| SB0908 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 15 to 17 the maximum number of directors permitted on a solid waste authority board. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 5 and Title 68, Chapter 211.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1320 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer to issue a citation in lieu of continued custody of a person arrested for a misdemeanor violation of simple possession of a controlled substance, unless the officer determines, based on the person's p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1332 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the state coordinator of elections to electronically submit the report regarding the integrity of Tennessee's statewide voter registration database to the state and local government committee of the senate and the state gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0906 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs executive director of Tennessee wildlife resources agency to report findings of study relating to the impacts of off-highway motor vehicles on habitat and environment to the agriculture and natural resources committee of the ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1281 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes an LEA to furnish a student's report card in an electronic format to the parent or parents of the student if prior consent is given by the parent or parents. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0863 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requests department of revenue to conduct a study on the number of violations of Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 55-21-108 or an ordinance dealing with parking privileges for persons with disabilities and report its findings and any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB0826 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires facilities that employ licensed healthcare providers and deliver care to patients to adopt protocols requiring training in the detection and treatment of victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking; provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1333 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases monetary compensation of at least $1,000 for each full-time and part-time state employee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0876 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to publish on its website a report of all actions and procedures that have been implemented to ensure all data associated with existing assessments is accurate and timely. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1171 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies the name of an office within the office of the Attorney General; permits a not-for-profit hospital to electronically submit a request for an informal conference with the commissioner of health if the commissioner issues a cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SJR0183 | Intro
Sine Die | Encourages the bureau of TennCare to seek an appropriate federal Section 1115 demonstration waiver in order to expand access to evidence-based home visitation services for pregnant women and parents with infants facing medical, social, or environment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1312 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of leaving a firearm or ammunition in a motor vehicle or boat without the firearm or ammunition being stored in a locked cabinet, safe, vault, case, or secured with a firearm locking device if the vehicle ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1478 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases cash supplement for police officer in-service training from $600 to $1,200. - Amends TCA Section 38-8-111.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0947 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds a religious exemption from the requirement to register a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB1183 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces from 90 days to 60 days the threshold of time for a patient who is prescribed opioids, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, or carisoprodol in chronic, long-term drug therapy before the prescriber is required to consider mandatory ur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1136 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the board of dentistry to establish by rule the required continuing education courses necessary for an inactive licensee to perform pro bono services. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SJR0182 | Intro
Sine Die | Encourages the bureau of TennCare to seek an appropriate federal Section 1115 demonstration waiver in order to expand access to evidence-based home visitation services for pregnant women and parents with infants facing medical, social, or environment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0455 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends from five to seven days the amount of time after sending a certified letter to the issuer of a worthless check that it may be inferred notice of the worthless check was received for purposes of determining the issuer’s fraudu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Withdrawn. |
| SB0898 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the due date, from February 1 each year to July 1 each year, of the commissioner of education's report to the governor and general assembly regarding the Schools Against Violence in Education (SAVE) Act. - Amends TCA Section 8-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1202 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the authority to order an autopsy from the county medical examiner; authorizes the district attorney general to order an autopsy in certain circumstances; authorizes the chief medical examiner to order an autopsy if the distric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1087 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes the requirement that the executive director of the real estate commission have passed the real estate broker's examination. - Amends TCA Title 62.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0871 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the time period from 15 to 30 days for a person to file with the department of human services a written request for an administrative hearing to review actions of the department involving child support enforcement. - Amends T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1180 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from February 1 to March 1 the date by which the commissioner of education must annually report to the governor and the general assembly on implementation of and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education (SAVE) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1380 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to award $500 for each of the first four dual enrollment courses taken with a dual enrollment grant; authorizes TSAC to determine the amount of the award per credit hour for the fif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SJR0118 | Pass | City of Springfield, bicentennial
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1041 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, expands the definition of cremation, for the purposes of regulating operators of crematory facilities, to include additional processes such as alkaline hydrolysis. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SJR0101 | Pass | Reggie Young
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1279 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires verification of United States citizenship or lawful presence for each applicant 18 years of age or older, who applies for prenatal care administered by the department of health and the special supplemental food program for wom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SJR0093 | Pass | Chattanooga Times Free Press, 150th anniversary
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1132 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, designates the assumption of risk by a captive insurance company under a service contract issued by a parent or affiliate as reinsurance. - Amends TCA Title 56.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1207 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that the rules promulgated by the board of education, based on standards of fiscal accountability and soundness for local school systems, must be in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act. - Amends TCA Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1265 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, limits a natural gas utility system that is operating in a county having a population of less than 336,400 according to the 2010 federal census and that is devoting revenues derived from the system to funding chambers of commerce and e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1124 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a court from sentencing a defendant convicted of first degree murder to death if the defendant proves by a preponderance of the evidence that, at the time of the offense, the defendant had a severe mental illness. - Amends TC...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1040 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces from 10 to five days the time within which a change in a person designated to check a school bus must be submitted to the local education agency, along with the name, address, and telephone number of the new designee. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0885 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the department to study establishment of a beverage container deposit program and report to legislative committees by January 10, 2020. - Amends TCA Section 41-2-123; Title 57; Title 67 and Title 68.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1089 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends time period a marriage license is valid from 30 to 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1223 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires department to post annual report regarding the status of water quality on its website within five business days of the report's submission to the governor and general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 66; Title 68 and Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1216 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that all school funds collected by a county for capital projects be apportioned among the LEAs in the county in proportion to each LEA on the basis of the weighted full-time equivalent average daily attendance. - Amends TCA Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SJR0176 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the legislature to limit the amount of noneconomic and punitive damages that may be awarded in civil actions and specifies that these limits do not diminish the right to trial by jury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0934 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, imposes public notice and public input requirements on a redistricting committee and upon consideration of a final redistricting plan. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 16, Part 1 and Title 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1144 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces the time period, from 30 to 15 days, in which a sheriff must report to the county legislative body and to the department of correction the name of any prisoner who escapes while serving on a work detail and indicate whether the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1422 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to immediately commence a local investigation upon receipt of a report of child abuse or brutality from a person tasked with the education, health, or welfare of the child; requires certain actions by the invest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0816 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a court from removing a person's constitutional rights for failure to pay court costs, fines, or any other monetary amount in a civil proceeding, if the person is unable to pay due to the person's indigency. - Amends TCA Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0843 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony for the failure to report known or suspected child sexual abuse. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1105 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, decreases from 90 to 80 percent the amount of revenue an art gallery must receive from the sale of artwork in order to serve wine to patrons without charge and without paying a fee; clarifies any premise authorized to sell or serve win...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1295 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commissioner to report to the health committee of the house of representatives and the senate health and welfare committee on the adequacy of resources to assist children and youth impacted by the opioid epidemic and adver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1420 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that contracts with governmental entities for professional or technical services in excess of $100,000 include a provision requiring the contractor to utilize software that verifies that hours billed for work being done remote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0875 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, makes various changes to the process for restoration of voting rights, including consolidating the process for the issuance of a certificate of voting rights restoration through the secretary of state's office. - Amends TCA Title 40, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1249 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the commission to develop and implement a quality assurance funding program that will allow institutions of higher education to earn a percentage of funds, in addition to the institution's outcomes-based funding formula model ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0892 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the period within which a director of schools is required to notify the chief of the appropriate law enforcement agency that the director has authorized a person to carry or possess a firearm ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
