Tennessee Rep. Jason Potts (D)

TN - HB55 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, increases, from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony punishable only by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $3,000, the penalty for a person operating a motor vehicle who fails to stop the vehicle upon approaching a school bus. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1223 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, requires department of economic and community development to report annually to office of legislative budget analysis in addition to senate and house finance, ways and means committees regarding the Tennessee job skills program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 9, Chapter 16; Title 9, Chapter 3; Title 13, Chapter 16; Title 13, Chapter 3; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 50, Chapter 7; Title 64, Chapter 6; Title 65, Chapter 5 and Title 67.

TN - HB1217 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, authorizes the general assembly to include a description of each scenic highway or road for which funds are appropriated in the general appropriations act. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 17.

TN - HB1224 Domestic Violence - As introduced, requires the court to order that a defendant convicted of domestic violence who transfers possession of firearms to a third party must have the third party complete and return to the court an affidavit certifying that the third party is not prohibited from possessing firearms, acknowledges receipt of firearms from the defendant, and accepts their responsibility under this section. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 40.

TN - HB52 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, phases out the professional privilege tax over a four-year period for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HB10 Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the Prospective Employee Credit Information Privacy Act, which prohibits an employer from failing or refusing to recruit or interview a prospective employee with respect to certain employment based on that person's credit information and creates a private cause of action for those injured due to violations by employers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - HB582 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, in Davidson County, requires that tree density be considered as a factor in determining the value of residential property. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1096 Health Care - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to submit a report by not later than January 1, instead of February 1, of each year to the governor and to each house of the general assembly regarding the department's nursing home inspection and enforcement activities during the previous year. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB1220 Traffic Safety - As introduced, establishes requirements for the operation of electric foot scooters. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 1; Title 55, Chapter 10; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB1219 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, directs the department of health and the department of commerce and insurance to promulgate rules for the issuance of temporary occupational licenses to spouses of members of the armed forces of the United States. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1396 Education - As introduced, allows a child care program to submit its annual report to the commissioner of education in electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB56 Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits as a Class B misdemeanor punishable by a fine an employer from screening an applicant for employment based upon compensation history; permits employer to consider the compensation history of current employee during a transfer, move, or hire of the employee to a new position with the same employer; permits applicant to voluntarily share compensation history information with prospective employer; grants enforcement authority to department of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 50.

TN - HB53 Fire Prevention and Investigation - As introduced, requires the use of smoke alarms with sealed battery units enabling the alarm to operate continuously for 10 years in all new construction of one-family and two-family dwellings; recommends their use in all other new construction. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - HB1218 Licenses - As introduced, authorizes the reinstatement of professional and occupational licenses under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 32; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB583 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, requires the driver of any vehicle involved in an accident with a pedestrian or bicyclist to stop at scene of accident and to report accident. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 1.

TN - HB1221 Election Laws - As introduced, requires residential landlords and sellers of residential homes to provide lessees or buyers with the location and contact information for the office of the county election commission and a voter registration form. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB54 Public Buildings - As introduced, requires that each newly constructed or renovated public building owned, operated, or under the control of a public entity be equipped with a baby diaper changing station. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12, Chapter 2; Title 13 and Title 68.

TN - HB1097 Courts, Supreme Court of Tennessee - As introduced, increases from 20 to 25 the number of days' notice the supreme court must give prior to holding a special term for the trial of causes the court deems essential to the public interest. - Amends TCA Title 16.

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

TN - HB909 Elder Abuse - As introduced, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - HB268 School Transportation - As introduced, permits LEAs to install cameras on school buses to record vehicles that unlawfully pass a stopped school bus; allows evidence to be reviewed by law enforcement officers only after evidence is submitted to an LEA by a school bus driver; establishes citations for first and subsequent offenses. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB780 Workers Compensation - As introduced, creates a presumption that a firefighter or emergency medical services personnel diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sustained the injury in the line of duty for purposes of workers' compensation; allows for the presumption to be rebutted by evidence that the PTSD was caused by nonservice-connected risk factors or exposure. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 56.

TN - HB1222 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to provide a written report to the judiciary committees of the senate and the house, the state and local government committee of the senate, and the state government committee of the house by February 1, 2020, and by February 1 each year thereafter, detailing the institutional efficiency modifications made at each correctional facility and private contract prison in this state the prior year. - Amends TCA Title 41.

TN - HB340 Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, makes various changes to civil forfeiture procedure, including requiring the district attorney general to review the underlying circumstances of a seizure to determine if probable cause exists to justify forfeiture and, when appropriate, file a motion to dismiss the application for forfeiture warrant, upon which the court shall dismiss the application and return the seized property. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33.

TN - HB568 Orders of Protection - As introduced, requires local law enforcement to conduct in-person checks to ensure person subject to order of protection has complied with dispossession of firearms requirement; makes various other changes regarding the dispossession of firearms requirement. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB17 Children - As introduced, establishes a presumption that a minor who is the victim of a sexual offense or engaged in prostitution held a reasonable belief that the use of force is immediately necessary to avoid imminent death or serious bodily injury. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1 Gambling - As introduced, authorizes sports betting in this state only in jurisdictions that approve sports betting by local option election; imposes a 10 percent tax on gaming revenue; distributes 40 percent of the tax to the general fund for general appropriations, 30 percent to Tennessee colleges of applied technologies and community colleges for equipment and capital projects, and 30 percent to local governments for education and infrastructure; establishes the Tennessee gaming commission to regulate sports betting; authorizes the commission to collaborate with the Tennessee bureau of investigation for purposes of enforcement. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 5; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HB498 TennCare - As introduced, reduces the time period from 30 days to 15 days for an enrollee or applicant for medical assistance to mail documentation of a material change affecting the enrollee or applicant's TennCare application. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - 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 - HB1303 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the department of correction, in partnership with the Tennessee higher education commission and the board of regents, to develop and submit to the general assembly an annual report detailing the higher education opportunities available to incarcerated individuals in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41; Title 49 and Title 50.

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

TN - 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 - HB1161 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, clarifies that, for purposes of the offense of unlawfully passing a youth bus, the term "youth bus" includes tour buses and other vehicles carrying not less than 15 passengers. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 49 and Title 55.

TN - HB519 Firefighters - As introduced, creates a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter's cancer that causes a disabling health condition is a result of the firefighter's duties as a firefighter. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB1141 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts sales of gun safes from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB942 Controlled Substances - As introduced, increases the penalty to a Class B felony for 15 grams or more or a Class A felony for 150 grams or more of fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or any fentanyl derivative or analogue. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

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 - HB1340 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor of violating a no contact order issued to a domestic violence victim as part of a disposition in any criminal court. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-113.

TN - HB273 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Save Tennessee Call Center Jobs Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - HB1138 Taxes, Amusement - As 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 - 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 - HB873 Appeal and Review - As introduced, allows petitions for post-conviction relief based on new non-scientific evidence establishing that the petitioner is actually innocent of the offense for which the petitioner was convicted; establishes certain requirements for evidence on which such petitions are based. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 30, Part 1.

TN - HB353 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, allows certain persons who receive certified occupational training as a prisoner or a student in a high school technical training class to receive equivalent credit toward an occupational license relating to the training received. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 6, Part 1; Title 37; Title 38; Title 41; Title 49; Title 62 and Title 63.

TN - HB25 Education - As introduced, removes the Tennessee School for the Deaf from the Tennessee School for the Blind facilities beginning with the 2022-2023 school year; changes from Davidson County to middle Tennessee the location at which a Tennessee School for the Deaf branch must operate; prohibits certain schools from sharing certain leadership positions at the same time. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HB888 Election Laws - As introduced, disqualifies a member of a county election commission from continuing to serve on the commission if the member's spouse, parent, sibling, or child qualifies for any public office. - Amends TCA Section 2-12-102.

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

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

TN - HB1064 Contractors - As introduced, requires contractors licensed after January 1, 2009, to complete eight hours of continuing education biennially beginning January 1, 2020; allows contractor to count current membership in a board-approved professional trade association as four hours of credit biennially. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5 and Title 62, Chapter 6.

TN - HB193 Expunction - As introduced, permits an eligible petitioner to have multiple, nonviolent convictions for offenses that resulted from the petitioner's status as a victim of human trafficking expunged if the expunction is in the best interest of justice and public safety. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB62 Disabled Persons - As enacted, enacts the "Dynamic Accessibility Act," which provides for a modern symbol of access for disabled persons. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 12; Title 55 and Title 68.

TN - HB949 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, enacts the Governor's Investment in Vocational Education Act; specifies that financial assistance received for all dual enrollment courses attempted after the fourth dual enrollment course reduces any subsequent award of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-930.

TN - HB941 Expunction - As introduced, removes $180 fee for an individual petitioning the court for an expunction of certain criminal offenses; removes $350 fee for a defendant applying for expunction of an offense following the completion of a diversion program. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB283 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the punishment for a conviction of aggravated rape of a child from 15 to 60 years in prison and a fine of up to $50,000 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

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

TN - HB877 Election Laws - As introduced, extends the time by which a candidate may withdraw, from seven days after the qualifying deadline to 60 days before the election. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 5.

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 - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Khyiah K. Riviears

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

TN - HR73 Memorials, Death - George Klein

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 - HJR364 Memorials, Recognition - Nathan "Nearest" Green

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 - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

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

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

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

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

TN - 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 - HJR307 Memorials, Death - Durward Gordon Hall

TN - HJR273 Memorials, Recognition - Lynn Nelson

TN - HJR438 Memorials, Recognition - Shannon McCloud

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

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

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