpoena to trial but subject to subpoena to a deposition. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 9, Part 1.

TN - SB308 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises; authorizes Cheekwood to grant a franchise for the provision of food or beverage on the premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - SB972 Corporations, For Profit - As enacted, enacts the "For-Profit Benefit Corporation Act." - Amends TCA Title 48.

TN - SB2357 Mining and Quarrying - As introduced, enacts the "Dam Safety Act" to prohibit the issuance of a permit to conduct surface mining on land that is located within one mile of a dam operated by the U.S. army corps of engineers. - Amends TCA Title 59; Title 69, Chapter 11 and Title 69, Chapter 3.

TN - SB1915 Gas, Petroleum Products, Volatile Oils - As introduced, prohibits the construction of a gas compressor on land that is located within one mile of a public park. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB1897 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, exempts public housing authorities from property tax liability when they enter into leases that permit the public housing authority to acquire the property for a nominal sum at or before the completion of the lease term. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-203.

TN - SB610 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, revises provisions governing 12-hour hold period for persons charged with domestic violence or elder abuse offense; makes hold period mandatory unless the magistrate or other official duly authorized to release the offender finds that the offender is not a threat to the alleged victim. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - SR73 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - James Murphy, UT board of trustees

TN - SB1900 Students - As enacted, enacts the "Student Online Personal Protection Act". - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB388 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, expands premises for consumption of alcoholic beverages to include area between a convention center, convention center hotel, museum, and one block of public roadway in Nashville upon majority vote of the local legislative body. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102(27).

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

TN - SB1677 Birth Control - As enacted, authorizes a pharmacist to provide hormonal contraceptives according to a valid collaborative pharmacy practice agreement containing a nonpatient-specific prescriptive order and standardized procedures developed and executed by one or more authorized prescribers, in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1916 Real Property - As introduced, specifies that any provision of the Tennessee Condominium Act of 2008 that is in conflict with a provision of the Horizontal Property Act shall control. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 27, Part 1.

TN - SB1471 State Government - As enacted, revises various provisions governing reporting functions of public entities and officials. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12; Title 16; Title 17; Title 23; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 49; Title 50; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 64; Title 65; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SR88 Memorials, Recognition - Brownie Troop 72

TN - SB1896 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires public criminal records to be automatically expunged after two years from date of entry of any dismissal, nolle prosequi, or no true bill if not previously expunged upon court order or petition; establishes certain procedures for expunction without cost when charge is dismissed or nolle prosequi is entered. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

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

TN - SB1245 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor offense of intentionally carrying certain weapons and devices openly within 250 feet of the real property of a public or private preschool, elementary school, middle school, or secondary school with certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1309.

TN - SB871 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As enacted, enacts the "Addiction Treatment Act of 2015." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 53; Title 56 and Title 63.

TN - SJR431 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jeremy Nagoshiner, heritage conservation trust fund board

TN - SJR54 Memorials, Death - Charles Richard Franklin Treadway.

TN - SJR56 Memorials, Death - Bruce Isbester Crabtree Jr.

TN - SB2354 Mining and Quarrying - As introduced, adds limestone to the definition of "mineral" for purposes of applying the requirements of the Tennessee Mineral Surface Mining Law of 1972 to limestone; prohibits the issuance of a permit to conduct surface mining on land that is located within 2,000 feet of a property line of a park or community education center, 500 feet of any other property line, 1,200 feet of a residential structure, or one mile of a dam. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 59; Title 69, Chapter 11 and Title 69, Chapter 3.

TN - SB1016 Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Kenneth Harry-Hill Tennessee Veterans Health Care Act of 2015," which may also be known as the "Mission Tennessee for Veterans Program". - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SJR45 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Craig Hammond, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - SJR49 Memorials, Recognition - Recognizing Debbie Massey for 10 years of service with the Madison-Rivergate Area Chamber of Commerce.

TN - SJR50 Memorials, Death - Joseph C. Loser Jr.

TN - SJR53 Memorials, Death - Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor.

TN - SB570 Controlled Substances - As enacted, enacts the "Opioid Abuse Reduction Act," which requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to convene a working group to examine the problem of opioid abuse in this state. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

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

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

TN - SB112 Health Care - As enacted, authorizes the board for licensing healthcare facilities and the departments of mental health and substance abuse services, human services, and intellectual and developmental disabilities to amend licensure rules to be consistent with the federal home-based and community-based settings final rule; prohibits the use of emergency rulemaking to promulgate such rules; requires that licensure survey and enforcement be conducted in a manner consistent with any rule issued under this act. - Amends TCA Section 33-2-404; Section 68-11-202 and Section 71-2-412.

