Sponsored (introduced) — Historical
Southerland, Steve · 252 bills · page 3 of 11
- SB 2226 Telecommunications - As introduced, creates a credit against sales or use taxes for providers of cellular phone services that build cellular towers in certain unserved areas. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65 and Title 67. Died
- SB 533 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires owners of property that is exempt from property tax and being used as an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities to agree to make payments in lieu of tax to the local taxing jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 67, Chapter 5 and Title 71, Chapter 5. Died
- SB 634 Fire Prevention and Investigation - As introduced, requires counties that have formed a county-wide fire department to report to the state and local government committee of the senate and the local government committee of the house of representatives as to the fire department's date of formation, organizational structure, charitable donations, and funding method. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 17. Died
- HB 1711 Consumer Protection - As introduced, extends from 180 to 185 the number of days following cancellation, due to a natural disaster of an event sponsored by a charitable organization, that must elapse before ticket buyers forfeit refund of the purchase price. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47 and Title 62. Died
- HB 1 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enhances the penalty for destruction or alteration of governmental records from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39. Died
- SB 531 Handgun Permits - As introduced, makes a person relocating to Tennessee eligible to be issued a handgun carry permit without completing the classroom and firing range requirements if, within 5 years from the application, the person had a valid handgun carry permit in another state with substantially similar classroom and firing range requirements. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351. Died
- HB 635 Pets - As introduced, increases from 90 to 100 days the length of time that a licensed dog and cat dealer must wait before applying for reinstatement of the dealer's license following suspension. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2; Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 1; Title 44; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56 and Title 63, Chapter 12. Died
- SB 1480 General Assembly - As introduced, specifies that expenses of members are paid in accordance with Article II, Section 23 of the Constitution of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-106. Died
- SB 1833 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, extends due date for the commissioner to send report on the status of the implementation of a secure web portal for the submittal of online permit applications to the appropriate legislative committees, from January 31 of each year to February 15. - Amends TCA Title 69 and Title 70. Died
- SB 529 Water Pollution - As introduced, expands, from five days to 10 days, the time period in which members of the board of water quality, oil, and gas must be notified of meetings to review permit matters. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1. Died
- SB 1498 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires TNReady, or future replacements of TNReady or other TCAP assessments, to be administered for one year free of problems in order to be used for student growth data in teacher evaluations. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 5. Died
- HB 506 Handgun Permits - As introduced, makes a person relocating to Tennessee eligible to be issued a handgun carry permit without completing the classroom and firing range requirements if, within 5 years from the application, the person had a valid handgun carry permit in another state with substantially similar classroom and firing range requirements. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351. Died
- HB 503 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, increases the number of BEP funded full-time public school nurse positions from one for every 3,000 students to one for every 750 students; increases the number of full-time public school nurses considered sufficient for the public school nurse program to adequately provide services from one nurse for every 3,000 students to one nurse for every 750 students. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 12. Died
- SB 1831 Education - As introduced, allows students to take the ACT National Career Readiness Certificate examination in lieu of retaking the examination required at grade 11. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-6001. Died
- SB 532 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, authorizes local governments to provide supplemental bridge benefits to emergency medical services personnel who retire before they are eligible for social security benefits. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36; Title 8, Chapter 37 and Title 68, Chapter 140. Died
- SB 2225 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, creates a process whereby industrial waste generators must demonstrate that their waste is not hazardous to dispose of in a particular landfill before obtaining permission to do so. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211. Died
- SB 1830 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires owners of property that is exempt from property tax and being used as an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities to agree to make payments in lieu of tax to the local taxing jurisdiction if the facility is located in a county with fewer than 8,000 people per facility. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 67, Chapter 5 and Title 71, Chapter 5. Died
- HB 572 Short Term Loans and Lenders - As introduced, changes the time within which records of pawn broker transactions must be delivered to law enforcement agencies from 48 hours after the day of the transaction to by noon the day following the day of transaction; removes specifications about the manner of delivery of records. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 45 and Title 62. Died
- HB 2380 Telecommunications - As introduced, creates a credit against sales or use taxes for providers of cellular phone services that build cellular towers in certain unserved areas. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65 and Title 67. Died
- SB 2224 Controlled Substances - As introduced, specifies that industrial hemp and products derived from industrial hemp, other than isolated THC, are not subject to scheduling as a controlled substance and are not subject to forfeiture based solely on their composition. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 33; Title 43; Title 53 and Section 67-4-2802. Died
- HB 11 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Hearing Protection Act," which deletes the prohibition on possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a firearm silencer. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1301 and Section 39-17-1302. Signed
- SJR 377 Memorials, Interns - Urias Christopher "Irish" Furbush - Signed
- HB 1875 Agriculture - As enacted, authorizes the commissioner of agriculture to exempt industrial hemp from the regulatory requirements of the Tennessee Commercial Feed Law of 1972 in the same manner that the commissioner is authorized to exempt hay, straw, stover, silage, cobs, husks, hulls and individual compounds or substances from the Law. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 44 and Title 63, Chapter 12. Signed
- SJR 117 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Porshia Rice Cutshall, 100th birthday - Signed
- SB 41 Civil Procedure - As enacted, makes licensed clinical social workers who are engaged solely in independent clinical practice in proceedings in which the department of children's services is the petitioner or intervening petitioner, exempt from subpoena to trial but subject to subpoena to a deposition. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 9, Part 1. Signed