Tennessee Rep. Scott Cepicky (R)

TN - Agriculture and Natural Resources (House)

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TN - Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee (House)

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TN - Education (House)

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TN - Insurance (House)

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TN - HJR165 Memorials, Interns - Sarah Stansbury

TN - HB56 Education - As introduced, revises the date by which a student must have attained the age of five for purposes of enrolling in kindergarten. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HJR1283 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jan Crutcher, Maury County Public Schools Elementary School Teacher of the Year

TN - HB1304 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, updates reference to a house committee name to reflect that the education administration committee of the house of representatives must receive the report submitted by the commissioner regarding disciplinary actions in Tennessee schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR1132 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Maya Brewer, Salutatorian, Zion Christian Academy

TN - HJR996 Memorials, Recognition - Maury County 4-H Senior High Horse Bowl team, state championship

TN - HJR1029 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Isaiah Kolbe Rohling, Eagle Scout

TN - HB590 Education, State Board of - As introduced, changes "the education committee of the house of representatives" to "the education administration committee of the house of representatives" for purposes of determining membership on the board's basic education program (BEP) review committee and identifying the intended recipient of the committee's annual report on the BEP. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1862 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2022-2023 academic year, each four-year public institution of higher education to obtain the score of each student seeking admission to, or enrollment in, the institution as an entering freshman on a postsecondary readiness assessment or nationally recognized college admissions test before the student may be admitted or enrolled. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR1027 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Nathan Alan Romsdal, Eagle Scout

TN - HJR1081 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Brian Jonas Tannahill, Eagle Scout

TN - HJR1025 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Peter David Brennan, Eagle Scout

TN - HJR1026 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Parker Vincent Esposito, Eagle Scout

TN - HJR63 Memorials, Sports - Connor Henson, Tennessee Sports Writers Association's Division II-A All-State Cross Country Team

TN - HB1676 Education, State Board of - As enacted, authorizes the board to reject or make technical nonsubstantive revisions to, instead of only adopt, the standards recommended to the board for adoption by the standards recommendation committees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - HJR398 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Peyton White, Valedictorian, Zion Christian Academy

TN - HJR877 Memorials, Recognition - Jenna St. Pierre, Mule Day Court

TN - HJR366 Memorials, Retirement - Dr. Stan A. Curtis

TN - HJR1028 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Joseph David Whaley, Eagle Scout

TN - HB1944 Obscenity and Pornography - As introduced, excludes local education agencies, public schools, and employees and private contractors of LEAs or public schools from the exception to certain obscenity offenses if the LEA, public school, employee, or private contractor possesses obscene material that is harmful to minors on public school premises; prohibits an LEA or public school from making obscene materials or materials harmful to minors available to students in the school libraries controlled by the LEA or public school. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9 and Title 49.

TN - HJR1284 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Angela Jones, Maury County Public Schools Middle School Teacher of the Year

TN - HJR649 Memorials, Death - Leonard Doyle Kirk

TN - HB1681 Board of Regents - As introduced, directs the board to develop a two-year pilot program to award grants to students enrolled in certain non-credit workforce training programs operated by a community college or Tennessee college of applied technology governed by the state university and community college system. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1610 Columbia - Subject to local approval, makes various changes to the charter of the city of Columbia relating to the duties of the local civil service board. - Amends Chapter 9 of the Private Acts of 2013.

TN - HB1516 Education - As introduced, deletes antiquated language that required the comptroller's office to study the formation and operation of community schools and report its finding by November 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1677 County Government - As enacted, authorizes a county legislative body to provide notice of regular and special meetings on the social media platform of the county, in addition to other notification methods. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 8, Chapter 44.

TN - HB2513 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to report certain information regarding teacher license renewal requirement waivers submitted to the commissioner by teachers who, on each of their last three evaluations, received an overall performance effectiveness level of "significantly above expectations." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB419 TennCare - As enacted, adds chiropractic services performed by a person authorized to engage in the practice of chiropractic to the list of healthcare services that may be included as covered TennCare medical assistance. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1674 Maury County - As introduced, transfers maintenance of land in Maury County that was previously purchased for the Columbia Dam project from the Tennessee wildlife resources agency to Maury County.

TN - HJR378 Memorials, Recognition - George A. Horne, Jr.

TN - HJR1034 Memorials, Recognition - SP4 William Gene Hargrove Memorial Bridge

TN - HJR1032 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Riley James Mobbs, Eagle Scout

TN - HB1675 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, authorizes a county legislative body to impose an impact fee on residential development in the county. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 29.

TN - HB2003 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires the department of education to establish a grant program to award bonuses to public school teachers who achieve certain measures of performance. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1838 Education, State Board of - As enacted, divides the appointing authority for each of the nine members of the board representing the state's nine congressional districts among the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives such that each appoints three members; revises the legislative confirmation process for members appointed on or after July 1, 2022; revises other appointment and confirmation related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HJR622 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Davis Duffy, Salutatorian, Zion Christian Academy

TN - HJR793 Memorials, Recognition - Donald A. "Donnie" Walters

TN - HJR1031 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Brendan Reed Joffs, Eagle Scout

TN - HJR496 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Ashley Knowles, Tennessee Teacher of the Year Regional Semifinalist

TN - HJR641 Memorials, Sports - Columbia Academy Lady Bulldogs, 2021 state champions

TN - HJR138 Memorials, Interns - Sarah Stansbury

TN - HJR405 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emily Hopkins, Valedictorian, Santa Fe Unit School

TN - HB5 Education - As enacted, requires that the instruction provided to a student who is identified for intervention through the response to instruction and intervention (RTI) framework be determined by the student's local education agency based on the individual student's needs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2092 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to notify each LEA when the office of research and education accountability publishes a report germane to kindergarten through grade 12 education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR1133 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Maddy Hayes, Valedictorian, Zion Christian Academy

