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signed · Tennessee · House Apr 19, 2017

HB 313: Privacy, Confidentiality - As enacted, makes confidential the identities of vendors providing the state with goods and services used to protect certain electronic, communication, and data storage systems; authorizes a governmental entity receiving such goods and services to vote to make the identities of such vendors confidential; revises exception as to who may receive such confidential information. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504.

Effective date(s) 04/07/2017

signed · Tennessee · House Apr 19, 2017

HB 603: Children - As enacted, authorizes a physician to provide peripartum analgesia and peripartum care to a minor who is at least 14 years of age without the knowledge or consent of a parent. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.

Effective date(s) 07/01/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2017

SB 273: Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, clarifies that only those administrative judges and hearing officers in the executive branch are required to complete training conducted by the department of human resources, division of training, within six months of employment. - Amends TCA Section 4-5-324.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 134

signed · Tennessee · House Apr 19, 2017

HB 1264: Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises offense of criminal trespass in regard to grounds and common areas of housing and apartment complexes. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-106 and Section 39-14-405.

Effective date(s) 07/01/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2017

SB 391: Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, deletes requirement that an affidavit of a jailer, warden, or officer be furnished to a court to avoid forfeiture of any appearance or bail bond and instead declares that no forfeiture or conditional forfeiture of any appearance or bail bond shall be rendered where evidence of the defendant's incarceration is furnished to the court. - Amends TCA Section 40-11-201.

Effective date(s) 04/04/2017

signed · Tennessee · House Apr 19, 2017

HB 1051: Traffic Safety - As enacted, makes the offense of obstructing public highways and streets where the obstruction restricts emergency vehicle access a Class B misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $200. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 54 and Title 55.

Effective date(s) 07/01/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2017

SB 694: Publications, State - As enacted, revises provisions governing the distribution of certain publications. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 6.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 111

signed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2017

SB 1187: Food and Food Products - As enacted, exempts from licensure certain producers of small amounts of non-hazardous food intended for commerce; makes various changes to food safety laws. - Amends TCA Section 53-1-103; Section 53-1-208; Title 53, Chapter 12; Section 53-2-107; Title 53, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 53, Chapter 9.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 150

signed · Tennessee · House Apr 19, 2017

HB 303: Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As enacted, adds universities, colleges, community colleges, and colleges of applied technology to the list of educational institution types for which the POST commission provides services; authorizes the POST commission to collect police recruit fingerprints for criminal record checks by the TBI and FBI; and revises the circumstances under which the POST commission must issue a certificate of compliance to a recruit. - Amends TCA Section 38-8-104 and Section 38-8-107.

Effective date(s) 07/01/2017

signed · Tennessee · House Apr 19, 2017

HB 81: Charitable Institutions - As enacted, permits a nonprofit organization desiring financial assistance from a county or municipality to file, in lieu of completing and filing an annual audit, an annual report of receipts and expenditures in a form prescribed by the comptroller of the treasury; requires such report to be prepared and certified by the nonprofit's CFO; subjects such report to audit by the department of audit. - Amends TCA Section 5-9-109 and Section 6-54-111.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 123

signed · Tennessee · House Apr 19, 2017

HB 154: Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates Finley Stadium in Chattanooga as a sports authority facility for purposes of on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

Effective date(s) 04/17/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 19, 2017

SB 112: Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the underground utility damage enforcement board two years to June 30, 2019; adds an attendance requirement for members of the board. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 65, Chapter 31.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 117