Tennessee Rep. Kevin Vaughan (R)

TN - HB1065 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, imposes a maximum allotment of time for standardized testing each school year based on a student's grade level; excludes assessments used to assess a student's readiness for postsecondary education and assessments required by an LEA or governing body from the maximum time allotments. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - HB1063 Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "Main Street Historic Tourism and Revitalization Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 11, Part 1; Title 56, Chapter 4 and Title 67.

TN - HB199 Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, clarifies that the definition of the practice of nursing does not prevent qualified registered nurses from making determinations that patients are experiencing emergency medical conditions, in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 68.

TN - HB1344 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, increases from 60 to 90 days, the maximum timeframe in which the governing board of the regional transportation authority of Middle Tennessee may vote to adopt alternative provisions to operate as a regional transportation authority. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 7; Title 54; Title 55; Title 64 and Title 67.

TN - HB1538 Shelby County - Subject to local approval, authorizes proceeds from the hotel motel tax to be used for expenditures incurred in connection with a sports facility and the promotion of tourism. - Amends amend Chapter 131 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended.

TN - HB797 Licenses - As introduced, requires the Tennessee auctioneer commission to post the names of persons whose licenses have been suspended, revoked, or not renewed as a result of fraud and other violations. - Amends TCA Title 35, Chapter 5; Title 55, Chapter 17, Part 1 and Title 62, Chapter 19.

TN - HB704 Taxes - As introduced, allows the division of property assessment to send the annual report, with the appropriate summary of the work accomplished by the division and any appropriate recommendations, to the state board of equalization in electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB893 Education - As introduced, changes from two weeks to four weeks the time period following written notice to the affected board of education within which the commissioner of education may, upon due hearing, withhold and declare forfeited state school funds due any school district that refuses or neglects to comply with and enforce the census or compulsory school attendance laws. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HR65 Memorials, Recognition - John Green and Company Realtors, 40th anniversary

TN - HB703 Controlled Substances - As introduced, exempts from certain record keeping requirements any wholesale drug distributor licensed and regulated by the board of pharmacy and registered with and regulated by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration when storing Schedule V controlled substances containing any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any amount of gabapentin. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53 and Title 63.

TN - HR80 Memorials, Retirement - John S. Aitken

TN - HB269 Medical Occupations - As introduced, reduces the number of days from 15 to 10 that the comptroller has to determine whether certain financing agreements to fund a medical school under the Medical School Authorities Act is in compliance with the guidelines, rules, and regulations of the state funding board. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 33; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB270 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, changes from seven to 10 days the number of days prior to a vote on marketing strategies or strategic plans that a hospital subject to the open meetings law must make records related to the strategy available for public inspection. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

TN - HJR195 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. David "Hank" Wright, Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - HB1343 Industrial Development - As introduced, reduces, from 15 days to 10 business days, the period in which an industrial development corporation has to file notice of default on debt obligations with the governing body of the municipality where the corporation functions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10 and Title 67.

TN - HB202 Municipal Government - As enacted, requires online training and continuing education providers for municipal utility board commissioners to provide a certificate of completion or attendance that must be submitted by the commissioner to the municipality upon the completion of required training; requires the municipality to keep the certificate of completion or attendance for six years. - Amends TCA Section 7-34-115.

TN - HB198 Home Improvement Contractors - As introduced, requires home improvement contractors initially licensed on or after January 1, 2009, to complete eight hours of continuing education biennially beginning January 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6 and Title 4, Chapter 5.

TN - HB892 Education - As introduced, changes from January 31 to January 15 the date by which the department of health must provide the governor's office, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives a report of the aggregate results of all BMI screenings performed in the previous calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1327 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes leases entered into between Memphis and business owners holding a restaurant license from the alcoholic beverage commission to include provisions where the rent is calculated on gross sales, including gross sales of alcohol, of the business; prohibits a county from denying the issuance or renewal of a beer permit on the basis of a similar lease. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 1; Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

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 - HB1029 Abortion - As introduced, enacts the "Human Life Protection Act," which bans abortion in this state effective upon the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade or amending the U.S. Constitution to allow states to prohibit abortion; creates exception for situations where the abortion is necessary to prevent the death of pregnant woman or prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of major bodily function; prohibits prosecution of a woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-5116; Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 9; Title 63, Chapter 6; Title 68 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1089 Annexation - As introduced, specifies that all property owners, rather than just residents, of a territory proposed for annexation may vote in the referendum on the question of annexation. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 51, Part 1.

TN - HB416 Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits a trustee or former trustee of a board of trustees of a hospital authority from entering into an arrangement for employment or the provision of labor or services with the authority until at least 12 months have expired following the trustee or former trustee's tenure of service on the board. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 68.

TN - HB658 Law Enforcement - As introduced, limits the authority of a community oversight board to the review and consideration of matters reported to it and the issuance of advisory reports and recommendations to agencies involved in public safety and the administration of justice. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB131 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, urges the department of revenue to study the enforcement of disabled parking violations; requires department to report its findings and recommendations on or before February 1, 2020, to the transportation and safety committee of the senate and transportation committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21, Part 1.

TN - HB106 Fireworks - As enacted, authorizes the retail sale of Class C common fireworks in Millington. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.

TN - HB512 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, deletes provisions declaring incarcerated persons to be categorically ineligible for financial assistance. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

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 - 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 - HB1391 Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires that only 5 percent of the evaluation criteria used to evaluate all teachers and principals be comprised of student achievement data based on student growth generated by assessments administered to students enrolled in an English as a second language (ESL) program with limited English proficiency. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB352 Consumer Protection - As enacted, makes an unfair or deceptive act or practice certain legal advertisements for claims related to medical devices and pharmaceuticals, and the unauthorized use or distribution of protected health information; creates penalties for violations; authorizes attorney general to enforce the provisions of the act. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 23 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

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 - HB1423 County Government - As introduced, prohibits interpreting or amending county charter in a manner inconsistent with state law with respect to the duties, qualifications, and privileges of the constitutional county offices of sheriff, register, county clerk, assessor of property, or trustee. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HB1245 Consumer Protection - As introduced, increases from $10,000 to $25,000 the civil penalty amount per violation that the attorney general and reporter may recover in an action against a person who commits the offense of caller identification spoofing; clarifies that each call received by a subscriber wherein the caller identification information is misleading or inaccurate constitutes a separate violation for purposes of imposing the civil penalty. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 65.

TN - HB77 Abortion - As introduced, prohibits abortions from the point a fetal heartbeat is detected; creates exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.

TN - HB843 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, makes various changes concerning the prescription of certain Scheduled controlled substances. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 1, Part 4.

TN - HB109 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, permits correctional officers and certain other people employed by the department of correction to carry a handgun the same as a law enforcement officer if they have completed their probationary period rather than when they are vested. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1350.

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

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

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

TN - HB643 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, removes law enforcement as a transportation option provided by the department of mental health and substance abuse services for people with developmental disabilities, mental illness, or serious emotional disturbance. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21; Title 8, Chapter 42; Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 13, Chapter 26; Title 29, Chapter 20; Title 33, Chapter 2; Title 33, Chapter 6; Title 33, Chapter 7; Title 37, Chapter 1; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB928 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises the use of student growth data for purposes of a teacher's or principal's annual evaluation; deletes obsolete provisions regarding the use of student growth data; excludes, for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years, student growth evaluation composites generated by assessments administered in the 2017-2018 school year if the exclusion results in a higher evaluation score for the teacher. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302.

TN - HB1199 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, extends eligibility for receipt of Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grants to students who are attending certain independent postsecondary institutions and who are otherwise eligible for the grants. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB247 State Government - As introduced, establishes daylight saving time as the standard time in Tennessee, subject to authorization to do so from the United States Congress. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-401.

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Khyiah K. Riviears

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

TN - HR86 Memorials, Interns - Shane Richards

TN - HR87 Memorials, Interns - Hailey Ragsdale

TN - HR73 Memorials, Death - George Klein

TN - HR62 Memorials, Death - John Kilzer

TN - HR20 Memorials, Recognition - President Ronald Reagan

TN - HR64 Memorials, Recognition - Social Work Month, March 2019

TN - HR3 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

TN - HJR613 Memorials, Government Officials - Designates House Seat 34 in the House Chamber of the State Capitol as the "Charles Sargent Memorial."

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

TN - HJR583 Memorials, Sports - Hunter Sturgill

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Deborah Means Henderson

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

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

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

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

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

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

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Representative Ron Lollar

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

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

TN - HJR513 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly C. Robertson

TN - HJR515 Memorials, Death - Gladys Margaret Endsley McKinsey

TN - HJR231 Memorials, Death - Sam Powell

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

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

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

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

TN - HJR438 Memorials, Recognition - Shannon McCloud

TN - HJR377 Memorials, Death - Monroe James "M.J." Edwards, Sr.

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour