Tennessee Rep. Bruce Griffey (R)

TN - Transportation (House)

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Vice-chair

TN - Judiciary (House)

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Member

TN - Naming, Designating, and Private Acts (House)

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Member

TN - HB1276 Election Laws - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Election Integrity Act," which requires that absentee ballots, other than ballots authorized by state or federal law to be delivered electronically to qualified voters who are entitled to vote by absentee ballot, include a watermark approved by the coordinator of elections; requires a counting board official to verify that the absentee ballots contain the watermark and reject any ballot that does not bear the watermark. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 16 and Title 17.

TN - HB1311 Workers Compensation - As introduced, requires the bureau of workers' compensation, on or before January 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, to review the impact of the Workers' Compensation Reform Act of 2013 on the workers' compensation system in this state and deliver a report of its findings to each member of the general assembly and provide a presentation of its findings to the commerce committee of the house of representatives and the commerce and labor committee of the senate. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 56.

TN - HB45 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, creates a rural relocation tax credit for certain out-of-state businesses that relocate to tier 3 and tier 4 enhancement counties with a population less than 50,000 that can be applied against the business's franchise and excise tax liability. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1625 Henry County - Subject to local approval, sets the salary of the general sessions court judge at an amount equal to the amount received annually by circuit court judges and chancellors. - Amends amend Chapter 82 of the Private Acts of 1989.

TN - HJR407 Memorials, Death - Susan Ann Cove

TN - HB2869 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, creates exception to Class C misdemeanor offense for hunting over bait when bait was on the land before hunting begins and the land is not posted by wildlife officers as a baited dove field. - Amends TCA Title 70.

TN - HB1769 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires a court to order the state to reimburse a criminal defendant for all reasonable costs incurred in defense if the defendant was charged with a criminal homicide offense and found not guilty due to the justification of self-defense and the trier of fact determines that the defendant proved the self-defense claim by a preponderance of the evidence; authorizes the court to order the state or the prosecuting attorney, in their individual capacity, to pay damages for malicious prosecution. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7 and Title 39.

TN - HB2314 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offenses of child abuse, child neglect, child endangerment, aggravated child abuse, aggravated child neglect, and aggravated child endangerment to include acts of abuse, neglect, and endangerment against an unborn child; defines an unborn child as an individual living member of the species, homo sapiens, throughout the entire embryonic and fetal stages of the unborn child from fertilization to birth. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4.

TN - HB1636 Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires certain employers to utilize an e-verification program in hiring; removes immunity for an employer's reliance on other forms of verification; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2785 Lobbying, Lobbyists - As introduced, prohibits paid lobbyists from serving as members of state and local boards, commissions, and other governmental entities. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6; Title 4 and Title 8.

TN - HB1095 Traffic Safety - As introduced, exempts persons who are at least 25 years of age from helmet requirements when riding a three-wheeled motorcycle, including autocycles; clarifies helmet requirements with regard to autocycles. - Amends TCA Section 55-9-302 and Section 55-9-308.

TN - HB21 Immigration - As introduced, requires this state to refuse to consent to receive any refugees for purposes of resettlement; requires each local government within this state to refuse to consent to receive any refugees for purposes of resettlement unless resettlement within its jurisdiction is approved by a certain process. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.

TN - HB2074 Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to use only ballot-marking devices or hand-marked ballots and tabulate the ballots using an electronic tabulator or by a hand count; specifies the distance from which a poll watcher may observe the counting and processing of ballots; requires certain security features on paper ballots. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1650 Taxes, Gasoline, Petroleum Products - As introduced, reduces the tax on gasoline and diesel to pre-IMPROVE Act rates of 20 and 17 per gallon, respectively; reallocates percentage of state sales and use tax revenues to supplement state highway fund and local government road programs. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 3, Part 4; Title 9, Chapter 4; Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 1; Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 2 and Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 9.

TN - HB2312 Education - As enacted, requires an LEA or the department of education to provide testing materials or proposed testing materials in the LEA's or department's possession to a member of the general assembly upon the member's request to inspect and review the material; excludes certain materials. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB800 Textbooks - As introduced, prohibits the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission from recommending or listing, the state board of education from approving for local adoption or from granting a waiver for, and LEAs and public charter schools from adopting or using textbooks and instructional materials or supplemental instructional materials that promote, normalize, support, or address lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, or transgender issues or lifestyles. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB859 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits social media platforms from including in their contracts provisions that limit, authorize the limitation of, or censor political or religious speech. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 25; Title 29 and Title 47.

TN - HB20 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, lowers, from $500,000 to $250,000, the amount of the required capital investment to be made by a business engaged in an enterprise located in a tier 3 or tier 4 enhancement county with a population less than 50,000, to qualify for a job tax credit; increases, from $4,500 to $9,000, the amount of the job tax credit provided to the business; authorizes an additional job tax credit if the business involves a higher level of investment and job creation. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HJR744 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Hank Williams, Jr., Country Music Hall of Fame

TN - HB1094 Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As introduced, adds the senate judiciary committee and criminal justice committee of the house of representatives to the legislative committees to which the commission must report actions taken on permits, licenses, and fees to be assessed following the promulgation of the proposed rules. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 69 and Title 70.

TN - HB2305 Election Laws - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury, the director of the Tennessee bureau of investigation, and each district attorney general to designate personnel in their respective departments as election crime specialists; requires the coordinator of elections to provide annual training for election crime specialists and publish educational materials related to election crimes for use by local law enforcement agencies. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 38, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1277 Ouster - As introduced, increases from 20 to 30 days the period by which, after being served, a defendant in an ouster proceeding may answer a complaint to remove the defendant from public office. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.

TN - HB2311 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an offense of requiring another to receive a COVID-19 vaccination or provide proof of vaccination as condition of employment or in order to enter any building, facility, or property that is generally open to the public; permits such a requirement as a condition of entry into a hospital or other healthcare facility that is being used for treatment of a person at high risk of death from exposure to a communicable disease. - Amends TCA Title 14 and Title 39.

TN - HJR86 Memorials, Sports - Tanner Hudson

TN - HB1648 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes an LEA or public charter school to enroll, or deny enrollment to, students who are unlawfully present in the United States; eliminates state education funding for students who are unlawfully present in the United States; requires LEAs and public charter schools that enroll students who are unlawfully present in the United States to bear sole financial responsibility for their education. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

TN - HB802 Domestic Violence - As introduced, enacts "Amanda Mercer's Law." - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HJR539 Memorials, Death - Jeffery Allen McKee

TN - HB2310 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, imposes a fee on certain money transmitter transactions that transmit money from a location originating in this state to a location outside of the United States or its territories. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 45, Chapter 7 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1662 Election Laws - As introduced, prohibits the use of voting machines; requires that elections be conducted using hand-marked paper ballots; authorizes poll watchers to record video at the polling place; requires the coordinator of elections to prescribe certain security measures for paper ballots. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1603 Benton County - Subject to local approval, requires operators liable for the collection and payment to the county of a mineral severance tax to keep and preserve records necessary to determine the amount of the tax due and payable to the county for three years. - Amends Chapter 89 of the Private Acts of 1979.

TN - HB1604 Benton County - Subject to local approval, requires the clerk or authorized collector of the county pulpwood severance tax to audit pulpwood operators at least once a year and to report the results of such audits to the county legislative body on a quarterly basis; requires operators to maintain records from the previous three years of operation necessary to determine the amount of the tax due to the county. - Amends Chapter 55 of the Private Acts of 1997.

TN - HB2784 Education - As introduced, authorizes the dyslexia advisory council to submit the council's annual report to the education committee of the senate and the education instruction committee of the house of representatives electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 49.

TN - HB1994 Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, requires commissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of human services, to implement a system for the relocation of illegal aliens who arrive in this state to other locations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HJR3 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article XI, Section 5 of the Constitution of Tennessee, to allow for bingo games conducted by 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(19) organizations to meet a charitable, not for profit, or community service purpose.

TN - HB801 Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires certain employers to utilize an e-verification program in hiring; removes immunity for an employer's reliance on other forms of verification; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 1.

TN - HB18 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates exceptions to the offense of open or concealed carrying of a firearm with the intent to go armed for any person legally in possession and not prohibited from possessing a firearm; converts existing defenses to be exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 50 and Title 70.

TN - HB804 Industrial Development - As introduced, adds to projects under the authority of industrial development corporations certain facilities or expenditures paid or incurred for a system, plant, or equipment for the provision of certain telecommunications services; authorizes a municipality to provide aid or assistance for such projects. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.

TN - HB440 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, imposes a $5.00 fee on certain money transmitter transactions that transmit money from a location originating in this state to a location outside of the United States or its territories. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 45, Chapter 7 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB439 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes a local law enforcement officer of the law enforcement agency of a city, county, or metropolitan government, or such officer's spouse, to obtain a retail package store license if the licensed premises is to be located outside of the jurisdiction of the officer's employing agency. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3.

TN - HR3 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Declares a position of "No Confidence" in the commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education.

TN - HB19 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, classifies a money transmission originating in this state to a location outside of the United States or its territories as a service transaction subject to the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 45, Chapter 7; Title 49 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1634 Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to include three non-binding questions related to the legalization of marijuana on the November 2022 ballot; requires the secretary of state to compile the results of the public policy opinion poll and forward the results to the members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HJR77 Memorials, Sports - Tanner Hudson

TN - HB2313 Human Rights - As introduced, prohibits a person from requiring an individual, employee, or applicant for employment to complete or participate in training, orientation, or any other instructional or informational program that promotes certain discriminatory concepts. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 49; Title 50; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64 and Title 65.

TN - HB803 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, establishes enhanced penalties for acts of animal cruelty when committed against 10 or more non-livestock animals at the same time and place. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 1.

TN - HB1858 Taxes, Agricultural and Open Spaces - As enacted, clarifies that the minimum size requirement of 15 acres for land to be eligible to be classified as forest land for purposes of assessment and reduced property taxes may be achieved with a single tract or with two noncontiguous tracts separated only by a road, body of water, or public or private easement. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-1004.

