Tennessee Rep. Ron M. Gant (R)

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TN - Select Committee on Rules (House)

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TN - HB16 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, enacts the "Teacher's Discipline Act"; establishes a process for a teacher to request the removal of a student from the teacher's classroom if the student's behavior violates the LEA's or school's student discipline policy or code of conduct and repeatedly or substantially disrupts the class. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB60 Conservation - As introduced, rewrites the Soil Conservation Districts Law to be the Soil and Water Conservation Districts Law; makes corresponding changes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Section 5-9-106; Section 6-58-104; Title 43, Chapter 14; Title 43, Chapter 34; Title 64 and Title 69, Chapter 6.

TN - HB61 Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, revises certain enforcement provisions of the Tennessee Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 1; Section 53-7-202 and Section 53-7-220.

TN - HB62 Adoption - As introduced, removes the adoption contact veto registry and revises other provisions governing adoption. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1 and Section 68-3-313.

TN - HB63 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to submit a report to the judiciary committees of the senate and house of representatives on or before December 31, 2022, regarding the implementation of the Family First Prevention Services Act. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - HB64 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, changes the annual application for a certificate of authority by an automobile club or association to a one-time application prior to commencement of operations; provides licenses issued must be renewed annually and include updated documents and information. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 18.

TN - HB65 Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to develop and implement a statewide electronic transmission system for judgment orders in criminal cases; requires trial judges to employ the electronic transmission system in each criminal case resulting in a conviction. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 3, Part 8; Title 18, Chapter 4, Part 1 and Title 40, Chapter 35.

TN - HB66 Sexual Offenders - As introduced, requires the sex offender treatment board to compile a list of approved sex offender evaluation providers and sex offender treatment providers who are authorized to provide required sex offender evaluations and treatment. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 7.

TN - HB67 Correctional Programs - As introduced, broadens the use of community corrections funds for individualized services from "GED" to "high school equivalency programming." - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - HB68 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to designate an additional designee to keep a record of the department's transactions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 6 and Title 4, Chapter 6.

TN - HB69 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class D felony for a person to knowingly and with unlawful intent possess a telecommunication device while present in any penal institution without the express written consent of the chief administrator of the institution. - Amends TCA Title 39.

TN - HB70 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, increases the time the department shall have to notify the victim witness coordinator of the county of conviction of a scheduled parole hearing date when the inmate will be eligible for parole consideration from within 90 days of receipt of a judgment of conviction to within 120 days of such receipt. - Amends TCA Title 40.

TN - HB71 Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, increases from 10 days to 10 business days the time within which a warden shall report a sudden death or physical injury by means of violence or accident to the commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 41.

TN - HB72 State Inmates - As introduced, creates process by which the commissioner of correction may certify as eligible for parole certain chronically debilitated or incapacitated inmates; clarifies that medical conditions for which an inmate may be granted a furlough by the commissioner of correction must be chronically debilitating or incapacitating. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 28, Part 1; Title 40, Chapter 35, Part 5 and Section 41-21-227(i).

TN - HB73 Education, State Board of - As introduced, removes antiquated language regarding the teacher evaluation advisory committee, which ceased to exist on July 1, 2011. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB74 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, deletes the requirement that the achievement school district adopt an appropriate dress code for its professional employees. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-614.

TN - HB75 Public Property - As introduced, authorizes the use of interest and principal deposited into certain special trust funds, which hold proceeds from the sale of certain public property, for capital maintenance of property controlled by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities and other related purposes. - Amends TCA Section 12-2-117.

TN - HB76 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, authorizes a department, institution, office, or agency of the state to enter into an agreement with a third party to collect state funds on its behalf under which the third party is permitted to deduct its service fee from the funds collected prior to deposit. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-301.

TN - HB77 Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, authorizes a state bank to request from the commissioner a waiver or modification of certain terms and conditions applicable to a national bank; authorizes a state bank to request from the commissioner authority to exercise certain incidental powers or engage in certain incidental activities; requires commissioner to publish a summary of applications made for waiver, modification, or authorization. - Amends TCA Section 45-2-601.

TN - HB78 General Services, Dept. of - As introduced, deletes the Paperwork Reduction and Simplification Act of 1976; redistributes the recordkeeping responsibilities for the State Protest Committee; removes deadline for addenda and questions concerning bid documents for state agencies and the central procurement office; converts energy performance or guaranteed savings contract pilot projects into a permanent program. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 25; Title 4, Chapter 56, Part 1; Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 3 and Title 12, Chapter 4, Part 1.

TN - HB79 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, requires a party issued a notice of violation by an agency to prevail on the merits of all allegations in the notice at the contested case hearing in order to recover reasonable costs from the agency; requires a hearing officer or administrative law judge to set forth in writing facts upon which certain determinations are based; requires parties seeking judicial review of certain agency decisions to cover reasonable costs of the review. - Amends TCA Section 4-5-325 and Section 63-1-144.

TN - HB80 Controlled Substances - As introduced, makes various changes to the controlled substance monitoring database. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10, Part 3.

TN - HB81 Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the chief officer of a facility to notify certain persons within a certain time after the death of a person admitted to the facility; requires the department to strive to ensure at least a majority of the members of each regional citizen-based planning and policy council are former service recipients or family members of service recipients; makes other changes relative to mental health and substance abuse services. - Amends TCA Section 33-2-203; Section 33-2-901; Section 33-4-109 and Section 63-1-155.

TN - HB82 Military - As introduced, establishes state employment protections for members of the national guard, state guard, and civil air patrol called to active state duty equivalent to the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) for members of the national guard called to federal active service. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33.

TN - HB83 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; extends, from June 30, 2021, to June 30, 2025, the date on which the act will be repealed. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 10.

TN - HB84 Taxes - As introduced, tolls the statute of limitations for collection of taxes upon the imposition of a bankruptcy stay or upon the filing of a probate, receivership, or assignment for benefit of creditors proceeding; permits statute of limitations to begin running 30 days after the stay is lifted or the proceeding prohibiting collection ends. - Amends TCA Section 67-1-1429.

TN - HB85 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, deletes streamlined sales tax provisions first enacted by Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007 and the implementation of which have been delayed with subsequent legislation; adds definition of "bundled transaction" for purposes of sales and use tax; makes other revisions regarding the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67; Chapter 72 of the Public Acts of 2011; Chapter 157 of the Public Acts of 2019; Chapter 193 of the Public Acts of 2017; Chapter 273 of the Public Acts of 2015; Chapter 480 of the Public Acts of 2013; Chapter 530 of the Public Acts of 2009 and Chapter 602 of the Public Acts of 2007.

TN - HB86 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, reduces the lower gross weight threshold for freight vehicles that are required to pay the registration tax of $1,019 from 56,000 pounds to 55,000 pounds; removes authority for nonresidents to apply directly to department of revenue for off-highway vehicle permits; authorizes issuance of decals instead of new plates upon expiration of special purpose plates for manufacturers, dealers, transporters, and nonprofit organizations. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.

TN - HB87 Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, changes the formatting requirements for credentials issued by the department. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13; Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 4.

TN - HB88 Motor Vehicles - As introduced, changes the criteria that a private entity must meet to conduct driver education courses and community education courses. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10.

TN - HB89 Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to commission environmental investigative enforcement officers; authorizes park rangers and other law enforcement officers within the department to operate outside parks and other specific areas to render aid upon request and subject to the commissioner's approval. - Amends TCA Section 11-1-101; Section 11-3-107; Section 59-8-404 and Section 59-8-308.

TN - HB90 Mining and Quarrying - As introduced, clarifies that 60-day time limit for notifying applicants under the Primacy and Reclamation Act of Tennessee whether an application has been approved or disapproved applies to new applications rather than new amendments to existing applications. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 50; Title 59; Title 60; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Chapter 839 of the Public Acts of 2018.

TN - HB91 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, increases from 20 to 30 years the amount of time within which loans from the drinking water revolving loan fund must be amortized; increases from 30 to 40 years the time within which such loans must be amortized when made to disadvantaged communities. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 12.

TN - HB92 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, authorizes the department of transportation to notify by electronic transmission, owners of utility facilities that occupy rights-of-way of any highway on which construction related to the relocation of a utility facility is proposed. - Amends TCA Section 54-5-853.

TN - HB93 Estates - As introduced, sets time limits on the filing of claims by the bureau of TennCare against TennCare recipients' estates. - Amends TCA Section 30-2-310.

TN - HB94 Workers Compensation - As introduced, requires disputes concerning an employer's failure to provide medical care and treatment, medical services or medical benefits, or both, to meet certain requirements; removes requirement that all compensation be paid prior to an employee qualifying for vocational recovery assistance; extends current provisions, as amended, for four years; authorizes workers' compensation judges to conduct judicial settlement conferences. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 2.

TN - HB118 Statutes and Codification - As introduced, codifies the Acts of the 2020 regular and extraordinary sessions.

TN - HB139 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department, working jointly with the higher education commission, the board of regents, and public institutions of higher education, to establish a foster care youth outreach pilot program at a minimum of five public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.

TN - HB140 Guardians and Conservators - As introduced, specifies, for purposes of the appointment of a conservator, the county of residence of a person incarcerated in a department of correction facility as the county in which the facility is located and the county of residence of a person involuntarily hospitalized in an institution of the department of mental health and substance abuse services as the county in which the institution is located. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 34, Chapter 3 and Title 71.

TN - HB141 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, creates a sales and use tax exemption and a credit for qualified payroll expenses against an applicant's combined franchise and excise tax liability for qualified film or television productions if the commissioners of revenue and economic and community development determine that the exemption and credit is in the best interests of the state. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-2109 and Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.

TN - HB142 Welfare - As introduced, makes certain investigative records of the department of human services confidential during the course of an investigation; establishes fines for certain offenses related to fraudulently obtaining food assistance; requires the department of human services to convene families first community advisory meetings; requires the department of human services to establish a two-year pilot program that provides an optional alternative temporary assistance pathway for certain assistance recipients. - Amends TCA Section 71-1-105; Section 71-3-104; Section 71-3-105; Section 71-3-120; Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 12 and Section 71-5-314.

TN - HB143 Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, removes requirement that the significant variance amount established by the department provide the lower threshold for modification of child support orders for low income persons; and allows department to review and seek adjustment of an obligation once aware of a change in circumstances for a party to a Title IV-D child support case. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 4 and Title 36, Chapter 5.

TN - HB144 Veterans Services, Dept. of - As introduced, removes requirement that department veteran service officers be combat veterans. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 3.

TN - HR1 Memorials, Retirement - Chris Bundgaard

TN - HJR11 Memorials, Heroism - Metropolitan Nashville Police Officers

TN - HJR18 TennCare - Authorizes the governor to implement the TennCare III demonstration waiver.

TN - HJR27 Memorials, Sports - Tennessee Titans, AFC South champions