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As enacted, revises provisions governing the maximum length of a truck-tractor and semitrailer or trailer on highways in this state. - Amends TCA Title 55.
As enacted, revises various provisions governing the transport of mobile homes. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 67 and Title 68.
As enacted, authorizes issuance of a Linemen Power Tennessee new specialty earmarked license plate to operators of vehicles that are used for passenger transport, owned by an entity that is subject to the Rural Electric and Community Services Cooperative Act, and that have a maximum gross weight less than 9,000 pounds. - Amends TCA Title 55.
As enacted, establishes requirements for the operation of personal delivery devices; specifies that a personal delivery device may be operated in pedestrian areas up to 10 miles per hour and is not considered a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 1; Title 55, Chapter 10; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 55, Chapter 8.
As enacted, authorizes, upon request, the department of revenue to issue salvage certificates to an insurance company, automotive dismantler and recycler, or salvage pool operator under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 55.
As introduced, defines physician to mean a person licensed in this state and in good standing, for purposes of requiring an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is deaf or hard of hearing and who seeks to request a designation in the VTRS database by application coupled with a physician's statement. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21 and Title 55, Chapter 4.
As introduced, requires county clerks to remit to the commissioner, instead of commissioner or commissioner's designee, the remaining $5.50 of the $10.00 issuance fee received by county clerks for issuing temporary operation permits; authorizes commissioner's designee to issue temporary trailer permits. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-115.
As introduced, authorizes businesses to provide for specially marked parking spaces for pregnant women and persons with infants. - Amends TCA Title 55.
As introduced, requests the department of revenue to submit a one-time report to the fiscal review committee and transportation committees of each house on or before March 1, 2020, projecting the number of current low-emission or low-emission and energy-efficient vehicles issued stickers to operate in the high occupancy vehicle lanes, and the projected number over the next four years. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67.
As introduced, increases the number of free plates from one to two for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.
As introduced, authorizes the use of surveillance cameras on interstate highways for aiding law enforcement with criminal investigations only. - Amends TCA Title 55.
As introduced, requires department of safety to distribute to entities contracting with the department to issue driver licenses an additional fee of $6.00 per license for administrative costs. - Amends TCA Section 55-50-331.
As introduced, creates the Women's Suffrage Centennial new specialty earmarked license plate. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
As introduced, requires commissioner of safety to design and make available to persons with autism spectrum disorder a blue envelope containing written information and guidance on ways to enhance effective communication between a law enforcement officer and a person with such disorder, and the person's driver license, registration, and insurance card. - Amends TCA Title 55.
As introduced, requires county clerks to retain $3.00 of the $11.00 fee for noting liens, encumbrances, or mortgages on a certificate of title; requires the retained funds to be earmarked for office supplies and equipment related to the notations. - Amends TCA Section 55-6-101.
As introduced, adds I-40 Exit 258 in Smith County to the list of projects to be developed with revenues derived from the increased taxes and fees imposed by the IMPROVE Act. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 6; Title 67, Chapter 3; Title 67, Chapter 4; Title 67, Chapter 6 and Chapter 181 of the Public Acts of 2017.
As introduced, changes the date, from February 15 to March 1, by which each motor vehicle dealer must submit to the motor vehicle commission an annual sales report indicating the number of motor vehicles sold during the preceding calendar year, the number of dealer registration plates issued to the dealer during the year, and the county or counties in which the plates were issued. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 55 and Title 67.
As introduced, adds transpotainment to the list of passenger transportation service vehicles for which Davidson and Shelby counties are empowered to regulate. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51.
As introduced, increases the punishment by one classification level for an offense committed by a motor vehicle operator that contributes to an accident resulting in bodily injury to a motorcycle rider. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10.
As introduced, increases the fines for persons failing to operate their vehicles according to law when coming upon certain vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55.
As introduced, prohibits the issuance of traffic citations based solely on evidence obtained from unmanned traffic cameras used to monitor and enforce traffic signal violations or speed limits. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.
As enacted, authorizes various new special license plates and grants additional time for certain plates to meet the minimum order requirement. - Amends TCA Title 55.
As enacted, authorizes issuance of emergency plates to emergency medical responders. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
As enacted, enacts the "Interstate Driver License Compact." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 55, Chapter 50.
As enacted, authorizes issuance of special purpose boat dealer plates to manufacturers and dealers who hire operators of boat trailers to transport boats to customers. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
As enacted, extends the "Slow Poke Law," which prohibits the operation of vehicles in the left lane, except for passing and other purposes, to interstates and multilane divided highways with two or more lanes. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8, Part 2.
