Tennessee Rep. Ron Gant (R)

TN - Civil Justice (House)

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TN - Children & Family Affairs Subcommittee (House)

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TN - Education Administration (House)

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TN - Finance, Ways, and Means (House)

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TN - HJR829 Memorials, Death - Leonadus "Lee" Franklin Yancey, Jr.

TN - HJR1385 Memorials, Recognition - Buddy Clark Leach II

TN - HB2552 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, beginning in 2025, requires the commission to compile and submit to the general assembly a biennial report on underage and other high-risk alcohol consumption, including incidents of accidents, injuries, death, and citations relating to such consumption. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 1, Part 2.

TN - HB1571 Oakland - Subject to local approval, authorizes the board of mayor and aldermen to appoint and remove all directors and department heads, upon majority vote; and replaces the town manager with the board as the appointing authority for the town recorder. - Amends Chapter 167 of the Private Acts of 1994; as amended.

TN - HJR178 Memorials, Recognition - Independent Appeal

TN - HB2978 Fayette County - Subject to local approval, creates the Fayette County Water Authority.

TN - HB586 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, eliminates the professional privilege tax for attorneys. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HB1724 Education - As introduced, expands the category of textbooks and instructional materials that are prohibited from use in a public school in this state from those created to align exclusively with the Common Core State Standards to those that are aligned to, associated with, or derived from the Common Core State Standards. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1131 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to perform a study of the coverage area for which electric cooperatives provide services within this state, and to report its findings to each member of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 65.

TN - HJR179 Memorials, Recognition - McNairy County, 200th anniversary

TN - HB2528 Education - As introduced, changes from February 1 to January 15, the deadline for the commissioners of safety and education to present their annual report to the governor and the general assembly concerning implementation of the Schools Against Violence in Education (SAVE) Act. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - HB1128 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, extends from 90 days to 100 days, the amount of time in which captured plate data collected or retained by a governmental entity through the use of an automated license plate recognition system may be stored unless the data is retained or stored as part of an ongoing investigation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB2551 DUI Offenses - As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer investigating a motor vehicle accident resulting in death to investigate whether an operator was served alcoholic beverages or beer at an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic beverages or beer for on-premises consumption if the officer has probable cause to believe that the operator of a motor vehicle involved in the accident was driving under the influence of alcohol; authorizes the alcoholic beverage commission to suspend or revoke the license of an establishment determined to have violated state law for a period of not less than one year. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10 and Title 57.

TN - HB1726 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits the department of children's services from requiring an immunization as a condition of adopting or overseeing a child in foster care if an individual or member of an individual's household objects to immunization on the basis of religious or moral convictions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 36; Title 37 and Title 71.

TN - HJR1084 Memorials, Personal Occasion - Novella Clark Avant Morrow, 100th birthday

TN - HB2386 Search & Seizure - As introduced, authorizes a law enforcement officer to execute a search warrant for medical records or a test to determine the alcohol or drug content, or both, of a person's blood anywhere in the state, rather than in the county in which the warrant was issued. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB587 DUI Offenses - As introduced, lowers the threshold for enhancing the minimum sentence of a person convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, from a blood alcohol concentration of 0.20 percent or more to a blood alcohol concentration of 0.15 percent or more. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13; Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4 and Title 69, Chapter 9, Part 2.

TN - HB585 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, phases out professional privilege tax over a three-year period for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2024; reduces tax by $200 in the first year and by $100 in each remaining year. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.

TN - HB2529 Civil Procedure - As introduced, authorizes the electronic submission of the report the attorney general and reporter is required to submit quarterly regarding the compromise and settlement, in the amount of $25,000 or less, of civil litigation to which the state may be a party. - Amends TCA Title 20; Title 29 and Title 47, Chapter 16.

TN - HB1133 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows counties and municipalities to reestablish the office of elected school superintendent. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1132 Veterinarians - As introduced, makes certain changes concerning establishment of a veterinarian-client-patient relationship; authorizes continuation of such relationship for up to 24 months, rather than 12 months, in case of livestock. - Amends TCA Title 44; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2050 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to submit to the United States department of health and human services a waiver request to exempt this state from the immunization requirements of the National Model Foster Family Home Licensing Standards for Title IV-E agencies; directs the department to submit the waiver request prior to or as part of the department's next occurring Title IV-E program plan application submission. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 37.

TN - HB589 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, adds district attorneys general to those the department must release confidential information to upon presentation of an appropriate court order. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Title 37.

TN - HB2051 TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse a public or private air ambulance service that bills for transports and has a base of operations in this state that provides a covered emergency or nonemergency service to a TennCare recipient at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB2639 County Boundaries - As introduced, requires the documents required to accompany legislation to change county lines to be filed electronically with the chair of the state and local government committee of the senate and the chair of the local government committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 5.

TN - HB2638 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, allows notice of a shipment of alcoholic beverages brought into this state and consigned to an agency under the jurisdiction of the department of defense to be given by electronic means to the alcoholic beverage commission. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 2; Title 57, Chapter 3; Title 57, Chapter 4 and Title 57, Chapter 5.

TN - HB584 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, authorizes a hospital, or an affiliated entity of the hospital, to employ an emergency physician to treat patients at a satellite emergency department, or a physician to treat patients at a primary care clinic or urgent care clinic, which is located in this state, if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB1725 Firefighters - As introduced, removes the requirement that length of service awards for volunteer firefighters are awarded on a first come, first served basis; requires a portion of the appropriated funds in each fiscal year to be used to pay expenses incurred for the administration of the length of service award program; requires unexpended funds remaining after the payment of grant awards and expenses for the administration of the program to be carried forward into the next fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 8-25-115.

TN - HB1727 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, specifies that a parent or guardian who knowingly leaves their child under the care or supervision of a person who is required to register as a sexual offender commits a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4 and Title 40.

TN - HB2845 Beer - As introduced, prohibits a beer permittee from selling at retail refrigerated or cold beer. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 57.

TN - HB396 Workers Compensation - As enacted, enacts the "Garrison-Jordan Survivor Benefits Act." - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR472 Memorials, Recognition - Bill Dance

TN - HB642 Children - As introduced, extends from March 1 to April 1 of each year, the date by which the department of children's services must appear before the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives for a review of the policies of the department and attached protocol and procedures for these policies and any provisions that affect the children the department serves. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 41; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1566 Oakland - Subject to local approval, authorizes the town to impose fees on the development of land to pay for capital improvement; authorizes the board of mayor and aldermen to appoint and remove all directors and department heads, upon majority vote; and replaces the town manager with the board as the appointing authority for the town recorder. - Amends Chapter 167 of the Private Acts of 1994; as amended.

TN - HB588 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, specifies that an LEA that has established a virtual school may enter into an agreement with an LEA that has not established a virtual school for the LEA's virtual school to provide remote instruction to students enrolled in either LEA who have been suspended or expelled from the regular school program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1130 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA to provide for the enrollment of students who are residents of this state, regardless of the student's residence, race, ethnicity, or language proficiency, the resources of the LEA or its schools, or other considerations regarding the appropriateness of a particular school for a particular student; allows a student's parent or legal guardian to appeal an LEA's enrollment or assignment decision for the student to the commissioner of education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB33 Assessors - As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to emergency response, including requiring certain information be provided to the assessor of property. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1019 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, enacts the "Pregnancy Resource Tax Credit Act," which authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits for businesses that make monetary contributions to eligible nonprofit organizations that provide certain pregnancy-related services. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - HB126 County Boundaries - As enacted, establishes a new boundary line between Shelby County and Fayette County. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-102; Section 3-1-103 and Title 5, Chapter 2.

TN - HB689 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires an officer to provide an alleged victim of certain criminal offenses with a document notifying the victim of the global positioning monitoring system used as a condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - HB976 Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - SB559 Zoning - As enacted, states that property owners should expect that a permit application will be judged on the law in effect at the time of application; declares that the general assembly rejects the pending ordinance doctrine, as described by the Tennessee supreme court in its May 14, 2007, opinion in the case of Harding Academy v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, as contrary to the public policy interests of property owners in this state. - Amends TCA Title 27 and Title 29.

TN - SB932 Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, revises present law relative to admission to bail. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - SB300 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the promotion of students from third grade. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - SB129 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, removes requirement for receipt of certain grants and loans for water and wastewater treatment infrastructure projects that a municipality includes depreciation in its calculation of fees or rates. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - SB699 Abortion - As introduced, requires the department of health to publish on its website information on the possibility of reversing the effects of a chemical abortion in any language that is the primary language spoken by 1 percent or more of this state's population, rather than 2 percent or more. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SB1098 Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, requires certain artifacts from the Civil War pertaining to the Confederate States of America be transferred to the Sons of Confederate Veterans for preservation, at their cost. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11 and Title 12.

TN - SB1147 Real Property - As enacted, prohibits this state and its political subdivisions from adopting or implementing policy recommendations that deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy recommendations originating in, or traceable to, "Agenda 21," adopted by the United Nations in 1992 at its Conference on Environment and Development, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the U.N.'s proposal to reach net zero emissions by 2050, or any other international law or ancillary plan of action that contravenes the constitution of the United States or the constitution of this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 66 and Title 68.

TN - SB125 County Boundaries - As enacted, establishes a new boundary line between Shelby County and Fayette County. - Amends TCA Section 3-1-102; Section 3-1-103 and Title 5, Chapter 2.

TN - SB530 Children - As introduced, enacts the "First Lady's Children's Trust Fund Act," which creates a trust fund to support persons and entities seeking assistance in the care of children in this state. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 37; Title 50; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB18 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires that a person convicted of especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, or rape be sentenced from within at least Range II for the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB271 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, establishes a "brownfield redevelopment area fund" to be used by the department to administer a brownfield redevelopment area grant program; creates a franchise and excise tax credit equal to the remediation costs for a brownfield property for a qualified development project in a tier 3 or tier 4 enhancement county; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53, Part 3; Title 9, Chapter 23; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 68, Chapter 212, Part 2.

TN - SB576 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, permits registration plates to be renewed every 24 months instead of 12 months. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 8, Part 1; Title 55, Chapter 4 and Title 55, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1318 Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As enacted, enacts the "Silas Gable Flatt Law," which creates an offense of knowingly providing a motor vehicle to another person who the provider of the vehicle knows or should know is under the influence of an intoxicant or whose driver license has been suspended or revoked under certain circumstances, punishable as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55, Chapter 10.

TN - SB745 Abortion - As enacted, makes various changes relative to abortion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB813 Public Employees - As enacted, increases the pay schedule for certain assistant district attorneys general, assistant district public defenders, district investigators, and criminal investigators. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7.

TN - SB365 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires that a health benefit plan that provides coverage for a screening mammogram must provide coverage for diagnostic imaging and supplemental breast screening without imposing a cost-sharing requirement on the patient. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - SB442 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Dillard's Law," which allows the surviving parent or guardian of a child whose parent was a victim of vehicular homicide to convert a restitution order for child maintenance payments to a civil judgment at any time rather than following conclusion of the defendant's sentence. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - SB270 Children - As enacted, revises present law provisions governing adoption and foster care. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 4.

TN - SB462 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, reduces, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund; increases, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share appropriated to municipalities. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-103.

TN - SB213 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a person convicted of domestic assault involving strangulation to serve a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days incarceration; enhances offenses involving strangulation or attempted strangulation based on certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB328 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, changes from 25 to 17 the number of days of incarceration a person convicted of a second offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant must serve before the person can participate in a substance abuse treatment program; requires a person charged with or convicted of a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant involving the use of alcohol to wear a transdermal alcohol monitoring device for a 90-day period of continuous sobriety. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - SB193 Controlled Substances - As enacted, enacts the "One Pill Will Kill Act," which adds fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, and thiafentanil to what constitutes a qualifying controlled substance for purposes of certain felony offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB1 Public Health - As enacted, prohibits a healthcare provider from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minors sex. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB378 Consumer Protection - As enacted, regulates the production and sale of hemp-derived cannabinoids, including products known as delta-8 and delta-10. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4; Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43, Chapter 27; Title 53; Title 67 and Title 68, Chapter 7.

TN - SB858 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, establishes regulations regarding the licensing and regulating of certain medically related facilities. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB1274 Correctional Programs - As enacted, revises present law relative to community corrections. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 36.

TN - SB935 Taxes, Privilege - As enacted, extends provisions related to the allocation of revenue from the surcharge or tax on the lease or rental of passenger motor vehicles as it pertains to costs related to an arena facility for a National Basketball Association (NBA) member professional basketball team until June 30, 2059. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB274 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions of present law relative to safety in elementary and secondary education and the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 62, Chapter 35.

TN - SB244 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, makes changes to the compensation of teachers in the special school district. - Amends TCA Section 37-5-119.

TN - SB856 Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - SB1440 Statutes and Codification - As enacted, adds "sex" as a defined term for statutory construction purposes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 8.

TN - SB650 Economic and Community Development - As enacted, places certain restrictions on employers seeking to receive economic development incentives. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.

TN - SB397 Assessors - As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to emergency response, including requiring certain information be provided to the assessor of property. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2 and Title 67, Chapter 5.

TN - SB217 Marriage - As enacted, creates a class C misdemeanor for certain local public officers who charge a fee or demand compensation for solemnizing a marriage. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.

TN - SB1349 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, makes changes to present law relative to criminal offenses involving motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.

TN - SB360 Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, authorizes the department of safety to create a voucher program for the purpose of offsetting the cost of persons taking a handgun safety course for the first time; requires the department to report the number of courses taken using vouchers to the senate judiciary committee and house criminal justice committee. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 39.

TN - SB999 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, enacts the "Rural Schools Innovation Act"; requires the department of education to establish a two-year pilot program for rural districts to partner together to expand access to high-quality, robust college and career pathways. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - SB1480 Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires an officer to provide an alleged victim of certain criminal offenses with a document notifying the victim of the global positioning monitoring system used as a condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.

TN - SB281 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, generally increases the base salaries in the state salary schedule for teachers formulated by the commissioner of education; prohibits an LEA from deducting dues from the wages of the LEA's employees for a professional employees' organization. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1 and Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.

TN - SB384 Taxes - As enacted, revises present law relative to a taxpayer's duty to list fully such tangible personal property used, or held for use, in the taxpayer's business or profession on such schedule, place its correct value thereon, sign the schedule, and return it to the assessor on or before March 1 of each year; requires TACIR to monitor implementation and to periodically report its findings on collections and administration of the business personal property tax to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB3 Obscenity and Pornography - As enacted, creates an offense for a person who engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 14.

TN - SB611 Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, allows a juvenile court to transfer a juvenile 16 years of age or older to a criminal court of competent jurisdiction to be tried as an adult for committing the offense of escape from a youth development center approved, certified, or licensed by the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - SB891 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends provisions related to the apportionment and distribution of state tax revenue as they pertain to National Basketball Association franchises until June 30, 2059. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB874 Naming and Designating - As enacted, names the educational facility located on the campus of the John S. Wilder youth development center "The Barbara Ward Cooper Education Center." - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5.

TN - SB623 Probation and Parole - As introduced, adds the criminal offenses of aggravated assault resulting in serious bodily injury to another or the death of another and aggravated assault involving the actual discharge of a firearm to those offenses that are not eligible for probated sentence, if the offenses were committed intentionally or knowingly. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - SB720 Boats, Boating - As enacted, revises various provisions of present law concerning the offense of boating under the influence. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4 and Title 69, Chapter 9, Part 2.

TN - SB837 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, enacts the "Pregnancy Resource Tax Credit Act," which authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits for businesses that make monetary contributions to eligible nonprofit organizations that provide certain pregnancy-related services. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

TN - SJR556 Memorials, Recognition - Jasmine Carson

TN - SJR128 Memorials, Death - Clara Louise Macklin

TN - SJR159 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Credit Unions, 100 years

TN - SJR355 Memorials, Sports - Hampton High School boys' basketball team, TSSAA Division I, Class 1A state champions

TN - SJR533 Memorials, Recognition - Women Veterans Appreciation Day

TN - SJR179 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee State University Aristocrat of Bands

TN - SJR124 Memorials, Death - Tyre D. Nichols

TN - SJR534 Memorials, Recognition - Great Smoky Mountains National Park Honoring Our Veterans Day