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Latest Action: 06/01/2007 - Public Chapter 236 Bill TextCompanion Bill SB0215. Attorneys at Law - Removes the minimum population requirement for regional bar associations to bring legal action to stop unauthorized practice of law. - Amends TCA Title 23, Chapter 3, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for *HB0098 / SB0215Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB0098 / SB0215 ON APRIL 12, 2007, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 98, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 removes the minimum population requirement for regional bar associations to bring legal action to stop the unauthorized practice of law, so that all such regional associations may bring such an action.
Latest Action: 03/13/2007 - Taken Off Notice For Calendar in Subcommittee Civil Practice and Procedure of Judiciary of Judiciary Committee Bill TextCompanion Bill SB0220. Attorneys at Law - Authorizes bar associations that adopt certain protocol to bring civil action seeking relief against persons engaged in unauthorized practice of law. - Amends TCA Title 23, Chapter 3, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for *HB0160 / SB0220Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB0160 / SB0220 This bill authorizes bar associations that adopt the protocol approved by the Board of Governors of the Tennessee Bar Association, regarding the enforcement of the unauthorized practice of law statutes, to bring a civil action seeking relief against a person engaged in the unauthorized practice of law. Under present law, the authority to bring such an action is granted to associations of a municipality, county, except any county having a metropolitan form of government, and multi-county [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/21/2007 - Assigned to Subcommittee Civil Practice and Procedure of JUD Bill TextAttorneys at Law - Increases penalty for unauthorized practice of law from Class A misdemeanor to Class E felony, punishable by fine only. - Amends TCA Title 23, Chapter 3. Fiscal Summary for *HB1096 / SB1524Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Increase State Revenues - Not Significant Decrease Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Decrease Local Govt. Revenues - Not Significant
Latest Action: 02/21/2007 - Passed second consideration, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. Bill TextAttorneys at Law - Increases from two to five years time in which supreme court may revoke law license initially procured by fraud. - Amends TCA Title 23. Fiscal Summary for HB1675 / *SB1856 MINIMAL
Latest Action: 03/07/2007 - Assigned to Subcommittee Criminal Practice and Procedure of JUD Bill TextCompanion Bill SB2034. Attorneys at Law - Requires that any attorney who represented or is representing a defendant in a capital case and who is found to have provided ineffective legal assistance or admitted to providing ineffective legal assistance to be disqualified from current representation and/or barred from future representation in capital cases in this state. - Amends amend TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 40. Fiscal Summary for *HB1975 / SB2034Increase State Expenditures - $10,700,300 / Indigent Criminal Defense Fund Bill Summary for *HB1975 / SB2034 This bill requires that a defense attorney representing a defendant in a capital case be disqualified from current representation or barred from future representation in capital cases, or both, if: (1) A trial or appellate court in this state or the [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/13/2007 - Action Deferred in Jud. Comm. Bill TextAttorneys at Law - Requires clerk of the court of criminal appeals to report to board of professional responsibility attorneys whose ineffective representation of criminal defendants results in conviction being overturned. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 10 and Title 16, Chapter 5. Fiscal Summary for *SB0056Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant
Latest Action: 06/01/2007 - Companion became Public Chapter 236 Bill TextCompanion Bill HB0098. Attorneys at Law - Removes the minimum population requirement for regional bar associations to bring legal action to stop unauthorized practice of law. - Amends TCA Title 23, Chapter 3, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for SB0215 / *HB0098Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB0215 / *HB0098 ON APRIL 12, 2007, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 98, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 removes the minimum population requirement for regional bar associations to bring legal action to stop the unauthorized practice of law, so that all such regional associations may bring such an action.
Latest Action: 02/07/2007 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate Jud. Comm. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB0160. Attorneys at Law - Authorizes bar associations that adopt certain protocol to bring civil action seeking relief against persons engaged in unauthorized practice of law. - Amends TCA Title 23, Chapter 3, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for SB0220 / *HB0160Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB0220 / *HB0160 This bill authorizes bar associations that adopt the protocol approved by the Board of Governors of the Tennessee Bar Association, regarding the enforcement of the unauthorized practice of law statutes, to bring a civil action seeking relief against a person engaged in the unauthorized practice of law. Under present law, the authority to bring such an action is granted to associations of a municipality, county, except any county having a metropolitan form of government, and multi-county [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate Jud Comm. Bill TextAttorneys at Law - Increases penalty for unauthorized practice of law from Class A misdemeanor to Class E felony, punishable by fine only. - Amends TCA Title 23, Chapter 3. Fiscal Summary for SB1524 / *HB1096Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Increase State Revenues - Not Significant Decrease Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Decrease Local Govt. Revenues - Not Significant
Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate Jud Comm. Bill TextAttorneys at Law - Increases from two to five years time in which supreme court may revoke law license initially procured by fraud. - Amends TCA Title 23. Fiscal Summary for *SB1856 / HB1675 MINIMAL
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Latest Action: 05/08/2008 - Companion became Public Chapter 788 Bill TextCompanion Bill SB3255. Banks and Financial Institutions - Authorizes financial institutions to file with the appropriate court a notice of refusal to comply with a subpoena for financial information. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 10. Fiscal Summary for HB3736 / *SB3255MINIMAL Bill Summary for HB3736 / *SB3255 The Financial Records Privacy Act provides that in all judicial proceedings the reasonable expenses of a financial institution in producing records in response to a subpoena will be taxed as costs, without regard to the amount of any bond, and in all other instances, the issuer of the subpoena must pay the financial institution's reasonable expenses incurred in complying with the subpoena. This bill adds that the financial institution may additionally recover from the subpoena issuer any expenses incurred by the financial institution,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/05/2008 - Assigned to Subcommittee Civil Practice and Procedure of JUD Bill TextAttorneys at Law - Establishes a one-year period during which a member of the legal staff of the board of professional responsibility is prohibited from doing business with an attorney who appeared before the board on a disciplinary matter. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 5 and Title 23. Fiscal Summary for HB3609 / *SB3782MINIMAL
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Companion became Public Chapter 664 Bill TextSunset Laws - Board of law examiners, June 30, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 23, Chapter 1. Fiscal Summary for HB3572 / *SB2425 MINIMAL
Latest Action: 01/23/2008 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate Jud Comm. Bill TextAttorneys at Law - Establishes a one-year period during which a member of the legal staff of the board of professional responsibility is prohibited from doing business with an attorney who appeared before the board on a disciplinary matter. - Amends TCA Title 17, Chapter 5 and Title 23. Fiscal Summary for *SB3782 / HB3609MINIMAL
Latest Action: 05/08/2008 - Public Chapter 788 Bill TextCompanion Bill HB3736. Banks and Financial Institutions - Authorizes financial institutions to file with the appropriate court a notice of refusal to comply with a subpoena for financial information. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 10. Fiscal Summary for *SB3255 / HB3736MINIMAL Bill Summary for *SB3255 / HB3736 The Financial Records Privacy Act provides that in all judicial proceedings the reasonable expenses of a financial institution in producing records in response to a subpoena will be taxed as costs, without regard to the amount of any bond, and in all other instances, the issuer of the subpoena must pay the financial institution's reasonable expenses incurred in complying with the subpoena. This bill adds that the financial institution may additionally recover from the subpoena issuer any expenses incurred by the financial institution,[...] show full description
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Public Chapter 664 Bill TextSunset Laws - Board of law examiners, June 30, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 23, Chapter 1. Fiscal Summary for *SB2425 / HB3572 MINIMAL
Latest Action: 03/07/2007 - Assigned to Subcommittee Criminal Practice and Procedure of JUD Bill TextCompanion Bill SB2034. Attorneys at Law - Requires that any attorney who represented or is representing a defendant in a capital case and who is found to have provided ineffective legal assistance or admitted to providing ineffective legal assistance to be disqualified from current representation and/or barred from future representation in capital cases in this state. - Amends amend TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 40. Fiscal Summary for *HB1975 / SB2034Increase State Expenditures - $10,700,300 / Indigent Criminal Defense Fund Bill Summary for *HB1975 / SB2034 This bill requires that a defense attorney representing a defendant in a capital case be disqualified from current representation or barred from future representation in capital cases, or both, if: (1) A trial or appellate court in this state or the [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/22/2007 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate Jud Comm. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB1975. Attorneys at Law - Requires that any attorney who represented or is representing a defendant in a capital case and who is found to have provided ineffective legal assistance or admitted to providing ineffective legal assistance to be disqualified from current representation and/or barred from future representation in capital cases in this state. - Amends amend TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 40. Fiscal Summary for SB2034 / *HB1975Increase State Expenditures - $10,700,300 / Indigent Criminal Defense Fund Bill Summary for SB2034 / *HB1975 This bill requires that a defense attorney representing a defendant in a capital case be disqualified from current representation or barred from future representation in capital cases, or both, if: (1) A trial or appellate court in this state or the [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/21/2007 - Passed second consideration, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. Bill TextAttorneys at Law - Increases from two to five years time in which supreme court may revoke law license initially procured by fraud. - Amends TCA Title 23. Fiscal Summary for HB1675 / *SB1856 MINIMAL
Latest Action: 07/12/2007 - Companion became Public Chapter 565 Bill TextCompanion Bill SB0789. Salaries and Benefits - Increases maximum amount of prior service credit for practice of law that assistant district attorney general may receive to determine entry level compensation; revises prior service credit for public defender criminal investigators; revises list of previous employment experience for which district attorney general may receive year-for-year credit in determining entry level compensation. - Amends TCA Title 8. Fiscal Summary for HB1502 / *SB0789Increase State Expenditures - $37,200 Recurring Bill Summary for HB1502 / *SB0789 ON MARCH 19, 2007, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 789, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 revises the prior service credit for public defenders. Under present law, in determining entry level salary for criminal investigators for the district attorneys [...] show full description
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