Tennessee Rep. Joe Pitts (D)

TN - Education (House)

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TN - HB1698 Local Government, General - As enacted, removes provision whereby a processing fee may not exceed five percent of the amount of payment collected by credit or debit card, in regard to the authority for a local government to set and collect a processing fee in an amount that is equal to the amount paid to a third-party processor for processing the payment. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 1.

TN - HB800 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows students who are eligible for the Tennessee Promise scholarship, but who cannot enroll in and attend college in the fall semester after completion of high school because of certain military commitments, to enroll in and attend college in the first term beginning after completion of the student's military commitments without loss of Promise scholarship eligibility. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-708.

TN - HB1629 Purchasing and Procurement - As enacted, authorizes local governments to enter cooperative purchasing agreements with federal agencies; excludes certain purchases. - Amends TCA Section 12-3-1205.

TN - HB1699 Education, Higher - As enacted, provides tuition and fee waivers to full-time state employees for up to four courses per academic year provided the courses do not coincide. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-114.

TN - HB805 Civil Procedure - As introduced, makes licensed social workers exempt from subpoena to trial but subject to subpoena to a deposition. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 9, Part 1.

TN - HJR130 Memorials, Recognition - Kappa Alpha Order, Zeta Tau chapter, George C. Marshall Award.

TN - HB798 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As introduced, permits dependents of military service members to retain priority for receiving home and community-based services under a federal waiver in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB971 Local Government, General - As introduced, increases period of advance public notice required before a hearing is held on a petition to establish a housing authority from 10 days to 20 days. - Amends TCA Title 13.

TN - HJR131 Memorials, Recognition - Christopher Lancaster, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award.

TN - HB1402 Clarksville - As introduced, subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 252 of the Private Acts of 1929; as amended.

TN - HJR156 Memorials, Retirement - Master Sergeant Edward William Shulman, U.S. Air Force.

TN - HB1628 County Government - As enacted, removes provision for Montgomery County that allowed the county to impose an additional penalty of 20 percent on suits to enforce tax liens for the purpose of defraying the expenses of such suits; places Montgomery County with other counties which impose an additional penalty of 10 percent for such purposes. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-2410.

TN - HB1512 Safety - As enacted, expands the categories of missing citizens for whom a media alert is sent; changes name of program from "missing citizen alert program" to "Care Alert program". - Amends TCA Section 38-6-121.

TN - HJR324 Memorials, Recognition - Steering committee for establishment of Tennessee Hall of Fame.

TN - HB807 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates September 18, each year, as "Carbon Monoxide Awareness Day" to bring awareness to the dangers of carbon monoxide. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - HJR75 General Assembly, Directed Studies - Requests the department of education to study and report on ways local education agencies are implementing the requirements of Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-6-1021, which requires 90 minutes of physical activity per week.

TN - HJR21 Memorials, Death - George Fisher.

TN - HJR22 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Nicole Castile, Milken Educator Award.

TN - HJR344 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bryan Feldman, Principal of the Year.

TN - HR50 Memorials, Interns - James Maxwell Helms.

TN - HJR232 Memorials, Recognition - Montgomery County Adult Drug Court, 10th anniversary.

TN - HJR503 Memorials, Retirement - Sheila Crowley

TN - HJR386 Memorials, Retirement - Rebecca S. Sharber, superintendent, Franklin County Schools.

TN - HB1630 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, removes a teacher's duty to perform fire drills, intruder drills, or any other safety or emergency drills. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-201.

TN - HB1410 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, deletes the Save the Tax Relief Act. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB804 Veterans - As introduced, authorizes private employers to establish a preference in employment policies for hiring certain veterans, spouses of veterans, widows of veterans, and widowers of veterans. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 58.

TN - HB808 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, expands a court's ability to admit into evidence a video recording of a forensic interview with a child to include an interview conducted by a forensic interviewer employed by a child advocacy center that is not a nonprofit corporation. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-213 and Section 24-7-123.

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Retirement - Chaplain (COL-R) Alvin E. Miller Sr.

TN - HJR550 Memorials, Public Service - USO, 75th anniversary

TN - HB1802 Public Health - As enacted, to the extent permitted by federal law, prohibits the department of health from counting the basic allowance for subsistence as income in determining eligibility of an applicant who is a member of the uniformed service for the special food program for women, infants, and children. - Amends TCA Title 68.

TN - HB1514 Highway Signs - As enacted, enacts the "Tyler Head Law," which creates a memorial sign program for persons who died in accidents caused by drivers under the influence of drugs or alcohol. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB2621 Montgomery County - As introduced, subject to local approval, adds governmental units to the list of entities from which the hotel and motel occupancy tax is collected. - Amends Chapter 167 of the Private Acts of 1979.

TN - HB802 County Government - As enacted, removes the delinquent tax attorney compensation provision for Montgomery County that allowed the county to pay up to 20 percent of delinquent taxes collected to the attorney; places Montgomery County with all other counties which are allowed to pay up to 10 percent of delinquent taxes collected. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1513 Sheriffs - As enacted, authorizes sheriffs and deputy sheriffs to retain service weapon upon retirement and completion of honorable service and approval by 2/3 vote of county legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8, Part 2.

TN - HB1515 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, reestablishes the first portion of home value for which real property tax relief will be reimbursed to disabled veteran home owners from $100,000 to $175,000. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HJR238 Memorials, Recognition - Nyla Gwan, Miss Black Clarksville 2015.

TN - HB806 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As introduced, increases, from 30 days to 60 days, the amount of time in which to file a petition with the county election commission to call an election regarding whether a tax upon the privilege of occupancy should be levied within home rule municipalities. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14.

TN - HB801 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, creates the Tennessee Come Back for Your Future scholarship program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB803 Military - As enacted, permits active duty members of the United States armed forces holding valid military commercial driver licenses whose duty station is located in this state to qualify for a waiver of the required commercial driver skills test. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Retirement - Sheila Crowley

TN - HB2616 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop procedures for identifying characteristics of dyslexia through the universal screening process required by the existing RTI2 framework or other available means; requires every LEA to implement the dyslexia screening procedures; specifies that dyslexia screening may be requested for any student by the student's parent or guardian, teacher, counselor, or school psychologist; creates the dyslexia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 49.

TN - HB2226 Firefighters - As introduced, creates a three-year pilot program to be developed by the state fire marshal's office that provides grants to volunteer firefighters. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24.

TN - HJR76 Memorials, Government Officials - Requests the state capitol commission to initiate the creation of a monument to honor veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the placement of the monument on War Memorial Plaza.

TN - HJR426 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Jesse Register.

TN - HB799 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows students receiving the Tennessee HOPE scholarship to drop from full-time to part-time status once without medical or personal grounds and without loss of the scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB1676 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows dependent children of full-time law enforcement officers and firefighters, who are under 24 years of age, to receive a 25 percent discount on tuition to attend any state-operated institution of higher learning. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB3 Education - As introduced, establishes standards review and development committees and advisory teams comprised of Tennessee teachers, higher education faculty members, and parents to propose world-class, highly rigorous K-12 English language arts and mathematics standards for use in public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - HB1438 Military - As enacted, enacts the "National Guard Force Protection Act of 2016". - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 58.

TN - HB398 Education - As enacted, extends the date of the repeal of the Virtual Public Schools Act from June 30, 2015, to June 30, 2019. - Amends TCA Section 49-16-216.

TN - HB718 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, declares the week that includes the third Thursday in November as "Agricultural Literacy Week." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB1537 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Student Assessment Transparency Act". - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - HB1419 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises provisions governing the evaluation of teachers and principals. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB425 Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Kenneth Harry-Hill Tennessee Veterans Health Care Act of 2015," which may also be known as the "Mission Tennessee for Veterans Program". - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB891 Students - As enacted, authorizes a school principal to excuse students for non-school-sponsored extracurricular activities; requires the student to submit to the school documentation of the activity and the parents to submit a written request to the principal at least seven business days prior to the student’s requested excused absence. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.

TN - HB2317 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "Kenneth and Madge Tullis, MD, Suicide Prevention Training Act of 2016"; establishes training requirements for certain medical professions related to suicide prevention. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1468 Traffic Safety - As introduced, deletes requirement that the child safety seat for a child age one through three weighing more than 20 pounds be secured in a forward-facing position. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 6.

TN - HB228 Naming and Designating - As introduced, designates the welcome center at Johnsonville state historic park in honor of former state representative John C. Tidwell.

TN - HB2334 Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department of labor and workforce development, in consultation with the department of corrections, if so requested, to report to the governor and general assembly on existing pilot programs that focus on work programs for the successful reentry of individuals to the workforce who have been convicted of a felony. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41 and Title 50.

