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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 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

in committee · Tennessee · Senate Apr 4, 2017

SB 352: Election Laws - As introduced, deletes the requirement that a county election commission publish in a newspaper of general circulation a notice of the time and place of a supplemental voter registration, at least three days before the supplemental voter registration, and with notice that transfers of registration can be conducted at the supplemental voter registration. - Amends TCA Section 2-2-114.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State & Local Government Committee

in committee · Tennessee · Senate Apr 4, 2017

SB 537: Damages - As introduced, clarifies that in an action to recover damages for nuisance a court cannot award damages to a party found to have maintained the nuisance. - Amends TCA Title 24 and Title 29.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee

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

in committee · Tennessee · House Apr 4, 2017

HB 1386: Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, extends from February 1 until March 1 the date by which a beer board must file its annual statistical report to the commission. - Amends TCA Title 57.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee

in committee · Tennessee · Senate Apr 4, 2017

SB 453: Zoning - As introduced, extends the date by which notice must be published before a public hearing on a municipal zoning ordinance or amendment, from at least 15 days before the hearing to at least 60 days before the hearing. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7.

Taken off notice for cal in s/c Local Government Subcommittee of Local Government Committee

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

in committee · Tennessee · Senate Apr 4, 2017

SB 1172: Welfare - As introduced, requires certain amounts of work, community service, education, or job-seeking activities for recipients of food assistance (SNAP) unless certain exemptions apply. - Amends TCA Title 71.

Taken off notice for cal. in Finance, Ways & Means Committee

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

in committee · Tennessee · House Apr 4, 2017

HB 635: Pets - As introduced, increases from 90 to 100 days the length of time that a licensed dog and cat dealer must wait before applying for reinstatement of the dealer's license following suspension. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2; Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 1; Title 44; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56 and Title 63, Chapter 12.

Meeting Cancelled. Action Def. in s/c Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee to 2018

in committee · Tennessee · Senate Apr 4, 2017

SB 479: Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, specifies that semester hours earned in ROTC courses by ROTC students do not count toward the semester hour limitation for receipt of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship; excludes grades received in ROTC courses from the calculation of an ROTC student's grade point average for Tennessee HOPE scholarship purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee