Tennessee Rep. Clark Boyd (R)

TN - HJR258 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jeff Luttrell, 2019 Middle Tennessee Principal of the Year

TN - HB1535 School Districts, Special - Decreases the boundary of the district pursuant to the request of the Tenth Special School District of Wilson County. - Amends Chapter 330 of the Acts of 1901; as amended.

TN - HJR617 Memorials, Recognition - Jeff Cherry

TN - HB33 Process, Service of - As introduced, adds a private process server to the list of individuals authorized to personally serve a copy of a warrant or summons on behalf of a landlord in an action for forcible entry and detainer to regain possession of such landlord's real property. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 18.

TN - HJR101 Memorials, Recognition - Daniel Lucas, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR488 Memorials, Death - Charles Leston Bradshaw

TN - HB375 Human Rights - As introduced, increases from 10 days to 15 days the deadline by which a failure of the commissioner of labor and workforce development to respond to a written request for special exemption to the Child Labor Act of 1976 is considered to be a refusal. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 50 and Title 56.

TN - HB374 Workers Compensation - As introduced, changes the date by which the bureau of workers' compensation must produce its report of all the employers that failed to obtain coverage or self-insure during the previous fiscal year from December 31 to December 15. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 50 and Title 56.

TN - HJR327 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Eric Fung, Governor's School of the Arts

TN - HB1502 School Districts, Special - Pursuant to the request of the Tenth special school district of Wilson County, permits the district to issue bonds or notes in an amount of $50 million or less and to issue bond anticipation notes in an amount of $50 million or less. - Amends Chapter 330 of the Acts of 1901.

TN - HB1525 School Districts, Special - Pursuant to the request of the Tenth special school district of Wilson County, permits the district to issue bonds or notes in an amount of $28 million or less and to issue bond anticipation notes in an amount of $28 million or less. - Amends Chapter 330 of the Acts of 1901.

TN - HB373 Firefighters - As introduced, increases the amount of time from 10 days to 15 days in which assistants to the commissioner of the department of commerce and insurance must report in writing to the commissioner if a fire in which property has been destroyed or damaged appears to be suspicious. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 50; Title 56 and Title 68.

TN - HB545 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, increases from 21 to 30 the number of calendar days within which a person granted an order of protection may apply for a temporary handgun carry permit from the department of safety after an order of protection has been granted. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HJR328 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Yaslin Martinez, Governor's School of the Arts

TN - HB377 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires utilities participating in utility bill round-up programs to provide notice to customers of program and customer rights no later than November 1, 2019; permits utilities to enroll new customers after January 1, 2020, only upon receipt of customer consent; requires utilities to remove customer from program upon receiving opt out notice. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 45; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 65.

TN - HJR100 Memorials, Recognition - Ina Neal, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HB1091 Tourism - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Commission for the United States Semiquincentennial Commission Act".

TN - HB32 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to post on the department's website the continuing education requirements, including a minimum number of required hours as well as appropriate curriculum, for persons licensed as crop insurance adjusters. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HJR390 Memorials, Retirement - Mitch Wilson

TN - HB1511 Lebanon - Subject to local approval, increases from 2 percent to 5 percent the privilege tax that may be levied on the occupancy by a transient of a hotel in Lebanon, subject to a two-thirds vote of the Lebanon city council approving the increase. - Amends Chapter 208 of the Private Acts of 1980.

TN - HB48 Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As introduced, authorizes lawful permanent residents of the United States to apply for an embalmer's license; changes the requirement that an applicant for an embalmer's license have obtained an associate of arts degree to an associate degree. - Amends TCA Section 62-5-307.

TN - HB371 Consumer Protection - As introduced, increases the amount of time from 10 days to 15 days in which the seller of a home must return payment to a buyer after cancellation of the sale. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 62.

TN - HB13 Election Laws - As enacted, requires county election commission to comply with terms of insurance policy with respect to legal representation and certain expenses. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 12.

TN - HB372 Employees, Employers - As introduced, allows the commissioner of labor and workforce development to electronically notify other state officials regarding a reduction in operations of an employer and the number of employees affected. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - HB376 Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, authorizes a public utility to request, and the Tennessee public utility commission to authorize, a mechanism to recover the operational expenses, capital costs, or both, related to replacement of or upgrades to usage measurement devices if found by the commission to be in the public interest. - Amends TCA Title 65.

TN - HB1505 Lebanon - Subject to local approval, removes the mayor pro tem as the successor to the mayor when the mayor's office becomes vacant; authorizes the council to declare a vacancy in the office of mayor and appoint a person to fill the remainder of the term. - Amends Chapter 644 of the Private Acts of 1911; as amended.

TN - HB1506 Cannon County - Subject to local approval, alters the allocation of the hotel/motel tax by distributing an amount not to exceed the amount collected in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2018, to the chamber of commerce and the remainder to be appropriated by the county commission for any lawful purpose. - Amends Chapter 23 of the Private Acts of 2013.

TN - HB1532 Lebanon - Subject to local approval, deletes reference to property interest for municipal employees. - Amends Chapter 644 of the Private Acts of 1911; as amended.

TN - HJR312 Memorials, Recognition - Tennova Healthcare-Lebanon, fortieth anniversary

TN - HB1180 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes an LEA to use the ACT or ACT Aspire suites of assessments, instead of state-mandated assessments, to test students in grades nine-12. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1523 Cannon County - Subject to local approval, exempts nonprofit campgrounds that include a portion of the hotel camp fee for housing from the county's hotel motel tax. - Amends Chapter 23 of the Private Acts of 2013.

TN - HJR387 Memorials, Interns - Lynsie York

TN - HB1181 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, designates Legacy Farms in Lebanon as a premier type tourist resort for purposes of consuming alcoholic beverages on the premises - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

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 - HB258 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, enacts the "Sergeant Daniel Baker Act," which removes the appeal to the court of criminal appeals in death penalty cases; provides for automatic direct review by the Tennessee supreme court for convictions for which a sentence of death is imposed. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

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

TN - HB623 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, enables a police officer who is a member of the state retirement system to be eligible for service retirement upon completion of 25 years of creditable service. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.

TN - HB901 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, designates a Class A misdemeanor of aggravated assault of knowingly causing physical injury to an employee of a utility; sets an enhanced maximum fine of $15,000. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 65, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1077 Election Laws - As introduced, requires the coordinator of elections to continue to study convenience voting in other states and periodically update the general assembly by January 31 every odd-numbered year. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 3.

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

TN - HB233 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, creates Class A misdemeanor of possessing, owning, buying, selling, transferring, or manufacturing animal fighting paraphernalia with the intent that the paraphernalia be used in promoting, facilitating, furthering, or training for animal fighting or baiting. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1070 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, designates Weir Park in Clay County as a premier type tourist resort for purposes of consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

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 - HB1192 Education, State Board of - As introduced, changes from August 1 to July 1 the date by which the state board of education must annually submit a report to the general assembly concerning implementation of standards and curriculum designed to educate students about the United States and Tennessee governments. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1028.

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

TN - 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 - HB531 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, makes permanent the provision that is set to expire July 1, 2019, allowing counties to provide 2 percent matching funds for state-aid highway funds rather than 25 percent. - Amends TCA Section 54-4-404.

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

TN - HB389 Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits a medical review officer from considering prescriptions issued more than six months prior to a positive confirmed drug result for purposes of determining a valid prescription and immunity from actions authorized for employers to take against employees and job applicants following such a result under drug-free workplace program. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.

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 - 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 - HB213 Marriage - As introduced, authorizes members and former members of the general assembly to solemnize marriages. - Amends TCA Section 36-3-301.

TN - HB1078 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes Rutherford County to establish a program to operate convenient voting centers for federal, state, and local elections under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3.

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 - HB948 Consumer Protection - As introduced, transfers responsibilities concerning the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 from the department of commerce and insurance to the attorney general and reporter; creates a division of consumer affairs within the office of the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 47, Chapter 23 and Title 63.

TN - HB184 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Proton Therapy Access Act," which requires health insurance coverage to cover hypofractionated proton therapy in the same manner as it covers intensity modulated radiation therapy under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 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 - HB1280 TennCare - As introduced, directs the governor, through the commissioner of finance and administration, to submit a waiver amendment to the centers for medicare and medicaid services to provide TennCare II funding by means of a block grant indexed for inflation and population growth. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71.

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

TN - 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 - HB35 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, creates the Green Alert system within the TBI to assist in the identification and location of a missing veteran at risk. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Khyiah K. Riviears

TN - HR73 Memorials, Death - George Klein

TN - HR20 Memorials, Recognition - President Ronald Reagan

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 - HJR515 Memorials, Death - Gladys Margaret Endsley McKinsey

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

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR57 Memorials, Professional Achievement - John Muse, Chairman of Tennessee Bankers Association

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 - HJR447 Memorials, Recognition - Vanderbilt LifeFlight, 35th anniversary

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

TN - HJR412 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Cookie Hopper, Miss Anderson County 2019

TN - HJR411 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Lily Steed, Miss Oak Ridge 2019

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

TN - HJR438 Memorials, Recognition - Shannon McCloud

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

TN - HJR452 Memorials, Public Service - President Trump, U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

TN - HJR409 Memorials, Recognition - Blount County Public Library, 100th anniversary