Tennessee Rep. G. A. Hardaway (D)

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TN - HB2809 Capital Punishment - As introduced, states that a defendant is not eligible for the death penalty if the defendant suffered from a serious mental illness at the time of the alleged offense that, while not meeting the standard to be found not guilty by reason of insanity or incompetent to stand trial, significantly impaired the defendant's capacity to exercise rational judgment; permits an offender who was sentenced to death prior to July 1, 2022, to petition to be resentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole due to serious mental illness. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HJR1083 Memorials, Recognition - Wendy Moten

TN - HB1320 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an offense of using force or coercion to cause a person to join a criminal gang against the person's will; sets penalty based on the age of the victim; classifies new offense as a criminal gang offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HJR624 Memorials, Recognition - Deontra Jackson

TN - HB2808 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts, the department of children's services, and the commission on children and youth to jointly submit an annual report addressing statewide data collection in the juvenile justice system, on or before January 1, to the governor, speaker of the senate, speaker of the house of representatives, and members of the judiciary committee of the senate and the criminal justice committee and civil justice committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB2817 Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, changes from March 31 to March 1, the date by which each municipal solid waste region must submit the annual progress report to the commissioner of environment and conservation for the immediately preceding calendar year that includes data on collection; recycling; transportation; disposal; public costs; and other information relevant to solid waste planning and management. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 47; Title 53; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB2854 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, authorizes up to 10 days of paid COVID-19 sick leave for full-time and part-time public school employees, including employees caring for a family member who has COVID-19 or who live with a person who has COVID-19; requires the department of education to amend its federal plan to include COVID-19 paid sick leave for early childhood program employees. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1323 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires an officer to provide an alleged victim of certain criminal offenses with a document, created by the administrative office of the courts, notifying the victim of the global positioning monitoring system used as a condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - HB2806 Witnesses - As introduced, creates the Tennessee witness protection and relocation grant pilot program within the department of finance and administration's office of criminal justice programs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB2807 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates the offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle or boat while the person is not in the motor vehicle or boat unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked within the trunk, utility or glove box, or a locked container securely affixed to the motor vehicle or boat. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HJR403 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Condemns anti-Asian bias incidents in U.S. and acts of hatred and violence being committed against Asian Americans.

TN - HB1319 Expunction - As enacted, requires a judge to notify, if practicable, a defendant at the time of sentencing if the conviction is for an expungeable offense and the time period after which a petition to expunge may be filed; requires the administrative office of the courts to provide judges handling criminal matters with reference document containing certain information. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32 and Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 3.

TN - HJR1393 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Terranisha Potts, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HB2815 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires that the sheriff's department's or municipal police department's annual audited report of proceeds from certain seized and forfeited goods and certain fines be submitted to the appropriate legislative body by February 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1317 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to make quarterly reports instead of annual reports regarding TNInvestcos; requires the report to be submitted to all members of the general assembly rather than only the chairs of the finance committees; requires the comptroller of the treasury to develop a numerical grading system for all tax increment financing (TIF) plans; requires the comptroller to evaluate TIF plans based on the benefits the municipality is receiving from the plan and the cost of the active plan to the taxpayers in the jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 28 and Title 9, Chapter 23.

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 - HJR1036 Memorials, Death - Marvis LaVerne Kneeland Jones

TN - HJR1394 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cha'ly Ellis, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HB2814 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to notify minority teaching fellowship award recipients of teaching opportunities and programs that offer assistance for minority teachers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR1398 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Evan Fant Hayes, Salutatorian, Middle College High School

TN - HJR1400 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brianca Bolton, Salutatorian, East High School

TN - HB2811 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, requires the department of commerce and insurance to maintain on the department's website a database of each person who is registered to act as a security guard/officer and the name of any entity employing the person as a security guard/officer; makes various changes to the registration requirements for security guards/officers. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - HJR1001 Memorials, Death - Marvis LaVerne Kneeland Jones

TN - HR110 Memorials, Recognition - Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

TN - HB2805 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, establishes a pilot program that would authorize a juvenile court to retain jurisdiction over a delinquent child until their twenty-fifth birthday if best suited for the child's treatment, rehabilitation, and welfare. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB2816 Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation - As introduced, requires TSAC to administer a law enforcement fellows program whereby recipients receive an award to attend a postsecondary degree program in this state that furthers a student's knowledge in law enforcement if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HJR623 Memorials, Public Service - Representative John DeBerry

TN - HJR1399 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Alyssa Matthews, Valedictorian, East High School

TN - HJR1395 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Davion Watson, Valedictorian, Melrose High School

TN - HJR1397 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ethan O'Neil Jones, Valedictorian, Middle College High School

TN - HB2812 Industrial Development - As introduced, authorizes the establishment of industrial development corporations solely to assist and benefit minority-owned businesses, locally owned businesses, small businesses, and women-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.

TN - HB1318 Search & Seizure - As introduced, requires a complainant seeking a no-knock entry provision in a search warrant or an arrest warrant to have the facts supporting the warrant reviewed by the district attorney general prior to presenting any facts to a magistrate. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38 and Title 40, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1324 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes the use of an identification card issued by an accredited institution of higher education in this state for purposes of voter identification at a polling place; requires the secretary of state to conduct studies on such use and file reports regarding such use. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1321 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class C felony of reckless endangerment; authorizes courts to revoke or prohibit the issuance of a driver license to individuals convicted of such offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1322 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies to annually report statistics and policies regarding police canine units to the POST commission; requires the POST commission to develop and implement state guidelines for the training, care, and use of police canine units for law enforcement purposes. - Amends TCA Title 38.

TN - HB1325 Education - As enacted, requires the office of research and education accountability, in collaboration with TSAC and the departments of education, labor and workforce development, and human services to study providing driver education in Title I public high schools at low or no cost to students, sources of funding for the driver education, and benefits to students of the driver education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1326 Real Property - As introduced, requires the recordation of land sale contracts with the county register. - Amends TCA Title 66.

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 - HB1008 Sentencing - As introduced, increases the maximum percentage of the sentence imposed by the court that can be reduced by sentence credits from 15 percent to 35 percent for certain offenses and makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HJR35 Memorials, Death - Dr. Miriam Dolores DeCosta-Willis

TN - HB2813 Election Laws - As introduced, authorizes the use of an identification card issued by an accredited institution of higher education in this state for purposes of voter identification at a polling place; requires the secretary of state to conduct studies on such use and file reports regarding such use. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB394 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates June 19 of each year as "Juneteenth," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15.

TN - HB1 Capital Punishment - As introduced, allows a defendant who has been sentenced to the death penalty and whose conviction is final to petition the trial court for a determination of whether the defendant is ineligible for the death penalty due to intellectual disability. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HJR1396 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Yazmine Cox, Salutatorian, Melrose High School

TN - HB760 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the disclosure concerning transferability of credits that institutions authorized to operate by THEC must make to potential students to be in 18-point type rather than 16-point type. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1959 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires, by the 2023-2024 school year, each state college of applied technology to establish partnerships with each LEA that is located in the county in which the main campus of the state college of applied technology is located to provide early postsecondary opportunities for students enrolled in a high school in the LEA; encourages the board of regents to expand the presence of state colleges of applied technology in each county within this state to provide greater early post-secondary opportunities for students enrolled in a high school in an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2797 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a brief summary of any question, regardless of length, submitted to the people for a vote. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - 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 - HB2172 State Employees - As enacted, replaces "list of eligibles" with "pool of candidates" for purposes of filling positions in state service; revises various procedures regarding proceedings against state employees. - Amends TCA Section 8-30-103; Title 8, Chapter 30, Part 3 and Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 3.

TN - HB2544 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires a health benefit plan that provides coverage for imaging services for screening mammography to provide coverage to a patient for low-dose mammography according to specific guidelines, including a baseline mammogram for a woman 35 to 40 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1979 Secretary of State - As enacted, extends the period of reduced fees payable to the secretary of state relating to nonprofit charitable gaming and the solicitation of charitable funds. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17, Part 1 and Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.

TN - HB2113 Human Rights - As enacted, requires the department of correction, the department of mental health and substance abuse services, and the department of human services to work with a nonprofit charitable organization to provide mandatory annual training to appropriate personnel in the identification, intervention, prevention, and treatment of human trafficking victims, and in the proper action that should be taken when dealing with a known or suspected victim of human trafficking; requires that the training be submitted to, and approved by, the TBI's human trafficking advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 71.

TN - HB1781 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the bureau of TennCare within the department of finance and administration to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 71.

