110th General Assembly

Subject to local approval, creates a county financial management system to administer the finances of the county for all funds of the various departments, agencies, and boards that are handled by the county trustee.

Sponsor: Joseph Hensley

As enacted, administratively attaches the David Crockett commission to the department of finance and administration; creates a separate account within the treasury to be used to erect a monument; authorizes state and private funds to be used to erect a monument with intent that no state funds be used until private funding exhausted. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 8, Part 4.

Sponsor: David Hawk

As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $215,295,000.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As enacted, excludes from coverage under the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2016 memorials under the control of an accredited museum, public library, or public archive in certain circumstances; revises other provisions of the Act. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-412.

Sponsor: Steve McDaniel

As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds of up to $215,295,000.

Sponsor: Charles Sargent

As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain specified persons. - Amends TCA Title 54.

Sponsor: Barry Doss

As enacted, exempts certain types of insurance from filing requirements of commercial risk insurers; revises the disclaimer that must be included in an application or policy that is issued to an exempt commercial risk policyholder. - Amends TCA Title 56.

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

As enacted, designates sports facilities at MTSU and TSU as "sports authority facility" for purposes of sales of alcoholic beverages and beer for consumption on the premises; specifies that ban on selling wine on Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter applies to retail food store wine licensees in addition to package stores. - Amends TCA Title 57.

Sponsor: Frank Niceley

As enacted, authorizes a licensed cosmetologist, manicurist, aesthetician, or natural hair stylist to practice such occupations in a recipient's residence, short-term residence, or place of business. - Amends TCA Title 62.

Sponsor: Steven Dickerson

As enacted, lowers from $610 to $300 the maximum fee for the interment of an eligible veteran's spouse. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Johnnie Turner

As enacted, extends the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities for two years to June 30, 2020; requires the department to report back to the committee concerning the findings in its 2017 performance audit report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, revises provisions governing the reporting of a patient's involuntary commitment to an inpatient treatment facility to local law enforcement so that the information may be reported to the FBI-NICS Index and the department of safety; specifies that a pharmacy or pharmacist has the right to provide an insured information regarding the amount of the insured's cost share for a prescription drug. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Rusty Crowe

As enacted, increases the authorized annual state contribution made to human resources agencies. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 26.

Sponsor: Craig Fitzhugh

As enacted, includes within the offense of especially aggravated stalking a person 18 years of age or older who commits the offense of stalking or aggravated stalking against a victim who is less than 12 years of age at any time during the person's course of conduct. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-315.

Sponsor: Ryan Williams

As enacted, specifies circumstances in which a referendum will not be required to effectuate annexation of territory; schedules provision to expire January 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Section 6-51-104.

Sponsor: Ryan Williams

Subject to local approval, requires the board of mayor and aldermen to hold regular public meetings as specified by ordinance rather than on the first Monday night of each month. - Amends Chapter 606 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended.

Sponsor: Judd Matheny

As enacted, creates one additional trial court each in the sixteenth, nineteenth, and twenty-first judicial districts; requires the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house to establish an advisory task force to review the composition of Tennessee's current judicial districts. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14; Title 8, Chapter 7; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18, Chapter 4 and Title 18, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Curtis Johnson

As enacted, extends the department of correction for two years to June 30, 2020; requires the department to appear before the government operations joint evaluation committee on judiciary and government no later than December 31, 2018, to update the committee on the department's progress in addressing the findings set forth in the November 2017 performance audit report. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, extends from " June 30, 2023" to "June 30, 2028" the termination date for allocation of state sales tax revenue to municipalities under the former Courthouse Square Revitalization Pilot Project Act of 2005; revises other provisions governing taxation. - Amends TCA Title 67.

Sponsor: John Stevens

As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to require or authorize a "perfection period" for electronically filed Hall income tax and franchise and excise tax returns. - Amends TCA Section 67-2-107; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

Sponsor: Rusty Crowe

As enacted, creates a liability framework for an employer that accepts or employs a student who is participating in work-based learning coordinated through the student's LEA or a state institution of higher education, including, but not limited to, Tennessee colleges of applied technology; establishes a qualified work-based learning student grant program. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 67.

Sponsor: John Forgety

As enacted, enacts the "Suicide Mortality Review and Prevention Act of 2018." - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 3.

Sponsor: Bob Ramsey

As enacted, lowers from $610 to $300 the maximum fee for the interment of an eligible veteran's spouse. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Lee Harris

As enacted, creates appointment process for vacant citizen member positions on the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.

Sponsor: Dan Howell

As enacted, enacts the "Tom Cronan Physical Education Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Roger Kane

As enacted, enacts the "Suicide Mortality Review and Prevention Act of 2018." - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 3.

Sponsor: Rusty Crowe

As enacted, requires the department of children's services to develop guidelines on the best practices for identifying and reporting signs of child abuse, child sexual abuse, and human trafficking in which the victim is a child; requires the department of education to use the guidelines to identify child abuse training programs appropriate for teachers; requires local education agencies and public charter schools to ensure teachers complete a child abuse training program. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 23; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

Sponsor: G.A. Hardaway

As enacted, revises law concerning compensation of cities and counties for payments in lieu of taxes under the U.A. Moore Wetlands Acquisition Act. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 11; Title 12 and Title 67.

Sponsor: Art Swann

As enacted, authorizes the City of Crossville to levy a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy by a two-thirds vote of its governing body. - Amends TCA 67-4-1425.

Sponsor: Cameron Sexton

As enacted, authorizes a licensed cosmetologist, manicurist, aesthetician, or natural hair stylist to practice such occupations in a recipient's residence, short-term residence, or place of business. - Amends TCA Title 62.

Sponsor: Sam Whitson

As enacted, requires the department to maintain materials designed to assist municipal solid waste region board members with administering their regions and to publish such materials on its website and send an electronic copy of the materials to the appropriate appointing authorities by July 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

Sponsor: Frank Niceley

As enacted, enacts the "Student Due Process Protection Act". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 24 and Title 49.

Sponsor: Ferrell Haile

As enacted, requires compliance with certain requirements by a person practicing ultrasound sonography in a nonclinical 3D/4D ultrasound boutique setting. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 63 and Title 68.

Sponsor: Jack Johnson

As enacted, enacts the "School Safety Act of 2018". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 16; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Section 50-3-201; Section 58-1-112; Section 70-4-123 and Section 70-5-101.

Sponsor: James Van Huss

As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain specified persons. - Amends TCA Title 54.

Sponsor: Paul Bailey

As enacted, requires the board of directors of the Tennessee education lottery corporation, no later than January 1, 2019, to establish a mechanism whereby a lottery ticket winner of a drawing-style game, with winnings of $1 million dollars or more, may donate 10 percent of the total prize money to a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(19) nonprofit organization. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51, Part 1.

Sponsor: Cameron Sexton

As enacted, revises requirements regarding coverage for mental health, mental illness, and alcohol or drug dependency, and requires certain reports. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Gerald McCormick

As enacted, directs the department of transportation to erect signs acknowledging each branch of the military within the segment designated as the "Veterans Memorial Mile" in Knox County; authorizes representatives from each branch to work with the department to donate money, trees, shrubs, flowers, or other installations for beautification or decorative purposes along the corridor. - Amends TCA Title 54; Title 55; Chapter 85 of the Public Acts of 2011 and Chapter 641 of the Public Acts of 2012.

Sponsor: Roger Kane

As enacted, prohibits any official or employee of this state or any political subdivision of this state from accepting an identification document issued or created by any person, organization, county, city, or other local authority, except where expressly authorized to be used for identification purposes by the general assembly to determine a person's identity or residency unless required by federal law; prohibits any local government or law enforcement agency from authorizing the use of any such card or document as a form of identification to be used to determine the identity or residency of any person. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 55.

Sponsor: Mark Green

As enacted, authorizes a nurse practitioner or physician assistant who holds a federal DEA waiver to prescribe buprenorphine products under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 53.

Sponsor: Steven Dickerson

As enacted, prohibits any official or employee of this state or any political subdivision of this state from accepting an identification document issued or created by any person, organization, county, city, or other local authority, except where expressly authorized to be used for identification purposes by the general assembly to determine a person's identity or residency unless required by federal law; prohibits any local government or law enforcement agency from authorizing the use of any such card or document as a form of identification to be used to determine the identity or residency of any person. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 55.

Sponsor: William Lamberth

As enacted, makes any person licensed as an amateur radio operator eligible to purchase an amateur radio special license plate, rather than allowing only certain persons to purchase such plates. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 54, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2.

Sponsor: John Forgety

As enacted, provides for the expunction of records of certain juveniles for adjudications involving conduct that would constitute the offense of prostitution or aggravated prostitution if the conduct upon which the conviction is based was found to have occurred as a result of the person being a victim of human trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 40, Chapter 32.

Sponsor: Jim Coley

As enacted, revises the interest rate on certain unpaid child support arrearages; revises provisions governing the age at which a person may be issued a marriage license; creates a cause of action for forced marriage. - Amends TCA Title 36.

Sponsor: Ken Yager

As enacted, authorizes, in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, transfers from the department of safety, handgun permit reserve. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Charles Sargent

As enacted, enacts "Sienna's Law," which establishes requirements for the disposition of children adjudicated delinquent for certain offenses. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.

Sponsor: Janince Bowling

As enacted, authorizes certain municipalities to fund chambers of commerce and economic and community organizations with revenue from a natural gas utility system owned by the municipality; prohibits rate increase to cover contributions targeted for economic development efforts. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, requires the department of children's services to develop guidelines on the best practices for identifying and reporting signs of child abuse, child sexual abuse, and human trafficking in which the victim is a child; requires the department of education to use the guidelines to identify child abuse training programs appropriate for teachers; requires local education agencies and public charter schools to ensure teachers complete a child abuse training program. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 23; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

Sponsor: Lee Harris

As enacted, abolishes the TBI drug chemistry unit drug testing fund and the TBI toxicology unit intoxicant testing fund; provides for funds collected from the drug testing fee and the blood alcohol or drug concentration test fee being directed to the general fund to be used as appropriated by the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 39, Chapter 16; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 40, Chapter 35; Title 55; Title 63; Title 69, Chapter 9 and Title 70.

Sponsor: John Stevens

As enacted, includes within the offense of especially aggravated stalking a person 18 years of age or older who commits the offense of stalking or aggravated stalking against a victim who is less than 12 years of age at any time during the person's course of conduct. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-315.

Sponsor: Art Swann

As enacted, requires compliance with certain requirements by a person practicing ultrasound sonography in a nonclinical 3D/4D ultrasound boutique setting. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 63 and Title 68.

Sponsor: Charles Sargent

As enacted, extends from " June 30, 2023" to "June 30, 2028" the termination date for allocation of state sales tax revenue to municipalities under the former Courthouse Square Revitalization Pilot Project Act of 2005; revises other provisions governing taxation. - Amends TCA Title 67.

Sponsor: Gerald McCormick

As enacted, extends the University of Tennessee, board of trustees for two years to June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, provides that no adverse action may be taken against any student, teacher, school, or LEA based, in whole or in part, on student achievement data generated from the 2017-2018 TNReady assessments. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Roger Kane

As enacted, makes various changes and additions to law concerning opioids; creates task force with duty to promulgate rules that create a uniform minimum disciplinary action that will apply to any healthcare practitioner who treats a human patient with an opioid and that healthcare practitioner's licensing board or agency finds that the healthcare practitioner engaged in a significant deviation or pattern of deviation from sound medical judgment; requires comptroller to conduct certain studies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Edward Jackson

As enacted, authorizes department of safety to issue, upon request, special designation on driver and photo identification licenses for person with acquired brain injury, intellectual disability, or developmental disability; establishes certain procedures for law enforcement interactions with persons with such a condition. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 40 and Title 55.

Sponsor: Sara Kyle

Subject to local approval, reduces board of mayor and aldermen from seven to five members; deletes all references to town marshal; reduces the number of readings to approve an ordinance from three to two; abolishes the position of treasurer and transfers responsibilities to the recorder; expands authority of the board of mayor and aldermen. - Amends Chapter 112 of the Private Acts of 1920; as amended.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, adds and revises various provisions governing teacher training programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.

Sponsor: Eddie Smith

As enacted, specifies that a person who is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces, a member of the Tennessee national guard, a member of the Tennessee air national guard, or an inactive reservist of any of the United States uniformed military services in good standing must not be disqualified as a candidate for any office if, for service-related reasons, that person was unable to comply with a statewide political party's or recognized minor party's rules for candidacy for nomination for such party, and such service-related reasons are the sole reason the person is unable to qualify. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13, Part 1.

Sponsor: John Ragan

As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding eligible persons on referral list for services. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Ferrell Haile

As enacted, requires the department to establish a state vehicle abuse hotline and website; requires that vehicles leased and owned by the state have decals providing a telephone number or website information for complaints. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Ron Lollar

As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding the scheduling of controlled substances and their analogues and derivatives, including updated identifications of drugs categorized in Schedules I–V; authorizes sentence reduction credits for prisoners who successfully complete intensive substance use disorder treatment program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2; Title 53 and Title 63.

Sponsor: David Hawk

As enacted, clarifies that physicians can accept barter of goods or services as payment for healthcare services in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 63.