TN - HB478 State Employees - As enacted, eliminates the 30-day aggregate limit of sick leave that may be used for maternity and paternity leave if both parents are state employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8.

TN - HB231 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau of TennCare to report annually an accounting of the amount paid to MCOs under the CHOICES program in the prior fiscal year and the amount paid by MCOs for long-term care services in that same fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB2149 Veterans - As enacted, expands eligibility for a Fallen Heroes Medal to service members killed in attacks specifically targeting service members and under other circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 58-3-113.

TN - HB2336 Human Rights - As introduced, removes the requirement that a litigant file a claim arising under the jurisdiction of the human rights commission within 90 days after the commission issues a finding that there was reasonable cause to believe discrimination was found. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21.

TN - HB2514 Victims' Rights - As enacted, increases from $750 to $1,000 the maximum amount payable by the criminal injuries compensation fund for the provision of forensic medical examinations performed on victims of sexually oriented crimes. - Amends TCA Section 29-13-118.

TN - HB2058 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates offense of recklessly leaving a loaded firearm unattended and readily accessible to a child under 13 years of age; creates certain defense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB733 TennCare - As enacted, authorizes TennCare to provide medical assistance for sickle cell disease management services and public education campaign activities specifically related to sickle cell disease. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2014 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, reduces from 80 to 75 the age a custodial parent or other custodial caregiver of a person with an intellectual disability who is on the waiting list for services must reach before the individual with intellectual disabilities must be placed on the self-determination waiver or similarly capped medical assistance waiver within six months. - Amends TCA Section 33-5-112.

TN - HB796 Real Property - As enacted, requires a seller of real property to disclose to a buyer the presence of any known sinkhole on the property. - Amends TCA Title 66.

TN - HB115 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, requires that persons with intellectual disabilities on the waiting list for services be enrolled in the self-determination waiver when their caregivers attain the age of 80. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 5.

TN - HB735 Education - As enacted, requires the commissioner of education, by October 1 of the year prior to the public identification of priority schools, to notify any school and its respective LEA if the school is among the bottom 10 percent of schools in overall achievement as determined by the performance standards and other criteria set by the state board. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-602.

TN - HB20 Local Government, General - As enacted, expands presumptive disability in acquiring certain infectious diseases in the line of duty by emergency rescue workers to include the hepatitis C virus. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-209.

TN - HB2335 Human Rights - As enacted, eliminates requirement that a party remove a case to state court within 90 days after the complaint is filed if the Tennessee human rights commission determines there is reasonable cause to believe discrimination took place in regard to housing. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21.

TN - HB2271 General Assembly - As introduced, creates a special joint committee to study issues relating to the investigation and prosecution of unsolved civil rights crimes and cold cases from the civil rights era. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB2410 Public Employees - As introduced, clarifies that local government authorities or local education authorities may adopt or make available voluntary benefits that are treated as supplemental benefits and are deemed not to be a "group health plan" when established in accordance with the appropriate federal statutes or regulations that define the term "group health plan." - Amends TCA Title 8.

TN - HB945 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, allows recipients of the HiSET high school equivalency credential to be eligible for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship; modifies the requirement for receipt of the Tennessee HOPE scholarship by GED recipients to conform the required GED score to the scale used for the new version of the GED. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB628 Codes - As introduced, exempts local jurisdictions that have an established codes department from audit of its records and transactions by the state fire marshal; removes provision of law stating that state building codes supersede all less stringent provisions of municipal ordinances. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - HB734 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires the ASD, or the entity under contract to operate schools within the ASD, to hire teachers assigned to the school, if the teachers are rated in the two highest categories of teacher evaluations; requires the ASD, or entity under contract to operate the school, to hire no more than 30 percent of the school's teachers from this group. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - HB1504 Military - As introduced, establishes standards for the wear and appearance of Tennessee state guard uniforms. - Amends TCA Section 58-1-304 and Title 58, Chapter 1, Part 4.

TN - HB852 Election Laws - As introduced, removes requirement that a person must pay outstanding child support obligations that accumulated during any period of incarceration to have right of suffrage restored. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29, Part 2.

TN - HB854 Veterans - As enacted, enacts the "Criminal Justice Veterans Compensation Act of 2015" or the "CJVC Act." - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - HB2408 Telecommunications - As introduced, changes from January 31 to December 1 the date for which the comptroller of the treasury, in cooperation with the TRA, must provide an annual report to the general assembly on the status of the provision of broadband services in historically unserved areas by telecommunications joint ventures. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 12 and Title 65.

TN - HB2156 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As enacted, increases the amount on which property tax reimbursement will be paid from the first $23,000 to the first $23,500 for low-income, elderly homeowners and for disabled homeowners; removes the income limitation applicable for tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1892 Water Pollution - As enacted, prohibits any NPDES permit that is issued to a municipal separate storm sewer system ("MS4") administrator in this state from imposing post-construction stormwater requirements, except to the extent necessary to comply with the minimum requirements of federal law; prohibits the state from requiring any entity that administers a MS4 under an NPDES permit to impose control measures for post-construction stormwater that exceed the minimum requirements of federal law; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.

TN - HB60 Textbooks - As introduced, creates a study committee to make recommendations on the transition from traditional textbooks to free, online textbooks and course materials by the public higher education institutions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7, Part 1.

TN - HB230 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires a person who commits theft or robbery within or on the premises of a licensed pharmacy for the purpose of obtaining, selling, delivering, giving, or exchanging a controlled substance to serve at least the minimum sentence for the offender's appropriate range of sentence and be subject to increased fines. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 4; Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 40, Chapter 35 and Title 41.

TN - HB2142 Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $100,000,000 from excess state tax revenues over collected in fiscal year 2014-2015 to the various counties to be used for county transportation projects; allocates funds in the same manner as county aid funding. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - HB229 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, enacts the "Ensuring Patient Access to Pharmacy Drug Disposal Programs Act of 2015". - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 10.

TN - HB476 Handgun Permits - As introduced, exempts honorably discharged veterans from the renewal fee for handgun carry permits. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HB1303 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, allows each municipality operating an electric plant to provide services outside its electric system service area. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 52.

TN - HB1489 Naming and Designating - As enacted, names the new high school to be constructed for the Tennessee School for the Deaf in honor of Alan J. Mealka.

TN - HB1257 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, requires the commissioner of labor and workforce development to set the state’s minimum hourly wage rate at not less than $10.10 per hour, adjusted annually to reflect inflation in accordance with the consumer price index; establishes a cause of action for employees if employers violate the state’s minimum hourly wage rate; sets the wage rate paid to blind persons employed by the state to the greater of the state minimum hourly wage rate or the federal minimum wage. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 13; Title 39; Title 50; Title 67 and Title 71.

TN - HB125 Schools, Charter - As enacted, halts the closure at the end of the 2014–2015 school year of charter schools on the state's 2015 priority list; makes the 2017 priority list the first list for which charter schools appearing on a priority list must close at the end of the school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2250 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires department to publish its annual report concerning virtual schools on the department's web site. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB445 Adoption - As enacted, reduces the time for revoking a surrender in regard to the person's child from 10 to three calendar days following the surrender. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB1018 TennCare - As introduced, repeals requirement that the general assembly must authorize by joint resolution any expansion of optional enrollment in the medical assistance program, pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. - Repeals TCA Section 71-5-126.

TN - HB147 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Animal Abuser Registration Act." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 44.

TN - HB1779 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes to the offense of stalking, including redefining "course of conduct". - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 14; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 39.

TN - HB225 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, redefines "cost of doing business by the retailer" for purposes of violations under the "Unfair Retailer's Cigarette Sales Law." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 25, Part 3.

TN - HB460 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates May 11 of each year as "Police Memorial Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB579 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a minimum wage that increases annually on July 1; provides a minimum wage for employees in the service industry who receive tips and employees that are compensated solely by gratuities; authorizes the department to promulgate rules and regulations in compliance with federal law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2200 Education - As introduced, makes various revisions to the ASD, including requiring schools assigned to the ASD on or after July 1, 2016, be in the bottom 2.5 percent of schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - HB392 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee athletic commission, June 30, 2017; deletes obsolete provisions of the Tennessee Athletic Commission Act and makes other revisions to the Act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 115.

TN - HB1089 Education - As introduced, allows a student's parent or the student's teacher to view a state-required standardized summative assessment taken by the student and the student's answers subject to certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB787 Codes - As enacted, prohibits the requirement of fire sprinkler systems for townhouses; authorizes local governments to adopt mandatory sprinkler requirements for townhomes by local ordinance in same manner utilized for one-family and two-family dwellings. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120.

