Tennessee Rep. Bob Freeman (D)

TN - HB1120 State Government - As introduced, creates the state government advisory task force on community resilience. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68.

TN - HB254 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, designates the Brian Paul Hotel as a premier type tourist resort for purposes of consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - HJR604 Memorials, Death - James Arrington "Jimmy" Webb III

TN - HB252 State Government - As introduced, requires an agency that requires an examination to be administered to a person applying for a license to engage in an occupation, trade, or profession to provide reasonable accommodations to a person diagnosed with dyslexia. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB1119 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of possessing a firearm if a person has a prior conviction of stalking. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HJR254 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Tree Day, March 30, 2019

TN - HB907 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, extends the period, from six months to one year, that a county or city that held an election on a resolution or ordinance levying a local option sales and use tax that was rejected is prohibited from holding another election on such tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB255 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2019-2020 fiscal year, the number of instructional positions funded under the BEP to reflect the number of teachers a school district is required to employ to comply with maximum class size requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.

TN - HB275 Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, requires the agency, by no later than March 1 each year, to submit a report relative to the implementation of any amended policies designed to improve the agency's blight elimination program to the state and local government committee of the senate and the local government committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 68.

TN - HB250 Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As introduced, enables wildlife resource officers to authorize payroll deductions for the payment of membership dues for organizations that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23 and Title 70.

TN - HB400 Hotels and Restaurants - As introduced, increases from three years to four years the amount of time that an operator of a hotel has to maintain records for purposes of determining hotel occupancy taxes owed. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 56; Title 57; Title 62; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB251 State Symbols - As introduced, requires the secretary of state to conduct an online poll to determine a nominee to designate as the official state recording artist. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HJR273 Memorials, Recognition - Lynn Nelson

TN - HJR267 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Tree Day, March 23, 2019

TN - HB256 Traffic Safety - As introduced, prohibits the use of wireless telecommunications devices while operating a motor vehicle unless the vehicle is lawfully parked; authorizes use of earpiece, headphone device, or wrist device; authorizes law enforcement and emergency personnel to use wireless telecommunications devices in the actual discharge of their official duties. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 39; Title 55, Chapter 8 and Title 65.

TN - HB1095 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a brief summary of any question, regardless of length, submitted to the people for a vote. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB387 Employees, Employers - As introduced, makes it a discriminatory practice for a person who is paying a non-employee for labor or services to engage in harassment of the non-employee because of the non-employee's sex; holds such persons liable for the actions of their employees in engaging in such harassment under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - HB253 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to provide students with characteristics of dyslexia appropriate tiered dyslexia-specific intervention through services provided by a teacher trained in dyslexia intervention; requires the department of education to employ at least one dyslexia specialist beginning with the 2019-2020 fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HB681 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, revises the Volunteer Public Education Trust Fund Act of 1985; designates the commissioner of education and state treasurer as trustees of the fund. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 4.

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 - HB901 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes the enhanced maximum fine of up to $15,000 applicable to aggravated assault when committed against an identifiable employee or contractor of a utility who is discharging or attempting to discharge such person's official duties. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 65, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1168 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, authorizes prosecution of a woman for assault based on the woman's illegal use of a narcotic drug while pregnant if the child is born addicted to or harmed by the narcotic drug and the addiction or harm is a result of the woman's use of a narcotic drug while pregnant; provides enrollment in an addiction recovery program while pregnant and successful completion of the program is an affirmative defense. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB912 State Symbols - As introduced, designates the poem "My Tennessee," written by Michael McDonald in 1984, as an official state poem of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-303.

TN - HB1111 Political Parties - As introduced, authorizes the minority party to appoint members of the state executive committee by rules of the party rather than at the regular August primary election. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1185 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, enacts the "Juvenile Justice Stop Solitary Confinement Act." - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 41, Chapter 4.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB215 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires local education agencies to develop and implement a "Stop the Bleed" program that requires each school in the LEA to place a bleeding control kit within the school; requires the department of education to develop a bleeding control kit training program for LEA employees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB367 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, requires wildlife resources agency to issue permanent sport combination hunting and fishing licenses upon payment of a one-time $10 fee to honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - HB330 Taxes, Amusement - As introduced, removes amusement tax on dues or fees to membership sports and recreation clubs. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-212 and Section 67-6-330.

TN - HB839 Driver Licenses - As introduced, prevents suspension of a driver license for failure to pay fines or costs imposed for a driving offense if the person is indigent or enters into payment plan; requires person be issued restricted driver license until moneys owed the court are fully paid. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 24, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 5.

