Tennessee Rep. Antonio Parkinson (D)

TN - HJR605 Memorials, Interns - MacKenzie E. Stonis

TN - HJR608 Memorials, Retirement - Vanessa M. Horner

TN - HJR580 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Daniela Carrillo, Salutatorian, Raleigh Egypt High School

TN - HJR606 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Venesha Jett, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HJR577 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Aleha Cole, Salutatorian, Douglass High School

TN - HB858 Child Custody and Support - As introduced, allows a noncustodial parent or a parent who does not reside with the child to submit an electronic request for the child's school records, where electronic submission is available. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - HJR579 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tupac S. Moseley, Valedictorian, Raleigh Egypt High School

TN - HJR578 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Hannah Fields, Valedictorian, Douglass High School

TN - HB663 Schools, Charter - As introduced, allows a local board of education to consider whether the establishment of a new charter school will result in oversaturation of a school zone located within the LEA when considering whether to approve or deny a charter school application. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB142 General Assembly - As introduced, requires proportional increase in salaries of general assembly employees if the salaries of members of the general assembly are statutorily amended; requires a proportional decrease in the salaries of the members of the general assembly if the salaries of general assembly employees decrease. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-107; Title 4 and Title 8.

TN - HJR233 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Steven Young

TN - HB664 Education - As introduced, requires students expelled in grades seven through 12 to attend alternative school; requires a governing body of a public charter school to establish an alternative educational setting for students suspended from the regular school program; prohibits a charter school from expelling a student from school attendance until after the student has been placed in an alternative educational setting. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR607 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jeremiah Higginbottom, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HB1405 Students - As introduced, adds HiSET® to the courses a minor student may be enrolled and making satisfactory academic progress in to obtain a driver license or instruction permit to operate a motor vehicle from the department of safety. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1404 Livestock - As introduced, requires the department of agriculture to annually report to the senate agriculture, energy and natural resources committee and the agriculture and natural resources committee of the house of representatives the number of custom slaughterer licenses that were active during the preceding calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 53 and Title 68.

TN - HB987 Controlled Substances - As introduced, increases the amount of marijuana possessed or exchanged under the offenses of simple possession or casual exchange from less than one-half ounce to less than one ounce; prohibits the inference of purpose of selling or otherwise dispensing when the substance possessed or exchanged was less than one ounce of marijuana. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB856 Employees, Employers - As introduced, adds private employers to the types of employers subject to the requirements of the Healthy Workplace Act. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.

TN - HB399 Education - As introduced, requires each local board of education and 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 behavior expected from all persons entering on school grounds. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1099 Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, decreases from 30 to 25 the number of days in which an agency must establish a hearing date and set the case on the docket after a written claim is filed by a person asserting a claim to property seized under a forfeiture warrant. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB1100 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, changes, from March 15 to March 1, the annual date before which the commission must publish the Tennessee Postsecondary Education Fact Book. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR311 Memorials, Recognition - Chris Garner

TN - HB857 TennCare - As introduced, makes it a requirement, instead of optional, that the comptroller of the treasury conduct an annual actuarial study of the medical assistance program and any participating managed care organizations, reporting to the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives, the office of legislative budget analysis, and the fiscal review committee of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB224 Education, State Board of - As introduced, increases, from one to three, the minimum number of board members who must be employed, at the time of the appointment, as a K-12 public school teacher, beginning with appointments made on or after January 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

TN - HB1101 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, increases from 10 to 15 the number of days before trial in which a person who intends to rely on an affirmative defense must notify the district attorney general in writing of such intention. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB47 Expunction - As introduced, allows a person seeking expunction to pay an additional $250 fee for expedited expunction, which shall be given priority in docketing; requires removal and destruction of records to occur within 30 days of the court's order granting expedited expunction. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB909 Elder Abuse - As introduced, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - HB1190 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, establishes process for landlords to verify need of tenants and prospective tenants to have pet policies waived to accommodate the need for a service or support animal; creates penalties for misrepresentation. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 13, Chapter 20; Title 33; Title 39; Title 44, Chapter 17; Title 44, Chapter 8, Part 4; Title 63; Title 66 and Title 68.

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 - HB780 Workers Compensation - As introduced, creates a presumption that a firefighter or emergency medical services personnel diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sustained the injury in the line of duty for purposes of workers' compensation; allows for the presumption to be rebutted by evidence that the PTSD was caused by nonservice-connected risk factors or exposure. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 56.

TN - HB707 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the board of regents, the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee, and the state university boards to create and approve a policy requiring public institutions of higher education to compensate adjunct professors at least $1,000 per credit hour taught. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB12 Business and Commerce - As introduced, prohibits local governments from requiring licenses for businesses that are operated only occasionally and by persons under 18 years of age; prohibits local governments from charging fees to operate home-based businesses, unless the combined offsite impact of the home-based business and the primary residential use materially exceed the offsite impact of the primary residential use alone. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 6, Chapter 54, Part 1.

TN - HB340 Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, makes various changes to civil forfeiture procedure, including requiring the district attorney general to review the underlying circumstances of a seizure to determine if probable cause exists to justify forfeiture and, when appropriate, file a motion to dismiss the application for forfeiture warrant, upon which the court shall dismiss the application and return the seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.

TN - HB951 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, exempts from licensure requirements person providing direct care services to no more than three people receiving services through consumer direction in a medicaid home- and community-based services program. - Amends TCA Section 33-2-402 and Section 33-2-403.

TN - HB17 Children - As introduced, establishes a presumption that a minor who is the victim of a sexual offense or engaged in prostitution held a reasonable belief that the use of force is immediately necessary to avoid imminent death or serious bodily injury. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1327 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes leases entered into between Memphis and business owners holding a restaurant license from the alcoholic beverage commission to include provisions where the rent is calculated on gross sales, including gross sales of alcohol, of the business; prohibits a county from denying the issuance or renewal of a beer permit on the basis of a similar lease. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 1; Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1354 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission to include data from the Tennessee Promise scholarship program report created in collaboration with the Tennessee student assistance corporation in the annual Tennessee postsecondary education fact book. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1303 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the department of correction, in partnership with the Tennessee higher education commission and the board of regents, to develop and submit to the general assembly an annual report detailing the higher education opportunities available to incarcerated individuals in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41; Title 49 and Title 50.

TN - HB126 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to create a baccalaureate degree for veterans who retire with 20 years of service; requires each state institution of higher education that offers a baccalaureate degree program to award the degree created by the commission. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB519 Firefighters - As introduced, creates a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter's cancer that causes a disabling health condition is a result of the firefighter's duties as a firefighter. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB169 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, permits a designation as joint primary residential parents or a waiver of the primary residential parent designation upon agreement of the parents when the child is scheduled to reside an equal amount of time with both parents; allows the address of either parent to be used to determine school zoning when the child is scheduled to reside an equal amount of time with both parents. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 36.

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 - HB937 Local Government, General - As introduced, increases pay supplement from $600 to $800 for police officers and firefighters who complete 40 hours of in-service training. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24, Part 2 and Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1.

TN - HB1391 Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires that only 5 percent of the evaluation criteria used to evaluate all teachers and principals be comprised of student achievement data based on student growth generated by assessments administered to students enrolled in an English as a second language (ESL) program with limited English proficiency. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1443 Sheriffs - As introduced, reduces the time period, from 30 to 15 days, in which a sheriff must report to the county legislative body and to the department of correction the name of any prisoner who escapes while serving on a work detail and indicate whether the work detail on which the prisoner was serving was supervised or unsupervised. - Amends TCA Title 41.

TN - HB565 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, extends civil and criminal statutes of limitation for certain acts of abuse against minors; increases the penalty for intentional failure to report child abuse or child sexual abuse. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 37 and Title 40.

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 - HB273 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Save Tennessee Call Center Jobs Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - HB729 Courts - As introduced, sets the minimum compensation payable to officially designated and auxiliary court reporters designated as licensed court reporters by the Tennessee board of court reporting at the rates of $350 per full-day appearance and $175 per half-day appearance. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 20, Chapter 9, Part 6; Title 20, Chapter 9, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 14, Part 3.

TN - HB1138 Taxes, Amusement - As introduced, requires the department of revenue to report, by December 1 of each year, the number of physical fitness facilities from which the amusement tax was collected in the previous calendar year to the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives. - 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 - 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 - HB353 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, allows certain persons who receive certified occupational training as a prisoner or a student in a high school technical training class to receive equivalent credit toward an occupational license relating to the training received. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 6, Part 1; Title 37; Title 38; Title 41; Title 49; Title 62 and Title 63.

