Tennessee Rep. Paul Sherrell (R)

TN - HB1132 Public Records - As introduced, clarifies that a request for investigative records by the governor, speaker of the senate, speaker of the house of representatives, or supreme court chief justice may be made by electronic means and still constitutes a request made in writing. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 38, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 1.

TN - HB962 Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires a carrier to establish a website mechanism that enables an enrollee to request information on the carrier's payments to network entities or providers for comparable healthcare services and to seek information about healthcare service and out-of-pocket costs; requires a healthcare entity to provide a cost estimate to a patient or prospective patient regarding a proposed non-emergency admission, procedure, or service. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB1445 Education, State Board of - As introduced, clarifies that the rules promulgated by the board of education, based on standards of fiscal accountability and soundness for local school systems, must be in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB961 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to report to the health committee of the house of representatives and the senate health and welfare committee on the adequacy of resources to assist children and youth impacted by the opioid epidemic and adverse childhood experiences by January 15, 2020. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1444 Marriage - As introduced, extends the period of time for which a marriage license is valid from 30 days to 60 days. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.

TN - HB826 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, requires the closure of all county and municipal school systems and special school districts on Veterans' Day. - Amends TCA Title 15 and Title 49.

TN - HB824 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, authorizes electronic submission of department of transportation's status report to the general assembly and state building commission regarding the status of highway and road projects. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HB1135 Health Care - As introduced, permits advanced practice nurses and physician assistants who are prescribers at community mental health centers to arrange for chart review by and site visits with collaborating physicians by means of HIPAA-compliant electronic information systems. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 19; Title 63, Chapter 6 and Title 63, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1410 Taxes - As introduced, clarifies the "Taxpayer Bill of Rights" to require that any tax applications and notices be written in plain language. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 45 and Title 67.

TN - HB1460 Handgun Permits - As introduced, waives the fee for obtaining a lifetime handgun carry permit for former law enforcement officers who served at least 10 years and left the law enforcement agency while in good standing. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HB1134 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, extends retirement and certain other benefits to state park rangers that are extended to wildlife officers of the Tennessee wildlife resources agency. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 11 and Title 58.

TN - HB245 Education, State Board of - As introduced, establishes the board as the regulating authority for all athletic events for cross country, football, soccer, volleyball, golf, basketball, bowling, wrestling, baseball, softball, tennis, and track events for public schools. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1133 Clerks, Court - As introduced, requires the clerks of the circuit, chancery, general sessions, and special courts to audio record all court proceedings in civil matters; imposes a fee for a party to obtain a copy of the relevant portion of the audio recording. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 18 and Title 21.

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 - HB1400 District Attorneys - As introduced, creates 11 additional assistant district attorney general positions, 10 additional secretarial positions, four additional victim-witness coordinator positions, and five additional criminal investigator positions to be designated in judicial districts as provided in a report prepared by the district attorneys general conference. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

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 - HB833 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, permits the clerk of court to send notice of forfeiture of bail security to a defendant by regular mail, rather than certified mail with restricted delivery and return receipt requested. - Amends TCA Section 40-11-139.

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 - HB623 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 - HB249 Elder Abuse - As enacted, creates the elder abuse task force. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 71 and Chapter 961 of the Public Acts of 2014.

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

TN - HB925 Mining and Quarrying - As enacted, relieves the commissioner of labor and workforce development of responsibilities concerning mine rescue operations; deletes statutes establishing the mine rescue corps within the department of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 59, Chapter 12.

TN - HB1192 Education, State Board of - As introduced, changes from August 1 to July 1 the date by which the state board of education must annually submit a report to the general assembly concerning implementation of standards and curriculum designed to educate students about the United States and Tennessee governments. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-1028.

TN - HB167 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires a mandatory 30-day sentence for theft of a firearm; creates the Class D felony offense of bringing a telecommunication device into a penal institution; revises other various provisions of criminal law. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB42 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, reduces the punishment for a person committing the offense of illegal possession of a handgun. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB761 DUI Offenses - As introduced, revises provisions governing blood and breath tests for determining the presence of drugs and alcohol. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 40, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

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 - HB1303 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the department of correction, in partnership with the Tennessee higher education commission and the board of regents, to develop and submit to the general assembly an annual report detailing the higher education opportunities available to incarcerated individuals in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 41; Title 49 and Title 50.

TN - HB258 Criminal Procedure - As enacted, enacts the "Sergeant Daniel Baker Act," which removes the appeal to the court of criminal appeals in death penalty cases; provides for automatic direct review by the Tennessee supreme court for convictions for which a sentence of death is imposed. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB200 School Transportation - As enacted, reduces, from 25 to 23, the age required for a person to receive an initial school bus endorsement if the person is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces, a member of the national guard or reserves, or a licensed teacher employed by an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 55.

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 - HB634 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts water furnished by a utility district and used exclusively in a farming operation from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - HB944 Education - As introduced, establishes the Governor's Civics Seal to recognize public schools and local education agencies implementing high-quality civic education programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10.

TN - HB532 Milk, Dairy Products - As introduced, specifies that dairy product producers holding a dairy plant license are permitted to produce and sell raw butter. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 3.

TN - HB1318 Law Enforcement - As enacted, authorizes the chief law enforcement officer of a state or local law enforcement agency to establish policies regarding off-duty use of law enforcement vehicles to provide an enhanced security presence at vulnerable locations, which include places of worship, schools, and parks. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 3.

TN - HB563 Business and Commerce - As introduced, prohibits state and local governmental entities from taking discriminatory action against a business based on that business's internal policies. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 48; Title 61; Title 62 and Title 67.

TN - HB800 Firefighters - As introduced, allows persons employed in emergency management or as firefighters or emergency medical technicians to carry handguns while engaged in the performance of official duties; requires annual completion of a firearm training program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.

TN - HB97 Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, limits the places in which one may use vapor products. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 16.

TN - HB942 Controlled Substances - As introduced, increases the penalty to a Class B felony for 15 grams or more or a Class A felony for 150 grams or more of fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or any fentanyl derivative or analogue. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 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 - HB917 Child Abuse - As introduced, creates the Class A misdemeanor and Class E felony offenses of withdrawing, transferring, or altering a child's school enrollment with intent to hinder an active child abuse or child neglect investigation. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.

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

TN - HB1364 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, 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 - HB731 Handgun Permits - As enacted, authorizes the department of safety to contract with a local government agency for the provision of any service related to the renewal of handgun carry permits; authorizes an agency contracting with the department to charge an additional fee of $4.00 for each renewal application. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

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 - HB1139 Governor - As introduced, extends the time from 90 to 120 days after the end of the fiscal year in which a nonprofit Books to Birth partner has to annually submit to the governor and the speakers of the senate and the house of representatives a complete and detailed report setting forth its operation and accomplishments. - Amends TCA Title 4.

TN - HB754 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits certain persons voluntarily admitted to a mental health treatment facility from possessing a firearm. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17.

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 - 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 - 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 - HB1257 Courts - As introduced, requires that appointments to the offices of senior judge, chancellor, circuit court judge, criminal court judge, or judge of any other trial court of record, district attorney general, and district public defender be confirmed by general assembly before appointees take office. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17 and Title 38, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1265 Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Fair Accountability and Clarity in Tax Subsidies Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 67.

TN - HB41 Handgun Permits - As introduced, requires the department of safety to issue a handgun carry permit containing zeros in place of an expiration date upon request by a permit holder or applicant who is in the military and stationed outside this state. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-1351.

TN - HB705 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, adds the sale or distribution of a substance containing fentanyl, carfentanil, or any opiate with the intent and premeditation to commit murder as an aggravating circumstance for the imposition of the death penalty or imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB193 Expunction - As introduced, permits an eligible petitioner to have multiple, nonviolent convictions for offenses that resulted from the petitioner's status as a victim of human trafficking expunged if the expunction is in the best interest of justice and public safety. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 32.

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 - HB943 Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, 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 - 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 - 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 - HB228 Public Health - As introduced, removes certain limitations on training centers for emergency medical technician/advanced emergency medical technician courses. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - HB946 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA to report to the department of education, for each year that the LEA receives an increase in state funding for instructional wages and salaries, how the increase was utilized by the LEA; requires the department of education to report the information to the BEP review committee; requires the BEP review committee to include the information in its annual report on the BEP. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-306.

TN - HB184 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Proton Therapy Access Act," which requires health insurance coverage to cover hypofractionated proton therapy in the same manner as it covers intensity modulated radiation therapy under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB1271 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts from sales and use tax the sale of agricultural trailers and agricultural vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - HB926 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the clerk of the court to send a copy of each judgment document for all felony convictions to the department regardless of location of sentence service in order to avoid a delay of the release of some offenders. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB1151 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offense of indecent exposure to include incidents occurring in a restroom, locker room, dressing room, or shower, designated for single-sex, multi-person use, if the offender is a member of the opposite sex than the sex designated for use. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

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 - HB1280 TennCare - As introduced, 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 - HB999 State Symbols - As enacted, designates the bluetick coonhound as the official state dog. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

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 - HB836 Adoption - As introduced, prohibits a private licensed child-placing agency from being required to perform, assist, consent to, refer, or participate in any child placement for foster care or adoption that would violate the agency's written religious or moral convictions. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.

TN - HB192 Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, confers civil immunity on a local government for any defect or malfunction in a software program intended to assist families of non-communicative persons register with law enforcement if designed and distributed in good faith by the local government and without cost; provides exception to immunity for claims based on gross negligence, willful misconduct, or bad faith. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86; Title 9; Title 36 and Title 38.

TN - HB1079 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 - 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 - HB696 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, exempts farm tractors and implements of husbandry from the requirement that slow-moving vehicles pull off the roadway on certain highways. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

TN - HB37 Public Health - As introduced, creates the state Alzheimer's disease and related dementia advisory council. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 14 and Title 71.

TN - HR54 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee National Guard

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - HJR133 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges federal government to address internet safety.

TN - HJR521 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Carma Dennis McGee, Tennessee Court of Appeals

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

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 - 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 - 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 - HJR438 Memorials, Recognition - Shannon McCloud

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

TN - HJR71 Memorials, Retirement - Meri Armour

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