Source: https://trackbill.com/legislator/tennessee-senator-frank-s-niceley/463-6945/
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 11:06:14
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Sen. Frank S. Niceley | Tennessee 2017-2018 | TrackBill
TN - SB172 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, enacts "The Motor Vehicle Recall and Disclosure Law." - Amends TCA Title 55.
TN - SB2416 Consumer Protection - As introduced, authorizes awards of treble damages in private actions for violations of the Consumer Protection Act when the unfair or deceptive act was directed at veterans. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
TN - SB1918 Civil Procedure - As introduced, authorizes aggrieved parties to demand a jury in judicial review of an administrative hearing under the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act and in cases for a permanent injunction or forfeiture under the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. - Amends TCA Section 3-6-204; Title 4; Section 8-3-102; Title 27; Title 29; Section 36-5-1003; Section 36-5-1107; Section 37-5-514; Section 39-17-1509; Section 40-33-213; Section 42-2-224; Section 47-9-513; Section 49-1-1107; Title 53; Section 55-12-103; Section 55-17-116; Section 55-10-425; Section 60-1-401; Title 65; Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 13; Section 68-120-110; Section 68-201-116; Section 68-212-113; Section 68-212-114; Section 68-212-215; Section 68-221-714; Section 68-1-104; Section 69-3-115; Section 69-11-118; Section 71-3-510; Section 71-4-507 and Section 71-3-509.
TN - SJR530 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges Congress and the United States Department of Health and Human Services to revise and update the Medicare Wage Index factor.
TN - SB977 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, to the extent authorized by federal law, requires the department to conduct background checks on an applicant's criminal history in the eight years, instead of seven years, prior to applying to a food program administered by the department to determine if anything in the criminal history would make the applicant's sponsoring organization ineligible to participate in the food program. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.
TN - SB975 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows security guards who are employed on a part-time basis by a public institution of higher education and who are handgun carry permit holders to carry a handgun on campus in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.
TN - SB971 Municipal Government - As introduced, extends from seven to 10 days the period by which notice of a hearing regarding construction of a municipal improvement must be published in a local newspaper and at the office of municipal government. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.
TN - SB653 Handgun Permits - As introduced, authorizes handgun carry permit holders to carry a concealed handgun into a posted building or prohibited place operated by a state or local governmental entity unless there are metal detectors and armed security guards stationed at all public entrances. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
TN - SB651 Food and Food Products - As enacted, specifies that a food warehouse license is not required to operate a farm to consumer distribution point, if certain requirements met, and that a retail food store permit is not required to operate a farm to consumer distribution point. - Amends TCA Title 53.
TN - SB647 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, authorizes community corrections officers in Claiborne County, Grainger County, Hancock County, Hawkins County, Jefferson County, and Union County who hold a valid Tennessee handgun permit to carry a handgun at all times and in all places in this state while in the course of employment and engaged in the actual discharge of official duties. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
TN - SB501 Growth and Development - As introduced, lengthens the period, from 30 to 45 days, before an annexation approved in a referendum becomes effective. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 49; Title 67; Title 68 and Chapter 1101 of the Public Acts of 1998.
TN - SB349 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, authorizes the importation of certain wildlife harvested in other states if taken directly to a taxidermist, or to a meat processing facility in this state for processing; establishes restrictions on the use and disposal of such wildlife by taxidermists and processors. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53, Chapter 7 and Title 70.
TN - SB342 Election Laws - As introduced, requires candidates to be listed in alphabetical order in a presidential election year and the following year and in reverse alphabetical order in a gubernatorial election year and the following year. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 5.
TN - SB340 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Local School District Empowerment Act," which creates a pilot program for reestablishment of the office of elected school superintendent; requires the department of education to study the pilot program procedures for reestablishment of the office; adjusts duties of local boards of education in systems in which the office of elected school superintendent is reestablished. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB2117 Flags - As enacted, prohibits local governments from adopting or enforcing regulations that prohibit or restrict the display of a flag of the United States of America, a flag of the state of Tennessee, the MIA/POW flag, or an official or replica flag of any branch of the United States armed forces on a property owner's property except when necessary to promote public health and safety. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 5; Title 6, Chapter 54 and Title 13, Chapter 7.
TN - SB2115 Business and Commerce - As introduced, authorizes licensed plant dealers to market and do business through marketing affiliates with one or more corporate entities if the relationship between the dealer and each affiliate is clearly designated on the marketing affiliate’s promotional materials and the dealer and affiliate share the same location. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 6, Part 1.
TN - SB2114 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits any person, governmental entity, or other legal entity, including a utility district, that offers goods or services to consumers from rounding up the consumer's bill for goods or services without obtaining the consumer's express, written permission to opt-in to such a billing procedure. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 45; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 62 and Title 65.
TN - SB2111 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates sports facilities at MTSU and TSU as "sports authority facility" for purposes of sales of alcoholic beverages and beer for consumption on the premises; specifies that ban on selling wine on Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter applies to retail food store wine licensees in addition to package stores. - Amends TCA Title 57.
TN - SB2110 District Attorneys - As introduced, changes from February 1 to March 1 the date by which each district attorney general must report how many administrative subpoenas were requested, issued, contested, quashed, or modified, and the number of search warrants issued and prosecutions following certain administrative subpoenas. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 17.
TN - SB2109 Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Historic Properties Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 13.
TN - SB2108 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, requires the department to maintain materials designed to assist municipal solid waste region board members with administering their regions and to publish such materials on its website and send an electronic copy of the materials to the appropriate appointing authorities by July 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.
TN - SB2106 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires that signs used for posting prohibitions on the possessions of firearms on a premises be permanently affixed to the locations where the signs are posted. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1359.
TN - SB2104 Food and Food Products - As introduced, exempts certain homemade foods and beverages from food branding, labeling, and inspection requirements. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 43; Title 53 and Title 68.
TN - SB2103 Water Pollution - As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to issue NPDES permits and state operating permits to concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and animal feeding operations upon request; NPDES permitting remains mandatory for CAFOs that are required to have such permit under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Chapter 293 of the Public Acts of 2017.
TN - SB1917 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a person not acting under color of law from intercepting a wire, oral, or electronic communication unless the person is a party to the communication and all parties to the communication have given consent, rather than one party's consent. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 3.
TN - SB1913 Milk, Dairy Products - As introduced, defines "butter" for purposes of the Dairy Law of the State of Tennessee to have the same meaning as currently used under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 53.
TN - SB1912 Wine & Wineries - As introduced, clarifies winery may sell fruit, cheese, appetizers, chips, pretzels, and other snack foods regardless if they are served to pair with wine. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-207.
TN - SB1911 Local Government, General - As introduced, prohibits a municipality or county from adopting or enforcing an ordinance or resolution that prohibits a property owner from displaying the flag of the United States or an official or replica flag of any branch of the United States armed forces on the property owner's property. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 5; Title 6, Chapter 54 and Title 13, Chapter 7.
TN - SB1908 Business and Commerce - As introduced, establishes the Tennessee horse racing commission to regulate horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 44; Title 62 and Title 67.
TN - SB1785 Codes - As introduced, exempts churches that seat less than 400 people from being required to install a sprinkler system. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68.
TN - SB1784 DUI Offenses - As introduced, requires that person convicted of DUI forfeit privilege to purchase alcohol for period of time based upon prior DUI convictions with lifetime forfeiture for third conviction; establishes new driver license format for person subject to alcohol purchase restriction; creates new Class C misdemeanor offense for unlawful purchase of alcohol by DUI offender or knowing sale of alcohol to person subject to alcohol purchase restriction. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 7; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 57.
TN - SB1783 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, increases the tax on unregistered or improperly registered freight motor vehicles; revises other provisions related to overloaded freight motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55.
TN - SB1184 Eminent Domain - As enacted, revises and enacts various provisions governing eminent domain, including provisions governing the taxing of costs. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 55; Title 13; Title 29, Chapter 17 and Title 29, Chapter 16.
TN - SB2112 TennCare - As introduced, prohibits the bureau of TennCare from including any drug containing oxycodone on any formulary or preferred drug list maintained for the Medicaid program; requires any drugs containing oxycodone to be removed from the formularies or lists within 90 days of the effective date of this act. - Amends TCA Title 71.
TN - SB1938 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, increases number of retail package store licenses a person may have from two to three. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 4.
TN - SB1915 Controlled Substances - As enacted, clarifies that the present law that exempts certain oils containing cannabidiol and used for research or treatment of seizures or epilepsy will not be repealed on June 30, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 43.
TN - SB2090 Election Laws - As introduced, requires any county using direct recording electronic voting systems to have the capability to create a voter-verifiable paper audit trail for each ballot cast. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 9.
TN - SB343 Food and Food Products - As enacted, requires commissioner of agriculture to promulgate rules to exempt from the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act any livestock producers who are acting in compliance with the Federal Meat Inspection Act. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 7.
TN - SB346 Business and Commerce - As introduced, establishes the Tennessee horse racing commission to regulate horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 44; Title 62 and Title 67.
TN - SB350 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts certain sales of paper money and gold, silver, platinum, and palladium coins and bullion from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
TN - SB649 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to contract with a county that contracts with a private entity for correctional services only if the contract between the county and the private entity meets requirements of the Private Prison Contracting Act. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 9; Title 40 and Title 41.
TN - SB970 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, authorizes an emergency communications district to purchase, in lieu of surety bonds, fidelity bonds to cover any losses from breach of the condition of faithful discharge of the duties of any board member, executive committee member, employee, officer, or any other authorized person of an emergency communications district who receives public funds, has authority to make expenditures from public funds, or has access to any public funds. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 8.
TN - SB1711 Railroads - As introduced, requires railroad companies, prior to the application of an herbicide within 100 feet of residential property, to provide each resident of such residential property with written notice of such application no less than 30 calendar days prior to such application. - Amends TCA Title 65 and Title 68.
TN - SB989 Animal Control - As enacted, establishes uniform requirement that agencies that take in stray and abandoned animals make an effort to contact the animal's owner within 48 hours of the receipt of the animal, or within two business days of the receipt of the animal when received on a Friday, when there is some identification marking or tag on the animal that bears notification information. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2; Title 44 and Section 55-4-290.
TN - SB978 Education - As introduced, allows students to indicate that they do not wish to receive electronic advertisements and solicitations if students' email addresses are used in campus directories. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB650 Mining and Quarrying - As introduced, requires the state board of equalization to make available on its website the form that mineral owners use to disclose their interests to local property assessors. - Amends TCA Section 28-2-110; Title 59; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 69.
TN - SB2373 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, authorizes the utility management review board to authorize the private purchase of a utility district; deems such utility district upon sale and transfer of control a public utility for purposes of regulation by the Tennessee public utility commission. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 65.
TN - SB2178 Education - As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability to study the composition, structure, duties, responsibilities, and operations of other states' independent professional standards boards to determine their effectiveness and efficiency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 10; Title 49 and Title 63.
TN - SB2105 Cooperatives - As introduced, prohibits dairy cooperatives from offering a lower price to milk producers who produce some of their own milk than the price offered to milk producers who do not produce any of their own milk. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 44.
TN - SB2116 Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes a person to serve simultaneously as a member of a county election commission and as a member of a municipal or county board if the position on the board is not an elected position and is filled only by appointment and compensation for service on the board is $100 per meeting or less. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5 and Title 6.
TN - SB469 Real Property - As enacted, prohibits a homeowners' association from adopting or enforcing a dedicatory instrument provision that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, a property owner from displaying the flag of the United States of America or an official or replica flag of any branch of the United States armed forces on the property owner's property; allows certain restrictions regarding display. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 66.
TN - SB2113 Privacy, Confidentiality - As introduced, prohibits certain persons and entities from requiring an individual to have a radio frequency identification device attached to, or implanted into, the individual in order to engage in employment with the persons or entities, or to enter a school or a school's grounds. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 37; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.
TN - SB2417 Consumer Protection - As introduced, makes it a violation of the Consumer Protection Act to represent that goods or services are being offered at a price or on terms available only to veterans while offering the same price or terms to non-veterans. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
TN - SR154 Memorials, Congress - Urges U.S. Speaker of House and House Chief Clerk to return a TBI report on Martin Luther King assassination known as "MLK Document 200472" submitted to U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1976.
TN - SB336 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class E felony of injuring someone or damaging their property with the intent to intimidate the person from the free exercise of political beliefs, political party affiliation, or choice of candidate for public office. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3.
TN - SB1985 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits any person who regularly engages in or solicits consumer transactions involving the installation of used tires from installing an unsafe used tire on a motor vehicle; specifies that installing an unsafe used tired is a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 55.
TN - SB1936 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, prohibits the expenditure of state funds to enforce electronic logging regulations against any motor vehicle transporting nonhazardous materials for farm purposes that does not travel outside the boundaries of the state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 55.
TN - SB471 Education - As introduced, requires that the commissioner of education's guidelines regarding the timely and responsible release of education data for research purposes be posted on the department’s website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1937 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, increases number of retail package store licenses a person may have from two to six. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-406.
TN - SB979 Controlled Substances - As introduced, clarifies that industrial hemp's constituent chemical compounds, cannabinoids, and terpenes other than delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) are not controlled substances. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 43, Chapter 26.
TN - SB2481 Welfare - As introduced, requires the commissioner of human services to study the feasibility of implementing drug testing program for recipients of welfare programs administered by the department; requires the commissioner to report recommendations to the health committee of the house of representatives and the senate health and welfare committee no later than January 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 71.
TN - SJR289 Memorials, Death - Dr. Bill Sanders
TN - SB2177 Law Enforcement - As introduced, permits participating counties and the comptroller of the treasury to deliver by electronic means the annual reports required by the County Bounty Act. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 40.
TN - SB1712 Treasurer, State - As introduced, increases from $25,000 to $100,000, the maximum amount of a claim filed against the state for which the treasurer can settle without seeking authority from the governor and comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8, Part 4 and Title 20, Chapter 13.
TN - SJR539 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Eleanor Yoakum, Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation Board of Directors
TN - SB2107 Recycling - As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to include a description of the activities of the office of cooperative marketing for recyclables in its annual report on solid waste management. - Amends TCA Section 41-2-123; Section 57-5-201; Section 67-4-402; Title 68, Chapter 211 and Chapter 616 of the Public Acts of 2010.
TN - SB1910 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, prevents a municipality from charging a person with a violation of any ordinance prohibiting discharging a firearm within the municipal limits if the person acted in justifiable self-defense or to prevent the commission of a criminal offense when discharging the firearm. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1322.
TN - SB1909 Food and Food Products - As introduced, exempts certain homemade foods and beverages from food branding, labeling, and inspection requirements. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 43; Title 53 and Title 68.
TN - SJR761 Memorials, Interns - Suzanne Schultz
TN - SB1916 Medical Occupations - As introduced, prohibits adverse action against licenses to practice certain health care professions based on recommending, prescribing, or marketing industrial hemp-based products. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 43 and Title 63.
TN - SB2372 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, requires aviation fuel dealers to notify commissioner of sale or transfer of business; requires annual report on transportation equity trust fund to include amount of aviation fuel taxes derived from the use of fuel in turbo-propeller or jet engine aircraft. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-207; Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 4 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 2.
TN - SB2482 Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires healthcare practitioners to provide certain information to patients prior to administering a vaccine. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
TN - SB967 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, enacts the "Drug Treatment Instead of Incarceration Act." - Amends TCA Title 40.
TN - SR73 Memorials, Interns - Will H. Freeman
TN - SB341 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, authorizes a school counselor to refer or help facilitate a referral of a parent or legal guardian's student to a counselor or therapist for mental health assessments or services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 63.
TN - SB1914 Forests and Forest Products - As enacted, requires designation of free-use areas where residents may remove downed and dead timber from state forests for their personal use under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 11, Chapter 4; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 43.
TN - SJR396 Memorials, Recognition - Nicole Gail Burney, Boys and Girls Clubs of the Dumplin Valley Youth of the Year
TN - SJR273 Memorials, Recognition - Davis Creek Primitive Baptist Church, 220th anniversary
TN - SB990 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Home-Rule LEA Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.
TN - SB1185 Comptroller, State - As introduced, requires the chief procurement officer to provide the comptroller of the treasury a list of all state contracts, grants, and the cost of each; requires the comptroller to put the list on the comptroller's website; allows chief procurement officer to charge administrative fee for creating and maintaining the list. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 9 and Title 12.
TN - SB968 Agriculture - As enacted, revises certain provisions regarding the industrial hemp program. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 7; Section 43-26-102 and Section 43-26-103.
TN - SB470 Education - As introduced, changes the date, from September 30 to October 1, of when an LEA must submit a report to the commissioner of education on the remediation services provided to students who fail a required examination. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB347 Food and Food Products - As introduced, includes catering businesses that make occasional sales one time per week up to 52 times per year in the exclusion of catering businesses from regulation as food service establishments under the Tennessee Food Safety Act and the Tennessee Retail Food Safety Act. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 68.
TN - SB655 Agriculture - As introduced, exempts from commercial feed licensure requirements sales of ground corn and grains as animal feed by the farmers who produced the corn and grains if the ground feed is bagged and the ingredients are identified. - Amends TCA Title 44.
TN - SB338 Secretary of State - As enacted, requires the secretary of state, when a property owner makes a request, to opine on whether property has been annexed by a municipality. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 3, Part 1.
TN - SB339 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, reduces the penalty for the offense of carrying a handgun without a permit and with the intent to go armed to a Class C misdemeanor with a $25 fine for a first offense or $50 for a second or subsequent offense and requires a citation to be issued in lieu of arrest. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 40.
TN - SB2386 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires that driver education courses in public schools include instruction on the dangers of using hand-held mobile telephones or personal digital assistants to transmit or read a message; requires that students be apprised of the delinquent act, and penalty, to knowingly operate a motor vehicle and use a mobile phone or personal digital assistant equipped with a hands-free device to transmit or read a written message. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB2419 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires the appointment of a district attorney pro tem if the district attorney has a conflict in regard to a petition for expunction of criminal records concerning an offense committed while protesting a law or ordinance designed to maintain or enforce racial segregation or racial discrimination, the conviction for which occurred 37 or more years ago, - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 55 and Title 71.
TN - SB2180 Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Transparency in Higher Education Act, which requires each state institution of higher education to notify parents of enrolled students of the parent's right to view student records under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 on the institution's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB2282 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, reduces, from three years to one year, the period of time a security device submitted by a licensee conducting money transmission operations must remain in place after the licensee ceases operations in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 7, Part 2.
TN - SB348 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at Swann's Marina in Jefferson County. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.
TN - SB976 Children - As introduced, creates a presumption, for the purposes of awarding grandparent visitation, that a custodial parent or parents or custodian opposes grandparent visitation if the grandparent has been denied visitation for a period of three months or more. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 3.
TN - SJR87 Memorials, Recognition - Frostee Freeze Drive-In, 60th anniversary
TN - SB654 Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, eliminates the wholesale liquor tax on distilled spirits certified to be produced from not less than 51 percent of Tennessee agricultural products; authorizes a distillery to sell its distilled spirits at retail for consumption on the premises. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.
TN - SB1182 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, authorizes property owners to provide notice that trespassing is prohibited on their property by marking trees and posts with purple paint as an alternative to posting signs. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14.
TN - SB345 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, contingent upon monthly surplus state tax revenues exceeding $5 million, allocates 25 percent of the surplus revenues to the priority transportation project fund to be used for transportation projects; requires commissioner of transportation to recommend the top 100 projects to be funded; authorizes general assembly to appropriate from fund to implement all or part of the projects recommended. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 67.
TN - SB973 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires the treasurer to invest 40 percent of the funds in the rainy day fund in gold bullion or other precious metal bullion; requires the treasurer to contract with a bank in the state to store the bullion at no cost to the state. - Amends TCA Title 9.
TN - SB1713 Law Enforcement - As introduced, clarifies that the primary duty of a conservator of the peace during unlawful assemblies, riots, or other breaches of the peace is to protect the lives and property of citizens and prohibits a local governmental official from issuing any order or directive that would prevent or hinder a law enforcement officer from protecting property and lives during those times. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20, Part 2 and Title 38, Chapter 3, Part 1.
TN - SB652 County Government - As introduced, prohibits county charters from being interpreted or amended in a manner inconsistent with state law with respect to the duties, qualifications, and privileges of the constitutional county offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, or trustee. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 1, Part 2.
TN - SB974 Controlled Substances - As introduced, removes from the definition of marijuana the requirement that an institution of higher education be certified by the drug enforcement agency to work with low-cannabidiol cannabis oil. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-402 and Chapter 936 of the Public Acts of 2014.
TN - SB2443 State Employees - As enacted, revises provisions governing probation periods for state employment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30.
TN - SB648 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, lowers amount of revenue required from sale of artwork from 90 percent to 80 percent in order for an art gallery to serve wine to patrons. - Amends TCA Title 57.
TN - SB337 Food and Food Products - As enacted, adds beekeeping to practices included in the Tennessee Community Gardening Act. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 44, Chapter 15.
