Tennessee Sen. Todd Gardenhire (R)

TN - Education (Senate)

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TN - Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources (Senate)

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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 - SB1912 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, prohibits the expenditure of state funds by the University of Tennessee to promote the use of gender neutral pronouns, to promote or inhibit the celebration of religious holidays, or to fund or support sex week; specifies that all funds in the budget of the office for diversity and inclusion at UT Knoxville, for fiscal year 2016-2017, be reallocated in the university's budget and used by the university solely for scholarships to be awarded through a minority engineering scholarship program; any such funds that are not used for minority engineering scholarships in fiscal year 2016-2017 will remain in the scholarship program for use in future fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.

TN - SJR40 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - David Watson, Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - SB1892 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, changes from January 15 and July 15 to January 31 and July 31 the dates by which every professional bondsman licensed to do business in Tennessee must file with the court clerk a report of the bondsman's assets and liabilities. - Amends TCA Section 40-11-303.

TN - SB706 General Assembly - As introduced, requires an official or entity of state government to send required reports to the legislative e-mail address of a member of the general assembly; allows the official or entity to submit a link to the report in the e-mail to comply with such requirement. - Amends TCA Title 3.

TN - SB1365 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, revises the Border Region Retail Tourism Development District Act to permit municipalities to report the cost of an economic development project within 30 days of the end of each fiscal year; clarifies that municipalities may disclose the amount of a payment made to a private party even if the payment is derived from sales and use taxes collected from a single parcel of property. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 40 and Title 67, Chapter 1, Part 17.

TN - SB1718 Traffic Safety - As introduced, creates a Class C misdemeanor for operating a vehicle hauling timber, logs, or pulpwood on U.S. Highway 11/State Route 2 in Bradley County. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1445 Bradley County - As introduced, subject to local approval, increases the hotel/motel tax from five percent to seven percent; revises the allocation formula. - Amends Chapter 19 of the Private Acts of 1991; as amended.

TN - SB992 Health Care - As introduced, requires the division of health related boards to make public its directory of licensees on the web site of the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1721 State Employees - As introduced, requires a state employee to repay the cost of a tuition and fee waiver at a public institution of higher education if the student withdraws or fails the course in which the state employee enrolled with the waiver; requires the amount of the waiver be paid before enrolling in another course at a public institution of higher education, unless the state employee shows that the withdrawal or failure was the result of a documented medical or personal reason. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-114; Title 49, Chapter 8; Title 49, Chapter 9 and Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1714 Public Records - As introduced, permits a person to petition the court for the expunction of multiple convictions provided all the offenses are currently eligible for expunction, the petitioner has completed all requirements of each sentence, and five years have elapsed since the most recent offense. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - SB1911 County Government - As introduced, requires the public notice of a vacancy in the office of a member of a county legislative body to be printed in a newspaper of general circulation at least 15 days prior, instead of seven days prior, to the meeting at which the office is to be filled. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 5.

TN - SJR462 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article II, Section 28, of the Constitution of Tennessee to prohibit the legislature from imposing a state property tax on real property.

TN - SB452 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, adds to statement of purpose for the private act metropolitan hospital authorities statute that hospitals are being forced to compete while delivering quality care in an accountable manner. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 57.

TN - SB451 Public Records - As introduced, clarifies that law enforcement officer driver license information is confidential even if driving and operating a vehicle is part of the officer's job duties. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

TN - SB1715 Special License Plates - As introduced, authorizes issuance of Eastern Star new specialty earmarked license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - SB2052 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, deletes a definition of a nonexistent scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - SB2200 Telecommunications - As introduced, revises provisions relative to providing broadband Internet services. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 65.

TN - SB1059 DUI Offenses - As introduced, specifies that a person attending an alcohol and drug assessment and treatment program as a condition of probation for a second or third DUI is not on probation until service of the mandatory minimum sentence of incarceration. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - SB546 Disabled Persons - As introduced, establishes within the department of human services a task force for vocational rehabilitation services for the blind. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 6.

TN - SB1845 Students - As introduced, requires each LEA to annually report to the department of education the number and types of task forces, programs, and initiatives established concerning harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyber-bullying. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-403; Section 37-1-604 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 45.

TN - SB996 Emergency Communications Districts - As introduced, extends, from September 15, 2017, to September 15, 2018, the time in which TACIR must study and report to the joint committee on government operations on the 911 surcharge and implementation of IP-based next generation 911 technology. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 29; Title 47; Title 56; Title 58; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - SB2202 Welfare - As introduced, permits the commissioner of human services to submit the required annual report on annual adjustments to the standard of need for the Families First Act of 1996 to the governor and the general assembly in electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 71.

TN - SB1908 Real Property - As introduced, creates various causes of action for members of a homeowners' association against a homeowners' association; authorizes a declarant of a homeowners' association to retain full control of a project until its completion. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - SB998 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, revises apportionment and distribution provisions of the Border Region Retail Tourism Development District Act. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 40 and Title 67, Chapter 1, Part 17.

TN - SB705 Local Government, General - As introduced, requires legislative approval of TACIR's model anti-bullying policy prior to its adoption by certain employers, and clarifies that adoption of such policy does not create a private right of action against any employee in their personal capacity for negligent infliction of mental anguish. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 5.

TN - SB876 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires the department of commerce and insurance to conduct a study of the commissions, service fees, brokerage fees, and any other valuable consideration given to a person for selling, soliciting, or negotiating insurance in this state and report its findings to the senate commerce and labor committee and the insurance and banking committee of the house no later than January 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6; Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 56, Chapter 8.

TN - SB997 Credit, Consumer - As introduced, allows a litigation financier to attempt to use arbitration or effect a waiver of a consumer’s right to jury trial; allows a litigation financier to assign a litigation financing contract; revises other various provisions of the Tennessee Litigation Financing Consumer Protection Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 16.

TN - SB1716 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products - As introduced, restricts the use of state gasoline tax revenues distributed to the highway fund, counties, and cities to the construction, improvement, and maintenance of highways and bridges; prohibits the use of such revenue for pedestrian, bicycle, and other nonvehicular facilities. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67, Chapter 3.

TN - SB877 Liens - As enacted, revises various provisions relative to mechanics' and materialmen's liens. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 11.

TN - SB764 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, extends the statute of limitations from one year to three years for personal injury causes of action. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3.

TN - SB707 County Government - As introduced, removes provision allowing Hamilton County to give the same percentage salary increase to the county legislative body as the county mayor receives. - Amends TCA Section 5-5-107.

TN - SB2203 Traffic Safety - As introduced, creates a Class C misdemeanor for operating a vehicle hauling timber, logs, or pulpwood on U.S. Highway 11/State Route 2 in the city limits of the City of Cleveland in Bradley County. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1910 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, allows Bessie Smith Cultural Center in Hamilton County to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - SB1719 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows full-time law enforcement officers and firefighters to enroll in one course tuition-free at any state-supported college or university. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB1717 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, grants a reimbursement of 100 percent of local property taxes paid by any veteran determined to be 100 percent permanently and totally unemployable from a service-connected disability; grants a reimbursement of 50 percent of property taxes paid by any veteran who has a permanent and total service-connected disability and income less than $30,000. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - SB1913 University of Tennessee - As introduced, requires the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee systems to allow reasonable time for public comments at regularly scheduled board meetings. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SB2054 Clerks, Court - As introduced, extends for four years the current $2.00 filing fee charged by clerks and data fee entry chargeable by clerks, except in certain cases brought by the state and state agencies; extension effective until July 1, 2020, unless continued by general assembly. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401; Section 8-21-409 and Chapter 1039 of the Public Acts of 2012.

TN - SB26 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, deletes authorization for hospitals that are otherwise subject to the open meetings and records laws to have closed meetings and confidential records concerning marketing strategies and strategic plans. - Amends TCA Section 68-11-238.

TN - SB1842 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, revises various provisions governing certificates of need; requires certain reporting by person who provides magnetic resonance imaging services. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB642 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, deletes provision permitting a court to revoke a defendant's bond and order the defendant held without bail pending trial if the defendant violates a condition of release, is charged with an offense committed during the defendant's release, or engages in conduct which obstructs the progress of the trial. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.

TN - SB1922 Unclaimed Property - As introduced, increases from 180 days to 200 days the minimum time required before a dry cleaner or launderer may dispose of unclaimed garments. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - SB995 Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, removes from present law the minimum limits for proof of motor vehicle liability insurance coverage, which applied from January 1, 1990, until December 31, 2008; makes other revisions concerning insurance information. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 5; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 12.

