Tennessee Rep. Judd Matheny (R)

TN - Agriculture and Natural Resources (House)

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TN - Insurance and Banking (House)

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TN - Insurance and Banking Subcommittee (House)

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TN - HB1455 Insurance, Liability - As introduced, prohibits health benefit plans from denying coverage to medical services, devices, or products on the basis that the service, device, or product is investigational or experimental if medicare covers the service, device, or product. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB373 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts the "Joe Moon Act," which increases the penalty for evading arrest that results in the death of another. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 6.

TN - HJR186 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Winnell Pittenger, 100th birthday

TN - HB171 Civil Procedure - As introduced, clarifies that directors, trustees, or members of nonprofit corporations, associations, and organizations that are organized for religious purposes may be immune from suits arising from the conduct of the affairs of such entities if the conduct does not amount to willful, wanton, or gross negligence. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 58.

TN - HB2358 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates The Church @ 117 in Coffee County and Drafts and Watercrafts in Franklin County as premier type tourist resorts for purposes of on-premises consumption. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4.

TN - HJR1073 Memorials, Retirement - Ted Hackney

TN - HB170 Education, Higher - As introduced, permits veterans who possess a handgun carry permit to carry a handgun while on property owned, operated, or controlled by a public institution of higher education, if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB1453 Tullahoma - Subject to local approval, changes the date, from the first Thursday to the first Friday in February, by which the board of mayor and aldermen must call for an election each year; lowers the minimum age, from 21 to 18, for a person to serve as mayor or alderman; removes requirement that members of the board acquire surety bonds. - Amends Chapter 553 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.

TN - HB1434 Manchester - Subject to local approval, rewrites the city charter. - Amends Chapter 65 of the Acts of 1905.

TN - HR96 Memorials, Recognition - AristoCATS, Grand Champion Award

TN - HB50 Trade Regulation - As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to establish and maintain a trade office in Taipei, Taiwan. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 12.

TN - HB554 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, exempts mobile cranes from movement restrictions during morning and afternoon hours in Davidson, Hamilton, Shelby, Knox, and Rutherford counties; authorizes a single permit to cover multiple mobile cranes. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 7, Part 2.

TN - HB1919 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, requires the department of revenue to report to the finance, ways and means committees on the number of printed and digital periodicals exempt from sales and use tax, including the annual revenue loss and any recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 47 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1918 General Assembly - As introduced, subjects all files concerning complaints initiated under either the former sexual harassment policy or the current workplace discrimination and harassment policy to public disclosure upon completion of proceedings; requires information concerning the identity of the complainant to be redacted prior to disclosure. - Amends TCA Title 3.

TN - HB1366 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, gives immunity from civil or criminal liability to a person for making a report to law enforcement of suspicious activity or behavior if the report is based on articulable suspicion. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 8.

TN - HB51 Managed Care Organizations - As introduced, adds an optional use of a new grievance procedure to the prompt pay statute for the TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB1459 Public Contracts - As introduced, prohibits the state from entering into new contracts or renewing existing contracts that provide state funding to professional sports organizations or professional sports teams. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4; Title 12, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2357 Education - As introduced, requires use of certain definitions of anti-Semitism and provides examples of anti-Semitism to be used in determinations of violations of K-12 or postsecondary educational policies prohibiting discrimination based on Jewish ancestry or ethnic characteristics. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB885 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Anti-Semitism Awareness Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB555 Law Enforcement - As introduced, increases cash supplement for police officer in-service training from $600 to $1,000. - Amends TCA Section 38-8-111.

TN - HB2724 Centertown - Subject to local approval, requires the board of mayor and aldermen to hold regular public meetings as specified by ordinance rather than on the first Monday night of each month. - Amends Chapter 606 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended.

TN - HB705 Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department, no later than August 1, 2017, and by August 1 of each subsequent year, to report to the members of the house transportation committee and the senate transportation and safety committee of the general assembly the total number of traffic violations that involve motor vehicles operated by autonomous technology in each political subdivision of the state for the preceding fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 39; Title 40; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 65 and Title 67.

TN - HJR71 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the Department of Economic and Community Development to open a trade office in Taipei, Taiwan.

TN - HB884 Handgun Permits - As introduced, permits a valid handgun carry permit holder to carry a firearm at any time and in all places in Tennessee unless the permit holder has been drinking alcohol, is in a judicial proceeding, or is on school grounds and does not tell the principal. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351(b).

TN - HB556 Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, authorizes members of a district's board of directors to participate in board meetings by any electronic means approved by the board; revises provisions governing removal of a member for failure to attend meetings; revises other provisions regarding members of boards of directors. - Amends TCA Section 7-86-314 and Title 8, Chapter 44.

TN - HB1602 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts the "Second Amendment Civil Rights Act of 2018"; confers private right of action upon a person to challenge a government entity that refuses to make property available to third parties for Second Amendment activities when the property is made available for other activities; prohibits government entity from banning the possession of a handgun by a handgun permit holder on property owned or administered by the entity unless security officers inspect all persons entering the premises. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB1365 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires students to pass the United States civics test in order to graduate high school with a regular diploma unless the test is determined inappropriate based on the student's individualized education program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR882 Memorials, Recognition - Eva L. Maddox

TN - HJR203 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges the United States to confront the main source of international terrorism sponsored by Iran and designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization.

TN - HB1603 Personal Property - As introduced, prohibits any person or legal entity, besides the owner of a copyrighted sound recording initially fixed on or before February 15, 1972, from reproducing, distributing, performing, or otherwise using the recording without the owner’s express permission; creates a civil cause of action for the owner. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HR23 Memorials, Recognition - WMSR Radio

TN - HB886 Local Government, General - As introduced, negates mandatory application of certain laws on local governments that are not fully funded; prohibits an agency of state government from creating a new fee that will impact local governments in any year in which the general state revenues to the agency have decreased from the previous year. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5, Part 2 and Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 53.

TN - HB271 Immigration - As introduced, prohibits state and local governmental entities and officials from adopting or enacting sanctuary policies; authorizes residents of this state and members of the general assembly to submit complaints to the attorney general and reporter; provides that violations will subject applicable entities to ineligibility of state moneys. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 9.

TN - HB23 Taxes, Real Property - 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 - HB1949 Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, allows a cause of action for any affected person who seeks declaratory and injunctive relief in any action brought regarding the legality or constitutionality of a governmental action, but such action does not include damages. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3.

TN - HB334 Chiropractors - As enacted, allows chiropractic physicians to enter into a direct primary care agreement with an individual patient or the patient's legal representative. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 5.

TN - HB73 Flags - As enacted, requires that the P.O.W.-M.I.A. flag be displayed daily below the United States flag in War Memorial Plaza and in Vietnam Veterans Park and displayed over the state capitol on days that neither house of the general assembly is in session during the month of September. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-406 and Title 58, Chapter 4, Part 3.

TN - HB808 Law Enforcement - As introduced, increases cash supplement for police officer in-service training from $600 to $1,800. - Amends TCA Section 38-8-111.

TN - HB520 Libraries - As enacted, revises provisions related to the operation of local libraries and the state regional library system; specifies terms for board service. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 1; Title 10, Chapter 3; Title 10, Chapter 5; Title 10, Chapter 8; Title 10, Chapter 1 and Title 40, Chapter 39.

TN - HB1457 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, establishes the Tennessee taxpayer relief and recession reserve; clarifies that deposits into the reserve for revenue fluctuation and the relief and recession reserve do not count toward the Copeland Cap; provides an automatic, temporary sales tax reduction when there are sufficient over collections to offset the loss of revenue. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 67.

TN - HB17 Elder Abuse - As introduced, expands the offense of aggravated stalking to include a person who commits stalking against a victim who is at least 65 years of age when the person stalking is 15 or more years younger than the victim. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3 and Title 71, Chapter 6.

