Public Chapters effective 07/01/07

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11 SB0457 Education - Directs the office of education accountability to study periodically the school
accountability system and report its findings to the general assembly; removes the duty of
the office of accountability to study schools or school systems on notice or probation. -
Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.
13 HB0418 Estates - Clarifies that the net estate for purposes of calculating a surviving spouse's
elective share does not include assets over which the decedent held a power of
appointment; that the gross estate excludes the homestead allowance, exempt property,
and year's support allowance; that the elective share is exempt from allocation for estate
taxes; and that the elective share must be elected within nine months of the decedent's
death. - Amends TCA Title 31, Chapter 4.
22 SB1388 Domestic Relations - Allows persons to petition for grandparent visitation in general
sessions courts with domestic relations jurisidiction or juvenile courts in matters involving
children born out of wedlock; authorization is in addition to present authorization for such
petitions to be filed in chancery and circuit courts. - Amends TCA Section 36-6-306.
23 SB2186 Military - Revises maximum age provisions regarding the termination of a national guard
officer's appointment; sets age limits at those "prescribed in federal law" instead of age 64
for the adjutant general, age 62 for a major general, age 60 for a brigadier general and
below, and age 60 for the United States property and fiscal officer. - Amends TCA Title 58,
26 SB0189 Guardianship - Removes social security numbers from the public portion of records of
guardianships and conservatorships; authorizes the court to release the social security
number to a third party upon good cause shown and upon such conditions as the court may
deem appropriate. - Amends TCA Title 34.
27 SB0334 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - Requires hospitals, during the fall and winter months,
to offer elderly inpatients certain immunizations for flu and pneumococcal diseases. -
Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.
28 SB0767 Driver Licenses - Broadens criminal provisions involving unlawful use of driver licenses to
include use of certificates for driving and all other government-issued photo identification
documents. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 6.
31 SB2233 Welfare - Revises provisions governing temporary assistance to needy families. - Amends
TCA Title 71.
32 SB0263 Fines and Penalties - Increases fine for unauthorized use of parking spaces reserved for
persons with disabilities from $100 to $150; requires the fiscal review committee to report
to the general assembly regarding cost-of-living increases every five years and the impact
of such increases on the fine amount so general assembly can determine if fine should be
increased. - Amends TCA Section 55-21-108.
39 SB1757 Firefighters - The appointment of the county fire chief by the county mayor in Shelby
County, subject to confirmation by the county legislative body, requires the county mayor
and legislative body to ensure that the views and opinions of all participating governmental
entities are given full consideration, with the exact methodology to be determined by local
ordinance. - Amends TCA Section 5-17-103.
41 SB2252 Transportation, Dept. of - Requires transportation plan prepared by commissioner be
consistent with federal transportation planning requirements and include consideration of
various types of transportation. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 23.
42 HB0204 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - Requires the commission to develop an
institute of public health, in consultation with the department of health, the University of
Tennessee, the Tennessee board of regents, and private colleges and universities. -
43 HB0640 Liability, Tort - Extends limited liability to all healthcare research institutions, and
employees thereof, for injuries caused in the development, testing, or administration of
certain vaccines except in cases of willful misconduct resulting in death or serious bodily
injury. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 68.
45 SB0057 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - Requires two hours of the required five days
of annual teachers' in-service training to be devoted to training in suicide prevention;
specifies that requirement may be met through self-review of suitable prevention materials.
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46 SB0127 Criminal Offenses - Expands Class A misdemeanor of escaping from a penal institution to
those persons lawfully being held for a civil offense. - Amends TCA Section 39-16-605.
48 SB0494 Election Laws - Revises statutory language to replace "handicapped voter" with "voter with
a disability" or "voters with disabilities." - Amends TCA Title 2.
55 SB1758 Emergency Communications Districts - Authorizes Shelby County mayor to appoint board
of directors of seven to 11 members to govern such county's emergency communications
district; directors are subject to confirmation by county legislative body. - Amends TCA
Section 7-86-105.
61 HB0225 Fines and Penalties - Requires the fiscal review committee to report to the general
assembly every five years regarding the dollar amount that fines imposed for criminal
offenses would be if adjusted to reflect the previous five years' cost of living increases. -
Amends TCA Section 40-35-111.
64 HB0349 Fireworks - Raises the age from 10 to 16 for the lawful purchase of Class C common
fireworks; increases the amount of the fine depending on the number of offenses a retailer
commits; authorizes municipalities to adopt an ordinance that mirrors the unlawful sale of
fireworks to minors, intoxicated, or irresponsible persons. - Amends TCA Section 68-104-
112 and Section 68-104-114.
65 HB1157 Game and Fish Laws - Requires property declared contraband to be destroyed or delivered
to the commissioner of general services and sold in the same manner as surplus property
instead of destroyed or advertised and sold at the courthouse of the county where the
property was seized. - Amends TCA Section 70-6-201.
70 HB2174 Criminal Offenses - Creates misdemeanor offenses for removing from a dog an electronic
or radio transmitting collar or microchip implant without the permission of the owner. -
Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14.
72 HB2316 Energy - Transfers responsibility for administering state building energy management
program and revolving retrofit fund from department of general services to department of
finance and administration. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3.
75 SB0527 Housing - Permits housing authorities in counties not covered by Uniform Residential
Landlord and Tenant Act to terminate and evict tenants on three days' notice if they
engage in violent acts or drug-related criminal activity or behave in a manner that is a
danger to other tenants. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 7, Part 1.
77 SB1178 DNA and Genetic Testing - Expands group of persons required to furnish DNA samples for
testing to include misdemeanants whose offense requires them to register with the sexual
offender registry. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.
78 SB1205 Consumer Protection - Specifies that the limitation on selling a residence with more
bedrooms than are permitted by the sewage disposal system permit applies only to new
construction, and specifies that real estate agents violate the statute only if they have
actual, not constructive, knowledge of the violation. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and
Title 66, Chapter 5.
83 HB1183 Domestic Violence - Requires physicians to report suspected domestic abuse to the
department of health for the compilation of anonymous statistical data on such abuse;
requirement to be repealed June 30, 2009. - Amends TCA Title 36.
85 HB1540 Liability, Tort - Extends the "Tennessee White Water Rafting Responsibility Act" until July
1, 2010, from its present sunset of July 1, 2008; requires the department of commerce and
insurance to examine issues regarding the affordability of insurance in the area of white
water rafting. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 7, Part 2 and Chapter 169 of the Public Acts
87 HB0145 Game and Fish Laws - Requires land managed by TWRA to be open to access and use for
recreational hunting, and that agency land management actions relative to such land not
result in any net loss of available acreage for hunting opportunities; requires TWRA to
mitigate the closure of hunting and fishing land that it owns. - Amends TCA Title 70,
90 HB0353 Municipal Government - Changes terms of board of mayor and alderman from
nonstaggered two-year terms to nonstaggered four-year terms in Huntsville. - Amends TCA
99 HB1942 Education - Requires each LEA to annually report to the commissioner of education the
employment standards the LEA has adopted for school resource officers. - Amends TCA
Section 49-6-4217.
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106 SB0276 Search & Seizure - Adds campus police officers to present law enforcement officers
authorized to conduct certain seizures of property and related forfeiture sales of such
property. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-420; Title 40, Chapter 33, Part 1; Title 53, Chapter
11 and Title 55, Chapter 5, Part 1.
107 SB0519 County Government - Authorizes certain counties to establish and operate emergency
medical services and to charge fees or rates for such services. - Amends TCA Title 5,
Chapter 16, Part 1.
108 SB0730 Criminal Procedure - Adds offenses of rape, statutory rape by authority figure, and
aggravated child abuse to list of offenses for which the judge must revoke bail
immediately upon conviction. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 1.
112 SB2029 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - Exempts persons with a permanent disability from
furnishing a physician's statement upon renewal of a handicapped placard or tag. -
Amends TCA Section 55-21-103.
115 HB0270 Boards and Commissions - Abolishes board of occupational and physical therapy
examiners and establishes separate boards for each profession. - Amends TCA Title 4,
Chapter 29; Title 63, Chapter 13 and Section 68-11-222.
117 HB0896 Physicians and Surgeons - Adds onsite medical clinics to those entities that a clinical
laboratory or a physician may bill for cytopathology services. - Amends TCA Title 63,
Chapter 6, Part 12.
118 HB1203 Surplus Property - Modifies the procedures for the department of transportation's
disposition of real property that was intended for use as right-of-way. - Amends TCA
125 SB0925 Election Laws - Requires applications for voter registration to be accepted and processed
through the 29th day before election if the 30th day falls on Sunday; requires that poll
watchers be at least 17 years old; requires that retention questions for judges be at the end
of the ballot; makes various other revisions to election laws. - Amends TCA Section 2-5-
207(b); Section 2-2-109; Section 2-2-129(a)(1); Section 2-5-208(c); Section 2-6-201; Section
2-6-202(a)(3); Section 2-6-202(d)(3); Section 2-6-502(c); Section 2-7-104(a); Section 2-7-
112(a)(2)(D); Section 2-7-133(i); Section 2-8-107(b) and Section 5-1-104(b)(3).
126 SB1056 Sexual Offenders - Requires a sexual offender or violent sexual offender to report any
material change in the offender's employment status to the registering agency within 48
hours of the change of status. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.
128 SB1190 Animals and Animal Cruelty - Provides that in animal cruelty prosecutions, if the defendant
does not post court-ordered security to pay for expense of caring for the animal within 15
days, animal is forfeited and defendant loses all ownership rights; establishes provisions
governing situations where person from whom animal was seized is not the owner and for
situations where the owner is indigent. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2.
130 SB1784 Contractors - Requires general and home improvement contractors to submit proof of
workers' compensation and general liability insurance upon licensure or renewal. - Amends
TCA Title 62, Chapter 37 and Title 62, Chapter 6.
134 HB0075 Law Enforcement - Permits a juvenile to be photographed or recorded by law enforcement
if juvenile is committing offense, if officer is conducting field sobriety test on juvenile, or,
in certain circumstances, if juvenile is victim of offense and consents. - Amends TCA Title
37, Chapter 1, Part 1.
138 HB0776 Paternity - Requires court to order nonprevailing party in paternity suit or, in noncontested
cases, the person confirmed as the father of the child to pay costs for changing birth
certificate and issuing new birth certificate. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 2, Part 3.
139 HB0851 Motor Vehicles - Requires written motor vehicle accident reports, including those prepared
by law enforcement and those prepared by the owner or driver of a vehicle involved in an
accident, to include insurance policy names. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10.
141 HB1187 Zoning - Revises provisions regarding businesses that cease operations for 30 continuous
months being bound by zoning changes to create special provisions applicable to motor
vehicle business establishments in Davidson County. - Amends TCA Section 13-7-208.
142 HB1219 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - Establishes registration fee of $9.50 for privately
owned trailer not required to be registered but the owner desires to be registered; makes
personalized plates available for such trailers for an additional fee of $50.00; authorizes the
sale of personalized trailer plates and provides for the funds from the sale of such plates
being expended to develop and maintain public horseback riding trails. - Amends TCA Title
55, Chapter 4.
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144 HB1351 Trusts - Enacts the "Tennessee Investment Services Act of 2007." - Amends TCA Section
35-15-505 and Section 66-1-202.
145 HB1758 Fire Prevention and Investigation - Authorizes counties that create county-wide fire districts
to include performance-based criteria in interlocal agreements and contracts for fire
protection services, subject to local approval. - Amends TCA Section 5-17-101.
147 HB2291 Public Property - Allows department of general services to use the best value procurement
methodology for purchasing goods and services. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 2.
152 HB1916 Election Laws - Clarifies that information regarding absentee requests and applications are
confidential and not subject to the Open Records Law until the end of early voting. -
Amends TCA Section 2-6-202(c).
158 SB0295 Sexual Offenders - Adds rape of a child and aggravated rape of a child to felony murder
offenses elevating a murder to first degree murder and requires misdemeanor probation
officers to determine if new probationer is on the sexual offender registry. - Amends TCA
Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 35.
163 SB0798 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - Specifies that teachers who transition from
part-time to full-time employment will be eligible for health insurance benefits, even if the
teacher did not participate in the plan as a part-time employee. - Amends TCA Title 8,
Chapter 27, Part 3.
166 SB1703 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - Authorizes certain community action agencies to
become participating employer in TCRS. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 35, Part 2.
173 SB0217 Sentencing - Adds enhancement factor by which a defendant's sentence can be increased
within the appropriate range that an adult defendant sold or delivered an illegal drug to a
minor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 5 and Title 40, Chapter 35.
174 SB0293 Education, Curriculum - Urges the state board of education to develop guidelines for the
materials and method of instruction used to teach the procedure for voluntarily surrendering
a newborn baby and to include that instruction in the lifetime wellness curriculum for
grades nine through 12. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.
178 SB0920 Privacy, Confidentiality - Classifies records of job-related critical incident counseling to
county and municipal corrections officers and dispatchers as confidential for purposes of
open records law. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504.
180 SB1373 Taxes, Real Property - Clarifies that transfers of real estate to or from a revocable living
trust are exempt from transfer tax only if the trust was created by the transferor or the
transferor's spouse, and further clarifies that deeds executed by the trustee of a revocable
living trust to implement a testamentary devise by the trustor of the trust are exempt
from transfer tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.
