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TN - Representative Dan Howell (R)

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TN - Representative Greg Vital (R)

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TN - Representative Jeff Burkhart (R)

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TN - Representative Ed Butler (R)

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TN - Representative Karen Camper (D)

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TN - Representative Dale Carr (R)

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TN - Representative Mark Cochran (R)

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TN - Representative Tandy Darby (R)

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TN - Representative Elaine Davis (R)

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TN - Representative Ronnie Glynn (D)

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TN - Representative Rusty Grills (R)

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TN - Representative Torrey Harris (D)

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TN - Representative Patsy Hazlewood (R)

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TN - Representative Pat Marsh (R)

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TN - Representative Tim Hicks (R)

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TN - Representative Greg Martin (R)

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TN - Representative Jason Powell (D)

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TN - Representative Dennis Powers (R)

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TN - Representative Tim Rudd (R)

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TN - Representative Lowell Russell (R)

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TN - Representative Paul Sherrell (R)

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TN - Representative Joe Towns, Jr. (D)

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TN - Representative Sam Whitson (R)

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TN - Representative Dave Wright (R)

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TN - HB6 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, under certain conditions, authorizes utility task vehicles and Class I and II off-highway vehicles to be operated on state highways with a posted speed limit of 45 mph or less. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3; Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB42 Traffic Safety - As introduced, creates a four-year pilot program, during which drivers and passengers 21 years of age or older are exempt from the requirement to wear a crash helmet while operating or riding on motorcycles, motor-driven cycles, and motorized bicycles, if the person is covered by health or medical insurance other than insurance through TennCare; during the pilot program, makes a violation of the helmet law a secondary offense. - Amends TCA Section 55-9-302.

TN - HB76 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, eliminates the disabled license plate fee for a parent or guardian of an individual who is permanently and totally confined to a wheelchair and who does not own or operate a vehicle; discontinues the honorary consular cultural plate. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 4, Part 2.

TN - HB78 Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires proof of financial responsibility be maintained for the period of a driver license's suspension or revocation rather than for a period of three years in order for a person's registration to not be suspended or revoked when the commissioner of safety suspends or revokes the person's license by reason of a conviction; makes other revisions related to compliance with proof of financial responsibility requirements. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 12, Part 1 a...

TN - HB87 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises law relative to garagekeeper's or towing firm's liens, unclaimed or abandoned vehicles and notification of owners and lienholders, and motor vehicle storage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 65 and Title 66.

TN - HB88 Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires the department of safety to waive the knowledge test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members and members of the national guard or the armed forces reserves applying for temporary commercial learner's permits; identifies certain alternative requirements, which include operating a commercial motor vehicle in the military in combination with a good driving record. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB92 Traffic Safety - As enacted, enacts the "Jabari Bailey Highway Safety Act," which requires drivers to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary vehicle that has flashing hazard lights activated; increases fines for failing to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary emergency, recovery, highway maintenance, solid waste, utility service, or other vehicle that has flashing lights activated. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB101 Abortion - As introduced, excludes from the offense of criminal abortion an abortion performed to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or to prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman or on a patient whose pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; permits a law enforcement officer to confirm to a physician that the pregnant woman has filed a report of alleged rape or incest. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 63 and...

TN - HB124 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires the registration of personal trailers, including personal trailers used for the transportation of boats or other personal trailers or semitrailers drawn by an automobile or truck. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB137 Special License Plates - As enacted, reorganizes provisions regarding new specialty earmarked license plates; removes outdated provisions, including the obsolete street rod specialty plate; adds new specialty earmarked license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB138 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to designating bridges, highways, and roads. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HB139 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, requires a driver who holds a valid commercial driver license to be present behind the wheel of the lead commercial motor vehicle traveling in a platoon, rather than behind the wheel of each commercial motor vehicle traveling in that platoon. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB140 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes the department of revenue, in cooperation with other governmental agencies or interested nonprofit organizations, to publicize to potential participants the availability, under the Precious Cargo Act of 2021, of a designation within the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database of a need for assistance with expressive language or communicating needs to first responders. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54; T...

