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- SB 560 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, requires a court to use the average monthly income of each parent in the corresponding year for which retroactive child support is ordered, when calculating a parent's retroactive child support obligation, unless there is clear and convincing evidence to support the use of a different period of time. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 2, Part 3 and Title 36, Chapter 5, Part 1. Died
- SB 2502 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, deletes obsolete language requiring property tax to be used for state purposes; adds property assessors from each of the grand divisions to the state board of equalization. - Amends TCA Section 4-3-5101 and Title 67, Chapter 5. Died
- HB 1398 Education - As introduced, specifies that a principal's, or teacher's, report of the names of all students who have withdrawn from the school, or who have accumulated five unexcused absences, must be submitted to the director of schools within 10 days, rather than promptly. - Amends TCA Title 49. Failed
- HJR 743 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Supports making affordable housing a national priority; urges local governments to decrease regulation of new housing market to decrease regulatory costs. - Died
- HJR 863 Memorials, Recognition - Bethel Missionary Baptist Church and Pastor F.B. Carpenter, Jr. - Enacted
- HB 2536 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to study the effectiveness of statutes of limitation on prosecution for criminal offenses; requires the study to include information on sexual offense statutes of limitation and allows the study to include comparisons of Tennessee limitations to neighboring states; requires TACIR to report findings to the general assembly by January 15, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. Enacted
- HB 1994 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, authorizes a person who possesses a valid wildlife rehabilitation permit issued by the agency to receive skunks from the wild for the purposes of rehabilitation and release only. - Amends TCA Section 70-4-208 and Section 70-4-404. Enacted
- SB 2479 Public Employees - As introduced, restores longevity pay for employees of the executive branch in the state service hired after June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 38. Died
- HB 1882 Sports - As enacted, authorizes the Tennessee athletic commission to authorize international qualifying events for kickboxing to occur in this state as long as the events meet the standards required for such events by the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations or any subsequent entity recognized as the official kickboxing governing body by the International World Games Association. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 115. Enacted
- HB 1197 Personal Property - As introduced, increases from 180 days to 240 days the minimum time required before a dry cleaner or launderer may dispose of unclaimed garments without notifying the customer. - Amends TCA Title 30; Title 31; Title 32 and Title 66. Failed
- SB 2538 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to study the effectiveness of statutes of limitation on prosecution for criminal offenses; requires the study to include information on sexual offense statutes of limitation and allows the study to include comparisons of Tennessee limitations to neighboring states; requires TACIR to report findings to the general assembly by January 15, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. Enacted
- SB 2098 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, authorizes a person who possesses a valid wildlife rehabilitation permit issued by the agency to receive skunks from the wild for the purposes of rehabilitation and release only. - Amends TCA Section 70-4-208 and Section 70-4-404. Enacted
- HB 2681 Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, revises provisions governing the Sam Davis Home. - Amends TCA Title 4. Enacted
- HB 791 Equalization Board - As introduced, deletes an outdated cross reference to a repealed statute. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. Died
- HB 793 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, prohibits a local board of education from increasing the salary or compensation for the director of schools to an amount higher than the salary of the governor. - Amends TCA Title 49. Died
- HB 792 Unemployment Compensation - As introduced, includes conscious disregard of the rights or interest of the employer's business to the actions of the employee that may constitute "misconduct" and disqualify the employee from eligibility to receive unemployment benefits. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7. Failed
- HJR 527 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dan Whittle - Enacted
- HJR 63 Memorials, Personal Achievement - John Thomas Glasner, Eagle Scout - Enacted
- HJR 719 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee's panoramic history - Enacted
- HR 74 Memorials, Death - Tim Anderson - Died
- SB 2722 Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, revises provisions governing the Sam Davis Home. - Amends TCA Title 4. Enacted
- HJR 994 Memorials, Death - Dr. George W. Smith - Enacted
- SB 1817 Budget Procedures - As introduced, assigns the state employee staff responsible for the administration of the group insurance for state officials and employees to the department of finance and administration. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 67. Died
- SB 940 Equalization Board - As introduced, deletes an outdated cross reference to a repealed statute. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. Died
- HJR 982 Memorials, Recognition - Kurdish community of Nashville - Enacted