| SB2026 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires governmental entities and private employers with six or more employees to verify new hires using the E-Verify program. - Amends TCA Section 12-3-309 and Title 50, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2248 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, moves the deadline for the state textbook commission's publication of its list of approved textbooks from February 1 to January 15. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2065 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires board and commission appointees of the general assembly and executive to resign when seeking election to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2139 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Individualized Education Act". - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2143 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner of correction to submit an annual report to the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives and the judiciary committee of the senate detailing the use of sentencing reduction credits in Tenness...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2127 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the utility management review board in the office of the comptroller of the treasury to make available to the public on its web site all suggestions for amendments received and all reports sent by the board containing the reas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2116 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, revises provisions governing uninsured motor vehicle coverage as it applies to bodily injury and combining payments from more than one policy, or more than one vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2207 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires office of research and education accountability (OREA) in the office of the comptroller to report to the full membership of the general assembly, rather than the education committees only, as requested, concerning education re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2317 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes crime of removing certain structures without paying monies owed. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2205 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, subject to local approval, allows three years of military experience in lieu of certain POST training requirements to qualify for election or appointment to the office of sheriff. - Amends TCA Section 8-8-102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2224 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows a taxpayer to challenge an order issued by the commissioner revoking a certificate of exemption by filing a petition for common law certiorari in the Davidson County Chancery Court. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2308 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, sets minimum reimbursement rate for counties housing state inmates; increases minimum rate per inmate per day to $42.00 by July 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 41.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2132 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires all public high school students to pass a one semester course in the founding principles of our country. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2173 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the committee to determine the fiscal impact of policy changes proposed by state agencies prior to their implementation; under certain circumstances, requires the committee to notify the chairs of the finance, ways and means c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2249 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, revises the average score of the GED, due to the testing and scoring changes made to the GED as of January 1, 2014, from 525 to 170, in order to be eligible for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2229 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires "sexual offender" to be displayed in red three times on the face of any driver license or identification card issued by the department of safety to a registered sexual offender. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB2295 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, restores statutory provision modified by Chapter 241 of the Public Acts of 2013 to prior language by requiring that all appropriations from all sources to fund public education be deposited into the dedicated education fund. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2290 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes certain contractors to report a nonpayment grievance to the department of economic and community development; requires certain state-funded business enterprises to file monthly reports concerning nonpayment grievances; under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2019 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Health Care Compact". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB1960 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the contract services subcommittee of fiscal review to review the state's contracts regarding testing and assessment of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade and preparation for testing and assessment. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1976 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the comptroller of the treasury to study the uniform TennCare claims process and to determine whether such program is consistent with the implementation of the episode-based payment system under consideration as part of a propo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1896 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, provides that future judges of the supreme court and other appellate courts will be elected by means of contested elections, unless the people approve and ratify, at the November 2014 general election, the proposed constitutional amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1964 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires development of non-textbook rating guidelines for required reading materials. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1942 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, regulates the hiring and promotion of relatives of local board of education members who are employed with the LEA managed and controlled by the local board; removes present law notice provisions; makes other related changes. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1900 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, encourages LEAs to seek free or reduced cost dental screenings and examinations for children who are unable to afford the screening or exam. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1961 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits transfer of student data when such action will transfer the data out of state, unless required by federal law. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2017 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a court to assess and order appropriate psychological and educational services when a juvenile is adjudicated delinquent for aggravated burglary. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2015 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of human services to report to the general assembly by January 15 of each year concerning its activities as a child support central collection and disbursement unit. - Amends TCA Title 36.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1897 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows clerks to accept lump sum partial payment in full settlement of all fines and costs owed that have been in default for at least five years provided any settlement is 50 percent or more of the total amount in default. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1969 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits public schools to inform students about the history of traditional winter celebrations; allows LEAs to use traditional winter holiday greetings and display winter holiday symbols on school property, as long as more than one rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1915 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires local government approval of issuing a certificate of need for a methadone clinic within the territorial jurisdiction of that local government. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 53, Chapt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB2001 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, provides that a non-critical violation that is discovered and corrected during an inspection of a quick fast food establishment will not be scored as a violation in the completed inspection report of the quick fast food establishment. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB2014 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires public officers to make referrals of any vulnerable elderly persons and families, including children, who are living in structures unfit for human habitation or use to appropriate social services. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2008 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits dependent children of active duty military and formerly active duty personnel who intend to reside in this state following active service to apply for home and community-based services. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB2018 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows a county legislative body to determine that no bid should be made on certain properties being sold for payment of delinquent county taxes. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-2506.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1941 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a member of a governing body from casting a vote by means of text messaging. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44 and Title 10, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1926 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to employ three technology student association advisors, one in each grand division, to assist chapters of the Tennessee technology student association and elementary and secondary educators in providing technol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1910 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that a copy of the annual report and audit of a tourism development authority to be sent to each member of the general assembly who represents any municipality involved in authorizing creation of such authority. - Amends TCA T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1938 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires new cosmetology schools to submit, along with an application for a license to operate the school, copies of applications from at least 30, instead of 20, students, not including students transferring from another school, instr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SJR0531 | Intro
Sine Die | Encourages participation in the Military Child Education Coalition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1949 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to promulgate rules that set the frequency for special exemptions, for the purpose of conducting infrequent school-sponsored fundraisers, for food or beverages that do not meet certain federal nutrition standard...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1934 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the requirement that textbook publishers contracting to supply textbooks furnish a bond. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1918 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, replaces state treasurer with secretary of state as ex officio member of the sports hall of fame board of directors. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 54.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1943 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, rewrites the estimated economic growth formula for purposes of the Copeland Cap. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 52.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1911 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits agencies or entities of state or local government from maintaining, keeping, or circulating any information on the number of employees on the basis of race, sex, or ethnicity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6 and Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1972 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases, from fifteen to twenty, the number of days after the sale or termination of a business within which the operator of the business must notify the local assessor and pay any personal property taxes due on account of the operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2174 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, redefines "lobby" to include communications by certain governmental employees. - Amends TCA Section 3-6-301.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
Withdrawn. |
| SB1970 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, abolishes tuition and fee discounts or waivers statutorily granted to certain groups of students to attend public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50; Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1944 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony, the criminal penalty for observation without consent if victim is a minor and five years younger than the defendant. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-607.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1993 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates second offense for using a hand-held mobile telephone to transmit written messages while driving a motor vehicle to include a fine not to exceed $1,000; present law imposes a fine not to exceed $50 for each offense; removes pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
