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signed · Tennessee · House Jun 14, 2017

HB 1209: Controlled Substances - As enacted, requires that any person treated for a drug-related overdose with an opioid antagonist by a first responder be taken to a medical facility by emergency medical services for evaluation, unless the person is competent to refuse medical treatment and chooses to refuse treatment. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 484

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 14, 2017

HB 1067: Medical Occupations - As enacted, specifies that a healthcare practitioner violates the practitioner's practice act by refusing to submit to a drug test or testing positive for a drug when the practitioner does not have a lawful prescription for using the drug or a valid medical reason for using the drug; establishes procedural requirements to be followed in such situations. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 9; Title 63 and Title 68.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 481

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 14, 2017

SB 1279: General Assembly - As enacted, creates a special joint committee to study issues relating to the investigation and prosecution of unsolved civil rights crimes and cold cases from the civil rights era. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1, Part 1.

Effective date(s) 06/06/2017

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 14, 2017

HB 812: Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises various provisions governing permits for movements of certain overweight and overdimensional vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50; Section 55-7-203 and Section 55-7-205.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 477

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 14, 2017

SB 1466: Hornsby - Subject to local approval, reduces board of mayor and aldermen from seven to five members; deletes all references to town marshal; reduces the number of readings to approve an ordinance from three to two; abolishes the position of treasurer and transfers responsibilities to the recorder; expands authority of the board of mayor and aldermen. - Amends Chapter 112 of the Private Acts of 1920; as amended.

Pr. Ch. 31

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 14, 2017

HB 992: Election Laws - As enacted, increases from "2 percent" to "4 percent" the percentage of general assembly candidates and their committees who will be selected for an audit by the registry; specifies that the registry may only conduct the audit for the immediately preceding election cycle and may not require the production or disclosure of, or consider for purposes of the audit, any information or documents relating to any other election cycle. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 479

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 14, 2017

HB 1013: State Universities - As enacted, removes the prohibition on a state university governing board member serving on the governing board of any institution of higher education and replaces it with a prohibition on a state university governing board member serving on the governing board of a public institution of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 2.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 480

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 14, 2017

SB 1079: Public Buildings - As enacted, requires that stair steps leading into the public entrance of certain public buildings have detectable nosings of a contrasting color; enacts other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 68.

Effective date(s) 07/01/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 14, 2017

SB 822: Public Employees - As enacted, authorizes the state and local governments to provide health insurance benefits to the immediate family members of first responders killed in the line of duty for a period of two years after the death of the first responder; requires the state to reimburse local governments that provide such benefits. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27.

Effective date(s) 07/01/2017

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 14, 2017

HB 1322: Local Government, General - As enacted, defines "municipality" for purposes of the authorization for a municipality to create the office of administrative hearing officer to hear building and property maintenance code violations to mean any incorporated town or city, or metropolitan form of government; adds "locally adopted zoning codes" to the codes over which administrative hearing officer has jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 54, Part 10.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 489

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 14, 2017

SB 669: Controlled Substances - As enacted, requires that any person treated for a drug-related overdose with an opioid antagonist by a first responder be taken to a medical facility by emergency medical services for evaluation, unless the person is competent to refuse medical treatment and chooses to refuse treatment. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1.

Effective date(s) 07/01/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 14, 2017

SB 1241: Sentencing - As enacted, increases penalty for unlawfully possessing a firearm with a prior conviction for a felony involving use of force or violence from Class C felony to Class B felony; increases from Class D felony to Class C felony penalty for person unlawfully possessing firearm with prior felony drug offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

Effective date(s) 07/01/2017