| SB1736 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits a student from participating in a single-sex interscholastic sport or athletic event provided by the student's public school unless the student verifies with the public school that the student is of the respective sex. - Amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2103 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires insurers who write automobile liability insurance policies in this state to include coverage for diminution in value on motor vehicles that are three years of age or newer and have less than 100,000 miles on the odometer; esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB0055 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates the professional art therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of art therapy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| HB1213 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, eliminates the 4 percent state sales tax on food for human consumption; increases the tax on cigarettes from three cents per cigarette to 8.35 cents per cigarette; increases the tax on other tobacco products from 6.6 percent to 17 perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| HB2348 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends, from March 1 to March 15, the deadline by which an owner of land may submit an application to the assessor of property for its classification to be designated as agricultural. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
Taken off notice for cal. in Local Committee |
| SB1735 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the board to abolish all academic standards for science and social studies for students in kindergarten through grade two; allows the subjects of science and social studies to be incorporated into the curriculum aligned with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1816 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to annually compile a list of courses that may be substituted for certain high school course requirements; requires the department, by April 15 of each year, to distribute the list to each LEA and public charter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1893 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires each high school to designate an apprenticeship training program contact; requires the department to compile and publish a list of the apprenticeship program contacts. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 62 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2284 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the department to survey all LEAs, public charter schools, and state special schools to determine whether there are enough licensed speech-language pathologists to serve the needs of public school students with speech disorder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1811 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes an offeree to cancel a contract or agreement, within 30 days from the offeree signing the agreement or contract, that was entered into following an unsolicited offer to purchase the offeree's real property that was sent thro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2563 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a person with knowledge of faulty electrical work performed by a limited licensed electrician to notify the board of licensing contractors within three business days from the date the person knows of the faulty electrical work...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
Taken off notice for cal. in Commerce Committee |
| SB2355 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a records custodian to ensure that the public disclosure of any report of the county medical examiner, toxicological report, or autopsy report complies with HIPAA in accordance with guidance developed by the department of heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB1746 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a reward for information leading to the recovery of a civil penalty against a person who knowingly causes any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information to a subscriber ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| SB2574 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes, from November 1 to November 15, the date by which the commissioner's annual report must be published. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2444 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases the punishment by one classification level for an offense committed by a motor vehicle operator that contributes to an accident resulting in bodily injury to a motorcycle rider. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 40 and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| HB2600 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, directs the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission to perform a study of film production incentives and programs in Tennessee and contiguous states and report findings and recommendations to the general assembly by February...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
Taken off notice for cal. in Commerce Committee |
| HB2767 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires counties that provide insurance coverage for employees to put the policy or policies on the county's website. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 8 and Title 56.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
Taken off notice for cal. in Local Committee |
| HB1572 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires elementary and secondary schools that receive public funding to ensure that student athletes participate in school-sanctioned sports based on the student's biological sex as indicated on certificate issued at time of birth; pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
Taken off notice for cal. in Education Committee |
| SB2707 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medical assistance pursuant to the Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of the expansion. - Amends TCA Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| SB0243 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, specifies that the notice the commissioner of transportation must give to the affected outdoor advertiser of the determination of illegality of the removal, cutting, or trimming of vegetation, is to be made by United States postal serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Transportation and Safety Committee |
| HB1607 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes prohibition on a member of a local governing body who is also an employee of the local governing body from voting on matters in which the member has a conflict of interest, and reinstates the declaration of conflict prior to vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To House Cities & Counties Subcommittee |
| SB2214 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows 50 percent of a teacher's annual evaluation criteria to be comprised of other measures of student achievement if excluding student growth evaluation composites generated by assessments administered in the 2020-2021 school year o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2313 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows a member of the armed forces who is licensed to practice a professional service in another state to practice in this state. - Amends TCA Title 62; Title 63 and Section 68-1-101.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
Taken off notice for cal. in Commerce Committee |
| SB1310 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts certain provisions relative to business or industries undergoing a reduction in operations that negatively impacts employees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 10; Title 50; Title 64 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
