| SB3555 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies the meaning of the visible commencement of operations related to construction services and products. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 11, Part 1. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-30 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. C,L&A Comm. |
| SB3306 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits participation of magistrates or other certain government officials or employees from serving on an assessment appeals commission unless such persons receive only compensation in lieu of expenses or a per diem payment for serv... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-30 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. FW&M Comm. |
| SB0508 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of health to develop and implement a program to provide colorectal cancer screenings for uninsured individuals between ages 50 and 64 and for any other uninsured individuals determined to be at high risk for dev... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-30 Rec. For Pass. ref. to: S. Cal. Comm. |
| SB3331 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the secretary of state to send applications submitted by LLCs and LLPs to the state board licensing any professional services a member or partner renders. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 249; Title 61, Chapter 1 and Title 62. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-30 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. C,L&A Comm. |
| SB3636 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a water utility district in the eastern portion of White County with over 1,000 customers to change the manner in which vacancies are filled and commissioners are selected. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-30 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB3645 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to convene a working group of representatives from the insurance industry and the medical professions to study recent trends concerning various issues affecting the health insurance i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-30 To Senate Calendar Committee |
| SB3412 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes courts to determine there is a need for additional bondsmen before additional bondsmen are qualified and approved by the court. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-30 Action Def. in S. Jud Comm. to 4/6/2010 |
| SB3177 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the Health-Care Choice Act. - Amends TCA Title 56. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-30 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. C,L&A Comm. |
| SB2668 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes board's designee to administer clinical and didactic examination required for dental assistant eligibility to perform polishing. - Amends TCA Section 63-5-108(d). [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-30 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB1657 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, places certain requirements on rural electric and community services cooperatives concerning acquisition of real property for new or expanded electric power distribution facilities; subjects such cooperatives to the open records and op... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-30 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB3720 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, eliminates the 18-month period of time in which certain permits may be issued for outdoor advertising in particular locations. - Amends TCA Section 54-21-116. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-29 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. Trans. Comm. |
| SB0909 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the local education insurance committee to approve an optional long-term care insurance plan that provides local education employees with the same coverage offered to state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-29 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. Ed. Comm. |
| SB0970 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, defines "visible" for purposes of Billboard Regulation and Control Act of 1972. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 21, Part 1. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-29 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. Trans. Comm. |
| SB2544 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reclassifies Tennessee Technological University collegiate, cultural plates as new specialty earmarked plates; allocates proceeds from such plates to the university. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-29 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. Trans. Comm. |
| SB2555 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts domestic insurers licensed prior to July 1, 1995, instead of domestic insurers licensed prior to July 1, 1993, from having to keep original books and records in this state. - Amends TCA Section 56-2-104. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-29 Assigned to Gen. Sub of C,L&A comm |
| SB3075 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires any issuer of a Medicare supplement policy to not deny or condition the issuance or effectiveness of any Medicare supplement policy nor discriminate in the pricing of a policy because of the health status, claims experience, r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-29 Assigned to Gen. Sub of C,L&A comm |
| SB3886 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases weight requirements for rear-facing child safety seat, mandating their use by children weighing more than 25 pounds, rather than 20 pounds. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 6. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-29 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. Trans. Comm. |
| SB3152 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes issuance of new specialty earmarked license plates for Shelby County Ask First Campaign; allocates 50 percent of funds produced from sale thereof to Shelby County Office of Early Childhood and Youth. - Amends TCA Title 55, C... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-29 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. Trans. Comm. |
| SB3937 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, subject to local approval, changes the name of the "Town of Westmoreland" to the "City of Westmoreland." - Amends Chapter 306 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-29 P2C held on desk. Local Bill |
| SB2412 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes standards for drawing samples to test water quality of the Pigeon River and requires such samples be used as the primary data for analysis of the river's water quality. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-29 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. E,C&T Comm. |
| SB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires students to make a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.75 at any time continuing eligibility for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship is reviewed to continue to receive the scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-29 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. Ed. Comm. |
| SB3902 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends grace period for military persons stationed outside the U.S. to renew registration from within 14 to 30 days of owner's return; increases from 3/4 ton to one ton the truck rating above which plates must be on front rather than ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-26 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. Trans. Comm. |
| SB2947 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces from 90 to 75 days period in which dealer via signed statement can deduct on a return sales tax collected but not yet remitted to commissioner for refunded items. - Amends TCA Title 67. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-25 Placed on S. Tax Sub Committee of F,W&M. cal. for 03/30/2010 |
| SB3360 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits the commissioner to deduct the reasonable costs of an audit of a taxpayer before any money received as a result of such audit gets distributed. - Amends TCA Title 67. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-25 Placed on S. Tax Sub Committee of F,W&M. cal. for 03/30/2010 |
| SB3454 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends deadline for special joint committee to study the issues relating to services provided to persons with developmental disabilities, mental retardation, and other disabilities from February 1, 2010, to April 1, 2010. - Amends TCA... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Action Def. in S. S&L Govt. Comm. to 3/31/2010 |
| SB3210 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the select oversight committee on long-term care to review the implementation efforts of the commission on aging and disability for the Long-Term Care Choices Act of 2008; requires a report to the committee concerning the nurs... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB3724 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes and encourages counties and municipalities to formulate programs to provide grants to owner/occupants to rehabilitate residential homes located in historic areas, districts, and zones from funds available to the county or mu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB3728 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to maintain a seasonal interpretive ranger at Long Hunter state park. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 3. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. E,C&T Comm. |
| SB2207 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires food handler employees of a food service establishment to wear plastic or latex disposable gloves. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 8, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 14. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB3232 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes judicial review of health services and development agency. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 16. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB2981 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, provides buyers involved in home solicitation sales with additional cancellation rights, establishes additional notice requirements for sellers, and allocates the cost of any notary witnessing the signatures to sellers. - Amends TCA Ti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. C,L&A Comm. |
| SB2727 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires hospitals to perform targeted surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in high-risk populations. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB0173 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires citizenship status to be proven prior to registration to vote and requires certain procedures to ensure identity and citizenship status prior to voting. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 4. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB2991 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, to enact the “Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Actâ€. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. C,L&A Comm. |
| SB3249 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from two to four the minimum number of hours of direct care that nursing homes must provide to each patient every day. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB1991 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the board for licensing health care facilities to develop a rule to authorize certified medical technicians to administer medications to residents of assisted care living facilities and residential homes for the aged. - Amends ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB2759 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, subject to necessary federal approvals, provides for an optional prenatal care benefit in TennCare including $50.00 payments to pregnant enrollee, free transportation, and a visit schedule. - Amends TCA Title 71. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB3017 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes requirement that the department pay for children in state custody based on a county's child population and the average state commitment rate per 1,000 children. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 2. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB3298 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts health insurance entities from including state-mandated health benefits in accident and health policies provided to young adults and employees of small businesses, under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. C,L&A Comm. |
| SB3823 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, decreases the time within which a physician must examine a person who is detained in certain mental health treatment resources from "within six hours of arrival" to "within four hours of arrival." - Amends TCA Title 33. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB2820 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends to nonresidents between 13 and 15 years of age the privilege to fish without a license during one week of the year in same manner as resident junior sportsmen under present law. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 69 and Title 70. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. E,C&T Comm. |
| SB2822 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, modifies nursing facility diversion requirements at time of nursing home admission concerning home and community based services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB2823 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires certain reports to and by the select committee on long-term care concerning recent long-term care reform legislation. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB2573 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires commission to suspend or revoke a license or permit instead of imposing a fine after the third violation within a two-year period. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 1. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Action Def. in S. S&L Govt. Comm. to 4/7/2010 |
| SB2833 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands scope of medical services for certain individuals who are eligible for medical assistance to include services provided by nonprofits created specifically to care for related individuals with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 7... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB3858 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to conduct, or have conducted, a study of dams in this state that are currently exempt from regulation under the Safe Dams Act because they are diversion weirs, farm ponds or wast... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. E,C&T Comm. |
| SB2071 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes requirements for home health companies to provide assistance with medication to clients; requires background checks of employees, recordkeeping, and waiver. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB3099 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires psychologists to receive three hours of continuing education provided by the Tennessee Psychological Association. - Amends TCA Section 63-11-218. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB3108 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, declares that the Metropolitan Hospital Authorities chapter shall be liberally construed; changes report date concerning tort liability of public hospitals from March 30 to June 30. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 29; Title 33; Ti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S.GW,H&HR Comm. |
| SB3126 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to provide planning models for relocating, hauling, composting, or other processing of yard waste and food waste and to submit a report to the house conservation and environment c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-24 Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. E,C&T Comm. |