| Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Am. withdrawn.(Amendment 3 - HA1320)
Bill TextCompanion Bill SB4069. Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - Requires commissioner, upon receiving a complaint regarding employment of illegal aliens, to inform the person against whom the complaint is made that such person may request the name of the person filing the complaint or, if the complaint is filed by an agency or entity, the name of the person who caused the complaint to be filed; requires commissioner to provide name if it is requested. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for *HB3929 / SB4069 Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB3929 / SB4069 ON MARCH 17, 2008, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND RESET SENATE BILL 4069, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 clarifies that the information rendered confidential by this bill may be discovered by a subpoena from a court of record. [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 04/29/2008 - Signed by Governor.
Bill TextCompanion Bill HB3929. Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - Requires commissioner, upon receiving a complaint regarding employment of illegal aliens, to inform the person against whom the complaint is made that such person may request the name of the person filing the complaint or, if the complaint is filed by an agency or entity, the name of the person who caused the complaint to be filed; requires commissioner to provide name if it is requested. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for SB4069 / *HB3929 Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB4069 / *HB3929 ON MARCH 17, 2008, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND RESET SENATE BILL 4069, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 clarifies that the information rendered confidential by this bill may be discovered by a subpoena from a court of record. [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 03/27/2008 - Companion Senate Bill Substituted
Bill TextCompanion Bill SB3547. Safety - Expands and renames the "elevator safety board" within the department of labor and workforce development as the "elevator and amusement device safety board"; requires the board to inspect and regulate amusement devices. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 38, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 121, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for *HB3124 / SB3547 Increase State Revenue - $42,100/FY08-09 $44,200/FY09-10 and Thereafter Increase State Expenditures - $20,000/One-Time $22,100/FY08-09 $44,200/FY09-10 and Thereafter Local Revenue - Net Decrease - $8,800 Local Expenditures - Net Impact - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB3124 / SB3547 This bill revises many of the present law provisions governing amusement rides and establishes several new requirements, including the following: [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Signed by Governor.
Bill TextCompanion Bill HB3124. Safety - Expands and renames the "elevator safety board" within the department of labor and workforce development as the "elevator and amusement device safety board"; requires the board to inspect and regulate amusement devices. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 38, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 121, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for SB3547 / *HB3124 Increase State Revenue - $42,100/FY08-09 $44,200/FY09-10 and Thereafter Increase State Expenditures - $20,000/One-Time $22,100/FY08-09 $44,200/FY09-10 and Thereafter Local Revenue - Net Decrease - $8,800 Local Expenditures - Net Impact - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB3547 / *HB3124 This bill revises many of the present law provisions governing amusement rides and establishes several new requirements, including the following: [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 04/22/2008 - Public Chapter 707
Bill TextSunset Laws - Institute for labor-management studies, June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 32, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for HB3241 / *SB2437 MINIMAL | | Latest Action: 01/23/2008 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate C,L&A Comm.
Bill TextSafety - Exempts air compressors under 150 pounds from regulation by the department of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 122. Fiscal Summary for SB3009 / *HB2542 Decrease State Revenue - $954,000 Decrease State Expenditures - $490,000 | | Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - Recommended For Passage Referred to: Senate Finance, Ways and Means Comm.
Bill TextLabor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - Creates nine investigator positions, three in each grand division, to investigate employers allegedly hiring illegal aliens. - Amends TCA Section 50-1-103. Fiscal Summary for SB2599 / *HB2527Increase State Expenditures - $27,000/One-Time $463,000/Recurring | | Latest Action: 03/13/2008 - Withdrawn.
Bill TextSafety - Exempts air compressors under 150 pounds from regulation by the department of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 122. Fiscal Summary for *HB2542 / SB3009 Decrease State Revenue - $954,000 Decrease State Expenditures - $490,000 | | Latest Action: 02/27/2008 - Placed Behind the Budget
Bill TextLabor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - Creates nine investigator positions, three in each grand division, to investigate employers allegedly hiring illegal aliens. - Amends TCA Section 50-1-103. Fiscal Summary for *HB2527 / SB2599Increase State Expenditures - $27,000/One-Time $463,000/Recurring | | Latest Action: 04/22/2008 - Companion became Public Chapter 707
Bill TextSunset Laws - Institute for labor-management studies, June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 32, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for *SB2437 / HB3241 MINIMAL | | Latest Action: 06/04/2007 - Received from Senate, held on House desk.