TN - HB41 Handgun Permits - As introduced, requires the department of safety to issue a handgun carry permit containing zeros in place of an expiration date upon request by a permit holder or applicant who is in the military and stationed outside this state. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HB405 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local board of education to adopt a policy requiring schools within the LEA to perform an adverse childhood experiences assessment before suspending or expelling a student or requiring a student to attend in-school suspension or alternative school. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB193 Expunction - As introduced, permits an eligible petitioner to have multiple, nonviolent convictions for offenses that resulted from the petitioner's status as a victim of human trafficking expunged if the expunction is in the best interest of justice and public safety. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 32.

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 - HB943 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, reinstates service credits and salary increases that were suspended during 2009-2010 for assistant public defenders and assistant district attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 7, Part 2.

TN - HB949 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, enacts the Governor's Investment in Vocational Education Act; specifies that financial assistance received for all dual enrollment courses attempted after the fourth dual enrollment course reduces any subsequent award of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-930.

TN - HB28 Election Laws - As enacted, requires the county election commission to designate the entrances to a building in which an election is to take place that are for the use of voters, and to measure off 100 feet from those entrances for purposes of restricting certain campaign-related activities. - Amends TCA Section 2-7-111.

TN - HB958 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates December 1 of each year as "Mrs. Rosa L. Parks Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2, Part 1.

TN - HB946 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA to report to the department of education, for each year that the LEA receives an increase in state funding for instructional wages and salaries, how the increase was utilized by the LEA; requires the department of education to report the information to the BEP review committee; requires the BEP review committee to include the information in its annual report on the BEP. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-306.

TN - HB677 Mental Illness - As introduced, requires clerks to report the race, sex, and, if known, social security number of a person judicially committed or adjudicated a mental defective to the federal bureau of investigation-NICS index and the department of safety for use in determining a person's eligibility to purchase firearms; requires such information to be confidential. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33 and Section 38-6-109.

TN - HB941 Expunction - As introduced, removes $180 fee for an individual petitioning the court for an expunction of certain criminal offenses; removes $350 fee for a defendant applying for expunction of an offense following the completion of a diversion program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

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

TN - HB1199 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, extends eligibility for receipt of Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grants to students who are attending certain independent postsecondary institutions and who are otherwise eligible for the grants. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB584 Tourism - As enacted, changes the deadline from December 31, 2022, to December 31, 2024, by which certain qualified public use facilities must be placed in service as it relates to the apportionment and distribution of sales and use taxes. - Amends TCA Section 7-88-106.

TN - HB1189 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires youth development centers, jails, and the department of correction to provide free telephone calls between minors and their parents or guardians. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 41.

TN - HB197 Probation and Parole - As introduced, prevents an inmate convicted of a Class A, B, or C felony from using sentence reduction credits until the minimum release eligibility date applicable to the inmate is reached; establishes presumption that inmate convicted of Class E or Class D nonviolent felony is to be paroled upon reaching release eligibility date unless good cause is shown as to why inmate should not be released. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB205 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires public postsecondary institutions to classify the spouse or dependent child of an active member of the United States armed forces transferred out of state on military orders as an in-state student for tuition purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB696 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, exempts farm tractors and implements of husbandry from the requirement that slow-moving vehicles pull off the roadway on certain highways. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1367 Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes the joint report regarding the current status of emergency medical services for children prepared by the board for licensing health care facilities and the emergency medical services board to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Khyiah K. Riviears

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

TN - HR73 Memorials, Death - George Klein

TN - HR62 Memorials, Death - John Kilzer

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

TN - HR3 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Representative Ron Lollar

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Deborah Means Henderson

TN - HJR364 Memorials, Recognition - Nathan "Nearest" Green

TN - HJR513 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly C. Robertson

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

TN - HJR583 Memorials, Sports - Hunter Sturgill

TN - HJR588 Memorials, Recognition - National Drug Endangered Children Awareness Day

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR319 Memorials, Recognition - Governor Frank G. Clement

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

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

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

TN - HJR223 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

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

TN - HJR231 Memorials, Death - Sam Powell

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

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

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

TN - HJR416 Memorials, Recognition - YWCA Greater Memphis, 100th anniversary

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 - HJR377 Memorials, Death - Monroe James "M.J." Edwards, Sr.