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Sen. Raumesh Akbari | Tennessee 2019-2020 | TrackBill
TN - SB1153 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, prohibits local boards of education and school administrators from suspending students in pre-kindergarten through grade two from attending school as a form of discipline. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB882 Political Parties - As introduced, authorizes the minority party to appoint members of the state executive committee by rules of the party rather than at the regular August primary election. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.
TN - SB813 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of leaving a firearm or firearm ammunition unattended or with a person under 18 years of age in a motor vehicle or boat, if the firearm is not locked in a trunk, glove box, or interior of the person's motor vehicle or boat. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
TN - SB89 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, allows a once-yearly bonus subsidy payment to participating child care agencies with a three-star quality rating that accept the department's child care assistance subsidy payment. - Amends TCA Title 71.
TN - SB815 Employees, Employers - As introduced, adds private employers to the types of employers subject to the requirements of the Healthy Workplace Act. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.
TN - SJR94 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Katie Pullen Foster, 100th Birthday
TN - SB1148 Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, requires each municipality to maintain a list of all properties located within the municipality's boundaries that are designated as national historic landmarks and properties listed on the national register of historic places. - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 7.
TN - SB1144 Sheriffs - As introduced, reduces the time period, from 30 to 15 days, in which a sheriff must report to the county legislative body and to the department of correction the name of any prisoner who escapes while serving on a work detail and indicate whether the work detail on which the prisoner was serving was supervised or unsupervised. - Amends TCA Title 41.
TN - SJR95 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bev Johnson, Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame
TN - SB501 County Government - As introduced, prohibits interpreting or amending county charter 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 - SB1145 Naming and Designating - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee state veterans' homes board to name, subject to the governor's approval, the campus, buildings, facilities, and grounds of any state veterans' home; authorizes the administrator of each veterans' home to name any portion of the state veterans' home. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 7.
TN - SB1154 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a state primary board to strive to fill a vacancy on a county primary board not later than 45 days after receiving notice of the vacancy. - Amends TCA Title 2.
TN - SB1152 Children and Youth, Commission on - As introduced, requires the commission to make its comprehensive report on the status of children and youth in Tennessee available to the public by publishing the report on the commission's website. - Amends TCA Title 37.
TN - SB1425 Students - As introduced, adds HiSET® to the courses a minor student may be enrolled and making satisfactory academic progress in to obtain a driver license or instruction permit to operate a motor vehicle from the department of safety. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1147 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to submit a progress report during the first regular session of each general assembly on the anti-poverty plan created by the department. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 71.
TN - SB1149 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2019-2020 fiscal year, the number of instructional positions funded under the BEP to reflect the number of teachers a school district is required to employ to comply with maximum class size requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.
TN - SB1427 Education - As introduced, removes the presumption of a student's intent to violate the School Security Act of 1981 by possessing an electronic pager on school property. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB825 Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to use public institutions of higher education with 8,000 or more enrolled students for polling places during early voting, excluding special or general elections. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 2, Chapter 6, Part 1.
TN - SB871 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, increases the time period from 15 to 30 days for a person to file with the department of human services a written request for an administrative hearing to review actions of the department involving child support enforcement. - Amends TCA Section 26-2-404; Title 36 and Title 50.
TN - SB823 Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation - As introduced, requires TSAC to promulgate rules designating pregnancy as an approved medical leave of absence for purposes of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
TN - SB498 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes leases entered into between Memphis and business owners holding a restaurant license from the alcoholic beverage commission to include provisions where the rent is calculated on gross sales, including gross sales of alcohol, of the business; prohibits a county from denying the issuance or renewal of a beer permit on the basis of a similar lease. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 1; Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.
TN - SB833 Education - As introduced, changes from January 31 to January 15 the date by which the department of health must provide the governor's office, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives a report of the aggregate results of all BMI screenings performed in the previous calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB824 Public Records - As introduced, clarifies video taken by a law enforcement body camera is a public record open to public inspection; removes termination date on exceptions; provides a process for attorneys to access confidential recordings for use in civil litigation. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.
