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SJR0001 - A RESOLUTION to honor the memory of country music legend Loretta Lynn.
Kerry Roberts, Raumesh A. Akbari, Paul E. Bailey
Last updated almost 2 years ago
33 Co-Sponsors
Loretta Lynn
STATUS
Passed
SB0334 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 38 and Title 71, relative to the medicaid fraud control division.
Edward S. Jackson, Bill Powers
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, expands the duties of the medicaid fraud control unit of the Tennessee bureau of investigation to include investigation of complaints of abuse, neglect and financial exploitation of medicaid recipients in any setting; allows the director of the Tennessee bureau of investigation to create new divisions within the bureau as necessary. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 71.
STATUS
Passed
SB0441 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, relative to the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act.
Edward S. Jackson
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires an agency to, upon request by any person, provide a copy of any proposed emergency rule prior to the proposed emergency rule becoming effective. - Amends TCA Title 4.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR0017 - A RESOLUTION to recognize Jim Hoobler on the occasion of his retirement.
Bo Watson, Randy McNally, Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated almost 2 years ago
33 Co-Sponsors
Jim Hoobler
STATUS
Passed
SB0992 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 33 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8, relative to state employees performing military service.
Ken Yager, Edward S. Jackson
Last updated almost 2 years ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, establishes that full-time state employees who are members of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including the Tennessee army and air national guard, shall continue to accrue annual and sick leave the employee would ordinarily accrue during any period of absence from the employee's respective duties for military service. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0533 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8; Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 8, relative to sick leave banks.
Ferrell Haile, Rusty Crowe, J. Adam Lowe
Last updated over 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, authorizes the grant of sick leave from a sick leave bank to a state employee to care for a sick minor child of the employee. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8; Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 8.
STATUS
Passed
SB0276 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 27 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8, relative to public employment benefits.
Jack Johnson, Ken Yager, Jeff Yarbro
Last updated over 1 year ago
12 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, makes various changes to present law pertaining to leave for state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8.
STATUS
Passed
SB0440 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68 and Title 71, relative to long-term care.
Edward S. Jackson
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the accounting of long-term care expenditures for nursing facility services; home and community-based services made under the CHOICES long-term healthcare program; and employment and Community First CHOICES services under a waiver amendment to the TennCare II demonstration, provided by the bureau of TennCare to the general assembly and interested persons, to include prior fiscal year actual expenditures and projected current fiscal year expenditures no later than January 15 of each year, instead of February 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1475 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 12, Part 2, relative to criminal offenses.
Bo Watson, Todd Gardenhire, Paul Rose
Last updated over 1 year ago
10 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, makes revisions to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act of 1989, including expanding the definition of racketeering activity. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 12, Part 2.
STATUS
Passed
SB0439 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38 and Title 55, relative to the use of surveillance cameras on interstate highways and state rights of ways.
Edward S. Jackson, Becky Duncan Massey, Page Walley
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, removes the condition that the department of transportation first authorize the installation of surveillance cameras on interstates and state highways before such cameras may be operated by law enforcement agencies; authorizes the operation of surveillance cameras by law enforcement agencies on such highways under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38 and Title 55.
STATUS
Passed
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