TN - HB1339 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires that a computer science course be offered at each public high school and public charter high school beginning with the 2019-2020 school year; creates the computer science and technology in public schools task force to review, research, and recommend computer science and technology curriculum standards and frameworks and to recommend strategies to meet the state's anticipated computer science and technology workforce needs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB944 Education - As introduced, establishes the Governor's Civics Seal to recognize public schools and local education agencies implementing high-quality civic education programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - HB5 Taxes, Amusement - As introduced, eliminates the amusement tax on health clubs and fitness facilities; eliminates the amusement tax exemption for certain health clubs and fitness facilities. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-212 and Section 67-6-330.

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 - HB937 Local Government, General - As enacted, 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 - 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 - 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 - HB754 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits certain persons voluntarily admitted to a mental health treatment facility from possessing a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB817 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, removes reference to a repealed provision to clarify the time in which a county board of equalization must complete its assessment reviews. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1483 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to provide free feminine hygiene products in eligible public high schools. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB164 Traffic Safety - As introduced, expands the current offense for talking on handheld devices while driving within marked school zones to talking on such devices on any road, highway, or street. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

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 - HB852 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, enhances the punishment for a second or subsequent conviction of aggravated cruelty to animals or a first conviction of aggravated cruelty to animals involving five or more animals, from a Class E felony to a Class C felony with a mandatory minimum sentence of 180 days; requires that 100 percent of the minimum sentence be served. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 3; Title 39; Title 63, Chapter 12 and Title 66.

TN - HB1449 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, allows a court to sentence a person to an individually assessed sentence based on community rehabilitation with a focus on parent-child unity and support, if the person has been convicted of a nonviolent offense and is the primary caretaker of a dependent child. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB674 Children - As introduced, revises various provisions related to stepparent visitation. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - HB716 DUI Offenses - As introduced, creates per se DUI offense of driving while the person's blood includes any amount of Schedule I controlled substance or Schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance that cannot be dispensed without a prescription when the person does not have a valid prescription; enhances criminal penalties for impaired driving within a school zone. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.

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 - HB286 Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As introduced, removes the statute of limitations for prosecution of certain Class A or Class B felony sex offenses committed against a child on or after July 1, 2019, and deletes a provision that sets a lower statute of limitations for aggravated rape, rape of a child, rape, and aggravated rape of a child if notice of the offense is not given to law enforcement within three years of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 2, Part 1.

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 - HB544 Fiscal Review Committee - As introduced, requires the fiscal review committee to hear appeals from legislators related to fiscal notes produced by the committee; requires the committee to develop and adopt a formal appeal process. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 2 and Title 3, Chapter 7.

TN - HB947 Education - As enacted, requires, instead of authorizes, the Tennessee school safety center to establish school safety grants to assist LEAs in funding programs that address school safety; revises other various provisions regarding school safety grants. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-1004 and Section 49-6-4302.

TN - HB1406 Hearing and Hearing Aids - As introduced, allows the Tennessee council for the deaf, deaf-blind, and hard of hearing to submit its annual report and needs assessment to the governor and general assembly electronically. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 24; Title 37; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 60; Title 65 and Title 71.

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 - HB1447 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a handgun carry permit holder convicted of domestic assault to surrender the permit to the court within 48 hours of conviction to be forwarded to the department of safety for revocation. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB928 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises the use of student growth data for purposes of a teacher's or principal's annual evaluation; deletes obsolete provisions regarding the use of student growth data; excludes, for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years, student growth evaluation composites generated by assessments administered in the 2017-2018 school year if the exclusion results in a higher evaluation score for the teacher. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302.

TN - HB179 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, changes the date from March 1 to March 15 by which the commissioner of revenue must annually report the status of the computerized titling and registration system. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB1242 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, removes certain discontinuance of service requirements of utilities in Nashville/Davidson County; requires such utilities to establish policies in compliance with service practice standards and best practices for similarly situated utilities. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 52 and Title 65, Chapter 32.

TN - HB37 Public Health - As introduced, creates the state Alzheimer's disease and related dementia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 14 and Title 71.

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Khyiah K. Riviears

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

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

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

TN - HJR477 Memorials, Recognition - National "Distracted Driving Awareness Month," April 2019

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

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

TN - HJR583 Memorials, Sports - Hunter Sturgill

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Deborah Means Henderson

TN - HJR223 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

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

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

TN - HJR309 Memorials, Recognition - DeMolay International, 100th anniversary

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

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

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

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

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 - 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 - HJR70 Memorials, Recognition - Mookie Betts, Boston Red Sox World Series Champions 2018

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

TN - HJR307 Memorials, Death - Durward Gordon Hall

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

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour