Source: https://trackbill.com/legislator/tennessee-representative-joe-towns-jr/325-7041/
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 18:14:44
Document Index: 678345366

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 6', 'art 4', 'art 1', 'art 1', 'art 20', 'art 21', 'art 7', 'art 6', 'art 1']

Rep. Joe Towns, Jr. | Tennessee 2015-2016 | TrackBill
TN - HB2449 Consumer Protection - As introduced, makes attempting to seize funds in a consumer's bank account when owed for the purchase of goods or services an unfair or deceptive act under the Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
TN - HB1231 Education - As introduced, authorizes the department of education, in consultation with the state board of education, to create a numerical score above which students shall be deemed proficient; prevents the commissioner of education from identifying a school as a priority school, if the student average within the school is above the numerical score. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.
TN - HB1222 Children - As introduced, requires a parent who has reasonable cause to believe a child is missing to report to law enforcement within 12 hours if the child is under nine years of age or 24 hours if the child is nine years of age or older; states that nothing shall prevent a parent from reporting a child missing or law enforcement from investigating a missing child as soon as a parent discovers that the child may be missing. - Amends TCA Title 37.
TN - HB2452 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires a licensed firearm dealer who sells firearms to the public at retail to post signs by January 1, 2017, that are visible at the point of sale informing purchasers of firearms of the proper method to safely store firearms using language created by the department of safety by October 1, 2016; makes the knowing failure to post the signs by the licensed dealer a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $50.00. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1316.
TN - HJR398 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Esthela Rios, Salutatorian, Oakhaven High School.
TN - HB1230 Eminent Domain - As introduced, requires notice of filing of a condemnation petition to be by certified mail return receipt requested; requires notice to include certain statements concerning respondent's rights to contest or appeal condemnation proceedings; awards respondent costs for damages or destruction to property if condemnation is abandoned or unsuccessful; increases, from 30 days to 90 days, notice of the filing of a petition to institute condemnation proceedings before additional steps may be taken. - Amends TCA Title 29.
TN - HB2454 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, requires payor banks to process items sequentially as indicated by the numbers on the bank drafts on the day items are charged against a customer's account; places limits on handling charges for insufficient funds if items are not processed sequentially. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 4, Part 4.
TN - HJR441 Memorials, Interns - Ja'Vonta Seals.
TN - HJR399 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lisa Adams, Valedictorian, Oakhaven High School.
TN - HB1223 Education, Higher - As introduced, creates a cause of action under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act for any person suffering a loss as a result of certain deceptive practices by a postsecondary education institution or its agents; requires postsecondary institutions to offer a free two-week online orientation program to certain incoming students. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 49.
TN - HB2451 Sentencing - As introduced, permits certain inmates to receive a sentence reduction credit of 15 percent of the sentence imposed for successfully receiving a high school diploma or graduate equivalency diploma while in prison. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.
TN - HB2448 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, removes convicted felons from those persons or classes prohibited from being bail bondsmen. - Amends amend TCA.
TN - HB1226 General Assembly - As introduced, clarifies that members of the general assembly may transfer funds allotted for postage, printing, and office supply expenses to other members. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1, Part 1.
TN - HB1229 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates Class A or B misdemeanor of intentionally commanding, inducing, compelling, or otherwise causing, including by use of threats, violence, or bullying, another to become a criminal gang member; states that prosecution shall not require conviction of the other person for a criminal gang offense. - Amends TCA Title 39.
TN - HB2453 Municipal Government - As introduced, requires a referendum be conducted before a publicly funded entity can be sold or leased; "sale or lease" means that more than 30 percent of the assets of the entity are subject to sale or lease. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51.
TN - HB1227 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, grants LEAs the same flexibility as public charter schools to allow the LEAs to be more creative and innovative, including the authority to apply for the waiver of laws and state board rules. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 13; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
TN - HB2450 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a person who commits an assault at a sporting event from remaining on or entering the property during the same or another sporting event for the period of time determined by property management; punishes the entering of property during the established period of time as criminal trespass. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
TN - HB1228 Municipal Government - As introduced, requires municipalities having populations of 40,000 or more to develop plans to provide emergency backup systems for the continued operation of water and electric essential services, and to conduct a study of their existing water supplies every five years. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 58; Title 65 and Title 69.
TN - HB1224 Traffic Safety - As introduced, exempts vehicles in a parade or community event from receiving a traffic citation based on evidence obtained from unmanned traffic enforcement cameras. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-198.
TN - HB1220 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, increases, from 30 days to 45 days, the amount of time in which to file a written claim requesting a hearing to assert a claim on seized property; increases, from 30 days to 45 days, the amount of time from the day the claim is filed that the agency has to schedule a hearing. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 53; Title 55; Title 57; Title 59; Title 67 and Title 70.
TN - HB2455 Consumer Protection - As introduced, makes requesting a person to provide the person's social security number an unfair or deceptive act under the Consumer Protection Act of 1977, unless the request is required by federal or state law, or any rule promulgated pursuant to such federal or state law. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
TN - HR121 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Esthela Rios, Salutatorian, Oakhaven High School.
TN - HR122 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lisa Adams, Valedictorian, Oakhaven High School.
TN - HB1217 Agriculture - As introduced, requires that plants and seeds sold in Tennessee be labeled to indicate open pollination, genetic modification, and hybridization. - Amends TCA Title 43.
TN - HB1219 State Government - As introduced, revives and reinstates the Racing Control Act of 1987. - Amends TCA Title 4.
TN - HB1218 Food and Food Products - As introduced, enacts the "Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18, Part 1 and Title 53.
TN - HR120 Memorials, Academic Achievement - DonTerrius Walker, Salutatorian, Power Center Academy High School.
TN - HR123 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Marcus Prescott, Valedictorian, Power Center Academy High School.
TN - HB2228 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, establishes a new method by which a captive insurance company may redomesticate to this state; revises provisions governing premium tax and captive insurance companies; revises other captive insurance provisions. - Amends TCA Title 56.
TN - HB644 Taxes - As enacted, enacts the "Revenue Modernization Act." - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7 and Title 67, Chapter 6.
TN - HB2095 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for any person who leases a motor vehicle on or after July 1, 2016, to knowingly install, conceal, or otherwise place an electronic tracking device in or on the motor vehicle without the consent of the purchaser of the vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 6 and Title 55.
TN - HB1458 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for reckless endangerment by discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle from a Class E felony to a Class C felony, and specifies that each person endangered by the conduct constitutes a separate offense. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-103.
TN - HB183 Veterans - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment and Recovery Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 58 and Title 68, Chapter 55.
TN - HB2520 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, allows Holston Hills Country Club in Knox County to serve and sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises; designates the Orpheum Theater's Halloran Center as a "historic performing arts center" for purposes of on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages; authorizes Porter Inn in Nashville to serve alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1.
TN - HJR440 Memorials, Interns - Marc Meredith