Labor Legislation - Tennessee

Companion Bill SB1581. Criminal Offenses - Creates the criminal offenses of recklessly employing an illegal alien, knowingly employing an illegal alien, and knowingly encouraging or inducing an illegal alien to enter the state for the purpose of employing such illegal alien unless the employer verifies the immigrant status prior to employment by using the federal electronic work authorization verification service. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 50. Fiscal Summary for *HB0684 / SB1581 MINIMAL Bill Summary for *HB0684 / SB1581 This bill imposes criminal penalties at the state level on certain employers who employ illegal aliens. This bill would apply to any entity that employs more than 25 individuals at a workplace in this state. This bill makes it a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by a fine only, to knowingly employ an illegal [...]

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Companion Bill HB0684. Criminal Offenses - Creates the criminal offenses of recklessly employing an illegal alien, knowingly employing an illegal alien, and knowingly encouraging or inducing an illegal alien to enter the state for the purpose of employing such illegal alien unless the employer verifies the immigrant status prior to employment by using the federal electronic work authorization verification service. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 50. Fiscal Summary for SB1581 / *HB0684 MINIMAL Bill Summary for SB1581 / *HB0684 This bill imposes criminal penalties at the state level on certain employers who employ illegal aliens. This bill would apply to any entity that employs more than 25 individuals at a workplace in this state. This bill makes it a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by a fine only, to knowingly employ an illegal [...]

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Companion Bill SB0838. Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Requires personal support services agencies to make certain disclosures to clients regarding potential liability as employers of personal support services workers. - Amends TCA Title 33. Fiscal Summary for HB2088 / *SB0838Increase State Expenditures - $209,400 Recurring $5,400 One-Time Bill Summary for HB2088 / *SB0838 This bill requires person support services agencies to: (1) Provide to each service recipient a consumer notice that includes, at a minimum, the following: (A) The duties, responsibilities, obligations and legal liabilities of the personal support services agency to the personal support services workers and to the consumer (including information regarding the consumer's responsibility to perform a criminal background [...]

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Companion Bill HB2088. Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Requires personal support services agencies to make certain disclosures to clients regarding potential liability as employers of personal support services workers. - Amends TCA Title 33. Fiscal Summary for *SB0838 / HB2088Increase State Expenditures - $209,400 Recurring $5,400 One-Time Bill Summary for *SB0838 / HB2088 This bill requires person support services agencies to: (1) Provide to each service recipient a consumer notice that includes, at a minimum, the following: (A) The duties, responsibilities, obligations and legal liabilities of the personal support services agency to the personal support services workers and to the consumer (including information regarding the consumer's responsibility to perform a criminal background [...]

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Companion Bill SB1023. Physicians and Surgeons - Specifies which employers may enter non-compete agreements that limit a physician's right to practice; establishes criteria for determining whether non-compete agreement is reasonable. - Amends TCA Section 63-6-204. Fiscal Summary for *HB0628 / SB1023Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB0628 / SB1023 Present law specifies the restrictions that are permissible upon the practice of licensed physicians; however, notwithstanding these restrictions, licensed physicians or a group of licensed physicians including, but not limited to, a physician's professional corporation or a domestic nonprofit public benefit corporation are not prohibited from employing physicians. This bill expands those groups of licensed physicians that may employ physicians to include [...]

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Companion Bill HB0628. Physicians and Surgeons - Specifies which employers may enter non-compete agreements that limit a physician's right to practice; establishes criteria for determining whether non-compete agreement is reasonable. - Amends TCA Section 63-6-204. Fiscal Summary for SB1023 / *HB0628Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB1023 / *HB0628 Present law specifies the restrictions that are permissible upon the practice of licensed physicians; however, notwithstanding these restrictions, licensed physicians or a group of licensed physicians including, but not limited to, a physician's professional corporation or a domestic nonprofit public benefit corporation are not prohibited from employing physicians. This bill expands those groups of licensed physicians that may employ physicians to include [...]

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Companion Bill SB1668. Salaries and Benefits - Adopts the federal minimum wage as the minimum wage within this state, but provides for the automatic increase in a certain amount whenever Congress fails to increase the minimum wage for five full calendar years. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2. Fiscal Summary for *HB0625 / SB1668Increase State Revenues - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Revenues - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB0625 / SB1668 This bill requires employers to pay each employee the greater of: (1) Wages at an hourly rate not less than the federal minimum wage; or (2) Wages at an hourly rate not less than the Tennessee minimum wage, established pursuant to this bill. Under this bill, if the U.S.[...]

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Companion Bill HB0625. Salaries and Benefits - Adopts the federal minimum wage as the minimum wage within this state, but provides for the automatic increase in a certain amount whenever Congress fails to increase the minimum wage for five full calendar years. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2. Fiscal Summary for SB1668 / *HB0625Increase State Revenues - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Revenues - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB1668 / *HB0625 This bill requires employers to pay each employee the greater of: (1) Wages at an hourly rate not less than the federal minimum wage; or (2) Wages at an hourly rate not less than the Tennessee minimum wage, established pursuant to this bill. Under this bill, if the U.S.[...]

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Companion Bill HB4082. Labor - Requires the department of labor and workforce development to promulgate rules establishing and enforcing indoor air quality standards. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 50, Chapter 3 and Title 68. Fiscal Summary for *SB2992 / HB4082Increase State Revenue - $200,000/FY09-10 $400,000/FY10-11 and Thereafter Increase State Expenditures - $2,275,600/One-Time $596,300/FY08-09 $616,300/FY09-10 $636,300/FY10-11 and Thereafter Increase Local Expenditures* - Exceeds $9,500,000/One-Time Bill Summary for *SB2992 / HB4082 This bill requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development, in coordination with the department of environment and conservation, to promulgate rules establishing and enforcing indoor air quality standards. The [...]

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Companion Bill SB3679. Labor - Requires certain political activities by labor organizations be funded separately through voluntary donations of members and not through regularly collected dues. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1. Fiscal Summary for *HB3010 / SB3679 MINIMAL Bill Summary for *HB3010 / SB3679 This bill establishes requirements regarding a labor organization expending money for political activities. Under this bill, a labor organization may only make expenditures for political activities if the organization establishes a segregated fund that meets the requirements of this bill. This bill requires a labor organization to ensure that: (1) In soliciting contributions for the fund, the solicitor discloses that contributions are voluntary and that the fund is a political fund and will be expended for political activities; (2) [...]

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Companion Bill SB2992. Labor - Requires the department of labor and workforce development to promulgate rules establishing and enforcing indoor air quality standards. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 50, Chapter 3 and Title 68. Fiscal Summary for HB4082 / *SB2992Increase State Revenue - $200,000/FY09-10 $400,000/FY10-11 and Thereafter Increase State Expenditures - $2,275,600/One-Time $596,300/FY08-09 $616,300/FY09-10 $636,300/FY10-11 and Thereafter Increase Local Expenditures* - Exceeds $9,500,000/One-Time Bill Summary for HB4082 / *SB2992 This bill requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development, in coordination with the department of environment and conservation, to promulgate rules establishing and enforcing indoor air quality standards. The [...]

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Companion Bill SB3679. Labor - Requires certain political activities by labor organizations be funded separately through voluntary donations of members and not through regularly collected dues. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1. Fiscal Summary for *HB3010 / SB3679 MINIMAL Bill Summary for *HB3010 / SB3679 This bill establishes requirements regarding a labor organization expending money for political activities. Under this bill, a labor organization may only make expenditures for political activities if the organization establishes a segregated fund that meets the requirements of this bill. This bill requires a labor organization to ensure that: (1) In soliciting contributions for the fund, the solicitor discloses that contributions are voluntary and that the fund is a political fund and will be expended for political activities; (2) [...]

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Companion Bill HB3010. Labor - Requires certain political activities by labor organizations be funded separately through voluntary donations of members and not through regularly collected dues. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1. Fiscal Summary for SB3679 / *HB3010 MINIMAL Bill Summary for SB3679 / *HB3010 This bill establishes requirements regarding a labor organization expending money for political activities. Under this bill, a labor organization may only make expenditures for political activities if the organization establishes a segregated fund that meets the requirements of this bill. This bill requires a labor organization to ensure that: (1) In soliciting contributions for the fund, the solicitor discloses that contributions are voluntary and that the fund is a political fund and will be expended for political activities; (2) [...]

