Tennessee Rep. Jason Potts (D)

TN - Transportation (House)

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TN - Judiciary (House)

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TN - Children and Families Subcommittee (House)

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TN - COVID Related Liability (House)

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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1220 Traffic Safety - As enacted, establishes requirements for the operation of electric foot scooters; specifies that for purposes of the DUI laws, an electric scooter will be considered a motor-driven vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 1; Title 55, Chapter 10; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB6543 Animal Control - As introduced, requires an animal owner's relative to retrieve the animal from an animal control agency within seven days of the owner's death; permits the animal control agency to treat the animal as an abandoned animal if the relative has not retrieved the animal within seven days. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 63, Chapter 12 and Title 68.

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 - HB2853 General Assembly, Directed Studies - As introduced, directs TACIR to study the effectiveness of vehicle emissions testing that is conducted in this state. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 55; Title 59; Title 60; Title 65 and Title 68.

TN - HB2546 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, limits to seven days prior to the commencement of activities the duration of notice that the commissioner may require before a contractor begins lead-based paint abatement activities. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6; Title 66, Chapter 5 and Title 68.

TN - HB2545 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, prohibits private employers with 50 or more employees and public employers from making employment decisions with regard to an applicant or current employee based on wage or salary history. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 12 and Title 50.

TN - HB2547 Real Property - As introduced, requires that the real estate disclosure form state whether residential real estate is located in a county identified by the EPA as having a high potential for elevated indoor radon levels; recommends that buyers obtain a radon test prior to closing. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - HB2549 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to post to its website in a manner accessible to the general public its most recent annual report to the general assembly regarding its estate recovery collection activities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2550 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, allows the commissioner of finance and administration, the commissioner of general services, and the comptroller of the treasury to have a designee serve on the information systems council. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 12.

TN - HB2551 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, requires the state to provide employees compensation equivalent to at least $15.00 per hour. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8, Chapter 23; Title 9; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 54.

TN - HB2569 Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, changes the time period that the executive director must survey each school of nursing in this state and submit a written report to the state board of nursing from at least once every eight years to at least once every five years. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HB2543 Animal Control - As introduced, requires an animal owner's relative to retrieve the animal from an animal control agency within seven days of the owner's death; permits the animal control agency to treat the animal as an abandoned animal if the relative has not retrieved the animal within seven days. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 63, Chapter 12 and Title 68.

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 - HB2553 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, changes from 14 to 21 the number of days notice that is required to be given to a child's parent, guardian, or custodian prior to a hearing to transfer the child from juvenile court to criminal court. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 40 and Title 49.

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 - HB2552 Children - As introduced, changes from October 1 to October 15 the date by which a child care program certified by the department of education must submit its annual report to the commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.

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 - HB2548 Election Laws - As introduced, increases time allowed for a person to register to vote from 30 days before an election to 25 days before an election. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - HB2544 Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, requires the landlord to give the tenant 60 days' notice prior to the termination of a residential lease agreement. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - HB907 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends certain local option sales tax provisions to municipalities with a professional soccer franchise. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2094 Redistricting, Legislative - As introduced, imposes public notice and public input requirements on a redistricting committee and upon consideration of a final redistricting plan. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 16, Part 1 and Title 3.

TN - HB2526 Veterans - As introduced, requires the state veterans home board to submit its annual report on the state veterans' homes to the members of the state government committee of the house of representatives and state and local government committee of the senate; deletes an obsolete reference to the "joint select committee on veterans' affairs". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 49; Title 55; Title 58 and Title 67.

TN - HB2705 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, creates a five-member Asian carp advisory commission to recommend methods and seek funding for the eradication of Asian carp from Tennessee waters. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 70.

TN - HB1670 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, removes Nathan Bedford Forrest Day as a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2764 Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires the department of human resources to make an annual report on or before January 15, instead of periodically, to the governor on recommendations for improvements of the state service system. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 28; Title 29; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 50.

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 - HB379 Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation - As enacted, requires TSAC to promulgate rules designating pregnancy as an approved medical leave of absence for purposes of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1596 Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Accessible Transportation and Mobility Act of 2020." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 23; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB839 Driver Licenses - As enacted, revises provisions governing payment plans for fines and costs and license suspension for failure to comply with plan. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 24, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 5.

TN - HB25 Education - As enacted, prohibits the Tennessee School for the Blind, the Tennessee School for the Deaf, the West Tennessee School for the Deaf, and the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute from sharing the same president, director of schools, or officers at the same time. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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

TN - HB2645 Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires commissioner of safety to design and make available to persons with autism spectrum disorder a blue envelope containing written information and guidance on ways to enhance effective communication between a law enforcement officer and a person with such disorder, and the person's driver license, registration, and insurance card. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB2457 Firefighters - As introduced, enacts the "Firefighter Suicide Prevention Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB268 School Transportation - As enacted, permits LEAs to install cameras on school buses to record vehicles that unlawfully pass a stopped school bus; establishes requirements for such cameras and their use. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 21 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB225 Election Laws - As introduced, requires election officials to inspect filings for sufficiency and timeliness; establishes conclusive presumption that accepted filings are sufficient and timely filed. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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 - HB2442 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, makes changes related to a caterer's license for purposes of consumption on the premises; restricts the number of undercover investigations the alcoholic beverage commission can perform on a single licensee in a year; requires a server permit for a doorperson employed at an establishment that sells liquor-by-the-drink; makes certain other alcohol sales revisions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 57.

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

TN - HB2121 Taxes - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Local Education Capital Investment Act." - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

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 - HB1340 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Leigh Ann Act," which 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 - HB2518 Local Government, General - As introduced, expands presumptive disability in acquiring certain infectious diseases in the line of duty by emergency rescue workers to include the hepatitis B virus. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-209.

TN - HB1650 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, for purposes of determining if a person has a duty to retreat before threatening or using force in self-defense, declares that a person is not considered to be engaged in unlawful activity or where the person does not have a right to be if the person is engaged in activity or in a place due to the person's status as a victim of human trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 6.

TN - HB1988 District Attorneys - As introduced, authorizes prior service credits as a criminal investigator for law enforcement to creditable service calculation for persons employed as assistant district attorneys general. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2818 Education - As enacted, authorizes the state board of education to promulgate emergency rules as necessary to address any issues created by school closures due to the outbreak of COVID-19 during the 2019-2020 school year; requires the commissioner of education to waive certain requirements; establishes other related requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2195 Veterans Services, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Major Trevor Joseph Act," which requires the department to provide burial services for any person who died while on active duty with the armed forces and is being interred in a state veterans cemetery on any date requested by the family members of the person if the department is given notice of the burial at least 72 hours in advance of the burial. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6 and Title 58.

TN - HB1 Gambling - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Sports Gaming Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 5; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HB1262 Taxes, Privilege - As enacted, limits the professions to which the professional privilege tax applies to: lobbyists; persons licensed or registered under the laws governing securities as agents, broker-dealers, and investment advisers; physicians and osteopathic physicians; and attorneys; applicable to privilege taxes due and payable after May 31, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 67; Chapter 72 of the Public Acts of 2011; Chapter 193 of the Public Acts of 2017; Chapter 273 of the Public Acts of 2015; Chapter 452 of the Public Acts of 2017; Chapter 480 of the Public Acts of 2013; Chapter 530 of the Public Acts of 2009 and Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007.

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

TN - HB2446 Employees, Employers - As introduced, creates the Tennessee future of work commission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

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 - HB2714 Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, deletes prohibition on the appointment of persons to the board of dentistry who are employed by or are a member of the governing body of a dental school or related educational institution, or any dental supply business or laboratory. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2604 Gambling - As introduced, requires the lottery corporation and board to comply with certain diversity in contracting requirements when contracting with third parties to enforce the Tennessee Sports Gaming Act and supervise compliance with laws and rules relating to the regulation and control of wagering on sporting events in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 14.

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 - HB1064 Contractors - As enacted, establishes continuing education requirements for residential contractors. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5 and Title 62, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1303 Education, Higher - As enacted, 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 eligible incarcerated individuals in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41; Title 49 and Title 50.

TN - HB1550 School Vouchers - As introduced, deletes the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

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 - HB1643 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, provides for restrictions or a ban on ownership of a companion animal by certain persons convicted of certain offenses against animals. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 1.

TN - HB1648 Education - As introduced, requires LEAs to provide opportunity for enrollment in a pre-kindergarten program to all children who are four years of age by September 30 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51 and Title 49.

TN - HB1718 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, increases the maximum age for a victim of aggravated rape of a child from three years of age to eight years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HB1712 Railroads - As introduced, directs TACIR to study the cost, feasibility, and infrastructure of expanding railroad passenger service in this state through the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10; Title 4, Chapter 23; Title 64 and Title 65.

TN - HB1971 Textbooks - As introduced, requires a school or LEA to issue required textbooks to all students; requires the director of schools to certify to the commissioner of education by October 15 of each year that all students have been issued all required textbooks. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

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 - HB547 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, restores the voting rights of persons convicted of certain infamous crimes upon receipt of a pardon or completion of any sentence of incarceration, parole, or probation. - Amends TCA Section 2-2-102 and Title 40, Chapter 29.

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 - HB942 Controlled Substances - As enacted, 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 - HB2452 Education - As introduced, requires each local board of education and governing body of a charter school to post the board's or governing body's policy governing background check procedures for contract workers and volunteers to the board's or governing body's website. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - HB1982 Domestic Violence - As enacted, requires a sentencing court to impose a fine of at least $100 for a person convicted of assault against a domestic abuse victim, subject to the defendant's ability to pay. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HB2365 Traffic Safety - As enacted, establishes requirements for the operation of personal delivery devices; specifies that a personal delivery device may be operated in pedestrian areas up to 10 miles per hour and is not considered a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 1; Title 55, Chapter 10; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

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 - HB2524 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, makes a person eligible to apply for a voter registration card and have the right of suffrage restored if the person is making payments toward restitution, court costs, and child support arrearages in accordance with an approved payment plan. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29, Part 2.

TN - HB316 Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "Barry Brady Act," which creates a presumption that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by certain cancers arose out of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2.

TN - HB2444 Traffic Safety - As introduced, increases the punishment by one classification level for an offense committed by a motor vehicle operator that contributes to an accident resulting in bodily injury to a motorcycle rider. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10.

TN - HB1866 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, increases the notice period, from 30 to 45 days before the effective date, by which a covered entity or pharmacy benefits manager must disclose to a pharmacy or pharmacist in its network any material change to a contract provision that affects the terms of reimbursement, the process for verifying benefits and eligibility, the dispute resolution procedure, the procedure for verifying drugs included in the formulary, and the procedure for contract termination. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB941 Expunction - As enacted, 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 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 - HB2093 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to publish the guidelines for the best practices for identifying and reporting signs of child abuse, child sexual abuse, and human trafficking in which the victim is a child on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

TN - HB1575 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds imminent danger of serious sexual abuse as a justification for the use of deadly force in self-defense and to defenses of duress and use of deadly force by law enforcement officer; defines serious sexual abuse as rape, aggravated rape, rape of a child, or aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2134 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Teacher's Discipline Act"; establishes a disciplinary process for students who have been removed from the classroom by the teacher. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2872 Education - As introduced, authorizes an LEA that develops its own adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) training program for the LEA's school personnel to offer that program partially or wholly online. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB901 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes the enhanced maximum fine of up to $15,000 applicable to aggravated assault when committed against an identifiable employee or contractor of a utility who is discharging or attempting to discharge such person's official duties. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 65, Chapter 35.

TN - HB2586 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates "Women's Suffrage Day" as a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB193 Expunction - As enacted, 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 and other requirements met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 32.

TN - HB2795 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires a health insurance entity on health plans issued, delivered, executed, amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2020, to include in that health plan a special enrollment period that allows the enrollment of a pregnant individual at any time after the commencement of the pregnancy as certified by a healthcare professional acting within the healthcare professional's scope of practice. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB1576 Probation and Parole - As introduced, requires the board of parole to create an application that a victim may use to submit a victim impact statement video to be considered at an inmate's parole hearing and at any future parole hearing involving the same inmate and offense. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB252 State Government - As enacted, requires agencies to ensure the provision of appropriate accommodations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if the agency requires a person applying for a license to engage in an occupation, trade, or profession in this state to take an examination; not applicable to an examination mandated and administered pursuant to federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4.

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 - 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 - HB1620 Driver Licenses - As enacted, adds documentation a veteran may submit to the department of safety to have military service indicated on a driver license to allow an honorably discharged veteran to submit a certified copy of the veteran's AGO Form 53-55 or NAVPERS 553 showing the dates of service. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, 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 - 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 - 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 - HB1141 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts sales of gun safes from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB353 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, 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 - 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 - HB909 Elder Abuse - As enacted, enacts the "Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Protection Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 71.

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 - HB2308 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, enacts the "Holly Bobo Act," which expands the bureau's endangered child and young adult alert program to include endangered persons under 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB1544 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates Emancipation Day, August 8 each year, as a state legal holiday. - Amends TCA Title 15.

TN - HB674 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, revises various provisions related to stepparent visitation. - Amends TCA Title 36.

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 - 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 - HR214 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the department of education to enroll students in the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot program no earlier than the 2021-2022 school year.

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

TN - HR351 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

TN - HR194 Memorials, Recognition - Christopher Clark

TN - HR195 Memorials, Recognition - Pastor J. L. Payne

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 - HR218 Memorials, Death - David C. Driver, Jr.

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

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Khyiah K. Riviears

TN - HJR688 Memorials, Death - William B. "Bill" Whitson

TN - HJR273 Memorials, Recognition - Lynn Nelson

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

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

TN - HJR636 Memorials, Retirement - State Trooper Joe Wynne

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Deborah Means Henderson

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

TN - HJR608 Memorials, Retirement - Vanessa M. Horner

TN - HJR1053 Memorials, Retirement - Lloyd Hansen

TN - HJR974 Memorials, Death - Victor Thompson

TN - HJR630 Memorials, Recognition - Memphis Light, Gas and Water, 80th anniversary

TN - HJR691 Memorials, Public Service - Scott W. Gilmer

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

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

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

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

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

TN - HJR1200 Memorials, Death - Johnny Majors

TN - HJR878 Memorials, Recognition - Congressman John Robert Lewis

TN - HJR871 Memorials, Recognition - Nashville State Community College, 50th anniversary

TN - HJR604 Memorials, Death - James Arrington "Jimmy" Webb III

TN - HJR810 Memorials, Recognition - Helen Abbott, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HJR644 Memorials, Retirement - Helen Ford

TN - HJR607 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jeremiah Higginbottom, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HJR629 Memorials, Recognition - City of Memphis, Bicentennial

TN - HJR735 Memorials, Sports - Derrick Henry

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

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

TN - HJR734 Memorials, Sports - Tennessee Titans

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

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

TN - HJR818 Memorials, Recognition - Harriet Tubman Day

TN - HJR819 Memorials, Recognition - Michael W. Rallings, Living Legend Awards

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

TN - HJR438 Memorials, Recognition - Shannon McCloud

TN - HJR701 Memorials, Sports - Maryville High School, 2019 TSSAA Class 6A Football State Champions

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

TN - HJR1212 Memorials, Death - George Floyd

TN - HJR307 Memorials, Death - Durward Gordon Hall

TN - HJR932 Memorials, Sports - Nashville SC, inaugural MLS season

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

TN - HJR647 Memorials, Retirement - Steve North

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

TN - HJR646 Memorials, Public Service - Metro Nashville Councilman Bill Pridemore

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

TN - HJR631 Memorials, Recognition - Shelby County, Bicentennial

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

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

TN - HJR515 Memorials, Death - Gladys Margaret Endsley McKinsey

TN - HJR683 Memorials, Recognition - Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Week, February 7-14, 2020

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

TN - HJR223 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

TN - HJR651 Memorials, Public Service - Metro Nashville Councilman Doug Pardue

TN - HJR364 Memorials, Recognition - Nathan "Nearest" Green

TN - HJR513 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly C. Robertson

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

TN - HJR652 Memorials, Public Service - Metro Nashville Councilman Anthony Davis

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

TN - HJR231 Memorials, Death - Sam Powell

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."

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Representative Ron Lollar

TN - HJR786 Memorials, Death - Sterling Haskel "Hack" Ayers