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All 46,882 Active 15,109 In committee 14,466 Passed 6,752 Signed 22,203 Failed 2,813

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 14, 2017

SB 1136: 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.

Effective date(s) 06/06/2017

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 14, 2017

HB 1207: Controlled Substances - As enacted, requires the department of health to identify high-risk prescribers; requires the commissioner of health to report certain information concerning births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and opioid use by women of childbearing age; requires bureau of TennCare to issue appropriate requests for information for program initiatives aimed at primary prevention and secondary prevention of births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and the use of opioids by women of childbearing age enrolled in the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 483

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 14, 2017

SB 76: Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the health services and development agency to June 30, 2018; requires the agency to update sunset review committee of the agency's progress in complying with Chapter 1043 of the Public Acts of 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 16.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 473

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 14, 2017

SB 1309: 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.

Effective date(s) 07/01/2017

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 14, 2017

HB 237: Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the health services and development agency to June 30, 2018; requires the agency to update sunset review committee of the agency's progress in complying with Chapter 1043 of the Public Acts of 2016. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 16.

Effective date(s) 06/06/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 14, 2017

SB 570: 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.

Effective date(s) 06/06/2017

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 14, 2017

HB 55: Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Organized Retail Crime Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1.

Effective date(s) 07/01/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 14, 2017

SB 1041: Controlled Substances - As enacted, requires the department of health to identify high-risk prescribers; requires the commissioner of health to report certain information concerning births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and opioid use by women of childbearing age; requires bureau of TennCare to issue appropriate requests for information for program initiatives aimed at primary prevention and secondary prevention of births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and the use of opioids by women of childbearing age enrolled in the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Effective date(s) 06/06/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 14, 2017

SB 151: Motor Vehicles - As enacted, enacts the "Automated Vehicles Act" and other requirements related to the operation of autonomous vehicles on the public roads of this state. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 39; Title 40; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 65 and Title 67.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 474

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 14, 2017

HB 1169: Education, Curriculum - As enacted, enacts the "Senator Douglas Henry Tennessee History Act". - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 482

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 14, 2017

SB 702: Wine & Wineries - As enacted, requires each common carrier that contracts with a direct shipper for delivery of wine into Tennessee to prepare and file monthly with the department of revenue a report of known direct wine shipments; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-217.

Effective date(s) 07/01/2018

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 14, 2017

HB 1306: 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.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 488