Sponsored (introduced) — Historical

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SB 1580 Children - As introduced, revises various provisions relating to visitation of stepparents. - Amends TCA Title 36. Died
SB 2620 Veterans Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department, in collaboration with the department of health, to create a pilot program that permits military medical veterans to practice under the supervision of a licensed physician or podiatrist. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 58. Died
SB 898 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, modifies the basic education program funding to allow school districts that do not receive 80 percent ADM funding to receive a 3 percent increase in funding until the school district is at 80 percent funding. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3. Died
SB 1372 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes retail wine sales by retail food stores located in a county within which five or more municipalities have authorized such retail wine sales by retail food stores; authorizes the premises of a retail food store wine license to be located in such county. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-803 and Section 57-3-805. Died
SB 1748 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, removes from TCA a report on the title pledge business due from the commissioner of financial institutions on February 1, 2006. - Amends TCA Title 45. Died
SB 1964 Bond Issues - As introduced, authorizes the state, acting by resolution of its funding board, to issue and sell its interest-bearing bonds and bond anticipation notes for certain purposes. - Died
SB 2374 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, exempts facilities that are exclusively devoted to the practice of ophthalmology from the certificate of need requirement. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 16. Died
SB 255 Juries and Jurors - As introduced, allows any person age 70 or older to request the jury coordinator of the county to remove the person's name from the jury list of the county if the request is made in writing and is accompanied by an affidavit providing the person's name, age, and other information as required by the jury coordinator; requires the jury coordinator to remove the person's name from the jury list upon receiving the request. - Amends TCA Title 22. Died
SB 444 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the department of revenue to report to the fiscal review committee and transportation committees on the actual or estimated number of passenger motor vehicles that have been issued stickers or decals to use the HOV lane. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-188. Died
SJR 855 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - David F. Jones, Tennessee Public Utility Commission - Died
SB 261 Workers Compensation - As introduced, requires all workers' compensation cases to proceed through the workers' compensation appeals board prior to seeking a discretionary appeal to the Tennessee supreme court. - Amends TCA Section 9-8-307; Section 9-8-403; Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 2 and Section 58-1-230. Died
SB 1996 Lottery, Corporation - As introduced, authorizes use of money orders, debit cards, and prepaid gift cards to purchase lottery tickets; revises other provisions concerning prize claims and lottery devices. - Amends TCA Section 4-51-108 and Section 4-51-123. Died
SB 744 Healthcare Liability - As introduced, enacts the "Insurance Costs Reduction Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68. Died
SB 892 Healthcare Liability - As introduced, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to convene a working group of representatives from the healthcare liability insurance industry and healthcare providers to study creating a no-fault system to establish healthcare provider responsibility in order that healthcare providers' insurance premiums will be reduced. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68. Died
SB 1749 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to submit the annual report summarizing the information submitted pursuant to the Tennessee Health Care Liability Reporting Act to the chair of the senate commerce and labor committee and the chair of the insurance and banking committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 56. Died
SB 961 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires the commerce and labor committee of the senate, the insurance and banking committee of the house of representatives, and the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives to recommend any necessary changes to the Access Tennessee Act of 2006 by February 1 after conducting the committees' annual review of the act. - Amends TCA Title 56. Died
SB 359 Vital Records - As introduced, requires that a medical examiner make certain findings before listing suicide as a cause of death, and creates a presumption against a determination of cause of death by suicide; creates a process by which a deceased person's spouse, parent, guardian, next of kin, or estate administrator can request the medical examiner reconsider a determination of cause of death by suicide. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 5. Died
SB 779 Education - As introduced, creates a tuition assistance program from proceeds of the state lottery to develop a two-year pilot program that allows Fairview High School students to participate in dual enrollment at Columbia State Community College and earn an associate degree in advanced manufacturing courses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4. Died
SB 130 Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, creates a pilot program within Montgomery County, under which the sheriff, in consultation with the department of mental health and substance abuse services, will create and administer a program of substance abuse treatment services for eligible inmates. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41. Died
SB 163 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts from taxation by the department of commerce and insurance any multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) licensed and approved by the department. - Amends TCA Section 56-26-204. Died
SB 475 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to report to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate by January 1, 2018, on the impact of the treatment guidelines developed pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 63-1-401, on the abuse of opioids in this state; the commissioner shall also make appropriate recommendations for any needed additional legislation to address issues raised by opioid abuse. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. Died
SB 1 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits the Board for Professional Counselors, Marital and Family Therapists, and Clinical Pastoral Therapists from adopting any rule that incorporates by reference a national association's code of ethics, including, but not limited to, the American Counseling Association Code of Ethics; revises other provisions related to allowing counselors to not counsel when doing so conflicts with beliefs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 63. Died
SB 2493 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, authorizes the supreme court to designate certain judges with at least one year of creditable judicial service to serve as senior judges to hear complex commercial disputes. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 2, Part 3. 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 202 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to provide a residential mental health facility that contracts with the department for provision of services to children in state custody the educational funding provided by the commissioner by statute under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71, Chapter 3. Died