| HB2129 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "School Safety Act of 2018". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 16; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Section 50-3-201; Section 58-1-112; Section 70-4-123 and Section 70-5-101.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-23
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1008 |
| HB2704 | Pass | Subject to local approval, expands from four to six the number of councilmembers elected to the city council for the City of Crossville. - Amends Chapter 55 of the Private Acts of 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-21
Pr. Ch. 59 |
| HB2723 | Pass | Subject to local approval, authorizes property owners that do not live in the city to vote in city elections; removes disability for six months as a reason for the vacancy of the office of mayor or councilman; permanently prohibits persons convicted ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-21
Pr. Ch. 58 |
| HB1936 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Henry's Law," which requires that a person convicted for second degree murder resulting from unlawful distribution of Schedule I or II drug where victim is a minor be punished from within one range higher than the sentencing range...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 934 |
| HB2191 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding alcoholic beverages, including provisions regarding delivery and provisions governing the alcoholic beverage commission. - Amends TCA Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 933 |
| HB2165 | Pass | As enacted, revises the teacher code of ethics; requires annual professional development for teachers on the teacher code of ethics; requires teacher preparation programs to include training for all students on the teacher code of ethics. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 937 |
| HB2099 | Pass | As enacted, requires the state board of education to develop a policy for transmittal of final disciplinary actions on educator licenses to the national clearinghouse administered by the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 936 |
| HB2104 | Pass | As enacted, directs the commissioner to report to the local government committee of the house of representatives and the state and local government committee of the senate each year on or before January 15 concerning the department's financial and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 947 |
| HB2036 | Pass | As enacted, creates the Tennessee Task Force on Auction Law Modernization. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 941 |
| HB2692 | Pass | As enacted, designates The Caverns in Grundy County and the South Jackson Civic Center in Tullahoma as a premier type tourist resorts for purposes of selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 950 |
| HB2009 | Pass | As enacted, requires a director of schools, director of public charter school, or director of a nonpublic school who learns of the conviction of a licensed educator employed by the LEA for certain offenses to report the conviction to the state board;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 935 |
| HB1345 | Pass | As enacted, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to perform a study of the potential, overall effects of creating a franchise and excise tax credit for shippers with pickups or deliveries originating in, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 952 |
| HB2606 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department of children's services to develop instructional guidelines for child safety training programs for members of professions that frequently deal with children who may be at risk of abuse. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 964 |
| HB2213 | Pass | As enacted, makes confidential certain records of a food-based business incubation service provider created by a municipality. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 939 |
| HB2613 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits public and private employers from requiring an employee or prospective employee to execute a non-disclosure agreement with respect to sexual harassment in the workplace as a condition of employment. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 965 |
| HB2433 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits LEAs from entering into a non-disclosure agreement during, or as a prerequisite to, settlement for any act of sexual misconduct; prohibits employees from assisting others in obtaining employment if the employee knows that the pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 938 |
| HB2439 | Pass | As enacted, classifies as material noncompliance and default by a tenant with a rental agreement, if the tenant pretends to have a disability-related need for an assistance animal in order to obtain an exception to a provision in a rental agreement t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 960 |
| HB2338 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes online education courses as a method of compliance for continuing education requirements mandated for commissioners of a municipal utility board; requires the comptroller of the treasury to offer online education courses, begin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 956 |
| HB2356 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a nonprofit children's hospital located in Knox County or within a municipality located within Knox County to claim and file a property tax exemption as a religious, charitable, scientific, or nonprofit educational institution ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 957 |
| HB2675 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes county or district health department to operate a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program on petition of the county legislative body and approval by the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 945 |
| HB1794 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions regarding electronic acknowledgments and enacts the "Online Notary Public Act". - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 66.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 931 |
| HB1782 | Pass | As enacted, subject to certain federal approval, abolishes certain vehicle inspection and maintenance programs to maintain compliance with national ambient air quality standards and enacts related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 953 |
| HB0259 | Pass | As enacted, terminates the Tennessee health information committee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Section 56-2-125.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 968 |
| HB0785 | Pass | As enacted, adds provisions regarding regulation of non-motorized vessels; deletes provision that exempts renters of watercraft who have completed a safety orientation from the requirement that any person born after January 1, 1989, who operates any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 969 |