TN - SB460 Education - As introduced, requires the department of education to submit the annual report detailing the operation of the virtual education programs to the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1146 Fireworks - As introduced, requires the state fire marshal to post notice in a newspaper of general circulation once a week for five, instead of three, consecutive weeks when fireworks are seized in the county in order that the identity of the owner can be determined. - Amends TCA Title 68.
TN - SB880 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a court to impose an additional $1,000 fine for a conviction for certain prohibited election practices. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40.
TN - SB878 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, reduces from 50 percent to 40 percent of the employee's income after deduction of FICA, withholding taxes, and a health insurance premium that covers the child the amount that may be withheld in an order of assignment of income for support. - Amends TCA Section 36-5-501.
TN - SB838 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires health insurance to cover acupuncture services as a benefit beginning January 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.
TN - SB505 Expunction - As introduced, permits expunction of certain nonviolent felonies after 10 years have elapsed since the completion of the sentence imposed for the most recent offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
TN - SB1423 Attorneys at Law - As introduced, extends from 180 days to 210 days the amount of time a newly elected or appointed judge or chancellor can practice law only in an effort to wind up the judge's or chancellor's practice after assuming office. - Amends TCA Title 23; Title 29 and Title 39.
TN - SB499 Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, deletes prohibition on the appointment of persons to the board of dentistry who are employed by or are a member of the governing body of a dental school or related educational institution, or any dental supply business or laboratory. - Amends TCA Section 63-5-103.
TN - SB873 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, sets a maximum for civil penalties for violations of campaign finance laws issued by the registry of election finance of $1,000.
TN - SB879 Public Records - As introduced, includes attendance and voting records of elected and appointed officials within the definition of "public record or records" or "state record or records" for purposes of the public records laws. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.
TN - SB458 Fireworks - As introduced, authorizes the retail sale of Class C common fireworks in Millington. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.
TN - SB686 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, allows certain felony offenders to petition to have the offender's criminal history records sealed after completion of all requirements of sentencing and at least five years without being convicted of a new offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
TN - SB459 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, adds a minor league soccer franchise in the United Soccer League to the list of professional sports franchises for which a sports authority may be allocated sales tax revenue. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
TN - SB88 Expunction - As introduced, decreases from five to three years the amount of time from the completion of a person's sentence that must have elapsed before the person may apply for expunction of records. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32, Part 1.
TN - SB1183 Controlled Substances - As introduced, reduces from 90 days to 60 days the threshold of time for a patient who is prescribed opioids, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, or carisoprodol in chronic, long-term drug therapy before the prescriber is required to consider mandatory urine drug testing. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 63; Title 65; Title 66 and Title 71.
TN - SB818 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, changes from July 1 to August 1 the date by which the department of education must submit its annual report on virtual education programs to the governor, the general assembly, the state board of education, and the BEP review committee. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB506 Expunction - As introduced, permits the expunction of certain misdemeanor offenses not eligible under current law. - Amends TCA Title 40.
TN - SB834 Education - As introduced, changes from two weeks to four weeks the time period following written notice to the affected board of education within which the commissioner of education may, upon due hearing, withhold and declare forfeited state school funds due any school district that refuses or neglects to comply with and enforce the census or compulsory school attendance laws. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB90 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes the use of a driver license from another state to establish a person's identity for the purposes of being issued a photo identification license by the department of safety for the purposes of voting. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 55, Chapter 50.
TN - SB843 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony for the failure to report known or suspected child sexual abuse. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.
TN - SB86 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, authorizes the use of campaign funds for the child care expenditures of a candidate that are incurred by the candidate as a direct result of the candidate's participation in campaign-related events and activities. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10 and Title 3.
TN - SB828 Orders of Protection - As introduced, requires local law enforcement to conduct in-person checks to ensure person subject to order of protection has complied with dispossession of firearms requirement; makes various other changes regarding the dispossession of firearms requirement. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
TN - SB816 Indigents - As introduced, prohibits a court from removing a person's constitutional rights for failure to pay court costs, fines, or any other monetary amount in a civil proceeding, if the person is unable to pay due to the person's indigency. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
TN - SB819 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires all school personnel to receive implicit bias in-service training annually; requires students desiring a license to teach to pass a course of implicit bias training. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB881 Public Contracts - As introduced, permits electronic delivery of the annual report of the chief procurement officer regarding the awarding of purchases to minority-owned, woman-owned, service-disabled-veteran-owned, disabled-person-owned, or small businesses. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 11.