TN - HB948 Medical Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Kenneth and Madge Tullis, MD, Suicide Prevention Training Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1739 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, requires state agencies to conduct economic impact analyses of administrative rules on persons residing in or doing business in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.

TN - HB5 Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, reestablishes, from $100,000 to $175,000, the first portion of home value for which real property tax relief will be reimbursed to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB889 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, enables a police officer who is a member of the state retirement system to be eligible for service retirement upon completion of 25 years of creditable service. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.

TN - HB304 Securities - As enacted, makes various changes to the regulation of securities under the Tennessee Securities Act of 1980. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB2279 Telecommunications - As enacted, enacts the "Competitive Wireless Broadband Investment, Deployment, and Safety Act of 2018" and requires TACIR to study certain items relating to deployment. - Amends TCA Title 13.

TN - HB1196 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Educators Protection Act". - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 28; Title 29; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - HB387 Medical Occupations - As enacted, revises definitions related to practice of chiropractic; changes requirements related to composition, powers, and duties of the board of chiropractic examiners. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 4.

TN - HB960 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, prohibits a health insurance entity from taking certain actions with respect to coverage of prescription drugs outside of open enrollment periods. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB2643 General Assembly - As enacted, designates the public space constructed on top of the parking garage attached to the Cordell Hull Building as the "Beth Harwell Plaza"; designates the new tunnel that connects the Cordell Hull Building to the State Capitol as the "Ron Ramsey Tunnel". - Amends TCA Title 3.

TN - HB797 Education, Higher - As introduced, decreases from 30 to 10 the number of days a municipal corporation must wait before enforcing or ceasing to enforce traffic ordinances on the campus of a state institution within its borders after receiving a request from the institution. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2101 Education, Higher - As introduced, adds any postsecondary education benefit for which payments or assistance are provided by, or appropriated by funds of, any state or local governmental entity, and any use of money provided to the state through taxes, to the definition of "state or local public benefit" in the Eligibility Verification for Entitlements Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB899 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, prohibits certain health benefit plans that provide coverage for cancer therapy from holding proton radiation therapy to a higher standard of clinical evidence for medical policy benefit coverage decisions than the health plan requires for coverage of any other radiation therapy treatment. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB793 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, prohibits a local board of education from increasing the salary or compensation for the director of schools to an amount higher than the salary of the governor. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2355 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, revises requirements regarding coverage for mental health, mental illness, and alcohol or drug dependency, and requires certain reports. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2129 Safety - As enacted, enacts the "School Safety Act of 2018". - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 16; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Section 50-3-201; Section 58-1-112; Section 70-4-123 and Section 70-5-101.

TN - HB2112 Taxes - As enacted, establishes a method of apportionment that may be elected by financial asset management companies for franchise and excise tax purposes. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21.

TN - HB2034 Taxes, Personal Property - As enacted, exempts tangible personal property owned and used by nonprofit organizations to provide character development and other educational programs to youth about the Medal of Honor recipients; sets forth exemption criteria. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1491 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 - HB2208 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows private certified firearms instructors to train teachers in certain distressed rural counties who are allowed to carry concealed firearms on school property as well as being taught by the local law enforcement agency. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-816.

TN - HB176 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, increases the property value threshold for determining the extent of any property tax relief payments to disabled veterans and their surviving spouses from $100,000 to $175,000 of the full market value of the property for any veteran receiving property tax relief in 2014 or prior years and reapplying to receive a reimbursement for tax year 2017 and subsequent years without interruption. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB519 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, authorizes a nursing home to participate in a drug donation repository program until such time as the board for licensing health care facilities promulgates rules to effectuate such participation. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB508 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, creates a private cause of action for a party that is adversely affected by a local ordinance, resolution, policy, rule, or other enactment on firearms that is preempted by state law; restricts certain actions by local government in regard to handgun carry permittees. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB888 Students - As introduced, requires students in public schools and public institutions of higher education to use restrooms and locker rooms that are assigned to persons of the same sex as that shown on the students' birth certificates. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2271 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, enacts the "Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018." - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15.

TN - HB2692 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, designates The Caverns in Grundy County and the South Jackson Civic Center in Tullahoma as a premier type tourist resorts for purposes of selling alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises. - Amends TCA Section 57-4-102.

TN - HB568 Pets - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Retail Pet Store Consumer Protection Act" to provide coverage for certain veterinary expenses to persons who buy defective dogs from retail pet stores. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 17.

TN - HB20 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, changes the home value for which real property tax relief will be granted from $100,000 to $175,000 for veterans with disabilities and from $23,500 to $25,000 for low-income homeowners who are elderly or have disabilities. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

TN - HB727 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires students to complete one year of instruction in American government and one year of instruction in Tennessee history between grades 7 and 12 to receive a high school diploma, with various exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB604 Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) - As enacted, establishes that local emergency management agency personnel have all rights, benefits, privileges, and protections available pursuant to state and local laws, including death benefits in the amount of $25,000. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1 and Title 58.

TN - HB2131 Historical Commission - As introduced, withholds state funds to be received by a local government for the next subsequent fiscal year if the local government sells, removes, relocates, or destroys a historical memorial after the denial of a waiver to remove or relocate the memorial by the Tennessee historical commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.

TN - HB662 Political Parties - As introduced, revises the number of signatures that a petition must bear for purposes of qualifying as a recognized minor party; revises the number of votes that a political party must receive for purposes of qualifying as a statewide political party. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 1 and Title 2, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1967 Consumer Protection - As introduced, makes various changes to state law related to gift certificates, such as requiring certain gift certificates to have longer expiration dates; prohibiting dormancy or inactivity fees; and authorizing activation or issuance fees up to certain limits. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 66.

TN - HB1903 Taxes - As introduced, requires that 5 percent of state funds in the municipal street aid fund be distributed equally to each municipality instead of all such funds being distributed based on population; reduces state sales tax revenue allocated to general fund; increases state-shared sales tax revenue allocated to municipalities. - Amends TCA Section 54-4-203 and Section 67-6-103.

TN - HB2247 Education - As enacted, requires that each year at least 30 percent, instead of 70 percent, of the items on state assessments in grades 3-8 and end of course examinations in high school be fresh, nonredundant items that did not appear on the tests in the previous two years, instead of the previous four years for grades 3-8 and the previous three years for high school tests. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-610.

TN - HB892 Marriage - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Natural Marriage Defense Act," which states the policy of Tennessee to defend natural marriage between one man and one woman regardless of any court decision to the contrary. - Amends TCA Title 36.

TN - HB887 Election Laws - As introduced, requires a person to declare a statewide political party affiliation before voting in a primary election. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB571 Mining and Quarrying - As enacted, enacts the "Primacy and Reclamation Act of Tennessee" and revises other related provisions; contains certain contingent effective dates. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 50; Title 59; Title 60; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

TN - HB2312 Immigration - As enacted, prohibits any official or employee of this state or any political subdivision of this state from accepting an identification document issued or created by any person, organization, county, city, or other local authority, except where expressly authorized to be used for identification purposes by the general assembly to determine a person's identity or residency unless required by federal law; prohibits any local government or law enforcement agency from authorizing the use of any such card or document as a form of identification to be used to determine the identity or residency of any person. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 55.

TN - HB668 Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, provides civil immunity for the driver of an automobile who injures a protester who is blocking traffic in a public right-of-way if the driver was exercising due care. - Amends TCA Title 19; Title 20; Title 29, Chapter 34; Title 54 and Title 55.

TN - HB1041 Sentencing - As enacted, establishes a sentencing enhancement factor for defendants who are illegally or unlawfully in the United States. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB2004 Health, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to accept allegations of opioid abuse or diversion and to publicize a means of reporting allegations of such; prohibits civil liability for or firing of a person who reports suspected abuse or diversion. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 63.

TN - HB1973 Constitutional Conventions - As introduced, specifies procedures for selecting a delegation to attend conventions of states and for determining the instructions for the delegation; imposes duties on the members of the delegation. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 18.

TN - HB1498 Senior Citizens - As enacted, exempts certain religious organizations and religious institutions that provide limited respite care services programs from licensure for providing adult day care. - Amends TCA Title 71.

TN - HB753 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding scrap metal dealers. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 9.

TN - HB2130 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Stolen Valor Act". - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 3 and Section 58-1-602.

TN - HB790 State Employees - As introduced, restores longevity pay for employees of the executive branch in the service of the state hired after June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 23.

TN - HB1208 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, prohibits outsourcing with respect to the maintenance, operation, and preservation of state parks, including buildings, facilities, structures, or improvements upon state park property. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 11.

TN - HB1137 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to provide access to standardized forms for health care insurance claims on the commissioner's website. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB835 Sentencing - As enacted, creates an enhancement factor, by which the defendant's sentence can be increased, where the defendant is convicted of committing a violent offense against a uniformed law enforcement officer or uniformed member of the military or national guard and the defendant intentionally selected the victim because of the victim's status as a law enforcement officer or service member. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1059 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an insurance policy that provides benefits for anti-cancer medications that are injected or intravenously administered by a healthcare provider and anti-cancer medications that are patient administered from requiring a higher copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amount for the patient administered anti-cancer medication than for the injected or intravenously administered anti-cancer medication. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23.

TN - HB268 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, exempts certain active, volunteer firefighters and rescue squad members from payment of the regular registration fee at the time of renewal for license plate issued to the volunteer firefighter or rescue squad member; authorizes a county legislative body to waive the motor vehicle tax for motor vehicles receiving the exemption from the registration fee, if the waiver is approved in the same manner as the adoption of the motor vehicle tax. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1188 General Assembly - As introduced, reestablishes the legislative oversight committees on TennCare, children's services, and correction. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 71.

TN - HB455 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits denying a law enforcement officer entry to or removing a law enforcement officer from an event for which the officer holds a valid ticket or has paid an admission fee if denial or removal is based on the officer’s lawful carrying of a firearm; permits owner or operator of venue for an event to require law enforcement officer to inform the owner or operator that the officer will be present at the event and in possession of a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB1510 Public Employees - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Public Safety Behavioral Health Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 50; Title 58; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2248 Professions and Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Fresh Start Act". - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 76, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2315 Immigration - As enacted, prohibits state and local governmental entities and officials from adopting sanctuary policies; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB784 Election Laws - As introduced, changes appointing authority, from the governor to the general assembly, for the office of United States Senator until a successor can be elected in the next regular November election. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB2251 TennCare - As enacted, requires that a waiver amendment to the existing TennCare II waiver that requires elective abortion providers be excluded from participation as providers in the TennCare program be submitted to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services for approval. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2586 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, changes, from 500 feet to 150 meters, the distance within which a person must commit a disorderly or offensive act for a person to commit the Class B misdemeanor offense of interfering with a funeral or burial. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HR148 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Angela Taylor, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HR146 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Markila Tate, Salutatorian, Melrose High School

TN - HR95 Memorials, Recognition - Clayborn Temple

TN - HR71 Memorials, Recognition - Scott Golden

TN - HR143 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Camerin Morganfield, Valedictorian, East High School

TN - HR145 Memorials, Academic Achievement - JerMeiah Clay, Salutatorian, East High School

TN - HR250 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Travis McKinney, Keller Williams Realty International Rookie of the Year

TN - HR313 Memorials, Recognition - Union University Debate Team

TN - HR185 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 2, 2018

TN - HR267 Memorials, Sports - Mt. Juliet League, Incorporated

TN - HR147 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Vivica Martin, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HR263 Memorials, Public Service - Roger Campbell

TN - HR144 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Leonica Clear, Valedictorian, Melrose High School

TN - HR24 Memorials, Recognition - Alzheimer's and other dementia awareness

TN - HR213 Memorials, Recognition - Sidney Raphael Branch, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award

TN - HR74 Memorials, Death - Tim Anderson

TN - HJR23 Memorials, Recognition - Expresses appreciation and thanks to entities and persons providing assistance during the Smoky Mountain wildfires.

TN - HJR740 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment to prohibit the general assembly from levying a state tax on real property and to remove provisions authorizing the general assembly to tax certain tangible personal property.

TN - HJR1067 Memorials, Recognition - April, Month of the Military Child

TN - HJR741 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses strong support for President Trump's proposal to construct a secure border wall and urges Congress to immediately take action to fund the construction.

TN - HJR37 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee recognizing that our liberties do not come from governments, but from Almighty God.

TN - HJR957 Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee Volunteers men's basketball team

TN - HJR75 Memorials, Retirement - David Gregory

TN - HJR803 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Janice Garrett Booker, Vanessa Rogers Long Humanitarian Award

TN - HJR454 Memorials, Interns - Daniel H. Cox

TN - HJR561 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jack Lowery, President of Tennessee Road Builders Association

TN - HJR805 Memorials, Recognition - Kimberly JoAnne Reid, Mary D. Shane-Miss AKA Outstanding Undergraduate Soror Award

TN - HJR197 Memorials, Death - Dr. Gene Caldwell

TN - HJR638 Memorials, Recognition - W.C. Handy Heritage Awards

TN - HJR789 Memorials, Recognition - The Links Days on Capitol Hill

TN - HJR605 Memorials, Sports - Union City High School football team, TSSAA Division I Class 2A State Champions

TN - HJR25 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Rep. Johnny Shaw, birthday

TN - HJR982 Memorials, Recognition - Kurdish community of Nashville

TN - HJR729 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel.

TN - HJR1068 Memorials, Retirement - Rick Shepard

TN - HJR204 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Altha Stewart, President-elect of American Psychiatric Association

TN - HJR177 Memorials, Recognition - Shelby County Public Defender, centennial

TN - HJR141 Memorials, Recognition - Deanie Parker

TN - HJR648 General Assembly - Provides for affixing plaque at Representative Lois DeBerry's desk in House chambers to commemorate her legislative service.

TN - HJR1306 Memorials, Retirement - Denise Sims

TN - HJR183 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Ruby Lopp, 102nd birthday

TN - HJR810 Memorials, Recognition - Terri Lee Freeman, 2018 Social Justice Honoree

TN - HJR595 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tennessee Speech and Debate Society

TN - HJR802 Memorials, Recognition - Nedra Butler-Ross, Reva Allman-Name That Soror Award

TN - HJR808 Memorials, Recognition - Lillian Williams, Velma Lois Jones-New Soror of the Year

TN - HJR119 Memorials, Sports - Hardin County High School boys' bowling team, 2017 TSSAA State Champions

TN - HJR118 Memorials, Sports - Hardin County High School Lady Tigers bowling team, 2017 state champions

TN - HJR176 Memorials, Retirement - Tim Tohill

TN - HJR185 Memorials, Recognition - Darryl Worley

TN - HJR639 Memorials, Death - Reverend Dwight Montgomery

TN - HJR650 Memorials, Death - John H. "Jack" Morris III

TN - HJR637 Memorials, Death - Bernal E. Smith II

TN - HJR909 Memorials, Recognition - Hillsman Lee Wright

TN - HJR582 Memorials, Death - Iyalode Nkechi Kianga Ajanaku

TN - HJR260 Memorials, Death - Barbara Rodgers Alston

TN - HJR657 Memorials, Death - Representative Raymond Walker

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Sports - Wayne County High School football team

TN - HJR731 Memorials, Recognition - Second Lieutenant Albert Louis Young of the Tuskegee Airmen

TN - HJR601 Memorials, Personal Occasion - J.B. "Buddy" Glassman, 80th birthday

TN - HJR754 Memorials, Sports - Gibbs High School wrestling team, TSSAA Class A-AA dual state champion

TN - HJR656 Memorials, Sports - Phillip Edward Fulmer, Sr., Director of Athletics at the University of Tennessee