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

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

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

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

TN - SJR160 Memorials, Death - Charles Maurice Johnson.

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 - SB497 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, authorizes the synchronization of a patient's medications and regulates patient cost-sharing and pharmacist dispensing fees affected by a synchronization. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - SB1119 Courts, General Sessions - As enacted, removes the restriction that prohibits Davidson County from imposing a litigation tax on cases in general sessions court with proceeds to support the general sessions court. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15.

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

TN - SB319 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, revises provisions governing the licensing of personal support services; specifies that a personal support services agency that is licensed by either the department of mental health and substance abuse services or the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities is authorized to serve individuals with physical or other disabilities without being required to obtain a license from both departments. - Amends TCA Section 33-2-403.

TN - SJR121 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Les Leverett.

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

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

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

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

TN - SB1162 Disabled Persons - As enacted, enacts "The Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act."

TN - SB1201 Metropolitan Government - As enacted, authorizes a metropolitan government by two-thirds vote to restrict the location of a private club within 1,000 feet of a private school, public school, charter school, public park, residence, or place of worship. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 68.

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 - SR25 Memorials, Recognition - Sigma Phi Epsilon, 54th Grand Chapter Conclave.

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

TN - SB20 Local Government, General - As enacted, expands presumptive disability in acquiring certain infectious diseases in the line of duty by emergency rescue workers to include the hepatitis C virus. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-209.

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

TN - SB1020 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, requires governmental entities that regulate professions and trades to give electronic notice of any meeting 30 days in advance instead of 45 days in advance when rule or fee changes are on the agenda. - Amends TCA Title 62.

TN - SJR383 Memorials, Recognition - Luke Eppert.

TN - SB907 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Transportation Network Company Services Act." - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56 and Title 65.

TN - SR65 Memorials, Death - Eleanor McNeil Massey.

TN - SB612 Students - As introduced, exempts certain students from payment of out-of-state tuition at state institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 58; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

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 - SR64 Memorials, Retirement - Alice Wynelle Abbey.

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

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 - SJR206 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Alex Kimerling, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR201 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Sara Garner, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR200 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Mackenzie Grosser, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR208 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jena Locke, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR204 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Alex E. Hughes, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR205 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kate Keene, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR202 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Rachel Albright, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

TN - SJR209 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Rebecca Lofty, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR210 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amanda Smith, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR211 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brittany Wegusen, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

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 - SJR203 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Katherine Fowler, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

TN - SJR207 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Joe Lacher, 2015 class of Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Tennessee Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

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 - SB1024 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of causing a person under 18 years of age to attend an animal fight; increases the penalty for the offense of being a spectator at an animal fight to a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-203.

TN - SJR182 Memorials, Death - Senator Bobby Carter.

TN - SB875 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, specifies that either the owner, lessee, or contracted restaurant operator of WillowBrook golf course may hold rights to providing alcoholic beverages at such facility; authorizes certain entities to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premise consumption. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - SJR309 Memorials, Recognition - Nashville General Hospital, 125th anniversary.

TN - SB758 Education - As enacted, prohibits the placement of a priority school in the achievement school district if, after the school is identified as a priority school, but before the commissioner determines that the school should be assigned to the achievement school district the school demonstrates student achievement growth at a level of "above expectations" or greater, as represented by TVAAS. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

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

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 - SB1114 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Aron's Law," which makes the knowing killing of a police dog, fire dog, search and rescue dog, or police horse a Class E felony, unless the offense would be a higher classification based on the animal’s value, in which case, knowingly killing the animal will be punished as theft of property. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-205.

TN - SB833 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a court to order an inmate convicted of aggravated assault against a correctional officer to pay restitution to the victim in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

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

TN - SB2096 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, clarifies what items a manufacturer may use when having tastings on premises; enacts other tasting-related provisions; revises provisions governing permits to solicit orders. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-202.

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

TN - SJR476 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Maury and Gail Davis

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

TN - SB2093 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, enacts the "Public-Private Transportation Act of 2016." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 9; Title 12; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

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

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

TN - SJR404 Memorials, Recognition - Mayor Megan Barry.