185 SB0418 Boats, Boating - Clarifies laws related to boating regulation and safety, updates boating
laws to account for new technologies, and increases boating under the influence penalties
for first and second time offenders. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9.
186 SB0691 Trusts - Enacts the "Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act." - Amends
and repeal portions of TCA Title 35.
187 SB0942 Domestic Relations - Allows a court to award reasonable attorney fees to either parent in a
parental relocation matter; protects social security numbers of the parties and their children
in certain divorce and child custody and support proceedings; requires all parties to any
divorce to be subject to certain temporary injunctions, and adds a new temporary injunction
against hiding evidence stored electronically; requires capital losses to be deducted from
capital gains for the purpose of calculating income pursuant to the child support guidelines.
- Amends TCA Section 36-4-106(b)(1); Section 36-4-106(d); Section 36-5-101(c)(2); Section
36-5-101(e) and Section 36-6-108.

192 HB1037 Auctions and Auctioneers - Creates right of lien for auctioneers who perform auctioneering
services and are subsequently denied payment; auctioneer must notify the person to
whom services were provided; lien to continue for 90 days from date of notice and until
final termination of any suit for enforcement brought within such period. - Amends TCA
Title 62, Chapter 19, Part 1.
193 HB1196 Museums - Adds Cowan Railroad Museum in Franklin County as an official state railroad
museum. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1 and Title 4, Chapter 3.
195 HB2051 Domestic Relations - Authorizes commissioner of department of children's services to
provide for instruction in GED preparation and vocational and occupational training in youth
development centers. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
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197 HB2265 Unemployment Compensation - Revises the premium rate chart for nongovernmental
employers. - Amends TCA Section 50-7-403(g).
198 HB2321 Environment and Conservation, Department of - Exempts from public disclosure the
records of any division of the department that would not be available to the public under
federal law. - Amends Title 11, Chapter 1, Part 1.
199 HB0320 Courts, Juvenile - Makes various refinements to statutes pertaining to the conduct of
juvenile court proceedings. - Amends TCA Section 36-1-117; Section 37-1-124 and Section
201 HB1003 Contracts - Increases from $500,000 to $860,000 the dollar amount of real property
improvement contracts to which the requirement for an escrow account applies when a
percentage of the contract price is held back by the owner or contractor. - Amends TCA
Section 4-15-102; Section 66-11-144 and Title 66, Chapter 34.
202 HB1048 Food and Food Products - Authorizes the sale of non-potentially hazardous foods prepared
in home-based kitchens to be sold at farmers' markets. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 8.
205 HB1385 Notary Public - Requires notary public to report name change to county clerk and pay fee
currently required for moving residence or principle place of business. - Amends TCA
Section 8-16-109.
209 HB1753 Criminal Offenses - Broadens the offense of indecent exposure to include prisoners who
expose their genitals or buttocks to another or engage in sexual conduct for the purpose of
harassing a correctional officer or guard. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.
212 SB0026 Students - Exempts from Open Meetings Act student disciplinary hearings conducted by
school board after appeal by student, principal, principal-teacher, or assistant principal of
decision of disciplinary hearing authority unless student or student's parent or guardian
requests in writing an open hearing. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3401.
214 SB0270 Criminal Offenses - Creates new offense of knowingly leaving child under seven in motor
vehicle without supervision; punishable by permissible safety training and as Class B
misdemeanor by $200 fine for first offense and $500 fine for second or subsequent
offense. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10.
216 SB0537 Criminal Offenses - Increases the punishment for the offense of being present as a
spectator at a dog fight from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class A misdemeanor. -
Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2.
224 SB1112 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - Enacts the "Pharmacy Benefits Management Act." - Amends
TCA Title 56 and Title 63.
227 SB1893 Aircraft and Airports - Increases from two to three number of members of Tennessee
aeronautics commission necessary to constitute quorum. - Amends TCA Title 42.
235 HB0080 Highways, Roads and Bridges - Requires the department of transportation to provide
written notice to the speakers of the house and senate at least 10 days prior to a
modification in the maximum weight of load allowed on public highways. - Amends TCA Title
240 HB0365 Handicapped Persons - Clarifies that only disabled drivers, disabled passengers, and
qualified operators acting under express direction of such disabled persons who are present
as passengers are allowed to use disabled parking spaces. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter
21, Part 1.
242 HB0600 Criminal Offenses - Prohibits the transportation of illegal aliens into the state, imposes a
fine of $1,000 for such violation, and requires that money received from such fines be
applied to the costs associated with deportation of such illegal aliens. - Amends TCA Title
243 HB0743 Water - Authorizes the Tennessee Regulatory Authority to regulate excess water leakage at
public water utilities. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 65 and Title 68, Chapter 221.