Bill TextCompanion Bill HB1983. Immigrants - Provides for enforcement of the statute prohibiting the hiring of illegal immigrants in this state by local law enforcement agencies as well as by the department of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Section 50-1-103. Fiscal Summary for SB2318 / *HB1983MINIMAL Bill Summary for SB2318 / *HB1983 Under present law, it is a Class B misdemeanor for any person, unless granted an exemption by the United States department of labor pursuant to its rulemaking authority, to knowingly employ or refer for employment any individual who has illegally entered the United States. In addition to the criminal penalty, the license of any person violating this provision will be revoked and such person will be barred from doing business in this state. Present law states that the department of labor and workforce [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 05/15/2007 - Companion became Public Chapter 102
Bill TextLabor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - Authorizes use of delivery service with receipt or hand delivery, as an alternative to certified mail, when the commissioner issues a citation for violation of occupational safety and health provisions. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 3. Fiscal Summary for SB2184 / *HB2241Increase State Revenues - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant | | Latest Action: 05/15/2007 - Companion became Public Chapter 104
Bill TextCompanion Bill HB2266. Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - Requires the department to exercise enforcement over moving walks in the same manner and to the same extent as provided in law for elevators, dumbwaiters, and escalators. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 121, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for SB2215 / *HB2266MINIMAL Bill Summary for SB2215 / *HB2266 Present law requires the elevator safety board to regulate elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators, and aerial passenger tramways. This bill adds to the elevator safety board's duties by requiring the board to regulate moving walks. A moving walk is a moving runway to transport passengers, where the passenger transporting surface remains parallel to its direction of motion and is uninterrupted. | | Latest Action: 06/07/2007 - Held on desk.
Bill TextCompanion Bill SB2318. Immigrants - Provides for enforcement of the statute prohibiting the hiring of illegal immigrants in this state by local law enforcement agencies as well as by the department of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Section 50-1-103. Fiscal Summary for *HB1983 / SB2318MINIMAL Bill Summary for *HB1983 / SB2318 Under present law, it is a Class B misdemeanor for any person, unless granted an exemption by the United States department of labor pursuant to its rulemaking authority, to knowingly employ or refer for employment any individual who has illegally entered the United States. In addition to the criminal penalty, the license of any person violating this provision will be revoked and such person will be barred from doing business in this state. Present law states that the department of labor and workforce [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 05/15/2007 - Public Chapter 102
Bill TextLabor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - Authorizes use of delivery service with receipt or hand delivery, as an alternative to certified mail, when the commissioner issues a citation for violation of occupational safety and health provisions. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 3. Fiscal Summary for *HB2241 / SB2184Increase State Revenues - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant | | Latest Action: 05/15/2007 - Public Chapter 104
Bill TextCompanion Bill SB2215. Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - Requires the department to exercise enforcement over moving walks in the same manner and to the same extent as provided in law for elevators, dumbwaiters, and escalators. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 121, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for *HB2266 / SB2215MINIMAL Bill Summary for *HB2266 / SB2215 Present law requires the elevator safety board to regulate elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators, and aerial passenger tramways. This bill adds to the elevator safety board's duties by requiring the board to regulate moving walks. A moving walk is a moving runway to transport passengers, where the passenger transporting surface remains parallel to its direction of motion and is uninterrupted. | | Latest Action: 06/19/2007 - Companion became Public Chapter 378
Bill TextCompanion Bill SB0322. Workers' Compensation - Authorizes commissioner of labor and workforce development to issue order assigning temporary responsibility for paying benefits and loss adjustment expenses among insurance carriers when there is dispute as to which carrier should pay benefits. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 56. Fiscal Summary for HB1818 / *SB0322MINIMAL Bill Summary for HB1818 / *SB0322 This bill requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development, or the commissioner's designee, to order appropriate workers' compensation benefits to be paid on an equal basis by the insurance carrier and the self-insured employer in any case where: (1) An employer changes insurance carriers, becomes insured after having been self-insured, or having been insured, becomes approved to be self-insured; (2) The compensability [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 06/06/2007 - Action Deferred in Subcommittee Budget of Finance, Ways and Means to 6/7/2007
Bill TextEducation - Specifies the duties of the division of adult education in the department of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 14 and Title 49. Fiscal Summary for HB1737 / *SB1329Increase State Expenditures - $3,500,000 Recurring $1,500,000 One-Time | | Latest Action: 04/01/2008 - Taken Off Notice For Calendar in Subcommittee Public Health and Family Assistance of HHouse Resolution of Health & Human Resources Committee
Bill TextCompanion Bill SB1785. Food and Food Products - Makes certain revisions to the existing requirement that certain employees obtain a health certificate prior to working in contact with food and requires the department of health to promulgate rules with respect to such health certificate. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 53, Chapter 8 and Title 68. Fiscal Summary for HB1444 / *SB1785Increase State Expenditures - $7,077,600 Recurring $244,000 One-Time Increase State Revenues - $7,500 Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - $3,520,500 Increase Local Govt. Revenues - $3,520,500 Bill Summary for HB1444 / *SB1785 This bill makes various changes to present law regarding food handlers. Present law prohibits any employer from requiring or permitting any person to work, and any person from working in a building, room, basement,[...] show full description | | Latest Action: 06/11/2007 - Assigned to Gen. Sub of: Senate Finance, Ways and Means Comm.
Bill TextEducation - Specifies the duties of the division of adult education in the department of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 14 and Title 49. Fiscal Summary for *SB1329 / HB1737Increase State Expenditures - $3,500,000 Recurring $1,500,000 One-Time | | Latest Action: 02/14/2007 - Passed second consideration, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
Bill TextCompanion Bill SB1327. Employees, Employers - Makes certain revisions to the existing requirement that certain employees obtain a health certificate prior to working in contact with food; requires general and home improvement contractors to submit proof of workers' compensation and general liability insurance upon licensure or renewal. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 53, Chapter 8; Title 62, Chapter 37 and Title 62, Chapter 6. Fiscal Summary for *HB1049 / SB1327 Increase State Expenditures - $7,080,100 Recurring $244,000 One-Time Increase State Revenues - $7,500 Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - $3,520,500 Increase Local Govt. Revenues - $3,520,500 Bill Summary for *HB1049 / SB1327 This bill makes various changes to present law regarding food handlers, contractors, and home improvement contractors. FOOD HANDLERS [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate C,L&A Comm.
Bill TextCompanion Bill HB0065. Sex Discrimination - Enacts "Pay Equity in the Workplace Act of 2007." - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2, Part 2. Fiscal Summary for SB0949 / *HB0065Increase State Revenues - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - $122,700 Recurring $42,000 One-Time Increase Local Govt. Revenues - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB0949 / *HB0065 This bill revises various present law provisions regarding wage discrimination. Under present law, wage differentials between employees of the opposite sex are permissible only if such differentials are based on a system of seniority, merit, quality or quantity of production, or any "other reasonable differential" that is based on a factor other than sex. This bill restricts the "other reasonable differentials" [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 04/03/2007 - Assigned to Gen. Sub of: Senate C,L&A Comm.
Bill TextCompanion Bill HB1049. Employees, Employers - Makes certain revisions to the existing requirement that certain employees obtain a health certificate prior to working in contact with food; requires general and home improvement contractors to submit proof of workers' compensation and general liability insurance upon licensure or renewal. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 53, Chapter 8; Title 62, Chapter 37 and Title 62, Chapter 6. Fiscal Summary for SB1327 / *HB1049 Increase State Expenditures - $7,080,100 Recurring $244,000 One-Time Increase State Revenues - $7,500 Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - $3,520,500 Increase Local Govt. Revenues - $3,520,500 Bill Summary for SB1327 / *HB1049 This bill makes various changes to present law regarding food handlers, contractors, and home improvement contractors. FOOD HANDLERS [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 03/07/2007 - Assigned to Gen. Sub of Senate C,L&A Comm.
Bill TextCompanion Bill HB1444. Food and Food Products - Makes certain revisions to the existing requirement that certain employees obtain a health certificate prior to working in contact with food and requires the department of health to promulgate rules with respect to such health certificate. - Amends TCA Title 50; Title 53, Chapter 8 and Title 68. Fiscal Summary for *SB1785 / HB1444Increase State Expenditures - $7,077,600 Recurring $244,000 One-Time Increase State Revenues - $7,500 Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - $3,520,500 Increase Local Govt. Revenues - $3,520,500 Bill Summary for *SB1785 / HB1444 This bill makes various changes to present law regarding food handlers. Present law prohibits any employer from requiring or permitting any person to work, and any person from working in a building, room, basement,[...] show full description | | Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate Jud Comm.
Bill TextCompanion 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 [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 03/18/2008 - Taken Off Notice For Calendar in Subcommittee Employee Affairs of Consumer and Employee Affairs of Consumer & Employees Affairs Committee
Bill TextCompanion 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 [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 04/24/2007 - Assigned to Gen. Sub of: Senate C,L&A Comm.
Bill TextCompanion Bill HB0074. Employees, Employers - Requires employers to examine documents listed on department of homeland security Form 1-9 at the time a person is hired and to retain the documents for a period of time; permits the commissioner of labor and workforce development to assess a civil penalty for noncompliance; creates a Class E felony to hire an illegal alien. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 50. Fiscal Summary for SB0254 / *HB0074MINIMAL Bill Summary for SB0254 / *HB0074 Under present law, it is a Class B misdemeanor for any person to knowingly and willfully hire an illegal alien or refer an illegal alien for employment and, if applicable, the offender's business license must be revoked and the offender is forever barred from doing business in Tennessee. The present law prohibition against hiring illegal aliens is enforced by the department [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 06/19/2007 - Public Chapter 378
Bill TextCompanion Bill HB1818. Workers' Compensation - Authorizes commissioner of labor and workforce development to issue order assigning temporary responsibility for paying benefits and loss adjustment expenses among insurance carriers when there is dispute as to which carrier should pay benefits. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 56. Fiscal Summary for *SB0322 / HB1818MINIMAL Bill Summary for *SB0322 / HB1818 This bill requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development, or the commissioner's designee, to order appropriate workers' compensation benefits to be paid on an equal basis by the insurance carrier and the self-insured employer in any case where: (1) An employer changes insurance carriers, becomes insured after having been self-insured, or having been insured, becomes approved to be self-insured; (2) The compensability [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 03/18/2008 - Taken Off Notice For Calendar in Subcommittee Employee Affairs of Consumer and Employee Affairs of Consumer & Employees Affairs Committee
Bill TextCompanion Bill SB0254. Employees, Employers - Requires employers to examine documents listed on department of homeland security Form 1-9 at the time a person is hired and to retain the documents for a period of time; permits the commissioner of labor and workforce development to assess a civil penalty for noncompliance; creates a Class E felony to hire an illegal alien. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 50. Fiscal Summary for *HB0074 / SB0254MINIMAL Bill Summary for *HB0074 / SB0254 Under present law, it is a Class B misdemeanor for any person to knowingly and willfully hire an illegal alien or refer an illegal alien for employment and, if applicable, the offender's business license must be revoked and the offender is forever barred from doing business in Tennessee. The present law prohibition against hiring illegal aliens is enforced by the department [...] show full description | | Latest Action: 01/23/2008 - Placed Behind the Budget
Bill TextCompanion Bill SB0949. Sex Discrimination - Enacts "Pay Equity in the Workplace Act of 2007." - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2, Part 2. Fiscal Summary for *HB0065 / SB0949Increase State Revenues - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - $122,700 Recurring $42,000 One-Time Increase Local Govt. Revenues - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB0065 / SB0949 This bill revises various present law provisions regarding wage discrimination. Under present law, wage differentials between employees of the opposite sex are permissible only if such differentials are based on a system of seniority, merit, quality or quantity of production, or any "other reasonable differential" that is based on a factor other than sex. This bill restricts the "other reasonable differentials" [...] show full description |
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