TN - SB1580 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, revises provisions relating to the qualifications of an applicant for a license to practice medicine; authorizes the board of medical examiners to issue certain temporary licenses to practice medicine. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR407 Memorials, Death - Representative Clint Callicott

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

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

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

TN - SJR401 Memorials, Death - Leonard Keelon Bradley.

TN - SB2175 Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Commercial Dog Breeders Registration Act"; makes selling of dogs by unlicensed breeders, misrepresenting the condition of a dog for sale, or altering or falsifying a dog's health certificate a consumer protection violation. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 62.

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

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 - SB2537 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, reduces the capital investment requirement for eligibility for qualified data center sales and use tax exemptions from $250 million to $100 million; exempts cooling equipment and backup power equipment sold or used by qualified data centers from the sales and use tax; requires qualified data center that applies for job tax credits to certify that it has not, within the previous 12 months, been found to be in violation of certain laws. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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

TN - SJR413 Memorials, Retirement - Brian Signaigo

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

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

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 - SR76 Memorials, Death - Jerome Dennis Majkrzak

TN - SB2208 Taxes, Income - As introduced, extends from six months to seven months the tax due date for certain members of the military following the conclusion of hostilities in which the person is actually engaged outside the United States or after the person is transferred from the theater of operations of such hostilities, whichever is sooner. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1626 Election Laws - As enacted, establishes an online voter registration system beginning July 1, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - SB2091 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an insurance policy that provides benefits for anti-cancer medications that are injected or intravenously administered by a healthcare provider and anti-cancer medications that are patient administered from requiring a higher copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amount. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

TN - SB2306 Education, Higher - As introduced, enacts the "Tuition Stability Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SJR485 Memorials, Death - Joseph Dillman, death

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

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

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

TN - SJR495 Memorials, Death - Harold Weddington

TN - SJR533 Memorials, Recognition - Smart911 Awareness Day

TN - SJR512 Memorials, Death - Noble Cody

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

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

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

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

TN - SB829 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts provisions governing nonresidential office-based opioid treatment facilities and nonresidential opioid treatment programs. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - SB2619 Taxes, Income - As introduced, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2017, terminates the state-imposed Hall income tax and allows local governments to levy a like tax not to exceed 2.25 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

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

TN - SB1492 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, over the next four years, raises Hall tax maximum allowable income exemptions for taxpayers 65 years of age or older by $500 per year until they are $39,000 for single filers and $70,000 for joint filers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2 Taxes, Income - As introduced, phases out the Hall income tax over a three-year period; beginning January 1, 2016, reduces the tax rate by two percent annually; repeals the tax on January 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1440 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, beginning January 1, 2017, reduces the Hall income tax from six percent to five percent for taxpayers who are veterans with service-connected disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1551 Taxes, Income - As introduced, for tax years beginning January 1, 2016, increases the income exemption levels for taxpayers 65 years of age or older from $37,000 to $50,000 for single filers and from $68,000 to $100,000 for joint filers. - Amends TCA Section 67-2-104.

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

TN - SB2425 Traffic Safety - As enacted, enacts the "Elena Zamora Memorial Act," which changes the criminal penalties for failure to yield when that violation results in an accident resulting in serious bodily injury to or death of any person. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - SB2144 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, requires the department of safety to report annually to the speakers of the senate and the house and the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate, civil justice committee of the house, and criminal justice committee of the house, a report detailing certain information regarding forfeitures from the prior year. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 40.

TN - SB1572 Sentencing - As enacted, punishes sixth offense DUI as a Class C felony; clarifies "prior convictions" for purposes of enhancing a DUI sentence; removes Class E felony designation for third or subsequent conviction for simple possession or casual exchange of a controlled substance in certain situations; removes mandatory 24-hour litter removal requirement for first DUI offenders. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - SB1962 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes to the offense of stalking, including redefining "course of conduct". - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 14; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39.

TN - SB1443 Taxes, Income - As introduced, excludes social security benefits from determination of annual income for purposes of qualifying for exemption from tax on stocks and bonds for persons 65 years of age or older. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - SB1461 Taxes, Income - As introduced, decreases Hall income tax rate from six percent to 5.5 percent for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

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

TN - SB2539 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, establishes a tax credit equal to 33 percent of the value of cash investments made in certain companies by an "angel investor" against the angel investor's Hall income tax liability. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1491 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, over the next five years, annually raises the Hall tax exemptions for all taxpayers by $150 for single filers and $200 for joint filers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.