TN - HJR801 Memorials, Recognition - Annie L. Barnes, Omicron Omega Golden Soror of the Year

TN - HJR807 Memorials, Recognition - Anesha Hines, Velma Lois Jones-New Soror of the Year Award

TN - HJR783 Memorials, Retirement - Edwin D. Brown

TN - HJR1184 Memorials, Recognition - Chattanooga Mayor's Council for Women, inaugural Statewide Women's Policy Conference

TN - HJR22 Memorials, Death - Michael E. Anderson

TN - HJR641 Memorials, Congratulations - Taiwan

TN - HJR593 Memorials, Sports - Nashville Predators, NHL Western Conference champions

TN - HJR205 Memorials, Death - Dr. Luther M. Kindall

TN - HJR709 Memorials, Sports - Gibbs High School softball team, TSSAA Division I Class AAA State Champions

TN - HJR831 Memorials, Recognition - Jamita Swearengen, 2018 Social Justice Honoree

TN - HJR735 Memorials, Retirement - Ed Cromer

TN - HJR832 Memorials, Recognition - Deidre Malone, 2018 Social Justice Honoree

TN - HJR530 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. James Netters

TN - HJR226 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 33 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the criminal punishment exception from slavery and involuntary servitude prohibition.

TN - HJR117 Memorials, Sports - Preston Rice, Wayne County High School, 2016 Mr. Football, Division I Class 1A Back

TN - HJR636 Memorials, Death - Jesse Wilburn

TN - HJR642 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Robin Copp, 2017-2018 Tennessee Department of Education Principal of the Year

TN - HJR108 Memorials, Recognition - World Sickle Cell Day

TN - HJR262 Memorials, Recognition - The Lee Sisters of Memphis

TN - HJR21 Memorials, Sports - Whitehaven High School, TSSAA Class 6A State Football Champions

TN - HJR800 Memorials, Recognition - Beatrice Williams, Mary B. Conner Sisterly Relations Award

TN - HJR121 Memorials, Public Service - Sue Creasy

TN - HJR736 Memorials, Death - E. Claude Gardner

TN - HJR34 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Tammy Letzler and Kim Cox

TN - HJR35 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 3, 2017

TN - HJR1005 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Susan Ritter, State Executive Officer of the Year

TN - HJR91 Memorials, Heroism - Officer Joseph Miranne, Officer Jason Berrios, and Officer Anthony Oliveto of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

TN - HJR98 Memorials, Recognition - V. Lynn Evans

TN - HJR779 Memorials, Recognition - Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 995

TN - HJR1071 Memorials, Recognition - Wilson County Fair, 2017 Triple A division champion

TN - HJR184 Memorials, Recognition - Morgan Mathis, 2016 ANTSO National Miss

TN - HJR655 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article II and Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Tennessee to authorize appointment of special counsel by the general assembly to investigate, indict, and prosecute alleged criminal activity committed by state and local officials, departments, and agencies.

TN - HJR833 Memorials, Recognition - Ethel Hedgeman Lyle

TN - HJR804 Memorials, Recognition - Lauryn Joiner, Mary D. Shane-Miss AKA Outstanding Undergraduate Soror Award

TN - HJR721 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jeff Drake, Tennessee Forestry Association 2017 Master Logger of the Year

TN - HJR1186 Memorials, Recognition - Kent Ritchey, Ginny Award

TN - HJR722 Memorials, Retirement - Shirley Jones

TN - HJR529 Memorials, Recognition - Fred L. Davis

TN - HJR36 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for the Nation of Israel.

TN - HJR252 Memorials, Sports - Summertown High School girls' basketball team

TN - HJR120 Memorials, Public Service - Bonnie Merriman

TN - HJR145 Memorials, Public Service - Stancil Ford

TN - HJR140 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bev Johnson, 30th anniversary with 1070 WDIA-AM

TN - HJR737 Memorials, Death - Dr. David Millhorn

TN - HJR806 Memorials, Recognition - Maya Hill, Mary D. Shane-Miss AKA Outstanding Undergraduate Soror Award