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SB 2150 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Health, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to collaborate with the bureau of TennCare in order to study existing doula certification programs; requires that a report on the study be provided to the members of the general assembly and to the legislative librarian by December 31, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.
Jan 28 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1108
Jun 03 2022
SB 2295 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Medical Occupations - As enacted, makes various changes to the qualifications for certification as a medication aide by the board of nursing. - Amends TCA Title 63.
Feb 01 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1112
Jun 03 2022
SB 2448 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, extends termination date from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, for limitations on claims against a person for loss, damage, injury, or death arising from COVID-19. - Amends TCA Section 9-8-307; Title 14, Chapter 5; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Section 49-7-159.
Feb 02 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1117
Jun 03 2022
SB 2897 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2021, and July 1, 2022. -
Feb 07 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1130
Jun 03 2022
SB 2466 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, renames the health services and development agency as the health facilities commission; designates references to the health services and development agency in state law as references to the health facilities commission; requests the Tennessee code commission to amend references to the health services and development agency to the health facilities commission; requires the board of licensing health facilities to report to the health facilities commission instead of the department of health in the matter of licensing healthcare facilities; revises certain certificate of need provisions; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Feb 01 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1119
Jun 03 2022
SB 2522 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, revises the pay schedule in Tennessee Code Annotated for assistant district attorneys and assistant district public defenders. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7.
Feb 02 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1122
Jun 03 2022
SB 2167 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Real Property - As enacted, enacts the "Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act." - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 27 and Title 66.
Jan 31 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1109
Jun 03 2022
SB 2849 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Real Property - As enacted, prohibits regional and municipal planning commissions, in exercising their platting power, from requiring an owner of private property to dedicate real property to the public, or pay money to a public entity in an amount that is determined on an individual and discretionary basis, unless there is an essential nexus between the dedication or payment and a legitimate local government interest and the dedication or payment is roughly proportional both in nature and extent to the impact of the proposed use or development of the property. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 29, Chapter 17; Title 29, Chapter 16; Title 62; Title 65 and Title 66.
Jan 31 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1128
Jun 03 2022
SB 2463 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Health Care - As enacted, requires the comptroller of the treasury, in conjunction with the bureau of TennCare and the department of health, to study the use of temporary staffing provided by healthcare staffing agencies in long-term care facilities; requires that the study examine the effects that costs of temporary staffing have upon the TennCare program and upon assisted-care living facilities, and practices that may improve the quality of long-term care for residents while reducing costs to the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
Feb 01 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1118
Jun 03 2022
SB 2574 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, requires nursing homes and assisted-care living facilities to permit at least one family member or resident representative who meets certain conditions to visit a resident of the facility during end-of-life situations if a disaster, emergency, or public health emergency for COVID-19 has been declared. - Amends TCA Title 14 and Title 68, Chapter 11.
Feb 02 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1123
Jun 03 2022
SB 2078 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products - As enacted, increases from 0.5344 percent to 0.88 percent the portion of the state gasoline tax apportioned for distribution to the wildlife resources fund; specifies that in addition to any other purposes authorized by law for which such funds may be used, the gas tax funds apportioned to the wildlife resources fund must also be used for public and environmental infrastructure at marinas. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 3 and Title 67, Chapter 6.
Jan 26 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1103
Jun 03 2022
SB 2019 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Education, Higher - As enacted, revises various provisions governing the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC) and financial aid. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Jan 27 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1107
Jun 03 2022
SB 2478 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Judicial Districts - As enacted, requires that judges of the supreme court, court of appeals, chancery courts, circuit courts, criminal courts, and courts exercising the jurisdiction imposed in one or more of the chancery courts, circuit courts or criminal courts be in good standing with the board of responsibility not have been publicly censured by the board of professional responsibility or suspended or disbarred from the practice of law within the 10 years preceding the judge's term of office for engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 17 and Title 37.
Feb 02 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1120
Jun 03 2022
SB 2342 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Public Employees - As enacted, authorizes the state treasurer to develop, implement, and administer a program to award grants to eligible employers for the purpose of funding of a length of service award program. - Amends TCA Section 8-25-115.
Feb 01 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1113
Jun 03 2022
SB 2774 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Human Rights Commission - As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the membership of the Tennessee human rights commission effective September 1, 2022, and makes other changes concerning the commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Section 8-50-103 and Section 68-1-113.
Feb 02 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1127
Jun 03 2022
SB 2631 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, specifies that a student who graduates early from an eligible high school, or who completes high school at an eligible home school early, or who obtains an equivalency diploma before the spring semester immediately preceding the student's initial fall enrollment, and is admitted to, and enrolled full time in, an eligible postsecondary program, is eligible for the Tennessee promise scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
Feb 01 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1125
Jun 03 2022
SB 2898 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Budget Procedures - As enacted, increases, for FY22-23, the state employer match to 200 percent of the amount contributed by each state employee to the state's 401(k) plan per month, up to a maximum of $100 per month; exempts from sales tax the retail sale of food and food ingredients sold between Monday, August 1, 2022, and Wednesday, August 31, 2022; makes additional statutory revisions required for implementation of the annual appropriations act. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71.
Feb 07 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1131
Jun 03 2022
SB 2219 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, authorizes local governments to regulate, including the prohibition of, smoking and the use of vapor products in age-restricted venues; defines the terms “age-restricted venue” and “retail tobacco store” for the purposes of the Prevention of Youth Access to Tobacco, Smoking Hemp, and Vapor Products Act; prohibits local governments from regulating smoking and the use of vapor products in retail vapor product stores and cigar bars; exempts cigar bars that limit access to patrons 21 years of age or older from the prohibition on smoking in enclosed places. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 39.
Jan 31 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1110
Jun 03 2022
SB 2405 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, revises various provisions governing lottery-funded scholarships and financial aid. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
Jan 31 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1116
Jun 03 2022
SB 2012 (112th Regular Session (2021-2022))
Litter Control - As enacted, includes as a form of littering for any commercial purposes, which is considered aggravated criminal littering, the act of knowingly placing, dropping, or throwing two or more tires on public or private property without permission and without immediately removing the tires; punishable as a Class A misdemeanor or Class E felony based on weight/volume and prior convictions, except that a first offense involving more than eight tires placed, dropped, or thrown for a commercial purpose will be a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 5; Title 55 and Title 68, Chapter 211.
Jan 19 2022 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 1105
Jun 03 2022

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