| SB2585 | Pass | As enacted, enacts "Cooper's Law," which requires a participating provider to strive to process hospital presumptive eligibility applications within the first 24 hours of the date of admission, when practicable. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 775 |
| SB2454 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes operation of Class I and Class II off-highway vehicles on three segments of state routes located in Hickman County, if such vehicles are registered, insured, and equipped with safety equipment, - Amends TCA Section 55-8-185.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-22
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 773 |
| SB2492 | Pass | As enacted, designates various locations as premier type tourist resorts, sports authority facilities, and community theaters for purposes of the sale of alcoholic beverages; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-22
Pub. Ch. 802 |
| SB2921 | Pass | Subject to local approval, specifies that the General Sessions Court Clerk must serve as the Clerk of the Juvenile Court of Dickson County rather than the County Clerk. - Amends Chapter 267 of the Private Acts of 1982; as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-22
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 49 |
| SB1642 | Pass | As enacted, makes changes to the law concerning governmental entities, supported in whole or in part by the general assembly, purchasing services or commodities from the central nonprofit agency that works to provide individuals with severe disabilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-22
Pub. Ch. 782 |
| SB2918 | Pass | Subject to local approval, changes the title of marshal to police chief; removes the police chief's duty to collect taxes; removes the recorder and treasurer and police chief's term of one year; removes antiquated language regarding jails. - Amends C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-22
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 47 |
| SB2915 | Pass | As enacted and subject to local approval, authorizes Knox County to collect the privilege tax on occupancy from transients in owner-occupied single family residences, in apartments or condominiums where less than 25 percent of the total units are ren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-07
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 763 |
| SB1710 | Pass | As enacted, extends the University of Tennessee, board of trustees to June 30, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 695 |
| SB2072 | Pass | As enacted, prohibits a constable from exercising law enforcement powers and authority if the constable fails to complete currently required in-service education; creates a Class C misdemeanor, subject to fine of $50, for a constable violating this p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 688 |
| SB1672 | Pass | As enacted, extends the human rights commission to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 29.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 702 |
| SB2162 | Pass | As enacted, renames the office of information resources in the department of finance and administration as the division of strategic technology solutions; makes other revisions related to the department. - Amends TCA Section 2-10-211; Title 3, Chapte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 690 |
| SB2919 | Pass | Subject to local approval, changes, from two-year to four-year, terms for the mayor and each alderman. - Amends Chapter 133 of the Private Acts of 1994; as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Comp. became Pr. Ch. 45 |
| SB2719 | Pass | As enacted, allows, under certain conditions, the advisory boards of the University of Tennessee institutions and state university boards to meet electronically or by other means of communication without a physical quorum present at the location of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 692 |
| SB2161 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the department to require its employees and contractors who have elevated and privileged access to data and personal information to submit to a background check to be performed by the TBI as a condition of employment. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 689 |
| SB2485 | Pass | As enacted, designates the Tennessee State Fairgrounds in Nashville as an urban park center; authorizes the granting of a franchise for the provision of food or beverage, including alcoholic beverages, on its premises; specifies that the holder of su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 700 |
| SB1630 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes a county mayor to appoint a committee to approve amendments to the budget after the budget has been adopted under the Local Option Budgeting Law of 1993. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 12, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 697 |
| SB2140 | Pass | As enacted, repeals the Tennessee Egg Law, which establishes a licensure system for certain persons who buy, sell, trade, traffic, or process eggs in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 43-1-701; Title 53, Chapter 1, Part 2 and Title 53, Chapter 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 727 |
| SB2880 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the state treasurer to enter into agreements with any federal reserve bank, instead of a federal reserve member bank or trust company located in Tennessee, for the purpose of transferring public funds and funds of the Tennessee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 755 |
| SB1594 | Pass | As enacted, redefines "travel promoter" and "travel services" for the purposes of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 62.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 698 |
| SB2344 | Pass | As enacted, revises a provision relating to the level and intended recipients of occupational training and technical education provided by state colleges of applied technology; deletes provisions relating to the creation of certain staff positions fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 691 |
| SB2511 | Pass | As enacted, reinstates service credits and salary increases that were suspended during 2009-2010 for district public defender investigators. - Amends TCA Title 1 and Title 8, Chapter 14.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 757 |
| SB2320 | Pass | As enacted, repeals the Bledsoe Regional Water Authority. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 740 |
| SB1638 | Pass | As enacted, designates The Register in Davidson County as a club for purposes of consuming alcoholic beverages on the premises. - Amends TCA Title 57.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 677 |
| SB1009 | Pass | As enacted, provides that if an incumbent member of the general assembly who has filed a petition for reelection is disqualified by the political party executive committee, then the incumbent member of the general assembly may file a new petition for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 713 |
| SB1634 | Pass | As enacted, increases from “eight months to a year” to “32 to 36 months” the time within which the treasurer must sell a security after receiving it; extends from “eight months” to “32 months” the minimum time period during which the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 718 |
| SB1766 | Pass | As enacted, revises the process by which a city, metropolitan, or county government may create a new water or wastewater treatment authority. - Amends TCA Section 7-34-106; Section 7-35-432; Section 68-221-604; Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 10 and Sect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 720 |
| SB2733 | Pass | As enacted, requires a court to find that limitation of a parent's residential parenting time is in the best interest of the minor child before limiting such time because the parent has engaged in willful abandonment or abuse of the parent, child, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 693 |
| SB2533 | Pass | As enacted, extends the exemption from licensure to hunt and fish on farmlands owned by a spouse, parent, or grandparent, to include spouses of children of landowners. - Amends TCA Title 70.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 746 |
| SB1967 | Pass | As enacted, increases the number of paid meetings the Carter County Parks and Recreation Board may hold, from eight per year to 12 per year. - Amends TCA Section 11-24-104.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 723 |
| SB2523 | Pass | As enacted, makes the current manner in which liquor-by-the-drink tax proceeds are distributed to local political subdivisions permanent. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 696 |
| SB1754 | Pass | As enacted, makes various changes concerning filings submitted by different entities to the secretary of state. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 38, Part 11; Title 48, Chapter 101; Title 48, Chapter 11; Title 48, Chapter 228; Title 48, Chapter 247; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 719 |
| SB2473 | Pass | As enacted, requires a public school to excuse a student from school to attend a released time course if requested by the student's parent or legal guardian even if the local board of education has not adopted a policy on released time courses; autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 743 |
| SB1839 | Pass | As enacted, requires a physician to provide prenatal and postpartum medical care to pregnant prisoners and detainees; requires correctional institutions to provide pregnant prisoners nutritionally appropriate meals and supplemental provisions. - Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 762 |
| SB2821 | Pass | As enacted, adds provisions governing the apportionment and distribution of incremental increases in sales and use taxes due to a public use facility. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 88 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 30.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 751 |
| SB2187 | Pass | As enacted, transfers responsibility for administration of the Tennessee sports hall of fame from the commissioner of tourist development to the hall's board of directors and makes other changes concerning the sports hall of fame. - Amends TCA Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 699 |
| SB2199 | Pass | As enacted, removes the duty of the governor to proclaim days of special observance, such as Mother's Day, Harriet Tubman Day, and Volunteer Firefighters week; removes the governor's duty to invite the people of the state to observe certain days of s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 707 |
| SB2119 | Pass | As enacted, requires the department to grant or deny an application for a subsurface sewage disposal system within 45 days or receiving all information necessary to make such a determination; requires the department, if it cannot make a determination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 726 |
| SB2826 | Pass | As enacted, revises provisions and specifies application of the Local Tourism Development Zone Business Tax Act. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 88, Part 1 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 30.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 752 |
| SB2141 | Pass | As enacted, replaces the statutory list of standard of weights and measures for agricultural products with a requirement that the commissioner of agriculture establish weights and measures by rule. - Amends TCA Section 47-26-101.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 728 |
| SB2932 | Pass | As enacted, makes revisions to general law necessary to implement the annual appropriations act; requires dealers with physical presence in this state to register with department of revenue to collect and remit sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 759 |
| SB2189 | Pass | As enacted, excludes construction services providers performing work in this state from certain provisions of the workers' compensation law, requires construction services providers to maintain workers' compensation insurance coverage while working i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 682 |
| SB2330 | Pass | As enacted, requires a sentencing court to impose a fine of at least $100 for a person convicted of assault against a domestic abuse victim, subject to the defendant's ability to pay. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 756 |
| SB2520 | Pass | As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Pregnant Workers Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 745 |
| SB1597 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes, upon request, the department of revenue to issue salvage certificates to an insurance company, automotive dismantler and recycler, or salvage pool operator under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 675 |
| SB2935 | Pass | As enacted, authorizes the state, acting by resolution of its funding board, to issue and sell its interest-bearing bonds and bond anticipation notes for certain purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 758 |
| SB2503 | Pass | As enacted, requires public institutions of higher education to provide each student with a detailed and completed current-year federal college financing plan; imposes other requirements for such institutions to provide certain information when a stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 744 |
| SB2188 | Pass | As enacted, revises various provisions governing outdoor advertising; renames the Billboard Regulation and Control Act to be the Outdoor Advertising Control Act of 2020. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 17 and Title 54, Chapter 21.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 706 |
| SB2261 | Pass | As enacted, permits the state board of education to assess reasonable costs against a teacher or administrator when a final order is issued following a contested case hearing in which a teacher or administrator is issued a formal reprimand or the tea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 734 |
| SB2268 | Pass | As enacted, permits a political subdivision to release the name or photograph of a minor victim of a criminal offense for the purpose of memorializing the victim in a memorial garden, if the custodial parent or legal guardian of the victim has consen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 735 |
| SB2190 | Pass | As enacted, extends the deadline for an injured employee to file a claim for increased benefits with the bureau of workers' compensation; lengthens the period of time following an injury an employee has to provide notice to the bureau of workers' com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
Pub. Ch. 731 |
