Tennessee Rep. Andrew Farmer (R)

TN - HJR503 Memorials, Recognition - Tyler Morgan

TN - HB1294 Gambling - As introduced, establishes the Tennessee horse racing commission to regulate horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 44; Title 62 and Title 67.

TN - HB1292 Correctional Programs - As enacted, removes administrative attachment of the Tennessee corrections institute to the department of commerce and insurance; replaces the commissioner of commerce and insurance as the appointing authority for the executive director of the board of control of the institute, making the board of control the new appointing authority. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 41, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1411 Attorneys at Law - As introduced, establishes requirements for providers operating websites offering consumer access to interactive software that generates legal documents based on consumer answers. - Amends TCA Title 23.

TN - HB1290 Real Property - As introduced, requires the department of environment and conservation to make available on its website for public viewing a sample solar easement instrument prepared by the department's office of energy programs. - Amends TCA Title 45; Title 47 and Title 66.

TN - HJR177 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Leslie Mattern, Sevier County Grades 9-12 Teacher of the Year

TN - HJR94 Memorials, Recognition - John Humphrey, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HB1296 Business Organizations - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Uniform Protected Series Act." - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 67.

TN - HR14 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Court Reporting and Captioning Week, February 9-16, 2019

TN - HJR386 Memorials, Recognition - Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic, Inc., 20th anniversary

TN - HJR395 Memorials, Recognition - Linda N. Ogle

TN - HJR137 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lauren Elizabeth Eccles, Phi Theta Kappa All-Tennessee Academic Team

TN - HB1412 Attorneys at Law - As introduced, extends from 180 days to 210 days the amount of time a newly elected or appointed judge or chancellor can practice law only in an effort to wind up the judge's or chancellor's practice after assuming office. - Amends TCA Title 23; Title 29 and Title 39.

TN - HJR87 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Frank Cagle, Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - HB1295 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires the domestic violence coordinating council, in coordination with the administrative office of the courts, to revise the affidavit of firearms dispossession form to require only a signature from a defendant convicted of domestic violence. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-111.

TN - HJR222 Memorials, Recognition - Helen Ross McNabb Center, 70th anniversary

TN - HJR179 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Larry Leming, Sevier County Grades PreK-4 Teacher of the Year

TN - HB1288 Public Defenders - As introduced, changes employee title from assistant executive director to deputy executive director; allows attorneys in the office of executive director a reasonable length of time to conclude or transfer private legal matters pending at the time of employment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 9, Chapter 4.

TN - HJR400 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Lani O'Connor, Jefferson County Schools' Teacher of the Year, Grades 9-12

TN - HJR401 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Heidi Williams Booker, Jefferson County Schools' Teacher of the Year, Grades 5-8

TN - HJR402 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Cristina M. Hasha, Jefferson County Schools' Teacher of the Year, Grades Pre-K-4

TN - HB1286 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, expands the definition of action, for purposes of determining a cause of action, to include the filing of a lawsuit or demand for arbitration. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1082 Driver Licenses - As introduced, under certain circumstances, waives waiting period to reschedule skills examination for applicants for school bus endorsement; revises other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB1289 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, decreases the time period a manufacturer may have license revoked from not less than one year to not greater than one year for violating the Tennessee Whiskey labeling and advertising requirements. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HJR365 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Caitlin Tallon, Governor's School for the Arts

TN - HB1291 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, decreases from 90 to 80 percent the amount of revenue an art gallery must receive from the sale of artwork in order to serve wine to patrons without charge and without paying a fee; clarifies any premise authorized to sell or serve wine only may also sell or serve high alcohol content beer. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1285 Real Estate Agents and Brokers - As introduced, removes the requirement that the executive director of the real estate commission have passed the real estate broker's examination. - Amends TCA Title 62.

TN - HJR178 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Taylor Valentine, Sevier County Grades 5-8 Teacher of the Year

TN - HB1287 Financial Responsibility Law - As introduced, beginning January 1, 2019, increases the minimum single policy limit, cash deposit, and bond amount required for proof of insurance under the Tennessee Financial Responsibility Law of 1977; authorizes a party in certain civil actions to obtain discovery of the contents of an automobile insurance agreement; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 5; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1400 District Attorneys - As introduced, creates 11 additional assistant district attorney general positions, 10 additional secretarial positions, four additional victim-witness coordinator positions, and five additional criminal investigator positions to be designated in judicial districts as provided in a report prepared by the district attorneys general conference. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB833 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, permits the clerk of court to send notice of forfeiture of bail security to a defendant by regular mail, rather than certified mail with restricted delivery and return receipt requested. - Amends TCA Section 40-11-139.

TN - HB1029 Abortion - As introduced, enacts the "Human Life Protection Act," which bans abortion in this state effective upon the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade or amending the U.S. Constitution to allow states to prohibit abortion; creates exception for situations where the abortion is necessary to prevent the death of pregnant woman or prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of major bodily function; prohibits prosecution of a woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-5116; Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 9; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 68 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB689 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, extends for a student who becomes pregnant during the four-month period immediately preceding the date on which the student completes high school in a Tennessee home school program, obtains a GED® or HiSET®, or graduates from high school, the time within which the student must be admitted to, and enrolled in, an eligible postsecondary institution to be eligible for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB498 TennCare - As introduced, reduces the time period from 30 days to 15 days for an enrollee or applicant for medical assistance to mail documentation of a material change affecting the enrollee or applicant's TennCare application. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1162 DUI Offenses - As introduced, adds physician assistants to the list of medical practitioners who are qualified to draw blood from a motor vehicle operator for evidentiary purposes in a DUI investigation. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - HB167 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires a mandatory 30-day sentence for theft of a firearm; creates the Class D felony offense of bringing a telecommunication device into a penal institution; revises other various provisions of criminal law. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB658 Law Enforcement - As introduced, limits the authority of a community oversight board to the review and consideration of matters reported to it and the issuance of advisory reports and recommendations to agencies involved in public safety and the administration of justice. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB718 Special License Plates - As introduced, creates the Korean Defense Service specialty license plate for issuance to eligible veterans and military service members. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-253.

TN - HB942 Controlled Substances - As introduced, increases the penalty to a Class B felony for 15 grams or more or a Class A felony for 150 grams or more of fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or any fentanyl derivative or analogue. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB1340 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of violating a no contact order issued to a domestic violence victim as part of a disposition in any criminal court. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-113.

TN - HB547 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, restores the voting rights of persons convicted of certain infamous crimes upon receipt of a pardon or completion of any sentence of incarceration, parole, or probation. - Amends TCA Section 2-2-102 and Title 40, Chapter 29.

TN - HB1364 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, rewrites the criminal offense of female genital mutilation; extends the statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions or civil actions for female genital mutilation. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB666 Gambling - As introduced, enacts the "Sports Wagering For Stronger Schools Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HB1138 Taxes, Amusement - As enacted, exempts from the tax admission, dues, fees, or other charges paid to any person principally engaged in offering services or facilities for the development or preservation of physical fitness through exercise or other active physical fitness conditioning. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 2 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB1245 Consumer Protection - As introduced, increases from $10,000 to $25,000 the civil penalty amount per violation that the attorney general and reporter may recover in an action against a person who commits the offense of caller identification spoofing; clarifies that each call received by a subscriber wherein the caller identification information is misleading or inaccurate constitutes a separate violation for purposes of imposing the civil penalty. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 65.

TN - HB77 Abortion - As introduced, prohibits abortions from the point a fetal heartbeat is detected; creates exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HB873 Appeal and Review - As introduced, allows petitions for post-conviction relief based on new non-scientific evidence establishing that the petitioner is actually innocent of the offense for which the petitioner was convicted; establishes certain requirements for evidence on which such petitions are based. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 30, Part 1.

TN - HB1257 Courts - As introduced, requires that appointments to the offices of senior judge, chancellor, circuit court judge, criminal court judge, or judge of any other trial court of record, district attorney general, and district public defender be confirmed by general assembly before appointees take office. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17 and Title 38, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1293 Controlled Substances - As introduced, changes from March 1 to March 15 the annual date by which the commissioner of health must file a report with the appropriate committees of the senate and house of representatives on the outcome of the controlled substances database program with respect to its effect on distribution and abuse of controlled substances. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 53 and Title 67.

TN - HB62 Disabled Persons - As enacted, enacts the "Dynamic Accessibility Act," which provides for a modern symbol of access for disabled persons. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 12; Title 55 and Title 68.

TN - HB295 Codes - As introduced, beginning January 1, 2020, requires electrical inspectors employed by a municipality, a county, or this state to be certified by the state fire marshal; establishes a recertification process for such electrical inspectors every three years; requires certain electrical inspectors under contract with the commissioner of commerce and insurance to be certified on and after January 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB283 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the punishment for a conviction of aggravated rape of a child from 15 to 60 years in prison and a fine of up to $50,000 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1459 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the age to access or use tobacco and vapor products from 18 to 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1280 TennCare - As introduced, directs the governor, through the commissioner of finance and administration, to submit a waiver amendment to the centers for medicare and medicaid services to provide TennCare II funding by means of a block grant indexed for inflation and population growth. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB999 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the bluetick coonhound as the official state dog. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB34 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, allows a local board of education to authorize a teacher, school employee, or other person employed by the LEA to raise funds for noneducational purposes; requires the local board of education that authorizes funds to be raised for noneducational purposes to create policies and procedures for the receipt, disbursement, and accounting of funds raised. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 3.

TN - HB970 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, allows the department to post its annual report on its website in lieu of distributing the report to certain persons and entities. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB850 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates any facility on the campus of a public institution of higher education that is designed and used for school-sanctioned sporting events as a sports authority facility for purposes of consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HR56 General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure as promulgated by the Supreme Court.

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

TN - HR64 Memorials, Recognition - Social Work Month, March 2019

TN - HR53 Memorials, Recognition - Manny and Adele Macca, Manny's House of Pizza

TN - HJR4 Memorials, Professional Achievement - David Poile, U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame

TN - HJR475 Memorials, Sports - University of Memphis men's basketball team

TN - HJR613 Memorials, Government Officials - Designates House Seat 34 in the House Chamber of the State Capitol as the "Charles Sargent Memorial."

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Deborah Means Henderson

TN - HJR223 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

TN - HJR238 Memorials, Sports - Pigeon Forge High School, 2019 state wrestling champion

TN - HJR15 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Jack A. Parton, 2018 AdvancED Tennessee Excellence in Education Award

TN - HJR72 Memorials, Recognition - Isabella Wren Sullivan, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR171 Memorials, Sports - Bob Kesling, Voice of the Vols

TN - HJR433 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Julie Schwarz, 2018 Christ the Teacher Award

TN - HJR175 Memorials, Death - Kenneth "Rance" Roby

TN - HJR73 Memorials, Personal Achievement - John W. Huffman, Eagle Scout

TN - HJR139 Memorials, Death - Samuel W. Bartholomew, Jr.

TN - HJR521 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Carma Dennis McGee, Tennessee Court of Appeals

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Representative Ron Lollar

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

TN - HJR103 Memorials, Recognition - African-American Breast Cancer Awareness Week, September 8-14, 2019

TN - HJR513 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly C. Robertson

TN - HJR515 Memorials, Death - Gladys Margaret Endsley McKinsey

TN - HJR219 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - James H. Ripley, Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - HJR231 Memorials, Death - Sam Powell

TN - HJR382 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Marjorie Jean Yaeger, 90th birthday

TN - HJR391 Memorials, Interns - Cayce Daniel

TN - HJR575 Memorials, Recognition - Maryville High School, 100th anniversary

TN - HJR1 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes teen suicide as a health crisis in Tennessee.

TN - HJR392 Memorials, Interns - Shahil Patel

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

TN - HJR205 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lynne "Michelle" Bowman, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - HJR438 Memorials, Recognition - Shannon McCloud

TN - HJR385 Memorials, Recognition - Jaynee K. Day and Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

TN - HJR450 Memorials, Recognition - Sevier County Bank, 110th anniversary

TN - HJR206 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - James H. Ripley, Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission