Source: https://trackbill.com/legislator/tennessee-representative-joe-pitts/325-7020/
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 17:24:02
Document Index: 524273004

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 9', 'art 14', 'art 4', 'art 1', 'art 4', 'art 30', 'art 6', 'art 9']

Rep. Joe Pitts | Tennessee 2015-2016 | TrackBill
Cosponsored Bills (156)
TN - HJR386 Memorials, Retirement - Rebecca S. Sharber, superintendent, Franklin County Schools.
TN - HB1699 Education, Higher - As enacted, provides tuition and fee waivers to full-time state employees for up to four courses per academic year provided the courses do not coincide. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-114.
TN - HB804 Veterans - As introduced, authorizes private employers to establish a preference in employment policies for hiring certain veterans, spouses of veterans, widows of veterans, and widowers of veterans. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 58.
TN - HB798 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, permits dependents of military service members to retain priority for receiving home and community-based services under a federal waiver in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5 and Title 71, Chapter 5.
TN - HB799 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows students receiving the Tennessee HOPE scholarship to drop from full-time to part-time status once without medical or personal grounds and without loss of the scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
TN - HB807 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates September 18, each year, as "Carbon Monoxide Awareness Day" to bring awareness to the dangers of carbon monoxide. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.
TN - HB971 Local Government, General - As introduced, increases period of advance public notice required before a hearing is held on a petition to establish a housing authority from 10 days to 20 days. - Amends TCA Title 13.
TN - HB806 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, increases, from 30 days to 60 days, the amount of time in which to file a petition with the county election commission to call an election regarding whether a tax upon the privilege of occupancy should be levied within home rule municipalities. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.
TN - HJR75 General Assembly, Directed Studies - Requests the department of education to study and report on ways local education agencies are implementing the requirements of Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-1021, which requires 90 minutes of physical activity per week.
TN - HB1802 Public Health - As enacted, to the extent permitted by federal law, prohibits the department of health from counting the basic allowance for subsistence as income in determining eligibility of an applicant who is a member of the uniformed service for the special food program for women, infants, and children. - Amends TCA Title 68.
TN - HB1698 Local Government, General - As enacted, removes provision whereby a processing fee may not exceed five percent of the amount of payment collected by credit or debit card, in regard to the authority for a local government to set and collect a processing fee in an amount that is equal to the amount paid to a third-party processor for processing the payment. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 1.
TN - HJR344 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bryan Feldman, Principal of the Year.
TN - HB801 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, creates the Tennessee Come Back for Your Future scholarship program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
TN - HR50 Memorials, Interns - James Maxwell Helms.
TN - HJR503 Memorials, Retirement - Sheila Crowley
TN - HB1630 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, removes a teacher's duty to perform fire drills, intruder drills, or any other safety or emergency drills. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-201.
TN - HB808 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, expands a court's ability to admit into evidence a video recording of a forensic interview with a child to include an interview conducted by a forensic interviewer employed by a child advocacy center that is not a nonprofit corporation. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-213 and Section 24-7-123.
TN - HJR476 Memorials, Retirement - Sheila Crowley
+ − Cosponsored Bills (156)
TN - HB231 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau of TennCare to report annually an accounting of the amount paid to MCOs under the CHOICES program in the prior fiscal year and the amount paid by MCOs for long-term care services in that same fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 71.
TN - HB2334 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department of labor and workforce development, in consultation with the department of corrections, if so requested, to report to the governor and general assembly on existing pilot programs that focus on work programs for the successful reentry of individuals to the workforce who have been convicted of a felony. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41 and Title 50.
TN - HB398 Education - As enacted, extends the date of the repeal of the Virtual Public Schools Act from June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2019. - Amends TCA Section 49-16-216.
TN - HB2317 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Kenneth and Madge Tullis, MD, Suicide Prevention Training Act of 2016"; establishes training requirements for certain medical professions related to suicide prevention. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.
TN - HB230 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires a person who commits theft or robbery within or on the premises of a licensed pharmacy for the purpose of obtaining, selling, delivering, giving, or exchanging a controlled substance to serve at least the minimum sentence for the offender's appropriate range of sentence and be subject to increased fines. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 4; Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 40, Chapter 35 and Title 41.
TN - HB115 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, requires that persons with intellectual disabilities on the waiting list for services be enrolled in the self-determination waiver when their caregivers attain the age of 80. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.
TN - HB891 Students - As enacted, authorizes a school principal to excuse students for non-school-sponsored extracurricular activities; requires the student to submit to the school documentation of the activity and the parents to submit a written request to the principal at least seven business days prior to the student’s requested excused absence. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.
TN - HB2514 Victims' Rights - As enacted, increases from $750 to $1,000 the maximum amount payable by the criminal injuries compensation fund for the provision of forensic medical examinations performed on victims of sexually oriented crimes. - Amends TCA Section 29-13-118.
TN - HB734 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires the ASD, or the entity under contract to operate schools within the ASD, to hire teachers assigned to the school, if the teachers are rated in the two highest categories of teacher evaluations; requires the ASD, or entity under contract to operate the school, to hire no more than 30 percent of the school's teachers from this group. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.
TN - HB2410 Public Employees - As introduced, clarifies that local government authorities or local education authorities may adopt or make available voluntary benefits that are treated as supplemental benefits and are deemed not to be a "group health plan" when established in accordance with the appropriate federal statutes or regulations that define the term "group health plan." - Amends TCA Title 8.
TN - HB735 Education - As enacted, requires the commissioner of education, by October 1 of the year prior to the public identification of priority schools, to notify any school and its respective LEA if the school is among the bottom 10 percent of schools in overall achievement as determined by the performance standards and other criteria set by the state board. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-602.
TN - HB945 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows recipients of the HiSET high school equivalency credential to be eligible for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship; modifies the requirement for receipt of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship by GED recipients to conform the required GED score to the scale used for the new version of the GED. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.