Source: https://trackbill.com/legislator/tennessee-senator-becky-duncan-massey/325-6943/
Timestamp: 2019-03-20 15:59:25
Document Index: 697172129

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Sen. Becky Duncan Massey | Tennessee 2015-2016 | TrackBill
Tennessee Sen. Becky Duncan Massey (R)
Email Address: sen.becky.massey@capitol.tn.gov
776 CHB
TN - SB161 Divorce, Annulment and Alimony - As enacted, requires account balances, accrued benefits, or other values of vested and unvested pension benefits, vested and unvested stock option rights, retirement and other fringe benefits relating to employment prior to the date of marriage together with the appreciation of the value be treated as separate property for purposes of division of property in a divorce or legal separation. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 4.
TN - SB1597 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, revises provisions governing statutes of limitations for persons lacking capacity to understand legal rights and liabilities. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 20; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 30; Title 32; Title 34; Title 54; Title 66 and Title 69.
TN - SB2482 Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits the discharge or termination of employees for filing a workers' compensation claim; limits the amount of damages that an employee can pursue in certain retaliatory discharge actions. - Amends TCA Title 50.
TN - SB1765 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, permits a physician or osteopathic physician to prescribe, order, or otherwise distribute, for the purpose of treating binge eating disorder, a drug that is approved by the FDA for that indication. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.
TN - SB679 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, prohibits sexual offenders and violent sexual offenders from being alone with minors in a private place; makes clarifications to the registry such as requiring the offender to divulge social media names. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.
TN - SB282 District Attorneys - As introduced, reinstates a one-year service compensation step for assistant district attorneys that was statutorily eliminated in 2004. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16.
TN - SB682 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires the Knoxville city mayor to appoint the board of commissioners of a utility board until the board adequately represents the customers of the utility that reside in the unincorporated areas of the county. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 65.
TN - SB1165 Mass Transit - As introduced, directs the department of transportation to conduct a needs assessment of public transportation in Tennessee; requires the department to report its findings by February 1, 2016, to the transportation committees of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 54.
TN - SB1161 TennCare - As introduced, establishes a health insurance voucher program by means of a federal waiver that expands eligibility for Medicaid to 138 percent of the federal poverty line; funds the vouchers with an increase in the hospital assessment from 4.52 percent to six percent; removes expiration from the hospital assessment. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50; Title 56 and Title 71.
TN - SB680 Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, changes the title of advance practice nurses to advanced practice registered nurses and changes references to their credentials from certificates to licenses; revises other provisions governing the practice of advanced practice nursing. - Amends TCA Section 24-9-101; Section 49-2-124; Section 53-10-104; Section 53-10-302; Section 53-11-309; Section 56-32-137; Section 56-7-2408; Section 63-1-109; Section 63-1-301; Section 63-1-313; Section 63-10-217; Section 63-10-505; Section 63-10-506; Title 63, Chapter 29; Section 63-51-102; Section 63-6-244; Section 63-6-802; Title 63, Chapter 7; Section 63-9-121; Section 68-1-128; Section 68-11-224 and Section 71-5-1414.
TN - SB678 Public Works Projects - As enacted, authorizes health, educational, and housing facility corporations to finance or undertake projects located outside of this state if the institution for which the project is financed or undertaken has, or in connection with the financing or undertaking has agreed to make, its primary place of business in this state. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 3.
TN - SB281 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, permits a railroad authority to negotiate all labor portions of certain rehabilitation contracts, instead of being restricted to negotiating only the nonbridge labor portion of such contracts. - Amends TCA Section 7-56-211.
TN - SB1158 Credit, Consumer - As enacted, authorizes certain guardians to place a security freeze on the consumer report of a person under 16 years of age or an incapacitated person; establishes requirements for such a freeze and remedies for violations. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 47 and Title 68.
TN - SB419 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, removes language that allows municipal utility systems to operate water and sewer systems as individual or combined entities, and removes language that allows municipal utility systems to operate a public works system as a special revenue fund. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34 and Title 9, Chapter 21.
TN - SB7 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As enacted, requires fiscal capacity for BEP purposes of each LEA to be set annually by May 1 before the next school year begins; prohibits any change in any LEA's fiscal capacity after it is set. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.
TN - SB1976 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, requires the board for licensing contractors to provide access to license issuance, renewal, and termination forms on the board's web site. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 62, Chapter 6.
