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State Legislature US Congress

All 46,882 Active 613 In committee 15,301 Passed 6,763 Signed 22,173 Failed 3,369

signed · Tennessee · House Apr 4, 2017

HB 565: Education - As enacted, removes requirement that the county trustee, treasurer, or other fiscal agent of an LEA annually submit a complete certified copy of the financial report of the LEA to the commissioner of education. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-316.

Effective date(s) 03/24/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 4, 2017

SB 369: Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, clarifies that quality improvement committees apply to osteopathic doctors; updates references to the repealed Tennessee Peer Review Act of 1967. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 32, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 9, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 4

signed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 4, 2017

SB 1263: State Symbols - As enacted, designates the Boeing B-17F known as the Memphis Belle as the official state airplane. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 33

signed · Tennessee · House Apr 4, 2017

HB 378: Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, clarifies that quality improvement committees apply to osteopathic doctors; updates references to the repealed Tennessee Peer Review Act of 1967. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 32, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 9, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

Effective date(s) 03/15/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 4, 2017

SB 1233: Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the new Tennessee Bureau of Investigation crime lab and consolidated regional headquarters to be constructed in Madison County as the "Special Agent De'Greaun ReShun Frazier TBI Crime Lab and Regional Headquarters." -

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 32

signed · Tennessee · House Apr 4, 2017

HB 720: Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, authorizes a school counselor to refer or help facilitate a referral of a parent or legal guardian's student to a counselor or therapist for mental health assessments or services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 63.

Effective date(s) 07/01/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 4, 2017

SB 341: Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, authorizes a school counselor to refer or help facilitate a referral of a parent or legal guardian's student to a counselor or therapist for mental health assessments or services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 63.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 18

signed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 4, 2017

SB 36: Highway Signs - As enacted, expands the area, from only Sevierville to include all of Sevier County, that is exempted from the required removal of tourist-oriented directional signs erected by an entity other than the department of transportation. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 5, Part 13.

Effective date(s) 03/29/2017

signed · Tennessee · House Apr 4, 2017

HB 165: Veterans - As enacted, authorizes private employers to give hiring preference to honorably discharged veterans, spouses of veterans with service-connected disabilities, unremarried widows or widowers of veterans who died of service-connected disabilities, and unremarried widows or widowers of members of the military who died in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 1.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 9

signed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 4, 2017

SJR 269: Memorials, Death - Vernon Neal -

Signed by Governor.

signed · Tennessee · House Apr 4, 2017

HB 52: Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, authorizes local governing bodies, by a two-thirds vote, to prorate the 2016 tax assessment for a homeowner's real property or business owner's personal property, if the property was damaged as a result of a FEMA certified disaster between September 1, 2016, and December 31, 2016; expires on December 31, 2017. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

Effective date(s) 03/24/2017

signed · Tennessee · Senate Apr 4, 2017

SB 590: Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates March 4 of each year as "Tennessee Missing Children's Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15.

Comp. became Pub. Ch. 6