TN - HB2742 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires that high school students be taught about the virtues of capitalism and the constitutional republic form of government in the United States and Tennessee, as compared to other political and economic systems such as communism and socialism, as part of the social studies curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1694 Religion and Religious Organizations - As introduced, prohibits the state, a political subdivision, or a public official from prohibiting, or imposing additional restrictions on, the lawful operations of a church or religious organization, including religious services or activities, during a state of emergency, major disaster, or natural disaster. - Amends TCA Title 58.

TN - HB1753 Education - As introduced, requires TCAP tests to be administered in a paper format for students in grades three through eight; allows the commissioner of education to determine whether end-of-course assessments must be administered in a computerized, online, or paper format; allows an LEA or public charter school to administer end-of-course assessments in a paper format if it objects to administering end-of-course assessments in a computerized or online format. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - HB13 Public Health - As enacted, establishes certain restrictions on requiring persons to be vaccinated for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 68.

TN - HB1839 Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates one additional circuit court each in the thirteenth, nineteenth, twenty-second, and twenty-third judicial districts; creates one additional chancery court in the nineteenth judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1696 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for the offense of aggravated burglary, from a Class C felony to a Class B felony, if the burglary is of an occupied habitation; increases the penalty for especially aggravated burglary, from a Class B felony to a Class A felony, if the burglary is of a habitation. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1578 State Employees - As enacted, provides 36 hours of yearly leave for a state employee who is a veteran with a service-connected disability of 30 percent or more to be used to attend appointments related to the service-connected disability. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 58.

TN - HB1594 Handgun Permits - As introduced, waives the application fee for an enhanced handgun carry permit for retired members of the military who are residents of the state. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB2323 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, permits a private citizen to threaten to use deadly force in making an arrest without being subject to certain limitations. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 6.

TN - HB1782 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the consumer advocate division in the office of the attorney general and reporter to June 30, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 65.

TN - HB2461 Education - As enacted, authorizes the administration of TCAP tests to students in a timed format and requires the department of education to establish the required time limit for each TCAP test and an optional additional time period that may be added to the required time limit for each test if requested by a student. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1745 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts the retail sale of fruit and vegetables for human consumption from the food retail sales tax. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-228.

TN - HB1883 Secretary of State - As introduced, requires the division of elections within the secretary of state's office to conduct random forensic audits of a selected number of counties and voting machine vendors after each statewide November general election, beginning in 2024. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 4.

TN - HB2017 Children - As introduced, increases from under 16 years of age to under 18 years of age, the age of a minor for whom a parent, guardian, legal custodian, or caregiver under the Power of Attorney for Care of a Minor Child Act must give written, active, informed and voluntarily signed consent in order for universal mental health or socioemotional screening in a school setting to be permitted for the minor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 37; Title 39; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1741 Education, Higher - As introduced, authorizes full-time public school teachers to enroll in one course at any state-supported college or university without having to pay tuition and fees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 1 and Title 49.

TN - HB1766 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, requires a court to revoke bail immediately, notwithstanding sentencing hearings, motions for a new trial, or related post-guilt determination hearings, for a defendant who is convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 1.

TN - HB2043 Controlled Substances - As enacted, adds tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, or other preparation of tianeptine, and any salt, sulfate, free acid, compound, derivative, precursor, or preparation thereof that is substantially chemically equivalent or identical with tianeptine, as a schedule II controlled substance; specifies that a violation of the offense of knowingly possessing or casually exchanging a controlled substance (unless the substance was obtained directly from, or pursuant to, a valid prescription or order of a practitioner while acting in the course of professional practice), will be a Class A misdemeanor with respect to a person knowingly possessing or casually exchanging, tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, or other preparation of tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, compound, derivative, precursor, or other preparation thereof that is substantially chemically equivalent or identical with tianeptine. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB1724 Corporations, Not for Profit - As enacted, holds the directors, trustees, or members of the governing body of a 501(c)(19) nonprofit corporation, association, or organization immune from suit arising from the conduct of the affairs of the corporation, association, or organization as long as the conduct at issue does not constitute willful, wanton, or gross negligence. - Amends TCA Title 48.

TN - HB2874 Museums - As introduced, transfers the custody and care of the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest held in the Tennessee State Museum to the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

TN - HB2506 Health Care - As introduced, authorizes physicians, physician assistants, and advanced practice registered nurses to prescribe and pharmacists to dispense ivermectin via standing order. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB11 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, justifies the use of deadly force against another to protect real or tangible, movable property under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 6.

TN - HB1911 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, raises from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony certain animal cruelty offenses involving a cock; requires a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $2,500 for the offense of being a spectator at a cock fight. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2.

TN - HB2592 District Attorneys - As enacted, requires the district attorneys general conference to work with the Tennessee bureau of investigation, the department of children's services, the Tennessee Sheriffs' Association, the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Children's Advocacy Centers of Tennessee to develop recommendations on the creation of multidisciplinary teams to provide responses specific to child sex trafficking cases. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1651 Municipal Government - As introduced, requires municipalities to allow current structural and illumination technologies to be used when outdoor advertising devices are constructed or expanded. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 29; Title 54, Chapter 17 and Title 54, Chapter 21.

TN - HB1439 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, establishes that when cities or towns revert real property within municipal boundaries to an unincorporated status, such action does not require a municipal utility to cease providing electrical service, water service, sanitary sewer service, natural gas service, other utility services, or street lighting in the territory excluded from the municipality's corporate limits. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7, Chapter 34; Title 7, Chapter 36; Title 7, Chapter 52; Title 9 and Title 65.

TN - HB2451 Children - As introduced, enacts the "Parent Bill of Rights Act," which requires LEAs to permit parents to have access to certain information, including the names of instructors, titles available in the school library, teacher manuals, and curriculum; requires parents to provide written consent before a student can participate in any extracurricular activity, family life lesson, field trip, school assembly, or guest speaker event; prohibits certain healthcare practitioners from providing medical treatment to a minor without parental consent or an appropriate court order. - Amends TCA Section 14-4-103; Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB2591 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, requires the department of children's services and the department of human services to collaborate to provide recommendations to the general assembly on resources and services specific to persons from 18 to 24 years of age who have been victims of child sex trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - HB2835 Health Care - As introduced, enacts the Youth Health Protection Act. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 14; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2244 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the criminal offenses of especially aggravated rape, especially aggravated rape of a child, and grave torture. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - HB2633 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, specifies that a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun does not align with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA from civil liability and adverse employment action for referring to a student using the pronoun aligned with the student's biological sex instead of the student's preferred pronoun. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1944 Obscenity and Pornography - As introduced, excludes local education agencies, public schools, and employees and private contractors of LEAs or public schools from the exception to certain obscenity offenses if the LEA, public school, employee, or private contractor possesses obscene material that is harmful to minors on public school premises; prohibits an LEA or public school from making obscene materials or materials harmful to minors available to students in the school libraries controlled by the LEA or public school. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9 and Title 49.

TN - HB2452 Human Rights - As introduced, designates as an unlawful discriminatory practice certain actions taken by a person, public officer, public employee, governmental entity, employer, or place of public accommodation against an individual on the basis of the individuals vaccination status, immunity status, or whether the person has an immunity passport; makes various other changes related to COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 39; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2206 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offense of assault against a first responder or nurse to include a healthcare facility security guard/officer who is discharging or attempting to discharge their official duties. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1870 Health Care - As introduced, prohibits a licensing board or disciplinary subcommittee from taking action against a physician's license based solely on the physician's recommendations to a patient regarding treatment for COVID-19 subject to certain conditions; prohibits a pharmacy from blocking or attempting to block a patient's access to COVID-19 treatments in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2571 County Government - As introduced, creates a supplemental pay incentive program for county correctional officers who receive 40 hours or more of in-service training per calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 41.

TN - HB1717 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires a person appointed by the governor to serve as the commissioner of education to be confirmed by the general assembly by joint resolution in order to serve as the chief executive officer of the department; requires the commissioner to submit the commissioner's strategic plan for the department to the state board of education for approval. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 8 and Title 49.

TN - HB1369 Law Enforcement - As introduced, deletes the requirement that a retired law enforcement officer submit to a criminal history records check in order to carry a firearm in the same manner as an active law enforcement officer under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 38.

TN - HB1898 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, renames enhanced and concealed handgun carry permits as enhanced and concealed firearm carry permits and authorizes a permit holder to carry any firearms, rather than handguns, that the permit holder legally owns or possesses; expands the circumstances in which a permit holder may carry a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 70.

TN - HB2135 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires a magistrate to order a defendant to carry or wear a global positioning monitoring system device as a condition of bail if the defendant was arrested for certain criminal offenses or a violation of an order of protection and the alleged offense or violation involved the strangulation or attempted strangulation of the victim or the use or threatened use of a firearm against the victim. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB1370 Consumer Protection - As introduced, makes removing or censoring a political candidate or user from a social media platform of a technology corporation based on speech otherwise protected by the First Amendment in a public forum an unfair and deceptive act under the Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12; Title 20; Title 28; Title 29; Title 39; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 67.

TN - HB2236 Child Abuse - As introduced, expands the definition of child abuse to include a person under the age of 18 witnessing the abuse of another child in the child's immediate family or household or domestic abuse of a member of the child's immediate family or household. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 37 and Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4.

TN - HB2778 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires hospitals to permit at least one family member or patient representative who meets certain conditions to visit a patient of the hospital during end-of-life situations if a disaster, emergency, or public health emergency for COVID-19 has been declared. - Amends TCA Title 14 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB2271 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, expands the offenses for which certain items may be seized utilizing criminal asset forfeiture; revises provision regarding disposition of forfeited property. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 17; Title 19; Title 20; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1714 Election Laws - As introduced, enacts the Verify Our Tennessee Elections (VOTE) Act; requires county election commissions to conduct a forensic audit, canvassing, and review of the chain of custody of ballots and equipment from the 2020 general election for purposes of determining the accuracy of the election results for the president of the United States and for each United States congressional election.

TN - HB2670 Education, Higher - As enacted, prohibits a public institution of higher education from taking certain actions with regard to divisive concepts and the ideologies or political viewpoints of students and employees; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1757 Trade Regulation - As introduced, prohibits agreements or arrangements that have the effect of lessening competition for, or controlling prices of, services held out as generally available to the public; prohibits a news organization from refusing to provide news and information to a news distribution product or service that is a willing buyer for such news and information; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 25, Part 1.

TN - HB1718 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, authorizes retirement credit for Tennessee consolidated retirement system members who are honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36.

TN - HB1763 Controlled Substances - As enacted, expands the definition of drug paraphernalia to include pill press devices and pieces of a pill press device, unless the pill press device or piece is used by a person or entity that lawfully possesses drug products in the course of legitimate business activities, including a pharmacy or pharmacist licensed by the board of pharmacy; a wholesale drug distributor, or its agents, licensed by the board of pharmacy; and a manufacturer of drug products, or its agents, licensed by the board of pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 63.

TN - HB2316 Education, Higher - As enacted, prohibits males from participating in public higher education sports that are designated for females. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2567 Expunction - As introduced, increases from two to three the number of misdemeanor offenses for which a person can have the criminal records expunged if one of the offenses was a Class C misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB2770 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires any person or entity posting signage prohibiting the possession of firearms on a property to accept custodial responsibility for the safety and defense of any person authorized to carry a handgun, while the person is on the property; mandates that any notice or signage posted forbidding firearm possession also contain language stating that a person authorized to carry a handgun is under the custodial responsibility of the posting person or entity. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2860 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class C misdemeanor of restraining a dog with a chain, cord, tether, cable, or similar device while a disaster is imminent or occurring; states that a person is not subject to prosecution for a violation unless the person has previously received a warning citation for a violation. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 44, Chapter 17.

TN - HB2746 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, authorizes a pharmacist to provide ivermectin to a patient, who is 18 years of age or older, pursuant to a valid collaborative pharmacy practice agreement containing a non-patient-specific prescriptive order and standardized procedures developed and executed by one or more authorized prescribers; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 47; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1834 DUI Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Ethan's, Hailey's, and Bentley's Law," which requires a sentencing court to order a defendant who has been convicted of vehicular homicide or aggravated vehicular homicide due to intoxication and in which the victim of the offense was the parent of a minor child to pay restitution in the form of child maintenance to each of the victim's children until each child reaches 18 years of age and has graduated from high school. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB1905 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires hospitals, clinics, and persons, including doctors and nurses, who are called upon to render aid to a person suffering from the effects of a fatal drug overdose to report the drug overdose to the appropriate chief of police or sheriff and district attorney general, to the extent allowed by state and federal law. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2810 Real Property - As introduced, increases, from 20 to 25 days, the time when a creditor that has redeemed land from the original purchaser for debt, or from one who has previously redeemed the land for debt, may advance upon the bid for the land any sum, to the extent of that creditor's debt, as if the creditor was the original purchaser. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 13; Title 35; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 45; Title 47; Title 66 and Section 67-4-409.

TN - HB2034 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, creates the offense of unlawful restraint of a dog when an owner leaves a dog outside and unattended by use of a restraint without access to adequate shelter and potable water or restrains a dog outside and unattended by use of a prohibited restraint; classifies the offense as a Class C misdemeanor and a second or subsequent offense as a Class B misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB2585 Election Laws - As enacted, revises and expands the manner in which the secretary of state and county election commissions must audit state and local elections. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 20 and Title 2, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1934 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, extends application of the enhanced penalties for certain assaults against a first responder or nurse who is discharging or attempting to discharge official duties to assaults against teachers. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1639 State Government - As introduced, prohibits this state or its political subdivisions from taking certain actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1; Title 5, Chapter 1; Title 6, Chapter 54 and Title 8.

TN - HB2524 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, eliminates the criminal offenses of possession of a firearm or club with intent to go armed, possession of a deadly weapon other than a firearm with the intent to employ it during the commission of a dangerous offense, possession of a deadly weapon with the intent to employ it during the commission of any offense other than a dangerous offense, and possession of a weapon with intent to go armed in a park, playground, civic center, or other recreational building. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB2097 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, makes revisions to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act of 1989, including expanding the definition of racketeering activity. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 12, Part 2.

TN - HB1421 Education - As introduced, prohibits a school from forcing, coercing, or requiring a student to receive an immunization for COVID-19; prohibits a school from taking an adverse action against a student who refuses to receive an immunization against COVID-19; prohibits a school from immunizing students against COVID-19 unless the student or the student's parent or guardian, if a minor, consents in writing to the immunization. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2020 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires a magistrate to set the defendant's bail in an amount not less than twice that which is customarily set for the offense charged if the alleged victim of the offense is a domestic violence victim and the defendant strangled, or attempted to strangle, the victim during the commission of the offense or made threats against the victim's life. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2247 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offenses of assault and aggravated assault against a first responder or nurse to include offenses committed against any licensed emergency healthcare provider; increases the mandatory minimum period of incarceration for each offense; increases the penalty for an aggravated assault against a first responder or other licensed emergency healthcare provider to a Class A felony with a minimum mandatory sentence of 15 years. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HB2605 Law Enforcement - As introduced, states that law enforcement personnel and the employing law enforcement agency are not liable for injuries to a third party that were caused by a suspect who flees from pursuit unless the law enforcement personnel was grossly negligent, rather than negligent, and that gross negligence was a proximate cause of the injuries to the third party. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB2369 Common Carriers - As introduced, designates social media platforms as common carriers and requires the entities to obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity from the Tennessee public utilities commission; prescribes fines against social media platforms that deplatform and shadow ban users based on political ideology, viewpoint, or personal animus, or discrimination based on race, creed, color, religion, sex, age, or national origin. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47 and Title 65.