TN - HB2109 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to collaborate with the bureau of TennCare in order to study existing doula certification programs; requires that a report on the study be provided to the members of the general assembly and to the legislative librarian by December 31, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

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 - HB2723 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, grants state employees up to five days of leave to care for a minor child that is required to stay home as the result of a COVID-19 infection or school closure; prohibits counting such leave from against the employee's accumulated sick or annual leave. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 14 and Title 50.

TN - HB1805 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the state university and community college system, board of regents to June 30, 2026; extends video streaming and archiving requirements to meetings of the board's standing committees, in addition to meetings of the board. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 2.

TN - HB1999 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, requires the board of pharmacy to promulgate rules necessary to ensure that an individual who is blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled has appropriate access to prescription labels, bag tags, and medical guides. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - HB1596 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to provide certain medical personnel who are residents of this state and who have provided healthcare services during the effective period of the state of emergency declared by the governor in Executive Order No. 14 on March 12, 2020, with a one-time stipend of $1,500. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2291 Education - As enacted, urges the standards recommendation committee to include certain academic standards regarding the civil rights movement in the committee's final recommendation of academic standards in the subject of social studies for students in grades nine through 12. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2329 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, classifies all misdemeanor offenses under the Tennessee Personal and Commercial Computer Act of 2003 as Class A misdemeanor offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 6.

TN - HB2145 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, outlines a relative caregiver program for foster care; authorizes the department to implement an extension of the foster care program to provide services to youth transitioning from state custody to adulthood. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 2 and Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1248 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, classifies the theft of a firearm from a law enforcement vehicle as a Class D felony, regardless of the value of the firearm. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-105.

TN - HB2118 Sentencing - As enacted, allows a court to revoke a defendant's probation and suspension of sentence for a misdemeanor offense based upon one instance of a technical violation or violations; specifies that the court may revoke the defendant's probation and suspension of sentence in full or in part, and may sentence the defendant to a sentence of probation for the remainder of the unexpired term; adds "contacting the defendant's victim in violation of a condition of probation or parole" as an act that may result in revocation of probation or parole. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1390 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases, from five to seven days, the time in which a party who brings a private action for identity theft must submit a copy of any judgment, order, or decrees of the action to the attorney general. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 47.

TN - HB2840 TennCare - As enacted, requires the bureau to, in consultation with and approval of the commissioner of finance and administration, develop and implement a program substantially similar to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport model for emergency services. - Amends TCA Title 71.

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 - HB1360 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, increases, from $4.00 to $5.00, the amount of the fee that may be imposed by each county clerk for the service of handling mail orders of registration plates and decals. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-105.

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 - HB2436 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, specifies that a student who graduates early from an eligible high school, or who completes high school at an eligible home school early, or who obtains an equivalency diploma before the spring semester immediately preceding the student's initial fall enrollment, and is admitted to, and enrolled full time in, an eligible postsecondary program, is eligible for the Tennessee promise scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1393 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, allows a person to have the right of suffrage restored if the person has entered into an agreement to pay the full amount of restitution owed to a victim in reasonable installments and is current on such installments. - Amends TCA Title 40.

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 - HB2565 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the department, as allowed via federal department of agriculture waiver of the physical presence requirement, to utilize remote use of the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children at a substantially similar level as has been available during calendar years 2020, 2021, and 2022; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2270 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Nicholas' Law," which specifies that a prior conviction for the offense of boating under the influence must be treated the same as a prior conviction for driving under the influence of an intoxicant for purposes of determining punishment for a violation of driving under the influence of an intoxicant; specifies that a violation of driving under the influence of an intoxicant must be treated the same as a prior conviction for boating under the influence for purposes of determining punishment for boating under the influence. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4 and Title 69, Chapter 9, Part 2.

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 - HB2331 Election Laws - As enacted, requires that, on and after January 1, 2024, each voting machine used by a county election commission produce a voter-verifiable paper audit trail, instead of being capable of producing a voter-verified paper audit trail. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - HB1522 State Government - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Small Business Investment Company Credit Act regarding TNInvestco. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 61; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB2663 Mental Illness - As enacted, enacts the "Mental Health Treatment Act of 2022." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2009 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires that a person convicted of aggravated assault that involved the use or display of a deadly weapon be punished one classification higher than otherwise provided by law if the violation was committed by discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.

TN - HB2177 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, excludes narcotic testing equipment used to determine whether a controlled substance contains a synthetic opioid from the definition of "drug paraphernalia"; exclusion does not apply if the equipment is possessed for purposes of a person's commission of a drug-related offense; exclusion repealed July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-402.

TN - HB1888 Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to verify with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) that persons are no longer qualified to vote before purging the voter registration of such persons; authorizes same day voter registration for qualified voters to register or have their registration updated and be able to vote beginning on the first day of any period of early voting through the day of an election. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB2148 State Universities - As enacted, creates the Tennessee Center for Nursing Advancement within East Tennessee State University to address issues of nursing workforce needs and makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 5; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2105 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Healthy Food Financing Act"; levies a $0.05 tax on beverage containers to fund the act. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 67.

TN - HB1384 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, repeals statutory fee structure for licenses and permits, with certain exceptions; authorizes the fish and wildlife commission to promulgate rules to abolish license years and establish an annual license system. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2743 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, authorizes the investment committee for the TCRS board of trustees to cause the retirement system to divest, as expeditiously as possible, from an investment the system has with an entity found to be doing business with or supporting a country sanctioned by the office of foreign assets control. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 37.

TN - HB2762 Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, revises the pay schedule in Tennessee Code Annotated for assistant district attorneys and assistant district public defenders. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2530 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, enacts the "Heart to Heart Act," which encourages schools to offer automated external defibrillator device training to school bus drivers. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB2318 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, requires that the design of disabled license plates incorporate the color scheme, base design, and details used on the standard registration and license plate, to be effectuated upon the existing inventory of the registration and license plates being utilized. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1833 Litter Control - As enacted, includes as a form of littering for any commercial purposes, which is considered aggravated criminal littering, the act of knowingly placing, dropping, or throwing two or more tires on public or private property without permission and without immediately removing the tires; punishable as a Class A misdemeanor or Class E felony based on weight/volume and prior convictions, except that a first offense involving more than eight tires placed, dropped, or thrown for a commercial purpose will be a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 5; Title 55 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

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 - HB2212 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, permits a judge to issue a criminal summons, instead of an arrest warrant, for a technical violation of probation or a suspended sentence when the technical violation is brought by a probation officer. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB1247 Comptroller, State - As introduced, requires the department of audit to obtain a comprehensive analysis, created by the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, of the extent to which an entity is in compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and include a summary of the analysis as part of the department's performance review of a state entity. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21 and Title 4, Chapter 3.

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 - HB1956 Public Health - As enacted, increases the number of EMT/AEMT training centers operated by ambulance services that may be operated from 15 to 30; authorizes EMT/AEMT training centers to provide online or virtual didactic instruction to the same extent such instruction may be provided by accredited EMS education institutions; makes other related changes; urges ambulance services operating EMT/AEMT training centers and the Tennessee board of regents to develop partnerships as practicable to increase the capacity of this state to prepare EMTs, AEMTs, and paramedics. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB2875 Jails, Local Lock-ups - As enacted, prohibits, beginning on the date on which a pregnancy is known to a law enforcement agency and confirmed by a healthcare professional, placing an inmate, who is in the custody of a correctional institution, in restraints; creates certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 41.

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 - HB2465 Opioids - As enacted, authorizes a healthcare prescriber to prescribe an opioid antagonist for purposes related to the potential for drug-related overdose, not just opioid-related overdose; permits certain government and non-governmental entities to prescribe and store an opioid antagonist for the purpose of providing the antagonist to a person at-risk of overdose or likely to assist a person experiencing overdose; makes various other changes regarding prescribing and usage of opioid antagonists. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1 and Title 68.

TN - HB1899 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, allows a teacher holding the teacher's second or third teaching permit to apply to the department of education for a limited license to continue teaching the course or subject area taught pursuant to the teacher's current temporary permit; not applicable to a limited license to teach a physical education class, a course for which an end-of-course examination is required, or a special education course; adds other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

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 - HB2309 State Government - As enacted, adds to the Eligibility Verification for Entitlements Act that a public benefit does not include a professional or commercial license for purposes of the citizenship verification requirement; specifies that to be eligible for a professional or commercial license, an applicant must show that the applicant is either a United States citizen or authorized under federal law to work in the United States as verified by the SAVE program. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB2733 Veterans - As enacted, requires an employer to allow a veteran employee to have the entirety of Veterans' Day as a non-paid holiday if certain conditions met; specifies that this act does not prohibit an employer from allowing the employer's veteran employees to have the entirety of Veterans Day as a paid holiday. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 15; Title 50 and Title 58.

TN - HB2583 Children - As enacted, redefines "adversely affect the child's health and welfare" for purposes of the offense of knowingly abusing or neglecting a child under 18 years of age, so as to adversely affect the child's health and welfare; revises the offense of a person or entity operating a child care agency without being licensed or continuing to operate such agency while a suspension of the license is in effect, or operating a child care agency following the effective date of a denial or revocation of a license. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4 and Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5.

TN - HB1394 Education - As introduced, changes, from 30 days to 45 days, the time a child care program or entity has from the date of the mailing of a notice of failure to file an annual report to submit the report to the commissioner of education or have its certificate of approval suspended. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1957 Public Records - As enacted, extends the date for repeal of a current law specifying certain law enforcement body camera video must be treated as confidential and not subject to public inspection from July 1, 2022, until July 1, 2027; revises provision in regard to the confidentiality of body camera video that depicts minors within a school that serves grades K-12 to include as confidential such video that depicts minors in a child care agency, child care program, preschool, or nursery school. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Title 38.

TN - HB2564 Students - As introduced, prohibits the use of corporal punishment against students; deletes various provisions relative to the use of corporal punishment. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 41 and Title 49.

TN - HB1449 Sentencing - As enacted, revises provisions governing sentencing for persons convicted of drug offenses committed in a drug-free school zone; authorizes a court that imposed a sentence for a drug-free school zone offense that occurred prior to September 1, 2020, upon motion of the defendant or the district attorney general or the court's own motion, to resentence the defendant under the current law. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1316 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies to report findings of excessive use of force by a law enforcement officer to the district attorney general, to be reviewed for possible criminal prosecution; requires the district attorney general to review 10 percent of all allegations of excessive force in each previous calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2138 Education - As enacted, allows the use of results from TCAP tests administered in the 2020-2021 school year in the TVAAS and to set the annual measurable objectives for schools and LEAs for the 2021-2022 school year; allows the use of annual measurable objectives using the results of those TCAP tests to assign letter grades to schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2575 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, specifies that if an anonymous report of harm is made to the department, a juvenile court must not order the parents or person responsible for the care of the child, or the person in charge of any place where the child may be, to allow the department entrance for purposes of interview, examination, and investigation unless the department has presented evidence corroborating the anonymous report of harm. - Amends TCA Title 37.

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 - HB1887 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, requires the BEP formula to fund full-time response to instruction and intervention (RTI) positions at a ratio of one per 1,000 students or one full-time RTI position for each LEA, whichever is greater. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - HB1377 Children - As enacted, enacts "Eli's Law," which creates a presumption that any child born to a parent, from whose custody a child has previously been removed for being dependent or neglected and the child who was previously removed is in the custody of the department of children's services, may be dependent or neglected and that it is in the best interest of both children that the child's birth be brought to the court's attention; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.

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 - HB2104 TennCare - As introduced, directs the governor to seek a new TennCare waiver within 180 days of the effective date of this act to provide medical assistance coverage for the same population groups and services as the Insure Tennessee proposal; clarifies that the amendment takes effect upon federal approval. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2146 Driver Licenses - As enacted, establishes a third-party skills testing program administered by the department of safety for the purpose of facilitating the testing and licensure of commercial drivers; authorizes the department of correction to create a commercial driver license training program for purposes of training offenders who, upon release from incarceration, may be suitable for careers in the transportation industry. - Amends TCA Section 12-2-403; Title 41; Section 49-6-2107 and Title 55.

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 - HB2457 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, revises the provisions governing property used in violation of certain hunting laws. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 39; Title 40; Title 69, Chapter 9 and Title 70.

TN - HB2178 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, allows TEMA to use unmanned aircraft to capture images for the purposes of emergency management and limits the amount of time that TEMA may retain an image it captures pursuant to this provision for the purpose of damage assessment to one year or, if the disaster is later declared a major disaster by the President of the United States, for the retention period required by the federal emergency management agency for data related to damage assessment; limits the amount of time that TEMA may retain all images captured for any other purpose to 15 business days. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-902.