TN - HB2510 Traffic Safety - As enacted, requires that every notice of violation or citation issued that is based solely upon evidence obtained from any traffic enforcement camera used to enforce or monitor traffic violations of the requirement that motor vehicles stop at a red light, include a disclaimer stating that nonpayment of the notice or citation cannot adversely affect the person's credit score or report, driver's license, and/or automobile insurance rates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50 and Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HR81 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Chelsey Danielle Jones, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences.

TN - HR77 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Linnie Jiang, Valedictorian, White Station High School.

TN - HR37 Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee at Martin Men's Rodeo Team, NIRA National Champions.

TN - HR80 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Taylor Nicole Haywood, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences.

TN - HR109 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tito Hunter, Valedictorian, Trezevant High School.

TN - HR78 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Eric Sah, Salutatorian, White Station High School.

TN - HR49 Memorials, Congratulations - Nelson Lundberg, high school graduation.

TN - HR1 Memorials, Retirement - Chaplain (Colonel) Phillip M. Armstrong.

TN - HR117 Memorials, Interns - Antonio Briggs.

TN - HR112 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jason Zeng, Salutatorian, Bartlett High School.

TN - HR126 Memorials, Retirement - Larry K. Scroggs

TN - HR2 Memorials, Recognition - Fort Campbell.

TN - HR167 Memorials, Recognition - Madison Benson, FFA West Tennessee State Vice President

TN - HR168 Memorials, Recognition - Emily White, FFA East Tennessee State Vice President

TN - HR169 Memorials, Recognition - Chelsea Wattenbarger, FFA State Reporter

TN - HR170 Memorials, Recognition - Chad Lewis, FFA State Treasurer

TN - HR171 Memorials, Recognition - Stephen McNeil, FFA State Sentinel

TN - HR172 Memorials, Recognition - Derek Anderson, FFA Middle Tennessee State Vice President

TN - HR161 Memorials, Public Service - Pastor Matt Anzivino

TN - HR141 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Roy W. Ellison, 100th birthday

TN - HR164 Memorials, Retirement - Judge Walter F. Williams

TN - HR128 Memorials, Recognition - Domtar, 100th anniversary in Kingsport

TN - HR166 Memorials, Recognition - Dalton Teel, FFA State Secretary

TN - HR108 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brianna Parrish, Salutatorian, Trezevant High School.

TN - HR111 Memorials, Interns - D'John W. Moore.

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Thadijah Jeanne Burks.

TN - HR39 Memorials, Recognition - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority.

TN - HR6 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association Go Red for Women.

TN - HR76 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Asha A. Cathey, Salutatorian, Melrose High School.

TN - HR79 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kelly Yuan, Salutatorian, White Station High School.

TN - HR82 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Chulisia K. Pierce, Valedictorian, Memphis Health Careers Academy.

TN - HR83 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cartavius L. Turner, Salutatorian, Memphis Health Careers Academy.

TN - HR84 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dellarontay A. Readus, Valedictorian, Melrose High School.

TN - HR165 Memorials, Recognition - Chelsea Sanders, FFA State President

TN - HR152 Memorials, Recognition - Director General Huei-Yuan Tai

TN - HJR384 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Nola G. Madison, Salutatorian, Northside High School.

TN - HJR138 Memorials, Public Service - Robert T. Lee.

TN - HJR183 Memorials, Recognition - Honors and commends the members of the Gold Star Mothers and Gold Star Families.

TN - HJR196 Memorials, Recognition - Commemorates Autism Awareness Day in Tennessee.

TN - HJR205 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Malcolm "Jimmy" Keep, World War II veteran.

TN - HJR237 Memorials, Recognition - Honor the liberators and Holocaust survivors of Tennessee.

TN - HJR404 Memorials, Recognition - Joshua Jamahl Murray.

TN - HJR51 Naming and Designating - "Child Abuse Prevention Month" April 2015.

TN - HJR56 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Deborah R. Williams, Ms. Tennessee Senior America 2014.

TN - HJR57 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Affirms commitment to equal right to technology and information access for Tennesseans with disabilities.

TN - HJR46 Memorials, Death - Harlan Mathews.

TN - HJR472 Memorials, Death - Gunnery Sergeant Thomas J. Sullivan, United States Marine Corps

TN - HJR385 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Amber J. Mitchell, Valedictorian, Northside High School.

TN - HJR187 Memorials, Professional Achievement - George Fraley.

TN - HJR204 Memorials, Recognition - Celebrate September 2015 as "American Indian Heritage Month" in Tennessee.

TN - HJR376 Memorials, Interns - Kyle Johnson.

TN - HJR458 Memorials, Death - Fred Dalton Thompson.

TN - HJR40 Memorials, Recognition - Kyong Dotson, Korean American Association.

TN - HJR253 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Alisa White, President of Austin Peay State University.

TN - HJR560 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Cathy Kolb, Tennessee academic standards recommendation committee

TN - HJR12 Memorials, Recognition - Childhood apraxia of speech awareness.

TN - HJR5 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Department of Transportation, 100th anniversary.

TN - HJR563 Memorials, Recognition - Fisk University, 150th anniversary

TN - HJR576 Memorials, Death - Mike Pigott

TN - HJR80 Memorials, Congress - Expresses support for Medicare and opposes any cuts to benefits.

TN - HJR597 Memorials, Recognition - Three Dog Night

TN - HJR6 Memorials, Public Service - Ed Haley.

TN - HJR24 Memorials, Public Service - Senator Bill Ketron, Chair, Fiscal Review Committee.

TN - HJR7 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Baeteena Black.

TN - HJR567 Memorials, Death - Reverend J. Fred Cloud

TN - HJR233 Memorials, Recognition - Vanecia Belser Kimbrow, I AM A VOTER Strategic Collaborative.

TN - HJR364 Memorials, Recognition - Commemorates Primary Immunodeficiency Awareness Month.

TN - HJR366 Memorials, Recognition - U.S. Army 199th Infantry Brigade (Separate) (Light) June 1, 1966–1970 and the Redcatcher Association.

TN - HJR465 Memorials, Death - Dr. W.J. Julian, UT director of bands

TN - HJR471 Memorials, Death - Staff Sergeant David Allen Wyatt, United States Marine Corps

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Sergeant Carson Holmquist, United States Marine Corps

TN - HJR284 Memorials, Recognition - Honoring those who fought and died in World War II and commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe.

TN - HJR557 Memorials, Sports - 1966 Pearl High School varsity basketball team

TN - HJR3 Memorials, Professional Achievement - John Germ, president of Rotary International.

TN - HJR4 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Michael Monroe, Eagle Scout.

TN - HJR606 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Roger Jowers, Star of Life Award

TN - HJR558 Memorials, Recognition - Honors the City of Memphis's efforts to bring the 2016 4th Annual Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony to Memphis.

TN - HJR473 Memorials, Death - Lance Corporal Squire K. (Skip) Wells, United States Marine Corps

TN - HJR546 Memorials, Sports - Trezevant High School, 2A state football champs

TN - HJR466 Memorials, Death - Former Representative Joe Burchfield

TN - HJR548 Memorials, Recognition - Hannah Robison, Miss Tennessee 2015

TN - HJR14 Naming and Designating - Designating the State of Tennessee as a Purple Heart State.

TN - HJR475 Memorials, Death - Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Scott Smith, United States Navy

TN - HJR552 Memorials, Recognition - Tommy Vallejos, Latinos for Tennessee chairman

TN - HJR506 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Renata Soto, Chair of the National Council of La Raza

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - First Lady Crissy Haslam.

TN - HJR119 Memorials, Death - Garner "Mack" Goode Jr.

TN - HJR43 Memorials, Recognition - Wade Norris, Tennessee Forestry Association 2014 Master Logger of the Year.

TN - HJR446 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Harris Taylor, Valedictorian, McGavock High School.

TN - HJR351 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Lee Ward, elevated to Auxiliary Bishop within the Church of God in Christ.

TN - HJR352 Memorials, Recognition - Brown, Davidson, Driver, Smith Family Reunion.

TN - HJR464 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Pete Claussen, heritage conservation trust fund board

TN - HJR174 Memorials, Recognition - Donna Morgan.

TN - HJR216 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Richard Rhoda, Executive Director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

TN - HJR106 Memorials, Heroism - Andrew Michael Keith, Public Safety Medal of Valor.

TN - HJR115 Memorials, Recognition - Speaker of the House Beth Harwell, Tennessee Federation of Republican Women.

TN - HJR574 Memorials, Death - Maurice White