To Senate Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB2828 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, terminates the allocation of revenue generated from the 0.5 percent increase in the state sales tax rate that is earmarked for education purposes; terminates the allocation of revenue generated from the 1 percent increase in the state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| HB1558 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, broadens offense of property owner allowing an "underage adult" to consume alcohol to apply to all minors; creates enhanced penalty if property owner is social host. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4; Title 40, Chapter 32 and T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| SB1915 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows members of the United States armed forces and honorably discharged veterans who receive certified occupational training as a member of the United States armed forces to receive equivalent credit toward an occupational license re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| HB2085 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes obsolete language describing a polysomnographic professional standards committee that met annually from 2007-2010 to allow public discussion of new developments in the practice of polysomnography. - Amends TCA Title 63.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
Taken off notice for cal. in Health Committee |
| HB2583 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates an advisory task force of farmers and foresters to lead a strategic planning process and resulting implementation plan to position this state as a leading hub for agtech and value-added agriculture; requires a report to the gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
Taken off notice for cal. in Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2116 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that insurance pool, special fund, and reserve fund created by a governmental entity and any entity administering such funds be audited annually by the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-503 and Section 29-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2127 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, defines "micro market" and "micro market display" for purposes of sales and use taxes; authorizes dealers who own and operate micro markets in multiple locations to submit to the department of revenue a single monthly sales tax return ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1426 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, states that a parent not in possession of a child is entitled to video chat with the child as part of the right to unimpeded telephone conversations if the technology is available to both the parent and the child; states that a parent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
Taken off notice for cal. in Judiciary Committee |
| HB2243 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, revises the provisions governing the department's mandatory child care agency report card system and its separate and voluntary child care agency rated licensing system and implements a quality assessment and rating system for the purp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
Taken off notice for cal. in Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| HB2543 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires an animal owner's relative to retrieve the animal from an animal control agency within seven days of the owner's death; permits the animal control agency to treat the animal as an abandoned animal if the relative has not retri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
Taken off notice for cal. in Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2898 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, replaces the statutory terms "board member" and "member" with the term "trustee" in the provisions governing appointments to the board of trustees in the event of vacancies resulting from the death, disability, resignation, or ineligib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SJR1299 | Intro
Sine Die | Urges Department of Correction to take certain precautionary measures to protect inmates from COVID-19 infection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| HB2287 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits, to the extent allowed by federal law, a healthcare provider to dispense an epinephrine auto-injector to a person without a prescription. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 16; Title 53; Title 63 and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
Taken off notice for cal. in Health Committee |
| SB2427 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, recognizes the Algonquin, the Chickamaugan, the Iroquoian, the Muskogean, the Siouan, and the Yuchean cultural groups as Tennessee's first peoples. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1033 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends the effective date of a commercial risk insurance policy cancellation from 10 days to 15 days after notice is mailed to a named insured. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2405 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes certain medical professionals to prescribe hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment for veterans with traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder; adds hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment as an authorized medical ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
Taken off notice for cal. in Health Committee |
| HB2384 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes from November 30 to November 1 the date by which the department of health must compile, finalize, and make available to the public an electronic compilation of the statistics reported by the hospitals for the fiscal years endin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
Taken off notice for cal. in Health Committee |
| SB2886 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Personal Privacy Protection Act," which prohibits the release of certain personal information by a public agency, makes certain personal information confidential and not an open record, and creates a civil cause of action a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2408 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits public funds from being expended to pay a claim or action resulting from an incident of sexual harassment or a sexual crime in which a public official is found guilty or responsible. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 5; Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| HB2681 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from a 30-day supply to a 90-day supply the possible prescription for opioids or benzodiazepines for a patient who suffers from long-term chronic pain, as defined by the department of health by rule, if deemed appropriate by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
Taken off notice for cal. in Health Committee |
| SB0741 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes state agencies to provide child care services for state employees, with the department tasked to approve, administer, and coordinate such services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 49 and Title 71.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2688 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces the time period in which the board of directors of an emergency communications district must file a copy of the district's annual audit with the appropriate authorities, from 30 days after receipt of the audit by the board to 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| HB2451 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, makes changes with regard to compounding pharmacies, including allowing out-of-state pharmacy practice sites to provide certain inspections, equivalent to what are currently required, if accepted by the Tennessee board of pharmacy and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
Taken off notice for cal. in Health Committee |
| SB2872 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that online and alternative delivery fees are covered by the tuition and fee waiver for full-time state employees. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-114.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
To Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0721 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases from 10 to 12 days the deadline for requesting a formal hearing before the commissioner on adverse action proposed or taken to implement any revenue regulatory or registration law administered by the commissioner, not includi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1885 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, abolishes various estates and reversion interests in land; allows real property conveyances to a trust to vest title in the trustee of the trust; requires that public records referencing a trust be indexed by the name of the trust, if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-02
Taken off notice for cal. in Judiciary Committee |