244 HB0753 Property - Specifies that seller of property must disclose percolation tests or soil
absorption rates prior to contracting with buyer. - Amends TCA Section 66-5-212.
247 HB0933 Education - Prevents parent whose status as parent has been terminated by operation of
law from obtaining child's report card. - Amends TCA Title 49.
251 HB1112 Driver Licenses - Requires qualifying offenses, convictions, or acts for which a person's
driver license may be suspended or revoked to have occurred less than 10 years from the
date the license is to be suspended or revoked. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part
253 HB1294 Planning, Public - Requires certain members of municipal planning commission serving as
regional planning commission to reside in the region served by such regional planning
commission. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 3, Part 1.
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254 HB1384 Notary Public - Increases surety bond requirement for notary publics from $10,000 to
$25,000. - Amends TCA Section 8-16-104.
257 HB1775 AIDS, HIV and STDs - Requires judge to order person convicted of promoting prostitution
to submit to HIV test. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.
259 HB2079 Law Enforcement - Requires that all police and highway patrol officers be provided training
on proper response to persons with mental illnesses; and requires that the POST
commission's curriculum also include such training. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7, Part 1
and Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.
261 SB0051 School Transportation - Requires school bus drivers to deposit student at student's
destination and makes failure to do so Class C misdemeanor punishable by fine only of up
to $100; requires LEAs to assure that school bus drivers understand their duties and
responsibilities with respect to management of unruly student bus riders. - Amends TCA
Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21.
264 SB0801 Unemployment Compensation - Requires written notice of method of appeal to chancery
court be given to a claimant upon final denial of a claim for unemployment compensation. -
Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 7, Part 3.
265 SB0802 Boards and Commissions - Requires health related boards to determine within 20 days all
costs to be imposed against a person sanctioned by a health related board; notice by
certified mail of such costs must be given to person sanctioned; person has 10 days from
delivery of certified mail to appeal costs to appropriate court. - Amends TCA Title 63,
273 SB2175 Education - Replaces pre-graduation exit examination with three mandatory assessment
exams to provide educators with information that will improve high school graduation rates
and improve post-secondary achievement; exams to be administered in grades eight, 10,
and 11. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
275 SB0087 Clerks, Court - Adds Grundy County to counties where clerk of general sessions court or
clerk and master must also serve as juvenile court clerk. - Amends Chapter 226 of the
Public Acts of 2003.
276 SB0143 Civil Procedure - Imposes liability upon owner of a dog that causes injury to another
regardless of whether the dog had any past propensity for viciousness or whether the
owner had knowledge of the dog's viciousness. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 8, Part 4.
278 SB0267 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - Requires motor vehicle dealers to provide clear
title to seller within 30 days of transfer if not provided at time of transfer and satisfy all
liens on vehicles accepted without title within 30 days of such transfer; failure to comply is
a Class C misdemeanor and grounds for license denial, suspension, or revocation by
motor vehicle commission. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 2 and Title 55.
279 SB0291 Driver Licenses - Sets a limit of $400 for unpaid fines for certain city or county traffic
offenses for purposes of driver license reinstatement unless an installment payment plan
is in place. - Amends TCA Title 55.
282 SB0653 Public Records - Allows county clerks as well as local health departments to issue copies
of birth and death certificates in Davidson, Hamilton, Knox and Shelby counties. - Amends
TCA Section 68-3-206.
286 SB1159 Mortgages - Specifies that the definition of "commercial real estate" used in the Residential
Closing Funds Distribution Act of 2005 applies only in that part. - Amends TCA Section 47-
32-102.
287 SB1305 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - Authorizes a mental health or chemically
dependent patient to have at least 15 additional visits after a utilization review episode
instead of at least seven or as many as otherwise recommended by the treatment plan. -
Amends TCA Section 56-6-705.
288 SB1353 General Assembly - Requires mass mailings sent by member of the general assembly to
persons within the member's district within 30 days of an election to be paid from the
member's campaign account. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3, Chapter 1, Part 1.
289 SB1480 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - Applies the documentation procedure for issuance
of certificate of title for vehicle lacking proper documentation to any vehicle by removing
present applicability only to vehicle valued at $3,000 or less. - Amends TCA Title 55,
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296 SB2182 Public Contracts - Authorizes the department of general services to purchase goods and
services through a competitive reverse auction process that allows offerors to bid on
specified goods or services electronically and adjust bid price during a specified period of
time; award to be made to lowest responsible and responsive bidder. - Amends TCA Title
12, Chapter 3, Part 2.
299 SB2239 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - Specifies that foreign insurance
company whose certificate of authority is revoked or suspended under certain
circumstances shall not be considered an unauthorized insurer for any policies written while
operating with a certificate of authority that was not revoked or suspended; increases
maximum civil penalty that boards attached to division of regulatory boards can assess
from $1,000 to $10,000; authorizes commissioner of commerce and insurance to assess
penalty as alternative to assessment by regulatory board. - Amends TCA Title 56.
303 HB1944 Education, Curriculum - Removes provision that permits a course on personal finance to
satisfy instruction requirement on the free enterprise system. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-
1205.
305 HB2230 Child Abuse - Removes reference to "investigating" in provision authorizing a hospital,
clinic, school, or other organization responsible for the care of children to develop a specific
procedure for internally tracking, investigating, reporting, or otherwise monitoring a child
abuse report made by a member of its staff. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4.
307 SB0828 Mental Retardation - Makes individuals from the waiting list eligible for ICF/MR beds and
authorizes the division of mental retardation services to approve persons who fill such
beds. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 68, Chapter 11 and Section 71-5-105.
308 HB0201 Traffic Safety - Adds driving motorcycle while front tire is off the ground to offense of
reckless driving; violation is a Class B misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10
and Title 55, Chapter 8.
309 HB0242 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - Extends nursing home bed privilege tax for two years
until June 30, 2009. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.
310 HB0312 Courts, Supreme Court of Tennessee - Increases fee for filing of notices with supreme
court clerks from $4.00 to $6.00. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-501.
311 HB0458 Probation and Parole - Authorizes court to order that person sentenced to supervised
probation undergo an alcohol and drug assessment, treatment, or both; assesses $100
alcohol and drug addiction treatment fee on each drug-related conviction. - Amends TCA
Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.
314 HB0665 Juveniles - Requires school principals to develop transition plans for students returning to
school after inpatient mental health treatment under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA
Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
315 HB0928 Education - Adds safety of the school, in addition to the progress or efficiency, as a factor
to consider under provisions empowering a school board to suspend, dismiss, or
alternatively place pupils when the progress or efficiency of the school makes it necessary
or when disruptive, threatening, or violent students endanger the safety of other students
or school system employees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 2.
316 HB0951 Education, State Board of - Alters the terms of state board of education members from
nine years to five years. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-301.
317 HB1407 Driver Licenses - Places a $400 cap on the restoration or reinstatement fees imposed for
certain suspensions related to traffic citations, effective until July 1, 2008. - Amends TCA
Title 55.
318 HB1410 Criminal Offenses - Allows directors of the emergency management agency to carry
handguns pursuant to written directive. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1315.
325 SB1264 Public Officials - Prohibits state and local elected officials from seeking elected state or
local office after conviction of a state or federal felony related to public service. - Amends
TCA Section 40-20-114.
326 SB2054 Education - Enacts the "Local Education Support Group Financial Accountability Act of
2007." - Amends TCA Title 49.
329 SB1612 Motor Vehicles - Authorizes department of safety to regulate all for-hire motor carrier
vehicles for eight or more passengers; and requires such motor carriers to maintain liability
insurance, submit drivers to drug and health screening, and submit vehicles to safety
examinations. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51 and Title 65.
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330 SB1672 Workers' Compensation - Corrects cross-reference to definition section in the provision
limiting the maximum total benefit. - Amends TCA Section 50-6-102 and Section 50-6-205.
331 SB1935 Nuisances - Authorizes courts to enjoin continuation of public nuisances before notice and
hearing is afforded defendant under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 29.
341 SB0938 Education - Requires school resource officers to be sworn police officers. - Amends TCA
Title 38 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 42.
343 SB1349 State Government - Requires governmental entities to notify interested persons of
proposed projects or actions prior to issuing permits. - Amends TCA Title 4.
347 HB0243 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - Extends prohibition on new nursing home bed
certificates of need to June 30, 2008, except for 125 Medicare SNF beds. - Amends TCA
Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 16.
349 HB0742 Gambling - Exempts from gambling devices, devices that are incapable of accepting
money, or anything of value, or are incapable of dispensing money, or anything of value,
or computer or software programs designed solely for devices that are not located within
the state of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
352 HB1161 Domestic Violence - Expands definition of abuse to include physical harm, attempted
physical harm, or threatened physical harm to a pet of an adult or minor and requires court
to place an animal with the petitioner or in foster care in a protective order. - Amends TCA
Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6.
