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Timestamp: 2019-04-25 12:54:54
Document Index: 89780346

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Sen. John Stevens | Tennessee 2017-2018 | TrackBill
TN - SB769 Probate Law - As enacted, revises various provisions relative to wills, trusts, and guardianship. - Amends TCA Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 34 and Title 35.
TN - SR215 Memorials, Interns - James Pharris
TN - SB1501 Henry County - Subject to local approval, authorizes the levy of a motor vehicle privilege tax in Henry County.
TN - SB1486 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, adds debit card fraud to the definition of unlawful conduct that must be reported to the comptroller of the treasury; adds certain certified public accountants and firms to those with a duty to report unlawful conduct to the comptroller; removes immunity from those reporters who knowingly provide false information. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 5.
TN - SB26 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, requires the commissioner of financial institutions to issue a report on title pledges to the governor and general assembly annually rather than biennially. - Amends TCA Title 45.
TN - SB2118 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, removes existing references to "felony" thefts of amounts less than $1,000 from the definition of a non-violent property offense to align with changes made to theft valuations in the Public Safety Act of 2016, under which such thefts are misdemeanors. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-122.
TN - SB1436 Kenton - Subject to local approval, requires purchases or contracts of more than $500 to be approved by the governing body; requires expenditures or contracts of more than $10,000 to be made only after sealed bids have been invited. - Amends Chapter 87 of the Private Acts of 1981.
TN - SB406 Comptroller, State - As introduced, increases from five business days to 10 business days the period a contracting entity has to file a written objection to a notice of audit from the comptroller. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 9.
TN - SB764 Probation and Parole - As introduced, permits courts sentencing to probation persons convicted of Class C, D, and E felonies, rather than just Class E, to contract with private probation companies to provide probation services, and establishes minimum qualifications for the private probation companies in order to contract with the courts. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-303.
TN - SB423 Divorce, Annulment and Alimony - As introduced, allows a court to allow service by publication when a person who has filed for divorce has been unable to locate his or her spouse for five or more years. - Amends TCA Section 21-1-204.
TN - SB135 Election Laws - As introduced, requires Shelby and Davidson counties to conduct nonpartisan elections for all state trial court judgeships, county judicial offices, and judicial clerk offices. - Amends TCA Section 2-13-203.
TN - SB760 Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer operating a manned traffic enforcement camera to do so only in a clearly marked law enforcement vehicle with authorized flashing lights that is visible to approaching vehicles; requires traffic citation issued based upon evidence from a manned traffic enforcement camera to be issued immediately upon determining that an offense occurred. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 55.
TN - SB767 Municipal Government - As introduced, allows a business with fewer than 10 employees providing services within a city prior to the city entering or renewing an exclusive franchise agreement for those services to continue to provide such services. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 12.
TN - SB425 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, permits hospitals and renal dialysis clinics to employ radiologists, pathologists, anesthesiologists, and emergency room physicians under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 11.
TN - SJR90 Memorials, Retirement - Martha Taylor
TN - SR116 Memorials, Interns - Laney Overton
TN - SB1137 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, clarifies that partial expunctions of criminal records are the removal of electronic records from relevant national, state, and local databases; adds $5.00 to seat belt violation fines to cover court clerk costs. - Amends TCA Section 40-32-101 and Section 55-9-603.
TN - SB1429 Gibson County - Subject to local approval, increases the wheel tax on motor vehicles from a maximum of $10.00 to an amount equal to $50.00, and imposes a wheel tax on motorcycles in the amount of $15.00; allocates the revenue to the Gibson County Highway Department. - Amends Chapter 1 of the Private Acts of 1975.
TN - SB169 Equalization Board - As introduced, relieves the commissioner of revenue from the duty of preparing and transmitting to the general assembly a report on the work of the board. - Amends TCA Title 67.
TN - SB1654 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, extends availability of writ of error coram nobis to cases where accused pled guilty or nolo contendere, upon a discovery of subsequently discovered or new evidence. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 26.
TN - SJR913 Memorials, Recognition - Jermize Weddle, Boys and Girls Clubs Youth of the Year
TN - SB408 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, permits a Tennessee resident who has been residing outside the United States due to employment to apply for a one-time license to ship wine purchased by the individual to this state. - Amends TCA Title 57.
TN - SB761 Public Employees - As introduced, provides for payment of $25,000 to the estates of certain first responders killed in the line of duty; creates a special account in the general fund and directs the commissioner of finance and administration to administer the payments to decedents' estates. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 58.
TN - SB428 Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, removes social security number from the information that a funeral establishment must include on the permanent identification device attached to a dead human body prior to interment and from the permanent identification device placed in the crematory urn before the remains are placed in the urn. - Amends TCA Section 62-5-313.
TN - SB1718 Mental Illness - As enacted, adds community mental health centers to definition of healthcare organization in order to add them to quality improvement committees. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.
TN - SB1988 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, revises provisions governing state funds appropriated specifically for child advocacy centers. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4.
TN - SB1719 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, authorizes board of trustees for the Tennessee consolidated retirement system to co-invest a political subdivision's pension plan assets or take custody of such assets under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 9-3-507.
TN - SB1652 Obion County - As introduced, removes the restriction on the use of the revenue from the hotel occupancy tax in Obion County. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1425.
TN - SB1655 Process, Service of - As enacted, authorizes, in an action by landlord to repossess landlord's property, service of process on a contractually named party and not just on an adult found in possession of property; specifies that in a forcible entry and detainer action, service on an adult person occupying the landlord's premises is sufficient to enable the landlord to regain possession of the landlord's property. - Amends TCA Section 29-18-115.
TN - SB1500 Firearms and Ammunition - 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.
TN - SB2169 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, authorizes former Tennessee justice or judge who has practiced law for at least 25 years and who has at least one year of service as justice or judge to be designated as senior justice or judge; requires appointments and renewals of senior judges to be approved by joint meeting of senate judiciary committee and civil and criminal justice committees of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 17.
TN - SB768 Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, requires auto repair shop to include on the insured's or third-party claimant's copy of the estimate a notice if after-market crash parts made by a manufacturer other than the vehicle manufacturer are being used in the vehicle's repair. - Amends TCA Title 56.
TN - SB1973 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, excludes from the definition of "pre-need funeral contract" and regulation, as a contract of insurance, a travel protection agreement for the coordination and arranging of all professional services related to the preparation for the purpose of transportation and subsequent transportation of a dead human body. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 4.
TN - SB1974 Controlled Substances - 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.
TN - SB1989 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement - 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.
TN - SB2061 Revenue, Dept. of - 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.
TN - SB2062 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, changes from March 1 to April 1 the date by which the department of safety must submit an annual seizure report to the speakers of the senate and house of representatives and to the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate, civil justice committee of the house of representatives, and criminal justice committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14; Title 8, Chapter 7; Title 38, Chapter 6; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.
TN - SB1825 Notary Public - As introduced, requires advertisements by notary publics on online media to contain substantially the same message as is currently required for advertisements on radio or television that the notary public is not an attorney licensed to practice law in this state and may not give legal advice or accept fees for legal advice. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 16; Title 39 and Title 66.
TN - SB1826 Real Property - As introduced, enacts the "Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act." - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 27 and Title 66.
TN - SB2337 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, authorizes required notice of proposed local sales tax to be published on local government's website in lieu of publication in newspaper of general circulation. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 7.
TN - SJR160 Memorials, Sports - Dresden High School, 2016 Division I Class 1A Football State Champions
TN - SB2119 Taxes - 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.
TN - SB1862 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, imposes certain rules of construction when interpreting an insurer's responsibilities under a policy of insurance; limits an insurer's duty to defend based on the allegations in the underlying complaint. - Amends TCA Title 56.
TN - SB27 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, removes the intermediate appeal to the court of criminal appeals in death penalty cases; provides for automatic direct review by the Tennessee supreme court for convictions for which a sentence of death is imposed. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 35.
TN - SB2732 McKenzie - 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.
TN - SB2747 Henry County - As introduced, requires nonpartisan elections for county officials in Henry County upon approval by referendum. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 1.
TN - SB29 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement - As introduced, rescinds the requirement that the commissioner of revenue disclose information related to enforcement of the Tennessee Tobacco Manufacturers' Escrow Fund Act of 1999 to the attorney general; removes authorization for the commissioner of revenue and the attorney general to disclose this information under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 43; Title 47; Title 49; Title 62; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.
TN - SB762 Schools, Charter - As introduced, authorizes an achievement school district (ASD) operated charter school, operating for at least three years, to be operated by the state board of education if benchmarks agreed upon by the ASD and charter school in the original charter application are met. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 13; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.
TN - SB2172 Trusts - As enacted, clarifies circumstances under which a trust may be construed as a total return unitrust. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 6.
TN - SB1464 Troy - Subject to local approval, decreases the number of required monthly meeting times of the board of mayor and aldermen from two to one. - Amends Chapter 50 of the Private Acts of 1979.
TN - SB763 Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) - As enacted, establishes that local emergency management agency personnel have all rights, benefits, privileges, and protections available pursuant to state and local laws, including death benefits in the amount of $25,000. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 58.
TN - SB1088 Victims' Rights - As introduced, requires the victim or victims to receive at least one-half of every restitution payment the offender makes as part of court-ordered restitution regardless of how much the offender owes the state in court costs, fees, fines, and litigation taxes. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1; Title 39 and Title 40.
TN - SB1653 Obion County - 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.
TN - SB1972 Victims' Rights - As introduced, changes the frequency required for newspaper publication of a notice of the existence of a victims' compensation escrow fund from once every three months to twice every six months. - Amends TCA Title 24 and Title 29.
TN - SB1442 Milan - Subject to local approval, authorizes the Milan Special School District to issue and sell bonds or notes to provide funds for the district. - Amends Chapter 504 of the Private Acts of 1954; as amended.
