| HB2666 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, subject to local approval, requires nonpartisan elections for county office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-21
P2C, ref. to Local Government Committee |
| HB2667 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, subject to local approval, prohibits mayor, district alderman, or alderman-at-large from serving a subsequent term in the same office if such person has served more than 1/2 of a four-year term and a consecutive complete four-year term...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-21
P2C, ref. to Local Government Committee |
| HB1707 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes the day after Thanksgiving Day as Native American Heritage Day in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 15.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Comp. SB subst. |
| HB2587 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes counties and municipalities to amend growth plans as often as necessary. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 58.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Held on desk. |
| HB0623 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-20
Held on desk. |
| HB1430 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes date for annual sales tax holiday from the first weekend in August to the last weekend in July each year. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-393.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1886 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires commissioner to report to the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and house by January 31, 2017, the number of taxpayers that submitted documents in paper form to the department in lieu of submitting documents ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal. in Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2109 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, over the next four years, raises Hall tax maximum allowable income exemptions for taxpayers 65 years of age or older by $500 per year until they are $39,000 for single filers and $70,000 for joint filers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1422 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, excludes social security benefits from determination of annual income for purposes of qualifying for exemption from tax on stocks and bonds for persons 65 years of age or older. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2059 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces the state sales and use tax rate on retail sales of diapers, feminine hygiene products, and nonexempt over-the-counter drugs from seven percent to five percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1916 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 prin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2410 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that local government authorities or local education authorities may adopt or make available voluntary benefits that are treated as supplemental benefits and are deemed not to be a "group health plan" when established in acco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Def. to Summer Study |
| HB2113 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends from six months to seven months the tax due date for certain members of the military following the conclusion of hostilities in which the person is actually engaged outside the United States or after the person is transferred f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2534 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner to annually report the amount of disaster relief refunds issued by the department. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1437 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, decreases Hall income tax rate from six percent to 5.5 percent for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2101 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the conditions under which certain charter school agreements may be revoked; defines the term "community-based charter schools." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2089 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a domestic violence offender registry to be maintained by the TBI. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2414 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires students in public schools and public institutions of higher education to use restrooms and locker rooms that are assigned to persons of the same sex as that shown on the students' birth certificates. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1415 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, appropriates $261,000,000 from excess state tax revenues over collected in fiscal year 2014–2015 to the department of transportation to be used for backlog transportation road projects. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal. in Calendar & Rules Committee |
| HB1436 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, for tax years beginning January 1, 2016, increases the income exemption levels for taxpayers 65 years of age or older from $37,000 to $50,000 for single filers and from $68,000 to $100,000 for joint filers. - Amends TCA Section 67-2-10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1458 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the penalty for reckless endangerment by discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle from a Class E felony to a Class C felony, and specifies that each person endangered by the conduct constitutes a separate offense. - ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2607 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the commissioner of transportation, in consultation with the commissioner of safety, to petition the federal aviation administration for a certificate of authority to operate unmanned aerial systems within the navigable airspac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Re-ref. Education Instruction & Programs |
| HB2232 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, entitles a general partnership to compute a job tax credit as if the general partnership was subject to franchise and excise taxes; makes other various related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 11, Part 2; Title 67, Chapter 4, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1726 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows construction design professionals under contract with certain state agencies to bill and receive payment monthly; specifies services that are included in the basic services fee and the services that will require additional compe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1480 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts certain new businesses from a portion of their franchise and excise tax liability during their first two years of existence. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2091 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires investigation into an officer-involved shooting to be conducted by the TBI, which provides a report on the investigation to the district attorney general and attorney general and reporter; increases the amount awarded to the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2154 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, beginning January 1, 2017, reduces the Hall income tax from six percent to five percent for taxpayers who are veterans with service-connected disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1215 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a rural economic development task force to study the feasibility of authorizing grants, loans, or other economic incentives to facilities in rural, economically distressed counties; requires the task force to report to the gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1950 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the state treasurer to submit an annual report by March 1, 2017, and March 1 in subsequent years, to the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees of both houses on investments of federal funds, which funds have been re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1120 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates six additional assistant public defender positions to be added to judicial districts where additional judgeships with criminal jurisdiction were added since 2007; reinstates statutory salary increase for assistant public defend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2118 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2017, terminates the state-imposed Hall income tax and allows local governments to levy a like tax not to exceed 2.25 percent. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB0544 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Senior General Sessions and Juvenile Judge Enabling Act"; enables the creation of a program whereby the supreme court can designate a senior general sessions or juvenile judge to relieve court congestion in a needed area; f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2110 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, over the next five years, annually raises the Hall tax exemptions for all taxpayers by $150 for single filers and $200 for joint filers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2533 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates preference for retaining tenured teachers over nontenured teachers during a reduction of force; prohibits the dismissal of a tenured teacher in a reduction of force if another position is available in the system; prohibits the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Withdrawn. |
| HB0687 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the departments of transportation and economic and community development to study the Nolensville Pike corridor in Davidson County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2134 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Withdrawn. |
| HB1822 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, decreases Hall income tax rate from six percent to 5.5 percent for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1256 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reinstates a one-year service compensation step for assistant district attorneys that was statutorily eliminated in 2004. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1497 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends employment protections for members of the army and air national guard, state guard, and civil air patrol of any other state to members who are called to active duty in Tennessee or any other state. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2226 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a three-year pilot program to be developed by the state fire marshal's office that provides grants to volunteer firefighters. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1518 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts the sale of all gold and silver bullion that is used as a medium of exchange, security, or commodity from sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB1852 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the "Governor's Three Star Physical Education and Literacy Program." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB0053 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts from sales tax, registration fee, and motor vehicle privilege tax, any motor vehicle sold to a veteran or service member who has a service-connected disability and who is eligible for a United States department of veterans affa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB0499 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, eliminates the requirement that the executive director of the district public defenders conference initiate conference calls between district public defenders. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 9, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2612 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a competitive grant program for award of funds for certain charter school and rural school facility projects. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2138 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Withdrawn. |
| HB1884 | Intro
Sine Die | 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. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2140 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the Reading Matters pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Withdrawn. |
| HB1455 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the Class E felony of a person possessing a motor vehicle with a compartment for the storage of contraband with the intent to store or transport contraband, and the Class C felony of facilitating the transportation of contraban...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
| HB2151 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the Tennessee energy policy council to make recommendations to the governor and general assembly on how to manage energy resources in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways & Means Committee |
