Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee

TN - Representative Rusty Grills (R)

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TN - Representative Tandy Darby (R)

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TN - Representative Monty Fritts (R)

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TN - Representative Bud Hulsey (R)

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TN - Representative Jay Reedy (R)

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TN - Representative Johnny Shaw (D)

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TN - Representative Chris Todd (R)

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TN - Representative Ron Travis (R)

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TN - HJR137 General Assembly, Studies - Requests TACIR to examine the security of the state's water infrastructure.

TN - HB2938 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, establishes a process for the department to issue licenses to commercial breeders of cats and dogs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43 and Title 44.

TN - HJR55 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - Recommends the designation of the Cumberland Trail State Scenic Trail as a state scenic and recreational trail.

TN - HB150 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As enacted, designates certain segments of Chickamauga Creek as Class I natural river areas. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 13.

TN - HB299 Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any livestock carcass, part of any livestock carcass, or meat food product that contains a mRNA vaccine or vaccine material unless the product labeling contains a conspicuous notification of the presence of the mRNA vaccine or vaccine material in the product. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.

TN - HB1049 Consumer Protection - As introduced, removes a requirement that sorghum molasses that is sold or offered for sale in this state be prominently labeled as being either 100 percent pure sorghum molasses or not pure sorghum molasses; removes a cause of action for a person who suffers an injury or death, or an ascertainable loss of money or property, as a result of a violation of the labeling requirement. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 15.

TN - HJR50 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes adding a provision establishing the right to clean air, pure water, and the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic, and esthetic values of the state's environment.

TN - HB523 Water Pollution - As enacted, makes revisions to the Water Quality Control Act. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB393 Food and Food Products - As introduced, extends from 10 days to 14 days the minimum time period that a person may be enjoined from activity done in conjunction with meat or poultry based on a violation of the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 49; Title 53, Chapter 7 and Title 62.

TN - HB81 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, allows the department to disclose motor vehicle accident reports to authorized persons relating to a guest's use of state parks. - Amends TCA Section 11-1-102.

TN - HB2754 Food and Food Products - As introduced, clarifies that a cell-cultured protein offered for sale, sold, or distributed in this state and labeled or advertised as meat, a meat food product, poultry, or a poultry food product is misbranded under the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; specifies that under the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act the definitions of "meat," "meat food product," "poultry," or "poultry food product" do not include a cell-cultured protein. - Amends TCA Title...

TN - HB2584 Water Pollution - As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to refund one half of the appropriate permit fee to a local government that applies for and receives a general or individual permit to replace or otherwise maintain a culvert if the department inspects the culvert and finds that it complies with applicable state and federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB2867 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, changes the name of Lake Halford in Carroll County to Carroll County 1,000 Acre Lake. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-412; Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 8 and Section 70-1-302.

TN - HB2079 Veterinarians - As introduced, establishes a process for a licensed veterinarian to report suspected animal cruelty in violation of certain criminal laws and testify in a judicial or administrative proceeding concerning the care of the animal without being subject to criminal or civil liability. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 44; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2118 Energy - As introduced, reconstitutes the state energy policy council by adding a representative of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a representative of the nuclear energy industry. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - HB586 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HB2475 Courts, Juvenile - As introduced, allows the court to require the parent or guardian of a child adjudicated unruly in whole or in part for habitual and unlawful absence to provide additional information deemed necessary by the court for imposition of a disposition that adequately addresses the child's circumstances, educational barriers, and root causes of truancy. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.

TN - HB2869 Public Health - As introduced, reduces minimum age requirement for membership on the medical cannabis commission from 30 years of age to 25 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 43; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 7.

TN - SJR857 Naming and Designating - Designates June 17-23, 2024, as "Mustang Heritage Foundation Week."

TN - HB2801 Livestock - As introduced, exempts livestock and poultry producers who do not vaccinate their animals from orders of the commissioner of agriculture or state veterinarian that require vaccines for animals. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44 and Title 53.

TN - HB2768 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to compile and publish data on the department's website data regarding the geographic location, duration, and severity of floods and landslides in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 58; Title 64, Chapter 3; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB2343 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to create and maintain an informational tool on the department's website that provides data related to the presence of facilities that are required to submit toxic release inventory data to the environmental protection agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 59; Title 60; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB2496 Energy - As introduced, requires the grantee under a solar power facility agreement to file a copy of the agreement with the office of energy programs in the department of environment and conservation; directs the office of energy programs to expand and maintain its existing website with additional guidance and resources regarding solar energy for various persons. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Section 7-53-316 and Title 66, Chapter 9, Part 2.