TN - HJR449 Memorials, Recognition - Mount Pleasant High School, 50th anniversary

TN - HJR640 Memorials, Sports - Connor Henson, Columbia Academy, TSSAA Division II-A Cross Country State Champion

TN - HJR878 Memorials, Recognition - Katie Lea Boshers, Mule Day Court

TN - HJR879 Memorials, Recognition - Graciee Katherine English, Mule Day Court

TN - HJR1080 Memorials, Recognition - Kettle Mills Farm, Century Farm of the Year

TN - HJR1023 Memorials, Recognition - Parental Alienation Awareness Day

TN - HJR1033 Memorials, Recognition - Maury Baptist Association, 100th anniversary

TN - HJR876 Memorials, Recognition - Madalyn Grace Aviles, Mule Day Court

TN - HB1865 Education - As introduced, requires LEAs to offer high school students high school credit for a course in which the student is not enrolled but for which the student has satisfied the course requirements through an examination. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR880 Memorials, Recognition - Kayla Mae Gibson, 2022 Mule Day Queen

TN - HB2188 Schools, Charter - As introduced, reduces the amount of time, from 60 days to no later than 30 days before the application process, by which a prospective charter school sponsor must submit a letter of intent of its plan to submit an application to operate a charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.

TN - HB3 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires that a student's gender for purposes of participation in a public middle school or high school interscholastic athletic activity or event be determined by the student's sex at the time of the student's birth, as indicated on the student's original birth certificate. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1216 Board of Regents - As introduced, clarifies that the education administration committee of the house must approve the expenditures made from the proceeds of property sold by the board of regents. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB470 Consumer Protection - As introduced, changes, from 45 days to 60 days, the limitation on delaying notification to persons affected by the breach of a system security when a law enforcement agency determines that the notification will impede a criminal investigation. - Amends TCA Section 47-18-2107.

TN - HB448 Columbia - Subject to local approval, makes various changes to the charter of the city of Columbia relating to the duties of the local civil service board. - Amends Chapter 9 of the Private Acts of 2013.

TN - HB525 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises provisions governing temporary teaching permits. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB524 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from February 1 to February 15, the date by which the commissioner is required to annually report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB4 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each LEA to develop and implement instructional programs aligned with state academic standards that incorporate science and social studies concepts into the English language arts instruction for students in kindergarten through grade two. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HB589 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, changes the amount of notice, from five days to five business days, that a local board of education member must provide the board of the member's intent to participate in a scheduled board meeting electronically because the member is, or will be, out of the country due to work at the time of the meeting. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.

TN - HB1215 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, removes obsolete reference to a non-existent public health council; requires approval of a majority of the health and welfare committee of the senate, the health committee of the house of representatives, and the general assembly by joint resolution before the commissioner may designate diseases against which immunization is required for a child to attend any school or child care facility of this state on or after July 1, 2021. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 50.

TN - HJR2 Memorials, Recognition - Gail Gilliam

TN - HB6 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, requires the commission to establish a four-year pilot program to award completion grants to Tennessee Promise scholarship students who have an immediate financial need or who are experiencing a financial hardship that may prevent the student from completing a postsecondary degree or credential. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB15 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, a student in any grade kindergarten through five (K-5) who is identified as in need of Tier II or Tier III interventions according to the department of education's RTI framework to participate in an LEA-approved research-based intervention before the beginning of the next school year to be eligible for promotion to the next grade level. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1217 Comptroller, State - As introduced, changes who receives the comptroller's report regarding the effectiveness of the Tennessee Promise scholarship program, from the speakers of the senate and house of representatives and members of the education committees of the house and senate to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR25 Memorials, Retirement - Jackie Smith

TN - HJR406 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jordyn Litton, Salutatorian, Santa Fe Unit School

TN - HJR559 Memorials, Recognition - J.B. Napier and Shirley Napier Memorial Bridge

TN - HR40 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Karlee Rowland, Valedictorian, Hampshire Unit School

TN - HB2116 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises the evaluation criteria for educators. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-302.

TN - HB462 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to submit a report to the education administration committee and education instruction committee of the house on the high school graduation rate and to annually report on the state report card information related to state, LEA, and school level indicators of postsecondary readiness by graduating class. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-228 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6.

TN - HJR1285 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Laura Purtle, Maury County Public Schools High School Teacher of the Year

TN - HJR1030 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Joseph Christopher Tomaszewski, Eagle Scout

TN - HB14 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, enacts the "School Stabilization Act"; requires, for the 2021-2022 school year, the BEP of each LEA to be calculated based on the LEA's 2019-2020 average daily membership (ADM), rather than the LEA's 2020-2021 ADM, unless the LEA's 2020-2021 ADM exceeds the LEA's 2019-2020 ADM. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HJR364 Memorials, Recognition - James Madison Chapter of Tennessee Society of the Sons of the American Revolution honoring Revolutionary War veterans buried at Zion Presbyterian Church Cemetery

TN - HJR434 Memorials, Recognition - Carmack Boulevard Church of Christ, 50th anniversary

TN - HJR695 Memorials, Recognition - Water Valley community

TN - HJR1035 Memorials, Recognition - Dedication of Carl Harris, Jr., Memorial Bridge

TN - HB16 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, enacts the "Teacher's Discipline Act," which establishes requirements and procedures for teachers to discipline students in the teachers' classrooms, including relocation of a student. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1694 Religion and Religious Organizations - As introduced, prohibits the state, a political subdivision, or a public official from prohibiting, or imposing additional restrictions on, the lawful operations of a church or religious organization, including religious services or activities, during a state of emergency, major disaster, or natural disaster. - Amends TCA Title 58.

TN - HB1753 Education - As introduced, requires TCAP tests to be administered in a paper format for students in grades three through eight; allows the commissioner of education to determine whether end-of-course assessments must be administered in a computerized, online, or paper format; allows an LEA or public charter school to administer end-of-course assessments in a paper format if it objects to administering end-of-course assessments in a computerized or online format. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60.

TN - HB1959 Education, Higher - As enacted, requires, by the 2023-2024 school year, each state college of applied technology to establish partnerships with each LEA that is located in the county in which the main campus of the state college of applied technology is located to provide early postsecondary opportunities for students enrolled in a high school in the LEA; encourages the board of regents to expand the presence of state colleges of applied technology in each county within this state to provide greater early post-secondary opportunities for students enrolled in a high school in an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB13 Public Health - As enacted, establishes certain restrictions on requiring persons to be vaccinated for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 68.

TN - HB1839 Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates one additional circuit court each in the thirteenth, nineteenth, twenty-second, and twenty-third judicial districts; creates one additional chancery court in the nineteenth judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.

TN - HB2278 Railroads - As enacted, requires TACIR to prepare a report surveying projects initiated over the past 10 years involving the initiation of new state-sponsored Amtrak intercity passenger rail. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10; Title 4, Chapter 23; Title 7; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55; Title 64 and Title 65.

TN - HB1513 Textbooks - As enacted, enacts the "Textbook Transparency Act," which revises provisions governing textbooks and instructional materials. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.

TN - HB2544 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires a health benefit plan that provides coverage for imaging services for screening mammography to provide coverage to a patient for low-dose mammography according to specific guidelines, including a baseline mammogram for a woman 35 to 40 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7.

TN - HB2354 Child Custody and Support - As enacted, enacts "Noah's Law," which allows a custodial parent, under certain circumstances, to seek an emergency court order declaring a child to be in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death and ordering the noncustodial parent to return the child to the custodial parent immediately. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6, Part 1; Title 37 and Section 39-13-306.

TN - HB2112 Election Laws - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to establish an office of election integrity within the department of audit to perform and supervise election audits. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 3 and Title 8, Chapter 4.

TN - HB2612 Real Property - As enacted, enacts the "Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act." - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 27 and Title 66.

TN - HB1881 Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $15 million to the legislature for planning and construction of a new parking garage that has at least 400 parking spaces, is attached to the Cordell Hull Building, and is used solely by legislative employees. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12.

TN - HB2461 Education - As enacted, authorizes the administration of TCAP tests to students in a timed format and requires the department of education to establish the required time limit for each TCAP test and an optional additional time period that may be added to the required time limit for each test if requested by a student. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1363 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, defines the term "teacher" for purposes of state salary increases for licensed education personnel. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.

TN - HB1304 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, updates reference to a house committee name to reflect that the education administration committee of the house of representatives must receive the report submitted by the commissioner regarding disciplinary actions in Tennessee schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2144 Taxes, Excise - As enacted, specifies that, for excise tax purposes, effective for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, Section 174 of the Internal Revenue Code, concerning the deduction for research and experimental expenditures, must be applied as it was in effect immediately before the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-2006.

TN - HB2380 Railroads - As enacted, requires TACIR to conduct a study and make recommendations regarding the potential for passenger rail service linking the major cities in each of the grand divisions of the state. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 65.

TN - HB2094 Education, Higher - As enacted, revises various provisions governing the Tennessee student assistance corporation (TSAC) and financial aid. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1687 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires a local board of education to state in its written notice to a teacher who is dismissed or whose contract is not reelected by the board that the only reason for the teacher's dismissal or non-reelection is a loss of funding for the position, if that is the reason for the teacher's dismissal or non-reelection. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB1874 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, exempts certain sales of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium coins and bullion from the sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2874 Museums - As introduced, transfers the custody and care of the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest held in the Tennessee State Museum to the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

TN - HB2436 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, specifies that a student who graduates early from an eligible high school, or who completes high school at an eligible home school early, or who obtains an equivalency diploma before the spring semester immediately preceding the student's initial fall enrollment, and is admitted to, and enrolled full time in, an eligible postsecondary program, is eligible for the Tennessee promise scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.

TN - HB1862 Education, Higher - As introduced, requires, beginning with the 2022-2023 academic year, each four-year public institution of higher education to obtain the score of each student seeking admission to, or enrollment in, the institution as an entering freshman on a postsecondary readiness assessment or nationally recognized college admissions test before the student may be admitted or enrolled. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2659 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, requires an entity that contracts with the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee for a real estate interest in the megasite to report, or cause its contractor or contractors to report, certain information to the state building commission, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives regarding construction activity for material improvement to the project; authorizes a local governmental entity to enter into a contract with an entity working on the megasite for the provision of security services at the megasite. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 9, Part 1.

TN - HB2203 Election Laws - As introduced, prohibits foreign nationals, corporations, and interest groups from interfering with state and local governmental affairs by financing certain political agendas, preferences, and activities that do not involve the election of an individual to a public office. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 19.

TN - HB1843 Health Care - As enacted, includes as provider-based telemedicine, which health insurance entities must cover, HIPAA-compliant audio-only conversation for the provision of healthcare services (in addition to behavioral health services as covered under existing law) when the use of HIPAA-compliant real-time, interactive video, video telecommunications, or electronic technology, or store-and-forward telemedicine services are unavailable. - Amends TCA Title 56.

TN - HB1686 Health Care - As enacted, establishes a respite care pilot program for caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's and related dementia. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.

TN - HB2451 Children - As introduced, enacts the "Parent Bill of Rights Act," which requires LEAs to permit parents to have access to certain information, including the names of instructors, titles available in the school library, teacher manuals, and curriculum; requires parents to provide written consent before a student can participate in any extracurricular activity, family life lesson, field trip, school assembly, or guest speaker event; prohibits certain healthcare practitioners from providing medical treatment to a minor without parental consent or an appropriate court order. - Amends TCA Section 14-4-103; Title 49 and Title 63.

TN - HB2275 Medical Occupations - As enacted, authorizes, until June 30, 2025, an emergency medical service employee who has been retired for at least 60 days from TCRS from a superseded system administered by the state, or from a local retirement fund to accept employment as an emergency medical services employee without loss or suspension of retirement benefits if certain conditions met. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8 and Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.

TN - HB1522 State Government - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Tennessee Small Business Investment Company Credit Act regarding TNInvestco. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 61; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

TN - HB2835 Health Care - As introduced, enacts the Youth Health Protection Act. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 14; Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2244 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the criminal offenses of especially aggravated rape, especially aggravated rape of a child, and grave torture. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.

TN - HB2633 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, specifies that a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun does not align with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA from civil liability and adverse employment action for referring to a student using the pronoun aligned with the student's biological sex instead of the student's preferred pronoun. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2148 State Universities - As enacted, creates the Tennessee Center for Nursing Advancement within East Tennessee State University to address issues of nursing workforce needs and makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 8, Part 5; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1537 Textbooks - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop a proposed rubric to assist the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission in reviewing and scoring textbooks and instructional materials proposed for adoption and submit the proposed rubric to the commission for approval; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.

TN - HB2312 Education - As enacted, requires an LEA or the department of education to provide testing materials or proposed testing materials in the LEA's or department's possession to a member of the general assembly upon the member's request to inspect and review the material; excludes certain materials. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2452 Human Rights - As introduced, designates as an unlawful discriminatory practice certain actions taken by a person, public officer, public employee, governmental entity, employer, or place of public accommodation against an individual on the basis of the individuals vaccination status, immunity status, or whether the person has an immunity passport; makes various other changes related to COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 39; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB1379 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, increases from 21 days to 30 days the time within which a health insurance entity must pay on or notify a provider regarding a claim received by electronic submission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB1879 Comptroller, State - As enacted, requires the comptroller to annually review and report on the implementation of the Tennessee Literacy Success Act and submit the report to the education committees of the house of representatives and senate and the state board of education and publish the report on the comptroller's website. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 9.

TN - HB1954 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows counties and municipalities to reestablish the office of elected school superintendent. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1740 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to employ three assistant commissioners to provide specialized support to local education agencies based on the rural, urban, or suburban areas served by the LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1645 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offense of civil rights intimidation to create a Class D felony, punishable by a fine not to exceed $5,000, for taking adverse action, as defined in this bill, against an employee who has expressly objected to the COVID-19 vaccination based upon the employee's religious beliefs, creed, or conscience, with the intent to unlawfully intimidate or force the employee to obtain a COVID-19 vaccination. - Amends TCA Title 14, Chapter 3 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3.

TN - HB1726 Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires the board, in consultation with the department of education, to develop an alternative graduation pathway for high school students interested in pursuing technical training or a technical career after graduation; authorizes the commissioner of education to waive graduation requirements if compliance with same would delay or impair a student's ability to pursue technical training or their technical career goals. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2670 Education, Higher - As enacted, prohibits a public institution of higher education from taking certain actions with regard to divisive concepts and the ideologies or political viewpoints of students and employees; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1899 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, allows a teacher holding the teacher's second or third teaching permit to apply to the department of education for a limited license to continue teaching the course or subject area taught pursuant to the teacher's current temporary permit; not applicable to a limited license to teach a physical education class, a course for which an end-of-course examination is required, or a special education course; adds other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB487 Education - As enacted, extends, beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, the counties within which each LEA must implement a program of family life education from counties with a pregnancy rate of 19.5 pregnancies for every 1,000 females ages 15 to 17 to all counties; requires a curriculum on sex education or human sexuality that is implemented by an LEA as a part of a human growth and development program be in conformance with the curriculum guidelines established for family life programs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 13.

TN - HB2733 Veterans - As enacted, requires an employer to allow a veteran employee to have the entirety of Veterans' Day as a non-paid holiday if certain conditions met; specifies that this act does not prohibit an employer from allowing the employer's veteran employees to have the entirety of Veterans Day as a paid holiday. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 15; Title 50 and Title 58.

TN - HB2043 Controlled Substances - As enacted, adds tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, or other preparation of tianeptine, and any salt, sulfate, free acid, compound, derivative, precursor, or preparation thereof that is substantially chemically equivalent or identical with tianeptine, as a schedule II controlled substance; specifies that a violation of the offense of knowingly possessing or casually exchanging a controlled substance (unless the substance was obtained directly from, or pursuant to, a valid prescription or order of a practitioner while acting in the course of professional practice), will be a Class A misdemeanor with respect to a person knowingly possessing or casually exchanging, tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, or other preparation of tianeptine and any salt, sulfate, free acid, compound, derivative, precursor, or other preparation thereof that is substantially chemically equivalent or identical with tianeptine. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.

TN - HB2661 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, revises various provisions governing pharmacy benefits and pharmacy benefits managers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 38; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71.

TN - HB1915 Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates excess state tax revenues over-collected in fiscal year 20212022 to the department of transportation to be used for making grants in the amount of $2 million to each county highway department for the construction, repair, and improvement of county roads and bridges. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54 and Title 67.

TN - HB1516 Education - As introduced, deletes antiquated language that required the comptroller's office to study the formation and operation of community schools and report its finding by November 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2746 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, authorizes a pharmacist to provide ivermectin to a patient, who is 18 years of age or older, pursuant to a valid collaborative pharmacy practice agreement containing a non-patient-specific prescriptive order and standardized procedures developed and executed by one or more authorized prescribers; enacts other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 47; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1834 DUI Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Ethan's, Hailey's, and Bentley's Law," which requires a sentencing court to order a defendant who has been convicted of vehicular homicide or aggravated vehicular homicide due to intoxication and in which the victim of the offense was the parent of a minor child to pay restitution in the form of child maintenance to each of the victim's children until each child reaches 18 years of age and has graduated from high school. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.

TN - HB2343 Education - As enacted, requires educator preparation providers approved by the state board of education to require each candidate enrolled in the provider's educator preparation program to successfully complete at least one course each semester on reading instruction in order for the provider to retain state board approval; revises and enacts other provisions governing literacy skill instruction and educator preparation providers. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2344 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each LEA to publish a link on the LEA's website to the course access catalog on the department of education's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2666 Textbooks - As enacted, expands the membership of the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission; requires the commission to issue guidance for LEAs and public charter schools to use when reviewing materials in a library collection; creates other duties in regard to library collections. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 49 and Chapter 264 of the Acts of 1909.

TN - HB2585 Election Laws - As enacted, revises and expands the manner in which the secretary of state and county election commissions must audit state and local elections. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 20 and Title 2, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2706 Treasurer, State - As enacted, requires the state treasurer, in conjunction with the commissioner of transportation, to develop, implement, and administer a centralized information system for the reporting of alleged dangerous conditions on state-maintained highways and the repair of such conditions. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 9, Chapter 8, Part 4.

TN - HB1934 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, extends application of the enhanced penalties for certain assaults against a first responder or nurse who is discharging or attempting to discharge official duties to assaults against teachers. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.

TN - HB1437 Taxes, Sales - As enacted, allocates certain revenue from state and local sales taxes to pay for capital projects and debt service associated with a sports facility of a major league professional football franchise. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2146 Driver Licenses - As enacted, establishes a third-party skills testing program administered by the department of safety for the purpose of facilitating the testing and licensure of commercial drivers; authorizes the department of correction to create a commercial driver license training program for purposes of training offenders who, upon release from incarceration, may be suitable for careers in the transportation industry. - Amends TCA Section 12-2-403; Title 41; Section 49-6-2107 and Title 55.

TN - HB1935 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, names the statute delineating rights of an educator as the "Educator's Bill of Rights." - Amends TCA Section 49-5-209.

TN - HB2457 Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, revises the provisions governing property used in violation of certain hunting laws. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 39; Title 40; Title 69, Chapter 9 and Title 70.

TN - HB2226 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, increases, from $1,250 to $2,000, the amount awarded each semester to a full-time student receiving the middle college scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB2455 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, establishes qualifications necessary to receive an occupational teaching license. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB206 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, revises the requirements for an LEA's progressive truancy intervention plan; requires, beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, that each progressive truancy plan adopted by an LEA include a first tier of schoolwide, truancy prevention-oriented supports for all enrolled students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1960 Public Health - As enacted, removes TCA 14-2-101, which prohibits COVID-19 vaccine mandates by governmental entities, schools, and local education agencies, and removes TCA 14-1-101, which is the definitions to the Title 14 COVID-19 laws, from the application of the Title 14 termination date of July 1, 2023; effective July 1, 2023, deletes the 14-1-101 definitions except for those that relate to the prohibition on COVID-19 vaccine mandates for governmental entities. - Amends TCA Title 14 and Title 68.

TN - HB2830 Victims' Rights - As introduced, allows a person to file a petition for an injunction to prohibit the delivery of the remains of a victim of certain homicide offenses to the next of kin, if the next of kin is found to have committed the offense by a preponderance of the evidence; requires a court issuing such an injunction to include in its order the next person to whom the remains must be delivered. - Amends TCA Title 31; Title 38; Title 46 and Title 62.

TN - HB1671 School Vouchers - As introduced, extends eligibility for an education savings account to students zoned to attend a school in an LEA that, at any time during the three-year period immediately preceding September 1, 2025, or thereafter, did not offer students 180 days of in-person learning each school year due to COVID-19 or that voluntarily imposed a mask mandate in response to COVID-19 and that voluntarily refused to allow parents and guardians to opt their students out of the mask mandate. - Amends TCA Section 49-6-2602(3).

TN - HB2640 Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, creates a waiver for the registration fee for a Class A or Class B motor vehicle upon the renewal of the motor vehicle's registration if the renewal occurs during the period of time beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 8, Part 1; Title 55 and Title 67.

TN - HB1723 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA's policy on the inspection of school instructional materials by parents and legal guardians of students enrolled in the LEA to allow a student's parent or legal guardian to check out from the student's school one set of the instructional materials used in the student's classroom for a period of no less than 48 hours to allow the parent or legal guardian time to inspect the materials. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2535 Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, requires nursing homes and assisted-care living facilities to permit at least one family member or resident representative who meets certain conditions to visit a resident of the facility during end-of-life situations if a disaster, emergency, or public health emergency for COVID-19 has been declared. - Amends TCA Title 14 and Title 68, Chapter 11.

TN - HB2050 Public Contracts - As enacted, prohibits a public entity from entering into a contract with a company unless the contract includes a written certification that the company is not currently engaged in, and will not for the duration of the contract engage in, a boycott of Israel; provides exemptions for contracts with a total value of less than $250,000 and contractors with fewer than 10 employees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12.

TN - HB2115 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, removes the geographic or programmatic considerations when THEC adopts a dual admissions policy in which a person who satisfies the admissions requirements of a two-year institution governed by the board of regents and a public university while pursuing a degree program within a transfer pathway program of study is authorized to be admitted to both such institutions. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.

TN - HB2220 Coroners - As enacted, requires attending physician, chief medical officer, or medical examiner signing the medical certification of the cause of death of a military veteran to, prior to signing, review medical records, including records from the U.S. department of veterans affairs, if the deceased person is known to be a military veteran and if the physician, chief medical officer, or medical examiner is provided access to the records in order to determine if a service-connected disability was the principal or major contributory cause of death. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 5.

TN - HB1754 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, changes the grades, from nine through 12 to kindergarten through 12, that an eligible professor of higher education may teach pursuant to a special license issued by the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.

TN - HB2022 Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires department's case managers to report a suspected violation of a court order to law enforcement in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Section 39-13-113.

TN - HB2559 Day Care - As enacted, increases the authorized operation times/days for drop-in centers from "not to exceed 14 hours per week and for not more than seven hours per day for any individual child during regular working hours" to "not to exceed 18 hours per week and for not more than nine hours per day during regular working hours." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 3, Part 5.

TN - HB2409 Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA to notify the LEA's new employees of the health plan offered to the employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27 and Title 49.

TN - HB5 Education - As enacted, requires that the instruction provided to a student who is identified for intervention through the response to instruction and intervention (RTI) framework be determined by the student's local education agency based on the individual student's needs. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1850 Education, Curriculum - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Course Access Program Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 18.

TN - HB2077 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to contract for the development of assessments to be annually administered to students in grades nine and 10 in the subjects of English, math, reading, and science to replace certain end-of-course assessments administered as part of the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program; requires the department to develop proposed evaluation guidelines and criteria for educators teaching the grades and subjects for which the new assessments will be administered. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2057 Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to produce an annual report concerning the efficacy of training on reading instruction provided by educator preparation providers; authorizes the state board of education to place on probationary status or revoke the approval of an EPP or any other Tennessee educator issuing entity if the program fails to meet the standards established by the state board. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1875 Boards and Commissions - As enacted, authorizes the executive director of the Tennessee higher education commission to appoint a designee to serve in the executive director's stead on the state board of education; authorizes the executive director of the state board of education to appoint a designee to serve in the executive director's stead on the Tennessee higher education commission. - Amends TCA Section 49-1-301; Section 49-1-305 and Section 49-7-204.

TN - HB2108 Textbooks - As enacted, requires that all math, science, and social studies textbooks and instructional materials be aligned to state academic standards by a certain date; prohibits the state board of education from granting waivers for textbooks or instructional materials, including those for English language arts, that are not aligned to state academic standards by that date. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1865 Education - As introduced, requires LEAs to offer high school students high school credit for a course in which the student is not enrolled but for which the student has satisfied the course requirements through an examination. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2557 Education - As enacted, prohibits an LEA or public charter school from knowingly entering into an agreement with an individual or entity that performs abortions, induces abortions, provides abortion referrals, or provides funding, advocacy, or other support for abortions. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1863 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, increases the number of BEP funded full-time public school nurse positions from one per 3,000 students to one per 750 students; increases the number of full-time public school nurses considered sufficient for the public school nurse program to adequately provide services from one nurse per 3,000 students to one nurse per 750 students; requires the BEP formula to fund full-time school counselor positions at a ratio of one per 250 students or one full-time school counselor position for each LEA, whichever is greater. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3 and Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 12.

TN - HB1924 TennCare - As enacted, extends the nursing home annual assessment fee to June 30, 2023. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 10.

TN - HB1398 Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises various provisions governing pharmacy benefits and pharmacy benefits managers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.

TN - HB2152 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, revises various provisions governing lottery-funded scholarships and financial aid. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.

TN - HB2454 Obscenity and Pornography - As enacted, redefines "obscene" to include material that has educational value; makes various changes to the internet acceptable use policy LEAs are required to adopt; enacts requirements governing providers of digital and online resources; enacts and revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 49, Chapter 1.

TN - HB342 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a law enforcement officer to notify the department of children's services when a person under 18 years of age is taken into custody for suspicion of committing the offense of prostitution. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.

TN - HB1216 Board of Regents - As introduced, clarifies that the education administration committee of the house must approve the expenditures made from the proceeds of property sold by the board of regents. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB18 Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, creates exceptions to the offense of open or concealed carrying of a firearm with the intent to go armed for any person legally in possession and not prohibited from possessing a firearm; converts existing defenses to be exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 10; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 50 and Title 70.

TN - HB693 General Assembly - As introduced, creates a committee to review federal actions affecting Tennessee and report to the general assembly on the committee's findings. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.

TN - HB10 Public Health - As introduced, removes provisions in current law that override the ability of various persons to object to vaccinations, immunizations, or other medical procedures on the basis of religious tenets and practices. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 33; Title 37; Title 49; Title 50; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1217 Comptroller, State - As introduced, changes who receives the comptroller's report regarding the effectiveness of the Tennessee Promise scholarship program, from the speakers of the senate and house of representatives and members of the education committees of the house and senate to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2483 Election Laws - As enacted, requires certain state and county officials to consult with the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives prior to entering into consent decrees to change state election laws or rules; gives the general assembly legal standing to file an action against such state officials for violating election laws. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 1.