TN - HB1451 Agriculture - As introduced, limits foreign ownership of agricultural property in this state. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.

TN - HB2096 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department of human services to submit a report to the general assembly no later than October 31, 2022, and annually thereafter with certain information regarding the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; prohibits the department from providing an exemption from the work requirement, as provided under federal law, to able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB1846 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, increases from $175,000 to $250,000 the first portion of home value for which property tax relief will be reimbursed to disabled veteran home owners. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704.

TN - HB1853 Employees, Employers - As enacted, lowers the threshold for private employers having to verify work authorization status of new hires through E-Verify from those with 50 or more employees to those with 35 or more employees; requires the office of employment verification assistance to offer, at no charge, E-Verify sign ups and work authorization status checks for employers with less than 35 employees; protects employers acting upon false results generated by E-Verify; prohibits certain wrongful or retaliatory discharge or discrimination actions; prohibits certain rehires. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 39; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - HB1373 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires the state to reimburse a local government that provides health insurance benefits for first responders in an amount equal to that portion of health insurance premiums or expenses for COBRA coverage for benefits for which the local government is responsible. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27.

TN - HB2822 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, renames the "Dependent Children Scholarship Act" the "Surviving Spouses and Dependent Children Scholarship Act"; extends scholarship eligibility to dependent children of members of the armed services totally disabled or killed in the line of duty and surviving spouses of law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical service technicians, or members of the armed services killed in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1723 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA's policy on the inspection of school instructional materials by parents and legal guardians of students enrolled in the LEA to allow a student's parent or legal guardian to check out from the student's school one set of the instructional materials used in the student's classroom for a period of no less than 48 hours to allow the parent or legal guardian time to inspect the materials. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2535 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, requires nursing homes and assisted-care living facilities to permit at least one family member or resident representative who meets certain conditions to visit a resident of the facility during end-of-life situations if a disaster, emergency, or public health emergency for COVID-19 has been declared. - Amends TCA Title 14 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB2341 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires that each LEA employee who works directly with students in the LEA, instead of only teachers, be trained at least once every three years on the detection, intervention, prevention, and treatment of human trafficking in which the victim is a child. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1640 Sentencing - As introduced, adds the offense of rape to the offenses for which a defendant is not eligible for probation under the Tennessee Criminal Sentencing Reform Act of 1989. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1678 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offenses of aggravated assault and assault against a first responder to include an assault involving the use or display of any article used or fashioned to lead the victim to reasonably believe it to be a deadly weapon. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2802 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, specifies that a course of conduct for purposes of stalking includes one instance of placing an electronic tracking device on a person or in or on a person's property, unless the electronic tracking device is placed by or at the direction of a law enforcement officer. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2012 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, reduces, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund; increases, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share appropriated to municipalities. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-103.

TN - HB1754 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, changes the grades, from nine through 12 to kindergarten through 12, that an eligible professor of higher education may teach pursuant to a special license issued by the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1868 Election Laws - As enacted, prohibits a county election commission from utilizing instant runoff voting or ranked choice voting to conduct an election in this state for a statewide or local government office. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1921 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, designates a segment of Tazewell Pike in Knox County as the "SSG Ryan C. Knauss Memorial Highway." - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HB2306 Probation and Parole - As enacted, enacts the "Joe Clyde Daniels Act" to require the board of parole, in making a parole determination for an offender convicted of a homicide, to consider whether the offender obstructed or continues to obstruct the ability of law enforcement to recover the remains of the victim. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB1976 Medical Occupations - As enacted, exempts a veteran of the United States armed forces who was trained and certified as a medic or corpsman from the initial licensure fees of the emergency medical services board. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140.

TN - HB2409 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA to notify the LEA's new employees of the health plan offered to the employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27 and Title 49.

TN - HB5 Education - As enacted, requires that the instruction provided to a student who is identified for intervention through the response to instruction and intervention (RTI) framework be determined by the student's local education agency based on the individual student's needs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1358 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, states the intent of the general assembly that, starting in the 2022 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, community corrections grant funding increases by 5 percent from the previous year. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB1749 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, provides that in interpreting a state statute or rule, a court presiding over the appeal of a judgment in a contested case must not defer to a state agency's interpretation of the statute or rule and must interpret the statute or rule de novo; after applying all customary tools of interpretation, the court must resolve any remaining ambiguity against increased agency authority. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 20.

TN - HB1849 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes an LEA to use the ACT, ACT Aspire, or SAT suites of assessments, instead of state-mandated assessments, to test students in grades 9-12 in the subjects of math and English language arts. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2557 Education - As enacted, prohibits an LEA or public charter school from knowingly entering into an agreement with an individual or entity that performs abortions, induces abortions, provides abortion referrals, or provides funding, advocacy, or other support for abortions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1738 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends for an additional year, until June 30, 2023, the sales tax holiday for the retail sale of gun safes and gun safety devices. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1742 Education, Higher - As introduced, authorizes local correctional officers and local law enforcement officers to enroll in one course at any state-supported college or university without having to pay tuition and fees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 1 and Title 49.

TN - HB1398 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises various provisions governing pharmacy benefits and pharmacy benefits managers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB2152 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, revises various provisions governing lottery-funded scholarships and financial aid. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB2454 Obscenity and Pornography - As enacted, redefines "obscene" to include material that has educational value; makes various changes to the internet acceptable use policy LEAs are required to adopt; enacts requirements governing providers of digital and online resources; enacts and revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HB3 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires that a student's gender for purposes of participation in a public middle school or high school interscholastic athletic activity or event be determined by the student's sex at the time of the student's birth, as indicated on the student's original birth certificate. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1664 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits posting a review on the internet about a business that is factually false with the intent to defraud the public. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 47.

TN - HB8 Education, Higher - As introduced, reduces, from 30 to 25, the years of full-time creditable service that a teacher must have served in Tennessee public schools before retiring for the retired teacher's child to receive a 25 percent discount on tuition to any state institution of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.

TN - HB1767 Sentencing - As introduced, requires a person convicted of aggravated assault or aggravated robbery, committed on or after July 1, 2022, to serve 100 percent of the sentence imposed by the court, or no less than 85 percent of the sentence imposed by the court less sentence reduction credits earned and retained. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB135 Capitol - As introduced, requires that the state capitol commission erect a statue of Dolly Parton on the capitol grounds. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB12 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "April's Law" to clarify that a person who engages in sexual contact with a corpse commits the offense of abuse of a corpse, a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3; Title 40, Chapter 11 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - HB110 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Save Tennessee Call Center Jobs Act of 2021." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - HB25 Civil Procedure - As enacted, provides that a person who uses justifiable force against another may request a stay of proceedings in any civil action based on the use of force until the criminal investigation has concluded; allows for an immunity hearing at which the court may dismiss an action that is barred by immunity. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1145 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises offense of critical infrastructure vandalism. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 43.

TN - HB2509 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, removes a short-barrel rifle or shotgun from the list of weapons the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of which is prohibited under state law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB2501 Human Rights - As introduced, prohibits discrimination based on a person's vaccination status for COVID-19 or possession of an immunity passport evidencing immunity from COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 50; Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 68.

TN - HB2656 Sentencing - As enacted, requires that a person convicted of certain offenses serve 100 percent of the sentence imposed; requires that a person convicted of certain other offenses serve 85 percent of the sentence imposed before becoming eligible for release; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2290 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, enacts the "Patient Right to an Advocate Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 14; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2459 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the offense of unlawful photography to include the photographing of an individual without the consent of the individual, if the photograph includes the unclothed intimate area of the individual and would be considered offensive or embarrassing by the individual; was taken for the purpose of offending, intimidating, embarrassing, ridiculing, or harassing the victim; and was disseminated by the defendant to any other person or the defendant threatened to disseminate, or permitted the dissemination of, the photograph. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1559 School Vouchers - As introduced, deletes the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2416 Abortion - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Abortion-Inducing Drug Risk Protocol Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2128 Election Laws - As enacted, expressly prohibits non-United States citizens from voting in federal, state, or local elections in this state; prohibits local governments from granting non-citizens the right to vote in local elections; enacts other related election provisions. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2 and Title 2, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2707 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for aggravated assault committed against a law enforcement officer from a Class C felony to a Class B felony. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB14 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, enacts the "School Stabilization Act"; requires, for the 2021-2022 school year, the BEP of each LEA to be calculated based on the LEA's 2019-2020 average daily membership (ADM), rather than the LEA's 2020-2021 ADM, unless the LEA's 2020-2021 ADM exceeds the LEA's 2019-2020 ADM. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2673 Education - As enacted, establishes certain requirements to be followed if a state governmental entity or an LEA receives a complaint from a person who alleges that antisemitism has occurred on the premises of a public school serving any of the grades K-12, or through electronic outreach from a public school serving any of the grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2521 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, revises various provisions governing the prohibition or restriction of weapons at meetings or on property owned by a private or government entity, including eliminating the prohibitions a local government can place on possession of a handgun in certain locations such as libraries, child care agencies, buildings containing a law enforcement agency, and facilities that administer a Head Start program; removes the limitation of the concealed carry restriction to only persons with an enhanced handgun carry permit; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1646 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, enacts "Joker's Law," which revises the offense of knowingly and unlawfully killing a police dog, fire dog, search and rescue dog, service animal, or police horse without the owner's effective consent; adds provisions regarding knowingly and unlawfully causing serious injury to such an animal; revises and enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 37-1-134 and Title 39, Chapter 14.