TN - HB2226 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, increases, from $1,250 to $2,000, the amount awarded each semester to a full-time student receiving the middle college scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

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 - HB1509 Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the department to utilize alternative methodologies to determine the cost of day care when setting the annual day care reimbursement rate and to take actions necessary to support the development of shared services alliances and family child care networks to improve the quality of child care in this state, give child care providers access to innovative child care business resource platforms, and provide a means of cost savings to child care providers through negotiated discounts. - Amends TCA Title 71.

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 - HB1595 Health Care - As introduced, creates a cap on the price that a health insurance carrier can charge for insulin. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53; Title 56, Chapter 7; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1661 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a new offense of aggravated reckless driving. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10.

TN - HB2114 Consumer Protection - As enacted, makes it a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act to advertise a home warranty to consumers in this state, or issue or deliver a home warranty to consumers in this state, without explicitly stating in written detail what items will be covered and fully paid for by the home warranty. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 62.

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 - HB1666 Divorce, Annulment and Alimony - As enacted, authorizes a court to allow mediation between parties in a divorce proceeding to occur by video conference when appropriate. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 4.

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 - HB2106 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires, rather than recommends, that the course of instruction for students in grades five through eight include curricula designed to educate students in black history and black culture. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1006.

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 - HB2724 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, repeals the law that allows authorized persons to transport or store a firearm or firearm ammunition in the person's motor vehicle while on or utilizing a public or private parking area if the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 49 and Title 50.

TN - HB2037 Driver Licenses - As enacted, removes authority of the department of safety to deny a license to a minor for unsatisfactory academic progress; retains provisions for denial of a license, with certain exceptions, to a minor when the person is a student who is not enrolled in school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB2220 Coroners - As enacted, requires attending physician, chief medical officer, or medical examiner signing the medical certification of the cause of death of a military veteran to, prior to signing, review medical records, including records from the U.S. department of veterans affairs, if the deceased person is known to be a military veteran and if the physician, chief medical officer, or medical examiner is provided access to the records in order to determine if a service-connected disability was the principal or major contributory cause of death. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 5.

TN - HB2820 Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, requires the department of safety to provide the annual report on civil asset forfeiture to the members of the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice and criminal justice committees of the house of representatives, rather than the chairs of the committees. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2102 Expunction - As enacted, revises the eligibility requirements for a person to qualify as an "eligible petitioner" for purposes of petitioning for expunction of public records concerning a conviction for a felony or misdemeanor committed prior to November 1, 1989. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB1830 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires certain departments to create programs to reduce gun violence in communities, including a youth employment program, violence intervention program, and firearm buyback program; requires the department of health to submit a quarterly report to the legislature and counties and municipalities on the effects of gun violence in communities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 49; Title 50; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2022 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires department's case managers to report a suspected violation of a court order to law enforcement in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Section 39-13-113.

TN - HB1860 Education - As enacted, allows teachers to use results from benchmark assessments, including, but not limited to, state-adopted benchmark assessments or a universal screener approved by the state board of education, to measure student achievement. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2653 Agriculture - As enacted, clarifies that "vacant public land" for purposes of the Tennessee Community Gardening Act includes property controlled by a parks and recreation department or similar entity that is not currently being used as park land. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 24.

TN - HB2165 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, authorizes the department of correction, through the judicial cost accountant, to advance or reimburse witness expenses necessary to the prosecution of criminal cases as requested by the district attorney general and approved by the court; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2657 Sentencing - As enacted, enacts the "Transparency In Sentencing For Victims Act." - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB1434 Victims' Rights - As introduced, establishes a study committee to study the traumatic effects on victims of criminal offenses that do not involve physical harm; allows a victim of a nonviolent crime to receive notification of the release from custody of an offender from a jail or detention facility prior to trial. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB2613 Public Records - As enacted, requires government entities to maintain records of information relating to the deaths of persons held in jails and prisons. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7 and Section 38-10-102.

TN - HB1987 Public Utilities - As enacted, requires a utility system, upon request or application for a connection of utility service by a customer, to promptly provide the customer the connection cost. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB2799 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, increases the age at which a juvenile can be transferred to criminal court and tried for a criminal offense as an adult to 17 years of age for any offense. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1.

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 - HB193 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, mandates, beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, that each LEA receive no less than a 50 percent state share in the instructional salaries and wages components, instructional benefits components, and classroom components. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1572 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, eliminates the sales tax on diapers and wipes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB127 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, exempts tow trucks that are responding to an emergency call received from a law enforcement agency from law that generally makes it a Class C misdemeanor to operate a vehicle on the shoulder or right-of-way of a state highway. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HB2367 Sheriffs - As enacted, requires the Tennessee sheriffs' association to provide a criminal proceedings notification system, as a three-year pilot program that will begin July 1, 2022, and end June 30, 2025, for the purpose of increasing the transparency and efficiency of the criminal justice process by providing timely information about each stage of the criminal process to interested parties; requires that the criminal proceedings notification system be available 24 hours a day over the telephone, through the internet, or by email. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 40 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.

TN - HB2283 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, enacts "Dallas's Law," which revises various provisions governing security guards/officers. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 57 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - HB2294 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires that students in grades six through eight complete a financial literacy course. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1570 Education - As enacted, requires the commissioner of education to obtain approval from the state board of education for changes to the formula used to calculate school or LEA performance goals and measures; requires the commissioner to convene a working group before submitting a proposal to the state board to change the formula. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1930 Education - As enacted, authorizes a local board of education or charter school governing body to implement, as part of the LEA's or public charter school's discipline policy, holistic programs of positive behavior reinforcement and reward-based behavior modification systems. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2818 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires LEAs to include a course of instruction for students in kindergarten through grade 12 with curricula designed to educate students in conflict resolution that is age and grade appropriate. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1927 Controlled Substances - As introduced, changes the date, from January 1 to January 15, by which the medical cannabis commission must submit its annual report to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43, Chapter 27; Title 53; Title 67 and Title 68, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2078 Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, requires employers to pay employees no less than the minimum wage, regardless of the subminimum wage for an employee whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by age, physical, or mental deficiency or injury. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - HB1391 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, authorizes 12 workweeks of paid family leave during a 12-month period for qualified state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - HB2023 Child Abuse - As enacted, requires a landlord or person in control of a residential rental property to provide a case manager from the department of children's services or a child protective investigation team with information on the address or location of a child who has been alleged to be abused or neglected and resides or is located on the residential rental property; grants immunity from liability for a cooperating landlord, except in cases of willful or wanton conduct or intentional wrongdoing. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.

TN - HB2819 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, requires the department of labor and workforce development to establish a living wage for the state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12, Chapter 4 and Title 50.

TN - HB2087 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates the offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle or boat while the person is not in the motor vehicle or boat unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked within the trunk, utility or glove box, or a locked container securely affixed to the motor vehicle or boat; requires the owner of a firearm to report the loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 24 hours of the discovery of the loss or theft. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB1747 Controlled Substances - As enacted, adds quadriplegia as a qualifying medical condition for the lawful possession of cannabis oil. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 68, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1654 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain persons. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HB2142 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, changes the designation of June 19, known as "Juneteenth," from a day of special observance to a legal holiday. - Amends TCA Title 15.

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 - HB1406 Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires law enforcement agencies to develop certain policies regarding the use of force; prohibits magistrates from issuing no-knock warrants; establishes certain reporting requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1593 Public Contracts - As introduced, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to perform a study regarding disparities in the issuance of state contracts to businesses owned and operated by African Americans, and to report its findings no later than January 31, 2022. - Amends amend TCA Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 1.

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 - HB1459 Domestic Violence - As enacted, adds to the provisions governing bail that following the arrest of a person for the offense of aggravated assault under circumstances in which the alleged victim of the offense is a domestic abuse victim, that the court or magistrate must make certain findings and, based on the findings, may extend the 12-hour hold period up to 24 hours after the time of arrest; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 36; 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 - HB1410 Sports - As enacted, enacts the "Safe Stars Act," which establishes certain health and safety requirements in regard to school youth athletic activities. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB2070 Adoption - As enacted, expands the definition of severe child sexual abuse for purposes of termination of parental rights and giving a parent standing to file a petition to terminate the parental rights of the abusive parent; declares all adoption records to be a public record when 100 years have elapsed since the date the adoption was finalized; makes various other changes in regard to termination of parental rights and adoption. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.

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 - HB2533 Sheriffs - As enacted, requires a sheriff, deputy sheriff, or constable serving an order of protection or ex parte order of protection to make reasonable efforts, prior to or at the time of service, to determine whether the person being served has an outstanding criminal warrant. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 36.

