Public Chapters with 07/01/11 Effective Date
ChapterNo DocNumber Description
2 SB0141 Sunset Laws - As enacted, deletes references to defunct fireworks
advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Section 68-
104-216.
3 SB0144 Private Protective Services - As enacted, repeals sunset provision
and creating authority for the private protective services advisory
committee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Section 62-35-
4 SB0145 Sunset Laws - As enacted, repeals the public livestock market board.
- Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29.
5 HB0255 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee auctioneer
commission, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and
Title 62, Chapter 19, Part 1.
7 HB0659 Sunset Laws - As enacted, deletes references to defunct Tennessee
Alzheimer's disease task force. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29
and Title 71, Chapter 2.
13 SB0179 Interstate Compacts - As enacted, creates sunrise provision for the
interstate insurance product regulation compact. - Amends TCA
Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 56, Chapter 58, Part 1.
14 SB0186 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the West Fork Drakes Creek dam
and reservoir interstate authority, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA
Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 9.
15 SB0190 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee health information
committee, June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and
Title 56, Chapter 2, Part 1.
16 SB0458 Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As enacted, changes
membership of audit and budget committee of THDA by replacing
the comptroller of the treasury with the state treasurer. - Amends
TCA Section 13-23-112.
19 HB0251 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the real estate appraiser
commission, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and
Title 62, Chapter 39, Part 2.
20 HB0254 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state election commission,
June 30, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 11, Part 1 and Title
4, Chapter 29.
21 HB0626 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state soil conservation
committee, June 30, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and
Title 43, Chapter 14, Part 2.
22 HB0627 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the southeast interstate low-level
radioactive waste compact, June 30, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4,
Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 202, Part 7.
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23 HB0644 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the committee for purchase from
the blind and other severely disabled, June 30, 2017. - Amends TCA
Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 7.
24 HB0645 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends conservation commission, June
30, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 11, Chapter
2, Part 1.
28 SB0158 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee medical examiner
advisory council, June 30, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29
and Title 38, Chapter 7, Part 2.
29 SB0218 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the southern dairy compact
commission, June 30, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and
Title 43, Chapter 35, Part 1.
34 HB0669 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee wars commission,
June 30, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11, Part 5 and Title
4, Chapter 29.
35 HB0639 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the archaeological advisory
council, June 30, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title
11, Chapter 6, Part 1.
40 HB1654 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, requires approaching vehicles
to move into other lane from a stationary utility vehicle with
flashing lights if such lane change can be safely made. - Amends TCA
Title 55, Chapter 8, Part 1.
43 SB0161 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends termination date for the state
board of education to June 30, 2013; directs the division of state
audit in the office of the comptroller of the treasury to provide its
findings to the house and senate government operations committees
by July 1, 2013, on the state board of education's responses to the
findings and recommendations in the January, 2011, performance
audit of the state board of education. - Amends TCA Title 4,
Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3.
44 SB0215 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the regional transportation
authority, June 30, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and
Title 64, Chapter 8, Part 1.
47 SB0850 Disabled Persons - As enacted, replaces outdated terminology related
to individuals with disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title
7; Title 8; Title 11; Title 13; Title 15; Title 16; Title 20; Title 27;
Title 28; Title 29; Title 30; Title 32; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37;
Title 39; Title 49; Title 50; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62;
Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71.
49 SB0990 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, clarifies that $13.75
court costs for TBI are imposed upon the forfeiture of any cash
bond or other surety entered as a result of a municipal traffic
citation. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 40,
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52 SB0098 Safety - As enacted, removes requirement that alarm system
monitoring companies perform alarm verifications prior to
requesting law enforcement be dispatched to pharmacies. - Amends
TCA Title 62, Chapter 32, Part 3.
54 SB0264 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, exempts employees of
state higher education institutions who provide locksmithing services
at facilities operated by the board of trustees of the University of
Tennessee or the state board of regents from locksmith licensure
requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 62, Chapter 11,
56 SB0538 Public Health - As enacted, requires hospitals to provide parents of
newborns with certain information concerning Pertussis disease and
immunizations. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 5, Part 1.
58 HB0018 Traffic Safety - As enacted, eliminates a minimum and maximum
range of fines for obscene displays on motor vehicles and specifies
that the fine is a flat $50.00. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-187.
62 HB0636 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the prevailing wage commission,
June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 12,
Chapter 4, Part 4.
63 HB0638 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state unemployment
compensation advisory council, June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title
4, Chapter 29 and Title 50, Chapter 7, Part 6.
