Tennessee Rep. Lowell Russell (R)

TN - Calendar and Rules (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Consumer and Human Resources (House)

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member

TN - Consumer Subcommittee (House)

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member

TN - Transportation (House)

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member

TN - Calendar and Rules (House)

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vice-chair

TN - Public Safety (House)

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member

TN - HB1673 Emergency Communications Districts - As introduced, requires each emergency communication district, by January 1, 2022, to adopt the direct dispatch method in response to emergency calls received by public safety answering points within the district. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86.

TN - HB174 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, transfers the fire investigations section from the department of commerce and insurance to the bureau; revises and enacts related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB1848 Sexual Offenders - As introduced, prohibits registered sex offenders from participating in any activity generally associated with Halloween and establishes a sex offender curfew from 6:00 p.m. on October 31 until 4:00 a.m. on November 1. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.

TN - HB1870 Traffic Safety - As introduced, clarifies that the present law requiring drivers of motorcycles to wear a helmet applies to drivers of autocycles that are not fully enclosed. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 3.

TN - HJR1245 Memorials, Death - Debbie Williams Cook

TN - HR241 Memorials, Retirement - Chief Doug Watson

TN - HB2057 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, expands the definition of smoking to include the use of a device that delivers aerosolized or vaporized nicotine, or any other substance, to the user for purposes of the Non-Smoker Protection Act. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 18.

TN - HB2892 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, requires the department to grant or deny an application for a subsurface sewage disposal system within 45 days or receiving all information necessary to make such a determination; requires the department, if it cannot make a determination within 45 days, to refund the application fee; requires that a denial include a clear, written explanation for the denial with citations to relevant legal authority for the denial. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 11; Section 39-14-306; Section 57-4-102; Title 59; Title 62; Title 66; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.

TN - HJR216 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Clinton Elmer Riddle, 98th birthday

TN - HB1868 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enhances the punishment for assault by one classification if the assault is committed against a first responder. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

TN - HB2056 Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires a governmental entity with authority to levy a real property tax to include on any real property tax notice issued by the entity for property located in a flood zone a statement to that effect on the tax notice issued to the taxpayer. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1796 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, requires that signage concerning minimum age to purchase tobacco products that is posted or replaced by retailers on or after July 1, 2020, must also specify that the age restriction applies to sales of vapor products. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB1871 Boats, Boating - As introduced, adds boat trailers to the types of vehicles on which a vehicle identification number must be stamped. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 69.

TN - HB2101 Workers Compensation - As introduced, adds advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants as healthcare providers from whom an injured employee may choose to receive treatment in a workers' compensation case, in addition to physicians, surgeons, and chiropractors. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

TN - HB628 Adoption - As enacted, provides that if a court appoints a guardian ad litem in a pending adoption proceeding, there will be a rebuttable presumption that the guardian ad litem's fees will be divided equally between the parties, excluding the person being adopted; specifies that if a party is found by the court to be indigent, the guardian ad litem will charge that party's portion of the fees to the state through the administrative office of the courts claims and payment system, and bill the remaining parties at the same hourly rate as paid by the administrative office of the courts claims and payment system. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - HB2802 County Officers - As introduced, revises certain provisions governing constables. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10.

TN - HB695 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, creates sales and use tax exemption for sale of public safety and public works-related goods to certain nonprofit property owners associations; exemption limited to $25,000 in sales and use taxes each year that would otherwise be imposed. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB838 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, adds conviction of a new sexual offense, violent sexual offense, or violent juvenile sexual offense as violation of the Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act of 2004. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39.

TN - HB922 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, removes sheriff's responsibility to transport a person with a mental illness or serious emotional disturbance for evaluation at and admission to a treatment facility; requires county mayor to designate a transportation agent for the county to transport such persons. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2304 Public Employees - As introduced, adds emergency call takers and public safety dispatchers and emergency services personnel to definition of first responder for certain purposes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 29; Title 39; Title 58 and Title 63.

TN - HB861 Eminent Domain - As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration to report the total amount of state funds paid to acquire property through eminent domain in the 2017-2018 year to the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees and the office of legislative budget analysis by January 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 29, Chapter 17; Title 29, Chapter 16 and Title 65.

TN - HB627 Marriage - As introduced, extends time period a marriage license is valid from 30 to 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1672 Workers Compensation - As introduced, transfers administration of construction service provider registration from the secretary of state to the bureau of workers' compensation. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 4 and Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 9.

TN - HB990 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to either approve permit applications pertaining to water and sewage within 30 days of receipt or provide a clear, written explanation for not issuing the permit with citations to supporting authority. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 11; Title 13; Title 59; Title 60; Title 62; Title 64; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

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

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

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

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

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

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

TN - HB531 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, makes permanent the provision that is set to expire July 1, 2019, allowing counties to provide 2 percent matching funds for state-aid highway funds rather than 25 percent. - Amends TCA Section 54-4-404.

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

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

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

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

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

TN - HB347 Public Officials - As enacted, clarifies that a county judicial commissioner or magistrate may administer the oath of office to an elected or appointed official. - Amends TCA Section 8-18-109.

TN - HJR214 Memorials, Retirement - Reverend Ron Jordan

TN - HB35 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, creates the Green Alert system within the TBI to assist in the identification and location of a missing veteran at risk. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1.

TN - HB126 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to create a baccalaureate degree for veterans who retire with 20 years of service; requires each state institution of higher education that offers a baccalaureate degree program to award the degree created by the commission. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1121 Psychologists - As introduced, authorizes the board of examiners in psychology to submit its annual report to the governor in electronic form. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1489 Veterans - As introduced, allows the Tennessee state veterans' homes board to submit its annual report electronically to the governor and general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 16; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 58.

TN - HB822 Naming and Designating - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee state veterans' homes board to name, subject to the governor's approval, the campus, buildings, facilities, and grounds of any state veterans' home; authorizes the administrator of each veterans' home to name any portion of the state veterans' home. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 7.

TN - HB36 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, changes from once every five years to once every four years the timeframe during which social workers, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, pastoral counselors, alcohol and drug abuse counselors, and occupational therapists must complete an approved suicide prevention training program. - Amends TCA Section 63-1-125.

TN - HB1194 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires a board of education to allow a student who is the dependent child of a member of the United States armed forces and who does not reside within the boundaries of the school district to enroll in a public school within the school district under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB205 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires public postsecondary institutions to classify the spouse or dependent child of an active member of the United States armed forces transferred out of state on military orders as an in-state student for tuition purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1146 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, increases the number of free plates from one to two for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.

TN - HB787 Veterans Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to provide training in suicide prevention to the employees of the department who directly interact with veterans. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1148 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates June 27 of each year as "Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - HB273 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Save Tennessee Call Center Jobs Act of 2019." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 67.

TN - HB718 Special License Plates - As introduced, creates the Korean Defense Service specialty license plate for issuance to eligible veterans and military service members. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-253.

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

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 - HJR231 Memorials, Death - Sam Powell

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

TN - HJR223 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

TN - HB1154 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, adds the word "valor" to the Silver Star specialty license plate. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

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 - HB623 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, makes police officers and firefighters who are members of the state retirement system 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 - HB780 Workers Compensation - As introduced, creates a presumption that a firefighter or emergency medical services personnel diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sustained the injury in the line of duty for purposes of workers' compensation; allows for the presumption to be rebutted by evidence that the PTSD was caused by nonservice-connected risk factors or exposure. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 56.

TN - 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 - HB1077 Election Laws - As enacted, revises provisions governing convenient voting centers pilot projects. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 3, Part 3.

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 - 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 - HB169 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, permits a designation as joint primary residential parents or a waiver of the primary residential parent designation upon agreement of the parents when the child is scheduled to reside an equal amount of time with both parents; allows the address of either parent to be used to determine school zoning when the child is scheduled to reside an equal amount of time with both parents. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 36.

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

TN - HB932 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, clarifies the priority an employer, person, corporation, or institution must give to all orders of income assignment against an individual for child, medical, or spousal support; removes references to the Tennessee Judicial Council, which terminated June 30, 2009. - Amends TCA Section 36-5-406 and Section 36-5-501(j)(2)(A).

TN - HJR148 Naming and Designating - "Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month" in Tennessee, May 2019

TN - HJR147 Naming and Designating - "Rare Disease Day," February 28, 2019

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 - HB33 Process, Service of - As enacted, adds a private process server to the list of individuals authorized to personally serve a copy of a warrant or summons on behalf of a landlord in an action for forcible entry and detainer to regain possession of such landlord's real property. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 18.

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

TN - HB1440 Law Enforcement - As enacted, makes denial of a claim made by the estate of a law enforcement officer for the annuity payable to the estate of an emergency responder who is killed in the line of duty subject to review by the Tennessee peace officer standards and training commission within 90 days of the claim's denial; redefines "law enforcement officer" for purposes of determining which law enforcement officers are considered an emergency responder whose estate would be eligible for the annuity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 38.

TN - HB1029 Abortion - As enacted, enacts the "Human Life Protection Act," which bans abortion in this state effective on the 30th day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade or an amendment to 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 - HB643 Mental Illness - As enacted, requires the department of finance and administration, in consultation with the department of mental health and substance abuse services and the division of TennCare, to develop and administer a grant program to assist sheriffs who are required by law to transport persons who have been certified by a health care professional for transport to a hospital or treatment resource for a mental health examination to determine whether the person should be involuntarily admitted; authorizes hospitals and treatment resources to conduct a mental health examination to determine whether a person should be involuntarily admitted via telehealth services. - 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 - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

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

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

TN - HB1134 State Employees - As enacted, extends continued health coverage to the surviving spouses and children of park rangers who are killed in the line of duty to the same extent as survivors of other first responders who are killed in the line of duty. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 11 and Title 58.

TN - HB1271 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, extends the exemption from sales and use tax on trailers used to transport livestock when such trailer is sold to a qualified farmer or nurseryman to also exempt such sales of trailers used to transport farm products, nursery stock, or equipment, supplies or products used in agriculture, or for other agricultural purposes relating to the operation and maintenance of a farm. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - HB1245 Consumer Protection - As enacted, increases from $10,000 to $30,000 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; encourages carriers offering telephone services in this state to adopt certain technologies and measures. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 65.

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

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 - HB634 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends to "water" the sales tax exemption that applies to the sale to a qualified farmer or nurseryman of electricity, natural gas and liquefied gas, including, but not limited to, propane and butane used directly in the production of food or fiber for human or animal consumption or to aid in the growing of a horticultural product for sale. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB1364 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, rewrites the criminal offense of female genital mutilation; extends the statute of limitations for criminal prosecutions or civil actions for female genital mutilation. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 and Title 40.

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

TN - HB966 Death - As enacted, authorizes the development and use of a commemorative certificate of nonviable birth. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB538 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises various provisions governing towing of vehicles and liens of garagekeepers and towing firms; expands the towing advisory board from nine to 11 members by adding a member appointed by the Tennessee Trucking Association and a member appointed by the American Car Rental Association. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 16 and Title 55, Chapter 23.

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

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

TN - HR73 Memorials, Death - George Klein

TN - HB1239 Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits governmental entities from contracting with a person who does not provide evidence of work authorization status for each individual to whom public money will be received under a public contract; requires private employers with at least six employees and governmental entities to verify the work authorization status of employees hired on or after January 1, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12 and Title 50.

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

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

TN - HJR438 Memorials, Recognition - Shannon McCloud

TN - HB1280 TennCare - As enacted, directs the governor, through the commissioner of finance and administration, to submit a waiver amendment to the centers for medicare and medicaid services to provide TennCare II funding by means of a block grant indexed for inflation and population growth. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB943 Salaries and Benefits - As enacted, reinstates service credits and salary increases that were suspended during 2009-2010 for assistant public defenders and assistant district attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 8, Chapter 7, Part 2.

TN - HJR17 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee recognizing that our liberties do not come from government, but from Almighty God.

TN - HB499 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop rules, to be adopted by the state board of education, that include procedures for providing instruction to students incarcerated in juvenile detention centers for a minimum of four hours each instructional day. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.

TN - HB498 TennCare - As enacted, directs the commissioner of finance and administration to submit to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services a waiver or waivers pursuant to Section 1115 of the Social Security Act for the purpose of establishing a distinct Katie Beckett program. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

TN - HJR474 Memorials, Death - Representative Ron Lollar

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

TN - HJR476 Memorials, Sports - Jeremiah Martin

TN - HJR513 Memorials, Recognition - Beverly C. Robertson

TN - HJR515 Memorials, Death - Gladys Margaret Endsley McKinsey

TN - HJR512 Memorials, Recognition - Judge Deborah Means Henderson

TN - HB1354 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires each state institution of higher education to do the following: develop and implement a suicide prevention plan for students, faculty, and staff; and provide the plan to students, faculty, and staff at least once each semester. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR583 Memorials, Sports - Hunter Sturgill

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

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

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

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Khyiah K. Riviears

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

TN - HJR608 Memorials, Retirement - Vanessa M. Horner

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

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

TN - HB786 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, makes various changes to law concerning pharmacy benefits managers. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31.

TN - HJR631 Memorials, Recognition - Shelby County, Bicentennial

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

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

TN - HJR644 Memorials, Retirement - Helen Ford

TN - HJR636 Memorials, Retirement - State Trooper Joe Wynne

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

TN - HB41 Handgun Permits - As enacted, requires that the following language be printed on the back of handgun carry permit cards: This permit is valid beyond the expiration date if the permit holder can provide documentation of the holder's active military status and duty station outside Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

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

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

TN - HJR704 Memorials, Public Service - Congressman Phil Roe

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

TN - HR194 Memorials, Recognition - Christopher Clark

TN - HB1697 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, enacts the "Food Tax Holiday Act," which exempts the retail sale of food and food ingredients from sales tax for the months of June and July in 2020. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1699 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, makes various changes to the law concerning the electronic delivery of health care and its coverage under insurance policies. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Section 63-1-155.

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

TN - HB1892 Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, requires that, upon a judge or chancellor withdrawing or being found incompetent, a successor be designated within 30 days of the finding of incompetency or withdrawal. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 17; Title 19; Title 20 and Title 21.

TN - HJR708 Memorials, Sports - University of Tennessee Volunteers football team

TN - HB2118 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, exempts from the professional privilege tax physicians who are retired from practice, but hold an active license for the provision of free healthcare services. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HJR769 Memorials, Recognition - Second Amendment rally in Richmond, Virginia

TN - HB1805 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts the "Spencer Bristol Act," which increases the penalty for evading arrest that results in the serious bodily injury of a law enforcement officer to a Class C felony and evading arrest that results in the death of a law enforcement officer to a Class A felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 6.

TN - HB1801 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, makes state correctional officers who are members of the state retirement system eligible for service retirement after completing 25 years of creditable service; extends eligibility for early retirement to certain emergency medical services personnel. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.

TN - HB1620 Driver Licenses - As enacted, adds documentation a veteran may submit to the department of safety to have military service indicated on a driver license to allow an honorably discharged veteran to submit a certified copy of the veteran's AGO Form 53-55 or NAVPERS 553 showing the dates of service. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.

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

TN - HJR789 Memorials, Recognition - Stillbirth Awareness and Remembrance Day, October 12, 2020

TN - HJR790 Memorials, Recognition - Grand Ole Opry, 95th anniversary

TN - HJR792 Memorials, Recognition - Garth Brooks

TN - HJR791 Memorials, Recognition - Ryman Auditorium

TN - HJR793 Memorials, Recognition - Martina McBride

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

TN - HB2385 Firefighters - As introduced, allows a volunteer firefighter to receive $800 from the commission on firefighting personnel standards and education for completing 40 hours of training annually. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24.

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

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

TN - HJR818 Memorials, Recognition - Harriet Tubman Day

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

TN - HB2293 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the offense of mail theft, which is intentionally obtaining mail from another person's mailbox or premises without the consent of the addressee and with the intent to deprive the addressee of the mail. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14.

TN - HB1562 State Symbols - As enacted, designates "The Volunteer State" as the official nickname of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HB2008 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class E felony of communicating a threat to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity; creates the Class A misdemeanor of knowing failure to report a threat of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1; Title 39 and Title 49.

TN - HB2203 Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, makes various changes to the licensing of and prescribing authority for advanced practice registered nurses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 49; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HJR741 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Affirms the constitutional duty and exclusive authority and power of the General Assembly to appropriate public moneys and balance the state budget.

TN - HB2153 Federal Aid - As introduced, changes the date, from March 1 to March 15, by which the fiscal review committee staff must provide the general assembly's finance, ways and means committees information regarding state programs that have suffered reductions of federal financial support in the amount of 10 percent or more during the preceding year. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 9; Title 12, Chapter 4; Title 13; Title 41; Title 42; Title 49; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 71.

TN - HB1929 State Government - As introduced, prohibits the governor from making a decision or obligating the state of Tennessee in any way with regard to resettlement of refugees unless authorized by joint resolution of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 71.

TN - HJR927 Memorials, Death - Trooper Matthew "Matt" Elias Gatti

TN - HB2509 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, adds requirements to the spending, dedicating, or reserve of certain funds from the temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) program by the department of human services and the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 68 and Title 71.

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

TN - HB2230 Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the department to require its employees and contractors who have elevated and privileged access to data and personal information to submit to a background check to be performed by the TBI as a condition of employment. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3.

TN - HB900 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 and Title 38.

TN - HB2108 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, allows law enforcement officers to carry handguns in posted areas under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB2778 State Government - As introduced, designates the Holy Bible as the official state book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.

TN - HJR903 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Cleo Eugene "Jack" Jackson III

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

TN - HB2676 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax; establishes requirements for payment of annual professional registration fee for nonresidents engaged in certain professions. - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 19; Title 23; Title 48, Chapter 1; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 67.

TN - HB2367 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, requires the commissioner of agriculture to submit a report to the senate health and welfare committee and the house health committee, if the commissioner promulgates emergency rules regarding the sale of tobacco. - Amends TCA Title 33, Chapter 10 and Title 43, Chapter 19.

TN - HB1796 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, requires that signage concerning minimum age to purchase tobacco products that is posted or replaced by retailers on or after July 1, 2020, must also specify that the age restriction applies to sales of vapor products. - Amends TCA Title 39.

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

TN - HB1720 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires county clerks to retain $3.00 of the $11.00 fee for noting liens, encumbrances, or mortgages on a certificate of title; requires the retained funds to be earmarked for office supplies and equipment related to the notations. - Amends TCA Section 55-6-101.

TN - HB2059 Education - As introduced, authorizes a local board of education or a private or church-related school to apply excess instructional time accumulated during the school year toward the required 180 days of classroom instruction if the excess instructional time is not applied toward meeting instructional time requirements missed due to dangerous or extreme weather conditions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30.

TN - HB2886 Special License Plates - As introduced, creates the Women's Suffrage Centennial new specialty earmarked license plate. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB618 Traffic Safety - As enacted, extends the "Slow Poke Law," which prohibits the operation of vehicles in the left lane, except for passing and other purposes, to interstates and multilane divided highways with two or more lanes. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8, Part 2.

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

TN - HJR974 Memorials, Death - Victor Thompson

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

TN - HB2246 Education, Higher - As introduced, extends eligibility for tuition reimbursement provided to members of the Tennessee national guard under the STRONG Act of 2017 to include technical certificates and diplomas and certain graduate programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 10.

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

TN - HB2580 Political Parties - As introduced, designates a specific time frame of 48 hours within which the state executive committees should post on the websites of the respective political parties, any change to a scheduled appearance of a candidate or the unavailability of a candidate to appear at an event scheduled during the time between the primary and general elections. - Amends TCA Title 2.

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

TN - HB2520 Emergency Communications Districts - As introduced, reduces the time period in which the board of directors of an emergency communications district must file a copy of the district's annual audit with the appropriate authorities, from 30 days after receipt of the audit by the board to 15 days after receipt of the audit. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86.

TN - HB1583 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, allows a person who commits a sexual offense or a violent sexual offense against a child under 12 years of age to reside, conduct an overnight visit, or be alone with a minor who is the offender's child so long as: the offender's parental rights are not being terminated; the sexual offender's victim was not the offender's child; and a circuit court exercising civil jurisdiction has not found by clear and convincing evidence that the offender presents a danger of substantial harm to the minor. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39.

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

TN - HB2397 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, provides that a person's use of force in self-defense is not justified if the person was engaged in conduct that would constitute a felony or Class A misdemeanor, rather than unlawful activity, at the time of the use of force. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-611.

TN - HB773 Revenue, Dept. of - As introduced, establishes procedures for requesting the redaction of confidential information from the text of revenue and letter rulings issued by the department. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 1.

TN - HB2601 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires public institutions of higher education to provide each student with a detailed and completed current-year federal college financing plan; imposes other requirements for such institutions to provide certain information when a student is finalizing acceptance of a financial aid package. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1707 State Employees - As enacted, permits the state, through the attorney general, to seek an injunction against a person who commits harassment against a state employee. - Amends TCA Title 50.

TN - HB1799 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, removes residency requirements for any person applying for a retail license. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-204.

TN - HB2097 State Government - As introduced, requires the attorney general and reporter, on behalf of state entities which it represents in lawsuits involving constitutional questions or sums in excess of $1 million or more, to notify the governor, each speaker of the general assembly, and certain committees and members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 29, Chapter 20.

TN - HB2099 Boards and Commissions - As introduced, authorizes state agencies attached to the division of regulatory boards and the division of health-related boards to conduct emergency meetings by teleconference when called by the presiding officer or upon petition by a majority of the members of such agencies. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1; Title 62 and Title 63.

TN - HB2727 General Services, Dept. of - As introduced, clarifies that the fiscal review committee must be allowed to review noncompetitive procurement agreements; requires the chief procurement officer to report procurement contracts monthly to the fiscal review committee; revises various other provisions related to procurement of state contracts. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 49.

TN - HB1278 Election Laws - As enacted, provides that if an incumbent member of the general assembly who has filed a petition for reelection is disqualified by the political party executive committee, then the incumbent member of the general assembly may file a new petition for the same office as a candidate for another political party or as an independent candidate. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 10.

TN - HB2110 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, authorizes the use of surveillance cameras on interstate highways for aiding law enforcement with criminal investigations only. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB325 Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As enacted, designates three river segments located in Rhea County as Class I natural river areas. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 13.

TN - HB2561 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, repeals the Bledsoe Regional Water Authority. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 12.

TN - HB2716 Law Enforcement - As introduced, increases, from $800 to $1,000, the pay supplement a police officer is entitled to receive in 2020 upon successful completion of 40 hours of in-service training. - Amends TCA Section 38-8-111.

TN - HJR1209 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Requires the Secretary of State to include a section on the Bible in Tennessee in the Tennessee Blue Book.

TN - HJR1225 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee National Guard 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment

TN - HB2768 Courts - As enacted, allows a court to temporarily hold court proceedings in a courthouse or other room located outside the county seat under specific circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 16-1-105.

TN - HB2660 Civil Procedure - As introduced, provides that a person who uses justifiable force against another may request a stay of proceedings in any civil action based on the use of force until the criminal investigation has concluded; creates an immunity hearing at which the court may dismiss an action that is barred by immunity. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB2841 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or the director's designee, to report truant student absences to the appropriate judge if any tier of a progressive truancy intervention plan is unsuccessful, and before subsequent tiers are implemented, if the school can document that the student's parent or guardian is unwilling to cooperate in the truancy intervention plan. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR1053 Memorials, Retirement - Lloyd Hansen

TN - HB2615 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, expands the unruly act of illegal use of a communication device by a minor to include possessing or transmitting an image of sexual activity involving a minor. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 10.

TN - HR326 Memorials, Congratulations - Tennessee is well-suited to host the 2020 Republican National Convention.

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

TN - HJR1200 Memorials, Death - Johnny Majors

TN - HB2685 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, authorizes a department of correction officer who is a member of the state retirement system to retire under the state retirement system upon completion of 25 years of creditable service. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36.

TN - HR363 Memorials, Public Service - Members of the Tennessee Highway Patrol and Tennessee National Guard who protect the State Capitol.

TN - HB2333 Handgun Permits - As enacted, waives the lifetime handgun carry permit fees for retired law enforcement officers who served for at least 10 years, rather than former law enforcement officers who served for at least 10 years. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

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

TN - HB2263 Abortion - As enacted, creates the Class C felony of performing or inducing, or attempting to perform or induce, an abortion upon a pregnant woman whose unborn child has a fetal heartbeat; creates other criminal offenses related to the performance of an abortion; requires that certain information regarding reversing chemical abortions be provided; revises and enacts other abortion-related provisions. - Amends TCA Section 37-10-304 and Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2.

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

TN - HB1594 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, revises provisions governing the maximum length of a truck-tractor and semitrailer or trailer on highways in this state. - Amends TCA Title 55.

TN - HB825 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for theft of property that includes a firearm valued at less than $2,500 from a Class A misdemeanor or Class E felony, as applicable based on the value, to a Class D felony. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB2131 Museums - As enacted, designates the Tennessee state museum located at 1000 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard as the "Bill Haslam Center". - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 12.