| SB2201 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies how and when notice must be given for collaborative conferencing sessions to enable attendance by professional employees who are not on the panel and the public. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Ed. Comm. |
| SB1124 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands definition of harassment and bullying in schools to include conduct based on actual or perceived demographic traits, requires review of anti-bullying policies at least once every three years, clarifies that such policies apply ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Ed. Comm. |
| SB0711 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the per-gallon tax levied on manufacturers of high alcohol content beer to the beer tax rate instead of the wine tax rate; clarifies where it is lawful to manufacture intoxicating liquors or intoxicating drinks without the requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB2025 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Choice & Opportunity Scholarship Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Ed. Comm. |
| SB2354 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, revises the provisions governing harassment, intimidation, bullying and cyber-bullying in elementary and secondary education, including requiring the LEA to update the anti-bullying policy annually; mandating the parents and students s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Ed. Comm. |
| SB0262 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, eliminates outdated 1977 travel reimbursement of 15 cents per mile for high school counselors serving more than one school that originally only applied to Monroe County. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Ed. Comm. |
| SB2247 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes Spring Hill, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Spring Hill; the ordinance must set the rate and further set forth the manner of collectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. S&L Gov. Comm. |
| SB2057 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of education to reimburse LEAs for the costs of implementing and the ongoing costs to use common core state standards and PARCC assessments. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Ed. Comm. |
| SB2030 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires certain successive appointments to the board to have at least five years of teaching experience in public schools in grades K-12; mandates, after April 1, 2018, the board to be composed of at least five members with at least f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Ed. Comm. |
| SB2082 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a pilot program to terminate on January 1, 2030, which allows the department to make grants and loans to governmental entities for financing food desert relief enterprises in low-income, underserved areas; deposits the reven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Govt. Ops. Comm. |
| SB1928 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that evaluations of teachers be based on student performance only in subjects that were tested and in which the teacher taught the students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2, and Title 49, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Ed. Comm. |
| SB1356 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires all driver education courses to include instruction on the danger and crime of texting while driving. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Ed. Comm. |
| SB2455 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Choice and Opportunity Scholarship Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Ed. Comm. |
| SB2405 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, discontinues use of common core state standards. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 10; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Ed. Comm. |
| SB1734 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Streaming Video Act" to require that meetings of state agencies be made available for viewing by the public over the Internet by live streaming video, accessible from agency web sites. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Action Def. in S. FW&M Comm. to 4/1/2014 |
| SB2469 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds certain official terms and definitions that apply to the entire Tennessee Code. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Jud Comm. |
| SB2218 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires an insured to specify in certain insurance policies any designated beneficiary or the choice not to designate a beneficiary; places other requirements on such policies and notices concerning such policies; and authorizes the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. C&L Comm. |
| SB1730 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires votes by members of the judicial performance evaluation commission on any report that is required to be published and disclosed to be by roll call in a public meeting. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 17, Chapter 4, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. Jud. Comm. |
| SB1840 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates civil cause of actions against any person for physical invasion of privacy or for attempting to capture a visual image, sound recording, or any other physical impression of a person engaging in personal or familial activities; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. Jud. Comm. |
| SB2444 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor of harassment of a minor because of the employment of the parent. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Jud Comm. |
| SB1825 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires annual review of TennCare MCO network adequacy of service providers for children to demonstrate such adequacy by clear and convincing evidence. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1862 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Keep Jobs in Tennessee Act," which requires contractors working on public construction projects to employ at least eighty percent state residents in their workforce and creates an administrative process for receiving compla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB2512 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a utility district to include a telephone number in its service area to be used to report emergencies and during non-business hours on its regular billing. - Amends TCA Title 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB1605 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits use of a school bus, regardless of years of service or mileage driven, if the bus is found to be safe for continued use upon inspection; requires school buses to be inspected at least annually. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Rec. For Pass. ref. to: S. Cal. Comm. |
| SB1973 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the chief procurement officer to make available to the public on the officer’s web site all reports submitted to the governor and the general assembly concerning the awarding of purchases to minority-owned businesses, woman-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB2059 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts the state from daylight saving time. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB2147 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the sale of alcohol for on-premises consumption at premier type tourist resort with 500 acres and 50 rooms for overnight accommodations that serves at least two meals a day. - Amends TCA Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB2589 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a county governing body to approve the use of county highway equipment during emergencies and to collect brush in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 54, Chapter 7 and Title 58.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB1838 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, under certain circumstances, authorizes eligible taxpayers that expand headquarters facilities, make additional capital investments, and create new jobs, to qualify for a sales and use tax credit on purchases of personal property used ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. Tax Sub Comm. |
| SB2567 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes obsolete language transferring the library maintained by the legislative council committee to the office of legal services. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB1437 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies circumstances under which exposure of a child to a process intended to result in the manufacture of methamphetamine will be considered child abuse or aggravated child abuse. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 39, Chap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Jud Comm. |
| SB2583 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, revises the state tax assessed on each sale of television programming or services provided by a video programming service provider or by a provider of direct-to-home satellite service. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Tax Sub Committee of F,W&M. |
| SB2011 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that the age-restricted venue exception to the no smoking law applies only to persons entering such facilities other than employees. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. C&L Comm. |
| SB2068 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that certain public records be destroyed when certain orders of expunction are granted; sets the filing fee for the expunction of certain multiple convictions at $350; and adds certain persons with 2 or more convictions as eli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB2232 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes a local disaster relief fund from which sales tax refunds may be made to individuals whose residences were damaged by a disaster. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 58 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Tax Sub Committee of F,W&M. |
| SB2367 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows a court clerk to accept a lump sum partial payment in full settlement of the outstanding balance due on a case for unpaid fines, costs, or litigation taxes if the outstanding balance has remained unpaid for at least 5 years. - A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Jud Comm. |
| SB1935 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, grants local legislative bodies the power to line item veto over administrative spending in a school district's proposed budget when the administrative spending exceeds 10 percent of the proposed budget. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB2080 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Small Business Procurement and Contracting Opportunity Act". - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. S&L Gov. Comm. |
| SB1726 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a photograph of a victim of a violent crime, taken prior to the crime, to be admitted at trial during the state's case-in-chief if the victim is unable to testify or be present at trial. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Jud Comm. |
| SB0435 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from 30 to 35 days the time within which request for judicial review of an order revoking the license of a dental service plan corporation must be made. - Amends TCA Title 56.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Placed on S. C&L Comm. cal. for 3/25/2014 |
| SB0740 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, upon request of a member of the general assembly, directs the fiscal review committee to include within a fiscal note an assessment of the bill's impact on the diversity of individuals participating in state or local government. - Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB2441 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB2095 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies the scope of the chapter regulating the manufacturing of intoxicating liquors; extends, from 2014 to 2016, the pilot project relative to the suspension or revocation of licenses issued by the ABC and certain beer permits; cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB2419 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to file an annual report with the local government committee of the house of representatives and the state and local government committee of the senate relative to the wastewater ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of S. S&L Gov. Comm. |
| SB2167 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits an alleged victim of domestic violence from posting bail or signing any bond as surety for the appearance of the person who is charged with an act of domestic violence against the victim. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Jud Comm. |
| SB2219 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires an insurer, on policies offered on or after January 1, 2015, to specify the type of insurance being offered at the top of the offer document in bold print and in at least eleven point font or larger; and authorizes the commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. C&L Comm. |
| SB2329 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires voter notice of new legislative districts and new voter registration cards after decennial or court ordered redistricting. - Amends TCA Title 2; Section 3-1-102 and Section 3-1-103.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. S&L Govt. Comm. |
| SB1752 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts from sales and use tax, unmanned aircraft systems sold to qualified farmers for use in connection with farm products and nursery stock. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. Tax Sub Committee of F,W&M. |
| SB1888 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Health Care Freedom and Affordable Care Noncompliance Act", which prohibits state entities from establishing or administering any regulatory scheme to operate the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. C&L Comm. |
| SB1916 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Save Tennessee Call Center Jobs Act". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 13; Title 47; Title 50 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Assigned to Gen. Sub of: S. C&L Comm. |