64 HB0652 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the elevator and amusement
device safety board, June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter
29 and Title 68, Chapter 121, Part 1.
65 HB0665 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the occupational safety and health
review commission, June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter
29 and Title 50, Chapter 3, Part 8.
66 HB0666 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the interstate compact on the
placement of children, June 30, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4,
Chapter 29 and Title 37, Chapter 4, Part 2.
70 SB1528 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, changes
date by which assignments for the following school year and notices
of termination must be sent to school personnel from May 15 to
June 15; specifies that director of schools must decide if a teacher is
qualified for an open position; changes various requirements for
obtaining tenure and other tenure-related provisions. - Amends TCA
82 HB0622 Sunset Laws - As enacted, terminates the board of review,
department of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA
Title 4, Chapter 29; Section 4-5-319 and Section 50-7-704.
83 HB0662 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the board of boiler rules, June 30,
2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter
122, Part 1.
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88 HB1577 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the Class A misdemeanor
offense of sexual contact by an authority figure which is defined as
an adult with supervisory or disciplinary power over a minor,
unlawfully kissing the minor for the purpose of sexual arousal or
gratification. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title
90 HB1845 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, revises
authority of commissioner of commerce and insurance to
investigate insurance agents; revises rights of insurance agents under
investigation; revises penalties imposed against insurance agents. -
Amends TCA Section 56-6-112; Section 56-6-117; Section 56-6-
120 and Section 56-8-107.
91 SB0083 Children - As enacted, deletes the age limitation in statute permitting
mothers to publicly breastfeed only their children who are age 12
months or younger. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-511 and Title
68, Chapter 58.
94 SB0777 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted,
authorizes filings for personal risk insurance that provide for an
overall statewide rate increase or decrease of no more than 15% in
the aggregate for all coverages that are subject to the filing to take
effect the date it is filed. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 5.
98 SB1227 Ethics - As enacted, revises filing deadlines for employer disclosure
reports from within 45 days of March 31 and September 30 to
within 45 days of June 30 and December 31. - Amends TCA Title 3,
Chapter 6.
127 HB0688 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, exempts
antique vehicles being registered for antique motor vehicle license
plates from emissions testing requirement imposed in certain
counties for motor vehicle registration. - Amends TCA Title 55,
Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 201.
131 HB1265 Personal Property - As enacted, revises various provisions of the
Tennessee Self-Service Storage Facility Act. - Amends TCA Title
66, Chapter 31.
134 SB0207 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of safety, June 30,
2014. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part
1 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 20.
137 SB0610 Traffic Safety - As enacted, authorizes the use of flashing white
and/or amber lights displayed to the front of a motor vehicle
operated by an organ procurement organization or a person under an
agreement with an organ procurement organization when
transporting an organ for human transplantation. - Amends TCA
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143 SB0031 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes TDOT to allot
space on the exterior of the incident response HELP trucks and
enter into contracts for the purpose of obtaining certain commercial
sponsorship for the HELP program; revenue generated from any
such commercial sponsorship would be deposited in the highway fund
to be used solely for transportation purposes. - Amends TCA Title
4, Chapter 3, Part 23 and Title 54.
144 SB0032 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes TDOT to obtain
certain commercial sponsorship of the 511 system and to enter into
contracts for this purpose; revenue generated from any such
commercial sponsorship would be deposited in the highway fund to
be used solely for transportation purposes. - Amends TCA Title 4,
Chapter 3, Part 23 and Title 54.
145 SB0162 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the real estate commission, June
30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 62, Chapter
161 HB0377 Election Laws - As enacted, exempts the purging of a person's voter
registration after a change of name due to a divorce. - Amends TCA
Section 2-2-106.
163 SB1811 Public Utilities - As enacted, authorizes increase to the maximum
amount of the allowance that may be provided to members of boards
of public utilities. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 52, Part 1.
165 SB1921 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, requires
organizations that supply mental health and developmental disability
services to check the registry that contains the names of any
persons who have been determined to have abused, neglected,
misappropriated or exploited the property of vulnerable individuals
and not hire or use as a volunteer any individual listed on the
registry; requirements apply to organizations that contract with the
division of intellectual disabilities services for residential services,
day services or supported employment services. - Amends TCA Title 33.
166 HB0198 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, expands statute providing for a
prescription drug label that indicates the condition for which the
drug is prescribed from applying only to elder persons to apply to
any patient. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10 and Title 63,
167 HB0378 Election Laws - As enacted, removes election officials legislative
district residency requirement to serve but requires such officials to
reside in the county in which they are appointed to serve. - Amends
TCA Section 2-4-103.
170 HB0620 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of labor and
workforce development, June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4,
Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part
171 HB0623 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the water and wastewater
operators, board of certification, June 30, 2016. - Amends TCA
Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 9.
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172 HB0628 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the oil and gas board, June 30,
2016; revises appointment process of membership of oil and gas
board. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 60, Chapter 1,
Part 2.
173 HB0642 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the civil service commission, June
30, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 8, Chapter
30, Part 1.
174 HB0654 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Douglas Henry state museum
commission, June 30, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 20,
Part 3 and Title 4, Chapter 29.
175 HB0661 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of human
resources, June 30, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1
and Title 4, Chapter 29.
181 HB0376 Election Laws - As enacted, changes the timing and manner in which
members of the county election commission are required to inspect
new voter registration forms; requires that certain audits be
conducted. - Amends TCA Section 2-2-120.
182 HB0612 Election Laws - As enacted, changes date of presidential preference
primary from first Tuesday in February to first Tuesday in March;
changes the qualifying deadline for candidates in a county primary
held in February in presidential election years from "the first
Thursday in November" to "the second Thursday in December" and
specifies that candidates in municipal elections held in conjunction
with the presidential preference primary election must file their
nominating petitions by the second Thursday in December. -
183 HB0643 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the commission on aging, June 30,
2016; requires the division of state audit to return to the Tennessee
commission on aging and disability in 2012 to review actions taken
by the commission to address the monitoring issues raised in the first
finding in the January 2011 performance audit report. - Amends
TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 71, Chapter 2, Part 1.
184 HB1117 Election Laws - As enacted, adds to current list of persons
committing felonies or sexual offenses who are never eligible to
register to vote, a violation containing the same elements and
designated as a felony in any other state or federal court. - Amends
185 SB0052 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, imposes criminal and civil penalties
upon persons who have hepatitis and who do not tell persons to
whom it could be transmitted. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13,
186 SB0235 Liens - As enacted, requires comptroller to conduct a performance
audit of the implementation and impact of current law authorizing
the creation of a lien on a motor vehicle by filing a notarized copy
of an instrument when the existing certificate of title on the vehicle
is unavailable. - Amends TCA Section 55-3-126.
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188 SB0350 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, provides that a defendant in a
criminal case has the right to have court reporter and make a
verbatim recording of all proceedings in open court. - Amends TCA
Title 20, Chapter 9 and Title 40, Chapter 14.
189 SB0483 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Annual
Coverage Assessment Act of 2011." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title
67; Title 68 and Title 71.
192 SB1171 Traffic Safety - As enacted, broadens requirement that drivers
exercise due care to apply to bicyclists; enhances penalty for certain
traffic violations that cause serious bodily injury or death. - Amends
TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.
194 HB0566 Sales - As enacted, revises provisions governing reporting of aviation
fuel sales; makes failure to file the aviation fuel sales report
punishable by a civil penalty of $500 that may be abated by the
commissioner instead of being punishable by a civil penalty in an
amount set by the commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4 and
Title 67, Chapter 6.
200 SB2009 Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes
commissioner of finance and administration to enter into
agreements with certain citizen support organizations to donate
monetary gifts, goods or services to be used by Volunteer Tennessee.
- Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3.
203 SB1785 Workers Compensation - As enacted, changes the evidence
requirement from a preponderance of the evidence to clear and
convincing evidence for rebutting the presumption that drugs or
alcohol were the proximate cause of an injury from a drug test result
or the refusal to submit to a drug test. - Amends TCA Title 50,
Chapter 6 and Title 50, Chapter 9.
204 SB1572 Fireworks - As enacted, adds "unmanned free-floating devices capable
of producing an open flame, such as, but not limited to sky lanterns"
to the definition of special fireworks.
- Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104, Part 1.
209 SB1213 Juries and Jurors - As enacted, makes the jury coordinator law
applicable to Rhea and Morgan counties, which were previously
excluded from such law. - Amends TCA Title 22.
221 SB0096 Welfare - As enacted, specifies that individual convicted of certain
drug offenses will be exempt from prohibition against eligibility for
families first program benefits for such convictions, if such person
meets certain requirements; an individual convicted of second drug
felony involving possession, use or distribution of a controlled
substance on or after July 1, 2011, will not be eligible for families
first program benefits for a period of three years from the date of
conviction. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 1.
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223 HB0248 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the council on children's mental
health care, June 30, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part
2 and Title 37, Chapter 3, Part 1.
226 HB0389 Public Health - As enacted, requires the governor to designate one
day each year in April as Autism Awareness Recognition Day. -
Amends TCA Title 4.
227 HB0621 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the commission on children and
youth, June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title
37, Chapter 3, Part 1.
229 HB0773 Jails, Local Lock-ups - As enacted, specifies that if a county has been
reimbursed for housing convicted felons for a continuous period of
three or more fiscal years and has received the maximum amount
allowed per prisoner per day as reasonable allowable costs during this
period, then the county would thereafter be presumed to be entitled
to the full maximum amount allocated per prisoner per day as
reimbursement of reasonable allowable costs for housing such
prisoners. - Amends TCA Section 41-8-106.
233 HB1498 Public Contracts - As enacted, enacts the "Freedom in Contracting
Act." - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 4.
236 SB1045 Election Laws - As enacted, prohibits election commission members
and administrators of elections from hiring relatives for certain
election-related positions. - Amends TCA Title 2.
244 SB2029 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, specifies, in certain situations, that if
the owner of the vehicle is not present, then prior to any person,
firm or entity towing a vehicle, such person, firm or entity must
notify local law enforcement of the vehicle identification number
(VIN), registration information, license plate number and description
of the vehicle; local law enforcement must keep a record of all such
information which would be available for public inspection. - Amends
TCA Title 55, Chapter 16; Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 1; Title 66,
Chapter 19, Part 1 and Title 66, Chapter 28, Part 5.
245 HB0009 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the office of
coordinated school health, in the department of education, to report
to the general assembly by August 1, 2012, on the implementation
of the requirement of each LEA to integrate at least 90 minutes of
physical activity per week into the instructional school day for
elementary and secondary school students. - Amends TCA Title 49,
250 HB0260 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the alcoholic beverage
commission, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and
Title 57, Chapter 1, Part 1.
251 HB0301 Education - As enacted, defines cyber-bullying and requires schools to
implement policies against cyber-bullying. - Amends TCA Title 49,
Chapter 6, Part 10.
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252 HB0401 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, creates exceptions to the
exclusionary rule for good faith mistakes and technical violations in
a search warrant. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 1.
258 HB0829 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, requires hospitals
to have certain persons authenticate verbal orders. - Amends TCA
Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 3.
263 HB0981 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, deletes outdated language from
requirements concerning the sex offender registry. - Amends TCA
Section 38-6-116.
266 HB1169 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, requires registered sex offenders to
report to registering law enforcement agencies prior to traveling out
of the United States. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.
268 HB1194 Probation and Parole - As enacted, transfers supervision of the out
of state parole and probation supervision registry from the TBI to
the board of probation and parole. - Amends TCA Section 38-6-116
and Title 40, Chapter 28, Part 4.
270 HB1279 Public Employees - As enacted, adds firefighters and certain
emergency services personnel to statute permitting law enforcement
officers and certain TBI employees to request that an arrestee's
blood be tested for certain infectious diseases. - Amends TCA Title
41 and Title 68.
273 HB1819 Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, allows an employer to offset an
employee's wages if the employee owes the employer money that
the employer loaned or advanced the employee, in certain situations.
- Amends TCA Title 26 and Title 50.
274 HB1889 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises offense of producing,
manufacturing, distributing, or possessing with intent to produce,
manufacture, or distribute the active chemical ingredient in the
hallucinogenic plant salvia divinorum or the synthetic cannabinoids
JWH-018, JWH-073, HU-210 and HU-211 to include other
synthenic cannabinoids. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
279 SB0088 Zoning - As enacted, specifically authorizes municipal and county
legislative bodies to adopt supplemental rules of procedure for their
zoning boards of appeals that address the certain items. - Amends
TCA Section 13-7-107 and Section 13-7-205.
281 SB0219 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the standards committee,
department of children's services, June 30, 2013; revises the
membership of the child care agencies licensing standards committee,
appointed by the commissioner of children's services. - Amends
TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5.
282 SB0220 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the standards committee,
department of human services, June 30, 2013; revises the
membership of the child care agencies licensing standards committee,
appointed by the commissioner of human services. - Amends TCA
Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5.
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283 SB0307 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, deletes wild hog from definition of
"big game" and removes permitting requirements for hunting wild
boars and wild hogs. - Amends TCA Title 70.
284 SB0449 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, prohibits
charging a teacher with a day of leave for any day on which the
teacher's school or school district is closed because of natural
disaster, inclement weather, serious outbreak of contagious illness or
other unexpected event. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 7.
285 SB0572 Unclaimed Property - As enacted, requires the treasurer to hold any
abandoned military medal until the owner or owner's heirs or
beneficiaries can be identified for the return of the medal; allows the
treasurer to appoint a custodian such as a veterans' organization to
hold such medal; imposes other requirements related to such medals.
- Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 29, Part 1.
288 SB0714 Education - As enacted, removes the provision whereby only
students in K-12 who were enrolled in and attended a public school
during the previous school year are eligible to participate in a virtual
public education program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 16.
289 SB1065 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, enacts the "Pharmacy Benefit
Integrity Act." - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.
291 SB1262 Education, Higher - As enacted, removes authorization of graduate
students in audiology at public institutions of higher education to
evaluate, prescribe and dispense hearing aids; removes prohibition on
employees of hearing centers at public institutions of higher
education serving private-practice patients in publicly owned
facilities or referring patients to their own private practices; permits
state public colleges and universities to establish and operate clinical
and dispensary programs in speech pathology, speech therapy and
audiology for the purpose of educating students and generating
financial support necessary to operate and make necessary
improvements to those programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter
7, Part 27.
292 SB1265 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "I Hate Meth Act." -
Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
294 SB1582 Trusts - As enacted, creates an exception to the general prohibition
against assigning security interests in trust funds that are held for use
in connection with the purchase of motor vehicles. - Amends TCA
Title 35; Title 47 and Title 55.
299 HB0151 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, provides that venue and territorial
jurisdiction for the offense of identity theft may be where the victim
resides or is located. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
302 HB0583 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, provides that aggravated criminal
trespass is also committed if the trespasser destroys or vandalizes a
gate, fence, lock or other barrier in order to gain entrance to the
property. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 4.
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304 HB0625 Sunset Laws - As enacted, terminates the teacher evaluation advisory
committee. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49,
Chapter 1, Part 3.
309 HB0860 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, provides that venue for the
prosecution of the offense of promotion of methamphetamine
manufacture is proper in any county in which a drug or chemical used
to produce meth or an immediate meth precursor is purchased. -
Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.
310 HB0954 Controlled Substances - As enacted, revises various provisions
regarding law enforcement access to the controlled substances
database and the application process for such access. - Amends TCA
Title 53, Chapter 10, Part 3.
313 HB1329 Child Abuse - As enacted, allows a court to prohibit any person
convicted of child abuse or aggravated child abuse from contacting
such person's victim if the person does not have any parental rights
to such victim, including contact via electronic means. - Amends
TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.
320 HB1858 Civil Procedure - As enacted, increases the auctioneer's fee for sale
of real property at public sale under any order or decree of any court
from 6 percent to 8 percent.
- Amends TCA Section 35-5-112.
328 SB0226 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee criminal justice
coordinating council, June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter
29 and Title 41, Chapter 52, Part 1.
335 SB0905 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, specifies that persons who
are employed by an LEA in a position for which no teaching license
is required must be hired at the will of the director of schools;
requires local boards of education to develop policies for dismissing
employees in positions for which no teaching license is required. -
Amends TCA Section 49-2-301.
339 SB1192 Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - As enacted, specifies that the
county executive of Roane County may designate a person from the
office of the county sheriff or from the county office of emergency
management to accompany an agent of TWRA when inspecting a
Class I wildlife facility in Roane County. - Amends TCA Title 70,
Chapter 4, Part 4.
341 SB1288 Mining and Quarrying - As enacted, prohibits an operator from
engaging in rock harvesting without having first obtained a permit or
a notice of coverage under a general permit from the commissioner
of environment and conservation; imposes other requirements. -
Amends TCA Title 59, Chapter 8, Part 2 and Title 69, Chapter 3,
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344 SB1539 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, removes provisions
regarding the small employer carrier committee and risk-assuming
and reinsuring carriers under the Tennessee Small Employer Group
Health Coverage Reform Act and rewrites law regarding accident and
sickness insurance rates. - Amends TCA Title 56.
345 SB1541 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, extends the tax on
intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded to July 15,
2013. - Amends TCA Section 68-11-830.
348 SB1659 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, includes entertainment services in
services the theft of which constitutes theft of services; specifies
that a person commits theft of services by intentionally obtaining
services by forgery or false statement, in addition to deception,
fraud, coercion, false pretense or any other means, to avoid payment
for the services; specifies that victims may report violations and
testify. - Amends TCA Title 39.
351 SB1776 Students - As enacted, specifies that beginning with the 2011-2012
school year, a student in the third grade may not be promoted to the
next grade level unless the student has shown a basic understanding of
curriculum and ability to perform the skills required in the subject of
reading as demonstrated by the student's grades or standardized test
results; such student may be promoted if the student participates in
an LEA approved research-based intervention prior to the beginning
of the next school year; act does not apply to any student who has
an IEP pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.
354 HB0171 Forfeiture of Assets - As enacted, provides that real and personal
property used in commission of human trafficking offenses is subject
to judicial forfeiture seizure and provides for disposition of funds
from forfeited assets. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 7
and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 3.
362 HB0300 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, broadens offense of harassment to
include certain electronic communication with or about another
person or transmission or display of certain images; in certain
circumstances, allows law enforcement to access log files, images or
communications posted on social network services' Web sites. -
Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3.
365 HB0544 Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) - As enacted,
establishes job qualifications for directors of local emergency
management agencies. - Amends TCA Title 58.
373 HB1869 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases penalty for disorderly
conduct within 500 feet of a funeral or memorial service from Class
C misdemeanor to Class B misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39,
Chapter 17, Part 3.
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376 SB0040 Unemployment Compensation - As enacted, excludes periods of
temporary total disability under the workers' compensation law from
calculation of base period for purposes of unemployment
compensation. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 50,
Chapter 7.
379 SB0343 DUI Offenses - As enacted, increases the minimum time that a driver
license may be revoked for third and fourth and subsequent DUI
convictions from three and five years to six and eight years. -
Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.
392 SB0741 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, revises various provisions
regarding utility districts, water systems and wastewater systems
including provisions governing a required bond and annual audit;
revises law regarding the filling of vacancies on the board of
commissioners of a utility district and the filling of vacancies in the
office of a utility district commissioner and removes certain
exceptions to various requirements regarding utility districts. -
Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82 and Title 68, Chapter 221, Part
393 SB0069 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, provides that offense of soliciting the
sexual exploitation of a minor can be prosecuted in this state against
person located outside the state if the person solicited a law
enforcement officer posing as a minor located within this state. -
Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.
394 SB0077 Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation - As enacted, changes the
number and qualifications of students, the selection process, and term
length for appointment to the board of the Tennessee student
assistance corporation. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-202.
397 SB0266 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, establishes
procedures for labeling a motor vehicle a "methamphetamine
vehicle" on the title, due to its being used in the manufacturing of
methamphetamine. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3.
403 SB0541 Veterans - As enacted, provides that a Tennessee Distinguished
Service Medal may be awarded on behalf of the people of the state of
Tennessee to an individual serving on active duty who has been
killed in action, while engaging in certain military service. - Amends
TCA Title 3, Chapter 1 and Title 58, Chapter 3, Part 1.
404 SB0542 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, exempts not-for-profits
owning and operating water companies from 3 percent gross
receipts tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 4.
406 SB0567 Domestic Violence - As enacted, authorizes magistrates to require a
defendant to wear a global positioning monitoring system as a
condition of bail in any domestic violence, stalking, aggravated
stalking, or especially aggravated stalking case or in any case in
which the defendant is in violation of an order of protection; the
defendant must pay for the use of such system if able. - Amends
TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1;
Section 39-17-315 and Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.
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408 SB0633 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, specifies that when a defendant
commits a homicide or assault against a pregnant woman, the
woman's fetus, regardless of viability, is also considered a victim of
the offense. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-107 and Section 39-13-
410 SB0725 General Assembly - As enacted, abolishes certain statutorily created,
legislative oversight committees and assigns certain responsibilities
to certain legislative standing committees. - Amends TCA Title 3;
Title 4; Title 9, Chapter 4; Section 36-5-112; Title 37; Section 39-
13-530; Section 40-34-107; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 68
412 SB0772 Election Laws - As enacted, revises various election law procedures
concerning registration notification forms, times for appointment of
election officials, inclusion of voter's date of birth on application to
vote absentee, and establishing a mechanism for non-resident
property owners to vote absentee by mail. - Amends TCA Section 2-
12-111(a); Section 2-2-107(a); Section 2-2-115(b); Section 2-4-
102(a); Section 2-5-211(b); Section 2-6-102(a)(1); Section 2-6-
102(b); Title 2, Chapter 6, Part 2 and Section 2-6-202(a)(3).
414 SB0827 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, sunsets the current post-conviction
defender commission; creates a new post-conviction defender
oversight commission. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title
40, Chapter 30.
417 SB0943 Estates - As enacted, revises various provisions relative to
administration of estates; makes certain revisions in regard to
jurisdiction in Greene County; conforms state law to extend the time
period for certain disclaimers as authorized by the federal Tax
Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation
Act. - Amends TCA Title 18; Title 30; Title 31 and Title 32.
420 SB1420 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, enacts the
"Border Region Retail Tourism Development District Act." -
Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 67, Chapter 6.
421 SB1445 Education, Higher - As enacted, allows state agencies to provide free
and discounted services to the Tennessee Intercollegiate State
Legislature Foundation; requires that the Tennessee Intercollegiate
State Legislature Foundation bear any costs associated with the
operation of the general assembly's chambers. - Amends TCA Title
49, Chapter 3, Part 20.
423 SB1666 Driver Licenses - As enacted, provides for issuance of photo
identification license free of charge to person who signs an affidavit
stating the person: does not have a valid government issued photo
identification; is a registered voter in this state; and needs the photo
identification license for voting purposes. - Amends TCA Title 55.
424 SB1671 Education, Higher - As enacted, changes various requirements for
registration of athlete agents, providing notice of athlete agent
activities to higher education institutions and penalties for violations
of Athlete Agent Reform Act of 2011. - Amends TCA Title 49,
Chapter 7, Part 21.
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425 SB1684 Traffic Safety - As enacted, revises enforcement provisions of
unmanned traffic surveillance cameras. - Amends TCA Title 55,
Chapter 8.
426 SB1707 Education - As enacted, requires a local board of education to
allocate funding in an amount equal to the per pupil state and local
funds received by the LEA to state licensed residential mental health
facilities on a prorated daily basis for the student's length of stay,
provided certain criteria have been met. - Amends TCA Title 33;
Title 37; Title 41 and Title 49.
473 HB2139 Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for fiscal years
beginning July 1, 2010, and July 1, 2011. -
474 HB0030 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, limits liability of apiarists
under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 15.
476 HB0249 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends termination date for the
department of education to June 30, 2013; requires the division of
audit in the comptroller's office to provide its findings to the house
and senate government operations committees by July 1, 2013, on
the department's responses to the findings and recommendations in
the January 2011 performance audit of the department. - Amends
TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 8.
477 HB0334 Wills - As enacted, requires bonds of executors and administrators to
include obligation to pay expenses for court costs, attorney's fees
and other related expenses of administering the estate incurred due to
failure to properly account for or utilize funds coming into hands of
the estate. - Amends TCA Title 30, Chapter 1, Part 2.
478 HB0492 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, extends for two
years the nursing home privilege tax and restricts the use of such tax
revenues to the funding of nursing home rates. - Amends TCA Title
68, Chapter 11, Part 2.
479 HB0493 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, extends the current
moratorium on the issuance of certificates of need (CONs) for new
nursing home beds until June 30, 2013. - Amends TCA Title 68,
Chapter 11, Part 16.
480 HB0511 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, establishes presumptions
of proximate cause of death, injury, or damage for certain motor
vehicle accidents occurring within a construction zone; establishes
immunity from claims for personal injury, property damage, or
death arising from certain department of transportation projects. -
Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 42; Title 12, Chapter 4; Title 29 and
481 HB0530 County Officers - As enacted, revises educational requirements for
office of constable. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10, Part 1.
482 HB0676 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the medical care and cost
containment committee, June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4,
Chapter 29 and Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 1.
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483 HB0687 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, requires registration with the sex
offender registry by a juvenile between the ages of 14 and 18 who is
adjudicated delinquent for any violent juvenile sexual offense
committed on or after July 1, 2011. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title
40; Title 49 and Title 55.
484 HB0694 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, revises eligibility criteria for
pretrial and judicial diversion programs. - Amends TCA Title 39;
Title 40 and Title 41.
485 HB0712 Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, revises certain provisions governing
jurisdiction in juvenile court; grants temporary jurisdiction to issue
temporary orders in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section
37-1-103.
486 HB0713 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, amends various provisions regarding
the transfer of juveniles to adult court and the department of
children's services' custody of such children; authorizes
communication between the adult court and the juvenile court;
clarifies provisions on home placement supervision of juveniles. -
Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1.
487 HB0718 DUI Offenses - As enacted, revises provisions governing the setting
of bail in certain DUI-related cases. - Amends TCA Title 40,
488 HB0837 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Move on When Ready Act." -
Amends TCA Title 49.
489 HB0869 Capital Punishment - As enacted, adds random killings to the list of
aggravating factors for imposition of the death penalty. - Amends
TCA Section 39-13-204.
490 HB0889 Taxes, Income - As enacted, exempts income derived from cemetery
trusts from state and local taxation. - Amends TCA Title 46,
Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 67, Chapter 2, Part 1.
491 HB0940 Special License Plates - As enacted, authorizes issuance of various
special license plates; extends minimum order deadline for certain
plates and redesignates certain plates. - Amends TCA Title 55,
Chapter 4.
492 HB1030 Education - As enacted, enacts "The Virtual Public Schools Act." -
Amends TCA Title 49.
493 HB1066 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, permits the district attorney to
apply for an order to wiretap if the interception may provide
evidence of a criminal gang offense by a criminal gang member. -
Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
494 HB1201 Health Care - As enacted, replaces "non-residential methadone
treatment facility" with "nonresidential substitution-based treatment
centers offering treatment for opiate addiction." - Amends TCA
Title 68, Chapter 11.
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495 HB1214 Annexation - As enacted, requires municipality to notify affected
property owners by mail of proposed extension of corporate limits
under certain circumstances and requires publication in newspaper. -
Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58, Part 1.
496 HB1248 Taxes, Litigation - As enacted, allows Loudon County to impose
additional $5.00 litigation tax on all civil and criminal cases to be
used for grants to Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). -
Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3; Title 36, Chapter 6; Title 39,
Chapter 13 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.
497 HB1353 Homeland Security - As enacted, enacts the "Material Support to
Designated Entities Act of 2011." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39;
Title 40; Title 45; Title 55 and Title 58.
498 HB1358 Civil Procedure - As enacted, declares that a moving party prevails
on a motion for summary judgment if it submits affirmative evidence
negating an element of a nonmoving party's claim or demonstrates
that the nonmoving party's evidence is insufficient to establish an
essential element. - Amends TCA Title 20.
499 HB1631 Schools, Home - As enacted, makes various changes to home school
requirements. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3050.
500 HB1698 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, revises conditions under
which grandparent visitation can be awarded. - Amends TCA Title
36, Chapter 6, Part 3.
501 HB1729 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, makes it a Class C
misdemeanor for a person to sell or distribute an electronic cigarette
to another person who has not attained 18 years of age or to
purchase an electronic cigarette on behalf of such person under 18
years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15 and
Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 1.
502 HB1747 Employees, Employers - As enacted, specifies that the right to a
secret ballot in union certification elections will only apply to extent
that secret ballots are permissible under state or federal law and that,
in any such elections where secret ballots are permissible, no
alternative means of designation may be used as convincing evidence
of employee majority support; such right may not be waived by
means of an agreement between a union and an employer; not
applicable to union contracts entered into before July 1, 2011, or
that involve both employees within and without Tennessee when the
employer conducted business within Tennessee before July 1, 2011.
- Amends TCA Title 50.
503 HB1748 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, includes East Fork Stables in the
definition of premier type tourist resort for purposes of the sale of
alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption; designates certain
other facility as premier type tourist resort for purposes of sale of
alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. - Amends TCA
Section 57-4-102.
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504 HB1877 Judgments - As enacted, provides for revocation of driver license for
nonpayment of litigation taxes, court costs or fines in certain
cirumstances; provides payment plan option and hardship
exemption. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 40, Chapter 24, Part 1;
Title 50 and Title 55.
505 HB1920 Civil Procedure - As enacted, revises provisions governing
description of property in notice of judicial or trust sale; authorizes
the postponement and rescheduling of a foreclosure sale without
further newspaper publication under certain circumstances, unless
prohibited by contract. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 5.
506 HB1951 Board of Regents - As enacted, enacts the "Kristen Azevedo Act"
regarding background checks on persons applying to work at higher
education institution in housing facilities who will have access to
student rooms or apartments. - Amends TCA Title 49.
507 HB1956 Schools, Charter - As enacted, revises various provisions of law
regarding public charter schools, including provisions regarding the
governing body of a public charter school, public charter school
applications, and funding for public charter schools. - Amends TCA
Title 49.
508 HB1995 Taxes - As enacted, revises various provisions of law governing
taxes, including certain sales tax and franchise/excise tax credit
provisions. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 49; Title 55; Title 57 and
This is the list of Public Chapters with an effective date of 7/1/11 as of 6/27/11.
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