TN - SB1978 Medical Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Lactation Consultant Practice Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
TN - SB1975 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires a public college or university to hold a public meeting on a topic of interest to students, alumni, faculty, or staff with an opportunity for public comment if the university receives a petition of at least 5,000 signatures. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1697 Traffic Safety - As enacted, creates offense of operating a motor vehicle in a bicycle lane; establishes exceptions to offense and penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.
TN - SB2484 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, extends the statute of limitations for civil actions based on injury or illness resulting from child sexual abuse that occurred when the person was a minor but was not discovered until after the person became an adult to three years from the discovery of the abuse. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3, Part 1.
TN - SB1766 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 - SB162 Mobile Homes and Manufactured Buildings - As introduced, deletes commissioner of commerce and insurance's authority to establish a monitoring inspection fee to be paid by each manufactured home manufacturer. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 67 and Title 68.
TN - SB2483 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, clarifies that a parent who spends intervals of time with a child and who wishes to relocate is required to provide notice to the other parent after custody or co-parenting has been established by the entry of a permanent parenting plan or final court order. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 1.
TN - SB1981 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services, in consultation with the commissioner of health, to establish a pre-arrest diversion program from minor drug charges. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71.
TN - SB1977 Powers of Attorney - As introduced, revises the Power of Attorney for Care of a Minor Child Act. - Amends TCA Title 34, Chapter 6, Part 3 and Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5.
TN - SB683 Fireworks - As introduced, increases the prohibition on igniting fireworks within 600 feet of a church, hospital, asylum, or public school to 1,000 feet; increases the prohibition on igniting fireworks within 200 feet of where fireworks are stored or sold to 600 feet. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.
TN - SB2487 Livestock - As introduced, creates a 21-member task force to study the equine industry; the task force will make a report and cease to exist by January 15, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 44 and Title 63, Chapter 12.
TN - SB2485 State Employees - As enacted, revises provisions governing the appeal procedure for public employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30 and Title 49.
TN - SB1747 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, authorizes the utility management review board to submit its annual report to the legislative e-mail address of each member of the general assembly; requires the board to notify a party suggesting amendments to the Utility District Law of 1937 within 45 days from receipt of the suggestion if the board decides not to recommend an amendment based on the suggestion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 28; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.
TN - SB681 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, in cases not involving the department of children's services or a child-placing agency, prohibits a court from returning a child to the custody of a parent when the child was removed due to the parent's drug abuse unless the parent demonstrates a sustained commitment to responsible parenting. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 1.
TN - SB2488 Cemeteries - As enacted, creates the community cemetery grant fund; provisions to be repealed July 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 46.
TN - SB1980 Recreational Vehicles - As enacted, establishes licensing requirements specifically for recreational vehicle dealers and salespersons to be overseen by the Tennessee motor vehicle commission. - Amends TCA Title 55.
TN - SR34 Memorials, Death - Jane Hollingsworth "Holly" Watts.
TN - SB1598 Education - As enacted, authorizes local boards of education to admit pupils from outside their respective local school systems at any time without the approval of the previous LEA; adds that in cases where an LEA has created a regional school with a specific focus on STEM, local BEP school funds will also follow the student into the LEA to which the student is transferring and no tuition may be charged by the receiving LEA; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6; Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 3.
TN - SB1599 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, grants a tenured teacher a $5,000 bonus, to be paid from the education trust fund, if the teacher receives a performance evaluation of "above expectations" or better for at least four years during any five-year period after the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year; excludes supervisors, principals, and directors of schools from eligibility for such bonus. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 5.
TN - SJR44 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Kelsey Cruze, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission
TN - SJR459 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Madge Cleveland, heritage conservation trust fund board
TN - SJR434 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Kelsey Cruze Reese, state textbook and instructional materials quality commission
TN - SB283 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the Tennessee Postsecondary Education Fact Book to be published annually prior to March 1, instead of March 15. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SJR126 Memorials, Recognition - Legal Aid of East Tennessee, 50th anniversary.
TN - SB1595 Naming and Designating - As enacted, names the new high school to be constructed for the Tennessee School for the Deaf in honor of Alan J. Mealka.
TN - SB429 Disabled Persons - As introduced, enacts the "Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act." - Amends TCA Section 5-8-102; Title 33; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 67, Chapter 2, Part 1 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
TN - SJR125 Memorials, Recognition - Helping Hands and Linking Arms Season of Service.
TN - SB1164 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, permits students enrolled in an apprentice training program to be eligible for the Tennessee Promise scholarship if the students meet all requirements for the scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7 and Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
TN - SJR173 Memorials, Recognition - East Tennessee Women's Leadership Summit, 10th Anniversary.
TN - SB163 Optometry - As introduced, requires board of optometry to maintain licensee records in an appropriate format instead of a record book. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 8.
TN - SR29 Memorials, Recognition - Helping Hands and Linking Arms Season of Service.
TN - SB8 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, permits a retired high school teacher whose license has lapsed to teach one year without loss of retirement benefits if no qualified teacher can be found and certain other requirements are met. - Amends TCA Section 8-36-821; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 1.
TN - SJR429 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Pete Claussen, heritage conservation trust fund board
TN - SB1159 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Pregnant Workers Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.
TN - SJR174 Memorials, Recognition - Michael Brady Inc., 25th anniversary.
TN - SB1162 Disabled Persons - As enacted, enacts "The Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act."
TN - HB6 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As enacted, requires fiscal capacity for BEP purposes of each LEA to be set annually by May 1 before the next school year begins; prohibits any change in any LEA's fiscal capacity after it is set. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.
TN - HB5 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, permits a retired high school teacher whose license has lapsed to teach one year without loss of retirement benefits if no qualified teacher can be found and certain other requirements are met. - Amends TCA Section 8-36-821; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 1.
TN - SB2209 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Cancer Patient Choice Act," which establishes payment requirements for hypofractionated proton therapy protocols. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63.
TN - SB546 Disabled Persons - As introduced, establishes within the department of human services a task force for vocational rehabilitation services for the blind. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 6.
TN - SB408 Courts, Supreme Court of Tennessee - As enacted, permits the supreme court to commission as senior judge a state trial court judge who was elected at least twice and served at least two full eight-year terms but was not reelected following the judge's most recent term of judicial service. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 2, Part 3.
TN - SB1923 University of Tennessee - As introduced, requires all intercollegiate women's athletic teams at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to be called the "Lady Volunteers" or "Lady Vols" for all official school purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1564 Sentencing - As enacted, specifies that a defendant charged with the offense of domestic assault, child abuse, or child neglect or endangerment is not eligible for suspended prosecution and pretrial diversion. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 15.
TN - SB100 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, clarifies responsibilities of staffing agencies relative to obtaining and submitting fingerprint samples and disclosure forms for substitute employees at child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5.
TN - SB497 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, authorizes the synchronization of a patient's medications and regulates patient cost-sharing and pharmacist dispensing fees affected by a synchronization. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.
TN - SB954 School Transportation - As introduced, requires any bus ordered or purchased on or after July 1, 2016, to be equipped with a restraint system; requires any bus that is currently used to transport students be equipped with a restraint system by July 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 6.
TN - SB1450 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, authorizes local collecting officials of hotel taxes to publish the names of delinquent taxpayers and the amounts owed in certain circumstances; clarifies that the present law that makes state tax records confidential does not apply to local hotel tax records. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 67.
TN - SB2554 Day Care - As enacted, makes various changes to the disclosures, background checks, and training required for child care agencies, including requiring volunteers to disclose any criminal history and be subject to criminal history records checks. - Amends TCA Section 71-3-502 and Section 71-3-507.
TN - SB411 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, restricts persons under the age of 18 from having access to vapor products; revises related provisions and urges the department of agriculture to study effects of the sale and distribution of vapor products to persons under 18 years of age; requires the department of health to implement comprehensive tobacco prevention programs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47; Title 49; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.
TN - SR99 Memorials, Interns - Blake Roller
TN - SJR307 Memorials, Recognition - Emory Valley Center Inc. 60th anniversary.
TN - SJR466 Naming and Designating - "Star Spangled Banner Day," September 14, 2016
TN - SJR471 Memorials, Death - Ross Summitt
TN - SJR243 Memorials, Recognition - Leadership Blount, 25th anniversary.
TN - SJR242 Memorials, Recognition - Bill May, 2015 Governor's Arts Leadership Award recipient.
TN - SJR392 Memorials, Death - William H. Swain.