TN - SB16 Gambling - As introduced, authorizes sports betting in this state only in jurisdictions that approve sports betting by local option election; imposes a 10 percent tax on gaming revenue; distributes 40 percent of the tax to the general fund for general appropriations, 30 percent to Tennessee colleges of applied technologies and community colleges for equipment and capital projects, and 30 percent to local governments for education and infrastructure; establishes the Tennessee gaming commission to regulate sports betting; authorizes the commission to collaborate with the Tennessee bureau of investigation for purposes of enforcement. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 5; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 49 and Title 67.
TN - SB874 Health Care - As introduced, removes a provision concerning a study conducted by the bureau of TennCare and the health care finance and administration on the means of fair and just implementation of the episodes of care initiatives, the report of which was due by January 31, 2019, to the health and welfare committee of the senate and the health committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 71.
TN - SB842 Sentencing - As introduced, establishes parole eligibility after 30 years for persons who committed crimes as juveniles and who were sentenced to greater than 30 years; authorizes parole eligibility after 20 years for such persons if certain conditions met; prohibits sentencing persons to life without parole for crimes committed when a juvenile. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 35.
TN - SB1426 Employees, Employers - As introduced, changes from January 15 to February 1 the date by which the advisory council on workers' compensation must issue an annual report regarding significant supreme court decisions relating to workers' compensation to the governor and the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7; Title 8, Chapter 4, Part 7; Title 50 and Title 67.
TN - SB883 Education - As introduced, changes from 10 days to 15 days following receipt of the audit report required by law to be made of the school funds of the LEA the time period within which each LEA must deliver a copy of the report to the commissioner of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB687 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, requires governor's office of diversity business enterprise to study TCRS, including asset management by minority-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 37 and Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 11.
TN - SB841 Human Resources, Department of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to produce a survey for a person leaving state service that attempts to ascertain why the person is leaving and any suggestions the person may have to improve state service; requires commissioner to submit a report each year detailing the number of persons who voluntarily left state service and a summary of the surveys. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.
TN - SB835 Education - As introduced, changes from within 48 hours to within 72 hours of the imposition of corporal punishment within the special school district the time period in which the pupil has the right to be examined by a physician to determine if the punishment was excessive. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB814 General Assembly - As introduced, requires proportional increase in salaries of general assembly employees if the salaries of members of the general assembly are statutorily amended; requires a proportional decrease in the salaries of the members of the general assembly if the salaries of general assembly employees decrease. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-107; Title 4 and Title 8.
TN - SB830 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, deletes repeal provision, thereby clarifying that a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages may, on and after July 1, 2019, continue to have a direct or indirect interest in an establishment with a license authorizing consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises if the interest is held in an irrevocable trust. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-110.
TN - SB1151 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires that a computer science course be offered at each public high school and public charter high school beginning with the 2019-2020 school year; creates the computer science and technology in public schools task force to review, research, and recommend computer science and technology curriculum standards and frameworks and to recommend strategies to meet the state's anticipated computer science and technology workforce needs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
TN - SB821 Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes any county, including any county having a metropolitan form of government, or incorporated city or town, to acquire a school building owned by a county school system or city school system within its borders that is blighted or deteriorated; allows the local government to use any school building acquired by eminent domain to establish offices for the provision of community services. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 49.
TN - SB876 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to publish on its website a report of all actions and procedures that have been implemented to ensure all data associated with existing assessments is accurate and timely. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB507 Immigration - As introduced, requires the attorney general and reporter and state and local law enforcement agencies to pursue federal money to reimburse the state and local governments for moneys spent complying with federal immigration laws; requires the state to reimburse local entities if the federal reimbursement is not sufficient to cover moneys spent complying with federal immigration laws. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 7.
TN - SB875 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, makes various changes to the process for restoration of voting rights, including consolidating the process for the issuance of a certificate of voting rights restoration through the secretary of state's office. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29.
