Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

Present law authorizes the Tennessee human rights commission to receive, initiate, investigate, seek to conciliate, hold hearings on, and pass upon complaints alleging discriminatory practices in the employment context.<br /> <br /> This bill makes it a discriminatory practice for an employer to harass an employee, an applicant, or a person providing services pursuant to a contract based on the employee's, applicant's, or person's sex. Harassment of an employee, an applicant, or a person providing services pursuant to a contract by an employee, other than an agent or supervisor, will be deemed harassment because of a person's sex by the employer only if the employer, or its agents or supervisors, knew or should have known of this conduct and failed to take immediate and appropriate corrective action.<br /> <br />