Tennessee Rep. Dennis Powers (R)

TN - Insurance (House)

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member

TN - Commerce (House)

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member

TN - Banking and Investments Subcommittee (House)

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chair

TN - Life and Health Insurance Subcommittee (House)

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member

TN - Finance, Ways, and Means (House)

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member

TN - HB743 Fireworks - As enacted, authorizes alternatives for fire suppression equipment and personnel that must be present at certain types of public fireworks displays. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB742 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to award $500 for each of the first four dual enrollment courses taken with a dual enrollment grant; authorizes TSAC to determine the amount of the award per credit hour for the fifth through eighth dual enrollment courses taken with a dual enrollment grant. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB746 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, increases from at least quarterly to at least monthly the frequency with which hospitals must report to the department of health all claims data on UB-92 forms about inpatient and outpatient discharges. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 68.

TN - HJR460 Memorials, Death - Herbert Eugene "Smiley" Richardson

TN - HB307 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, revises provisions governing released time courses. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB747 Highway Signs - As introduced, defines "breakfast" for specific service-sign purposes. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HB306 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, decreases the amount of time, from 10 to five business days, within which a local administrative agency has to provide the personnel file of a previous employee seeking employment in another local administrative agency, if so requested, for the purpose of determining if sexual misconduct was committed by the person seeking employment. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB745 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, increases, from $600 to $1,000, the amount of a Tennessee middle college scholarship awarded each semester to an eligible student for full-time attendance. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB70 Education - As enacted, extends the date of the repeal of the Virtual Public Schools Act from June 30, 2019, to June 30, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 16.

TN - HB749 Handgun Permits - As introduced, allows any county clerk, in addition to the department of safety, to renew a gun permit. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HJR333 Memorials, Recognition - Ron Murray

TN - HB748 Law Enforcement - As introduced, increases from $600 per officer to $1,000 per officer the annual police pay supplement for completion of in-service training. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 38 and Title 55.

TN - HJR278 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Ronnie Arnold, Good Scout Award

TN - HB744 Fireworks - As introduced, extends from 10 days to 10 business days the time that the state fire marshal has to wait before holding a hearing concerning destroying fireworks seized in violation of state law in order to give the owner, when the owner is not known, time to claim ownership. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.

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 - HJR17 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee recognizing that our liberties do not come from government, but from Almighty God.

TN - HB283 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, 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 - HB419 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Right to Shop Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB949 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, 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 - HJR171 Memorials, Sports - Bob Kesling, Voice of the Vols

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HB936 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, specifies that when an applicant for a permit to conduct surface coal mining operations is objected to and an informal conference called by the commissioner to resolve a conflict between the applicant and person objecting to the application is not held, that the commissioner shall either approve or disapprove a new application, rather than a new amendment to the original application, within 60 business days of receipt of the new application. - Amends TCA Title 59, Chapter 8 and Chapter 839 of the Public Acts of 2018.

TN - HJR82 Memorials, Sports - Tee Higgins

TN - HB658 Law Enforcement - As enacted, establishes certain parameters regarding the authority of a community oversight board and certain requirements for those serving on such a board. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

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

TN - HJR231 Memorials, Death - Sam Powell

TN - HB786 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, makes various changes to law concerning pharmacy benefits managers. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

TN - HB1364 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, 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 - HB999 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the bluetick coonhound as the official state dog. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HJR223 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

TN - HB1126 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, clarifies that payments of fees to a trade or professional association exempt from income tax under 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code do not constitute an unfair trade practice in the business of insurance. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 8.

TN - HB271 Contractors - As introduced, prohibits the inclusion of a condition precedent for payment clause in construction contracts that precludes a prime contractor from having to pay a remote contractor for services rendered until the prime contractor is paid by the construction owner client. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6; Title 66, Chapter 11 and Title 66, Chapter 34.

TN - HB563 Business and Commerce - As introduced, prohibits state and local governmental entities from taking discriminatory action against a business based on that business's internal policies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 48; Title 61; Title 62 and Title 67.

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

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

TN - HR20 Memorials, Recognition - President Ronald Reagan

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

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

TN - HB1245 Consumer Protection - As enacted, increases from $10,000 to $30,000 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; encourages carriers offering telephone services in this state to adopt certain technologies and measures. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 65.

TN - HB948 Consumer Protection - As enacted, abolishes the division of consumer affairs in the department of commerce and insurance and transfers the responsibilities of the division concerning the consumer protection laws to the attorney general and reporter; authorizes a court to order the parties to engage in pre-trial mediation in the course of any action brought in the name of the state pursuant to the Consumer Protection Act; authorizes the division of consumer affairs in the office of the attorney general and reporter to facilitate communication between a complainant and person identified in a complaint in an effort to encourage mutually agreeable resolutions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 47, Chapter 23 and Title 63.

TN - HB150 Opioids - As enacted, defines "alternative treatments," for purposes of the requirement that prescribing physicians explain reasonable alternatives to opioids, as including chiropractic care, physical therapy, acupuncture, and other treatments that relieve pain without the use of opioids. - Amends TCA Section 63-1-164.

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 - HB634 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends to "water" the sales tax exemption that applies to the sale to a qualified farmer or nurseryman of electricity, natural gas and liquefied gas, including, but not limited to, propane and butane used directly in the production of food or fiber for human or animal consumption or to aid in the growing of a horticultural product for sale. - Amends TCA Title 67.

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

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

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

TN - HB966 Death - As enacted, authorizes the development and use of a commemorative certificate of nonviable birth. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1142 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes operation of off-highway vehicles on a certain segments of State Route 116 in Anderson County. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-185.

TN - HB498 TennCare - As enacted, directs the commissioner of finance and administration to submit to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services a waiver or waivers pursuant to Section 1115 of the Social Security Act for the purpose of establishing a distinct Katie Beckett program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1151 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, redefines "public place" for purposes of the offense of indecent exposure; includes a restroom, locker room, dressing room, or shower, designated for multi-person, single-sex use. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

TN - HB946 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, 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 - HJR409 Memorials, Recognition - Blount County Public Library, 100th anniversary

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

TN - HB304 Licenses - As enacted, revises provisions governing expedited issuance of certain professional licenses for certain armed forces members and their spouses to instead exempt such persons from licensure in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1.

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 - HB1139 Governor - As enacted, establishes a governor's office of faith-based and community initiatives. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB673 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Insurers Rehabilitation and Liquidation Act. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB1490 Abortion - As introduced, enacts the "Life Appropriation Act." - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 51; Title 67 and Title 68.

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

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

TN - HR73 Memorials, Death - George Klein

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

TN - HB1029 Abortion - As enacted, enacts the "Human Life Protection Act," which bans abortion in this state effective on the 30th day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade or an amendment to 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 - HB1079 Election Laws - As enacted, establishes requirements for person or organization that has not been designated by the county election commission to conduct supplemental voter registration drives that attempts to register 100 or more people to vote; revises and adds various provisions governing elections. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1280 TennCare - As enacted, 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 - HB943 Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, reinstates service credits and salary increases that were suspended during 2009-2010 for assistant public defenders and assistant district attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 7, Part 2.

TN - 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 - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Representative Ron Lollar

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

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

TN - HB1354 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires each state institution of higher education to do the following: develop and implement a suicide prevention plan for students, faculty, and staff; and provide the plan to students, faculty, and staff at least once each semester. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Deborah Means Henderson

TN - HJR513 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly C. Robertson

TN - HJR515 Memorials, Death - Gladys Margaret Endsley McKinsey

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

TN - HB623 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, makes police officers and firefighters who are members of the state retirement system 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 - HB643 Mental Illness - As enacted, requires the department of finance and administration, in consultation with the department of mental health and substance abuse services and the division of TennCare, to develop and administer a grant program to assist sheriffs who are required by law to transport persons who have been certified by a health care professional for transport to a hospital or treatment resource for a mental health examination to determine whether the person should be involuntarily admitted; authorizes hospitals and treatment resources to conduct a mental health examination to determine whether a person should be involuntarily admitted via telehealth services. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21; Title 8, Chapter 42; Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 13, Chapter 26; Title 29, Chapter 20; Title 33, Chapter 2; Title 33, Chapter 6; Title 33, Chapter 7; Title 37, Chapter 1; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1192 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires the department of education and public schools to commemorate the centennial of women's suffrage and recognize the Tennesseans who were instrumental in securing all women the right to vote for the purpose of educating students about the ratification of the nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution on August 18, 1920, and to educate students on the state of Tennessee's fundamental role in guaranteeing all women the right to vote. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1028.

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Khyiah K. Riviears

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

TN - HB1016 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires students to pass a civics test to receive a full diploma upon graduation from high school; revises and enacts other provisions relating to civics test. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR394 General Assembly, Studies - Urges governor to form an education task force to evaluate state testing, curriculum, and other mandated academic policies and procedures.

TN - HB939 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR583 Memorials, Sports - Hunter Sturgill

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