Sponsor: Rusty Crowe

As enacted, authorizes, in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, transfers from the department of safety, handgun permit reserve. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As enacted, renames the "DUI monitoring fund" as the "electronic monitoring indigency fund" and requires the assessment of fees against persons who are convicted of certain offenses, the proceeds of which will be deposited into the fund. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4 and Title 69, Chapter 9.

Sponsor: Tilman Goins

As enacted, revises various provisions of law regarding the scheduling of controlled substances and their analogues and derivatives, including updated identifications of drugs categorized in Schedules I–V; authorizes sentence reduction credits for prisoners who successfully complete intensive substance use disorder treatment program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2; Title 53 and Title 63.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As enacted, authorizes an industrial development corporation to negotiate a payment in lieu of tax agreement for less than the ad valorem taxes otherwise due for a retail business for a period longer than 10 years, plus a reasonable construction or installation period of not more than three years, in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 7-53-101 and Section 7-53-305.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As enacted, provides that a real property owner who prevails in an action challenging the validity of a lien, including in a slander of title proceeding, will recover the person's reasonable attorney's fees, reasonable costs, liquidated damages in an amount equal to 10 percent of the fair market value of the property not to exceed $100,000, and actual damages incurred by the owner; excludes actions brought to challenge lien based on loan agreement for which the encumbered property was listed as collateral to secure the repayment of a loan. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 66 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Tim Rudd

As enacted, punishes the offense of promotion of prostitution as a Class D felony instead of Class E felony if the person being promoted has an intellectual disability. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

Subject to local approval, rewrites town charter. - Amends Chapter 148 of the Private Acts of 1923; as amended.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, excludes anxiety episodes and nonemergent depression episodes from episodes of care in any payment reform initiative involved with medical assistance. - Amends TCA Title 71.

Sponsor: Rusty Crowe

As enacted, creates the Tennessee Task Force on Lupus Education and Awareness. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

Sponsor: Johnnie Turner

As enacted, makes various changes to the requirements for prescribing, dispensing, and reporting of opioids. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 41, Chapter 21, Part 2; Title 53 and Title 63.

Sponsor: David Hawk

Subject to local approval, increases the threshold over which public advertisements and sealed competitive bids or proposals are required to an amount not to exceed $25,000 for nonemergency and nonproprietary purchases. - Amends Chapter 17 of the Private Acts of 2017.

Sponsor: Tim Rudd

As enacted, enacts the "Tom Cronan Physical Education Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

As enacted, requires the department to maintain materials designed to assist municipal solid waste region board members with administering their regions and to publish such materials on its website and send an electronic copy of the materials to the appropriate appointing authorities by July 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

Sponsor: Johnny Shaw

As enacted, makes various changes and additions to law concerning opioids; creates task force with duty to promulgate rules that create a uniform minimum disciplinary action that will apply to any healthcare practitioner who treats a human patient with an opioid and that healthcare practitioner's licensing board or agency finds that the healthcare practitioner engaged in a significant deviation or pattern of deviation from sound medical judgment; requires comptroller to conduct certain studies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Curtis Johnson

As enacted, authorizes, as a pilot project in Sullivan, Washington, Carter, Johnson, and Hawkins counties, the emergency medical services board to certify training programs for certain emergency medical services personnel operated by licensed ambulance services; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

Sponsor: John Crawford

As enacted, creates a liability framework for an employer that accepts or employs a student who is participating in work-based learning coordinated through the student's LEA or a state institution of higher education, including, but not limited to, Tennessee colleges of applied technology; establishes a qualified work-based learning student grant program. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 67.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As enacted, replaces the secretary of state and department of state with the commissioner of tourist development and department of tourist development on the Tennessee sports hall of fame board of directors and executive committee; requires the department to provide oversight to the hall of fame. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 54.

Sponsor: Kevin Brooks

As enacted, revises the composition of the state fair board and one of the board's powers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Section 5-9-102 and Title 43.

Sponsor: Andy Holt

As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2017, and July 1, 2018.

Sponsor: Charles Sargent

As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2017, and July 1, 2018.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As enacted, enacts "Sienna's Law," which establishes requirements for the disposition of children adjudicated delinquent for certain offenses. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.

Sponsor: David Alexander

As enacted, authorizes an industrial development corporation to negotiate a payment in lieu of tax agreement for less than the ad valorem taxes otherwise due for a retail business for a period longer than 10 years, plus a reasonable construction or installation period of not more than three years, in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 7-53-101 and Section 7-53-305.

Sponsor: Mike Carter

As enacted, changes the fees the commissioner may charge for the movement of houseboats that exceed the maximum allowable width for motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 7, Part 2.

Sponsor: Timothy Wirgau

As enacted, requires proponent of a suit terminating land use as a cemetery to file notice with the historical commission prior to any hearing on the suit; requires the historical commission to establish a historic cemetery advisory committee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11; Title 46, Chapter 4 and Title 46, Chapter 8.

Sponsor: Steve McDaniel

As enacted, requires the department to establish a state vehicle abuse hotline and website; requires that vehicles leased and owned by the state have decals providing a telephone number or website information for complaints. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Edward Jackson

As enacted, enacts the "Short-Term Rental Unit Act"; clarifies that a short-term rental unit is not considered a "hotel" under the Hotel and Public Swimming Pool Inspection Act. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

Sponsor: John Stevens

As enacted, establishes framework for the department of correction making four $250,000 grants to local sheriff departments or probation offices for the purpose of funding reentry programs designed to reduce recidivism and probation revocations. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

Sponsor: Edward Jackson

As enacted, revises requirements regarding coverage for mental health, mental illness, and alcohol or drug dependency, and requires certain reports. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Richard Briggs

As enacted, prohibits state and local governmental entities and officials from adopting sanctuary policies; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

Sponsor: Jay Reedy

As enacted, revises provisions governing the reporting of a patient's involuntary commitment to an inpatient treatment facility to local law enforcement so that the information may be reported to the FBI-NICS Index and the department of safety; specifies that a pharmacy or pharmacist has the right to provide an insured information regarding the amount of the insured's cost share for a prescription drug. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Cameron Sexton

As enacted, classifies as second degree murder the killing of another by unlawful distribution or unlawful delivery or unlawful dispensation of fentanyl or carfentanil, when those substances alone, or in combination with any scheduled controlled substance, including controlled substance analogs, are the proximate cause of the death of the user. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-210.

Sponsor: Mary Littleton

As enacted, exempts certain types of insurance from filing requirements of commercial risk insurers; revises the disclaimer that must be included in an application or policy that is issued to an exempt commercial risk policyholder. - Amends TCA Title 56.

Sponsor: Jimmy Eldridge

As enacted, revises provisions governing background checks for teachers and other positons requiring proximity to children; requires participation in rap back program; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Harry Brooks

As enacted, revises the composition of the state fair board and one of the board's powers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Section 5-9-102 and Title 43.

Sponsor: Ferrell Haile

As enacted, requires the secretary of state to establish a crime victim address confidentiality program for victims of domestic abuse, stalking, human trafficking, and sexual offenses; establishes how a substitute address may be used by a program participant in lieu of a confidential address. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 38.

Sponsor: Brian Kelsey

As enacted, requires board of pharmacy to promulgate rules regarding the board's oversight of facilities that manufacture, warehouse, and distribute medical devices; requires the board to form an advisory committee through the rulemaking process composed of medical device industry representatives and a representative of the department of economic and community development. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As enacted, authorizes issuance of government service license plates for vehicles leased by governmental entities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-223.

Sponsor: Sam Whitson

As enacted, provides that a real property owner who prevails in an action challenging the validity of a lien, including in a slander of title proceeding, will recover the person's reasonable attorney's fees, reasonable costs, liquidated damages in an amount equal to 10 percent of the fair market value of the property not to exceed $100,000, and actual damages incurred by the owner; excludes actions brought to challenge lien based on loan agreement for which the encumbered property was listed as collateral to secure the repayment of a loan. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47; Title 66 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Art Swann

Subject to local approval, expands from four to six the number of councilmembers elected to the city council for the City of Crossville. - Amends Chapter 55 of the Private Acts of 2014.

Sponsor: Paul Bailey

Subject to local approval, authorizes property owners that do not live in the city to vote in city elections; removes disability for six months as a reason for the vacancy of the office of mayor or councilman; permanently prohibits persons convicted of certain crimes from holding office; creates process for electing a council member if the council is unable to appoint one in the event of a vacancy; authorizes the city to donate or contribute funds in accordance with state law; renames the city clerk and recorder the city recorder; changes provisions related to purchasing and the sale of city property; makes other revisions to the charter. - Amends Chapter 121 of the Private Acts of 2004; as amended.

Sponsor: Mary Littleton

As enacted, authorizes Montgomery County to control the issuance, revocation, and suspension of licenses for the storage, sale, manufacture, and distribution of beer within a park owned by the county that is in the municipal boundaries of Clarksville; clarifies reference to local governmental entity in certain provision regarding beer permits. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Curtis Johnson

As enacted, creates the Tennessee Civil Rights Crimes Information, Reconciliation, and Research Center. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4 and Title 62.

Sponsor: Johnnie Turner

As enacted, classifies as material noncompliance and default by a tenant with a rental agreement, if the tenant pretends to have a disability-related need for an assistance animal in order to obtain an exception to a provision in a rental agreement that prohibits pets or establishes limits on the types of pets that tenants may possess on residential rental property. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 13, Chapter 20; Title 33; Title 39; Title 44, Chapter 17; Title 44, Chapter 8, Part 4 and Title 66.

Sponsor: Joseph Hensley

As enacted, exempts certain low-income persons from initial licensure fees imposed by certain health related boards and professional regulatory boards. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 23, Chapter 3; Title 49; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

As enacted, requires the department to establish in at least two public schools a three-year pilot program to improve parent-teacher engagement in any grade from kindergarten through grade two. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Joseph Hensley

As enacted, designates The Caverns in Grundy County and the South Jackson Civic Center in Tullahoma as a premier type tourist resorts for purposes of selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

Sponsor: Janince Bowling

As enacted, authorizes Montgomery County to control the issuance, revocation, and suspension of licenses for the storage, sale, manufacture, and distribution of beer within a park owned by the county that is in the municipal boundaries of Clarksville; clarifies reference to local governmental entity in certain provision regarding beer permits. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Mark Green

As enacted, authorizes a nonprofit children's hospital located in Knox County or within a municipality located within Knox County to claim and file a property tax exemption as a religious, charitable, scientific, or nonprofit educational institution or as an educational institution. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Mark Pody

As enacted, provides that any voluntary association that establishes and enforces bylaws or rules for interscholastic sports competition for secondary schools in this state is subject to an annual audit by the comptroller of the treasury; enacts other provisions regarding school athletics associations. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Paul Bailey

As enacted, specifies that any entity that qualifies for exemption as a spallation neutron source facility will not be eligible for a sales and use tax exemption with regard to any industrial machinery that is used in operation of a qualified data center or used primarily for research and development; provides exception for a leadership computing facility that is funded by the United States government or instrumentality thereof, not funded with any state funds, and located at a national laboratory. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 13 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Ken Yager

As enacted, revises various provisions regarding electronic acknowledgments and enacts the "Online Notary Public Act". - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 66.

Sponsor: Andrew Farmer

As enacted, terminates the Tennessee health information committee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Section 56-2-125.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, creates the Tennessee Task Force on Auction Law Modernization. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 19.

Sponsor: Ken Yager

As enacted, authorizes a nonprofit children's hospital located in Knox County or within a municipality located within Knox County to claim and file a property tax exemption as a religious, charitable, scientific, or nonprofit educational institution or as an educational institution. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Jimmy Matlock

As enacted, revises the Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

Sponsor: Michael Curcio

As enacted, prohibits public and private employers from requiring an employee or prospective employee to execute a non-disclosure agreement with respect to sexual harassment in the workplace as a condition of employment. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 1.

Sponsor: Bo Mitchell

As enacted, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to perform a study of the potential, overall effects of creating a franchise and excise tax credit for shippers with pickups or deliveries originating in, or destined to, Shelby County. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 67.

Sponsor: Karen Camper

As enacted, authorizes county or district health department to operate a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program on petition of the county legislative body and approval by the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 68.

Sponsor: Jeff Yarbro

As enacted, extends the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission for four years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 50.

Sponsor: Jeremy Faison

As enacted, revises provisions governing the grandfathering of certain properties in regard to land use restrictions and other related provisions regarding replacing facilities in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 13.

Sponsor: Brian Kelsey

As enacted, directs the commissioner to report to the local government committee of the house of representatives and the state and local government committee of the senate each year on or before January 15 concerning the department's financial and program monitoring of the use of federal community development block grant funding to counties and municipalities from the United States department of housing and community development for disaster resilience purposes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 64; Title 68 and Title 69.

Sponsor: Barbara Cooper

As enacted, revises and enacts provisions governing the sale of surplus real property by the department. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 12, Chapter 2.

Sponsor: Paul Bailey

As enacted, exempts certain active, volunteer firefighters and rescue squad members from payment of the regular registration fee at the time of renewal for license plate issued to the volunteer firefighter or rescue squad member; authorizes a county legislative body to waive the motor vehicle tax for motor vehicles receiving the exemption from the registration fee, if the waiver is approved in the same manner as the adoption of the motor vehicle tax. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

Sponsor: Paul Sherrell

As enacted, revises the teacher code of ethics; requires annual professional development for teachers on the teacher code of ethics; requires teacher preparation programs to include training for all students on the teacher code of ethics. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, revises provisions governing the grandfathering of certain properties in regard to land use restrictions and other related provisions regarding replacing facilities in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 13.

Sponsor: Glen Casada

As enacted, revises provisions governing the examination of specimen collected for determining the presence of drugs and alcohol. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 40, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

As enacted, requires the department of children's services to develop instructional guidelines for child safety training programs for members of professions that frequently deal with children who may be at risk of abuse. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 23; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 9.

Sponsor: G.A. Hardaway

As enacted, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to perform a study of the potential, overall effects of creating a franchise and excise tax credit for shippers with pickups or deliveries originating in, or destined to, Shelby County. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 67.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As enacted, prohibits a person charged with incest from participating in judicial diversion. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-313.

Sponsor: Jon Lundberg

As enacted, designates the public space constructed on top of the parking garage attached to the Cordell Hull Building as the "Beth Harwell Plaza"; designates the new tunnel that connects the Cordell Hull Building to the State Capitol as the "Ron Ramsey Tunnel". - Amends TCA Title 3.

Sponsor: Steven Dickerson

As enacted, clarifies definitions of "rule" and "policy" for rulemaking purposes and revises other administrative procedures. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, requires the department to establish a procedure under the CoverKids Act that sends an email notice to an enrollee, or the parent or legal guardian of the enrollee stating that the enrollee must redetermine eligibility for the program; specifies that email notice is required only when the department has an email address for the enrollee of the parent or guardian of the enrollee. - Amends TCA Title 71.

Sponsor: Lee Harris

As enacted, requires a director of schools, director of public charter school, or director of a nonpublic school who learns of the conviction of a licensed educator employed by the LEA for certain offenses to report the conviction to the state board; authorizes the state board to reprimand such a director for failure to report; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, transfers operation of the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute from the Institute's board to the Institute for Public Service of the University of Tennessee; renames the institute to be the Tennessee Foreign Language Center; makes other related changes, - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Tilman Goins

As enacted, establishes the state palliative care and quality of life council to advise the executive director of the Tennessee commission on aging and disability on issues related to palliative care. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 71, Chapter 2.

Sponsor: Joseph Hensley

As enacted, revises the teacher code of ethics; requires annual professional development for teachers on the teacher code of ethics; requires teacher preparation programs to include training for all students on the teacher code of ethics. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Tilman Goins

As enacted, revises various provisions regarding alcoholic beverages, including provisions regarding delivery and provisions governing the alcoholic beverage commission. - Amends TCA Title 57.

Sponsor: Edward Jackson

As enacted, requires the state board of education to develop a policy for transmittal of final disciplinary actions on educator licenses to the national clearinghouse administered by the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC); requires the state board to post on its website all of its final disciplinary actions on educator licenses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, classifies as material noncompliance and default by a tenant with a rental agreement, if the tenant pretends to have a disability-related need for an assistance animal in order to obtain an exception to a provision in a rental agreement that prohibits pets or establishes limits on the types of pets that tenants may possess on residential rental property. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 13, Chapter 20; Title 33; Title 39; Title 44, Chapter 17; Title 44, Chapter 8, Part 4 and Title 66.

Sponsor: Bryan Terry

As enacted, reduces by one year the entity review period of the human rights commission by changing the entity termination date from June 30, 2021 to June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21 and Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2.

Sponsor: Jeremy Faison

As enacted, continues permanent rules filed with the secretary of state on or after January 1, 2017. - Title 4, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, requires the department to establish a procedure under the CoverKids Act that sends an email notice to an enrollee, or the parent or legal guardian of the enrollee stating that the enrollee must redetermine eligibility for the program; specifies that email notice is required only when the department has an email address for the enrollee of the parent or guardian of the enrollee. - Amends TCA Title 71.

Sponsor: Bo Mitchell

As enacted, creates the Tennessee Task Force on Auction Law Modernization. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 19.

Sponsor: Marc Gravitt

As enacted, prohibits a person charged with incest from participating in judicial diversion. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-313.

Sponsor: Patsy Hazlewood

As enacted, creates a "5th Special Forces Group (Airborne)" military license plate for issuance to current or former members of the unit and spouses or children of such members. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

Sponsor: Mark Green

As enacted, exempts certain active, volunteer firefighters and rescue squad members from payment of the regular registration fee at the time of renewal for license plate issued to the volunteer firefighter or rescue squad member; authorizes a county legislative body to waive the motor vehicle tax for motor vehicles receiving the exemption from the registration fee, if the waiver is approved in the same manner as the adoption of the motor vehicle tax. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

Sponsor: Mark Pody

As enacted, creates the Tennessee Civil Rights Crimes Information, Reconciliation, and Research Center. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4 and Title 62.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As enacted, makes confidential certain records of a food-based business incubation service provider created by a municipality. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504.

Sponsor: Rusty Crowe

As enacted, extends the Tennessee central economic authority for six years to June 30, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 64, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

Bradley Morrow

Sponsor: G.A. Hardaway

Jerry W. Little

Sponsor: Craig Fitzhugh

Forrest Isaias Whiting, Salutatorian, White House Heritage High School

Sponsor: Sabi Kumar

Mayor Tim Burchett

Sponsor: Eddie Smith

David Scott "Dave" Mustaine

Sponsor: Tilman Goins

PANDAS Awareness Day, October 9, 2018

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

Charlie Martin, Gaylord Opryland Resort Employee of the Year

Sponsor: Curtis Johnson

Michaela Hudson, Salutatorian, Greenbrier High School

Sponsor: Sabi Kumar

Greer Goddard

Sponsor: Randy McNally

Sgt. Alvin C. York, 100th anniversary of Medal of Honor

Sponsor: Ken Yager

Rebekah Anne Haymond, Salutatorian, South Haven Christian School

Sponsor: Sabi Kumar

Reginald Willis, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

Sponsor: G.A. Hardaway

Michaela Hudson, Salutatorian, Greenbrier High School

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

Ethan Kyle Fox, Salutatorian, Smith County High School

Sponsor: Mark Pody

Alexis Ford, United States Air Force Academy

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

Taylor Renee Gamble, Salutatorian, East Robertson High School

Sponsor: Sabi Kumar

Urges the Commissioner of the Department of Health to designate Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias as a public health issue.

Sponsor: Rusty Crowe

J. Thomas Caldwell

Sponsor: Craig Fitzhugh

Ronald Lee Ermey

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

Donald D. Haynes, Sr.

Sponsor: Gerald McCormick

National Federation of Independent Business, 75th Anniversary

Sponsor: Beth Harwell

Brennan McMurry

Sponsor: Jason Powell

Rhedona Rose, state university board of Tennessee Technological University

Sponsor: Mark Norris

Deyja Garth

Sponsor: G.A. Hardaway

Tori Douglas, Valedictorian, Douglass High School

Sponsor: G.A. Hardaway

Kendal Aleeann Johnson, Valedictorian, Clay County High School

Sponsor: Mark Pody

White County High School archery team, 2018 state champion

Sponsor: Paul Bailey

Bozo's Hot Pit Bar-B-Q

Sponsor: Debra Moody

Samantha Danielle Morton, Salutatorian, Jo Byrns High School

Sponsor: Sabi Kumar

As enacted, allows county commissioner in the actual discharge of the commissioner's duties who has a valid handgun carry permit to carry in buildings in which county commission meetings are held, but not in room in which judicial proceeding in progress; not applicable to member of legislative body of metropolitan government. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Sponsor: John Stevens

As enacted, requires health care prescribers to issue prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances electronically by July 1, 2020, with certain exceptions; establishes other provisions regarding electronic prescriptions. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

Sponsor: Ron Gant

As enacted, authorizes the City of Cedar Hill in Robertson County to hold a referendum to authorize the retail sale of alcoholic beverages in package stores and for consumption on the premises. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 57, Chapter 4.

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

As enacted, specifies that the department of agriculture may cooperate with the United States food and drug administration in enforcement of the federal standards for the growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of produce for human consumption. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 1.

Sponsor: David Hawk

As enacted, allows a sexual offender whose victim was a minor to obtain sexual offender treatment in a location that is within 1,000 feet of a school, child care facility, public park, playground, recreation center, or public athletic field. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

Sponsor: Steve Southerland

As enacted, revises provisions governing appeals from general sessions courts. - Amends TCA Section 27-5-108.

Sponsor: William Lamberth

As enacted, creates a streamlined process for certain public officials to contest liens on real property that they believe to lack any legal basis. - Amends TCA Section 47-9-513 and Title 66, Chapter 21, Part 1.

Sponsor: Becky Massey

As enacted, requires persons subject to licensure as emergency medical services personnel to notify the emergency medical services board of convictions and pending charges of commission of a felony or misdemeanor within 10 business days of the occurrence of such actions. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140.

Sponsor: Paul Bailey

As enacted, designates the state colleges of applied technology at Chattanooga as part of the statewide system of state colleges of applied technology and authorizes the board of regents to establish additional state colleges of applied technology or to combine existing state colleges of applied technology as needed to improve operational and administrative efficiencies. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, revises and extends, until June 30, 2019, the ground ambulance service provider assessment. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Jay Reedy

As enacted, authorizes the Morgan County commission to designate by resolution a property that consists of at least 2,000 contiguous acres as the JustBeGreen Villages of America development area upon application of one or more property owners within the area for which the designation is sought. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 11 and Title 13.

Sponsor: John Windle

As enacted, allows a prevailing party to recover reasonable attorney's fees in a criminal or civil contempt action to enforce a decree of alimony, child support, or custody. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Bill Beck

As enacted, requires, if the county election commission has arranged for the use of a public school or a public charter school as a polling place for a regular November election, that the LEA or the public charter school be closed for instruction on the election day; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to choose to be open or closed for instruction on election days other than days on which a regular November election occurs. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6 and Title 49.

Sponsor: Steven Dickerson

As enacted, enacts the "Transparency in Higher Education Act, which requires each state institution of higher education to notify parents of enrolled students of the parent's right to view student records under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 on the institution's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Bud Hulsey

As enacted, allows a sexual offender whose victim was a minor to obtain sexual offender treatment in a location that is within 1,000 feet of a school, child care facility, public park, playground, recreation center, or public athletic field. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

Sponsor: Tilman Goins

As enacted, revises and makes permanent and applicable statewide the Knox County pilot project that allows indigent criminal defendants to pay their court costs and litigation taxes through the performance of public service. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 55.

Sponsor: Richard Briggs

As enacted, requires persons subject to licensure as emergency medical services personnel to notify the emergency medical services board of convictions and pending charges of commission of a felony or misdemeanor within 10 business days of the occurrence of such actions. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140.

Sponsor: Ryan Williams

As enacted, revises provisions governing city manager-commission charters in regard to the election of commissioners in Fairview. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 18; Title 6, Chapter 19; Title 6, Chapter 20; Title 6, Chapter 21; Title 6, Chapter 22 and Title 6, Chapter 23.

Sponsor: Jack Johnson

As enacted, prohibits local governments from adopting or enforcing regulations that prohibit or restrict the display of a flag of the United States of America, a flag of the state of Tennessee, the MIA/POW flag, or an official or replica flag of any branch of the United States armed forces on a property owner's property except when necessary to promote public health and safety. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 5; Title 6, Chapter 54 and Title 13, Chapter 7.

Sponsor: Tilman Goins

As enacted, authorizes community corrections officers in Claiborne County, Grainger County, Hancock County, Hawkins County, Jefferson County, and Union County who hold a valid Tennessee handgun permit to carry a handgun at all times and in all places in this state while in the course of employment and engaged in the actual discharge of official duties. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Sponsor: Jerry Sexton

As enacted, establishes provisions governing abusive civil actions. - Amends TCA Title 29.

Sponsor: Ken Yager

As enacted, classifies certain types of records received by the department of health or the attorney general and reporter from the recipients or applicants of a certificate of public advantage for a cooperative agreement issued under the Hospital Cooperation Act of 1993 as not subject to disclosure under the public records law. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 13.

Sponsor: Rusty Crowe

As enacted, lowers the expunction fee from $350 to $180 for a defendant whose charge was dismissed due to successful completion of a pretrial diversion program. - Amends TCA Section 40-32-101.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As enacted, authorizes obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Sallie Mae, and other similar organizations as instruments for investment to be made by the treasurer. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-612.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, authorizes the creation of a corn promotion board and an assessment of one cent per bushel sold if a majority of corn producers voting in a referendum on the question vote in favor of such measures. - Amends TCA Title 43.

Sponsor: Bill Sanderson

As enacted, requires health care prescribers to issue prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances electronically by July 1, 2020, with certain exceptions; establishes other provisions regarding electronic prescriptions. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

Sponsor: Jon Lundberg

As enacted, enacts the "Stopping Addiction and Fostering Excellence (SAFE) Act," which authorizes cities, towns, and metropolitan governments to adopt certain ordinances regarding sober living homes. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 24, Part 1.

Sponsor: Art Swann

As enacted, enacts the "Stopping Addiction and Fostering Excellence (SAFE) Act," which authorizes cities, towns, and metropolitan governments to adopt certain ordinances regarding sober living homes. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 24, Part 1.

Sponsor: Michael Curcio

As enacted, allows for the angel investor tax credit being measured by the value of an indirect or direct cash investment by an angel investor against the Hall income tax liability of the angel investor. - Amends TCA Section 67-2-125.

Sponsor: Patsy Hazlewood

As enacted, establishes requirements to apply in situations where an assessment is misadministered by fault of the assessment provider; establishes other provisions in regard to required assessments and use of data. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, authorizes a pharmaceutical manufacturer or its representatives to engage in truthful promotion of off-label uses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Cameron Sexton

As enacted, requires the commissioner to develop and administer a confidential annual survey of correction officers who leave service as correction officers in order to examine factors in retention of correction officers; requires an annual report on or before December 1. - Amends TCA Title 41.

Sponsor: Barbara Cooper

As enacted, clarifies circumstances under which a trust may be construed as a total return unitrust. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: William Lamberth

As enacted, directs the state capitol commission, subject to funding from nonstate sources, to place a POW-MIA Chair of Honor on the capitol grounds.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, authorizes governing bodies to exclude from taxable value of property appearing on the assessment roll, the taxable value of properties subject to tax increment financing and properties within areas where an economic impact plan has been approved. - Amends TCA Title 67.

Sponsor: John Crawford

As enacted, makes licensed clinical social workers who are engaged solely in independent clinical practice in proceedings in which the department of children's services is the petitioner or intervening petitioner, exempt from subpoena to trial but subject to subpoena to a deposition. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 9, Part 1.

Sponsor: Tilman Goins

As enacted, revises various provisions regarding firearms including making consistent the effect that restoration of citizenship has upon the possession and purchase of firearms and the obtaining of a handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Sponsor: Steve Southerland

As enacted, updates the compensation schedule for assistant district attorneys general, assistant public defenders, district investigators for public defenders, and criminal investigators for district attorneys to reflect the current schedule; updates the base salary for district attorneys general and public defenders. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16.

Sponsor: Kelly Keisling

As enacted, requires a prescriber to provide certain information prior to prescribing more than a three-day supply of an opioid or an opioid dosage that exceeds a total of a 180 morphine milligram equivalent dose to a woman of childbearing age. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63.

Sponsor: Paul Bailey

As enacted, revises provisions governing condemned property being offered for sale to the former owner. - Amends TCA Section 29-17-1005.

Sponsor: Courtney Rogers

As enacted, revises provisions governing relocation of one parent. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 1.

Sponsor: William Lamberth

As enacted, authorizes county, municipal, and metropolitan mayors and chief executives to issue evacuation orders during a local state of emergency; creates Class C misdemeanor of willfully violating an evacuation order. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 9 and Title 58.

Sponsor: Dale Carr

As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Stolen Valor Act". - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 3 and Section 58-1-602.

Sponsor: James Van Huss

As enacted, authorizes county, municipal, and metropolitan mayors and chief executives to issue evacuation orders during a local state of emergency; creates Class C misdemeanor of willfully violating an evacuation order. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 9 and Title 58.

Sponsor: Art Swann

As enacted, authorizes obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Sallie Mae, and other similar organizations as instruments for investment to be made by the treasurer. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-612.

Sponsor: Terri Lynn Weaver

As enacted, creates a streamlined process for certain public officials to contest liens on real property that they believe to lack any legal basis. - Amends TCA Section 47-9-513 and Title 66, Chapter 21, Part 1.

Sponsor: Bill Dunn

As enacted, enacts the "Master Development Plan Recognition Act". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 41; Title 42; Title 49; Title 64; Title 68 and Title 69.

Sponsor: Curtis Johnson

As enacted, prohibits the use of corporal punishment against a student with a disability who has an IEP or a Section 504 plan, with certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Sara Kyle

As enacted, authorizes an LEA to offer a noncompulsory gun safety class or program for students in elementary school; prohibits the use or presence of live ammunition or live fire. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, changes the manner for which LEAs using the uniform grading system for lottery scholarship purposes, but another grading system based on quality points for other purposes, must award additional quality points for honors and other advanced courses. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-407.

Sponsor: Steve Southerland

As enacted, imposes suspension or revocation of license for violations in the marketing of alcohol and drug treatment services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.

Sponsor: Harold Love

As enacted, enacts the "Master Development Plan Recognition Act". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 41; Title 42; Title 49; Title 64; Title 68 and Title 69.

Sponsor: Bo Watson

As enacted, requires bounty hunters to wear clothing that clearly identifies the person as a bounty hunter and prominently displays the words "bounty hunter" any time a bounty hunter is engaged in the functions of bounty hunting. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 11.

Sponsor: John DeBerry

As enacted, requires LEAs to provide written notice to a student's parents or legal guardians before the student participates in any mental health screening. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Mark Green

As enacted, extends the deadline by which a distressed rural county must apply to be eligible to retain the sales and use tax generated from a commercial development district from December 31, 2016, to December 31, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Steve Southerland

As enacted, revises the reviewing and reporting duties of the advisory committee on open government and the office of open records counsel. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 6.

Sponsor: Bob Ramsey

As enacted, requires, in cases where an ultrasound is performed as part of an examination prior to an abortion, the person who performs the ultrasound to offer the woman the opportunity to learn the results of the ultrasound; requires, if ultrasound is performed, that report of abortion indicate whether or not a heartbeat was detected. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

Sponsor: James Van Huss

As enacted, classifies certain types of records received by the department of health or the attorney general and reporter from the recipients or applicants of a certificate of public advantage for a cooperative agreement issued under the Hospital Cooperation Act of 1993 as not subject to disclosure under the public records law. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 13.

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

As enacted, requires the commissioner to develop and administer a confidential annual survey of correction officers who leave service as correction officers in order to examine factors in retention of correction officers; requires an annual report on or before December 1. - Amends TCA Title 41.

Sponsor: Jeff Yarbro

As enacted, designates certain facilities in Jackson, Claiborne, and Grundy counties as premier type tourist resorts for purposes of on-premises consumption. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

Sponsor: Paul Bailey

As enacted, revises various provisions governing adoption. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Mike Carter

As enacted, requires, in cases where an ultrasound is performed as part of an examination prior to an abortion, the person who performs the ultrasound to offer the woman the opportunity to learn the results of the ultrasound; requires, if ultrasound is performed, that report of abortion indicate whether or not a heartbeat was detected. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

Sponsor: Mark Pody

As enacted, imposes suspension or revocation of license for violations in the marketing of alcohol and drug treatment services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.

Sponsor: Reginald Tate

As enacted, designates certain facilities located in Williamson County as premier type tourist resorts for purposes of on-premises sales of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

Sponsor: Sam Whitson

As enacted, authorizes state procurement agencies to enter into an energy performance or guaranteed energy savings contract using alternative procurement or contracting vehicles for purposes of developing and implementing up to five energy performance or guaranteed energy savings contract pilot projects for state-owned buildings and facilities. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 12.

Sponsor: Mark White

As enacted, increases, from five days to any accumulated, the amount of sick leave that may be used by an educator who is a member of any reserve component of the United States armed forces when called into active duty. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Rusty Crowe

As enacted, requires, if the county election commission has arranged for the use of a public school or a public charter school as a polling place for a regular November election, that the LEA or the public charter school be closed for instruction on the election day; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to choose to be open or closed for instruction on election days other than days on which a regular November election occurs. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6 and Title 49.

Sponsor: Darren Jernigan

As enacted, prohibits a sentencing court from making a sentencing determination based in whole or in part on defendant’s consent or refusal to consent to any form of temporary or permanent birth control, sterilization, or family planning services regardless of whether the defendant’s consent is voluntarily given; prohibits courts accepting a guilty plea agreement or plea of nolo contendere, or imposing a sentence, if any part of the plea or sentence is in whole or in part conditioned or based upon the criminal defendant submitting to any form of temporary or permanent birth control, sterilization, or family planning services, regardless of whether the defendant's consent is voluntarily given. - Amends TCA Title 40.

Sponsor: Brian Kelsey

As enacted, authorizes the board of commissioners of utility district in Blountville to increase the pay for each commissioner per meeting from $300 to $350 by resolution of the board. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82.

Sponsor: Timothy Hill

As enacted, authorizes the Morgan County commission to designate by resolution a property that consists of at least 2,000 contiguous acres as the JustBeGreen Villages of America development area upon application of one or more property owners within the area for which the designation is sought. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 11 and Title 13.

Sponsor: Ken Yager

As enacted, designates the state colleges of applied technology at Chattanooga as part of the statewide system of state colleges of applied technology and authorizes the board of regents to establish additional state colleges of applied technology or to combine existing state colleges of applied technology as needed to improve operational and administrative efficiencies. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: James Van Huss

As enacted, allows county commissioner in the actual discharge of the commissioner's duties who has a valid handgun carry permit to carry in buildings in which county commission meetings are held, but not in room in which judicial proceeding in progress; not applicable to member of legislative body of metropolitan government. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Sponsor: John Ragan

As enacted, designates The Church @ 117 in Coffee County and Drafts and Watercrafts in Franklin County as premier type tourist resorts for purposes of on-premises consumption. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

Sponsor: Judd Matheny

As enacted, authorizes the City of Gallatin to levy a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy by a two-thirds vote of its governing body. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.

Sponsor: William Lamberth

As enacted, revises provisions governing the percentage of student achievement test scores comprising a student's final grade in certain subjects; revises provisions governing situations where certain test scores are not received at least five instructional days before the end of a course. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-617.

Sponsor: John Forgety

As enacted, rewrites provisions governing apprenticeship programs. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 76, Part 2.

Sponsor: Dan Howell

As enacted, increases investment period by five years for a border region retail tourism development district. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 40.

Sponsor: Jon Lundberg

As enacted, revises various provisions governing nursing homes and extends the nursing home assessment trust fund by one year, to terminate on June 30, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Rusty Crowe

As enacted, extends the Tennessee rehabilitative initiative in correction board for four years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 41, Chapter 22, Part 4.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, adds to and revises various provisions of the Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 57 and Title 67.

Sponsor: Steve McDaniel

Subject to local approval, expands eligibility to vote in city elections to include persons that may vote for members of the general assembly in Lincoln County; reduces the number of times an ordinance must be approved by the legislative body to be effective from three to two. - Amends Chapter 801 of the Private Acts of 1949.

Sponsor: Barry Doss

As enacted, clarifies that sales and use tax on sales of water by public utility and sales of natural gas, propane, and electricity sold directly to consumer for non-residential uses only applies to charges on a customer's monthly bill for metered usage, a monthly minimum bill, a monthly customer charged, or a monthly deman charge. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

Sponsor: Steve McDaniel

As enacted, allows the energy efficient schools council to award grants or loans for energy efficient capital outlay projects to charter schools and the achievement school district in addition to LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 17 and Section 49-4-940.

Sponsor: Dawn White

As enacted, specifies that provision of law that transfers certain duties of the county mayor to the water and wastewater treatment authority board does not apply to any petition by any governmental entity or state instrumentality that does not purport to adjust or otherwise modify any territory included in the service area of a water and wastewater treatment authority. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 6, Part 1; Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 13 and Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 6.

Sponsor: Susan Lynn

As enacted, extends the board of parole for four years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 40, Chapter 28, Part 1.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, establishes a regulatory framework for wind energy facilities in this state. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 70.

Sponsor: Cameron Sexton

As enacted, requires LEAs to allocate funding to educational facilities providing educational instructional services to students who are admitted to such facilities under order of a juvenile court. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.

Sponsor: Joe Pitts

Subject to local approval, increases, from 5 percent to 8 percent, the tax on the privilege of occupancy of hotels and motels; alters the allocation of revenue raised from the privilege tax. - Amends Chapter 167 of the Private Acts of 1979; as amended.

Sponsor: Joe Pitts

As enacted, rewrites provisions governing apprenticeship programs. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 76, Part 2.

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

As enacted, requires a state control number on R-84 Disposition Cards that are attached to arresting documents. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 1.

Sponsor: Andrew Farmer

As enacted, adds to the definition of "eligible postsecondary institution" for purposes of the Tennessee Promise Scholarship Act of 2014. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Richard Briggs

As enacted, increases investment period by five years for a border region retail tourism development district. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 40.

Sponsor: Bud Hulsey

Subject to local approval, requires newly elected council members to receive certification from the MTAS Newly Elected Officials Class within 12 months of being elected; requires council members to receive any state-mandated certifications; changes how many absences by a council member that will result in a vacancy in the office; makes the council member's compensation contingent upon attendance at meetings. - Amends Chapter 128 of the Private Acts of 1990; as amended.

Sponsor: Andy Holt

As enacted, exempts tangible personal property owned and used by nonprofit organizations to provide character development and other educational programs to youth about the Medal of Honor recipients; sets forth exemption criteria. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Marc Gravitt

Subject to local approval, authorizes the city council of the City of Red Boiling Springs to set the city elections date by ordinance; deletes requirement that nonresidents who own taxable property within the City appear on the voting list of qualified electors eligible to vote in the Tennessee Legislative District that encompasses the City. - Amends Chapter 29 of the Private Acts of 2009; as amended.

Sponsor: Mark Pody

Subject to local approval, updates description of boundaries of City of Grand Junction; revises general powers of city government; creates staggered terms for aldermen; revises vacancy provisions governing aldermen; requires ordinances to be approved by the board two times rather than three times; makes various other changes to the City Charter. - Amends Chapter 75 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended.

Sponsor: Ron Gant

As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to study the effectiveness of statutes of limitation on prosecution for criminal offenses; requires the study to include information on sexual offense statutes of limitation and allows the study to include comparisons of Tennessee limitations to neighboring states; requires TACIR to report findings to the general assembly by January 15, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

Sponsor: Mike Sparks

As enacted, extends the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners for four years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, designates the National Museum of African American Music as an urban park center for the purposes of on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

Sponsor: Bill Beck

As enacted, removes authority of a library board to have line-item control of budgeting and expenditure of moneys for the library fund and to set aside unencumbered funds in general fund or other funds of the library at the end of a fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 10-3-104.

Sponsor: Rusty Crowe

As enacted, requires jury coordinator to prepare and send a list of persons disqualified or potentially disqualified from jury service due to certain reasons to the administrator of elections. - Amends TCA Title 22, Chapter 1 and Title 22, Chapter 2.

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

As enacted, requires the governor, in appointing members to the board of regents, to strive to ensure that at least one board member is an honorably discharged military veteran; requires that in making appointments to the state university boards and UT board of regents the governor strive to ensure members are diverse in honorable military service in addition to gender, race, perspective, and experience. - Amends TCA Section 49-8-201 and Section 49-9-202.

Sponsor: Terri Lynn Weaver

As enacted, deletes all provisions concerning beauty pageants, including registration of operators; cancellations and refunds; penalties; and remedies under the Consumer Protection Act for violations.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, adds to law concerning service of process by mail for actions in general sessions courts. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15, Part 9.

Sponsor: Brian Kelsey

As enacted, requires, in certain circumstances, the instant check unit of the TBI to contact the chief law enforcement officer of a jurisdiction where a person who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution attempts to purchase a firearm; requires the reporting of certain other information of persons involuntarily committed. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33 and Section 38-6-109.

Sponsor: Andrew Farmer

Subject to local approval, authorizes the appointment of a city administrator; removes city council approval for city officers appointed by the mayor, except for the attorney, judge, and recorder; specifies new duties of the mayor. - Amends Chapter 568 of the Private Acts of 1939; as amended.

Sponsor: William Lamberth

As enacted, requires a state control number on R-84 Disposition Cards that are attached to arresting documents. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 1.

Sponsor: John Stevens

Subject to local approval, expands eligibility to vote in city elections to include persons that may vote for members of the general assembly in Lincoln County; reduces the number of times an ordinance must be approved by the legislative body to be effective from three to two. - Amends Chapter 801 of the Private Acts of 1949.

Sponsor: Joseph Hensley

As enacted, shifts from December 31 each year to May 1 in 2018 and to November 1 in 2019 and years thereafter the date by which the holder of abandoned property must file a report with the treasurer regarding the property. - Amends TCA Section 66-29-125.

Sponsor: Becky Massey

As enacted, exempts tangible personal property owned and used by nonprofit organizations to provide character development and other educational programs to youth about the Medal of Honor recipients; sets forth exemption criteria. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Todd Gardenhire

As enacted, adds to law concerning service of process by mail for actions in general sessions courts. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15, Part 9.

Sponsor: Bill Beck

As enacted, revises various provisions governing nursing homes and extends the nursing home assessment trust fund by one year, to terminate on June 30, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Curtis Johnson

Subject to local approval, prohibits the mayor and aldermen from being eligible for the succeeding term in the same office if such official has served more than one-half of a four-year term and the next two subsequent four-year terms, for a maximum of 10 years in that particular office. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953.

Sponsor: Ferrell Haile

As enacted, terminates the investment advisory council with no subsequent wind down period. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 8, Chapter 37.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, extends the Tennessee rehabilitative initiative in correction board for four years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 41, Chapter 22, Part 4.

Sponsor: Jeremy Faison

Subject to local approval, updates description of boundaries of City of Grand Junction; revises general powers of city government; creates staggered terms for aldermen; revises vacancy provisions governing aldermen; requires ordinances to be approved by the board two times rather than three times; makes various other changes to the City Charter. - Amends Chapter 75 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

Subject to local approval, limits the duration or exclusive contracts to 25 years instead of 50 years; clarifies procedure for removing a city commissioner; removes requirement for commission to adopt a pay plan for city employees; increases the purchasing limit, from $5,000 to $10,000, that does not require a public bid; updates references to Tennessee Code Annotated; makes other various revisions. - Amends Chapter 510 of the Private Acts of 1919; as amended.

Sponsor: Jerome Moon

As enacted, authorizes the City of Cleveland and Hardeman County to participate in the Tennessee local land bank program. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 30.

Sponsor: Todd Gardenhire

Subject to local approval, requires newly elected council members to receive certification from the MTAS Newly Elected Officials Class within 12 months of being elected; requires council members to receive any state-mandated certifications; changes how many absences by a council member that will result in a vacancy in the office; makes the council member's compensation contingent upon attendance at meetings. - Amends Chapter 128 of the Private Acts of 1990; as amended.

Sponsor: John Stevens

As enacted, requires the governor, in appointing members to the board of regents, to strive to ensure that at least one board member is an honorably discharged military veteran; requires that in making appointments to the state university boards and UT board of regents the governor strive to ensure members are diverse in honorable military service in addition to gender, race, perspective, and experience. - Amends TCA Section 49-8-201 and Section 49-9-202.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, requires each law enforcement agency to ensure that, whenever a person is arrested and taken into custody by an officer of the agency, the person is asked whether that person is the parent or legal custodian of any children that will be left unattended by the person's arrest; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 8-4-115; Title 8, Chapter 8, Part 2; Title 37, Chapter 5; Title 38, Chapter 3 and Title 40, Chapter 7, Part 1.

Sponsor: Becky Massey

As enacted, clarifies that sales and use tax on sales of water by public utility and sales of natural gas, propane, and electricity sold directly to consumer for non-residential uses only applies to charges on a customer's monthly bill for metered usage, a monthly minimum bill, a monthly customer charged, or a monthly deman charge. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

Sponsor: Ken Yager

As enacted, creates sunrise provision for newly adopted physical therapy licensure compact, to terminate June 30, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 63, Chapter 13, Part 4.

Sponsor: Jeremy Faison

As enacted, specifies that a healthcare provider must not be required to pay the portion of the risk sharing payment that is attributable to the increased cost of pain relief services under any payment reform initiative involving the use of episodes of care with respect to TennCare, if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 71.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, enacts the "Competitive Wireless Broadband Investment, Deployment, and Safety Act of 2018" and requires TACIR to study certain items relating to deployment. - Amends TCA Title 13.

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

As enacted, removes authority of a library board to have line-item control of budgeting and expenditure of moneys for the library fund and to set aside unencumbered funds in general fund or other funds of the library at the end of a fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 10-3-104.

Sponsor: Bill Sanderson

As enacted, requires any person operating in this state as a pharmacy benefits manager to be licensed by the department of commerce and insurance prior to operating. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6, Part 4 and Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

Sponsor: Ferrell Haile

As enacted, revises various provisions concerning the state museum and the Douglas Henry State Museum Commission, including adding the new facility located at 1000 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard. - Amends TCA Title 4.

Sponsor: Steve McDaniel

As enacted, specifies that provision of law that transfers certain duties of the county mayor to the water and wastewater treatment authority board does not apply to any petition by any governmental entity or state instrumentality that does not purport to adjust or otherwise modify any territory included in the service area of a water and wastewater treatment authority. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 6, Part 1; Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 13 and Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 6.

Sponsor: Mark Pody

Carol Gay Wiley Jinright

Sponsor: Roger Kane

As enacted, revises and enacts various provisions regarding bounty hunters. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.

Sponsor: Ken Yager

As enacted, shifts from December 31 each year to May 1 in 2018 and to November 1 in 2019 and years thereafter the date by which the holder of abandoned property must file a report with the treasurer regarding the property. - Amends TCA Section 66-29-125.

Sponsor: Kevin Brooks

As enacted, requires, in certain circumstances, the instant check unit of the TBI to contact the chief law enforcement officer of a jurisdiction where a person who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution attempts to purchase a firearm; requires the reporting of certain other information of persons involuntarily committed. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33 and Section 38-6-109.

Sponsor: Ferrell Haile

Subject to local approval, prohibits the mayor and aldermen from being eligible for the succeeding term in the same office if such official has served more than one-half of a four-year term and the next two subsequent four-year terms, for a maximum of 10 years in that particular office. - Amends Chapter 67 of the Private Acts of 1953.

Sponsor: Terri Lynn Weaver

As enacted, specifies that a healthcare provider must not be required to pay the portion of the risk sharing payment that is attributable to the increased cost of pain relief services under any payment reform initiative involving the use of episodes of care with respect to TennCare, if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 71.

Sponsor: Bryan Terry

As enacted, extends the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners for four years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4.

Sponsor: Jeremy Faison

As enacted, authorizes certain insureds, or other persons entitled to benefits under a policy, to assign their benefits to a healthcare provider; establishes certain requirements in regard to healthcare facilities collecting out-of-network charges. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

Sponsor: Jason Zachary

Expresses strong support for President Trump's proposal to construct a secure border wall and urges Congress to immediately take action to fund the construction.

Sponsor: Dawn White

Leticia Rosas, Valedictorian, Wooddale High School

Sponsor: Karen Camper

WGU Tennessee, 5th Anniversary

Sponsor: Harry Brooks

Colton Short, Top Ten Senior, Volunteer High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Orpheum Theatre

Sponsor: Jim Coley

Sara Burnette, Top Ten Senior, Volunteer High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Sabrina Kimble, Salutatorian, Overton High School

Sponsor: Karen Camper

John C. Compton, UT board of trustees

Sponsor: Glen Casada

Brannon Ragsdale, Top Ten Senior, Volunteer High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Mason Borneman

Sponsor: Craig Fitzhugh

Samantha Beltran

Sponsor: Mike Stewart

Johnson County Rescue Squad, 50th anniversary

Sponsor: Timothy Hill

Representative Sherry Jones

Sponsor: Craig Fitzhugh

Kihley Bellamy, Top Ten Senior, Volunteer High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Grace Boze

Sponsor: Jeremy Faison

Johanna Orozco, Salutatorian, Wooddale High School

Sponsor: Karen Camper

Johnson County Rescue Squad, 50th Anniversary

Sponsor: Timothy Hill

William C. Rhodes III, UT board of trustees

Sponsor: Glen Casada

Susanna Skelton, Top Ten Senior, Volunteer High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Trevor Stanley, Top Ten Senior, Volunteer High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Danielle Rosser

Sponsor: Sara Kyle

Jane Alderson, Jackson Rotary Club 2017 Woman of the Year

Sponsor: Edward Jackson

Reanna R. Hanson, Top Ten Senior, Cherokee High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

John Hie, Tennessee Public Utility Commission

Sponsor: Beth Harwell

Meghan Danielle Holt, Top Ten Senior, Hancock County High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Office of Legal Services of the 110th General Assembly

Sponsor: Randy McNally

Office of Legislative Information Systems of the 110th General Assembly

Sponsor: Randy McNally

Hayes O'Donnell

Sponsor: Brian Kelsey

Mary Margaret Nix, Valedictorian, Waverly Central High School

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

Danyell McAdams, Senior Class President, Hamilton High School

Sponsor: Raumesh Akbari

Office of Facilities Management of the 110th General Assembly

Sponsor: Randy McNally

Collegiate fraternity and sorority community

Sponsor: John DeBerry

Jordan Danielle Scales

Sponsor: Raumesh Akbari

James B. Stinnett

Sponsor: Bo Watson

Breez LaLonde, Boys and Girls Clubs Youth of the Year

Sponsor: Shane Reeves

Dylan McClanahan, Boys and Girls Clubs Youth of the Year

Sponsor: Frank Niceley

Tyler Shane Mullins, Top Ten Senior, Hancock County High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Laddie Morris, Jr.

Sponsor: Dwayne Thompson

Victoria Marion, Top Ten Senior, Hancock County High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Jaylon Sims, Boys and Girls Clubs Youth of the Year

Sponsor: Brian Kelsey

Wanda Parrett Craven

Sponsor: Randy McNally

Anastey Raegan Seal, Top Ten Senior, Hancock County High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Food City, 100th anniversary

Sponsor: Becky Massey

Emma M. Shaver, Top Ten Senior, Cherokee High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

John Charles Tidwell III, Valedictorian, Waverly Central High School

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

Samantha Danielle Morton, Salutatorian, Jo Byrns High School

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

Tony Massey, Middle Tennessee Public Administrator of the Year

Sponsor: Joseph Hensley

Landon S. Margetjak, Top Ten Senior, Cherokee High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Tabitha Ivonn Dykes, Top Ten Senior, Hancock County High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Reverend Bassil Gardner Brooks, 42nd anniversary

Sponsor: Dwayne Thompson

James Brady Biggs, Top Ten Senior, Cherokee High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Autumn Nicole Belcher, Top Ten Senior, Cherokee High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

South Gate Lodge #569 F&AM Masonic Temple, 125th anniversary

Sponsor: Ken Yager

Reuben Woodard, Valedictorian, Hamilton High School

Sponsor: Raumesh Akbari

Amber Estes, Salutatorian, Hancock County High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Savannah Hopkins, Top Ten Senior, Hancock County High School

Sponsor: Gary Hicks

Danielle Nicole Knight

Sponsor: Thelma Harper

Savannah Bobo-Bressler

Sponsor: Janince Bowling

KeOnna Lawrence, Boys and Girls Clubs Youth of the Year

Sponsor: Bo Watson

Adam Yardumian

Sponsor: Mark Pody

Omar Ruiz, Salutatorian, Sheffield High School

Sponsor: Raumesh Akbari

Loretto High School baseball team, 2017 TSSAA Class A State Champions

Sponsor: Barry Doss

Agnes Ellis, 100th birthday

Sponsor: Mary Littleton

Maggie Catherine Long, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

Sponsor: David Byrd

Mt. Juliet High School, National German Exam

Sponsor: Susan Lynn

Haley Elizabeth Durham, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

Sponsor: David Byrd

Inda Adams, 90th birthday

Sponsor: Bill Beck

Dr. Eric Hasemeier

Sponsor: Kelly Keisling

Old Timers Day Festival, 60th anniversary

Sponsor: Mary Littleton

Stratford High School boys' basketball team, TSSAA Class AA State Semi-Finalist

Sponsor: Bill Beck

Emma Elizabeth Saltsman

Sponsor: Roger Kane

Boy Scouts of America Troop 94, 70th anniversary

Sponsor: David Hawk

Mt. Juliet High School girls' basketball team, TSSAA District 9-AAA Champions

Sponsor: Susan Lynn

Josie Meredith Franks, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

Sponsor: David Byrd

Eugene Francis Nolan

Sponsor: Beth Harwell

Brock Woods Rowell

Sponsor: Joe Towns

HOPE for Victims of Knoxville

Sponsor: Roger Kane

Rodney L. Bragg

Sponsor: Jason Powell

Dan Smith

Sponsor: Clark Boyd

Jase A. Collier, Top Ten Senior, Summertown High School

Sponsor: David Byrd

Carlie Carter

Sponsor: Dwayne Thompson

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.

Sponsor: Richard Briggs

Adjourns sine die 110th General Assembly on April 25, 2018.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As introduced, makes various changes to the assessments and evaluation systems used in K-12 education. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

Sponsor: James Van Huss

As introduced, declares settlement agreement provisions that have purpose or effect of concealing details relating to claim of sexual harassment or sexual assault as void and unenforceable and contrary to public policy of this state if settlement agreement is entered into by governmental entity; maintains confidentiality of victim's identity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9, Chapter 8, Part 3; Title 10; Title 20 and Title 29.

Sponsor: Bill Beck

Amy E. Miles, UT board of trustees

Sponsor: David Hawk

Designates They Said It Their Way: The Official Tennessee Book of By-Words and Old Sayings as an official state book.

Sponsor: Paul Bailey

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.

Sponsor: Bob Ramsey

DeEbony Groves

Sponsor: John Clemmons

Natalee Rose Brown, Top Ten Senior, Smith County High School

Sponsor: Terri Lynn Weaver

Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee recognizing that our liberties do not come from governments, but from Almighty God.

Sponsor: James Van Huss

Makenna Celeste Moore, Top Ten Senior, Smith County High School

Sponsor: Terri Lynn Weaver

Lauren Elizabeth Wright, Top Ten Senior, Smith County High School

Sponsor: Terri Lynn Weaver

Eva Elizabeth Etheridge, Top Ten Senior, Smith County High School

Sponsor: Terri Lynn Weaver

Adjourns sine die 110th General Assembly on April 25, 2018.

Sponsor: Glen Casada

As introduced, removes exemption from amusement tax for physical fitness facilities that have a square footage of 15,000 or more; imposes amusement tax on all physical fitness facilities, regardless of size; retains exemption for certain nonprofit facilities. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Todd Gardenhire

Kim H. White, UT board of trustees

Sponsor: Mark Norris

Officer Sean Cornett

Sponsor: Bud Hulsey

Kara M. Lawson, UT board of trustees

Sponsor: Mark Norris

Dr. Utpal Patel, Sports Medicine Person of the Year

Sponsor: Bryan Terry

Kibriana Parsons

Sponsor: Ron Travis

Baleigh Cheyne Smith, Salutatorian, Oneida High School

Sponsor: Kelly Keisling

As introduced, removes requirement that an eligible student be previously enrolled in a public school for two semesters prior to receiving an individualized education account, attend a Tennessee school for the first time, or receive an account in the previous school year in order to be considered eligible to receive an individualized education account. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Brian Kelsey

As introduced, requires the department of revenue to report to the fiscal review committee and transportation committees on the actual or estimated number of passenger motor vehicles that have been issued stickers or decals to use the HOV lane. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-188.

Sponsor: Jack Johnson

Mattie Scoggins, Valedictorian, Oneida High School

Sponsor: Kelly Keisling

As introduced, creates a two-year advanced integrated industrial technology pilot program; establishes a grant for certain students participating in dual credit or dual enrollment courses toward an associate of applied science degree in advanced integrated industrial technology. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 8.

Sponsor: Todd Gardenhire

Donnie Smith, UT board of trustees

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As introduced, requires anyone seeking a license or renewing a license as a cosmetologist, aesthetician, manicurist, natural hair stylist, or barber to successfully complete a one-hour domestic violence training course as prescribed by the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4.

Sponsor: G.A. Hardaway

Madison Dunlap, Valedictorian, Oneida High School

Sponsor: Kelly Keisling

As introduced, requires that person convicted of DUI forfeit privilege to purchase alcohol for period of time based upon prior DUI convictions with lifetime forfeiture for third conviction; establishes new driver license format for person subject to alcohol purchase restriction; creates new Class C misdemeanor offense for unlawful purchase of alcohol by DUI offender or knowing sale of alcohol to person subject to alcohol purchase restriction. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 7; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 57.

Sponsor: Frank Niceley

Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 33 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the criminal punishment exception from slavery and involuntary servitude prohibition.

Sponsor: Joe Towns

Allen Morgan

Sponsor: Harry Brooks

As introduced, prohibits a juvenile court from issuing a valid court order upon an unruly child or a child whose only offense is a status offense. - Amends TCA Title 37.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

Sidney Brooke Church, Valedictorian, Santa Fe Unit School

Sponsor: Sheila Butt

Smyrna Senior Citizens Center

Sponsor: Dawn White

Emily Grace Mays, Valedictorian, Scott County High School

Sponsor: Kelly Keisling

As introduced, increases cash supplement for police officer in-service training from $600 to $1,800. - Amends TCA Section 38-8-111.

Sponsor: Kelly Keisling

Parth Patel, Salutatorian, Pickett County High School

Sponsor: Kelly Keisling

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 under Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 67-4-2009(3), for fiscal years 2012-2017. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

Sponsor: Reginald Tate

As introduced, exempts from sales and use tax, bees, hives, and beekeeping equipment sold to consumers for noncommercial purposes. - Amends TCA Title 67.

Sponsor: Paul Bailey

James Shaw, Jr.

Sponsor: Thelma Harper

Mackensey Ann Lowe, Valedictorian, Scott County High School

Sponsor: Kelly Keisling

Emilee Anderson, Valedictorian, Pickett County High School

Sponsor: Kelly Keisling

As introduced, enacts the "Complete College Tennessee Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7; Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 1.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

Courtney Taylor Chambers, Valedictorian, Scott County High School

Sponsor: Kelly Keisling

Les Steckel

Sponsor: Glen Casada

As introduced, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Community Schools Act; authorizes LEAs to collaborate with community partners to establish community schools; authorizes the department of education, subject to the availability of funding, to award transformational community schools grants to assist priority and focus schools in implementing a community school program as part of a school turnaround strategy. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 24.

Sponsor: Steven Dickerson

As introduced, requires that the weighted caseload formula devised by the comptroller of the treasury be provided to the general assembly no later than January 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

Sponsor: Joseph Hensley

As introduced, reduces lifetime handgun carry permit fee from $268 to $100 for military service members who retire after 20 years of military service with honorable discharge. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As introduced, revises certain circumstances under which the commissioner of revenue must not include or retain a non-participating manufacturer in the directory of certified tobacco product manufacturers. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

Sponsor: John Stevens

Emily Ann Wilkinson, Salutatorian, Santa Fe Unit School

Sponsor: Sheila Butt

As introduced, requires that a nonbinding referendum election be held before property tax or sales and use tax revenue is used to service debt on a professional sports team's stadium. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 64 and Title 67.

Sponsor: Todd Gardenhire

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.

Sponsor: Kevin Brooks

As introduced, requires retailers to collect state and local sales taxes on goods and services sold for resale in a subsequent retail transaction; provides purchasers of such goods and services may claim a monthly refund for such taxes paid from the department of revenue. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Todd Gardenhire

As introduced, revises provisions governing the use of mobile electronic and communication devices at polling places. - Amends TCA Section 2-7-142.

Sponsor: Karen Camper

As introduced, adds administrators of elections to the list of county general officers for purposes of determining compensation; requires counties to compensate administrators as general officers; establishes certain minimum hours for election commission offices in counties with certified administrators of elections. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 8, Chapter 24.

Sponsor: Ken Yager

Isaiah Lay, Valedictorian, Oneida High School

Sponsor: Kelly Keisling

Grant Miller Lowe, Salutatorian, White House High School

Sponsor: Courtney Rogers

Rachel Hale, Salutatorian, Bledsoe County High School

Sponsor: Ron Travis

As enacted, requires, under the Uniform Debt-Management Services Act, counselors to present evidence of accreditation or certification by an independent accrediting or certifying organization upon registering to provide debt management services. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18, Part 55.

Sponsor: Kelly Keisling

Subject to local approval, clarifies that the proceeds from the hotel/motel taxes in Obion County that currently go to Reelfoot Lake Tourism shall now be deposited in the general fund. - Amends Chapter 133 of the Private Acts of 1991.

Sponsor: John Stevens

As enacted, makes the veteran hiring preference mandatory. - Amends TCA Section 8-30-307 and Title 9, Chapter 8.

Sponsor: Joe Pitts

As enacted, revises provisions governing contracts for construction. - Amends TCA Section 12-4-107.

Sponsor: Pat Marsh

As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Higher Education Authorization Act of 2016, and provisions regarding the Tennessee higher education commission. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, conditions courts' authority to order acquisition and maintenance of health insurance coverage under a child support award upon the availability of reasonable and affordable health insurance. - Amends TCA Section 36-5-101.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As enacted, extends the Tennessee higher education commission for four years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 2.

Sponsor: Jeremy Faison

As enacted, designates Gaylord Springs Golf Links as a premier type tourist resort for purposes of consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

Sponsor: Darren Jernigan

As enacted, requires the department to develop an evidence-based training program on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) for school leaders and teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Reginald Tate

As enacted, prohibits a court from requiring an educator to be a witness in a civil domestic dispute proceeding if the educator's attendance would cause absence from teaching or supervisory duties in a school unless the court determines the educator's attendance is necessary to ensure fairness. - Amends TCA Title 24 and Title 49.

Sponsor: Raumesh Akbari

Frederick A. "Rick" Brooks

Sponsor: Ferrell Haile

As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of environment and conservation to expend funds from the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund; gives the commissioner sole authority to make expenditures from the fund for certain management and administrative expenses. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 11, Chapter 8.

Sponsor: David Hawk

As enacted, removes the utility management review board's authority to approve or disapprove corrections made by a public water system of a utility district to comply with federal or state law as a condition for the system to receive a loan from the Tennessee Local Development Authority. - Amends TCA Section 7-82-709.

Sponsor: Jack Johnson

As introduced, reduces the department of revenue's administration fee of 1.125 percent imposed on local governments for remittance of local option sales tax by 0.375 percent annually for the next three fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Richard Briggs

As enacted, specifies that, for the 2017-2018 school year, employment termination and compensation decisions for pre-kindergarten or kindergarten teachers will not be based solely on data generated by the portfolio model; revises provisions regarding funding and approval for LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Eddie Smith

As introduced, requires Davidson County to establish and maintain a public hospital with inpatient and outpatient services; requires the county to annually report the amount of funds received from uncompensated care pools and how much of those funds were appropriated to the county's public hospital. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71.

Sponsor: Thelma Harper

Mark Beeler, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

Sponsor: Ferrell Haile

As enacted, extends from 30 days to 40 days the period of advance notice that licensed child-placing agencies and licensed clinical social workers must provide the department before increasing fees charged to prospective adoptive parents. - Amends TCA Title 36.

Sponsor: Johnny Shaw

As enacted, designates department of transportation as state agency with oversight over safety of rail fixed guideway public transportation systems in Tennessee; makes other related revisions to comply with Title 49 of the United States Code. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 13; Title 54 and Title 65.