TN - HB1570 Education - As enacted, requires the commissioner of education to obtain approval from the state board of education for changes to the formula used to calculate school or LEA performance goals and measures; requires the commissioner to convene a working group before submitting a proposal to the state board to change the formula. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1895 Education - As enacted, requires the commissioner of education to withhold a portion of the state education finance funds that an LEA is otherwise eligible to receive if the LEA fails or refuses to determine a student's gender, for purposes of participation in school sports, by the student's sex at the time of birth; exempts an LEA that fails or refuses to determine a student's gender, for purposes of participation in school sports, by the student's sex at the time of birth if the LEA's failure or refusal to do so is required by a court or other legally binding order. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB1233 Education - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Accommodations for All Children Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB2656 Sentencing - As enacted, requires that a person convicted of certain offenses serve 100 percent of the sentence imposed; requires that a person convicted of certain other offenses serve 85 percent of the sentence imposed before becoming eligible for release; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB2466 Local Government, General - As introduced, prohibits a local government from providing monetary assistance to an elective abortion provider. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9, Chapter 3 and Title 71.

TN - HB2573 Driver Licenses - As enacted, requires a person who is convicted of a human trafficking offense to obtain a driver license or photo identification license that bears a designation sufficient to enable a law enforcement officer to identify the bearer of the license as a person who has been convicted of a human trafficking offense; requires the department of safety to add such designation to the license of persons convicted of a human trafficking offense. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-314; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - HB1900 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires the department of education to establish a fund to reimburse educators in an amount equal to the cost of an assessment required for licensure if the educator receives a qualifying score on the required assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 56.

TN - HB1871 Public Health - As enacted, prohibits governmental entities, local education agencies, schools, and private businesses from adopting or enforcing laws, rules, or practices that fail to recognize acquired immunity as providing a level of immune protection that is at least as protective as a COVID-19 vaccine or treat individuals with acquired immunity differently than individuals who have received the COVID-19 vaccine. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 14; Title 50; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - HB2028 Students - As enacted, specifies that a discipline policy or code of conduct adopted by a local board of education or charter school governing body may authorize a teacher to withhold a student's phone from the student for the duration of the instructional time if the student's phone is a distraction to the class or student. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2128 Election Laws - As enacted, expressly prohibits non-United States citizens from voting in federal, state, or local elections in this state; prohibits local governments from granting non-citizens the right to vote in local elections; enacts other related election provisions. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 2 and Title 2, Chapter 7.

TN - HB1356 Firefighters - As introduced, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.

TN - HB1964 Education - As enacted, requires LEAs to conduct remote learning drills; requires that teacher training programs provide instruction on strategies for virtual instruction to candidates seeking a license to teach or a license to serve as an instructional leader. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB23 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to survey all LEAs, public charter schools, and state special schools to determine whether there is a sufficient number of licensed speech-language pathologists in the public schools of this state to meet student needs and report the results of the survey to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives by January 15, 2022. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 56 and Title 63.

TN - HB1446 Education, Dept. of - As enacted, directs the department to provide career and technical education opportunities for students in middle school; requires an LEA to provide students in seventh or eighth grade with information on available career and technical education programs upon administering a career aptitude assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1654 Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, provides for the naming of certain roads and bridges in honor of certain persons. - Amends TCA Title 54.

TN - HB7 Public Health - As introduced, specifies that the county mayor has the authority to establish and implement health policies that affect the entire county during a county-wide health emergency; directs the county health director, health officer, and board of health to provide advice to the mayor to develop the policies; applies only in Shelby, Davidson, Knox, Hamilton, Sullivan, and Madison counties. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 68, Chapter 2, Part 6.

TN - HB2147 Sexual Offenses - As enacted, raises the age of a victim whose testimony the court may allow to be taken outside the courtroom by means of two-way closed circuit television from "13 or younger" to "under 18 years of age"; adds human trafficking offenses to those for which a court must extend an order of protection for a definite period of time if the allegation is proved by a preponderance of the evidence; makes various other changes relative to human trafficking; revises the penalties for involuntary servitude, promoting prostitution, and patronizing prostitution; revises other related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.

TN - HB1719 TennCare - As enacted, revises provisions governing the Ground Ambulance Service Provider Assessment Act. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - HB1893 Taxes - As introduced, extends the current sales tax exemption on motor vehicles purchased by members of the armed forces to Tennessee national guard military technicians and members of the Tennessee national guard who are on part-time duty; applies to one vehicle purchased during a five-year period. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-303.

TN - HB1852 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, allows TCRS members who served in the armed forces during certain periods of armed conflict to establish retirement credit for the military service under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Section 8-34-605.

TN - HB2121 Election Laws - As introduced, revises provisions relating to voter registration; provides mechanisms by which to verify a voter's eligibility to vote; grants general assembly standing in cases involving violation of election laws. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - HB2157 University of Tennessee - As enacted, establishes an institute of American civics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; requires the president of the University of Tennessee, in consultation with the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives, to appoint 13 members to serve on a board of fellows for the institute; establishes procedure for appointment of a director for the institute. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

TN - HB528 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, revises provisions governing temporary teaching permits. - Amends TCA Section 49-5-106.

TN - HB341 Sexual Offenders - As enacted, expands the sexual offenses for which a defendant is required to submit to an evaluation for and be subject to a standardized plan of sex offender treatment as part of the defendant's sentence. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 7.

TN - HB2154 Local Education Agencies - As enacted, enacts the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022"; requires each public school to maintain, and post on the school's website, a list of the materials in the school's library collection; requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a policy to establish procedures for the development and review of school library collections. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HB2153 Education - As enacted, revises various provisions relative to computer science education. - Amends TCA Title 49.

