Tennessee Rep. Jesse Chism (D)

TN - Agriculture and Natural Resources (House)

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TN - Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee (House)

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TN - Local (House)

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TN - Commerce (House)

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TN - HB864 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds nurses to the assault against a first responder who is discharging or attempting to discharge official duties statute. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.

TN - HB799 Municipal Government - As introduced, enacts the "Urban Agriculture Zone Act." - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 43 and Title 67.

TN - HB863 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, prohibits a court from issuing or a law enforcement officer from serving a no knock search or arrest warrant; defines a no knock warrant as a warrant that specifically enables an officer to enter a structure without giving notice of the officer's authority or the purpose of the officer's presence. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB1306 Law Enforcement - As introduced, enacts the "Racial Profiling Prevention Training Act," which prohibits a law enforcement officer from using a person's race or ethnicity to form probable cause or reasonable suspicion to stop a vehicle and requires state and local law enforcement agencies to adopt a policy and implement an annual training program regarding racial profiling. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.

TN - HB223 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, enacts the "Juvenile Justice Stop Solitary Confinement Act." - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 41, Chapter 4.

TN - HB798 Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, requires that actions against a governmental entity for injury to person or property based on a deficiency in the design, planning, supervision, or construction of an improvement to a road or sidewalk or a trolley or light rail system be brought within four years after substantial completion of the improvement. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20.

TN - HB1307 Children - As introduced, requires youth development centers and detention centers to teach certain life skills to children held in these facilities. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 41.

TN - HB916 Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, prohibits the use of solitary confinement for pregnant inmates and inmates who have given birth within the past eight weeks; prohibits transfer of a pregnant inmate from a jail to a state penitentiary or branch of a prison for safekeeping unless medically necessary. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB222 Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, prohibits the removal of pregnant prisoners to a state penitentiary or branch prison for safekeeping; prohibits solitary confinement of pregnant prisoners. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB862 Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Support Micro-Businesses Act" to create a revolving loan fund to support certain small businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 10; Title 13; Title 45 and Title 67.

TN - HB932 TennCare - As introduced, requires that doula services be provided to recipients of TennCare; requires that the doula services be performed by a person who has received certain certification. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB1308 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, prohibits the application of a bail deposit made by or on behalf of a defendant to the payment of a judgment for fine, court costs, or restitution entered in the prosecution of a cause; excepts bail forfeitures. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB797 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, increases, from $7.25 to $12, the minimum hourly wage for employees within the state. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - HB221 Controlled Substances - As introduced, requires a court to grant judicial diversion for possession of less than one ounce of marijuana, regardless of a defendant's prior criminal convictions. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HJR48 Memorials, Death - Dr. James LaVirt Netters, Sr.

TN - HB429 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, creates a state oversight committee for the inclusion of African American history as part of the public school curriculum in Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49, Chapter 50.

TN - HB224 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires youth development centers, jails, and the department of correction to provide free telephone calls between minors and their parent or guardian. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 41.

TN - HB1384 Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, repeals statutory fee structure for licenses and permits; revises effective period for annual licenses and permits to run 365 days from the date of purchase. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 2.

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 - HB634 Local Government, General - As introduced, requires local government entities to develop and implement policies to notify persons about whom an employee communicates images or statements on social networks or other methods of communication that the entity perceives as threatening harm to the person. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.

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 - HB1476 Education - As introduced, prohibits the use of student performance and student growth data from TCAP tests in identifying priority schools and assigning schools to the achievement school district. - Amends TCA Title 49.

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 - HB723 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 - 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 - HB614 Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement officers to satisfactorily complete a diversity training program created by the peace officer standards and training commission by July 1, 2022, or within six months of the officer's date of employment. - Amends TCA Section 38-8-107.

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

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 - HB1514 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, reduces the population threshold, from 925 to 700, to make a municipality eligible to hold a referendum on the sale of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - HR30 Memorials, Recognition - National Medal of Honor Day, March 25, 2021

TN - HR44 Memorials, Sports - Eddie George

TN - HR1 Memorials, Retirement - Chris Bundgaard

TN - HR25 Memorials, Death - Justin Sawyer

TN - HJR408 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee State Natural Areas Day, May 4, 2021

TN - HJR164 Memorials, Recognition - Richard W. Smith

TN - HJR55 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Larry Dodson, Sr., 70th birthday

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

TN - HJR180 Memorials, Recognition - Eddie Sherlin

TN - HJR135 Memorials, Recognition - The Oak Ridge 85

TN - HJR212 Memorials, Recognition - Honor the service of the first responders of Tennessee during the COVID-19 pandemic.

TN - HJR181 Memorials, Recognition - Bobby Keel

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

TN - HJR230 Memorials, Recognition - Hayley Arceneaux

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

TN - HJR40 Memorials, Retirement - Judge David M. Bragg

TN - HJR56 Memorials, Public Service - Representative G.A. Hardaway

TN - HJR134 Memorials, Recognition - The Clinton 12

TN - HJR95 Memorials, Retirement - David Leatherwood

TN - HJR244 Memorials, Death - Chief Master Sergeant (Ret,) Dave Anderson

TN - HJR358 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

TN - HJR136 Memorials, Death - Ken Taylor

TN - HJR168 Memorials, Recognition - Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5154, 75th anniversary

TN - HJR10 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes racism as a public health threat.

TN - HJR193 Memorials, Death - Representative David Shepard

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

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

TN - HJR11 Memorials, Heroism - Metropolitan Nashville Police Officers