TN - SB547 Financial Responsibility Law - As introduced, after December 1, 2015, increases the minimum limits for automobile liability insurance coverage; requires authentication by witnesses regarding the use of medical bills in civil actions; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 5; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - SB2204 Education - As introduced, creates a task force to study the effects of concussions on student athletes in high school and college. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB151 Education - As introduced, urges the department of education to include the proper use and positioning of bicycle helmets in its pilot bicycle safety curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1720 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows dependent children of full-time law enforcement officers and firefighters, who are under 24 years of age, to receive a 25 percent discount on tuition to attend any state-operated institution of higher learning. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - SB2051 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, revises various provisions governing the 911 fee collection practice. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86.

TN - SB1840 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, allows a certain historic bridge on State Route 2 in Hamilton County to be restored to industry standards effective at the time the bridge was constructed; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11; Title 29 and Title 54.

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

TN - SB1843 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires THEC and the governing bodies of higher education systems and institutions to include hierarchical organizational charts in the budget documents presented to the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and house. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 12 and Title 49.

TN - SB545 Special License Plates - As introduced, authorizes the issuance of a new specialty earmarked license plate for cystic fibrosis awareness. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

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

TN - SB1846 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, deletes sales and use tax exemption for retail sales of periodicals printed entirely on newsprint or bond paper and regularly distributed twice monthly, or on a biweekly or more frequent basis, and advertising supplements or other printed matter distributed with the periodicals. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-329.

TN - SB453 Education - As enacted, requires the Tennessee STEM innovation network to establish STEM innovation hubs in rural areas of the state and in Northwest Tennessee; requires the Tennessee STEM innovation network to provide a middle school curriculum on the variety and benefits of STEM careers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SR6 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John Foy, UT Board of Trustees

TN - SB1706 Workers Compensation - As introduced, allows attorneys' fees and other costs to be recovered in a workers' compensation claim when the employer denies a claim or fails to deliver benefits to which the employee is entitled if a workers' compensation judge makes a finding that benefits were owed; grants a refund to employers or their insurers if benefits were paid and subsequently a court finds that the employee was not entitled to the benefits. - Amends TCA Section 50-6-226.

TN - SB2201 Education, Higher - As introduced, creates a task force to study the feasibility of public institutions of higher education partnering with for-profit or nonprofit education organizations as a way to decrease tuition and fee costs for students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - SB800 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, specifies that detainer includes any means of requesting a defendant be returned to a jurisdiction, including habeas corpus and extradition; requires that a bond forfeiture be collected within five years of the earlier of the date the defendant failed to appear or the date of the last activity in the case. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.

TN - SB1129 Water Authorities - As introduced, declares that water companies shall not be prevented from providing water and wastewater treatment authorities with information about water customers to locate such persons or to collect delinquent debts; increases authority of municipalities to collect delinquent or past due sewer charges; expands ability of water and wastewater authorities to discontinue water service to sewer users who are delinquent in paying sewer service charges, penalties or fees. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 68, Chapter 221.

TN - SB1433 County Officers - As enacted, increases the fee, from $26.00 to $40.00, that a constable or sheriff can charge for in-person service of process. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-901.

TN - SB1909 Public Officials - As introduced, allows governmental entities to publish notices on their web sites in lieu of other methods of publication. - Amends TCA Title 1 and Title 8, Chapter 21.

TN - SJR424 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jeannine Alday, heritage conservation trust fund board

TN - SB677 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, permits a magistrate to impose additional conditions of release or bail on a defendant arrested for child abuse, neglect, or endangerment or aggravated child abuse, neglect, or endangerment who is a threat to the alleged victim. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4 and Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - SB450 Planning, Public - As introduced, makes the Neighborhood Preservation Act applicable to Hamilton County. - Amends TCA Section 13-6-105.

TN - SB548 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, enacts the "Secure Home Act." - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 28, Part 3.

TN - SJR84 Memorials, Death - Paul Malvine Starnes.

TN - SJR375 Memorials, Public Service - Ardena J. Garth, Public Defender, 11th Judicial District.

TN - SB1844 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows students from a border state to receive in-state tuition. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SB1841 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, extends the statute of limitation for aggravated statutory rape committed on or after July 1, 2016, from four years to 15 years from the date the victim becomes 18 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 2.

TN - SB454 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, enacts "Dustin's Law." - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB514 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, requires the executive director of THEC to convene a task force to examine the statutory tuition discount and waiver programs offered at public institutions of higher education in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 58; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

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

TN - SB2055 Education - As introduced, requires TSAC to provide information on mentoring and community service programs at the annual lottery scholarship day. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - SB526 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires an LEA to reimburse public institutions of higher education for the cost of providing remedial courses to students who enroll within 16 months of graduation from a high school in the LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB673 Probation and Parole - As introduced, permits a court to extend a defendant's period of probation supervision until all fines, fees, and costs associated with the conviction are paid or the judge waives or declares the fines, fees, and costs paid. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-308.

TN - SJR235 Memorials, Recognition - Vinceia M. Crittenden, Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year.

TN - SB1847 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires all public institutions of higher education to charge the same rate of tuition and fees for full-time students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - SB2053 Courts, General Sessions - As introduced, permits county that establishes a new division of general sessions court to impose litigation tax of up to $9.00 for the purpose of funding the new division of court. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15.

TN - SB999 School Vouchers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Choice & Opportunity Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

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

TN - SB466 County Government - As enacted, prohibits members of a county legislative body from voting on matters in which they have a conflict of interest; authorizes legislative bodies of any metropolitan and charter form of government to opt out. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 12.

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

TN - SB2211 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, creates the Reading Matters pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 7.

TN - SB412 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, revises provisions governing authority to reduce maximum gross weight of freight motor vehicles over certain county roads. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 54, Chapter 7 and Title 55.

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

TN - SB122 School Vouchers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Choice and Opportunity Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - SB2226 Auctions and Auctioneers - As enacted, provides exemption from continuing education requirements for auctioneers who have reached 60 years of age and have been licensed as an auctioneer for 10 years or longer; or have been licensed under present law since July 1, 1999. - Amends TCA Section 62-19-106.

TN - SB2497 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Course Access Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1928 Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Government Imposter and Deceptive Advertisements Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.

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

TN - 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 - 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 - SB1568 Students - As introduced, requires LEAs to maintain a record of when, why, and by whom student educational records or personally identifiable information is accessed; requires authentication for access of electronic records; requires notification of a student's parent or guardian of access of the student's records. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1630 Healthcare Liability - As introduced, redefines "passive investor" for purposes of determining liability in a healthcare liability action from any entity that has an ownership interest in a healthcare provider but that does not directly participate in the day-to-day decision making or operations of the healthcare provider to any entity that has an ownership interest of less than five percent in a healthcare provider. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 26.

TN - SB1465 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, reestablishes the first portion of home value for which real property tax relief will be reimbursed to disabled veteran home owners from $100,000 to $175,000. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - SB2591 Nuisances - As enacted, imposes same burden of proof in nuisance actions based on changed farming operations as presently applied to nuisance actions based on established farming operations. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3; Section 39-17-415; Section 43-1-701; Title 43, Chapter 26 and Title 44, Chapter 18.

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

TN - SB2635 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop procedures for identifying characteristics of dyslexia through the universal screening process required by the existing RTI2 framework or other available means; requires every LEA to implement the dyslexia screening procedures; specifies that dyslexia screening may be requested for any student by the student's parent or guardian, teacher, counselor, or school psychologist; creates the dyslexia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49.

TN - SB1832 Environmental Preservation - As introduced, creates the forum on Tennessee's great outdoors for the purpose of conducting a comprehensive review of the health and status of this state's natural resources and outdoor recreation needs and opportunities. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - SB711 Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Criminal Justice Veterans Compensation Act of 2015" or the "CJVC Act." - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

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 - SB475 Employees, Employers - As enacted, clarifies that neither a franchisee nor a franchisee's employee shall be deemed to be an employee of the franchisor for any purpose, notwithstanding any voluntary agreement between the U.S. department of labor and a franchisee. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 50.

TN - SB2508 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises provisions governing the evaluation of teachers and principals. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1569 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, prohibits legal counsel for a school district from holding any other position with the school district; prohibits legal counsel for a county or city school district from holding a position with the county or city government. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.

TN - SB1862 Education - As enacted, requires every elementary and secondary school to post the toll-free telephone number operated by the department of children's services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect in a clearly visible location in a public area that is readily accessible to students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB1221 Religion and Religious Organizations - As enacted, prohibits a state or local government entity, except for courts, from subpoenaing a clergy member's sermon for a civil or administrative action. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-407 and Title 24.

TN - SB1869 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, revises various provisions governing TCRS including clarifying that the transfer of funds from the stabilization reserve trust account is not a maximum unfunded liability cost and revising provisions concerning TCRS investments. - Amends TCA Section 3-9-103; Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36; Title 8, Chapter 37 and Section 26-2-105.

TN - SB2654 Budget Procedures - As enacted, increases from 30 cents to 36 cents per each person in the county the amount that each county must pay to the office of the comptroller to contribute to the expenses of audits; creates historic property land acquisition fund; makes other statutory revisions required for implementation of the annual appropriations act. - Amends Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71.

TN - SB1695 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, revises eligibility requirements for home school students and students who graduate from an ineligible high school to receive the general assembly merit scholarship. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-916.

TN - SB1223 Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, establishes requirements and protections for healthcare providers that practice telehealth. - Amends TCA Title 63.

TN - SB2376 Handgun Permits - As enacted, permits full-time employees of state public colleges or universities who possess handgun carry permit to carry a handgun while on property owned, operated, or controlled by the employing college or university if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - SB35 Probation and Parole - As enacted, makes a person who commits vehicular homicide where alcohol or drugs were involved ineligible for probation. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

TN - SB1707 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, prohibits school districts and state special schools from paying through payroll deduction their professional employees' dues to a professional employee association. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-204 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 6.

TN - SB2002 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, makes various revisions to an LEA’s policies on harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyber-bullying; requires that an investigation be initiated within 48 hours and that an appropriate intervention be initiated within 20 calendar days of receipt of the report. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 45.

TN - SB1948 Fees - As enacted, makes permanent the $2.00 increases to the filing fees charged by court clerks and data fee entry chargeable by clerks that are scheduled to expire July 1, 2016. - Amends Chapter 1039 of the Public Acts of 2012.

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 - SB2655 Bond Issues - As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $87.7 million.

TN - SB722 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, adds Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom to the definition of "period of armed conflict" for purposes of determining military service credit in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36.

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 - SB1195 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, clarifies that an annexing municipality possesses the exclusive right to provide utility services in annexed areas if the municipality chooses to provide such services; provides an aggrieved party with the right to appeal the findings of the water and wastewater authority board to the circuit court. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65 and Title 68.

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 - SB1570 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires a local board of education to hire legal counsel, finance staff, and communications staff for the LEA; specifies that such staff will not be controlled or managed by the director of schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.

TN - SB2565 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As enacted, eliminates an obsolete provision concerning the BEP; revises the BEP calculation; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - SB1611 Agriculture - As enacted, redefines industrial hemp under the Tennessee Right to Farm Act, and revises other provisions of the Act. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43 and Chapter 936 of the Public Acts of 2014.

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

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

TN - SB96 Public Contracts - As enacted, revises requirements governing a state agency, department, or institution of higher education of the state entering into a new lease as lessee. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - SB588 Education - As enacted, requires the commissioner of education, by October 1 of the year prior to the public identification of priority schools, to notify any school and its respective LEA if the school is among the bottom 10 percent of schools in overall achievement as determined by the performance standards and other criteria set by the state board. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-602.

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

TN - 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 - SB1144 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department of education, when publishing the list of priority schools, to list all schools in the state in order by success rate from the highest to the lowest; and list all schools in each county and each LEA in order by success rate from the highest to the lowest. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - SB1134 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, allows each municipality operating an electric plant to provide services outside its electric system service area. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 52.

TN - SB1280 Abortion - As enacted, requires facilities or physician offices where more than 50 abortions are performed in a calendar year to be licensed as ambulatory surgical treatment centers. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - SB1350 Taxes, Litigation - As introduced, permits a county to impose a litigation tax on all civil and criminal cases in the sessions, juvenile, and municipal courts; requires the funds to be used exclusively to support substance abuse prevention coalitions operating within the county. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-601.

TN - SB1992 Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to establish a model policy on suicide prevention; requires an LEA to adopt its own policy or the model policy on suicide prevention. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 49.

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

TN - SB1553 Military - As enacted, enacts the "National Guard Force Protection Act of 2016". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 58.

TN - SB78 Contractors - As enacted, expands types of activities the state board for licensing contractors may penalize; increases the amount of civil penalties that may be levied against contractors; changes evidentiary requirements for obtaining a court order to enforce the board's penalties. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1558 Sentencing - As enacted, revises the criminal gang enhancement statute. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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 - SB755 Annexation - As enacted, removes provisions related to annexation by ordinance, to effectuate the provisions of Chapter 707 of the Public Acts of 2014 to abolish annexation by ordinance; authorizes, in certain circumstances and counties, a municipality, by resolution, to propose annexation of territory that does not adjoin the boundary of the main part of the municipality if the territory proposed for annexation is entirely contained within the municipality's urban growth boundary. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58.

TN - SB2370 Water Authorities - As enacted, prohibits an authority in Hamilton County from requiring a property owner who leases residential property, the property owner's agent, or a subsequent tenant of the property to pay or to guarantee the payment of charges, penalties, or other fees owed to the authority that were incurred by a former tenant of such property owner or agent; establishes other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 65; Title 66 and Title 68.

