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State Legislature US Congress

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

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 1, 2017

SB 585: Education, Higher - As enacted, revises the application process for dual enrollment grants; revises provisions governing state employees taking up to four courses per academic year at any state-supported college or university, college of applied technology, or the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute without paying tuition charges, maintenance fees, student activity fees, registration fees, or online course fees for courses taken through the regents online degree programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Effective date(s) 05/30/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 1, 2017

SB 1218: Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, enacts the Tennessee reconnect grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

Effective date(s) 05/24/2017; 08/01/2018

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 1, 2017

HB 331: Taxes, Income - As enacted, exempts persons who are 100 or older from the Hall income tax for tax years beginning January 1, 2018, and thereafter. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 2.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 453

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 1, 2017

HB 1453: Tullahoma - Subject to local approval, changes the date, from the first Thursday to the first Friday in February, by which the board of mayor and aldermen must call for an election each year; lowers the minimum age, from 21 to 18, for a person to serve as mayor or alderman; removes requirement that members of the board acquire surety bonds. - Amends Chapter 553 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.

Comp. became Pr. Ch. 30

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 1, 2017

HB 508: Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates a private cause of action for a party that is adversely affected by a local ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment on firearms that is preempted by state law; restricts certain actions by local government in regard to handgun carry permittees. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 467

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 1, 2017

HB 333: Boards and Commissions - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding persons employed by regulatory boards. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 56, Chapter 1 and Title 62, Chapter 6.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 454

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 1, 2017

HB 6: Taxes, Sales - As enacted, allocates state sales tax revenue derived from sales of admissions to events of a major league soccer franchise to the municipality in which a sports authority is organized and has secured the franchise. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 449

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 1, 2017

SB 445: Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates a private cause of action for a party that is adversely affected by a local ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment on firearms that is preempted by state law; restricts certain actions by local government in regard to handgun carry permittees. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Effective date(s) 07/01/2017

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 1, 2017

HB 418: Criminal Procedure - As enacted, reduces from $350 to $180 the expunction fee for criminal convictions; revises allocation of fee proceeds. - Amends TCA Section 8-21-401 and Title 40.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 456

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 1, 2017

SB 983: Orders of Protection - As enacted, adds and revises provisions regarding the issuance of orders of protection and the carrying of a handgun. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Effective date(s) 05/26/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Jun 1, 2017

SB 371: Unclaimed Property - As enacted, enacts the "Uniform Unclaimed Property Act." - Amends TCA Title 30; Title 45; Title 48; Title 56; Title 66 and Title 67.

Effective date(s) 05/25/2017; 07/01/2017

signed · Tennessee · House Jun 1, 2017

HB 335: Education, Higher - As enacted, revises the application process for dual enrollment grants; revises provisions governing state employees taking up to four courses per academic year at any state-supported college or university, college of applied technology, or the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute without paying tuition charges, maintenance fees, student activity fees, registration fees, or online course fees for courses taken through the regents online degree programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 471