Sponsor: David Hawk

As enacted, changes the time period a local board of education has to deny or approve a sponsor's amended application from 30 days to 60 days; changes the time period in which the amended application will be deemed approved if the local board of education fails to deny or approve the amended application from 30 days to 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Reginald Tate

As enacted, adds that the funds from the small and minority-owned business program that are transferred to the board of trustees of the college savings trust fund may be utilized for the administration and marketing of an incentive plan or plans. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 8.

Sponsor: Ron Gant

As enacted, removes from education laws obsolete pilot projects and reporting and similar requirements; revises and deletes certain other education-related provisions and reporting requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, revises provisions governing delinquent tax sales. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Jason Powell

As enacted, limits authorization for counties to appropriate funds for affordable housing or workforce housing to Davidson County. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 9.

Sponsor: Darren Jernigan

As enacted, allows uniformed law enforcement officers of the TBI who retire after at least 25 years to receive a retired commission card and the officer's service firearm, as is currently the case with TBI agents who retire after 25 years. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Jon Lundberg

As enacted, allocates to the county clerk $3.00 of the $15 fee charged for issuance of a business license; requires the $3.00 to be used for computer-related expenses. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-723.

Sponsor: Jeff Yarbro

As enacted, limits authorization for counties to appropriate funds for affordable housing or workforce housing to Davidson County. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 9.

Sponsor: Steven Dickerson

As enacted, extends the state university and community college system, board of regents, for four years to June 30, 2022; requires the governor, in making appointments, to ensure that the state university boards are composed of members who are diverse in sex rather than in gender. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 2.

Sponsor: Jeremy Faison

Haley Clarissa Engle

Sponsor: Art Swann

As enacted, authorizes the City of Hendersonville, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than 2.75 percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Hendersonville; requires the ordinance to set forth the manner of collection and administration of the privilege tax; requires that all proceeds received by the municipality from the tax be used for tourism development. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425.

Sponsor: Ferrell Haile

James Pharris

Sponsor: John Stevens

As enacted, specifies that an entity licensed for on-premises consumption may include contiguous areas in its designated premises; adds designation as festival operator for purposes of those authorized to sell for on-premises consumption; revises other on-premises consumption provisions. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

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.

Sponsor: Joe Pitts

As enacted, revises the date by which the state board of education must require a course in Tennessee history for students from the 2018-2019 school year to the 2019-2020 school year. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1015 and Chapter 482 of the Public Acts of 2017.

Sponsor: David Byrd

As enacted, revises the Course Access Program Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, specifies in various statutes governing licensure of professions and occupations, including health-related occupations, that administrative action against a person's license (including the denial, suspension or revocation of a license and determinations of fitness to practice) based on a criminal conviction, is subject to the applicable provisions of the Fresh Start Act. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 62 and Title 63.

Sponsor: Jeremy Faison

As introduced, removes requirement that 52 percent of the commission retained by county registers for collecting and reporting the recordation tax be remitted to the state treasurer and credited to the general fund of the state. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 4.

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

As enacted, designates the Whitestone Country Inn as a premier type tourist resort for the purposes of the on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

Sponsor: Kent Calfee

As enacted, authorizes Shelby County to exercise discretion over the manner in which a county board of public utilities that it may create will be constituted; requires a board or administrative agency in Shelby County that is increasing the charges for fire protection services by more than 10 percent to obtain approval for the increase from the county legislative body prior to the increase taking effect. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 16.

Sponsor: Ron Lollar

Noah Westley Holland, Valedictorian, Springfield High School

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

As enacted, updates references in vocational rehabilitation statutes to reflect current nomenclature for the division of rehabilitation services and the director of the vocation rehabilitation program; removes certain requirements concerning services offered by the division of rehabilitation services. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 11, Part 6; Title 49, Chapter 11, Part 7 and Title 49, Chapter 11, Part 8.

Sponsor: David Hawk

As introduced, reduces professional privilege taxes by 50 percent for taxpayers on active status and by 75 percent for taxpayers on inactive status. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

As enacted, specifies in various statutes governing licensure of professions and occupations, including health-related occupations, that administrative action against a person's license (including the denial, suspension or revocation of a license and determinations of fitness to practice) based on a criminal conviction, is subject to the applicable provisions of the Fresh Start Act. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 62 and Title 63.

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

Hogan Smithmier

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

As enacted, requires the department to develop an evidence-based training program on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) for school leaders and teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Raumesh Akbari

As enacted, requires, by January 1, 2019, state governmental entities to promulgate rules, rather than adopt policies, to establish a process for making requests to inspect or receive copies of public records, for responding to requests for public records, and for the creation of a statement of any fees charged for copies of such records. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, allows Sevier County, upon the adoption of a resolution by a two-thirds majority vote of the county legislative body, to assess a privilege tax on litigation in court cases in an amount not to exceed $100 per case to be used exclusively for the construction of a building to house legal proceedings and offices directly involved with the court system, and to renovate the county courthouse. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.

Sponsor: Andrew Farmer

As introduced, requires comptroller to conduct random audits of any persons or entities receiving proceeds from tax on the privilege of occupancy in a hotel, with such audits to include an accounting of how the proceeds are used. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

Melvin J. Malone, UT board of trustees

Sponsor: Glen Casada

As enacted, removes from education laws obsolete pilot projects and reporting and similar requirements; revises and deletes certain other education-related provisions and reporting requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Tim Rudd

As enacted, creates sunrise provision for local governing boards of trustees of the board of regents state universities, to terminate June 30, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 2.

Sponsor: Jeremy Faison

Crystal Stander, Boys and Girls Clubs Youth of the Year

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, authorizes utility districts to enter into contracts or arrangements relating to natural gas with a public corporation that is created under the authority of a contiguous state and that is similar to an energy acquisition corporation created under the authority of this state. - Amends TCA Section 7-82-302.

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

As enacted, removes the utility management review board's authority to approve or disapprove corrections made by a public water system of a utility district to comply with federal or state law as a condition for the system to receive a loan from the Tennessee Local Development Authority. - Amends TCA Section 7-82-709.

Sponsor: Curtis Johnson

As enacted, revises provisions governing participation in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system by county judges and county officials; makes other revisions regarding participation in the system. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36; Title 8, Chapter 37 and Section 17-2-305.

Sponsor: Charles Sargent

Lauren Hunsicker, Salutatorian, Sycamore High School

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

As enacted, requires the department and state board of education to provide certain information regarding Bible curricula and courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

As enacted, designates department of transportation as state agency with oversight over safety of rail fixed guideway public transportation systems in Tennessee; makes other related revisions to comply with Title 49 of the United States Code. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 13; Title 54 and Title 65.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As enacted, allows local governments to make purchases of certain motor vehicles through a federal general service administration contract. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 12.

Sponsor: Kent Calfee

As enacted, specifies certain powers of a series of an LLC. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 249.

Sponsor: Bill Beck

As enacted, authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages and wine on Sundays during certain hours; prohibits sales on Easter, Christmas, and Thanksgiving; revises other provisions relating to alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3; Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Gerald McCormick

As enacted, adds that the funds from the small and minority-owned business program that are transferred to the board of trustees of the college savings trust fund may be utilized for the administration and marketing of an incentive plan or plans. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 8.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, authorizes the labeling of any milk sold in this state as "Local Tennessee Milk", or a statement that indicates the milk is Tennessee milk, if the milk contains only milk produced in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 53 and Title 57.

Sponsor: Frank Niceley

As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Local Education Capital Investment Act." - Amends amend TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Jack Johnson

As enacted, designates certain premises in Blount, Sevier, Hawkins, and Claiborne counties as premier type tourist resorts and bed and breakfast establishments for purposes of the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

Sponsor: Frank Niceley

As enacted, enacts the "Down Syndrome Information Act of 2018". - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

Sponsor: Rick Staples

As enacted, revises laws governing civil asset forfeiture. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2.

Sponsor: Todd Gardenhire

As introduced, expands the offenses of aggravated rape and aggravated sexual battery to include if the defendant commits the offense during the commission of an aggravated burglary, if the defendant commits the offense against more than one person in a single incident, and other changes. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 40.

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

As enacted, creates an exception to the prohibition on the incorporation of an area within three miles of an existing municipality to allow an area in Hickman County to incorporate; specifies that provisions governing adoption of a charter under the mayor-aldermanic charter provisions of general law do not affect an existing municipality's authority to annex unincorporated areas within the existing municipality's urban growth boundary. - Amends TCA Section 6-1-201.

Sponsor: Michael Curcio

Subject to local approval, removes probate and conservatorship jurisdiction from the Probate and Juvenile Court of Dickson County; renames court Juvenile Court of Dickson County. - Amends Chapter 267 of the Private Acts of 1982.

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

As enacted, authorizes an industrial development corporation to acquire a hotel, motel, or apartment building for a project of the corporation located in Shelby County. - Amends TCA Section 7-53-302.

Sponsor: Kevin Vaughan

As enacted, revises provisions governing contracts for construction. - Amends TCA Section 12-4-107.

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

As enacted, authorizes the City of Farragut, by a two-thirds vote of its governing body, to levy a privilege tax not to exceed 4 percent upon the privilege of occupancy. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425.

Sponsor: Richard Briggs

As enacted, establishes requirements for issuance of diplomas, certificates of credit, and transcripts when a student has outstanding debts or obligations owed to a college or university. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Section 49-9-108.

Sponsor: Mark White

Quintarious Bond, Boys and Girls Clubs Youth of the Year

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, extends application of the Neighborhood Preservation Act to include any county or municipality that has formed a land bank; adds other provisions to the Act and the Tennessee Local Land Bank Program. - Amends TCA Title 13 and Title 67.

Sponsor: Mark White

As enacted, broadens the definition of financial institution to include a trust company and institutions that are organized under the laws of other states for purposes of conversion of charter and resulting institutions; requires a financial institution that results from a conversion to have its principal place of business in this state. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 1; Title 45, Chapter 11 and Title 45, Chapter 2.

Sponsor: Mark Norris

As enacted, revises and expands Class A misdemeanor relating to counterfeit airbags and similar restraint system components. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

Sponsor: Joseph Hensley

As enacted, revises and expands Class A misdemeanor relating to counterfeit airbags and similar restraint system components. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

Sponsor: Sheila Butt

As enacted, makes various changes to the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act, including authorizing the underground utility damage enforcement board to establish, by rule, best practices for uniform color code and marking and adding another member to the board. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 31.

Sponsor: Pat Marsh

As enacted, removes requirement that every workers' compensation insurer that provides insurance for Tennessee workers' compensation claims be required to maintain a claims office or to contract with a claims adjuster located within this state. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Jack Johnson

Sharon J. Pryse, UT board of trustees

Sponsor: Glen Casada

As introduced, extends the business tax exemption under present law for providing mental or behavioral health services to providers of foster care, therapeutic and rehabilitative care, residential treatment, and other social assistance programs. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.

Sponsor: Jack Johnson

Destiny Celeste Booker, Salutatorian, Hillcrest High School

Sponsor: Lee Harris

As introduced, exempts from the sales and use tax the sale of platinum, gold, or silver bullion, the sale of numismatic coins that are sold for less than $10,000, and the sale of numismatic coins at a national, statewide, or multi-county trade show. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, extends the health services and development agency for three years to June 30, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 16.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, allocates to the county clerk $3.00 of the $15 fee charged for issuance of a business license; requires the $3.00 to be used for computer-related expenses. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-723.

Sponsor: Curtis Johnson

As enacted, establishes a procedure for the recognition of hospitals with stroke-related designations; establishes other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 68.

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

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 including those laws relating to assessments or levies of taxes, fees, fines, penalties, interest, or the waiver of penalties. - Amends TCA Title 67.

Sponsor: John Stevens

Wanda Fay Bowling

Sponsor: Ken Yager

Cameron Hamilton, Boys and Girls Clubs Youth of the Year

Sponsor: Steve Southerland

As enacted, requires designation of free-use areas where residents may remove downed and dead timber from state forests for their personal use under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 11, Chapter 4; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 43.

Sponsor: Frank Niceley

Haven Goodell, Boys and Girls Clubs Youth of the Year

Sponsor: Rusty Crowe

As enacted, revises the notice that must be provided to a patient who is determined to have dense breasts or extremely dense breasts based on a mammogram. - Amends TCA Title 63.

Sponsor: Sabi Kumar

Linda Kay Fulghum

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, increases, from 2.5 percent to 5 percent, the maximum amount of the occupancy tax that McMinnville is authorized to levy. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425.

Sponsor: Janince Bowling

As enacted, extends the Tennessee student assistance corporation, board of directors for four years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 2.

Sponsor: Jeremy Faison

Staija Huggins, Salutatorian, Westwood High School

Sponsor: Lee Harris

As enacted, revises provisions governing probation periods for state employment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30.

Sponsor: Timothy Hill

As introduced, exempts water furnished by a utility district and used exclusively in a farming operation from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.

Sponsor: Paul Bailey

As enacted, requires applicators to notify the department of agriculture prior to making aerial applications of pesticides via an online reporting system, instead of notifying county sheriff's offices. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 8.

Sponsor: Jeff Yarbro

As enacted, provides continued eligibility for an elderly low-income, disabled, and disabled veteran's property tax relief during temporary periods of relocation for health care to home of a friend or relative or to a hospital or skilled intermediate care facility if the homeowner intends to return to the residence once recovered. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

Sponsor: Joe Pitts

As introduced, requires efficiency audits to be performed for public systems of higher education and public institutions of higher education; creates the joint higher education efficiency audit committee. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 12 and Title 49.

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, extends the Tennessee higher education commission for four years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 2.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

Isaiah Bullock, Boys and Girls Clubs Youth of the Year

Sponsor: Joseph Hensley

As enacted, allows voter who was issued an absentee ballot to vote a provisional ballot. - Amends TCA Section 2-6-301 and Section 2-7-112.

Sponsor: John Crawford

As enacted, extends the Tennessee student assistance corporation, board of directors for four years to June 30, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 2.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

Tamia Bailey, Salutatorian, Mitchell High School

Sponsor: Lee Harris

As introduced, creates Class B felony of selling, possessing, or manufacturing 15 grams or more of any substance containing fentanyl and Class A felony if the substance contains 150 grams or more of fentanyl. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 39, Chapter 15; Title 39, Chapter 16; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

Sponsor: Art Swann

As enacted, designates the Whitestone Country Inn as a premier type tourist resort for the purposes of the on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

Sponsor: Ken Yager

As enacted, conditions courts' authority to order acquisition and maintenance of health insurance coverage under a child support award upon the availability of reasonable and affordable health insurance. - Amends TCA Section 36-5-101.

Sponsor: David Hawk

As introduced, provides for a refund of state sales tax paid on expenditures to rehabilitate historic structures under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11; Title 13 and Title 67.

Sponsor: Richard Briggs

As enacted, designates Gaylord Springs Golf Links as a premier type tourist resort for purposes of consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

Sponsor: Steven Dickerson

As introduced, requires persons committing domestic assault or violating an order of protection to be placed on a domestic abuse registry maintained by the TBI for a period of 10 years from the date of conviction. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

Sponsor: Bo Watson

Donovan Stokes, Boys and Girls Clubs Youth of the Year

Sponsor: Steve Southerland

Jacob Alan Smith, Valedictorian, White House Heritage High School

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

Rebecca Wood, 2018 president of the Tennessee Road Builders Association

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

As enacted, revises provisions governing the Sam Davis Home. - Amends TCA Title 4.

Sponsor: Mike Sparks

As enacted, revises the notice that must be provided to a patient who is determined to have dense breasts or extremely dense breasts based on a mammogram. - Amends TCA Title 63.

Sponsor: Janince Bowling

As enacted, revises provisions governing attorneys' fees and costs in certain workers' compensation claims cases. - Amends TCA Section 50-6-102 and Section 50-6-226.

Sponsor: Bill Beck

As enacted, prescribes procedure for paper ballots in counties using optical scan voting systems and procedure for provisional ballots. - Amends TCA Section 2-7-114(c).

Sponsor: Mike Carter

As enacted, requires designation of free-use areas where residents may remove downed and dead timber from state forests for their personal use under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 11, Chapter 4; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 43.

Sponsor: Jeremy Faison

As introduced, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Community Schools Act; authorizes LEAs to collaborate with community partners to establish community schools; authorizes the department of education, subject to the availability of funding, to award transformational community schools grants to assist priority and focus schools in implementing a community school program as part of a school turnaround strategy. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 24.

Sponsor: Harold Love

Annie Clay Brown

Sponsor: Dolores Gresham

As enacted, enacts the "Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act." - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.

Sponsor: Andrew Farmer

Food Allergy Awareness Day, May 13, 2018

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

As enacted, authorizes Shelby County to exercise discretion over the manner in which a county board of public utilities that it may create will be constituted; requires a board or administrative agency in Shelby County that is increasing the charges for fire protection services by more than 10 percent to obtain approval for the increase from the county legislative body prior to the increase taking effect. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 16.

Sponsor: Brian Kelsey

As introduced, establishes factors a court must consider when sentencing a juvenile who has been transferred and convicted in adult court; establishes a maximum number of years, depending on whether the crime results in death or not, a juvenile can be required to serve for adult crimes; and makes the provisions retroactive to juveniles serving adult sentences prior to effective date. - Amends TCA Title 40.

Sponsor: Becky Massey

As enacted, requires members of a county legislative body to complete orientation and certain training after being elected or appointed; such training must be provided by or approved by CTAS; creates certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 5.

Sponsor: Ken Yager

As enacted, increases, from 2.5 percent to 5 percent, the maximum amount of the occupancy tax that McMinnville is authorized to levy. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425.

Sponsor: Paul Sherrell

As enacted, enacts the "Fresh Start Act". - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 76, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 1.

Sponsor: Jeremy Faison

As enacted, extends repeal date for the Go Build Tennessee Program, from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2024; deletes restriction that funds collected from contractor licensing revenue be used only to fund career and technical education programs and other certified and nationally accredited programs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 41 and Title 62, Chapter 6, Part 1.

Sponsor: Ryan Williams

As enacted, extends from 30 days to 40 days the period of advance notice that licensed child-placing agencies and licensed clinical social workers must provide the department before increasing fees charged to prospective adoptive parents. - Amends TCA Title 36.

Sponsor: Thelma Harper

As enacted, authorizes a county legislative body to adopt a resolution by majority vote prohibiting term limits for persons appointed to boards or commissions by the county mayor if the appointee serves without compensation, not including reimbursement for travel and expenses. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.

Sponsor: Rick Staples

As enacted, prohibits the exclusion from a criminal trial of certain out-of-court, non-testimonial statements made by a child under 12 years of age that describe any sexual act or act of physical violence directed against the child. - Amends TCA Title 24.

Sponsor: Ken Yager

Jordan Harding, Valedictorian, The Soulsville Charter School

Sponsor: Lee Harris

As introduced, exempts entities that would otherwise have less than $100 in combined franchise and excise tax liability from franchise and excise taxes for tax years that begin between July 1, 2018 and July 1 2019; gradually increases the exemption threshold to $500 for tax years that begin on or after July 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

Sponsor: Jack Johnson

Amal Altareb, Valedictorian, Memphis Central High School

Sponsor: Lee Harris

As introduced, establishes that it is not an offense for a veteran who has been awarded the Purple Heart to possess less than 0.5 ounces of marijuana if the person retains proof of the awarding of the Purple Heart and a recommendation from a licensed doctor regarding the medical use of marijuana. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

Sponsor: Jeff Yarbro

Harris King

Sponsor: Randy McNally

As introduced, establishes a pilot project for a special juvenile drug court treatment program. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 22; Title 33; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 56.

Sponsor: Steven Dickerson

As enacted, requires the department and state board of education to provide certain information regarding Bible curricula and courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Sabi Kumar

William E. Evans, UT board of trustees

Sponsor: Glen Casada

As enacted, revises provisions governing the standards recommendations committees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3.

Sponsor: Charles Sargent

Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr.

Sponsor: Becky Massey

Luke Bradley Petitt, Salutatorian, Springfield High School

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

Stephen Edward Jacobs, Valedictorian, Harpeth High School

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

As enacted, prohibits the expenditure of state funds to enforce electronic logging regulations against any motor vehicle transporting nonhazardous materials for farm purposes that does not travel outside the boundaries of the state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 55.

Sponsor: Dale Carr

Amy Whaley, Regional Teacher of the Year

Sponsor: Steve Southerland

Barbara Gray

Sponsor: Mark Norris

Y-12 National Security Complex, 75th anniversary

Sponsor: Randy McNally

As enacted, authorizes the City of Pleasant View, by ordinance adopted by a two-thirds vote, to levy an occupancy tax of not more than 5 percent on the privilege of staying in any hotel or motel in Pleasant View; the ordinance must set forth the manner of collection and administration of the privilege tax; requires that all proceeds received by the municipality from the tax be used for tourism development. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425.

Sponsor: Mary Littleton

As enacted, classifies the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child as a violent sexual offense for purposes of the Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act of 2004; revises the sentencing requirement for a person convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-518 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

Sponsor: Janince Bowling

As enacted, authorizes the comptroller of the treasury to audit financial transactions of a charter management organization (CMO); requires all CMOs operating a charter school in this state to file an annual financial report with the comptroller of the treasury no later than August 31 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Mike Bell

As enacted, requires the department to develop, and the state board of education to adopt, a policy establishing a review period for LEAs to review and verify accountability data files and determinations before data files and determinations are released publicly by the department. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

Sponsor: John Forgety

Curtis Braden II, Salutatorian, Middle College High School

Sponsor: Lee Harris

As introduced, authorizes a local law enforcement agency to elect to participate in the state retirement system independently of its local governing body. - Amends TCA Section 8-35-201.

Sponsor: Edward Jackson

Austin Deal

Sponsor: Becky Massey

As enacted, allows a student enrolled in a cooperative driver training program who is seeking an exemption from the skills or knowledge tests required for commercial driver licenses to submit the third-party driver examiner testing certification form to the department within one year of satisfactorily completing the driver education and training course. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

Sponsor: John DeBerry

Caleb Starling, Valedictorian, Christian Community Schools

Sponsor: Kerry Roberts

As enacted, extends repeal date for the Go Build Tennessee Program, from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2024; deletes restriction that funds collected from contractor licensing revenue be used only to fund career and technical education programs and other certified and nationally accredited programs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 41 and Title 62, Chapter 6, Part 1.

Sponsor: Jack Johnson

As introduced, makes appropriations for the purpose of defraying the expenses of certain legislative enactments passed during the 2018 session of the 110th General Assembly; earmarks sufficient state funds for the purpose of funding any bill naming a highway or bridge in honor of a service member killed in action.

Sponsor: Bo Watson

As enacted, expands the locations a manufacturer may possess, store, and transport its products to include any county that has authorized the manufacture of alcoholic beverages and any county adjacent to such county; authorizes the storage of the manufacturer's products in facilities authorized or leased by the manufacturer. - Amends TCA Section 57-2-104.

Sponsor: Bill Ketron

Second Presbyterian Church, 200th anniversary

Sponsor: Becky Massey

As enacted, revises laws governing civil asset forfeiture. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 2.

Sponsor: Mike Carter

As enacted, authorizes an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is deaf or hard of hearing to request that the department of safety include such designation in the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database; enacts other related provisions in regard to such designation. - Amends TCA Title 55.

Sponsor: William Lamberth

As enacted, authorizes the comptroller of the treasury to audit financial transactions of a charter management organization (CMO); requires all CMOs operating a charter school in this state to file an annual financial report with the comptroller of the treasury no later than August 31 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Sponsor: Ron Lollar

As enacted, requires LEAs to report certain information to the department of education regarding use of corporal punishment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

Sponsor: Rusty Crowe

As enacted, adds a representative for military veteran recipients to be appointed as a member of the statewide planning and policy council. - Amends TCA Section 33-1-401.

Sponsor: Richard Briggs

Grace Harville, National 4-H Reserve Champion in Prepared Public Speaking

Sponsor: Terri Lynn Weaver

Steven Williams, Valedictorian, Knoxville Central High School

Sponsor: Eddie Smith

Representative Steve McDaniel

Sponsor: Ryan Williams

Ted Hackney

Sponsor: Judd Matheny

McKenzie England, Salutatorian, Knoxville Central High School

Sponsor: Eddie Smith

Julian Robbins, Valedictorian, Knoxville Central High School

Sponsor: Eddie Smith

Appalachian Express Chorus, 50th Anniversary Show

Sponsor: John Crawford

Katherine Elizabeth Crye

Sponsor: Eddie Smith

Kylene Renea Johnson

Sponsor: Rick Staples

Old Hickory Public Library, 80th Anniversary

Sponsor: Bill Beck

Henry Edward Frazier and Edsel B. Frazier

Sponsor: Terri Lynn Weaver

Brandon D. Lee, Salutatorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School

Sponsor: Antonio Parkinson

Kacey Tomosovic, Salutatorian, West High School

Sponsor: Eddie Smith

Hallie Cameron Dillard, Top Ten Senior, Gordonsville High School

Sponsor: Terri Lynn Weaver

Dr. Joe B. Maddox

Sponsor: Eddie Smith

Robert Beck, Sr.

Sponsor: Bill Beck

Representative Judd Matheny

Sponsor: Ryan Williams

Rick Shepard

Sponsor: Bob Ramsey

Hannah Battles, Salutatorian, Cheatham County Central High School

Sponsor: Mary Littleton

Lauren Keegan Dinsmore, Salutatorian, Fulton High School

Sponsor: Eddie Smith

Harry Jackson Rymer, Sr.

Sponsor: Dan Howell

Mustafa Marzuq Ali-Smith

Sponsor: Pat Marsh

Israel Muñoz Salvador

Sponsor: Beth Harwell

Tristan Dudley Pope, Top Ten Senior, Gordonsville High School

Sponsor: Terri Lynn Weaver

Britt Dillard, Top Ten Senior, Gordonsville High School

Sponsor: Terri Lynn Weaver

Cathy Higgins

Sponsor: Charles Sargent

Lauren Paige Montgomery, Top Ten Senior, Gordonsville High School

Sponsor: Terri Lynn Weaver

Taylor Moore, Salutatorian, Knoxville Central High School

Sponsor: Eddie Smith

Tina Atkinson, 2018 Art Teacher of the Year in Tennessee

Sponsor: John Clemmons

Reduce Food Waste Month

Sponsor: Barbara Cooper