As enacted, adds documentation a veteran may submit to the department of safety to have military service indicated on a driver license to allow an honorably discharged veteran to submit a certified copy of the veteran's AGO Form 53-55 or NAVPERS 553 showing the dates of service. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.
As introduced, adds boat trailers to the types of vehicles on which a vehicle identification number must be stamped. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 69.
As introduced, requires the department to submit common carrier company reports received by the department to the chairs of the transportation committee of the house and the transportation and safety committee of the senate and the comptroller of the treasury within 60 days of receipt. - Amends TCA Title 65 and Title 67.
As introduced, removes the provisions of law regarding denial of a driver license or learner's permit to persons under 18 who are not enrolled in and making satisfactory progress in high school. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3017 and Title 55, Chapter 50.
As introduced, requires at least one driver license testing station that conducts commercial driver license (CDL) tests to be located in each grand division of the state. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.
As introduced, exempts taxicab and transportation network company drivers from the prohibition on physically holding a wireless telecommunication device while operating a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65.
As introduced, clarifies that a motorized wheelchair is not a motor vehicle for purposes of the rules of the road, accidents, and crimes involving motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55.
As introduced, adds physicians and nurse practitioners in the performance of their duties to those persons exempt from the prohibition on using hand-held telecommunication devices while operating a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.
As enacted, increases from $3.00 to $4.00 the amount of the fee that county clerks may impose for the service of handling mail orders of license plates and decals. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-105.
As enacted, changes the requirements for the operation of horse drawn vehicles on state highways. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 4.
As enacted, prohibits a person from physically holding or supporting, with any part of the person's body, a wireless telecommunications device or stand-alone electronic device while operating a motor vehicle; imposes other similar restrictions on activities such as texting; creates certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 55, Chapter 8.
As enacted, revises provisions governing payment plans for fines and costs and license suspension for failure to comply with plan. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 24, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 5.
As enacted, authorizes military and memorial plates to be personalized; requires payment of a fee to defray the costs of designing and manufacturing the personalized plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
As enacted, permits LEAs to install cameras on school buses to record vehicles that unlawfully pass a stopped school bus; establishes requirements for such cameras and their use. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 8.
As enacted, requires that notation of liens and encumbrances and extensions of mortgages on certificates of title be performed by county clerks; revises related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 55.
As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of safety to issue farm-related service industry employee restricted commercial driver licenses to persons who meet certain qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 55.
As enacted, establishes requirements for the operation of electric foot scooters; specifies that for purposes of the DUI laws, an electric scooter will be considered a motor-driven vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 1; Title 55, Chapter 10; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 55, Chapter 8.
As enacted, revises escort and permit requirements for certain over-dimension movements. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 45; Title 47; Title 55; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.
As enacted, authorizes various new special license plates and grants additional time for certain plates to meet the minimum order requirement. - Amends TCA Title 55.
As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to coordinate with original equipment manufacturers (OEM) that have issued a major recall and have requested assistance from the department, including those manufacturers that have issued a recall related to airbags manufactured and installed in vehicles between 2000 and 2018, to contact registrants who may be affected by a major recall and to provide notice of the recall and the availability of repair options. - Amends TCA Title 55.
As enacted, statutorily sets the excess height movement for which a road survey is required to be those in excess of 15 feet 6 inches. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 7, Part 2.
As enacted, revises various provisions governing towing of vehicles and liens of garagekeepers and towing firms; expands the towing advisory board from nine to 11 members by adding a member appointed by the Tennessee Trucking Association and a member appointed by the American Car Rental Association. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 16 and Title 55, Chapter 23.
As enacted, exempts certain motor vehicle dismantlers and recyclers from the requirement to keep certain records of transactions of buying or selling automobile parts. - Amends TCA Section 55-17-109; Title 55, Chapter 3, Part 2 and Title 55, Chapter 5, Part 1.
As enacted, authorizes automobile transporters meeting certain length limitations to operate on the national network of highways; revises related vehicle size, weight, and load provisions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 7.
As enacted, expands the authorization to authorize, regulate, and control the commercial use of pedal carriages and rickshaws to any municipality or metropolitan government in the state and not just home rule municipalities and metropolitan governments. - Amends TCA Section 55-26-102.
As enacted, authorizes certain off-highway vehicles that are capable of holding no more than four passengers to be registered as Class I vehicles for operation on county roads. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3; Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 55, Chapter 8.
As enacted, adds the word "valor" to the Silver Star specialty license plate. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
As enacted, exempts historic military vehicles from the requirement to display license plates on the vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 1.
As enacted, requires that personally identifying information contained in motor vehicle accident reports be treated as confidential information and restricted from public disclosure; creates exceptions; revises other provisions governing motor vehicle accident reports. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 1.
As enacted, makes permanent the provision that is set to expire July 1, 2019, allowing counties to provide 2 percent matching funds for state-aid highway funds rather than 25 percent. - Amends TCA Section 54-4-404.
As enacted, exempts farm tractors and implements of husbandry from the requirement that slow-moving vehicles pull off the roadway on certain highways. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.
As enacted, specifies the redesign for the Bosnia Veteran license plate. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-253.
As enacted, authorizes issuance of AMVETS new specialty earmarked license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
As enacted, removes the deployment, implementation, or use of a motor carrier safety improvement required by a motor carrier from being considered when evaluating a person's status as an employee or independent contractor. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 50; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 65.
As enacted, authorizes department of revenue to suspend or revoke the registration, license plate, permit, or certificate of title issued to any vehicle assigned to a motor carrier that has been prohibited from operating by the federal motor carrier safety administration; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 1.
As enacted, reduces, from 25 to 23, the age required for a person to receive an initial school bus endorsement if the person is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces, a member of the national guard or reserves, or a licensed teacher employed by an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 55.
As introduced, prohibits municipalities from assessing fees for impoundment of a motor vehicle when the owner was not responsible for the events that caused the impoundment; requires reasonable effort to notify owner of motor vehicles' impoundment and prohibits sale before attempting notice; requires that aggrieved motor vehicle owners be made whole. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Section 36-5-901; Title 40, Chapter 33; Section 54-16-113; Title 55 and Title 66.
As introduced, enacts the "Buffering Undo Regulatory Non-Compliance (BURN) Act," which requires local authorities to file certified copies of notices of violation or citations based solely upon evidence obtained from an unmanned traffic enforcement camera with the municipal court or county court. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.
As introduced, excludes, as acceptable proof of valid identification in Tennessee, a driver license, voter registration card, or photo identification license from a state that issues those documents to illegal aliens. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.
As introduced, requests department of revenue to conduct a study on the number of violations of Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 55-21-108 or an ordinance dealing with parking privileges for persons with disabilities and report its findings and any recommendations on or before February 1, 2020, if any such study is conducted, to the transportation committee of the house of representatives and the transportation and safety committee of the senate. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21 and Title 55, Chapter 4.
As introduced, under certain circumstances, waives waiting period to reschedule skills examination for applicants for school bus endorsement; revises other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 50.
As introduced, enacts the STOP Act to authorize a sentence of imprisonment for not more than 11 months, 29 days for a conviction of not stopping for a school bus that is loading or unloading children; authorizes LEAs to install and operate an external video system for the detection and prosecution of such violations. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 55, Chapter 8.
As introduced, clarifies that, for purposes of the offense of unlawfully passing a youth bus, the term "youth bus" includes tour buses and other vehicles carrying not less than 15 passengers. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 49 and Title 55.
As introduced, requires the driver of any vehicle involved in an accident with a pedestrian or bicyclist to stop at scene of accident and to report accident. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 1.
As introduced, increases, from 15 to 20 days, the time period within which all fines, penalties, and forfeitures of bonds collected from violations of restrictions on the maximum gross weight of freight motor vehicles must be paid to the department of safety. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 7, Part 2.
As introduced, removes the allocation of proceeds from the sale of Choose Life new specialty earmarked license plates to New Life Resources; allocates funds from the sale of such plates to a special fund to be used for providing grants to eligible nonprofit agencies providing adoption social services. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2 and Section 55-4-350.
As introduced, removes authorization to suspend, restrict, or revoke driver licenses for nonpayment of fines, court costs, and litigation taxes for driving offenses, upon proof of inability to pay. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 5, Part 7; Title 40, Chapter 24 and Title 55, Chapter 50.
As introduced, reduces the minimum order requirements for new specialty earmarked license plates that allocate funds to nonprofit military or veteran service organizations from 1,000 to 500 plates for initial issuance and 800 to 400 plates for renewals. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
As introduced, creates the Korean Defense Service specialty license plate for issuance to eligible veterans and military service members. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-253.
As introduced, removes weekend and federal holiday driving restriction for antique motor vehicles and allows them to be used for general transportation any day of the week; provided, that they are not driven more than 5,000 miles annually. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.