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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

in committee · Tennessee · Senate Feb 15, 2017

SB 579: Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires persons applying for entrance in teacher training programs to attain a minimum ACT or GED score and a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 in high school or graduate with an associate degree with a cumulative high school grade point average of a 3.0 for all college coursework. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.

P2C, ref. to Education Instruction & Programs

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 15, 2017

HB 1081: Mobile Homes and Manufactured Buildings - As introduced, deletes authorization for a monitoring inspection fee under the Uniform Standards Code for Manufactured Homes Act. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 67 and Title 68.

P2C, ref. to Business and Utilities Committee

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 15, 2017

HB 1329: Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, provides additional remedies available to employees who are victims of wage theft. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 50.

P2C, ref. to Consumer and Human Resources Committee

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 15, 2017

HB 1055: Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires a nursing home to provide a quarterly statement accounting for deposit and withdrawal transactions in an interest-bearing account maintained for safekeeping of the resident's funds, upon request of a resident, or resident's guardian, trustee, or conservator. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 67; Title 68, Chapter 11 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

P2C, ref. to Health Committee

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 15, 2017

HB 1406: Children - As introduced, repeals statute that deems a child born to a married woman as a result of artificial insemination, with consent of the married woman's husband, to be the legitimate child of the husband and wife. - Repeals TCA Section 68-3-306.

P2C, ref. to Health Committee

in committee · Tennessee · Senate Feb 15, 2017

SB 427: Trusts - As introduced, authorizes trustees of revocable trusts to publish notice of a settlor's death to creditors if letters testamentary or of administration have not been issued to a personal representative and the representative's corresponding notice requirements to creditors have not been discharged. - Amends TCA Title 30 and Title 35.

Sponsor change.

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 15, 2017

HB 1183: Election Laws - As introduced, requires elections for judicial and county constitutional offices to be nonpartisan; provides for runoff elections if no candidate receives a majority of votes for the office. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 16.

P2C, ref. to Local Government Committee

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 15, 2017

HB 1098: Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, requires auto repair shop to include on the insured's or third-party claimant's copy of the estimate a notice if after-market crash parts made by a manufacturer other than the vehicle manufacturer are being used in the vehicle's repair. - Amends TCA Title 56.

P2C, ref. to Insurance and Banking Committee

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 15, 2017

HB 1162: Notary Public - As introduced, reduces from 40 to 30 days the amount of notice to be given before a deposition of a notary public may be taken, whether a suit be pending or not, if the opposing party is out of the state. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 47 and Title 55.

P2C, ref. to Civil Justice Committee

in committee · Tennessee · Senate Feb 15, 2017

SB 971: Municipal Government - As introduced, extends from seven to 10 days the period by which notice of a hearing regarding construction of a municipal improvement must be published in a local newspaper and at the office of municipal government. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.

P2C, ref. to Local Government Committee

in committee · Tennessee · House Feb 15, 2017

HB 1324: Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires that a juvenile court proceeding involving allegations that the juvenile was illegally in possession of a firearm be given priority in scheduling and be heard by the court as soon as is practicable. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 40.

P2C, ref. to Civil Justice Committee

in committee · Tennessee · Senate Feb 15, 2017

SB 801: Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a municipality seeking to dispose of all or substantially all of the electric plant of a municipal electric system to hold two public meetings in which certain information concerning the disposition is disclosed prior to a vote in an election approving the disposition. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 36, Part 1 and Title 7, Chapter 52.

P2C, ref. to Business and Utilities Committee