TN - SB972 Election Laws - As introduced, requires the registry of election finance to annually report to the general assembly the aggregate amount of penalties and fines collected by the registry for each calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.
TN - SJR340 Memorials, Recognition - Jefferson County High School agriculture education department
TN - SB1183 Statutes and Codification - As introduced, enacts the "Original Intent Act of 2017," which requires the constitutions and laws of the United States and Tennessee to be interpreted in a manner to preserve their meaning at the time written. - Amends TCA Title 1.
TN - SB344 Election Laws - As introduced, changes the nomination process for candidates for United States senator. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.
TN - SB2179 Disabled Persons - As introduced, expands eligibility for sport hunting licenses to include disabled persons who hunt big game with an air bow. - Amends TCA Title 70.
TN - SJR943 Memorials, Recognition - Dylan McClanahan, Boys and Girls Clubs Youth of the Year
TN - SB1715 Alamo - Subject to local approval, rewrites the charter for the Town of Alamo. - Amends Chapter 557 of the Private Acts of 1911; as amended.
TN - SB964 Natural Disasters - As enacted, authorizes a county highway department to perform work as part of a municipality or county's plan for providing assistance for natural disaster relief to private residential property. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-1601.
TN - SB1045 Telecommunications - As introduced, authorizes municipal electrics and electrical cooperatives to provide telecommunication service, including broadband service either on its own or by joint venture or other business relationship with one or more third parties and in geographical areas that are inside and outside the electric plant's service area. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.
TN - SB1200 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, makes confidential certain information related to guests of state parks. - Amends TCA Section 11-1-102.
TN - SB1187 Food and Food Products - As enacted, exempts from licensure certain producers of small amounts of non-hazardous food intended for commerce; makes various changes to food safety laws. - Amends TCA Section 53-1-103; Section 53-1-208; Title 53, Chapter 12; Section 53-2-107; Title 53, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 53, Chapter 9.
TN - SB125 Flags - As enacted, requires that the P.O.W.-M.I.A. flag be displayed daily below the United States flag in War Memorial Plaza and in Vietnam Veterans Park and displayed over the state capitol on days that neither house of the general assembly is in session during the month of September. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-406 and Title 58, Chapter 4, Part 3.
TN - SB2665 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts from sales and use tax, bees, hives, and beekeeping equipment sold to consumers for noncommercial purposes. - Amends TCA Title 67.
TN - SB2725 Alamo - Subject to local approval, rewrites the charter for the Town of Alamo. - Amends Chapter 557 of the Private Acts of 1911; as amended.
TN - SB1215 Telecommunications - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Broadband Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7; Title 7, Chapter 59, Part 3; Title 65, Chapter 25 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20.
TN - SB904 Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, clarifies definition of "agriculture" for purposes of classification and assessment of property tax. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 43 and Title 67, Chapter 5.
TN - SB1260 Sentencing - As enacted, establishes a sentencing enhancement factor for defendants who are illegally or unlawfully in the United States. - Amends TCA Title 40.
TN - SB2231 Food and Food Products - As enacted, specifies that the department of agriculture may cooperate with the United States food and drug administration in enforcement of the federal standards for the growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of produce for human consumption. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 1.
TN - SB1192 Securities - As enacted, makes various changes to the regulation of securities under the Tennessee Securities Act of 1980. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 1, Part 1.
TN - SB385 Drugs, Synthetic or Analogue - As enacted, excludes from the definition of marijuana a cannabidiol product approved as a prescription medication by the United States Food and Drug Administration. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-402.
TN - SB1386 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop an evidence-based training program on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) for school leaders and teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB149 School Transportation - As introduced, places restrictions on receiving school bus driver license endorsements or being hired as a school bus driver for drivers who have committed serious traffic violations, including excessive speeding or reckless driving. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55.
TN - SB2192 Veterans - As enacted, makes the veteran hiring preference mandatory. - Amends TCA Section 8-30-307 and Title 9, Chapter 8.
TN - SB508 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability (OREA) in the office of the comptroller of the treasury to study and report to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives on the issue of electing a director of schools versus allowing the local board of education to appoint the director of schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SR25 Memorials, Recognition - Connor Concepts, 25th anniversary
TN - SJR14 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Sons of the American Revolution
TN - SJR357 Memorials, Recognition - Loretta Lynn
TN - SJR513 Memorials, Recognition - Rotary International Day, February 23, 2018