TN - HB141 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of transportation to include the anticipated completion dates for projects under construction in the commissioner's quarterly report to the state building commission on the status of road projects. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB142 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, provides that a commercial driver license issued with a hazardous materials endorsement expires on the date the hazardous materials endorsement authorization expires. - Amends TCA Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB156 Taxes - As introduced, allows a request for an extension of time to file a business tax return and pay the tax to be signed by the taxpayer or the taxpayer's representative. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB180 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes, to the extent required by federal law, a vehicle operated by an engine fueled by natural gas or powered primarily by means of electric battery power to exceed vehicle weight limits, up to a maximum gross vehicle weight of 82,000 pounds, under criteria similar to the exception provided for vehicles operated by an engine fueled primarily by natural gas. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 7.

TN - HB245 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes issuance of a license plate in the emergency category to emergency communication dispatchers. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB257 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, clarifies that an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is the parent, legal guardian, or conservator of a person who has an intellectual or developmental disability or medical condition, who may be operating the owner's or lessee's vehicle, and who needs assistance in communicating specific needs to law enforcement and first responders, may apply for a designation of such person's need in the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration ...

TN - HB261 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes the department of revenue to provide information about special license plates with a website renewal, send other notifications about these plates by electronic means, and provide information about these plates through other web-based means. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB291 Advertising - As enacted, deletes the obsolete date on which the commissioner of transportation is required to begin promulgating and enforcing rules necessary to carry out the "Outdoor Advertising Control Act of 2020"; deletes restrictions on the matters to be governed by such rules. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 17 and Title 54, Chapter 21.

TN - HB321 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Transportation Modernization Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Section 12-2-112; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB345 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, permits registration plates to be renewed every 24 months instead of 12 months. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 8, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 55, Chapter 6.

TN - HB353 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, enacts the "Sergeant Chris Jenkins Law." - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

TN - HB356 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, allows county clerks to increase the fees for the service of handling mail orders of plates and decals in an amount not to exceed an applicable United States postal service price increase in a given year. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-105.

TN - HB402 Driver Licenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for driving upon a highway without a valid driver license for the vehicle being driven from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense committed within 10 years of a prior offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

TN - HB410 Traffic Safety - As enacted, authorizes the legislative body of a municipality to establish the fine for speeding within a residential zone within its jurisdictional boundaries at $200. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB445 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, removes the condition that the department of transportation first authorize the installation of surveillance cameras on interstates and state highways before such cameras may be operated by law enforcement agencies; authorizes the operation of surveillance cameras by law enforcement agencies on such highways under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38 and Title 55.

TN - HB465 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, increases from 10 to 20, the amount of days within the action complained of, that an aggrieved party must make a written request for a formal hearing under the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, when the commissioner of revenue issues or refuses to issue a certificate of title, discharges or refuses to discharge a lien, or issues or refuses to issue a replacement certificate of title. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB485 Traffic Safety - As enacted, enacts the "Eddie Conrad Act," which establishes the number of points to be charged to a person's driving record for violations of driving while using a wireless telecommunications device. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-199.

TN - HB490 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires evidence of compliance with the financial responsibility law prior to registering vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB557 Evidence - As enacted, expands the admissibility of a forensic interview to include statements made by a child under 18 years of age rather than under 13 years of age; expands admissible forensic interviews from statements made by a child describing sexual contact performed with or on the child by another to statements describing sexual or physically violent contact performed with or on the child by another or performed by a person with or on another and witnessed by the child; makes other ch...

TN - HB598 Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, establishes the office of rail and public transportation within the department; requires, among other duties and responsibilities, the office to determine present and future needs for, and economic feasibility of providing, public transportation and the retention, improvement, and addition of passenger and freight rail transportation in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54, Chapter 1; Title 64 and Title 65.

