Tennessee Rep. Mike Stewart (D)

TN - HB1428 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor offense of illegal transfer of a firearm to a prohibited possessor; prohibits the intentional transfer to a person who is known or should be known to be prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.

TN - HB1433 Political Parties - As introduced, extends the time given to state executive committees for each political party to post schedule of public appearances for gubernatorial candidates, from 15 to 20 days. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB1222 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to provide a written report to the judiciary committees of the senate and the house, the state and local government committee of the senate, and the state government committee of the house by February 1, 2020, and by February 1 each year thereafter, detailing the institutional efficiency modifications made at each correctional facility and private contract prison in this state the prior year. - Amends TCA Title 41.

TN - HB121 Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits a person who regularly engages in or solicits consumer transactions involving the installation of used tires from installing an unsafe used tire on a motor vehicle; specifies that installing an unsafe used tired is a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 55.

TN - HB1438 Education - As introduced, prohibits the operation of a virtual school by an LEA after July 1, 2019. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1214 Agriculture - As introduced, extends the duration of an industrial hemp grower's license from one year to two years. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 43; Title 44, Chapter 6; Title 47, Chapter 26; Title 53 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 28.

TN - HB1431 Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As introduced, expands the definition of cremation, for the purposes of regulating operators of crematory facilities, to include additional processes such as alkaline hydrolysis. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1432 Election Laws - As introduced, requires each county election commission, no later than January 1, 2020, to utilize precinct-based optical scanners for elections. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 20.

TN - HB1437 Medical Occupations - As introduced, clarifies that a mental health provider who commits professional misconduct is subject to discipline by any state regulatory entity authorized to take disciplinary action against the provider. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1429 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Medical Assistance Savings Act" to require health insurance policies to cover a dependent child until the child reaches 26 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB1427 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires, when neither the seller nor purchaser of a firearm is a licensed gun dealer that the transaction be completed through a licensed gun dealer, and that the dealer perform the same background check required for purchases from licensed gun dealers. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1434 Products Liability - As introduced, imposes strict liability on a company doing business in this state for the purpose of providing dockless electric scooter rentals for injuries incurred by minors using the company's electric scooter regardless of whether the minor was riding with or without parental permission or in violation of a local ordinance. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 29.

TN - HB1435 Food and Food Products - As introduced, reduces, from 15 days to 10 business days, the time in which failure to petition for an order of condemnation of an adulterated food, drug, device, or cosmetic causes the tag affixed to such articles signifying they are suspected of being adulterated to be removed. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB1430 TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid pursuant to the Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of the expansion. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB129 State Inmates - As introduced, requires custodians of women prisoners to provide feminine hygiene products, moisturizing soap that is not lye-based, toothbrushes and toothpaste, and any other healthcare product a custodian deems appropriate to women prisoners at no charge and in an appropriate quantity. - Amends TCA Title 41.

TN - HB912 State Symbols - As introduced, designates the poem "My Tennessee," written by Michael McDonald in 1984, as an official state poem of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-303.

TN - HB1354 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission to include data from the Tennessee Promise scholarship program report created in collaboration with the Tennessee student assistance corporation in the annual Tennessee postsecondary education fact book. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB25 Education - As introduced, removes the Tennessee School for the Deaf from the Tennessee School for the Blind facilities beginning with the 2022-2023 school year; changes from Davidson County to middle Tennessee the location at which a Tennessee School for the Deaf branch must operate; prohibits certain schools from sharing certain leadership positions at the same time. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB498 TennCare - As introduced, reduces the time period from 30 days to 15 days for an enrollee or applicant for medical assistance to mail documentation of a material change affecting the enrollee or applicant's TennCare application. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB278 Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to enter into a memorandum of understanding for collaboration in the development of a comprehensive healthcare information system, which must be accessible on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB17 Children - As introduced, establishes a presumption that a minor who is the victim of a sexual offense or engaged in prostitution held a reasonable belief that the use of force is immediately necessary to avoid imminent death or serious bodily injury. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB839 Driver Licenses - As introduced, prevents suspension of a driver license for failure to pay fines or costs imposed for a driving offense if the person is indigent or enters into payment plan; requires person be issued restricted driver license until moneys owed the court are fully paid. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 24, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 5.

TN - HB9 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, authorizes Knox County and Knoxville to prohibit, by local ordinance, smoking on the grounds of any playground owned or operated by the local government. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

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 - HB1483 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to provide free feminine hygiene products in eligible public high schools. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

TN - HB405 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each local board of education to adopt a policy requiring schools within the LEA to perform an adverse childhood experiences assessment before suspending or expelling a student or requiring a student to attend in-school suspension or alternative school. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB62 Disabled Persons - As enacted, enacts the "Dynamic Accessibility Act," which provides for a modern symbol of access for disabled persons. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 12; Title 55 and Title 68.

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 - HB123 Fire Prevention and Investigation - As introduced, extends the same police powers that municipal fire investigators have to certain salaried county fire investigators. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1315 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB958 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates December 1 of each year as "Mrs. Rosa L. Parks Day," a day of special observance. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2, Part 1.

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

TN - HB1242 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, removes certain discontinuance of service requirements of utilities in Nashville/Davidson County; requires such utilities to establish policies in compliance with service practice standards and best practices for similarly situated utilities. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 52 and Title 65, Chapter 32.

TN - HB1000 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires a degree-granting postsecondary educational institution to designate a staff member to serve as a homeless-student liaison to assist homeless students who are enrolled, or planning to enroll, in the institution, and to develop a plan to provide homeless students who are enrolled in the institution access to housing resources. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HR116 Memorials, Interns - Khyiah K. Riviears

TN - HR72 Memorials, Recognition - Jimmy Ogle

TN - HR73 Memorials, Death - George Klein

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

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

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 - HJR223 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

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

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

TN - HJR457 Memorials, Interns - Tayler Aliff

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

TN - HJR319 Memorials, Recognition - Governor Frank G. Clement

TN - HJR123 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Trevor Haywood, 2018 Master Logger of the Year

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

TN - HJR243 Memorials, Recognition - Gregory L. Dodson

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

TN - HJR331 Memorials, Recognition - Dr. John Scott Major

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

TN - HJR364 Memorials, Recognition - Nathan "Nearest" Green

TN - HJR70 Memorials, Recognition - Mookie Betts, Boston Red Sox World Series Champions 2018

TN - HJR153 Memorials, Public Service - Gerald McCormick

TN - HJR116 Memorials, Recognition - David Williams II

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

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

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

TN - HJR205 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lynne "Michelle" Bowman, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - HJR307 Memorials, Death - Durward Gordon Hall

TN - HJR273 Memorials, Recognition - Lynn Nelson

TN - HJR438 Memorials, Recognition - Shannon McCloud

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

TN - HJR221 Memorials, Recognition - Jennifer Houston

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

TN - SB103 Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the industrial development division, building finance committee to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 4, Chapter 29.