TN - SB28 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As introduced, authorizes a court to award punitive damages, attorney's fees, court costs, and incurred legal expenses to a creditor who prevails in an action against a debtor for the fraudulent transfer of assets or property to avoid an obligation. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 3, Part 3.
TN - SB1991 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, reduces the period for which a manufacturer's license must be suspended or revoked for mislabeling its product as Tennessee whiskey from not less than one year to not more than one year. - Amends TCA Title 57.
TN - SB1086 Real Property - 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.
TN - SB1990 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, extends, from not more than 10 days to not more than 15 days, the period for which the director of parks and recreation may issue permits for special events in state parks. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5 and Title 11.
TN - SB1441 Kenton - Subject to local approval, increases the amount required for competitive bidding for purchases or contracts from $1,000 to $10,000. - Amends Chapter 87 of the Private Acts of 1981.
TN - SB424 Divorce, Annulment and Alimony - As enacted, requires courts in making equitable division of marital property to consider all relevant evidence, including valuation methods typically used with regard to such assets without regard to whether the sale of the asset is reasonably foreseeable, in determining the value of an interest in a closely held business or similar asset. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 4.
TN - SB1499 Criminal Procedure - 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.
TN - SB427 Trusts - As introduced, authorizes trustees of revocable trusts to publish notice of a settlor's death to creditors if letters testamentary or of administration have not been issued to a personal representative and the representative's corresponding notice requirements to creditors have not been discharged. - Amends TCA Title 30 and Title 35.
TN - SB426 Building Commission, State - As enacted, transfers employees of the state building commission from the department of finance and administration to the department of treasury. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 15 and Title 4, Chapter 3.
TN - SB1087 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, makes various changes to the Municipal Energy Authority Act. - Amends TCA Title 7.
TN - SB1630 Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes the City of Hornbeak to collect unpaid charges for municipal sewer services in the same manner as unpaid property taxes, including through the attachment of a lien against real property. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 35.
TN - SB1217 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, authorizes commissioners and chief executive officers of administrative departments to evaluate certain actions by a regulatory board to determine whether the action may constitute a potentially unreasonable restraint of trade. - Amends TCA Title 4.
TN - SB438 Business Organizations - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Uniform Limited Partnership Act of 2017." - Amends TCA Title 61.
TN - SB1000 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, establishes pension stabilization reserve trusts for the hybrid and legacy retirement plans; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 9 and Title 9, Chapter 4.
TN - SB1241 Sentencing - As enacted, increases penalty for unlawfully possessing a firearm with a prior conviction for a felony involving use of force or violence from Class C felony to Class B felony; increases from Class D felony to Class C felony penalty for person unlawfully possessing firearm with prior felony drug offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.
TN - SB262 Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits a local government from adopting or enforcing any ordinance, regulation, resolution, policy, or any other legal requirement that regulates or imposes a requirement upon an employer pertaining to employee scheduling, except when necessary to avoid creating a public or private nuisance. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51.
TN - SB2217 Water Pollution - As enacted, repeals the provisions of Chapter 293 of the Public Acts of 2017 that would eliminate the department of environment and conservation's concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) operating permit program on March 1, 2018; makes permit mandatory for certain animal feeding operations that use a liquid waste management system and optional for other animal feeding operations; and makes other revisions. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Chapter 293 of the Public Acts of 2017.
TN - SB2466 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, requires certain training and examination in order to use the title "certified animal massage therapist" or "registered animal massage therapist;" requires liability insurance. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 12.
TN - SB2603 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, revises law regarding venue for review of contested cases under the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5, Part 3.
TN - SB1649 Education - 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.
TN - SB2124 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the department and state board of education to provide certain information regarding Bible curricula and courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB605 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the definition of "material" relative to sexual exploitation of children to include any computer image, or computer-generated image, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
TN - SB2238 Water Pollution - As introduced, specifies that the board of water quality, oil, and gas may promulgate rules concerning the effect of national pollutant discharge elimination system permit in an enforcement proceeding. - Amends TCA Section 69-3-105.
TN - SB1929 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, prohibits boards, commissions, and other multi-member governmental entities from promulgating rules or issuing other internal restrictions that infringe on an entity member's freedom of speech. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 1.
TN - SB2684 Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, revises provisions governing eligible collateral pledged by a state depository for public funds. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4.
TN - SB365 Welfare - As enacted, enacts the "Program Integrity Act of 2017," which establishes certain requirements for benefit eligibility. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 1 and Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 3.
TN - SB1201 Privacy, Confidentiality - As enacted, makes confidential the identities of vendors providing the state with goods and services used to protect certain electronic, communication, and data storage systems; authorizes a governmental entity receiving such goods and services to vote to make the identities of such vendors confidential; revises exception as to who may receive such confidential information. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504.
TN - SB2126 Planning, Public - 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.
TN - SJR480 Memorials, Recognition - Gallatin, "Nicest Place in America"