| SB1951 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a soil conservation district and the supervisors of the district, subject to the approval of the commissioner of agriculture, to borrow money for certain purposes. - Amends TCA Section 5-9-106; Title 9, Chapter 21 and Title 43.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 966 |
| SB2144 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of safety to report annually to the speakers of the senate and the house and the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate, civil justice committee of the house, and criminal justice committee of the house, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 861 |
| HB2406 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes, in Williamson County, the clerks of special juvenile courts and courts of general sessions having juvenile court jurisdiction to collect $75.00 from any person whose case is adjudicated in various instances; designates the fee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 901 |
| SB2675 | Pass | As introduced, subject to local approval, authorizes the appointment of a vice mayor; allows for the mayor to be paid a salary, to be set by ordinance. - Amends Chapter 365 of the Private Acts of 1923; as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 51 |
| HB2025 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of health to complete a comprehensive state oral health plan by January 1, 2017, and to submit the plan to the federal centers for disease control and prevention and to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 968 |
| HB2018 | Pass | As enacted, redesignates Historic Rugby from a premier type tourist resort to a historic interpretive center for purposes of consumption of alcohol on premises; removes references to year round in the description of Historic Rugby. - Amends TCA Secti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 965 |
| HB2126 | Pass | As enacted, revises the provisions governing the dispensing of an opioid or benzodiazepine by a physician practice that provides healthcare services. - Amends TCA Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 973 |
| HB2421 | Pass | As enacted, encourages TBI to develop an activation card for law enforcement use in connection with the missing citizen alert program to help locate missing citizens who have wandered due to dementia or physical impairment. - Amends TCA Section 38-6-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 972 |
| SB2238 | Pass | As enacted, lowers the age for receiving a handgun carry permit from 21 years of age to 18 years of age for persons who are an honorably discharged or retired veteran of the U.S. armed forces or a service member on active duty status. - Amends TCA Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 903 |
| HB1656 | Pass | As enacted, extends the nursing home assessment by one year; revises certain long-term care provisions. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 883 |
| SB2497 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Course Access Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 889 |
| SB2666 | Pass | As introduced, subject to local approval, changes the appointment qualifications for city judge; requires the city judge to be appointed by the mayor and confirmed by majority vote of the board of mayor and aldermen; removes state residency requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 44 |
| HB1689 | Pass | As enacted, changes the formula for calculating hearing costs in property tax appeals before the board of equalization; permits the assessment appeals commission to issue a notice rather than a certificate of assessment in certain circumstances; chan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 938 |
| HB2401 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing liens under the Tennessee Condominium Act of 2008. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 27.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 866 |
| HB2594 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing penalties imposed on server permit holders for certain violations; requires any employee, representative, or agent of a permittee whose duties include verifying that a person is 21 years of age or older for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 908 |
| SB2093 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Public-Private Transportation Act of 2016." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 9; Title 12; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 975 |
| SB1189 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that marijuana concentrates and oils are included in the definition of marijuana. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 873 |
| SB1891 | Pass | As enacted, releases a surety on a defendant's forfeited bond when the defendant is arrested on a capias and the bond was forfeited after the defendant did not comply with conditions of the bond. - Amends TCA Section 40-11-139.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 963 |
| HB2646 | Pass | As introduced, subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 77 of the Private Acts of 1977.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 41 |
| HB2041 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the Town of Dandridge to levy a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy by a 2/3 vote of its governing body. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 933 |
| SB2373 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing coverage of telehealth services. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-1002.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 990 |
| SB1859 | Pass | As enacted, revises references to criminal offenses in the expunction provisions to conform to changes made to those criminal offenses by the Public Safety Act of 2016. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 960 |
| SB2671 | Pass | As introduced, subject to local approval, decreases the Clay County board of education from 10 members to five members. - Amends Chapter 330 of the Private Acts of 1947; as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 59 |
| HB0464 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that when declining, revoking, or rescinding parole, the board of probation and parole may set the period of time before the prisoner receives another hearing on the same offense or offenses; no period set by the board may excee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 870 |
| HB1922 | Pass | As enacted, creates a task force to identify causes for balance billing and recommend legislative solutions to protect consumers from balance billing by healthcare providers. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 977 |
| SB2650 | Pass | As introduced, subject to local approval, increases the authorized maximum amount of the hotel motel tax from six percent to seven percent; requires revenues generated from such increase to be used for increased funding for parks and recreation, econ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 47 |
| HB1472 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing witness signatures on certain wills. - Amends TCA Title 32.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 843 |