355 HB1415 Criminal Offenses - Adds person pretending to be law enforcement officer for the purpose
of gaining access to places or information that are restricted to the public to definition of
criminal impersonation; increases penalty for criminal impersonation from Class B
misdemeanor to Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 3.
356 HB1426 Mental Illness - Requires that service recipients for mental health services be periodically
afforded the opportunity to execute an information release authoring certain disclosures to
family members at time of admission to inpatient treatment, an emergency room, or crisis
response setting. - Amends TCA Title 33.
358 HB1531 Education - Prevents parent whose status as parent has been terminated from obtaining
child's report card. - Amends TCA Title 49.
360 HB2243 Public Employees - Increases paid military leave time from 15 to 20 working days a year. -
Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33, Part 1.
362 SB2257 Environment and Conservation, Department of - Increases maximum amounts that may be
charged for certain fees by promulgating authorities attached to department and makes
numerous changes relative to environmental regulatory programs. - Amends amend TCA
Title 60, Chapter 1; Title 68, Chapters 203, 212 and 215, Title 69, Chapters 3, 10 and 11.
363 HB1055 Criminal Procedure - Expunges public records of persons charged with a misdemeanor or
felony while challenging a law designed to maintain racial segregation or discrimination. -
Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.
366 SB0935 DNA and Genetic Testing - Enacts "Genetic Counselors' Licensing Act." - Amends TCA Title
63.
367 SB2178 Education, State Board of - Requires that the annual report submitted by the committee for
the Tennessee basic education program, which includes recommendations on needed
revisions, additions, and deletions to the BEP formula as well as an analysis of
instructional salary disparity among LEAs, must also include an analysis of disparity in
benefits and other compensation among LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.
368 SB2326 Taxes, Cigarette - Increases the tax on cigarettes from 10 mills to 3 cents on each
cigarette; requires that all cigarette tax revenue realized from the increase be deposited into
the general fund. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10.
369 HB2293 Education - Reduces from 20 consecutive days to 15 consecutive days the period of time
for which a substitute teacher may fill in for a regular teacher on leave without being
required to possess a teacher's license or permit. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.
370 HB0121 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - Requires informed consent before interchanging or substituting
for a prescribed anti-epileptic drug; violation is a Class C misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title
53 and Title 63.
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372 HB0321 Courts, Juvenile - Makes various refinements to statutes pertaining to adoption, permanent
guardianship, and other placement arrangements for children. - Amends TCA Section 36-1-
102(41); Section 36-1-113; Section 36-1-115; Section 36-1-116; Section 37-1-104; Section
37-1-130; Section 37-1-132; Section 37-1-806; Section 37-2-403; Section 37-2-409 and
Section 37-2-416.
374 HB1414 Law Enforcement - Allows the Bradley County forensic laboratory to assess and receive
the same fees as are currently charged by publicly funded and TBI forensic labs for
conducting tests to determine the drug and alcohol content of blood. - Amends TCA Title
38, Chapter 6, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.
375 HB1871 Courts, Special - Allows juvenile courts to develop and operate drug court treatment
programs; prohibits drug courts established under juvenile court jurisdiction from using
grants from the drug court treatment program; requires a $75.00 fee to be assessed
against persons who violate the terms of a suspended sentence imposed as a result of a
drug offense or who have a conviction that is premised on a positive drug test. - Amends
376 HB0472 Taxes, Sales - Reduces, from 6 percent to 5 1/2 percent, the rate of state sales tax levied
on certain foods and food ingredients intended for human consumption. - Amends TCA Title
3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12; Title 16; Title 30; Title 36; Title 39;
Title 40; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 61; Title 62; Title
67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71.
377 SB0251 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - Revises requirements concerning wheeled mobility
devices. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.
379 SB0733 Codes - Exempts heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) electrical inspection
approval before electrical service is provided to a pre-manufactured or modular home. -
Amends TCA Section 68-102-143.
390 SB2325 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - Extends termination date for monthly 6 percent gross
receipts tax on intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded (ICFMR) from July 15,
2007, to July 15, 2009. - Amends TCA Section 68-11-830.
391 HB0301 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - Declares public policy that hospitals have access to
health care providers who make entries in hospital patient medical records for information
regarding entries made in those records. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
402 SB0247 Students - Requires one-year expulsion of students who gang up with others to fight an
individual student. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 34; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 40;
Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 41; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 42 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 43.
404 SB0603 Environment and Conservation, Department of - Requires water quality enforcement
actions be posted on the department's Web site. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3.
407 SB0756 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - Moves the board of pharmacy from commerce and insurance to
the division of health related boards. - Amends TCA Section 4-3-1304 and Title 63, Chapter
408 SB0838 Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Requires personal support
services agencies to make certain disclosures to clients regarding potential liability as
employers of personal support services workers. - Amends TCA Title 33.
412 SB1419 Firearms and Ammunition - Increases punishment for first violation of offense of unlawful
possession of weapon with intent to go armed to fine not to exceed $500 and raises
punishment for second or subsequent violation of such offense from Class C to Class B
misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
419 SB2292 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - Limits hospitals to charging 120 percent of Medicare
rates for certain self-pay patients. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 68.
420 SB0317 Registers of Deeds - Authorizes registration of electronic records. - Amends TCA Title 66,
Chapter 24.
421 SB1006 Meat, Meat Products - Makes processing of deer meat and carcasses subject to provisions
of “Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act.” - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 7.
423 SB1144 Medical Occupations - Revises referral requirements to patient access to physical therapy
services. - Amends TCA Section 63-13-109(b) and Section 63-13-303.
424 SB1815 Solid Waste Disposal - Increases from 30 to 45 days time for filing appeal from final action
of solid waste authority. - Amends TCA Title 68.
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427 HB1206 Billboards - Defines "destroy," for billboard regulation purposes, as causing damage to
billboard requiring more than 60 percent of the cost to erect a new sign at the same
location. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 21.
428 HB1557 Anatomical Gifts - Enacts the "Revised Uniform Anatomical Gifts Act." - Amends TCA Title
4; Title 38; Title 55 and Title 68.
430 HB2139 Charitable Solicitations - Sets penalty for violation of the Fundraising for Catastrophic
Illnesses statute at a Class B misdemeanor and imposes certain record-keeping and
enforcement requirements. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 11.
431 SB0124 Highways, Roads and Bridges - Removes height restrictions for buildings located on
property along certain scenic highways. - Amends TCA Title 54.
432 SB1730 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - Requires automatic revocation of teacher's
license when convicted of certain felonies. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 4.
442 HB0094 Child Custody and Support - Requires self-employed child support obligors to establish a
bank account for deposit of child support funds and allow the department of human
services to retrieve those funds by automatic bank withdrawal on a periodic basis. -
Amends TCA Section 36-5-501.
446 HB0633 Abuse - Requires physicians, certain health care facilities, community centers, and
pharmacies to post information concerning assistance for teenagers involved in
relationships that include dating violence, and further allows that information and all
information required to be posted concerning adult abuse and domestic violence be
combined and printed on one poster. - Amends TCA Section 71-6-121.
447 HB0698 Municipal Government - Places certain requirements on municipalities contracting for and
the operation of surveillance cameras installed to enforce or monitor moving traffic
violations at intersections controlled by traffic-control signals. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7
448 HB0719 Motor Vehicles - Authorizes all terrain vehicles on a certain county road in Scott County. -
Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8, Part 1.
- Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
450 HB1154 Traffic Safety - Requires an engineering and traffic investigation prior to establishing a
special speed zone, requires signs and lights that comply with national standards
designating such zones, and increases period when school zones are in affect. - Amends
TCA Section 55-8-152 and Section 55-8-153.
451 HB1480 Sexual Offenders - Expands definition of "conviction" for purpose of sexual offender
registry to include sex offenders put on diversion and sex offenders in this state who have
been convicted of a sex offense but not yet sentenced. - Amends TCA Title 40.
454 HB2076 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - Requires background checks for students
entering teacher training programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.
455 HB2138 Education - Establishes compulsory attendance at alternative schools. - Amends TCA Title
49, Chapter 6.
457 HB2260 Education - Classifies threatening to use any destructive device on school property or at
school-sponsored event a zero tolerance offense with mandatory one-year expulsion;
authorizes judges to suspend driver license of juvenile who is adjudicated delinquent for
zero tolerance offense. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 34 and Title 55, Chapter 50,
460 HB1006 Contractors - Transfers the responsibilities of the home improvement commission to the
board for licensing contractors; moves the staff of the commission to the board; creates
three subcommittees of the board to focus on limited areas and report their findings and
recommendations for final action by the board. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 37 and Title
62, Chapter 6.
462 HB2289 Solid Waste Disposal - Requires that a municipal solid waste region's plan include
provisions for managing solid waste generated as a result of natural disaster; imposes pre-
disposal fee on tire dealers; provides for grants for landfills in certain cities and counties;
revises other various solid waste-related provisions. - Amends Title 68, Chapter 211, and
Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 16 of the Tennessee Code.