TN - HB993 Mining and Quarrying - As enacted, makes changes to the Primacy and Reclamation Act of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 59; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Chapter 548 of the Public Acts of 2021.

TN - HB599 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to collect and publish data concerning landslides and floods; requires the department to establish a network of weather stations across the state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 58; Title 64, Chapter 3; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB1054 Water Pollution - As introduced, prohibits the department of environment and conservation from applying criteria that will result in the classification of real property as a wetland, or otherwise regulating real property as a wetland, unless the property is classified as a wetland under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4; Title 66 and Title 69.

TN - HJR59 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Supports restoration of the name "Kuwohi" to the mountain presently known as Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

TN - HB980 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, permits municipalities that operate a residential solid waste collection service to create a solid waste authority. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB1057 Water Pollution - As enacted, requires the department of environment and conservation to exempt from compensatory mitigation an amount of wetland equal in size to the area for which mitigation would not be required if the permit applicant qualified for coverage under a general permit, if the only factor that disqualifies an applicant for an aquatic resource alteration permit for wetland impacts from having the activities for which a permit is sought covered under a general permit is the size ...

TN - HB683 Boats, Boating - As introduced, requires that vessels used on Tennessee waterways and owned by nonresidents be registered with a certificate of identification number; requires that the proceeds from the registration fees be used for the enforcement of boating regulations and for ensuring that Tennessee waterways are clean. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9.

TN - HB1011 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, authorizes the department to submit its annual report to the governor and general assembly on the state's solid waste management system in electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

TN - HB1056 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, adds to the bill of rights for permit applicants under the Water Quality Control Act that permit applicants have the right to have their construction stormwater permit applications considered based on the activities described in the permit application and conditions that exist at the time the permit application is under consideration, rather than possible future conditions unrelated to the activities for which the permit is sought as i...

TN - HB550 Recycling - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Waste Reduction and Recycling Act"; requires sellers, distributors, and importers of certain packaging materials to take certain actions to reduce the amount of packaging material that becomes litter. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB32 Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material unless the food labeling contains a conspicuous notification of the presence of the vaccine or vaccine material in the food. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.

TN - HB53 Fairs - As enacted, substitutes a representative of the Tennessee Association of Fairs for the Association's executive director as a member of the state fair and exposition commission. - Amends TCA Section 4-57-104.

TN - HB1689 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, expands the permitted uses for money received by a county for each tire sold in the county to include removal of illegally disposed waste tires from public or private property; authorizes the department of environment and conservation to provide funds to a local government for the investigation and clean-up of unpermitted waste tire disposal sites; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1610 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB1618 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, authorizes a person to hunt on or over privately owned land where bait is present; specifies that written consent and compliance with other requirements to catch or kill a wild animal on the land of another still apply. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - HB1603 Water Authorities - As introduced, expands the West Tennessee River basin authority to include Perry, Stewart, Houston, and Humphreys counties. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 11.

TN - HB1666 Water Authorities - As introduced, expands the areas served by the West Tennessee River Basin Authority to include Perry, Stewart, Houston, and Humphreys counties. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 11.

TN - HB1665 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, requires that veterans and active military personnel be issued no-cost hunting permits and licenses that are required to participate in the waterfowl seasons during which only veterans and active military personnel may hunt. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - HB1674 Forests and Forest Products - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of agriculture and the state forester to promulgate rules for purposes of managing state forests; authorizes the commissioner and state forester to request assistance from law enforcement agencies for enforcement of provisions related to state forests; creates the Tennessee State Forest Resources Fund; makes additional changes related to the management of state forests. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 4, Part 3 and Sectio...

TN - HB1696 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, reduces, from 15 acres to 12 acres, the minimum size requirements for property to qualify as agricultural land under the greenbelt law. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 10.

TN - HB1734 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, adjusts the minimum size requirements for one of two noncontiguous tracts of property to qualify as agricultural land under the greenbelt law, from a size of at least 10 acres to less than 15 acres. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 10.

