| SB1204 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates an exception to the two-hour biennial continuing education requirement related to controlled substance prescribing for licensed prescribers in medical education program teaching roles who do not examine patients or prescribe co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB0967 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, imposes strict liability on a company doing business in this state for the purpose of providing dockless electric scooter rentals for injuries incurred by minors using the company's electric scooter regardless of whether the minor was ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1159 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies that the department's birth defects registry advisory committee must report its findings on the adequacy of the registry to the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly by February 1 of each year. - Amends TCA ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SJR0105 | Pass | Emmalynn Faith Hamer, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1015 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 10 to 15 the number of days before trial in which a person who intends to rely on an affirmative defense must notify the district attorney general in writing of such intention. - Amends TCA Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1283 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes from code a study on the economic feasibility of creating and utilizing a statewide comprehensive energy policy, the final report of which was due by December 15, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1288 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes requirement that certain funds from the 1986 gasoline tax increases be used only for specific highway projects during the 1986-1987 and 1993-1994 fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB1446 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires at least one equine professional liability warning sign to be placed in a clearly visible location near each point of primary ingress and egress that is used by visiting members of the general public. - Amends TCA Title 4; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SJR0171 | Intro
Sine Die | Encourages the bureau of TennCare to improve access to and quality of treatment for eligible Tennessee residents suffering from addiction to opiates and other substances by means of an appropriate federal Section 1115 waiver for medicaid services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB1454 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that maintenance of equine professional limitation of liability warning notice signs includes periodic removal of dirt, vegetation, and other debris that may reduce the legibility of the sign. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SJR0094 | Pass | Katie Pullen Foster, 100th Birthday
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0884 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Doctor of Medical Science Act." - Amends TCA Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SJR0085 | Pass | Katherine I. LaPorte
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB1065 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the governing bodies of state and local governmental entities from casting votes via text message. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44 and Title 10, Chapter 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0874 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes a provision concerning a study conducted by the bureau of TennCare and the health care finance and administration on the means of fair and just implementation of the episodes of care initiatives, the report of which was due by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1110 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Director of Schools Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1199 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to study, in consultation with the department of health, the feasibility of requiring a student to undergo an electrocardiogram test before the student may participate in interscholastic athletics; requires the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1270 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases fine for making false statements on an application requesting disclosure of personal information from $1,000 to $5,000; imposes fine for a person who knowingly releases personal information from certain departments; authorize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1397 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, limits payroll deductions by an LEA to those deductions for employee benefits available through, or as a result of, employment by the LEA or charitable contributions to certain nonprofit organizations; limits the scope of collaborative...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1023 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision for the department of health to make certain recommendations by January 10, 2010. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1075 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a commissioner or deputy commissioner who administers contracts of a department from accepting employment with a private business that contracts with the department for 12 months after the commissioner's or deputy commissione...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1272 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, makes it unlawful for any person to act as an instructor for any commercial driver training school in an online course without a current license to act as an instructor issued by the commissioner of revenue. - Amends TCA Title 55.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB1275 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, confers criminal and civil immunity upon a person who uses or threatens force in self-defense, defense of another, or defense from a person committing a criminal offense, unless the person against whom force is used is a law enforcemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0866 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to either approve permit applications pertaining to water and sewage within 30 days of receipt or provide a clear, written explanation for not issuing the permit with citations to supporting authority. - Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB1071 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the agency, by no later than March 1 each year, to submit a report relative to the implementation of any amended policies designed to improve the agency's blight elimination program to the state and local government committee ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SJR0107 | Pass | Richard McKinley Davis, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Signed by Governor. |
| SB0949 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to provide weekly mental health counseling to each child in a detention or shelter care facility; requires mental health providers to be licensed and consider the findings and recommendations of any validated ri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0887 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the Tennessee fish and wildlife commission to submit an annual report to the government operations committees listing any rules promulgated to exempt certain persons from hunter education requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB1218 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the amount of marijuana possessed or exchanged under the offenses of simple possession or casual exchange from less than one-half ounce to less than one ounce; prohibits the inference of purpose of selling or otherwise dispen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1196 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the amount of time from 30 to 45 days prior to adoption of a district-wide and building-level school safety plan that the local education agency shall make the plan available for public comment. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Titl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1503 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that only 5 percent of the evaluation criteria used to evaluate all teachers and principals be comprised of student achievement data based on student growth generated by assessments administered to students enrolled in an Engl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0600 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires local governments to provide a secure electronic interactive system for invitations to bid, requests for proposals and other offers; exempts certain local governments. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0480 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a governmental entity that purchases insurance through a plan authorized by an organization of governmental entities representing cities and counties to undergo competitive bidding; prohibits any such insurance plan from enter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0556 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires local governments to report, no later than February 1, 2020, to the general assembly the number of business licenses issued to places of accommodation for transients for calendar year 2019. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0661 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces the amount of time, from 60 to 30 days, that a health facility must renew its license following the expiration of such license, and if not renewed within 30 days following expiration, the licensee must reapply for licensure in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB0703 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends from 30 calendar days to 30 business days from receipt of notice of the death of a person aged 55 years of age or older, the time in which the department of health has to notify the bureau of TennCare of the death. - Amends TCA...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB0794 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends the initial student application period, from 30 days to 45 days, for all students zoned to attend, or who are currently enrolled in, a school that is eligible to be placed in the achievement school district to enroll in a chart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0292 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Uniform Protected Series Act." - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
Withdrawn. |
| SB0658 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from March 1 to February 15 the date by which the annual report on distribution and abuse of controlled substances must be submitted by the department of health to the health committees of the senate and the house of representa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0722 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, renames the board of judicial conduct to be the board of judicial responsibility; reconstitutes the board; revises other provisions regarding the board. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Section 8-21-501; Title 17, Chapter 4, P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB0525 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes commissioner to employ economists and other analysts to enable the department to perform its duties. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 56; Title 9, Chapter 4; Title 65 and Title 67, Chapter 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| SB0563 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from January 1 to January 15, the date by which the department of safety and homeland security must provide a copy of the previous year's statistical report concerning the number of handgun carry permits issued, denied, revoke...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0660 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requests department of economic and community development to study the recruitment of companies that focus on the development of biotechnology and stem cell therapies, research, and development; requires department to report its findin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0696 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to study the feasibility of adding direct primary care as a covered benefit under one or more of the basic health plans approved by the state insurance committee for eligible state employees and to report its fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0677 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Drug Treatment Instead of Incarceration Act." - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33 and Title 40, Chapter 20.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB0488 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes an LEA to use the ACT, ACT Aspire, or SAT suites of assessments, instead of state-mandated assessments, to test students in grades 9-12 in the subjects of math and English language arts. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0674 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a four-year agriculture education pilot project for 11th and 12th grade students; requires the department to create and administer an educational program focused on agriculture education. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0529 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, corrects outdated references to public television stations that may receive grants from the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0471 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that the annual report on the chairs of excellence program must be submitted by the Tennessee higher education commission to each member of the education committee of the senate and the education committee of the house of rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB0555 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes requirement that 52 percent of the 5 percent commission retained by county registers for collecting and reporting recordation tax must be remitted to state treasurer and credited to state general fund. - Amends TCA Section 67-4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