TN - HB616 Traffic Safety - As enacted, requires a motor vehicle or trailer transporting a load of logs or pulpwood that protrudes at least four feet beyond the end of the body or bed of the vehicle or trailer to have certain items securely affixed to the end of the projecting load while the vehicle or trailer is loaded with the protruding logs or pulpwood. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 55 and Title 65.

TN - HB621 Traffic Safety - As introduced, increases the maximum speed limit on controlled-access state and interstate highways with four or more lanes to 75 miles per hour, from 70 miles per hour. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB661 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes licensed physical therapists to issue certified statements of disability in same manner as physicians for a person's application for a disabled registration plate, decal, or placard. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21.

TN - HB675 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, increases from 24 months to 36 months the period for which vehicle registrations by businesses that register at least 15,000 vehicles annually and that are engaged in the rental of motor vehicles, trucks, and trailers may be issued; specifies that the fees must be in an amount to offset the revenue that would otherwise be generated by 12-month registration fees. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-104.

TN - HB684 Advertising - As introduced, changes the definition of "visible" in the Outdoor Advertising Control Act of 2020 to "capable of being seen and comprehended without visual aid by a person traveling the posted speed limit on the main traveled way of the highway"; authorizes the commissioner of transportation to issue vegetation control permits to owners of outdoor advertising device permits to remove, block cut, or trim vegetation located on the right-of-way, without regard to whether it is adja...

TN - HB685 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to identify locations of state and local government roads in this state where injuries to bicyclists and pedestrians are elevated in comparison to the statewide average. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB700 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, increases, from one to two, the number of free plates for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.

TN - HB713 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes issuance of a license plate in the emergency category to emergency communication dispatchers. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB735 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes Class I and II off-highway vehicles to be operated on state highways with a posted speed limit of 55 mph or less. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3; Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB755 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, designates the segment of State Route 66 from its intersection with State Route 160 in Hamblen County to its intersection with Interstate 81 at Exit 4 in Jefferson County as a scenic highway. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 17.

TN - HB765 Traffic Safety - As enacted, authorizes three- or four-wheel all-terrain vehicles or three- or four-wheel off-highway vehicles to be operated on certain roads in Fentress County. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB766 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to traffic-control signals. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB769 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, clarifies that excessive or unusual noise or annoying smoke can be used to determine whether a muffler is in good working order and in constant operation as required by law; exempts farm tractors or implements of husbandry from this law; adds a defense to prosecution if certain evidence is provided. - Amends TCA Section 55-9-202.

TN - HB818 School Transportation - As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to cameras on school buses and failing to stop upon approaching a school bus that has stopped on the highway. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB825 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, replaces the term "motor-driven cycle" with "motorscooter" for various purposes related to the operation of such vehicles, including issuance of operator licenses, the rules of the road, and required safety and lighting equipment. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB866 Litter Control - As introduced, expands the rulemaking authority of the commissioner of transportation for purposes of addressing litter prevention and control. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39 and Title 54.

TN - HB929 Driver Licenses - As enacted, exempts a person under 18 years of age who is in custody of the department of children's services or receiving foster care services from payment of fees for issuance, renewal, or reinstatement of a driver license, instruction permit, intermediate driver license, or photo identification card. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49 and Title 55.

TN - HB990 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires the distinctive series of letters and numbers required to be displayed on registration plates to be randomly selected and determined without regard to whether an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle is issued a registration plate that displays the language "In God We Trust." - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1015 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, prohibits persons engaged in the business of towing motor vehicles by wrecker or otherwise, or storing such motor vehicles, for remuneration from charging the owner or lienholder a storage fee for a period exceeding 21 days without the owner or lienholder's consent unless certain exceptions apply. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 23 and Title 66.

TN - HB1092 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, authorizes off-highway vehicles to be operated on roads and highways in Perry County. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-185.

TN - HB1101 Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes a minor who is issued a motorcycle learner's permit and who has completed a certified motorcycle education course approved by the department of safety to operate a motorcycle without limitations on the distance from the minor's home if the minor is accompanied by, and under the direct supervision of, a parent or legal guardian who is also operating a motorcycle and who holds a valid motorcycle operator's license. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50 and T...