| SB1811 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the exclusion of residents of correctional institutions from being considered in reapportionment. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 41.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 954 |
| HB2064 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that TDOT has sole and exclusive jurisdiction over the design, erection, installation, and maintenance of TODS signs located within the right-of-way of any highway designated as part of the state highway system, including TODS s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 892 |
| HB1666 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies the offense of harassment with respect to the methods by which harassment may occur and broadens the offense to include the methods available through modern technology. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-308.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 884 |
| HB1424 | Pass | As enacted, reduces the fee for lifetime handgun carry permit, effective January 1, 2017, from $500 to be an amount equal to the regular carry permit fee plus $200, which under present law will equal $300 for the lifetime permit. - Amends TCA Section...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 875 |
| HB2068 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing construction of the Act and hearings regarding rules; requires an agency to demonstrate by convincing evidence, certain factors that justify continued existence of an agency rule. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 859 |
| HB2658 | Pass | As introduced, subject to local approval, designates the department of public works as the department of public works and public utilities; authorizes the mayor to exercise control over the divisions of the department. - Amends Chapter 568 of the Pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pr. Ch. 60 |
| SB1761 | Pass | As enacted, removes provision whereby a person who provides prayer in lieu of medical or surgical treatment could not be charged with the crime of child abuse, neglect, or endangerment solely for that reason. - Amends TCA Section 39-15-402.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 951 |
| HB1523 | Pass | As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain specified persons, and provides for the placement of other certain signage. - Amends TCA Title 54.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 878 |
| HB2374 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that a person with a felony sentence of two years or less who is placed on probation based on reaching their release eligibility date may have their probation revoked pursuant to a revocation proceeding; revises other related pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 899 |
| HB2645 | Pass | As introduced, subject to local approval, makes various revisions to the charter of Jamestown, including amending the qualifications of voters, the manner of holding elections, and the administrative organization of the city court. - Amends Chapter 5...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pr. Ch. 55 |
| SB1814 | Pass | As enacted, revises the educational requirements for licensure as a clinical pastoral therapist; authorizes issuance of temporary licenses to clinical pastoral therapists who are in training. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 955 |
| HB1870 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes all public pension and retirement plans, including those of utility districts and other local governmental entities, to recognize a qualified domestic relations order that directs the entity to allocate a portion of a member's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 931 |
| HB0929 | Pass | As enacted, enacts provisions governing nonresidential office-based opioid treatment facilities and nonresidential opioid treatment programs. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 912 |
| HB2648 | Pass | As introduced, subject to local approval, decreases the number of required monthly meeting times of the board of mayor and aldermen, from two to one. - Amends Chapter 50 of the Private Acts of 1979.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pr. Ch. 56 |
| HB1470 | Pass | As enacted, increases the membership of the board for licensing health care facilities from 18 to 19 by adding a member representing ambulatory surgical treatment centers to the board. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 921 |
| HB1478 | Pass | As enacted, punishes sixth offense DUI as a Class C felony; clarifies "prior convictions" for purposes of enhancing a DUI sentence; removes Class E felony designation for third or subsequent conviction for simple possession or casual exchange of a co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 876 |
| SB1646 | Pass | As enacted, changes the formula for calculating hearing costs in property tax appeals before the board of equalization; permits the assessment appeals commission to issue a notice rather than a certificate of assessment in certain circumstances; chan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 938 |
| SB1766 | Pass | As enacted, allows Holston Hills Country Club in Knox County to serve and sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises; designates the Orpheum Theater's Halloran Center as a "historic performing arts center" for purposes of on-premises consum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 953 |
| HB2571 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prescription Safety Act of 2016," which revises regulation of controlled substances; makes permanent most all of the changes made under the Tennessee Prescription Safety Act of 2012, and revises and enacts other prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1002 |
| SB2083 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the classifying as confidential and not subject to disclosure, except by court order, the records held by a city whose primary industry is tourism that address a specific amount of money expended in a given market for digital o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 974 |
| HB1524 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the issuance of certain new specialty earmarked plates; extends the minimum order deadline for certain plates; revises other special license plate provisions. - Amends TCA Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Pub. Ch. 879 |
| HB1909 | Pass | As enacted, replaces requirement that individual physician's offices and practices register as medical spas with a requirement that any physician-owned practice that advertises or holds itself out as a medical spa or a physician-owned practice that p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 956 |
| SB2331 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes any nonprofit organization owning any vehicle that may be legally operated upon the streets or highways of this state with a regular vehicle registration to operate or move, through an authorized agent or employee, the vehicle ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 902 |
