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Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, makes various changes to laws regarding utilities, including the procedure for consolidation of utilities and continuing education requirements for members of utility governing bodies. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34; Title 7, Chapter 82; Title 9, Chapter 21 and Title 68, Chapter 221.

Criminal Offenses - As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to study the status of the crime stoppers programs across the state and make recommendations to enhance such programs. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

Education - As introduced, allows certain schools to be exempt from conducting separate audits of certain school funds; establishes that if a local education agency fails to submit a financial report before December 1 of the following fiscal year, then the per pupil funding allocated to the public charter school shall not decrease; changes the enrollment lottery process for public charter schools; changes the requirements for public charter school replication applications; makes various other changes. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49, Chapter 13; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3.

Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, changes present law concerning common ownership of entities involved in the alcoholic beverages industry. - Amends TCA Title 57.

Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, states that if the possession of a handgun is restricted or prohibited at a county courthouse, then the sheriff of the county may provide secure storage lockers for those individuals who are lawfully carrying a firearm to store the firearm in separate secured, lockable storage units at or near a designated public entrance to the building or structure at no cost to the individual. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 8, Chapter 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

Law Enforcement - As introduced, increases, from 10 calendar days to 10 business days, the time the POST commission has to notify a retired officer of its denial of the officer's permit application to carry a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38 and Title 39.

Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes local governmental bodies to conduct certain community meetings via electronic means of communication. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8, Chapter 44.

Public Health - As enacted, provides that any certificate of public advantage in effect on June 30, 2028, automatically expires but any pricing restrictions in a certificate of advantage remain in effect until the fifth anniversary of the expiration date or the date that a new inpatient acute care hospital opens in the geographic service area, whichever is earlier; requires the attorney general to supervise any pricing restrictions still in effect, and the pricing restrictions may only be modified by the mutual written agreement of the attorney general and the entity subject to the restrictions; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55 and Title 68.

Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires the public utility commission to submit an annual report regarding compliance with present laws regulating persons or entities who make telephone or text message solicitations to residential subscribers in this state to the chair of the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over commerce and the chair of the commerce and labor committee of the senate. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 65 and Title 67.

Health Care - As introduced, specifies that a good faith disclosure of information related to an activity of a quality improvement committee (QIC) made by a healthcare provider or healthcare organization to a patient or a family member of a patient is not a waiver of the privilege and confidentiality protections provider under current law and makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11.

Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, allows the court to temporarily revoke a defendant's bond and order the defendant held without bail for no more than 10 days pending a bail revocation hearing if the defendant violates a condition of release, is charged with an offense committed during the defendant's release, or engages in conduct that results in the obstruction of the orderly and expeditious progress of the trial. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11.

Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, changes, from June 1 to July 1, the date by which an insurer or insurance group must submit its disclosure to the commissioner of commerce and insurance as required under the Corporate Governance Annual Disclosure Act. - Amends TCA Title 56.

Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, removes the requirement that a court enter into state or federal databases a bench warrant or a capias issued due to a defendant's failure to appear for a misdemeanor that is violent or sexual in nature or a felony that is not violent or sexual in nature; extends the time period in which the court must enter bench warrant or capias for failure to appear on a felony from three to 10 business days; authorizes, rather than requires, the court to relieve the surety of liability for an undertaking if the defendant has not been placed on the available state or federal list or databases. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires a county incurring expenses pursuant to a criminal prosecution to provide an invoice of the expenses imposed on the county to the department; requires, within 60 days of receiving an invoice, the department to pay the amount of the invoiced expenses permitted by law to the county. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.

Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes, if a candidate changes treasurers and notifies the registry of election finance of the change, the candidate to continue to use print communication that includes the identification of the former treasurer until the print communication is exhausted. - Amends TCA Title 2.

Domestic Violence - As enacted, makes various changes to the present law pertaining to the persistent domestic violence offender registry. - Amends TCA Title 18; Section 38-6-103; Title 39 and Title 40.

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to make forms promulgated for use by courts, agencies, and persons in the adoption process available on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.

Codes - As introduced, increases, from one to two working days of when the request is made, the time within which an inspection of a one-family or two-family building's footer is considered timely. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

Education - As enacted, requires the state board of education to establish a qualified dyslexia interventionist endorsement to allow an educator to provide targeted instructional intervention, academic support, behavioral support, or related services to students demonstrating characteristics of dyslexia. - Amends TCA Title 49.