| SJR0028 | Intro
Sine Die | Milton Hamilton, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Calendar Committee |
| SB0278 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits an individual's property that does not meet the minimum size requirements for greenbelt classification to be aggregated with contiguous property owned by others who are related to the individual by blood, marriage, or adoption ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0030 | Fail | As introduced, "Charles 'Chuck' Duncheskie Memorial Parkway," Dover Crossing in City of Clarksville, Montgomery County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
Withdrawn. |
| SB0287 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends the time period within which a seized firearm may be sold at auction pursuant to court order from six to 12 months. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 2; Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0040 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the carrying of handguns by persons with a handgun carry permit on public hunting areas and wildlife management areas; subjects such persons to all wildlife laws, rules, and regulations. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 4 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0043 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates Class C felony of aggravated vehicular assault, which involves committing vehicular assault and having certain alcohol-related prior convictions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0044 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, raises from Class E to Class D felony punishment for sixth or subsequent conviction for DUI with minimum mandatory punishment of 220 days in jail, $5,000 fine, and 10-year license suspension. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0045 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes appeals from contested case hearings in any county in which the attorney general has an office; specifies such appeals shall be de novo. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0046 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes appeals from administrative decisions to be made directly to chancery court; specifies such appeals shall be heard de novo. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0047 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits a de novo review of all administrative contested case hearings, if requested. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0049 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes requirement that county registers remit to the general fund 52 percent of their commissions for collecting registration taxes. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 13; Title 8, Chapter 21 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0050 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates rebuttable presumption that shared custody is in child's best interests. - Amends amend TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0051 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires meetings of judicial selection commission regarding judicial vacancies to be held in public. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 4, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0052 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of children's services to report to the select committee on children and youth the total number of adoptions, the number involving adoptive parents that are related to the child, and the number involving adoptiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0055 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, broadens eligibility for Tennessee River resort district status. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0057 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, provides that each county with a population in excess of 100,000 according to 2010 federal census be served by at least three divisions of general sessions court to be presided over by at least three full-time judges. - Amends TCA Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0060 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires law enforcement officer to conduct test to determine blood alcohol of driver involved in accident resulting in injury or death if officer has probable cause to believe driver committed DUI, vehicular assault, vehicular homicid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0061 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires meetings of judicial selection commission regarding judicial vacancies to be held in public. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0062 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires judicial council to draft proposal reconstituting existing judicial districts by January 1, 2010, based upon population and provides that future determinations as to need for new judicial positions be based exclusively on popu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0065 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, broadens eligibility for Tennessee River resort district status. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102 and Section 67-6-103.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0068 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts Knox County from jury service reform act that took effect January 1, 2009, and provides that law in effect prior to such date governs juries and jury panels in such county. - Amends TCA Title 22, Chapter 2, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0069 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates new Class E and D felony offenses for committing or attempting to commit a terroristic threat or act; Class C and B felony offenses for committing or attempting to commit a terroristic threat or act against another in retaliati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0071 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, provides that a flea market operator is not vicariously liable for damages resulting from flea market vendors' sale of counterfeit merchandise unless operator knew merchandise was counterfeit and failed to report or prevent sale. - Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0078 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any individual who is cohabitating in a sexual relationship outside of a marriage that is valid under the constitution and laws of this state from adopting a minor. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0080 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates wine direct shipper license to be issued through the alcoholic beverage commission that would allow an in-state or out-of-state entity to ship wine directly to consumers age 21 years or older in this state for personal use. - A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0090 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, subject to local approval, allows partisan elections for county executive of Rhea County. - Amends Chapter 322 of the Private Acts of 1978.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
P2C held on desk. Local Bill |
| SB0093 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, decreases from three to two the number of members necessary to constitute a quorum of the state aeronautics commission. - Amends TCA Title 42.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB0095 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes conductor to put off non-paying passenger at any regular station. - Amends TCA Title 65.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB0096 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires LEAs to report each fiscal year the percentage of expenditures made on classroom expenditures district-wide and by school; requires classroom expenditures to be at least 70 percent of the total operating expenditures both dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0099 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires department of education to develop "College to Kids" program to raise awareness in public schools about benefits of attending college by having professional adults volunteer to visit schools across state. - Amends TCA Title 49...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0102 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, provides that court or jury may take into consideration the defendant's personal income and ability to pay when determining the amount of criminal fine to assess, if any. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0103 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates new lottery scholarship programs for students preparing to become teachers; requires THEC, TBR, and UT to assist colleges in establishing joint teacher preparation programs with nonprofit organizations and LEAs to meet the requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0121 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates an additional class of licenses allowing the sale of wine at certain retail food stores; requires person purchasing wine at certain retail food stores to present photo identification. - Amends TCA Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0122 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires all state agencies and political subdivisions to verify eligibility of all individuals 18 years of age or older before providing public benefits by using the federal "systematic alien verification for entitlements" or "SAVE" p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SR0002 | Pass | Ron Roberson, Jo Reed Award
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-11
Signed by S. Speaker |
| SB0156 | Fail | As introduced, enacts the "At-Will Employment Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
Withdrawn. |
| SB0002 | Intro
Sine Die | Subject to local approval, repeals the ban on partisan elections for county executive and county legislative body of Rhea County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
Held on desk - Local Bill |
| SB0003 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a voter to present qualified photographic identification before voting; voters without proper identification shall be allowed to cast provisional ballots. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0259 | Fail | As introduced, limits time a candidate and candidate’s political campaign committee may make expenditures to no earlier than 120 days before an election and no later than 90 days after the last election in which the candidate participates; exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
Withdrawn. |
| SB0005 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires identification and proof of citizenship for voter registration; requires a voter to present qualified photographic identification before voting; voters without proper identification shall be allowed to cast provisional ballots...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SJR0015 | Fail | Sylvan Park Paideia Design Center, 102nd anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
Withdrawn. |
| SB0014 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds community action agencies to definition of governmental entity for purposes of governmental tort liability. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0016 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a medical facility from holding the victim of domestic abuse responsible for the payment of a forensic medical examination and provides for compensation of such exam by the criminal injuries compensation fund. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0021 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes a program for senior alert system in Tennessee within the department of safety in cooperation with local law enforcement agencies for assistance in locating certain disabled persons who are missing. - Amends TCA Title 38.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB0024 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, subject to local approval, repeals the ban on partisan elections for county executive and county legislative body of Rhea County. - Amends Chapter 322 of the Private Acts of 1978.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
Held on desk - Local Bill |
| SB0119 | Fail | As introduced, broadens the scope of the definition of "all-terrain vehicle" for purposes of the Motorcycle and Off-Road Vehicle Dealer Fairness Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 25, Part 19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-02-09
Withdrawn. |
| SJR0007 | Fail | Sylvan Park Paideia Design Center, 100th anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-15
Recalled from Clerk's Desk |
| SJR0010 | Engross
Sine Die | Calls joint convention to elect secretary of state, comptroller of treasury, and state treasurer on January 14, 2009, at 10:30 a.m.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-14
Held on desk. |
| SR0001 | Pass | Melinda Sanders
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-01-14
Signed by S. Speaker |