TN - HB1107 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the chairs of the government operations committees of each house to review the report submitted to the general assembly by Tennessee State University of the university's progress in improving facilities and infrastructure and to determine if a further review of the university is needed based upon the university's progress of improvement in the report. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB1127 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, removes the limitation that ATVs and off-highway vehicles may be operated on a certain segment of State Route 330 within the Town of Oliver Springs in Anderson County only two weekends per year. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-185.

TN - HB1144 School Transportation - As enacted, clarifies that the registration fee for one school bus owned by a person under contract with a local education agency (LEA) for the provision of transportation services is equal to the fee charged for a school bus owned by an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1167 Education - As introduced, removes the provisions of law regarding denial of a driver license or learner's permit to persons under 18 who are not enrolled in and making satisfactory progress in high school. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-3017 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB1176 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, makes changes relative to the board of commissioners for certain airport authorities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5, Chapter 6 and Title 42.

TN - HB1228 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, allows the annual report of financial expenditures, activities, and proposed plans, which is submitted by the board of directors of the South Central Tennessee Railroad Authority to the department of transportation and to the governing bodies of Dickson, Hickman, Lewis, Perry, and Wayne counties, and the cities of Centerville, Dickson, Hohenwald, Linden, and Waynesboro, to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 6...

TN - HB1278 Driver Licenses - As introduced, lowers the minimum visual acuity requirement for drivers of non-commercial vehicles from 20/40 to 20/50. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB1321 School Transportation - As enacted, allows school bus drivers to use a portable electronic device for navigation of the school bus and for accurately accounting for students at bus pick-up and drop-off locations through use of the device's global positioning system if no hands are used to hold the device or to enter data into the device while the school bus is in motion; the device is mounted on the school bus's windshield, dashboard, or center console area; and the driver views only data rel...

TN - HB1353 Highway Signs - As introduced, deletes an obsolete statutory provision regarding the date and time frame in which the commissioner of transportation was to begin promulgating and enforcing rules to implement the Outdoor Advertising Control Act of 2020. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 17 and Title 54, Chapter 21.

TN - HB1372 Highway Signs - As introduced, renames the portion of the road known as "Rep. John Lewis Way" in Davidson County located between Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Blvd and James Robertson Parkway as "President Donald Trump Boulevard"; requires the alteration of governmental addresses; and removes protections for named streets from the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2016. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-412 and Title 54.

TN - HB1454 Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes two-wheeled motorcycles to be operated between rows of stopped or moving vehicles in the same lane on certain limited access highways and interstate highways when the speed of traffic is 25 miles per hour or less. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB1469 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to proceed to initiate the development of a new bridge crossing the Mississippi River and connecting to Arkansas. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HB1510 Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, clarifies that the department is to report the findings and recommendations, and not just an executive summary, of the special committee to study improvement of transportation services to the transportation and safety committee of the senate and transportation committee of the house of representatives no later than February 15 each year. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 23; Title 7, Chapter 56; Section 29-34-210; Title 54; Title 55; Title 64, Cha...

TN - HB1601 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a comprehensive code of conduct for each school under the authority of the board or governing body that describes the types of acceptable behavior from persons on school grounds. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1607 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the commissioner of transportation to include any change orders in the commissioner's quarterly report submitted to the state building commission regarding the status of road projects. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HB1608 Special License Plates - As introduced, extends, from 30 days to 45 days, the time frame for an applicant who does not meet the requirements for a Tennessee Sheriffs Association or Fraternal Order of Police license plate to surrender the plate to the county clerk. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1612 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires approval by the governing body of each local government in which a proposed user fee facility is located prior to development of the facility; removes authority of the department of transportation to expend funds from the transportation modernization fund to develop a user fee facility. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Section 12-2-112; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB1623 Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes a county or municipality to hire employees or appoint volunteers to divert vehicular traffic or temporarily close a lane to certain vehicular traffic within a marked school zone during the period of time that it is necessary to provide convenience for vehicles dropping off or picking up students from school; requires warning signs be posted in advance of the school zone. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB1648 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes, upon request, the department of revenue to issue lien-free salvage certificates of title to a salvage pool operator under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3, Part 2.

