Tennessee Sen. Ed Jackson (R)

TN - Government Operations (Senate)

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1st vice-chair

TN - Health and Welfare (Senate)

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member

TN - State and Local Government (Senate)

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member

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chair

TN - SB925 State Symbols - As introduced, designates the ladder as the official state tool. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.

TN - SB592 Chiropractors - As introduced, replaces one of the consumer member appointments to the board of chiropractic examiners with the appointment of a member who is a chiropractic X-ray technician or chiropractic therapy assistant certified in this state not less than two years. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 4.

TN - SB610 Public Employees - As introduced, specifies that an employee of a county or municipality is not entitled to back pay if the employee is arrested and placed on administrative leave and then voluntarily separates from employment, even if the charges are dropped or the employee is found not guilty, or is terminated for reasons other than the arrest; requires that the records of the administrative actions be preserved. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5, Part 2 and Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 17.

TN - SB1181 Election Laws - As introduced, requires new amendments or additions to political party rules to take effect 10 business days, instead of 10 days, after being filed with the secretary of state and the coordinator of elections. - Amends TCA Title 2.

TN - SB1288 Historical Commission - As introduced, makes a violation of the heritage protection laws by a public official a Class C misdemeanor and holds such official personally liable for penalties and fines arising from such violation. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-412; Title 4, Chapter 8; and Title 4, Chapter 11.

TN - SB587 Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As introduced, establishes when an agency's rule is exempt from the public hearing requirement; authorizes a person to file suit directly with chancery court to enjoin enforcement of a rule when the rule is not adopted in compliance with this act. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.

TN - SB1184 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the punishment for reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon to a Class D felony if the offense occurred during a road rage incident. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 2.

TN - SJR471 Memorials, Recognition - Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

TN - SB712 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, requires the department, in consultation with the commission, to promulgate rules regarding reports to be made, records to be kept, and other matters pertaining to the collection of the wholesale beer tax. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB830 Public Health - As introduced, creates a task force to study and report on pre-term births and infant mortality as it relates to African-American mothers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

TN - SB784 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires that a Class H or hardship license issued to a minor holding a Class P license or instructional permit expires on the date the Class P license or instructional permit expires. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - SB383 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, redefines "seclusion" with regard to children in custody at juvenile detention facilities approved, certified, or licensed by the department of children's services. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB1187 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, changes the compensation, from an amount not to exceed $1,000 annually to an amount not to exceed $200 monthly, for the board of directors of the Reelfoot Lake regional utility and planning district. - Amends TCA Chapter 222 of the Public Acts of 1983, and any other acts amendatory thereto.

TN - SB588 Gaming - As introduced, requires Tennessee education lottery corporation board of directors and sports wagering advisory council to meet jointly for purposes of adopting rules and taking disciplinary action against a licensee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 38; Title 39; Title 47; Title 49 and Title 67.

TN - SB400 Child Abuse - As introduced, provides for the release of records of domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, and human trafficking service providers to the department of children's services for the purpose of investigating known or suspected child abuse or neglect or child sexual abuse; requires the department of children's services to maintain confidentiality of the records received. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 3.

TN - SB586 Animal Cruelty and Abuse - As introduced, reduces from 60 to 50 the number of days within which a court clerk is required to notify the TBI of a person's conviction for an animal abuse offense for purposes of placing the person on the animal abuser registry. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 1; Title 44; Title 47; Title 62; Title 63, Chapter 12; Title 68 and Title 70.

TN - SB1619 Madison County - Subject to local approval, replaces existing sheriff's civil service law with a new civil service law. - Amends Chapter 54 of the Private Acts of 1983; as amended.

TN - SB1183 State Employees - As introduced, provides 36 hours of yearly leave for a state employee who is a veteran with a service-connected disability of 30 percent or more to be used to attend appointments related to the service-connected disability. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 58.

TN - SJR621 Memorials, Recognition - U.S. Army Infantry Officer Candidate Class of May 1968 Reunion

TN - SB591 Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a person or entity holding a retail package store license, liquor-by-the-drink license, or retail food store wine license to sell or transfer the person's or entity's inventory of alcoholic beverages or wine, as applicable, upon the sale or closure of the establishment to another licensee if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 2; Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 8 and Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1.

TN - SB1180 Veterans - As introduced, changes, from 30 to 45, the number of days prior to the beginning of a new fiscal year that the Tennessee state veterans' homes board must submit the plan of operation for review and approval to the commissioner of veterans services, the commissioner of finance and administration, and the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 9; Title 38, Chapter 7; Title 58; Title 62, Chapter 5; Title 63; Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 5 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 2.

TN - SJR617 Memorials, Public Service - James Hal Wallace, Jr., State Election Commission

TN - SB611 Unclaimed Property - As introduced, changes the date used to determine when property held in a pension or retirement account is presumed abandoned; changes, from $50 to $25, the threshold value for property to be included in the report due to the treasurer under the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act; changes the exception to allow the treasurer to waive the claim requirement and deliver the property directly to a person. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 29.

TN - SB590 Correctional Programs - As introduced, authorizes TRICOR to sell goods manufactured by inmates to private nonprofit corporations and charitable organizations in this state if the TRICOR board determines the sale is in the best interests of the state and does not unfairly compete with private sector businesses. - Amends TCA Section 41-22-116.

TN - SB402 State Employees - As introduced, restores longevity pay for employees of the executive branch in the service of the state hired after June 30, 2015. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 38.

TN - SB537 Comptroller, State - As introduced, removes the filing requirement for municipal and utility district travel and expense reimbursement policies, and any amendments to the policies, and instead requires the policies and amendments be made available for review and audit by the comptroller or the comptroller's designee. - Amends TCA Section 6-54-903 and Section 7-82-309.

TN - SB1003 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, provides that a person's use of force in self-defense is not justified if the person was engaged in conduct that would constitute a felony or Class A misdemeanor, rather than unlawful activity, at the time of the use of force. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-611.

TN - SJR491 Memorials, Recognition - Chelsea Jackson

TN - SB1189 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, enacts the "West Tennessee River Basin Flood Resiliency Fund Act"; authorizes county mayors to appoint a designee to serve in their place on the authority's board. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 1, Part 11.

TN - SB211 Health Care - As introduced, clarifies that a rural health clinic may employ a dentist or optometrist if the employment relationship is evidenced by a written contract, job description, or documentation containing language that does not restrict the dentist or optometrist from exercising independent medical judgment in diagnosing and treating patients. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5 and Title 63, Chapter 8.

TN - SB382 Professions and Occupations - As introduced, allows members of the United States armed forces and honorably discharged veterans who receive certified occupational training as a member of the United States armed forces to receive equivalent credit toward an occupational license relating to the training received. - Amends TCA Title 58; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.

TN - SR25 Memorials, Interns - Shelley A. Mason

TN - SB1188 Taxes - As introduced, increases the number of days a person in the armed forces has to pay the occupational privilege tax from 180 days following the conclusion of hostilities in which such person is actually engaged outside the United States or 180 days after such person is transferred from the theater of such hostilities, whichever is sooner, to 240 days following conclusion or 240 days following transfer, whichever is sooner. - Amends TCA Title 67.

TN - SB1186 Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, authorizes concurrent or adjacent utility cooperatives to enter into written agreements allowing construction and maintenance of infrastructure to provide services outside of a cooperative's service area; creates a waiver for persons residing in an affected service area to request cooperatives to enter into a written agreement. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 25.

TN - SB1182 Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates June 12 as "Women Veterans' Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.

TN - SB401 Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, requires the contracts between a county and a private prison contractor to meet the requirements of the Private Prison Contracting Act of 1986 if the department of correction contracts with such county for the incarceration of state inmates. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 9; Title 40 and Title 41.

TN - SB1185 Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, requires board of trustees for the Tennessee consolidated retirement system to prepare and submit a report to the council on pensions and insurance as to the number of members retired by the board of trustees on a disability retirement allowance and whose disability determination resulted from their service as law enforcement officers. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7; Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35; Title 8, Chapter 36 and Title 8, Chapter 37.

TN - SB403 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, lowers amount of revenue required from sale of artwork from 90 percent to 80 percent in order for an art gallery to serve wine to patrons. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SB589 Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to use a hair follicle test when testing a child for the presence of a controlled substance in the child's body. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 36 and Title 37.

TN - SB711 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, increases from 60 to 90 days the maximum first offense suspension period of a person's liquor by the drink license for authorizing the sale or use of an alcohol vaporizing device on the licensee's premises. - Amends TCA Title 57.

TN - SJR71 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Candace Leigh Sanders, 2021 Curriculum Associates Extraordinary Educator

TN - SB114 Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to increase over a three-year period the wage for direct care professionals employed by contracted agencies of the department to $15 per hour; requires annual increases in the hourly wage thereafter. - Amends TCA Title 33.

TN - SB115 Driver Licenses - As introduced, disqualifies for life persons convicted of trafficking for a commercial sex act from obtaining a commercial driver license; requires lifetime suspension of commercial driver license for persons convicted of trafficking for a commercial sex act. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 50.

TN - SB754 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 - SB766 Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires the juvenile court clerk and the department of mental health and substance abuse services to report certain juvenile justice information to the administrative office of the courts each month; deletes certain reporting to the council of juvenile and family court judges. - Amends TCA Title 37.

TN - SB1057 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, extends the Memphis regional megasite authority to June 30, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 64, Chapter 6.

TN - SJR2 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes adding a provision establishing the right to work regardless of status of affiliation with any labor union or employee organization.

TN - SJR32 Memorials, Heroism - Medical Personnel in Tennessee

TN - SJR94 Memorials, Recognition - American Heart Association/National Wear Red Day, February 5, 2021

TN - SJR113 Memorials, Government Officials - Urges Tennessee Historical Commission to establish Community Remembrance Project to memorialize victims of lynching.

TN - SJR164 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Marcie Rudd, State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission

TN - SJR366 Memorials, Death - Senator Jerry Cooper

TN - SJR367 Memorials, Recognition - Tim Sigler

TN - SJR381 Memorials, Recognition - Vietnam War veterans of the University of Tennessee at Martin chapter of Alpha Gamma Rho

TN - SJR384 Memorials, Sports - Kane (Mayor Glenn Jacobs), induction into WWE Hall of Fame

TN - SJR401 Memorials, Public Service - West Tennessee Drug Task Force's interdiction team, 2020 Team of the Year

TN - SJR418 Memorials, Death - Senator Curtis Person, Jr.

TN - SJR473 Memorials, Death - Herbert Jackson "Jackie" Pope

TN - SJR474 Memorials, Interns - Natalie Shanklin

TN - SJR475 Memorials, Interns - Kenton Harvill

TN - SJR476 Memorials, Death - Senator Ruth C. Montgomery

TN - SJR490 Memorials, Retirement - Jeff Smith

TN - SJR509 Memorials, Professional Achievement - Hallerin Hilton Hill, Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame

TN - SJR513 Memorials, Retirement - Councilman Joe Swann

TN - SJR566 Memorials, Retirement - George Morton Googe, 26th Judicial District Public Defender