Sponsored (introduced) — Historical
Watson, Bo · 75 bills · page 1 of 3
- SB 858 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires each board to notify the commissioner of finance and administration when the estimate of board fees for a fiscal year is more than the certified amount of board fees required by the board for that fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67. Died
- SB 735 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, separates the 5 percent tax on unprepared food into a 5 percent tax on fresh produce and meat and a 5 percent tax on all other unprepared food. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. Died
- SB 594 Comptroller, State - As introduced, requires the comptroller to report to the chairs of the senate finance, ways and means committee and the finance, ways and means committee of the house of representatives concerning the number of counties and municipalities that have adopted the property tax freeze program by ordinance or resolution by January 15, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7. Died
- SB 2642 Health Care - As introduced, raises from $500 to $1,000 the upper limit of a civil penalty that may be charged per day of continued activity or operation against any person who performs, offers to perform, or holds out as performing any activity for which a certificate of need is required, without first obtaining a valid certificate of need. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68. Died
- SB 1574 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires persons committing domestic assault or violating an order of protection to be placed on a domestic abuse registry maintained by the TBI for a period of 10 years from the date of conviction. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1. Died
- SB 856 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, revises various provisions regarding when a health insurance entity can make, and when a health insurance entity is required to notify a provider of, changes in the provider's fee schedule. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7. Died
- SB 1965 Budget Procedures - As introduced, authorizes grant payments under the grant assistance program for nursing home care to be made either monthly or quarterly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71. Died
- SB 1648 Auditing - As introduced, expands the scope of audits to be conducted by the department of audit on certain state agencies. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 17 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 3. Died
- SB 629 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, directs the commissioner of health, in consultation with the bureau of TennCare, to study and to report to the senate health and welfare committee, the senate finance, ways and means committee, the health committee of the house of representatives, and the finance, ways and means committee of the house of representatives, on or before January 15, 2018, concerning options for developing a transformation plan for financially vulnerable rural hospitals that would facilitate moving those hospitals to a more sustainable operations model. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68 and Title 71. Died
- SB 2640 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, enacts the "Network Adequacy and Out-of-Network Balance Billing Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68. Died
- SB 2653 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, enacts the "Taxpayers' Convenience Act"; permits registration plates to be renewed every 24 months instead of 12 months. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 55, Chapter 6. Died
- SB 2652 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, requires state agencies to conduct economic impact analyses of administrative rules on persons residing in or doing business in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5. Died
- SB 2275 Fiscal Review Committee - As introduced, establishes a process by which the sponsor of a bill, resolution, or amendment may appeal a fiscal note furnished for such bill, resolution, or amendment to the fiscal review committee. - Amends TCA Section 3-2-107. Died
- SR 135 Memorials, Personal Occasion - James Edwin and Judith Ann Hostetter, 60th anniversary - Died
- SB 2651 Public Records - As introduced, classifies as confidential and not open for public inspection records evidencing pet insurance that are provided to local government entities in order to register a dog or cat. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 10; Title 49; Title 61 and Title 67. Died
- SB 2649 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, establishes the Tennessee taxpayer relief and recession reserve; clarifies that deposits into the reserve for revenue fluctuation and the relief and recession reserve do not count toward the Copeland Cap; provides an automatic, temporary sales tax reduction when there are sufficient over collections to offset the loss of revenue. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 67. Died
- SB 884 Building Commission, State - As introduced, increases amount of contract from in excess of $100,000 to in excess of $200,000 for when the execution of a good and solvent corporate surety payment and performance bond is required. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 5. Died
- SB 817 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, requires the commissioner of revenue to annually report the amount of disaster relief refunds issued by the department. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67. Died
- SB 857 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires a nursing home to provide a quarterly statement accounting for deposit and withdrawal transactions in an interest-bearing account maintained for safekeeping of the resident's funds, upon request of a resident, or resident's guardian, trustee, or conservator. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 67; Title 68, Chapter 11 and Title 71, Chapter 5. 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 2637 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, prohibits water and wastewater treatment authorities from charging sewer fees for a property that cannot connect to sewer service due to a moratorium on connections; requires that persons who have paid sewer fees during a moratorium on connections that prevented such persons from connecting to service receive a credit against future charges. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69, Chapter 3. Died
- SB 1966 Appropriations - As introduced, makes appropriations for the purpose of defraying the expenses of certain legislative enactments passed during the 2018 session of the 110th General Assembly; earmarks sufficient state funds for the purpose of funding any bill naming a highway or bridge in honor of a service member killed in action. - Died
- SB 627 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, deletes provision that the allocation of sales and use taxes to the transportation equity trust fund for railways, aeronautics, and waterways programs does not supersede or affect a former provision of law. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 67. Died
- SB 1714 State Government - As introduced, requires policy for lease payments for space occupied by state agencies to be established by the commissioner of finance and administration, instead of the commissioner of general services, and approved by the state building commission. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 9, Chapter 4 and Title 12. Died
- SB 2645 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, requires magistrates who order defendants to carry or wear a GPS device to annually report to the department the number of defendants ordered to do so; requires the department to compile the reports and submit the compilation to the judiciary committee of the senate and the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Section 55-10-402. Died