| HB2608 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to establish a procedure under the CoverKids Act that sends an email notice to an enrollee, or the parent or legal guardian of the enrollee stating that the enrollee must redetermine eligibility for the program; sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 943 |
| HB1662 | Pass | As enacted, reduces by one year the entity review period of the human rights commission by changing the entity termination date from June 30, 2021 to June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21 and Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 928 |
| HB2198 | Pass | As enacted, transfers operation of the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute from the Institute's board to the Institute for Public Service of the University of Tennessee; renames the institute to be the Tennessee Foreign Language Center; makes other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 932 |
| HB2450 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing the examination of specimen collected for determining the presence of drugs and alcohol. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 40, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 961 |
| HB2139 | Pass | As enacted, adds as an act that constitutes the offense of engaging in a deceptive business practice, a violation of the Tennessee Trade Mark Act, and a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act the use of the trade name or trademark, or a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 930 |
| HB1732 | Pass | As enacted, revises and enacts provisions governing the sale of surplus real property by the department. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 12, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 949 |
| HB2280 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes Montgomery County to control the issuance, revocation, and suspension of licenses for the storage, sale, manufacture, and distribution of beer within a park owned by the county that is in the municipal boundaries of Clarksville...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 944 |
| HB1895 | Pass | As enacted, clarifies definitions of "rule" and "policy" for rulemaking purposes and revises other administrative procedures. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 929 |
| HB2376 | Pass | As enacted, revises and updates law regarding school attendance and truancy and discipline. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 34 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 958 |
| HB2118 | Pass | As enacted, establishes the state palliative care and quality of life council to advise the executive director of the Tennessee commission on aging and disability on issues related to palliative care. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 71, Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 955 |
| HB2060 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to establish in at least two public schools a three-year pilot program to improve parent-teacher engagement in any grade from kindergarten through grade two. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 946 |
| HB2670 | Pass | As enacted, provides that any voluntary association that establishes and enforces bylaws or rules for interscholastic sports competition for secondary schools in this state is subject to an annual audit by the comptroller of the treasury; enacts othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 948 |
| HB1497 | Pass | As enacted, creates a "5th Special Forces Group (Airborne)" military license plate for issuance to current or former members of the unit and spouses or children of such members. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 926 |
| HB1028 | Pass | As enacted, revises the punishment for the assaultive offenses under certain circumstances; revises provisions governing the reporting of conduct by an inmate against a correctional officer, guard, jailer, or other full-time employee of a penal insti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 925 |
| HB2523 | Pass | As enacted, declares settlement agreement provisions that have purpose or effect of concealing details relating to claim of child sexual abuse, except for identifying information concerning victim, as void and unenforceable and contrary to public pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 962 |
| HB0149 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a person charged with incest from participating in judicial diversion. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-313.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 951 |
| HB2643 | Pass | As enacted, designates the public space constructed on top of the parking garage attached to the Cordell Hull Building as the "Beth Harwell Plaza"; designates the new tunnel that connects the Cordell Hull Building to the State Capitol as the "Ron Ram...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 967 |
| HB2531 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that any entity that qualifies for exemption as a spallation neutron source facility will not be eligible for a sales and use tax exemption with regard to any industrial machinery that is used in operation of a qualified data ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 963 |
| HB1805 | Pass | As enacted, exempts certain low-income persons from initial licensure fees imposed by certain health related boards and professional regulatory boards. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 23, Chapter 3; Title 49; Title 56; Title 62; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 954 |
| HB1638 | Pass | As enacted, extends the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission for four years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 927 |
| HB2098 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing the grandfathering of certain properties in regard to land use restrictions and other related provisions regarding replacing facilities in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 940 |
| HB0268 | Pass | As enacted, exempts certain active, volunteer firefighters and rescue squad members from payment of the regular registration fee at the time of renewal for license plate issued to the volunteer firefighter or rescue squad member; authorizes a county ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 923 |
| HB2328 | Pass | As enacted, continues permanent rules filed with the secretary of state on or after January 1, 2017. - Title 4, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 942 |
| HB0298 | Pass | As enacted, exempts methanol from gasoline and petroleum taxes and sales and use taxes when not blended or composed of other motor fuels. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 924 |
| HB2624 | Pass | As enacted, creates the Tennessee Civil Rights Crimes Information, Reconciliation, and Research Center. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4 and Title 62.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Pub. Ch. 966 |
| HB2256 | Pass | As enacted, revises the Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-18
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 970 |