TN - HB1656 Driver Licenses - As introduced, clarifies, for purposes of obtaining a school bus endorsement on a driver license and for other purposes, that a school bus is a vehicle designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB1730 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires all written driver license examinations to be administered in English only; prohibits use of a translation dictionary, electronic device, or interpreter to assist with the examination. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HB1793 School Transportation - As introduced, for the purpose of receiving the commissioner of safety's approval for a conventional or Class D school bus in its eighteenth year of service to be operated for additional years, requires the bus to have less than 300,000 miles, instead of less than 200,000 miles; requires a bus that has been approved to operate beyond its eighteenth year to be discontinued once it reaches 300,000 miles, instead of 200,000 miles. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21.

TN - HB1796 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes licensed chiropractic physicians to issue certified statements of disability in the same manner as physicians for a person's application for a disabled registration plate, decal, or placard. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21.

TN - HB1805 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes proration of the registration fee for freight motor vehicles operated for commercial purposes upon the death of an eligible operator of the freight motor vehicle; requires submission of certain documentation prior to issuance of a refund for the unused portion of the registration fee paid. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1806 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, permits an owner or lessee of a motorcycle to receive a disabled decal to affix to a new specialty earmarked, cultural, or other special purpose plate that is authorized for motorcycles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HJR766 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lauren Smith, Public Charter School Commission

TN - HB1928 School Transportation - As introduced, clarifies, for purposes of obtaining a school bus endorsement on a driver license and for other purposes, that a school bus is a vehicle designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB1944 Traffic Safety - As introduced, makes it a Class B misdemeanor offense for a person to operate a passenger motor vehicle on a street, road, or highway in this state if, by alteration of the suspension, frame, or chassis, the height of the vehicle's front fender is four or more inches greater than the height of the rear fender. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB1990 Disabled Persons - As introduced, replaces references in the Disabled Drivers Law of 1975 to persons "who are permanently and totally confined to a wheelchair" with references to persons "who use a wheelchair because of a permanent incapacity for ambulation". - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 1.

TN - HB2034 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires the department of safety to redesign temporary driver licenses and permits and temporary photo identification licenses issued to qualified noncitizens so that the licenses may be easily distinguished from driver and photo identification licenses issued to residents of this state who are United States citizens; reduces from eight years to two years the maximum period of time for which a temporary license or permit may be issued. - Amends TCA Title 55, ...

TN - HB2062 Traffic Safety - As introduced, creates a street racing task force to study and determine best practices for curbing illegal street racing in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 55.

TN - HB2070 Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, establishes the office of rail and public transportation within the department; requires, among other duties and responsibilities, the office to determine the costs and requirements, including engineering, needed to implement passenger rail service on certain corridors in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54, Chapter 1; Title 64 and Title 65.

TN - HB2095 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products - As introduced, requires that a grant awarded to a marina from the portion of gasoline tax revenues apportioned to the wildlife resources fund for public and environmental infrastructure at marinas be based on the amount of gasoline sold at the marina receiving the grant. - Amends TCA Section 67-3-901.

TN - HB2103 Boats, Boating - As introduced, requires rules of the fish and wildlife commission governing the numbering, safety equipment, and operation of vessels to be published in the newspaper at least 20 days, instead of 15 days, before the rules become effective. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2105 Driver Licenses - As introduced, authorizes the department of safety to issue a driver privilege card or permit that confers the same privileges as a driver license to a person who is not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HB2128 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes issuance of an antique motor vehicle license plate to farm trucks older than 25 years old that are used for certain agricultural or horticultural purposes and not for general transportation. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 1 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2145 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, creates an offense for possessing or distributing a license plate flipper. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB2175 Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to establish and administer a student pedestrian protection grant program; under certain conditions, authorizes grants to be awarded to local governments for designing, constructing, and repairing sidewalk infrastructure around public schools. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB2194 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products - As introduced, reduces the gasoline tax from 26 cents per gallon to 20 cents per gallon. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 3.

TN - HB2204 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires license plates issued for box trucks having a gross weight of 26,000 pounds or less to be attached to the rear of the vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2305 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires official vintage license plates that are issued and registered by the state in lieu of the standard antique motor vehicle registration plate to be displayed on antique motor vehicles when they are being operated on public roads and highways or are stationary; allows holders of standard antique motor vehicle registration plates to display unofficial, unregistered vintage license plates only when the vehicle is stationary; requi...

TN - HB2338 State Employees - As introduced, increases, from three days to three months, the amount of paid leave provided to the officers and employees of the various agencies, boards, and departments of state government in the event of death of such officers' or employees' children or stepchildren. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50.

TN - HB2383 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, authorizes motorcycles to be operated on certain limited access highway and interstate shoulders to proceed to nearest exit when speed of traffic is 25 miles per hour or less. - Amends TCA Title 54; Title 55, Chapter 1 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB2390 Driver Licenses - As introduced, exempts minors from fees for hardship licenses; exempts persons over 18 from fees for issuance and renewal of noncommercial licenses upon submission of documentation showing the person's income falls below the federal poverty level. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB2402 Transportation, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to award money from the state highway fund to local public agencies in exchange for federal aid obligation authority allocated to local public agency road projects, if allowed by federal law and rules. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HB2512 Traffic Safety - As introduced, prohibits a person from parking a vehicle upon a road, street, or highway in a residential district in such a manner or under such conditions as to leave available less than 12 feet of an unobstructed width of the roadway opposite the parked vehicle for the free passage of other vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB2621 Railroads - As introduced, increases from $10 to $25, the minimum fine amount for persons or corporations owning or operating a railroad in this state who violate the requirements to make and furnish good and sufficient crossings on the public highways crossed by them, and to keep such crossings in lawful repair at their own expense. - Amends TCA Title 65.

TN - HB2642 State Government - As introduced, adds a fire engine converted to a for-hire passenger vehicle as a type of entertainment transportation that may be regulated by a governmental entity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB2660 Aircraft and Airports - As introduced, exempts certain motor vehicles from parking fees at airports in this state if the vehicle displays a disabled veteran or military award license plate. - Amends TCA Section 12-10-109 and Title 42.

TN - HB2729 Driver Licenses - As introduced, changes, when considering enhancements for the offense of driving while privilege canceled, suspended, or revoked, the period of time that may be used to consider prior convictions from within 10 years prior to the immediate violation to from within the revocation period set forth in the original judgment. - Amends TCA Section 55-50-504.

TN - HB2742 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, authorizes off-highway vehicles to be operated on certain designated roads and highways in Perry County. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-185.

TN - HB2750 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, removes the condition that the department of transportation first authorize the installation of surveillance cameras on interstates and state highways before such cameras may be operated by law enforcement agencies; authorizes the operation of surveillance cameras by law enforcement agencies on such highways under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38 and Title 55.

TN - HB2763 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, authorizes Class I and II off-highway vehicles to be operated on state highways with a posted speed limit of 55 mph or less. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3; Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB2766 Driver Education - As introduced, requires the department of safety to ensure that any classroom training that is required as a prerequisite to obtaining a Class H or hardship license may be completed online. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HB2792 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires the department of safety to establish and implement a secure digital license system for the issuance of digital driver licenses and photo identification licenses upon request. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

TN - HB2804 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, authorizes the treasurer to, subject to appropriations, use funds from the reserve for revenue fluctuation account to purchase precious metals bullion and specie and place the bullion and specie in a restricted account; authorizes the treasurer to store the physical bullion or specie with an entity designated by the treasurer, with the approval of the comptroller of the treasury; declares that specie may be used as legal tender in this state; requir...

TN - HB2827 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, increases, from one to two, the number of free plates for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.

TN - HB2849 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires registration plates for private passenger motor vehicles issued to drivers with disabilities to be issued containing the national motto language. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 4.