TN - HB1646 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, reduces, from 15 acres to 12 acres, the minimum size requirements for property to qualify as agricultural land under the greenbelt law. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 10.

TN - HJR787 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes adding a provision establishing the right to a clean and healthful environment.

TN - HB2149 Water - As introduced, clarifies that an ephemeral wet weather conveyance is not a stream under the Water Quality Control Act; defines "isolated wetlands" and clarifies that isolated wetlands are not waters under the act; prohibits requiring a permit or other authorization under the act for impacts to isolated wetlands; makes other related changes to the act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4; Title 66; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB2063 Environmental Preservation - As introduced, decreases, from 180 days to 150 days, the time that the air pollution control board can have more than one vacancy after an appointing authority of the board receives sufficient information to fill the appropriate vacancy before the board is required to report to the government operations committees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 39; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 55; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65; Tit...

TN - HB2858 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to make the annual progress reports submitted by counties available on the department's website in a publicly accessible location. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 67 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB2877 Animal Control - As introduced, increases from $25 to $40, the deposit amount that an agency cannot accept less than from a new owner adopting a cat or dog that has not been spayed or neutered, and to ensure that the spaying or neutering occurs, the agency permits the owner to receive a refund of the deposit upon providing confirmation of the spaying or neutering. - Amends TCA Title 44 and Title 63.

TN - HB1384 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, deletes the criminal offense of aggravated prostitution and permits a person to have a prior conviction for aggravated prostitution that was the result of the person's status as a human trafficking victim expunged if the person meets certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB922 Agriculture - As enacted, requires an amendment to the articles of incorporation of an agricultural or horticultural marketing cooperative association to change the name of the association or its principal place of business to be adopted if the appropriate notice of the meeting of the board of directors was given; changes the requirements for notice for a meeting held after failure to gain a quorum to vote on a proposed amendment; makes additional changes related to voting on amendments to an...

TN - HB375 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, requires the Tennessee Duck River development agency to set a per thousand-gallon fee to charge participating entities for water withdrawals; makes other changes to the operation of the agency. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - HB1132 Veterinarians - As introduced, makes certain changes concerning establishment of a veterinarian-client-patient relationship; authorizes continuation of such relationship for up to 24 months, rather than 12 months, in case of livestock. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB80 Water Pollution - As enacted, specifies that underground injection activities authorized by rule are not subject to the general five-year term limit for discharge permits under the Water Quality Control Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Section 69-3-108.

TN - HB517 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to supervise the operation and maintenance of solid waste processing and disposal facilities in this state; authorizes a solid waste board to adopt and enforce rules governing the operation and maintenance of a solid waste processing or disposal facility; specifies certain penalties for a violation of the Solid Waste Management Act of 1991; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter ...

TN - HB447 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As enacted, designates a segment of the Duck River in Maury County as a Class II scenic river; requires permitting of certain water resource projects in Class II scenic river areas, subject to rules promulgated by the commissioner of environment and conservation. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 13; Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 6 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

TN - HB18 Water Pollution - As introduced, prohibits the department of environment and conservation from applying criteria that will result in the classification of real property as a wetland where the property is classified as prior converted cropland that is exempt from classification as a wetland under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4 and Title 69.

TN - HB1055 Water Pollution - As introduced, specifies that a discharge permit is not required under the Water Quality Control Act for excavations supporting agricultural activity or timber harvesting. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69.

TN - HB842 Livestock - As introduced, specifies that meat may be labeled as being free of mRNA vaccine if the animals from which the meat was derived were not administered an mRNA vaccine; removes authorization for the commissioner of agriculture and the state veterinarian to order vaccination of livestock; specifies that there is no state legal requirement to vaccinate livestock. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.

TN - HB111 Solid Waste Disposal - As enacted, requires the solid waste disposal fee imposed by Wayne County, or a municipality or solid waste authority in Wayne County, to be subject to the same penalty and interest as delinquent property taxes if not paid within 30 days after notice of such fee is mailed. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211, Part 8.

TN - HB833 Sewage - As introduced, requires an affidavit of affixation for a manufactured home affixed to a parcel of real property to contain a statement that the manufactured home is permanently connected to a functioning septic system, not just a septic system. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 47; Title 55; Title 66; Title 68 and Title 69, Chapter 3.

TN - HJR17 Memorials, Government Officials - Urges the U.S. Department of the Interior to fund the Great Smoky Mountains National Park based on the number of visitors in addition to current funding.

TN - HB86 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, requires the Duck River Agency to set a per thousand-gallon fee to charge participating entities for water withdrawals; makes other changes to the operation of the Agency. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - HB394 Food and Food Products - As enacted, makes various changes to the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act and establishes a state meat inspection program. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 29; Title 39; Title 43; Title 44; Title 53 and Title 68.

TN - HB2708 Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any livestock carcass, part of any livestock carcass, or meat food product that was derived or prepared from livestock that received an mRNA vaccine or vaccine material unless the product labeling contains a conspicuous notification, in a type size of not less than 10 point font, that the product was derived or prepared from livestock that received an mRNA vaccine or vaccine ...

TN - HB2878 Air Pollution - As introduced, specifies that for purposes of air quality control, all equipment used in the process of producing nonmetallic materials contained within an aggregate processing facility or asphalt plant, including crushers, screens, conveyors, and feeders, is considered one air contaminant source. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB2299 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, creates exception to the state regulation of biosolids by authorizing the legislative body of Polk County to regulate such activities. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 68, Chapter 211; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69.

TN - HB2860 Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the importation, sale, and distribution of cell-cultured food products in this state. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 44; Title 47 and Title 53.

TN - HB2620 Water Pollution - As introduced, removes requirement that installers of subsurface sewage disposal systems pay a renewal fee as a condition to renewing a septic system installer license. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221.

TN - HB1894 Food and Food Products - As introduced, defines food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material as a drug for purposes of the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.

TN - HB1946 Recreational Areas - As introduced, authorizes available funds in the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund to be paid to the Tennessee Valley Authority for additional releases of water on the Ocoee River. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 65, Chapter 15 and Title 70, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1888 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, expands the definition of "park operations" to include certain park facilities used in connection with fee-based recreational activities or intended to be revenue-generating; clarifies that the definition includes other boat rental facilities in addition to marinas. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB2038 Energy - As introduced, directs the department of economic and community development to develop a program for the installation and operation of combustion turbine power plants to increase the state's electric generation capacity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 12; Title 60; Title 64; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB1890 Agriculture - As introduced, establishes a program to allow the department of agriculture to acquire and administer real estate interests in the state, including the administration of grants for the purpose of preserving farm and forestry land; creates the Farmland Preservation Fund to be used for the program; specifies provisions that must be included in an agricultural easement acquired through the program. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB1902 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires the payment of greenbelt rollback taxes in full at closing when greenbelt property is sold. - Amends TCA Title 66; Section 67-4-409 and Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 10.

TN - HB1945 Livestock - As introduced, requires the department of agriculture to publish on its website a list of all vaccines that are approved for use in livestock or poultry in this state, to be divided into separate lists for genetically engineered vaccines and vaccines that are not genetically engineered. - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 44.

TN - HB1963 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to collect and publish on its website in map format data concerning landslides and floods. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 58; Title 64, Chapter 3; Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB1451 Litter Control - As introduced, upon receiving a citizen complaint that a person has violated the Litter Control Law, requires the special unit of the Tennessee highway patrol charged with enforcing such law to notify the alleged offender of the Litter Control Law and penalties for violations thereof by certified mail, return receipt requested, rather than by letter. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 39; Title 54; Title 57; Title 62; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

TN - HB1255 Environmental Preservation - As introduced, changes from March 31 to February 1, the date by which each region must submit its annual report to the commissioner of environment and conservation for the immediately preceding calendar year that includes data on collection, recycling, transportation, disposal, public costs, and other information deemed relevant to solid waste planning and management. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 69.

TN - HB1389 Metropolitan Government - As introduced, deletes the limitation that a report regarding a nonprofit organization's desire for financial assistance from a county with a metropolitan form of government filed with the clerks is only open for public inspection during regular business hours of the clerk's office. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67.

TN - HB2842 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, prohibits the department from regulating or otherwise overseeing farming activities involving topsoil, rock removal, or the building of a pond when such activities are conducted in an area that is less than five acres in size, and the property on which the activities occur has a greenbelt classification pursuant to the Agricultural, Forest and Open Space Land Act of 1976. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 11; T...