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Bill Number
Description
Rhea County - Subject to local approval, repeals the ban on partisan elections for county executive and county legislative body of Rhea County.
Local Education Agency - Amends TCA Section 49-2-203 and Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 3.
Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, adds community action agencies to definition of governmental entity for purposes of governmental tort liability.
School Transportation - As enacted, allows Class D school buses to be used up to 15 years of service, subject to certain safety inspection requirements; authorizes approval of conventional period of service; imposes certain other requirements
Rhea County - As introduced, subject to local approval, repeals the ban on partisan elections for county executive and county legislative body of Rhea County.
Rhea County - As introduced, subject to local approval, allows partisan elections for county executive of Rhea County.
Courts, Municipal - As enacted, allows certain municipal judges to concurrently serve as municipal recorder and exempts certain municipal judges from certain annual continuing education requirements imposed on municipal judges.
Highway Signs - As enacted, "Mayor Edwin L. Kelley Memorial Highway," segment of State Route 61/State Route 62 (Tri-County Boulevard) within Town of Oliver Springs.
Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes inmate relations coordinators to carry firearms to same extent as correctional officers.
County Officers - As introduced, requires 40 hours of training by June 1 of the year following constable's election and each subsequent year during constable's entire term; requires constable to file copy of certificate of training with county clerk.
Mental Retardation - As enacted, renames the "division of mental retardation services" as the "division of intellectual disabilities services"; removes antiquated terminology that is used to describe persons who lack the mental capacity to enter into contracts.
Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, adds community action agencies and nonprofit corporations that administer the Head Start or Community Service Block Grant programs to definition of governmental entity for purposes of governmental tort liability.
Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires department of safety to take necessary action with federal agency to allow state to use Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement (SAVE) program, and requires citizenship and immigration verification via SAVE for all driver licenses.
Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to provide a municipality with electronic notification of any proposed rule that has the potential to affect that municipality.
Water Pollution - As introduced, clarifies certain water quality standards related to the presence of selenate.
Energy - As introduced, abolishes requirement that oil and gas wells be plugged following periods of non-use, provided such wells are still viable for beneficial purposes, including but not limited to the development of geothermal energy sources.
Deeds - As introduced, requires that instruments affecting or disposing of real property must state the acreage of the real estate in order to be accepted for recording or filing.
Public Defenders - As introduced, allows public defender in each respective judicial district to incrementally reduce salaries of all employees within the public defender’s office as may be required to balance the district’s budget for that fiscal year instead of reducing the number of employees.
Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires department to give operator in charge or general manager of a public or private utility or municipality at least 24 hours notice prior to conducting an inspection, site visit, records review, sampling event, or other regulatory action.
Veterans - As introduced, establishes minimum compensation and benefits for county and municipal veterans' service officers.
Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, permits students who, upon completion of high school, do not qualify academically for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship, but are otherwise eligible for the scholarship, to obtain the scholarship by attending college and making a 2.75 after attempting 12 semester hours or meeting the academic requirements for continuing eligibility at any time when continuing eligibility is reviewed for HOPE scholarship students; provides that the scholarship shall not be awarded retroactively.
County Officers - As enacted, allows Roane County to abolish or remove law enforcement powers from the office of constable upon approval of voters.
Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, enacts the "Targeted Education and Economic Development Act."
Public Defenders - As introduced, allows multi-county judicial district option of sending any local funds received to the executive director of the district public defenders conference for disbursement or to keep such funds for disbursement through the district’s office.
Highway Signs - As enacted, "Jimmy 'Pap' Galloway Memorial Bridge," U.S. Highway 27 in Rhea County.
State Employees - As introduced, permits the commissioner of correction to specifically deny in writing an employee's request to examine investigative records and reports of the internal affairs division of the department of ongoing investigations prior to a due process hearing at which disciplinary action is considered or issued.
State Employees - As introduced, permits a person being interviewed concerning periodic routine searches for contraband of employees of the department of correction to record interviews and interrogations and requires the interviewer to record such interviews; limits the application of present law permitting the dismissal of an employee for failing to take a polygraph examination only to situations relating to such searches for contraband.
Oliver Springs - As introduced, subject to local approval, creates position of city manager and various departments within the town.
Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, specifies that the present law provision limiting the per meeting amount of $250 for Huntsville Utility District commissioners in Scott County will be repealed if the commissioners of the water and sewer utility district adopt a resolution applying the general law payment of $300 per meeting to such commissioners by December 1, 2009.
Harriman - As introduced, subject to local approval, makes certain changes to the charter of the City of Harriman.
Energy - As introduced, establishes a pilot program for the development and testing of coal to liquid fuels technology and coal to carbonite technology production techniques and conversion technology.
Special License Plates - As introduced, authorizes widows and widowers of persons entitled to receive holders of Purple Heart memorial plate to obtain upon such person's death.



Bill Number
Description
Alcoholic Offenses - As enacted, creates Class A misdemeanor for any owner, occupant, or other person having a lawful right to the exclusive use and enjoyment of property to knowingly allow a person to consume alcoholic beverages, wine or beer on such property, if the owner, occupant or other person knows the person so consuming is an underage adult; provides affirmative defenses
Law Enforcement - As enacted, permits director of judicial district drug task force to petition court for destruction, sale, law enforcement use, or other disposition of confiscated weapons.
Animals and Animal Cruelty - As enacted, enacts the "Commercial Breeder Act."
Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, allows commissioner to initiate investigation under the Tennessee Insurance Producer Licensing Act of 2002 upon receiving a writter complaint from a member of the public or determination by commissioner that "good cause" exists that a violation occurred.
Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations, June 30, 2013.
Schools, Home - As enacted, requires that diplomas issued by church-related schools and home schools in recognition of completion of secondary education requirements be considered by all state and local givernmental entities as having the same rights and privileges of diplomas issued by public school systems.
Juveniles - As enacted, authorizes the council of juvenile and family court judges to establish and administer a program to reimburse counties for the costs associated with inpatient mental health evaluations and examinations conducted on juveniles charged with an offense which would constitute a felony if committed by an adult.
Motor Vehicles - As enacted, codifies existing policies regarding: funds involving purchases or trade-ins of motor vehicles that must be held in trust by dealers; funds necessary to perform certain obligations of manufacturers and manufacturers' distributions to dealers or customers that must be held in trust by manufacturers and manufacturers' distributors; and the required uses of such funds.
Economic and Community Development - As enacted, authorizes the department of economic and community development to allocate on behalf of the state the portions of the national recovery zone economic development bond limitation and the national recovery zone facility bond limitation that are allocated to the state among the counties and large municipalities pursuant to federal law; revises certain provisions governing recovery zones and energy production facilities; authorizes the Tennessee local development authority (TLDA) the authority to allocate on behalf of the state the portion of the federal "national qualified energy conservation bond limitation" that is allocated to the state.
Elderly Persons - As enacted, creates the missing senior citizen alert program, which will be coordinated by local law enforcement agencies.
Workers Compensation - As enacted, increases the number of nonvoting members on the advisory council on workers' compensation from seven to 10; adds a licensed chiropractor, a licensed physical therapist and a licensed occupational therapist; revises other provisions governing council.
Highway Signs - As enacted, "Jerry Lee Lewis Highway," segment of State Route 176 (Getwell Road) in Shelby County.
Mental Illness - As enacted, provides for prescreening agents, physicians, and psychologists to be considered state employees when assessing persons for admission and transportation to involuntary inpatient treatment; authorizes transport of people with a mental illness who do not present a danger to themselves or are not in need of physical restraint or vehicular security by a friend, neighbor, relative, clergy, or other mental health professional familiar with the person; revises other provisions regarding transport of persons with mental illness.
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds aggravated child abuse, aggravated child neglect, rape of a child, and aggravated rape of a child to list of criminal offenses that support sentence of death or life imprisonment when committed in conjunction with first degree murder.
Privacy, Confidentiality - As enacted, specifies under the Personal Rights Protection Act of 1984 an individual is entitled to recover three times the amount to which the individual is otherwise entitled, plus reasonable attorney fees, if a person knowingly uses or infringes the rights of a member of the armed forces in violation of the Act.
Judicial Districts - As enacted, requires any drug testing fee that was assessed and collected in the ninth judicial district before such fee was repealed in 2007 to be designated for use by the ninth judicial district drug task force.
Education - As enacted, places restrictions on universal mental health testing, or psychiatric or socioemotional screening of juveniles; requires certain consent by a juvenile's parent, guardian, legal custodian, or caregiver before such testing can occur.
Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) - As enacted, subjects director of county emergency management agency to the control of the chief local elected official in lieu of county governing body.
Wine, Wineries - As enacted, revises "Grape and Wine Law" based on a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision including allowing out-of-state wineries to be licensed.
Special License Plates - As introduced, authorizes issuance of cultural license plates for teachers.
Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends commission on firefighting personnel standards and education, June 30, 2015.
Taxes, Severance - As enacted, increases the tax on coal products severed from the ground in this state and increases the amount of tax revenue collected that is allocated to the county from which the coal products were severed; allows department of revenue to retain certain amounts in two fiscal years to recover expenses.
Business and Commerce - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Small Business Investment Company Credit Act."
Special License Plates - As introduced, authorizes issuance of a new specialty earmarked license plate for United Way; and allocates revenue from sale of such plates to the United Way of Tennessee.
Safety - As enacted, provides that a contract having an automatic renewal clause between an alarm systems contractor and any homeowner or renter for the provision of alarm services may automatically be renewed for a period not to exceed one year at a time; provides that at any time during a contractual renewal period, a party to the contract who is being relocated to a hospital, nursing home, or assisted living facility may cancel the contract by giving 30 days' written notice to the alarm systems contractor.
Special License Plates - As introduced, authorizes issuance of new specialty earmarked plate for Tennessee State Museum; allocates revenue from such plates to Tennessee State Museum Foundation, Inc.
Criminal Procedure - As introduced, allows attorney general or the chief deputy to issue a subpoena for production of records related to Internet and computer use in cases of sexual exploitation of a minor.
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the age the victim of child abuse or child neglect must be from six to eight years old for a defendant to receive an enhanced punishment for such an offense.
Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows TSAC to promulgate rules for the award of a lottery scholarship or grant in certain situations for extenuating circumstances.
Solid Waste Disposal - As enacted, prohibits the commissioner of environment and conservation from issuing a permit for the disposal of coal ash or for the expansion of an existing coal ash disposal facility unless the plans for the disposal facility include a liner and a final cap, with certain exceptions.
Real Property - As introduced, requires copies of subdivision or deed restrictions and certain homeowners' association information be attached to the residential property condition disclosure form where applicable.
Labor - As introduced, enacts the "Secret Ballot Protection Act of 2009".
Adoption - As enacted, requires the department of children's services to provide certain post-adoption services.
County Officers - As enacted, clarifies that a member of the county legislative body does not have to resign membership as a commissioner to be nominated for certain offices or vacancy occurring in certain offices required to be filled by the county legislative body.
Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As enacted, requires the commissioner of the department of environment and conservation to offer discounted rates to veterans who are Tennessee residents for activities at Tennessee state parks during the off season.
Medicine, Practice of - As enacted, exempts persons licensed by the board of any of the professions of healing arts from liability for civil damages resulting from the voluntary provision of health services.
Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits state from being required to participate in the implementation of the federal REAL ID Act of 2005, which mandates a national identification card for each citizen of the United States.
Food and Food Products - As enacted, exempts from payment of food service establishment fees those bona fide charitable and nonprofit organizations that operate food banks and on-site feeding programs for free distribution of food to combat poverty and hunger; exempts from regulation as a food services establishment a house or other residential structure where seriously ill or injured children and their families are provided temporary accommodations in proximity to their treatment hospitals and where food is prepared, served, transported, or stored by volunteer personnel.
Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, prohibits confiscations of lawfully possessed firearms and ammunition during periods of martial rule; clarifies firearm and ammunition restriction prohibitions during any state of emergency, major disaster, or natural disaster.
Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, requires TDOT to ensure share of federal stimulus funds for transportation are allocated directly to rural planning organizations in proportion to population.
Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates TBI headquarters in Nashville as "Arzo Carson TBI State Office Building."
Credit and Debit Cards - As introduced, requires credit card issuers to credit payments by mail to card holders' accounts as of the date the payment is postmarked.
Sentencing - As enacted, provides that all aggravated burglaries a defendant commits within a 24-hour period count as separate prior convictions for purposes of determining if the defendant is a multiple, persistent, or career offender under the criminal sentencing reform act.
Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, enacts the "Critical Adult Care Home Act of 2009."
Energy - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Clean Energy Future Act of 2009."
Elderly Persons - As enacted, requires background checks on certain potential employees of the departments of human services and children's services; expands scope of certain background checks for certain persons in contact with children and elderly people; revises other various provisions regarding vulnerable persons.
Mining and Quarrying - As enacted, enacts the "Responsible Mining Act of 2009."

 



Bill Number
Description
Memorials, Death - Juanita Hill Baird
Memorials, Personal Occasion - Earl Nall, 65th birthday
Memorials, Death - Samuel Henry Davis
Memorials, Recognition - Robert Hiram Green
Memorials, Public Service - Sterling Haskel Ayers, South Campbell Rotary Club Citizen of the Year
Memorials, Recognition - Colonel Wiley Harris, Distinguished Leaders Award
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Charles Jeffers, Valedictorian, Oneida High School
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tara Phillips, Salutatorian, Oneida High School
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Charles Max Newport, Scott County Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Caitlin Davis, Salutatorian, Oneida High School
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Chelsea Phillips, Valedictorian, Oneida High School
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Joshua M. Slaven, Valedictorian, Oneida High School
Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Stout
Memorials, Recognition - James M. Henry
Memorials, Recognition - Highland Manor Winery
Memorials, Recognition - Guy and Claudine Pinckley
Memorials, Recognition - Charles Kelley
Memorials, Death - Vivian Smith
Memorials, Recognition - Dana Peterka, Distinguished Service Award, Roane County Chamber of Commerce
Memorials, Recognition - Penelope Uselton, ATHENA award
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Steve Patterson and Pattersons Home Appliance Center, Roane County Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges Congress to enact the Medicare Rural Health Access Improvement Act of 2009.
Memorials, Death - Clarence G. Charles
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Morgan County Litter Grant Program
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Faye Dalton, 2009 Awards of Excellence Winner
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Fentress County Solid Waste, 2009 Award of Excellence
Memorials, Recognition - Catherine Grace Evans, Girl Scout Gold Award
Memorials, Recognition - Burchfield Elementary School, National Title I Distinguished School Award
Memorials, Personal Achievement - Monica Joy Haley, Girl Scout Gold Award
Memorials, Personal Achievement - Ashley Stoetzel, Girl Scout Gold Award
Memorials, Recognition - James M. Henry
Memorials, Personal Achievement - Joseph F. Huckeby, Eagle Scout
Memorials, Interns - Kathleen Jessica Barroll

 

 


Bill Number
Description
Memorials, Academic Achievement - 2009 Phi Theta Kappa All-Tennessee Academic Team
Memorials, Public Service - Victor Ashe, United States Ambassador to Poland and former Mayor of Knoxville
Memorials, Recognition - Recognizes those persons who assisted Macon, Sumner, and Trousdale counties after a tornado.
Memorials, Public Service - William H. "Bill" Frist
Memorials, Death - Charles R. "Charlie" Burchett, Sr.
Memorials, Public Service - Riley Darnell
Memorials, Public Service - Dale Sims
Memorials, Public Service - John Morgan
Memorials, Recognition - Hannah Lawson
Memorials, Recognition - WIMZ radio, 30th anniversary
Memorials, Personal Occasion - Ron and Bobbie Patray, 50th anniversary
Memorials, Retirement - Cile Matthews
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for people with developmental disabilities having access to home- and community-based services provided through a single distinct entity in state government.
Memorials, Death - Joe M. Rodgers
Memorials, Retirement - Lawrence Hahn
Memorials, Public Service - Katie Ayres, Prudential Spirit of Community Award Distinguished Finalist
Memorials, Personal Occasion - Bruce and Adeline Frizzell, 50th anniversary
Memorials, Recognition - Oak Ridge's Operation Open Sesame, 60th anniversary
Memorials, Death - former Representative Alvin King
Memorials, Sports - Alex Balleserous, Tyler Harper, Clinton Phifer, Dejuan Vaughn
Constitutional Amendments - Adds new provision to Article I to provide that nothing in Constitution of Tennessee secures or protects right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion; states that the people retain the right through their elected state representatives and state senators to enact, amend, or repeal statutes regarding abortion, including, but not limited to, circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest or when necessary to save the life of the mother.
Memorials, Death - William Dortch Oldham
Memorials, Retirement - Gary Myers, Executive Director of TWRA
Memorials, Recognition - Municipal Technical Advisory Service, 60th anniversary
Memorials, Recognition - Breakthrough Corporation
Memorials, Death - Milton Hamilton, Jr.
Memorials, Recognition - Business and Professional Women
Naming and Designating - "National Crime Victims' Rights Week," April 26-May 2, 2009
Naming and Designating - "Police Memorial Day," May 15, 2009, "Police Memorial Week," May 10-16, 2009
Memorials, Death - Dr. John DeBerry, Sr.
Memorials, Death - Robert Morgan Simms
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for construction of American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Memorials, Recognition - Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 75th anniversary
Memorials, Death - James A. Hyter
Memorials, Congress - Reaffirms Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, claims sovereignty of state of Tennessee, and serves as notice and demand that Congress cease and desist mandates beyond those that are constitutionally delegated.
Memorials, Death - Bishop W. L. Porter
Memorials, Recognition - Doug Grindstaff, Williamson County Republican Party Chairman
Memorials, Personal Occasion - Teddy Phillips, 50th birthday
Memorials, Death - James White Elkins
Memorials, Death - Dr. Larry T. McGehee
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors to enter into a long-term contract with Aluminum Company of America, Inc.
Naming and Designating - "Tennessee Students Reach Out Week", January 24-30, 2010
Memorials, Retirement - Fred Corum
Memorials, Public Service - Margaret Tolleson
Memorials, Death - Nelson Andrews
Memorials, Death - Eleanora Driver Overbey
Memorials, Recognition - Shelby County Courthouse, centennial celebration
Memorials, Death - Mary Dean Jones
Memorials, Recognition - Abraham Lincoln, 200th Anniversary of his birth
Memorials, Recognition - Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 75th anniversary
Memorials, Death - Michael Anthony Seay
Memorials, Academic Achievement - 2009 Phi Theta Kappa All-Tennessee Academic Team

 

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