Sponsored (introduced) — Historical
Briggs, Richard · 174 bills · page 4 of 7
- HB 1120 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As introduced, requires the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services to report to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate on or before January 15, 2018, concerning any restrictions and requirements from the federal department of health and human services imposed by federal law on substance abuse treatment programs that the department of mental health and substance abuse services contracts with or operates in order to provide treatment services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. Died
- SB 1376 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, prohibits candidates for public office and officials in the executive or legislative branch from soliciting gifts; requires disclosure to the ethics commission of a gift from a person who is not a lobbyist or an employer of a lobbyist that is accepted by a candidate or official in the executive or legislative branch. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6. Died
- SB 841 Managed Care Organizations - As introduced, requires managed care organizations to submit an annual report detailing certain expenditures and credentialing decisions. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71. Died
- SB 1689 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, applies the criminal offense of animal cruelty to the restraint of a dog with a chain, cord, tether, cable, or similar device while a disaster is imminent or occurring. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 44, Chapter 17. Died
- SB 2485 Controlled Substances - As introduced, requires a prescriber to provide certain information about the risks of opioids and options for contraception prior to prescribing opioids to women of childbearing age. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. Died
- SB 294 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, adds misappropriations to list of defects that are absent from a clean Council on Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) credentialing application. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6 and Title 56, Chapter 7. Died
- HB 1117 Veterans - As introduced, allows disabled veterans to vote absentee. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6. Died
- SB 1687 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, reduces the department of revenue's administration fee of 1.125 percent imposed on local governments for remittance of local option sales tax by 0.375 percent annually for the next three fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. Died
- HB 1471 Sentencing - As introduced, increases the penalty for any aggravated assault or homicide that occurs by a person discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle and the victim is a minor at the time of the offense; names act the "JaJuan Latham Act". - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2. Died
- HB 69 TennCare - As introduced, directs the commissioner of finance and administration to submit a waiver request to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to enable the state to provide medical assistance to the existing TennCare II waiver population and persons with incomes below 138 percent of the federal poverty line by means of a block grant of federal funds. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71. Died
- HB 708 Education - As introduced, allows the department of education to post its annual report on its website in lieu of distributing the report. - Amends TCA Title 49. Died
- SB 407 Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, prohibits certain adverse actions against a physician on the basis of the physician's failure to maintain specialty board certification or maintenance of licensure under a framework established by the Federation of State Medical Boards. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56, Chapter 7; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 63, Chapter 9 and Title 68. Failed
- SB 122 Animal Control - As introduced, establishes a spay-neuter program for cats and dogs. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 17 and Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2. Died
- HB 2122 Medical Occupations - As introduced, establishes a license for a new practitioner. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71. Died
- SB 491 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires employees and others associated with insurance companies who make recommendations concerning medical treatment given to patients to be licensed as health care providers in this state and in certain cases to have staff privileges at hospitals and other facilities. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68. Died
- HB 757 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, requires an applicant for a retail package store license and for a retail food store wine license to obtain and submit to a local government a criminal history record for purposes of certifying that the applicant has not committed a felony within the immediately preceding 10-year period. - Amends TCA Title 57. Enacted
- SB 296 Comptroller, State - As introduced, establishes July 1 of each year as the deadline for the office of research and education accountability to report its findings to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 44; Title 48 and Title 68. Died
- SJR 15 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 3, 2017 - Enacted
- SB 842 Public Records - As enacted, removes "addresses" from definition of personally identifying information in the general exception for records held by a governmental entity. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5. Enacted
- SB 116 Education, Higher - As enacted, authorizes the board of regents, the trustees of the University of Tennessee, and state university board of each public institution of higher education to adopt policies regulating smoking on property owned or operated by the institution; provided, that such policies do not permit smoking in any location where smoking is otherwise prohibited by law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 39, Chapter 15 and Title 49. Enacted
- HB 603 Children - As enacted, authorizes a physician to provide peripartum analgesia and peripartum care to a minor who is at least 14 years of age without the knowledge or consent of a parent. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6. Enacted
- HB 1295 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, clarifies requirements for the admission of evidence by agencies in contested case hearings when necessary to ascertain facts not otherwise admissible under the rules of court. - Amends TCA Section 4-5-313. Died
- HB 386 Comptroller, State - As enacted, clarifies that tax increment agencies need only file an annual statement of tax increment revenues allocated to the tax increment agency for active plans. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 23. Enacted
- SB 1688 Political Parties - As enacted, specifies that a person who is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces, a member of the Tennessee national guard, a member of the Tennessee air national guard, or an inactive reservist of any of the United States uniformed military services in good standing must not be disqualified as a candidate for any office if, for service-related reasons, that person was unable to comply with a statewide political party's or recognized minor party's rules for candidacy for nomination for such party, and such service-related reasons are the sole reason the person is unable to qualify. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13, Part 1. Enacted
- HB 480 TennCare - As enacted, requires managed care organizations participating in the TennCare program to annually report to the bureau of TennCare certain information regarding treatment of claims for mental health and alcoholism or drug dependence benefits in relation to the requirements of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71. Enacted