Sponsored (introduced) — Historical

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SB 1099 Fireworks - As introduced, changes the classification of criminal offense for shipment into, manufacture, possession, sale, or use within this state of "illegal ground salutes" from a Class E felony to a Class C misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104, Part 1. Died
SB 308 Handgun Permits - As introduced, requires one-half of every handgun carry permit fee to be annually donated to one or more nonprofit organizations established for the purpose of providing financial assistance to families of police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical staff who lost lives or are victims of serious and disabling injury in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 39. Died
SB 1417 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, increases from $1,000 to $1,500 the maximum amount that can be assessed as a civil penalty per violation by an entity advertising or representing any loan, refinance, insurance, or any other product or service that is untrue, deceptive, misleading, or that uses the name or logo of any other lender without the express written consent of the lender whose name is used. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47. Died
SB 1411 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a minimum wage of $15.00 as of July 1, 2017; provides a minimum wage for employees in the service industry who receive tips and employees that are compensated solely by gratuities; authorizes the department of labor and workforce development to promulgate rules in compliance with federal law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2. Died
SB 2484 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, enacts the "Transparency in School Employee Salary Act" to require online publication of salary information for employees of public schools, charter schools, charter school authorizers, and local education agencies. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Title 49. Died
SB 1416 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, increases time from 30 days to 30 business days for what is considered a "reasonable time" for purposes of when a person must respond to a request for information regarding a complaint. - Amends TCA Title 56. Died
SB 2403 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, directs TACIR to study and report on the implementation and effects of global position monitoring as a condition of bail for certain defendants; requires state departments and agencies to provide assistance to TACIR in connection with the study; requires that TACIR seek input from interested groups. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-111 and Title 40, Chapter 11. Died
SB 2428 Children - As introduced, adds the commissioner of children's services to the recipients who may receive disposition information from the council of juvenile and family court judges; those who may receive such information currently include properly concerned agencies and individuals, or any person upon request. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 37. Died
SB 1122 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a minimum wage that increases annually on July 1; provides a minimum wage for employees in the service industry who receive tips and employees that are compensated solely by gratuities; authorizes the department of labor and workforce development to promulgate rules in compliance with federal law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2. Died
SB 2409 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, reduces the tax on the retail sale of food by 1 percent each year until it is eliminated on July 1, 2021; exempts the retail sale of food from the local option sales tax beginning July 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. Died
SB 1064 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires reimbursement to a 65-year-old or older low-income taxpayer for all of the local property back taxes paid for a given year on that property that the taxpayer owned, used as the taxpayer's residence, and which residence has incurred maintenance costs that exceed $500. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7. Died
SB 309 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires mandatory minimum sentences for certain criminal convictions involving semi-automatic firearms. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. Died
SB 2319 Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As introduced, requires persons who transfer Class I wildlife in this state to notify the chief law enforcement officer for the county and municipality where a transfer occurs within five days of the transfer. - Amends TCA Title 70. Died
SB 2323 Public Officials - As introduced, clarifies that annual report attorney general is required to provide to state board of claims before close of fiscal year describing manner in which funds received from the risk management fund were used in representing state employees may be filed electronically. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 50. Died
SB 1095 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, raises the minimum wage paid to tipped employees from $2.13 to $2.50 per hour; authorizes an employer to take a tip credit toward its minimum wage obligations up to the amount permitted by federal law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2. Died
SB 2326 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires the department of children's services to develop instructional guidelines for child safety training programs for teachers; requires teachers to complete the appropriate child safety training program prior to license issuance or renewal. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 23; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 9. Died
SB 2431 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from July 1 to August 1 the date by which the department must submit its annual report on virtual education programs to the governor, the general assembly, the state board of education, and the BEP review committee. - Amends TCA Title 49. Died
SB 2412 Comptroller, State - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to study and make recommendations for increasing transparency in the purchasing of prescription drugs through the group insurance plan for state employees administered by the state insurance committee and the medical assistance program in the TennCare waiver; requires reports to legislative committees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71. Died
SB 1127 State Government - As introduced, encourages departments of state government to monitor federal grant opportunities and report on them to the general assembly with particular attention to the needs of minority communities and to water and wastewater, community clean up, and transit grants. - Amends TCA Title 4. Died
SB 1131 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, changes March 1 to March 15 of each year the date by which the department of health must submit a report with de-identified aggregate claims data on every discharge that includes coded drug poisonings for the calendar year two years prior to the current year by licensed hospitals. - Amends TCA Title 68. Died
SB 1107 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, increases gasoline and diesel tax rates and allocates revenues to highway fund; authorizes local option gasoline tax and surcharge; increases registration fees; creates transportation services district consisting of certain counties; authorizes special allocation of surplus state tax revenue within district to eligible counties for transportation services; extends Class C misdemeanor offense of consuming an alcoholic beverage or possessing an open alcoholic beverage container in an operating motor vehicle to passengers. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67. Died
SB 1103 Driver Licenses - As introduced, waives fee to renew commercial driver license if the license expires prior to the applicant taking the required examination and if such failure to timely take the examination results from a delay by the department or driver license station. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50. Died
SB 1124 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, prohibits an LEA from closing a school after July 1, 2017; requires the office of research and education accountability (OREA) to conduct a five-year study on the impact of the students and a community when the LEA closes a school; requires OREA to report to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives no later than March 1, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 49. Died
SB 1135 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes a person to appeal to the state election commission the rejection of a provisional ballot; requires the ballot to be counted if the commission determines that the ballot was lawfully cast; requires the commission to promulgate rules establishing the procedures for an appeal. - Amends TCA Title 2. Died
SB 2408 State Government - As introduced, urges department of general services to study functions of state government performed by a private entity pursuant to a contract with the state that is for less than $100,000 and was entered into on an open-bid basis; requires the department to report to the state and local government committee of the senate and state government committee of the house of representatives within 90 days from the conclusion of any such study. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 41. Died