Jay Reedy

TennCare - As enacted, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2027; changes the penalty imposed by the bureau on an ambulance provider for each day an assessment remains unpaid from $50 per calendar day to 5 percent of the principal amount owed per month for each month. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 15.

Memorials, Recognition - Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis, Tennessean of the Year -

Benton County - Subject to local approval, updates the system for the management of county finances, including, but not limited to, budgeting, investment oversight, debt management, and cash management oversight. - Amends Chapter 541 of the Private Acts of 1939; as amended and rewritten.

Memorials, Interns - William "Billy" Bunce -

Memorials, Retirement - Sheriff Kevin Sugg -

Local Education Agencies - As introduced, prohibits a school board from offering or providing severance pay to a director of schools who is terminated without cause in an amount that exceeds the annual salary amount the director was receiving at the time of termination; prohibits a school board from offering or providing severance pay to a director of schools who is terminated with cause. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.

Local Education Agencies - As introduced, prohibits an LEA from employing a person who is a relative of the LEA's director of schools or a relative of a member of the LEA's local board of education unless the commissioner of education approves the relative's employment in writing. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 2.

Motor Vehicles - As introduced, increases from 10 to 15 the number of days from the date of an order suspending or revoking a commercial driver license that a petition may be filed to appeal the decision. - Amends TCA Title 55.

Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, authorizes an excise tax credit for brewers that donate spent grain byproducts for agricultural use. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 57 and Title 67.

Real Property - As enacted, enacts the "Sen. Frank Niceley National Security and Economic Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 2, Part 3.

Education, Higher - As introduced, requires each public institution of higher education to classify a student who is the spouse of a service member who has not resided in this state for at least one year as an in-state student for tuition purposes if the service member's spouse resides in this state while enrolled in the institution; adds dependants of active-duty military personnel or veterans residing outside of this state to those who are eligible to receive the in-state tuition rate at a ...

Memorials, Recognition - Chemours New Johnsonville -

Humphreys County - Subject to local approval, creates the Humphreys County Water Authority. -

Constitutional Conventions - As enacted, revises faithful delegate laws pertaining to Article V conventions. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 18.

Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires, with certain exceptions, each LEA and public charter school to implement a computer-based system that must be used by its teachers and school staff to collect data of early warning signs demonstrated by students enrolled in the LEA or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 37 and Title 49.

Memorials, Retirement - Buck Carter, Benton County Highway Supervisor -

Memorials, Recognition - Judge Andy Brigham, Stewart County CASA -

Memorials, Personal Occasion - Dr. Harold Vann, 95th birthday -

Memorials, Interns - Elizabeth Spurling -

Erin - Subject to local approval, makes changes to definitions in the city charter; adds corporate powers to be exercised by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen; makes several other changes to the city charter. - Amends Chapter 403 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended and rewritten.