| SB1759 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, removes expired requirement that department of human services promulgate rules regarding child restraint system use by children transported by child care agencies no later than January 1, 2007. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-26 Sponsor(s) Added. |
| SB1786 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner of revenue to issue a redesigned motor vehicle registration plate featuring the Tri-Star symbol of the state flag, with the design selected by means of a contest. - Amends TCA Title 55. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-25 Conf. comm. appointed. (K. Brooks, Doss, Pitts) |
| SB2665 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts from sales and use tax, bees, hives, and beekeeping equipment sold to consumers for noncommercial purposes. - Amends TCA Title 67. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24 Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| SB2220 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, requires commissioner of revenue to report in writing to the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives the total, annual amount of industrial machinery franchise and excise tax credits provided u... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24 Engrossed; ready for transmission to House |
| SB1635 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, requires political communications through a social media platform to indicate the person, candidate, or political committee who paid for and, as applicable, authorized the communication. - Amends TCA Section 2-19-120. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16 Failed to pass H., Ayes 43, Nays 33, PNV 14 |
| SB1631 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a hotel owner or employee from advertising for rent or renting a hotel room for a period of less than seven consecutive hours in a period of 24 hours; authorizes the commissioner of health to assess increasing fines for such ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04 Failed to pass H., Ayes 38, Nays 45, PNV 0 |
| SB2473 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a state or local licensing authority from entering into a contract with a lobbyist or a lobbying firm. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 3. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB2089 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from 1,000 feet to 300 meters the distance on either side of designated Tennessee scenic highways for which the power of eminent domain may be utilized to remove existing advertising structures or junkyards. - Amends TCA Title ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-29 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB2189 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a landlord from using the tenant's email address as provided in the rental agreement for notifications required by the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act if the tenant has rescinded the use of the email address in wr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB2627 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, requires community engagement in development of a report detailing plans or initiatives to increase public transportation system access and service to economically disadvantaged areas within a transportation authority; requires municip... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB2531 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts printers and monitors that are $200 or less per item from sales tax on the annual sales tax holiday; increases, from $1,500 to $2,000, the maximum sales price for a computer to qualify as exempt on the annual sales tax holiday;... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB1985 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits any person who regularly engages in or solicits consumer transactions involving the installation of used tires from installing an unsafe used tire on a motor vehicle; specifies that installing an unsafe used tired is a violat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB1492 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, allows owners and operators of vehicles with an illuminated check engine light to elect to have the tailpipe test performed in lieu of the onboard diagnostics test. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 6 and Titl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB1809 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the treasurer to invest state funds in a debt obligation issued and guaranteed by a foreign sovereign government, subject to appropriation. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 6. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB1826 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act." - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 27 and Title 66. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB2044 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the director and assistant directors of the bureau to complete a conflict of interest disclosure and submit the form to the Tennessee ethics commission. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-501. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB2311 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, adds immediate family members as persons that a victim of a crime may have present during a defense interview with the victim. - Amends TCA Section 40-38-115. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB1913 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, defines "butter" for purposes of the Dairy Law of the State of Tennessee to have the same meaning as currently used under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 53. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB2523 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, restricts political activity of members of the registry of election finance only during the duration of their term rather than during their term and one year subsequent to their term. - Amends TCA Section 2-10-203(j). [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB1568 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, creates sunrise provision for the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute, to terminate June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 13. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0123 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes Knox County and Knoxville to prohibit, by local ordinance, smoking on the grounds of any playground owned or operated by the local government. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-26 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB2690 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, reorganizes special license plates statutes; narrows definition of "urban county" for purposes of allocating special license plate revenues; makes technical correction regarding issuance of military license plates. - Amends TCA Section... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-26 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB2683 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, decrees "Tennessee Day of the Cowboy" to be observed on the fourth Saturday of July each year. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-22 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0641 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, allows voters residing within an area annexed by a municipality to petition the county election commission to hold an election to deannex such territory; specifies the taxes that may continue to be levied on a deannexed area; prohibits... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-09 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0658 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of unlawful use of a portable electronic device while driving to a Class B misdemeanor if the violation results in an accident causing serious bodily injury and to a Class A misdemeanor if the acci... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-05 Failed to pass H., Ayes 25, Nays 49, PNV 6 |
| SB1348 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, requires any local agency transferring up to 50 percent of its state-aid road funds to assist in any bridge improvements to notify the department of transportation at least 30 days in advance of the transfer. - Amends TCA Title 4; Titl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-05 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0149 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, places restrictions on receiving school bus driver license endorsements or being hired as a school bus driver for drivers who have committed serious traffic violations, including excessive speeding or reckless driving. - Amends TCA Tit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-03 Held on desk. |
| SB0631 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, requires students to complete one year of instruction in American government and one year of instruction in Tennessee history between grades 7 and 12 to receive a high school diploma, with various exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Cha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0554 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, changes standard for when a court may terminate parental rights to a child who was conceived as the result of the parent's rape of the mother from a criminal conviction to clear and convincing evidence that the rape occurred. - Amends ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0517 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, revises provisions governing the use of mobile electronic and communication devices at polling places. - Amends TCA Section 2-7-142. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-17 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0519 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Retail Pet Store Consumer Protection Act" to provide coverage for certain veterinary expenses to persons who buy defective dogs from retail pet stores. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 17. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-13 Re-ref. Local Government Committee |
| SB0657 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, revises reporting requirements for the all payer claims database to exclude self-funded employer sponsored health insurance plans; establishes a Tennessee all payer claims database task force. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Section 56-2-125. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-13 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0513 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department, no later than August 1, 2017, and by August 1 of each subsequent year, to report to the members of the house transportation committee and the senate transportation and safety committee of the general assembly t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-13 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0699 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes a liability limit of $10 million per occurrence or per claim for special passenger excursion train operated by a nonprofit sponsor; requires nonprofit sponsors of such trains to maintain liability insurance. - Amends amend ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0957 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, requires counties and cities that levy a local option sales tax to send a copy of the resolution or ordinance levying the tax to the commissioner of revenue no later than 30 days after it is adopted. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 54; Tit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0738 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the cap on the amount healthcare providers can charge for copying medical records, other than for records involving workers' compensation cases, from $20.00 for the first five pages and 50 cents per page for each page copied ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0708 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Comprehensive Local Correctional Enforcement Task Force Act" to create a task force to conduct a study and make a report and recommendation concerning local correctional facilities by January 15, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 4;... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0219 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, requires publication of the Tennessee Postsecondary Education Fact Book by March 1 each year instead of by March 15. - Amends TCA Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0821 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, permits a surrender that is not made before a judge or chancellor to be valid for use in adoptions in this state, if the surrender was made in accordance with the laws of the state or territory in which the surrender was executed. - Am... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0296 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes July 1 of each year as the deadline for the office of research and education accountability to report its findings to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 44; Title 48 and Ti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0127 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits state and local governments from taking discriminatory action against a business based on that business's internal policies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 48; Title 61; Title 62 and Title 67. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0556 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, increases commission from three members to five members, with the additional members being appointed by the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives; revises other commission-related provisions. - Amends TC... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |
| SB0143 | Engross
Sine Die | As introduced, permits any county board of equalization, instead of only the Shelby County Board of Equalization, to accept written appearances by taxpayers or owners for complaints before the board; permits county board of equalization to require re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15 Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk. |