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in committee · Tennessee · Senate Feb 17, 2017

SB 323: Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes law enforcement to scan a school bus driver's portable electronic device if the officer has probable cause to believe the driver was using the device in violation of state law and the driver was involved in a crash resulting in death or serious bodily injury. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 55.

Assigned to s/c Transportation Subcommittee

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 17, 2017

HB 1326: Taxes - As introduced, reduces from 10 to eight years the amount of time that a charitable institution must own and maintain property on the National Register of Historical Places prior to applying for a 100 percent exemption from property taxation in counties and municipalities offering such exemption. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

Assigned to s/c Local Government Subcommittee

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 17, 2017

HB 1383: Probation and Parole - As introduced, requires the DUI monitoring fund to be used to pay for the cost of an electronic monitoring device that is ordered as a condition of probation if the parolee has been determined by the department of correction to have a hardship. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Section 55-10-419.

Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 17, 2017

HB 171: Civil Procedure - As introduced, clarifies that directors, trustees, or members of nonprofit corporations, associations, and organizations that are organized for religious purposes may be immune from suits arising from the conduct of the affairs of such entities if the conduct does not amount to willful, wanton, or gross negligence. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 58.

Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 17, 2017

HB 68: Students - As introduced, adds HiSET® to the courses a minor student may be enrolled and making satisfactory academic progress in to obtain a driver license or instruction permit to operate a motor vehicle from the department of safety. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Assigned to s/c Education Instruction & Programs Subcommittee

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 17, 2017

HB 859: Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to prepare and submit a written report by March 1, 2018, detailing all incidents in which an inmate died by violence or accident in a corrections facility. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 8, Chapter 7; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 41.

Assigned to s/c State Government Subcommittee

in committee · Tennessee · Senate Feb 17, 2017

SB 1044: Vital Records - As introduced, requires a court to do a best interest analysis prior to ordering that a minor's name be changed. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 16, Chapter 10; Title 29, Chapter 8 and Title 68, Chapter 3.

Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee

in committee · Tennessee · Senate Feb 17, 2017

SB 1028: Food and Food Products - As introduced, enacts the "Local Food Procurement Act" and makes other additions to present law to facilitate economic activity based on the market in local farm and food products. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Title 4, Chapter 56; Title 12; Title 43 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 23.

Assigned to s/c State Government Subcommittee

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 17, 2017

HB 1155: Vital Records - As introduced, requires a court to do a best interest analysis prior to ordering that a minor's name be changed. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 16, Chapter 10; Title 29, Chapter 8 and Title 68, Chapter 3.

Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 17, 2017

HB 1080: Food and Food Products - As introduced, includes catering businesses that make occasional sales one time per week up to 52 times per year in the exclusion of catering businesses from regulation as food service establishments under the Tennessee Food Safety Act and the Tennessee Retail Food Safety Act. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 68.

Assigned to s/c Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 17, 2017

HB 663: Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, creates a cause of action for emotional distress resulting from an abortion, with no statute of limitations. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 34 and Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2.

Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee

in committee · Tennessee · Senate Feb 17, 2017

SB 843: Liens - As introduced, provides that a prime contractor's lien is forfeited if the final decision of a suit brought for its enforcement is not delivered within two years from the lienor bringing the suit to enforce the lien; authorizes the court to hold any party that unduly delays or extends the action to enforce such a lien liable for the injured party's expenses incurred as a result of the delay or extension. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6 and Title 66, Chapter 11.

Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee