| SB2144 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the office of research and accountability (OREA) to study the participation of children in child care programs that are operating at the school that children participating in the child care program attend. - Amends TCA Title... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2524 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes utility districts to enter into contracts or arrangements relating to natural gas with a public corporation that is created under the authority of a contiguous state and that is similar to an energy acquisition corporation crea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 746 |
| SB1532 | Pass | As enacted, extends the department of revenue for four years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 701 |
| SB1814 | Pass | As enacted, expands the locations a manufacturer may possess, store, and transport its products to include any county that has authorized the manufacture of alcoholic beverages and any county adjacent to such county; authorizes the storage of the man... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 717 |
| SB1812 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes to the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act, including authorizing the underground utility damage enforcement board to establish, by rule, best practices for uniform color code and marking and adding another mem... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 716 |
| SB2495 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing delinquent tax sales. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 778 |
| SB1854 | Pass | As enacted, specifies that, for the 2017-2018 school year, employment termination and compensation decisions for pre-kindergarten or kindergarten teachers will not be based solely on data generated by the portfolio model; revises provisions regarding... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 751 |
| SB1944 | Pass | As enacted, classifies the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child as a violent sexual offense for purposes of the Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act of 2004; revises the sentencing... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 719 |
| SB2392 | Pass | As enacted, adds that the funds from the small and minority-owned business program that are transferred to the board of trustees of the college savings trust fund may be utilized for the administration and marketing of an incentive plan or plans. - A... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 780 |
| SB2704 | Pass | As enacted, revises the notice that must be provided to a patient who is determined to have dense breasts or extremely dense breasts based on a mammogram. - Amends TCA Title 63. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 750 |
| SB2707 | Pass | As enacted, increases, from 2.5 percent to 5 percent, the maximum amount of the occupancy tax that McMinnville is authorized to levy. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 796 |
| SB1470 | Pass | As enacted, creates an exception to the prohibition on the incorporation of an area within three miles of an existing municipality to allow an area in Hickman County to incorporate; specifies that provisions governing adoption of a charter under the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 760 |
| SB2586 | Pass | As enacted, adds provisions regarding the process of selecting a chief executive officer of a public institution of higher education in this state. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 7. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 770 |
| SB2720 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends the business tax exemption under present law for providing mental or behavioral health services to providers of foster care, therapeutic and rehabilitative care, residential treatment, and other social assistance programs. - Am... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2638 | Pass | As enacted, prescribes procedure for paper ballots in counties using optical scan voting systems and procedure for provisional ballots. - Amends TCA Section 2-7-114(c). [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 749 |
| SB2023 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is deaf or hard of hearing to request that the department of safety include such designation in the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database; enacts other related... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 735 |
| SB0197 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes factors a court must consider when sentencing a juvenile who has been transferred and convicted in adult court; establishes a maximum number of years, depending on whether the crime results in death or not, a juvenile can b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1744 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts entities that would otherwise have less than $100 in combined franchise and excise tax liability from franchise and excise taxes for tax years that begin between July 1, 2018 and July 1 2019; gradually increases the exemption t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2457 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the City of Pleasant View, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than 5 percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Pleasant View; the ordinance must set forth the mann... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 776 |
| SB2197 | Pass | As enacted, requires, under the Uniform Debt-Management Services Act, counselors to present evidence of accreditation or certification by an independent accrediting or certifying organization upon registering to provide debt management services. - Am... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 763 |
| SB1596 | Pass | As enacted, allows local governments to make purchases of certain motor vehicles through a federal general service administration contract. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 12. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 724 |
| SB1661 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the penalty for certain distribution or transfer criminal offenses involving fentanyl, or an equipotent amount of carfentanil, sufentanil, or the analogues of fentanyl to B felony if amount between 0.1 and 10 grams and to Cla... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1685 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, provides for a refund of state sales tax paid on expenditures to rehabilitate historic structures under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11; Title 13 and Title 67. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1848 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes a pilot project for a special juvenile drug court treatment program. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 22; Title 33; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 56. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB0574 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing the standards recommendations committees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 697 |
| SB2719 | Pass | As enacted, allows Sevier County, upon the adoption of a resolution by a two-thirds majority vote of the county legislative body, to assess a privilege tax on litigation in court cases in an amount not to exceed $100 per case to be used exclusively f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 797 |
| SB1471 | Pass | As enacted, revises the date by which the state board of education must require a course in Tennessee history for students from the 2018-2019 school year to the 2019-2020 school year. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1015 and Chapter 482 of the Public Acts ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 699 |
| SB2513 | Pass | As enacted, establishes a procedure for the recognition of hospitals with stroke-related designations; establishes other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 722 |
| SB1615 | Pass | As enacted, removes requirement that every workers' compensation insurer that provides insurance for Tennessee workers' compensation claims be required to maintain a claims office or to contract with a claims adjuster located within this state. - Ame... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 709 |
| SB2243 | Pass | As enacted, broadens the definition of financial institution to include a trust company and institutions that are organized under the laws of other states for purposes of conversion of charter and resulting institutions; requires a financial institut... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 741 |
| SB1896 | Pass | As enacted, revises the Course Access Program Act. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 784 |
| SB1796 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a domestic abuse victim to request that a court issue an order directing a wireless telephone service provider to transfer the billing responsibility for and rights to the wireless telephone number or numbers to the petitioner;... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 729 |
| SB2454 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits distribution of retirement benefits from defined benefit plans to nonspouse beneficiaries. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36; Title 8, Chapter 37 and Title 8, Chap... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2294 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Higher Education Authorization Act of 2016, and provisions regarding the Tennessee higher education commission. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 790 |
| SB1987 | Pass | As enacted, revises laws governing civil asset forfeiture. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 772 |
| SB1503 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the City of Farragut, by a two-thirds vote of its governing body, to levy a privilege tax not to exceed 4 percent upon the privilege of occupancy. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 700 |
| SB2639 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits the bureau and HCFA from imposing a fine or penalty on any provider when developing or implementing any payment reform initiative involving the use of episodes of care; revises other provisions regarding payments to healthcare p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 766 |
| SB2527 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands the offenses of aggravated rape and aggravated sexual battery to include if the defendant commits the offense during the commission of an aggravated burglary, if the defendant commits the offense against more than one person in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1675 | Pass | As enacted, provides continued eligibility for an elderly low-income, disabled, and disabled veteran's property tax relief during temporary periods of relocation for health care to home of a friend or relative or to a hospital or skilled intermediate... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 710 |
| SB2435 | Pass | As enacted, specifies certain powers of a series of an LLC. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 249. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 759 |
| SB2465 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Fresh Start Act". - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 76, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 1. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 793 |
| SB2240 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of environment and conservation to expend funds from the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund; gives the commissioner sole authority to make expenditures from the fund for certain management and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 753 |
| SB1618 | Pass | As enacted, removes from education laws obsolete pilot projects and reporting and similar requirements; revises and deletes certain other education-related provisions and reporting requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 725 |
| SB2158 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the comptroller of the treasury to audit financial transactions of a charter management organization (CMO); requires all CMOs operating a charter school in this state to file an annual financial report with the comptroller of t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 768 |
| SB2684 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions governing eligible collateral pledged by a state depository for public funds. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 752 |
| SB1563 | Pass | As enacted, extends the Tennessee higher education commission for four years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 2. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 705 |
| SB1893 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts from the sales and use tax the sale of platinum, gold, or silver bullion, the sale of numismatic coins that are sold for less than $10,000, and the sale of numismatic coins at a national, statewide, or multi-county trade show. ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1505 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the penalty for any aggravated assault or homicide that occurs by a person discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle and the victim is a minor at the time of the offense; names act the "JaJuan Latham Act". - Amends TC... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1999 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates Class B felony of selling, possessing, or manufacturing 15 grams or more of any substance containing fentanyl and Class A felony if the substance contains 150 grams or more of fentanyl. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1386 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to develop an evidence-based training program on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) for school leaders and teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23 Pub. Ch. 723 |