TN - SB1598 Education - As enacted, authorizes local boards of education to admit pupils from outside their respective local school systems at any time without the approval of the previous LEA; adds that in cases where an LEA has created a regional school with a specific focus on STEM, local BEP school funds will also follow the student into the LEA to which the student is transferring and no tuition may be charged by the receiving LEA; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 3.

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

TN - SB2558 Taxes - As enacted, specifies additional circumstances under which the commissioner of revenue may waive penalties for delinquent franchise and excise taxes; alters the formula for calculating quarterly estimated payments for franchise and excise taxes; reduces penalties for deficient or delinquent estimated franchise and excise tax payments from 5 percent to 2 percent per month; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB981 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, provides that a victim of a sexually oriented crime is entitled to a forensic medical examination without charge to the victim; establishes requirements for collection of evidence, testing, and handling of such evidence; requires the domestic violence state coordinating council to create a model policy for law enforcement agencies responding to reports of sexually oriented crimes and requires all law enforcement agencies that are likely to encounter reports of sexually oriented crimes to establish written policies and procedures on responding to reports of sexually oriented crimes. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 13, Part 1; Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - SB2653 Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2015, and July 1, 2016.

TN - SB326 Estates - As enacted, enacts the "Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act." - Amends TCA Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 34; Title 35 and Title 39.

TN - SB1606 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Local School District Empowerment Act," which creates a pilot program for reestablishment of the office of elected school superintendent; requires the department of education to study the pilot program procedures for reestablishment of the office; adjusts duties of local boards of education in systems in which the office of elected school superintendent is reestablished. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB2238 Handgun Permits - As enacted, lowers the age for receiving a handgun carry permit from 21 years of age to 18 years of age for persons who are an honorably discharged or retired veteran of the U.S. armed forces or a service member on active duty status. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - SB1222 Abortion - As enacted, implements 48-hour waiting period on procuring an abortion; establishes requirements for informed consent; provides medical emergency exception. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 9 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - SB1393 Adoption - As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding adoption, including provisions governing termination of parental rights, abandonment, and surrender. - Amends TCA Title 36.

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

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

TN - SB749 Municipal Government - As introduced, abolishes deannexation by ordinance; requires the reallocation of certain municipal highway funds if a municipality deannexes city roadways; revises various other provisions governing deannexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 54.

TN - SB1090 Veterans - As enacted, specifies that no fee may be charged for the interment of an eligible veteran in a state veterans' cemetery and limits the fee to $610 for the interment of an eligible veteran's spouse. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

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

TN - SB1327 Sentencing - As introduced, requires that a person convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, must serve 100 percent of the sentence imposed if the sentencing court finds that the murder involved torture beyond that necessary to inflict death or it involved kidnapping the victim and the person was never charged with kidnapping. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 5.

TN - SB2592 Domestic Violence - As enacted, specifies that if domestic abuse is the underlying offense for which a tenancy is terminated, only the perpetrator may be evicted; enacts other provisions governing and domistic violence. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36 and Title 66.

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

TN - SR64 Memorials, Retirement - Alice Wynelle Abbey.

TN - SR76 Memorials, Death - Jerome Dennis Majkrzak

TN - SR65 Memorials, Death - Eleanor McNeil Massey.

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

TN - SJR181 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Confirms appointment of Robin Bennett to serve a six-year term on the Tennessee regulatory authority, such term to expire June 30, 2020.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - SJR401 Memorials, Death - Leonard Keelon Bradley.

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

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

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

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

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

TN - SJR413 Memorials, Retirement - Brian Signaigo

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

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

TN - SJR388 Memorials, Death - Scott L. Probasco Jr.

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

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

TN - SJR495 Memorials, Death - Harold Weddington

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

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

TN - SJR121 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Les Leverett.

TN - SJR182 Memorials, Death - Senator Bobby Carter.

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

TN - SJR407 Memorials, Death - Representative Clint Callicott

TN - SJR278 Memorials, Recognition - First Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga, 175th Anniversary.

TN - SJR485 Memorials, Death - Joseph Dillman, death

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

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

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

TN - SJR383 Memorials, Recognition - Luke Eppert.

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

TN - SJR21 Memorials, Retirement - Charlotte Mullis-Morgan.

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

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

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

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

TN - SJR160 Memorials, Death - Charles Maurice Johnson.

TN - SJR512 Memorials, Death - Noble Cody