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Companion Bill HB4082. Labor - Requires the department of labor and workforce development to promulgate rules establishing and enforcing indoor air quality standards. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 50, Chapter 3 and Title 68. Fiscal Summary for *SB2992 / HB4082Increase State Revenue - $200,000/FY09-10 $400,000/FY10-11 and Thereafter Increase State Expenditures - $2,275,600/One-Time $596,300/FY08-09 $616,300/FY09-10 $636,300/FY10-11 and Thereafter Increase Local Expenditures* - Exceeds $9,500,000/One-Time Bill Summary for *SB2992 / HB4082 This bill requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development, in coordination with the department of environment and conservation, to promulgate rules establishing and enforcing indoor air quality standards. The [...]

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Companion Bill SB0838. Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Requires personal support services agencies to make certain disclosures to clients regarding potential liability as employers of personal support services workers. - Amends TCA Title 33. Fiscal Summary for HB2088 / *SB0838Increase State Expenditures - $209,400 Recurring $5,400 One-Time Bill Summary for HB2088 / *SB0838 This bill requires person support services agencies to: (1) Provide to each service recipient a consumer notice that includes, at a minimum, the following: (A) The duties, responsibilities, obligations and legal liabilities of the personal support services agency to the personal support services workers and to the consumer (including information regarding the consumer's responsibility to perform a criminal background [...]

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Companion Bill HB0684. Criminal Offenses - Creates the criminal offenses of recklessly employing an illegal alien, knowingly employing an illegal alien, and knowingly encouraging or inducing an illegal alien to enter the state for the purpose of employing such illegal alien unless the employer verifies the immigrant status prior to employment by using the federal electronic work authorization verification service. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 50. Fiscal Summary for SB1581 / *HB0684 MINIMAL Bill Summary for SB1581 / *HB0684 This bill imposes criminal penalties at the state level on certain employers who employ illegal aliens. This bill would apply to any entity that employs more than 25 individuals at a workplace in this state. This bill makes it a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by a fine only, to knowingly employ an illegal [...]

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Companion Bill HB0628. Physicians and Surgeons - Specifies which employers may enter non-compete agreements that limit a physician's right to practice; establishes criteria for determining whether non-compete agreement is reasonable. - Amends TCA Section 63-6-204. Fiscal Summary for SB1023 / *HB0628Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB1023 / *HB0628 Present law specifies the restrictions that are permissible upon the practice of licensed physicians; however, notwithstanding these restrictions, licensed physicians or a group of licensed physicians including, but not limited to, a physician's professional corporation or a domestic nonprofit public benefit corporation are not prohibited from employing physicians. This bill expands those groups of licensed physicians that may employ physicians to include [...]

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Companion Bill HB0625. Salaries and Benefits - Adopts the federal minimum wage as the minimum wage within this state, but provides for the automatic increase in a certain amount whenever Congress fails to increase the minimum wage for five full calendar years. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2. Fiscal Summary for SB1668 / *HB0625Increase State Revenues - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Revenues - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB1668 / *HB0625 This bill requires employers to pay each employee the greater of: (1) Wages at an hourly rate not less than the federal minimum wage; or (2) Wages at an hourly rate not less than the Tennessee minimum wage, established pursuant to this bill. Under this bill, if the U.S.[...]

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Companion Bill SB1581. Criminal Offenses - Creates the criminal offenses of recklessly employing an illegal alien, knowingly employing an illegal alien, and knowingly encouraging or inducing an illegal alien to enter the state for the purpose of employing such illegal alien unless the employer verifies the immigrant status prior to employment by using the federal electronic work authorization verification service. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 50. Fiscal Summary for *HB0684 / SB1581 MINIMAL Bill Summary for *HB0684 / SB1581 This bill imposes criminal penalties at the state level on certain employers who employ illegal aliens. This bill would apply to any entity that employs more than 25 individuals at a workplace in this state. This bill makes it a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by a fine only, to knowingly employ an illegal [...]

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Companion Bill HB2088. Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - Requires personal support services agencies to make certain disclosures to clients regarding potential liability as employers of personal support services workers. - Amends TCA Title 33. Fiscal Summary for *SB0838 / HB2088Increase State Expenditures - $209,400 Recurring $5,400 One-Time Bill Summary for *SB0838 / HB2088 This bill requires person support services agencies to: (1) Provide to each service recipient a consumer notice that includes, at a minimum, the following: (A) The duties, responsibilities, obligations and legal liabilities of the personal support services agency to the personal support services workers and to the consumer (including information regarding the consumer's responsibility to perform a criminal background [...]

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