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 - HB1752 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits a health benefit plan from denying coverage for emergency services obtained in certain medical facilities. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1433 Sentencing - As enacted, classifies the offense of reckless endangerment by discharging a firearm from within a motor vehicle as a Class C felony. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB1679 Expunction - As enacted, permits a person to have the person's criminal records expunged if the person has been convicted of one or more criminal offenses other than the offense for which the person is seeking expunction; clarifies that a person is only eligible for expunction of criminal records once; requires that the person not have been convicted of a criminal offense that is ineligible for expunction, including federal offenses and offenses in other states, that occurred prior to the offense for which the person is seeking expunction. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HR157 Memorials, Recognition - Reverend Christine Allen Glass

TN - HR156 Memorials, Recognition - Reverend Dr. Cozette Garrett

TN - HR218 Memorials, Heroism - Samantha and Daniel McCanless and Congressman Dr. Scott DesJarlais

TN - HR25 Memorials, Death - Justin Sawyer

TN - HR109 Memorials, Death - Dr. Matthew Walker III

TN - HR1 Memorials, Retirement - Chris Bundgaard

TN - HR44 Memorials, Sports - Eddie George

TN - HR162 Memorials, Recognition - Reverend Marilynn Sasportas Robinson

TN - HR158 Memorials, Recognition - Reverend Mary E. Moore

TN - HR163 Memorials, Recognition - Reverend Dr. Rosalyn Regina Nichols

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

TN - HR160 Memorials, Recognition - Reverend Dr. Gina M. Stewart

TN - HR202 Memorials, Recognition - Tally Bevis, 2021 Miss Tennessee

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 - HJR516 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Amin Elijah Buchanan, Valedictorian, Raleigh Egypt High School

TN - HJR96 Memorials, Death - Representative David Shepard

TN - HJR193 Memorials, Death - Representative David Shepard

TN - HJR927 Memorials, Heroism - Honors the people of Ukraine for defending their country against Russian invasion.

TN - HJR664 Memorials, Retirement - Leland C. Blackwood

TN - HJR415 Memorials, Recognition - LeMoyne College students, 1960 Sit-In Movement, 61st anniversary

TN - HJR180 Memorials, Recognition - Eddie Sherlin

TN - HJR891 Memorials, Retirement - Sharon Day

TN - HJR515 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sahid Yoel Castor, Salutatorian, Raleigh Egypt High School

TN - HJR513 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Zackerra Adams, Salutatorian, Craigmont High School

TN - HJR514 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Justine Kheiv, Valedictorian, Craigmont High School

TN - HJR212 Memorials, Recognition - First responders of Tennessee

TN - HJR181 Memorials, Recognition - Bobby Keel

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

TN - HJR790 Memorials, Death - Tom Tigue

TN - HJR1254 Memorials, Interns - Kimora Reaves

TN - HJR234 Memorials, Recognition - Jesse Eugene Russell, Sr.

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

TN - HJR668 Memorials, Recognition - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Month, February 2022

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

TN - HJR795 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Bernice Bouie Donald

TN - HJR517 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jalen Taliaferro, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences High School

TN - HJR768 Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to enact legislation to grant statehood to the District of Columbia.

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

TN - HJR247 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Paul Young, Downtown Memphis Commission President & CEO

TN - HJR1172 Memorials, Interns - Office of Minority Affairs interns

TN - HJR924 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Greg Mathis

TN - HJR803 Memorials, Death - James R. "Jim" Fitzhugh

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

TN - HJR230 Memorials, Recognition - Hayley Arceneaux

TN - HJR1105 Memorials, Death - Perry H. Windle, Jr.

TN - HJR103 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges Tennesseans to register as organ and tissue donors.

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 - HJR722 Memorials, Death - Bobby James Leverett

TN - HJR164 Memorials, Recognition - Richard W. Smith

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Vernicia Parker, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences High School

TN - HJR747 Memorials, Death - Major General (Ret.) John Singlaub

TN - HJR845 Memorials, Recognition - Clay County Fair, 2021 Class A Division State Champion Fair

TN - HJR1387 Memorials, Death - Grady Pascal Williams

TN - HJR358 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

TN - HJR912 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Deshawn Ewing, Marshall County Grades K-4 and Marshall Elementary School Teacher of the Year

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

TN - HJR197 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Seo Yoon Yang, Valedictorian, Signal Mountain Middle-High School

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

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