| SJR0684 | Intro
Sine Die | Hayley Anderson, Valedictorian, Northwest High School
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
Withdrawn. |
| SB2496 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, increases penalties for businesses that employ illegal immigrants. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
Re-refer to Senate Cal. Comm. |
| SB2493 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits an administrator, professor, or employee of a public institution of higher education from requiring a student or employee to provide information on firearm ownership; prohibits taking adverse disciplinary or employment action...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
Re-refer to Senate Cal. Comm. |
| SB1959 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires county election commissions in counties with populations over 65,000 to establish additional early voting polling locations. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
Re-refer to Senate Cal. Comm. |
| SB2280 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, revises provisions prohibiting a state employer from discriminating between employees by paying employees unequal wages on the basis of sex. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2381 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces the property tax rate applied to logging equipment used essentially and principally in the cutting and harvesting of trees from farm property. - Amends TCA Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2040 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires each state agency to strive to ensure that at least 12.5 percent of all agency contracts are awarded to minority-owned businesses, woman-owned businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned businesses, or small businesses. - Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1465 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reestablishes the first portion of home value for which real property tax relief will be reimbursed to disabled veteran home owners from $100,000 to $175,000. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1678 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, for future enactments of or modifications to a hotel tax, increases the period in which a person is considered a transient for hotel tax purposes from 30 days to 90 days; requires that at least 80 percent of the occupancy tax collected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1783 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, enacts the "Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11, Part 1; Title 11; Title 13, Chapter 20 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1939 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, extends time eligible taxpayers may apply for a refund or present a credit voucher for credit on their taxes from within 35 days from the date taxes in the jurisdiction become delinquent for that year to within 40 days from that date. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2410 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires, beginning July 1, 2016, requested naming or designating of state buildings be approved by the state building commission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2132 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, removes annual income limit of $60,000 for disabled veterans seeking property tax relief; increases disabled veteran's reimbursement amount from $100,000 to $175,000 of the full market value of veteran's residence. - Amends TCA Title 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0843 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires election officials to inspect filings for sufficiency and timeliness; establishes conclusive presumption that accepted filings are sufficient and timely filed. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB0121 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reduces the state shared revenue due to any municipality that annexed territory by ordinance between April 15, 2013, and May 15, 2015, under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 49; Ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2291 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires statewide political party to hold primary election for nominations for judge, chancellor, district attorney general, and public defender in multi-county judicial districts. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SJR0456 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendment of Article II, Section 3 to impose term limits of 12 consecutive years in each house for members of the general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to 4/5/2016 |
| SB1648 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, reestablishes the first portion of home value for which real property tax relief will be reimbursed to disabled veteran home owners from $100,000 to $175,000 for those homeowners who received the reimbursement for tax years 2014 and 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1657 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adopts the interstate compact to elect the president by national popular vote. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 15.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2436 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates a study committee within the general assembly to study juvenile use of firearms in criminal activity. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1860 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that a person owing any civil penalty shall be ineligible to qualify as a candidate for election to any state or local public office; clarifies penalty must be paid prior to qualifying deadline. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| SB2102 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that the visual and audio images of a person who is captured in a law enforcement officer's body camera are confidential if the person was not the subject of the officer's investigation, was in a lawful place, was not engaged...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2308 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires a referendum be conducted before a publicly funded entity can be sold or leased; "sale or lease" means that more than 30 percent of the assets of the entity are subject to sale or lease. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2428 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the limitation allowing noncontiguous annexation by resolution to occur in only a county having a population according to the most recent decennial census that is greater than 44.5 percent and 50,000 of its population in the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1177 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, deletes the limitation that certain local governments may only authorize the commercial use of pedal carriages and rickshaws in the city center; permits their use in entertainment, dining, scenic, and historic areas anywhere within the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1743 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires the Tennessee wildlife resources agency to make payments in lieu of taxes to local governments on real property the agency has purchased or otherwise acquired. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 48 and Title 67.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Re-refer to Senate Cal. Comm. |
| SB2157 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that accounts receivable owed to governmental entities that remain unpaid and owing for at least 15 years must be deemed uncollectible and written off in accordance with general accepted auditing principles. - Amends TCA Title...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1592 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, recreates the select oversight committee on corrections. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 40 and Title 41.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1857 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits certain public employees and officials from owning shares of stocks or investments in privately held prison companies on or after January 1, 2017; requires such employees or officials who own holdings or stock in privately he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2302 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, subject to annual appropriation, requires each state employee to receive 2.5 percent cost of living salary increase at the beginning of the next pay period following the employee's state employment anniversary date. - Amends TCA Title ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB1865 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, makes a person sentenced to imprisonment for life for a conviction of first degree murder that occurred when the person was a minor eligible for parole consideration after service of 65 percent of the 60-year sentence imposed, and no l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Sponsor(s) Added. |
| SB1839 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, allows TCRS members who served in the armed forces during certain periods of armed conflict to establish retirement credit for the military service under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Section 8-34-605.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2528 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, lowers signature requirement to become recognized minor party from 2.5 percent of votes cast for governor in the last gubernatorial race to 1.5 percent. - Amends TCA Title 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SB2609 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2398 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits a trial court to order sentences for two offenses to run concurrently, despite one offense having been committed while the defendant was released on bail for the other offense, if the order is based on a good faith plea agreeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-30
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2637 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits any person or legal entity from reproducing, preparing derivative works from, distributing, or using digital or satellite transmission to perform a sound recording without the owner’s express permission if the sound recordi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1618 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes a court presiding over a legal proceeding to authorize a witness to utilize the assistance of a courthouse facility dog during testimony. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 1; Title 24, Chapter 1 and Title 40, Chapter 17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2420 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, prohibits the use of solitary confinement of juvenile offenders except in certain, limited circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 41, Chapter 21.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1901 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, changes the burden of proof for asset forfeitures from a preponderance of the evidence to clear and convincing evidence; makes other revisions regarding entitlements due to prevailing owner and distribution of forfeiture proceeds. - Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2156 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires that certain public records be destroyed when certain orders of expunction are granted; defines the effect of an expunction order; establishes the filing fee for the expunction of multiple convictions be $350. - Amends TCA Tit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2413 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, permits a defendant who is sentenced to life imprisonment to become release eligible after service of 60 percent of 60 years, and in no event less than 25 years including sentence reduction credits; permits a defendant convicted under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Deferred to Summer Study |
| SB2011 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, exempts the booking and processing area used by a municipal police department for photographing and fingerprinting defendants and the room used by general sessions courts to hold prisoners in the courthouse who have been transferred fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2090 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, establishes a procedure whereby a person who committed a crime while a juvenile, was transferred to adult court for trial, and was sentenced as an adult may petition the court for sentence reduction after service of 15 years imprisonme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SJR0462 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to Article II, Section 28, of the Constitution of Tennessee to prohibit the legislature from imposing a state property tax on real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1353 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, creates 31 additional assistant district attorney general positions effective October 1, 2015, in districts to be recommended by the district attorneys general conference; requires a report of the recommended districts be filed with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1780 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires any state contributed funds to health savings accounts for state employee group insurance plan members to be annually deposited by January 1 or the date coverage becomes effective. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee |
| SB1661 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, adds a former or current judicial commissioner to the board of judicial conduct to be appointed by the governor from nominees supplied by the judicial commissioners association of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 5.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2385 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, requires officers arrested for any offense to report such arrests to the peace officer standards and training commission; establishes minimum attendance requirement for commission members and requires removal of members who do not meet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2063 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, clarifies that nothing in the rules regarding rights of nursing home residents, patients, and members of the public regarding nursing homes creates a private cause of action or permits a class action suit; declares that a class action ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1907 | Intro
Sine Die | As introduced, authorizes the AOC and clerks of court to publish on their web sites forms necessary for a person to seek a protection order for domestic abuse. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-29
Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee |
