Sponsored (introduced) — Historical

Gardenhire, Todd · 141 bills · page 2 of 6

SB 508 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. Died
SB 1018 Emergency Communications Districts - As introduced, changes from six months to 180 days the measure of frequency for the legislative body of a county or municipality to provide the required updated list of modifications or changes to all house, road, or street names or numbers to the local county election commission. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86. Died
SB 1475 Industrial Development - As introduced, defines "infrastructure" for purposes of the present law pertaining to industrial development corporations. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-105; Title 7; Title 64 and Title 67. Died
HB 350 Civil Procedure - As introduced, allows a party to attach supporting evidence to a statement of the party's intent to rebut the presumed reasonableness of medical bills in a personal injury action; allows for a certification other than an affidavit being filed regarding a person's compliance with the financial responsibility laws. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 5; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 12. Died
HB 2398 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, authorizes a financial institution that receives a tax credit for providing grants or low-rate loans to certain housing entities to carry the unused portion of the credit forward to future tax years for up to 15 years. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21. Died
HB 559 Child Abuse - As introduced, requires a mandatory report of child sexual abuse to include the name, address, telephone number, and age of the child, the name, address, and telephone number of the person responsible for the care of the child, and the facts requiring the report. - Amends TCA Title 37. Died
SB 2263 Education, Higher - As introduced, exempts certain students from paying out-of-state tuition at state institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Section 4-58-102; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9. Died
HB 336 School Vouchers - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Choice & Opportunity Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1. Died
HB 1606 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires THEC to provide data on statutory tuition waivers and discounts in the higher education fact book. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8; Title 49, Chapter 9 and Title 49, Chapter 4. Died
SB 1476 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, requires that a nonbinding referendum election be held before property tax or sales and use tax revenue is used to service debt on a professional sports team's stadium. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 64 and Title 67. Died
HB 619 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, requires notification of the Native American Indian Association of Tennessee prior to an excavation of a Native American Indian gravesite; substitutes historically proven descent for one-fourth blooded as means of establishing bona fides for the three positions on the archaeological advisory council that are reserved for descendants of Native American Indians. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 6; Section 15-2-106 and Section 68-24-701. Died
SB 1477 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, deletes the requirement that local school systems must sell all surplus property within 90 days of its being declared surplus; revises the advertising requirements for local school systems selling surplus property. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. Died
SB 1753 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, requires an agency that promulgates a new permanent rule to identify and repeal two existing permanent rules. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5. Died
SB 2173 Children - As introduced, adds the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives to the committees receiving the annual status report on child protective teams from each district attorney general. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39. Died
HB 2289 Education - As introduced, defines, for purposes education laws, "classroom teacher" as an LEA employee who spends at least 75 percent of the employee's time working directly with students. - Amends TCA Title 49. Died
HB 395 School Transportation - As introduced, requires any bus ordered or purchased on or after July 1, 2018, to be equipped with a restraint system; requires any bus that is currently used to transport students be equipped with a restraint system by July 1, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 6. Died
HB 759 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, allows an employer to pre-enroll employees in a group income protection insurance policy if certain disclosure requirements are satisfied by the employer and the policy meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7. Died
SB 1751 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, removes exemption from amusement tax for physical fitness facilities that have a square footage of 15,000 or more; imposes amusement tax on all physical fitness facilities, regardless of size; retains exemption for certain nonprofit facilities. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. Died
HB 687 Municipal Government - As introduced, requires the mayor and chief law enforcement officer of a municipality to submit an oath to the comptroller of the treasury committing to assist the United States in the enforcement of all criminal and immigration laws in order for the municipality to continue to receive its allocation of the state sales tax; violators will lose such allocation for the longer of 12 months or until a new signed oath is received. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-103. Died
HB 1737 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, requires an agency that promulgates a new permanent rule to identify and repeal two existing permanent rules. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5. Died
SB 1438 Hamilton County - Subject to local approval, revises composition and duties of financial review committee of the hospital authority governing Baroness Erlanger Hospital; adds procedure for selecting the chairperson of the board of trustees for the hospital authority. - Amends Chapter 297 of the Private Acts of 1976; as amended. Died
SB 1755 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires a county school system to transfer all real and personal property it owns within the boundaries of the municipality that is creating or reactivating a municipal school system to the municipal school system. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. Failed
SB 1641 Special License Plates - As introduced, requires that one-half of the revenue allocated to the Tennessee arts commission from the sale of new specialty earmarked license plates be distributed as grants for the purpose of hiring art teachers in priority schools; designates any remaining balance for the purchase of art supplies. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2 and Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 3. Died
SB 431 Child Abuse - As introduced, requires a mandatory report of child sexual abuse to include the name, address, telephone number, and age of the child, the name, address, and telephone number of the person responsible for the care of the child, and the facts requiring the report. - Amends TCA Title 37. Died
HB 1738 Education, Higher - As introduced, identifies when a member of a governing board has a conflict of interest involving a state institution of higher education governed by the board; prohibits a governing board member from accepting or soliciting anything of value in excess of $250 from an institution governed by the board; prohibits certain persons from serving as a governing board member. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9. Failed