TN - SB872 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, authorizes the use of campaign funds for the payment of fines, fees, and penalties assessed for the violation of campaign finance laws. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.
TN - SB877 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits employers from accessing sealed or expunged criminal records when performing a criminal background check on a prospective employee; prohibits employers from asking applicants about certain previous convictions during the application process; requires employers to provide applicants a letter explaining a denial of employment under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 50.
TN - SB839 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to establish a pilot project for the 2019-2020 school year to implement ticket programs for behavior management in certain Title I schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB817 Gambling - As introduced, enacts the "Horse Racing Control Act of 2019," authorizing and regulating parimutuel wagering on horse racing. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 39; Title 44 and Title 67.
TN - SB298 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, changes the amount of physical education class time that must be taught by a licensed teacher with an endorsement in physical education from at least 60 minutes to at least 30 minutes; authorizes LEAs to allow additional physical education class time to be taught by a licensed teacher with an endorsement in elementary education to teach any remaining or additional physical education class time in collaboration with a physical education teacher. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1021.
TN - SB296 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, enacts the Truth in Teacher Pay Act; requires the salary schedules approved by the state board of education to reflect certain increases to the instructional salaries and wages component of the BEP in the general appropriations act. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB294 Public Defenders - As introduced, changes employee title from assistant executive director to deputy executive director; allows attorneys in the office of executive director a reasonable length of time to conclude or transfer private legal matters pending at the time of employment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 9, Chapter 4.
TN - SB668 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires, by February 15 of each year, the commission to provide a report to the general assembly detailing any state and federal funds appropriated to, and any matching funds received by, land-grant institutions of higher education in this state. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB297 Expunction - As introduced, corrects error in code to clarify that a petitioner is required to pay $180 upon filing a petition for expunction, rather than $350. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32 and Title 40, Chapter 35.
TN - SB295 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, directs that any interest accruing on the balance of an LEA's dedicated education fund that remains unexpended at the end of a fiscal year must be returned to the fund balance and become part of the fund balance. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.
TN - SB87 Election Laws - As introduced, extends the time by which a candidate may withdraw, from seven days after the qualifying deadline to 60 days before the election. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 5.
TN - SB299 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, permits certain incarcerated persons who are allowed to enroll in courses offered by a community college or Tennessee college of applied technology pursuant to an approved release plan to receive a Tennessee reconnect grant. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1424 Attorneys at Law - As introduced, establishes requirements for providers operating websites offering consumer access to interactive software that generates legal documents based on consumer answers. - Amends TCA Title 23.
TN - SB497 Tourism - As introduced, changes the deadline from December 31, 2022, to June 30, 2024, by which certain qualified public use facilities must be placed in service as it relates to the apportionment and distribution of sales and use taxes. - Amends TCA Section 7-88-106.
TN - SB840 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires certain Title I public schools to implement an age-appropriate, reward-based behavior modification system that reinforces positive student behavior with awards and incentives that are tailored to each school's unique student population. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
TN - SB820 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires in-service training in restorative justice discipline practices for all employees of an LEA; requires the course of instruction in all public schools to include content designed to educate children on restorative justice discipline practices. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
TN - SB831 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, extends for a student who becomes pregnant during the four-month period immediately preceding the date on which the student completes high school in a Tennessee home school program, obtains a GED® or HiSET®, or graduates from high school, the time within which the student must be admitted to, and enrolled in, an eligible postsecondary institution to be eligible for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
TN - SB832 Education - As introduced, allows the LEA to provide a copy of a student's report card to the parent or parents of the student electronically. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB836 Schools, Charter - As introduced, exempts a public charter school that has not been in operation for more than four years from having the school's charter agreement revoked or denied renewal by the school's chartering authority and from having to cease operations immediately following the close of the school year in which the school was identified as a priority school. - Amends TCA Section 49-13-122.
TN - SJR75 Memorials, Death - Peggy Jean Cockerham
TN - SB1055 Gambling - As introduced, enacts the "Sports Wagering For Stronger Schools Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47; Title 49 and Title 67.