TN - HB1735 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, lowers the age requirement to obtain an enhanced or concealed handgun carry permit or lawfully carry a handgun in public from 21 to 18 years of age; states that the statutory authorization to transport or store a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle under certain circumstances does not apply to a person under 21 years of age in a parking area that is owned, operated, or while in use by any school, unless the person is at least 18 years of age and meets certain military qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB2147 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, raises the age of a victim whose testimony the court may allow to be taken outside the courtroom by means of two-way closed circuit television from "13 or younger" to "under 18 years of age"; adds human trafficking offenses to those for which a court must extend an order of protection for a definite period of time if the allegation is proved by a preponderance of the evidence; makes various other changes relative to human trafficking; revises the penalties for involuntary servitude, promoting prostitution, and patronizing prostitution; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2572 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, creates a task force to study retirement benefits for law enforcement officers. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36.

TN - HB2098 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for assault that results in the bodily injury of a law enforcement officer who is discharging the officer's official duties from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony; maintains the 30-day minimum sentence and $5,000 minimum fine. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1852 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, allows TCRS members who served in the armed forces during certain periods of armed conflict to establish retirement credit for the military service under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Section 8-34-605.

TN - HB1658 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, establishes COVID-19 essential employee retirement service credit for members of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system and participants in the state's hybrid retirement plan. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34 and Title 8, Chapter 36.

TN - HB1855 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, revises the penalties for continuous sexual abuse of a child to clarify circumstances under which the offense is a Class A, Class B, or Class C felony; adds to the list of offenses that warrant the Class A felony, trafficking for a commercial sex act if the victim is a minor and promoting prostitution if the victim is a minor. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 53 and Title 55.

TN - HB2199 Human Rights - As introduced, prohibits as a discriminatory practice a person, including a government or entity, from compelling disclosure of a health record by an individual unless disclosure is required by federal law; prohibits as a discriminatory employment practice an employer from compelling disclosure of a health record by an employee unless disclosure is required by federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1759 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes bereavement leave for employees of an LEA for the death of an immediate family member of the employee or for the death of an employee or student of the LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB16 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, enacts the "Teacher's Discipline Act," which establishes requirements and procedures for teachers to discipline students in the teachers' classrooms, including relocation of a student. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HR1 Memorials, Retirement - Chris Bundgaard

TN - HR44 Memorials, Sports - Eddie George

TN - HR23 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Authorizes the Speaker of the House of Representatives to appoint a committee to meet with a like committee from the Senate to consider the removal of Ellen Hobbs Lyle from the office of Chancellor of the Twentieth Judicial District by the Tennessee General Assembly acting pursuant to Article VI, Section 6 of the Constitution of Tennessee.

TN - HR120 Memorials, Recognition - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

TN - HR94 Memorials, Recognition - Lee Andrew Smith

TN - HR128 Memorials, Sports - Morgan Cox, Tennessee Titans

TN - HR30 Memorials, Recognition - National Medal of Honor Day, March 25, 2021

TN - HJR140 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes adding to Article XI of the Tennessee Constitution a prohibition on any person being compelled or law being enacted to proliferate murder, rape, involuntary servitude, human trafficking, or prostitution.

TN - HJR1083 Memorials, Recognition - Wendy Moten

TN - HJR808 Memorials, Death - Alton Gary Mathews

TN - HJR664 Memorials, Retirement - Leland C. Blackwood

TN - HJR180 Memorials, Recognition - Eddie Sherlin

TN - HJR135 Memorials, Recognition - The Oak Ridge 85

TN - HJR181 Memorials, Recognition - Bobby Keel

TN - HJR134 Memorials, Recognition - The Clinton 12

TN - HJR1036 Memorials, Death - Marvis LaVerne Kneeland Jones

TN - HJR701 Memorials, Retirement - Captain Victor G. Donoho

TN - HJR790 Memorials, Death - Tom Tigue

TN - HJR651 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Phillip Andrew "Andy" Herron, Eagle Scout

TN - HJR480 Memorials, Death - Senator Roscoe Dixon, Jr.

TN - HJR1232 Memorials, Recognition - Kirsten Tilford, Boys & Girls Club of Greater Memphis Youth of the Year

TN - HJR40 Memorials, Retirement - Judge David M. Bragg

TN - HJR404 Memorials, Recognition - 105th Attack Squadron, 100th anniversary

TN - HJR230 Memorials, Recognition - Hayley Arceneaux

TN - HJR11 Memorials, Heroism - Metropolitan Nashville Police Officers

TN - HJR95 Memorials, Retirement - David Leatherwood

TN - HJR408 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee State Natural Areas Day, May 4, 2021

TN - HJR164 Memorials, Recognition - Richard W. Smith

TN - HJR358 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

TN - HJR631 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emma Franklin, Valedictorian, Scotts Hill High School

TN - HJR168 Memorials, Recognition - Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5154, 75th anniversary

TN - HJR863 Memorials, Sports - Mike Vrabel, NFL Coach of the Year

TN - HJR752 Naming and Designating - Designates the Bible as the official State book.

TN - HJR27 Memorials, Sports - Tennessee Titans, AFC South champions