TN - HB1901 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, prohibits the granting of a temporary permit to teach a physical education class, special education course, or course for which an end-of-course examination is required; authorizes endorsement exemption to a teacher to teach any course or subject area, except a physical education class or a special education course, for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years; revises other related provisions; requires the department of education to report certain information regarding endorsement exemptions and temporary permits. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

TN - HR218 Memorials, Heroism - Samantha and Daniel McCanless and Congressman Dr. Scott DesJarlais

TN - HR1 Memorials, Retirement - Chris Bundgaard

TN - HR44 Memorials, Sports - Eddie George

TN - HR23 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Authorizes the Speaker of the House of Representatives to appoint a committee to meet with a like committee from the Senate to consider the removal of Ellen Hobbs Lyle from the office of Chancellor of the Twentieth Judicial District by the Tennessee General Assembly acting pursuant to Article VI, Section 6 of the Constitution of Tennessee.

TN - HR120 Memorials, Recognition - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

TN - HR170 Memorials, Recognition - Keystone XL Pipeline workers

TN - HR94 Memorials, Recognition - Lee Andrew Smith

TN - HR128 Memorials, Sports - Morgan Cox, Tennessee Titans

TN - HR30 Memorials, Recognition - National Medal of Honor Day, March 25, 2021

TN - HJR220 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Chris Devaney, Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - HJR1013 Memorials, Interns - Daniel Baisier

TN - HJR1083 Memorials, Recognition - Wendy Moten

TN - HJR619 Memorials, Retirement - Pam Beck

TN - HJR739 Memorials, Sports - Alyssa Bearzi, Milligan University, women's individual title, NAIA cross country championship

TN - HJR808 Memorials, Death - Alton Gary Mathews

TN - HJR1393 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Terranisha Potts, Salutatorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HJR524 Memorials, Recognition - Bill Anderson

TN - HJR522 Memorials, Recognition - Randy Travis

TN - HJR664 Memorials, Retirement - Leland C. Blackwood

TN - HJR521 Memorials, Recognition - Vince Gill

TN - HJR180 Memorials, Recognition - Eddie Sherlin

TN - HJR575 Memorials, Death - Barbara Sue Jackson Frazier

TN - HJR350 Memorials, Recognition - Candace Owens

TN - HJR135 Memorials, Recognition - The Oak Ridge 85

TN - HJR212 Memorials, Recognition - First responders of Tennessee

TN - HJR181 Memorials, Recognition - Bobby Keel

TN - HJR134 Memorials, Recognition - The Clinton 12

TN - HJR1036 Memorials, Death - Marvis LaVerne Kneeland Jones

TN - HJR701 Memorials, Retirement - Captain Victor G. Donoho

TN - HJR790 Memorials, Death - Tom Tigue

TN - HJR1394 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cha'ly Ellis, Valedictorian, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

TN - HJR1398 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Evan Fant Hayes, Salutatorian, Middle College High School

TN - HJR1400 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Brianca Bolton, Salutatorian, East High School

TN - HJR574 Memorials, Death - Audrey Sue Fulton Jackson

TN - HJR651 Memorials, Personal Achievement - Phillip Andrew "Andy" Herron, Eagle Scout

TN - HJR480 Memorials, Death - Senator Roscoe Dixon, Jr.

TN - HJR523 Memorials, Recognition - The Gatlin Brothers

TN - HJR1232 Memorials, Recognition - Kirsten Tilford, Boys & Girls Club of Greater Memphis Youth of the Year

TN - HJR652 Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to complete a secure border wall on U.S. southern border.

TN - HJR1399 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Alyssa Matthews, Valedictorian, East High School

TN - HJR40 Memorials, Retirement - Judge David M. Bragg

TN - HJR738 Memorials, Sports - Milligan University men's and women's cross country teams, national champions

TN - HJR1012 Memorials, Interns - Sharon Khan

TN - HJR765 Memorials, Recognition - Day of Tears, January 22, 2022

TN - HJR1395 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Davion Watson, Valedictorian, Melrose High School

TN - HJR404 Memorials, Recognition - 105th Attack Squadron, 100th anniversary

TN - HJR1397 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ethan O'Neil Jones, Valedictorian, Middle College High School

TN - HJR230 Memorials, Recognition - Hayley Arceneaux

TN - HJR219 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Stan Butt, Fish and Wildlife Commission

TN - HJR1105 Memorials, Death - Perry H. Windle, Jr.

TN - HJR103 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges Tennesseans to register as organ and tissue donors.

TN - HJR11 Memorials, Heroism - Metropolitan Nashville Police Officers

TN - HJR95 Memorials, Retirement - David Leatherwood

TN - HJR408 Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee State Natural Areas Day, May 4, 2021

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

TN - HJR164 Memorials, Recognition - Richard W. Smith

TN - HJR747 Memorials, Death - Major General (Ret.) John Singlaub

TN - HJR1387 Memorials, Death - Grady Pascal Williams

TN - HJR358 Memorials, Recognition - Dolly Parton

TN - HJR519 Memorials, Recognition - Steve Wariner

TN - HJR518 Memorials, Recognition - The Grand Ole Opry's 5,000th Saturday night broadcast

TN - HJR631 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Emma Franklin, Valedictorian, Scotts Hill High School

TN - HJR520 Memorials, Recognition - Alan Jackson

TN - HJR65 Memorials, Recognition - Keep Nine Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

TN - HJR168 Memorials, Recognition - Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5154, 75th anniversary

TN - HJR182 Memorials, Recognition - Maury Regional Medical Center

TN - HJR863 Memorials, Sports - Mike Vrabel, NFL Coach of the Year

TN - HJR1396 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Yazmine Cox, Salutatorian, Melrose High School

TN - HJR174 Memorials, Retirement - Brigadier General Kurt Winstead, Tennessee Army National Guard

TN - HJR752 Naming and Designating - Designates the Bible as the official State book.

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