Representative Alexander, 7th Representative District

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27 bill(s) sponsored in the 113th General Assembly.

Bill Number	Composite Abstract	Last Action	Date
HB0141	Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, requires the department of transportation to erect and maintain directional signs for Milligan University at the I-81/I-26 interchange, Exit 57A, in the City of Kingsport in Sullivan County.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 667	4/17/2024
HB0174	Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, allows a person returning to service on other than a full-time basis in a position covered by the optional retirement program for higher education institutions to take or continue taking distributions from the optional retirement program during the period of reemployment under certain conditions.	Effective date(s) 04/06/2023	4/18/2023
HB0355	Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires that a health benefit plan that provides coverage for a screening mammogram must provide coverage for diagnostic imaging and supplemental breast screening without imposing a cost-sharing requirement on the patient.	Effective date(s) 08/09/2023	6/2/2023
HB0936	Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to study the challenges facing child care centers in hiring and maintaining adequate staff; the effects of inflationary pressures on child care staff wages and benefits and the impact of those effects on staff recruitment and retention; and statutory or regulatory changes that may assist child care centers in this state with recruiting qualified staff; requires the commissioner to compile and deliver to the general assembly a report of findings on or before December 31, 2023.	P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.	2/2/2023
HB0937	Election Laws - As enacted, authorizes Washington County to establish a convenient voting center pilot program.	Effective date(s) 05/11/2023	5/19/2023
HB0938	Annexation - As enacted, allows owners of real property used primarily for agricultural purposes who reside in a territory previously annexed by ordinance upon the initiative of the municipality to petition the municipality to deannex such property, if certain conditions are present.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2023	5/19/2023
HB0939	Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As introduced, reduces from 180 days to 90 days, the amount of time in which an operator of a crematory facility must wait from the date of cremation before interring, entombing, or inurning unclaimed cremated human remains.	P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.	2/2/2023
HB0940	Child Custody and Support - As enacted, enacts "Abrial’s Law, the Keeping Children Safe from Family Violence Act," which makes various changes to child custody law.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 266	5/3/2023
HB0941	Criminal Procedure - As introduced, includes as an eligible petitioner for purposes of judicial diversion of criminal offenses, a person seeking deferral of proceedings for aggravated neglect of an elderly or vulnerable adult or aggravated abuse of an elderly or vulnerable adult, if the person is a healthcare provider who committed such an offense in the course of the provider's official duties.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee	3/21/2023
HB0942	Dentists and Dentistry - As enacted, enacts the "Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 446	5/24/2023
HB0943	Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires franchise holders, and certificated providers, that provide broadband service to file on or before July 1, 2023, and by July 1 of the two subsequent years thereafter, a map or other information with the appropriate regulatory entity indicating the specific locations where the provider offered broadband service that is capable of delivering download speeds of at least 100 Mbps and upload speeds of at least 20 Mbps.	Assigned to s/c Business & Utilities Subcommittee	2/7/2023
HB0944	Domestic Violence - As enacted, revises present law definitions relative to abuse.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 277	5/3/2023
HB0945	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the criminal offenses of assault and aggravated assault against a first responder or nurse who is discharging or attempting to discharge official duties to include healthcare providers and increases the penalty for assault against those persons from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony.	Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee	2/7/2023
HB1695	Autopsies - As enacted, clarifies that the reports of county medical examiners and autopsy reports of minors whose manner of death is listed as a homicide are generally not public documents; authorizes such reports to be released or inspected if certain conditions are met.	Effective date(s) 05/03/2024	5/13/2024
HB1811	Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, authorizes sellers of pre-need funeral contracts to keep the interest that accrues on the contract after payment is made for the merchandise and services set forth in the contracts.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 707	4/17/2024
HB1812	Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, allows all LEA and public charter school employees, instead of only teachers, to receive their full salary, or average pay, and full benefits in the event they sustain a personal injury as the result of a physical assault or other violent criminal act committed against them while they are acting in the course and scope of their employment.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 839	5/9/2024
HB2081	Health Care - As enacted, allows unlicensed persons who have completed a competency-based training program, and who are employed by certain personal support service agencies licensed under law relative to mental health, substance abuse, and intellectual and developmental disabilities, to administer certain medications to individuals who are incapable of self-administration in the individual's home; prohibits administration of certain medications by unlicensed persons.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 730	4/29/2024
HB2172	Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalties for threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property and failing to report a threat to commit an act of mass violence on school property; requires, rather than permits, a court to order a defendant charged with threatening to commit an act of mass violence to undergo a mental health evaluation as a condition of pretrial release.	Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee	1/31/2024
HB2173	Professions and Occupations - As enacted, revises provisions related to the special account in the general fund known as the "pre-need funeral account"; makes related changes.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 959	5/13/2024
HB2174	Food and Food Products - As enacted, prohibits a local government from adopting or enforcing a resolution, ordinance, policy, or regulation that regulates, prohibits, or restricts the sale of food by certain establishments, including the location and hours of operation of the sale of food by such establishments.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 840	5/9/2024
HB2213	Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits health carriers, health benefit plans, or utilization review organizations from using step therapy protocols as a basis to restrict, delay, or deny coverage for a prescription drug or drug regimen for the treatment of cancer and associated conditions if certain criteria are met.	Assigned to s/c Insurance Subcommittee	1/31/2024
HB2445	TennCare - As introduced, enacts "Emma's Bill," which requires that when making a determination of medical necessity, the bureau shall take into consideration the patient's overall condition and use such overall condition as a factor to determine the level of funding and what medical items and services the patient receives, even if such determination does not result in the least costly course of diagnosis or treatment.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/17/2024
HB2446	Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, extends from 10 to 14 days the period following receipt of notice from the board of pharmacy within which an owner or person in possession of drugs or devices that have been deemed misbranded or adulterated must request a show cause hearing before the board on the applicability of the adulterated drug or device statute.	P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.	2/1/2024
HB2758	Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit students from displaying, using, or accessing an electronic device during instructional time unless the electronic device is authorized, or provided to the student, by the LEA or public charter school for instructional purposes; requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to develop and adopt a policy to implement the prohibition.	Failed in Education Administration	3/20/2024
HB2759	Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee emergency medical services board to authorize five additional EMT/AEMT training centers operated by ambulance services licensed in this state if the board makes a specific finding that additional training centers are in the best interest of this state and approves the additional training centers by a two-thirds vote of the entire membership of the board.	Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee	2/7/2024
HB2760	Children - As enacted, adds to the factors considered by a court when making child custody determinations evidence of physical or emotional abuse to the child or to any other person; requires judges involved in child custody proceedings to complete training that is provided by certain persons with experience in assisting survivors of domestic violence, child abuse, or child sexual abuse, and that relies on evidence-based research by recognized experts; prohibits ordering certain reunification treatment.	Effective date(s) 04/23/2024	5/1/2024
HB2910	Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to include information on which unserved locations have received or are in the process of receiving broadband service since the last update to the broadband accessibility map.	Def. to Summer Study in Commerce Committee	4/9/2024

163 bill(s) co-sponsored in the 113th General Assembly.

Bill Number	Composite Abstract	Last Action	Date
HB0001	Public Health - As enacted, prohibits a healthcare provider from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1	3/22/2023
HB0003	Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offenses of assault against a first responder or nurse and aggravated assault against a first responder or nurse to apply to assaults committed against all healthcare professionals.	Action def. in Criminal Justice Committee to first Enhancement Calendar for 2024	3/28/2023
HB0005	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires that a person convicted of especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, or rape be sentenced from within at least Range II for the offense.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2023	4/25/2023
HB0017	Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates the month of May as "Silver Alert Awareness Month."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 36	3/23/2023
HB0027	Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, allows a student who earns the student's first baccalaureate degree in less than the projected completion time to continue to receive the Tennessee HOPE scholarship in pursuit of an advanced degree.	Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 07/01/2023	5/18/2023
HB0028	Annexation - As introduced, deletes requirement that municipalities adopt a comprehensive growth plan and have an approved urban growth boundary prior to annexing unincorporated territory.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/17/2024
HB0062	Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, makes changes to the compensation of teachers in the special school district.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 84	4/18/2023
HB0075	Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation - As enacted, authorizes the responding law enforcement officer or the district attorney general's office to extend criminal immunity to persons who are experiencing a subsequent drug overdose and who are seeking medical assistance.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 41	3/23/2023
HB0090	Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits local governments from expending funds for the purposes of assisting a person in obtaining a criminal abortion.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 168	4/25/2023
HB0092	Traffic Safety - As enacted, enacts the "Jabari Bailey Highway Safety Act," which requires drivers to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary vehicle that has flashing hazard lights activated; increases fines for failing to change lanes or reduce speed upon approaching a stationary emergency, recovery, highway maintenance, solid waste, utility service, or other vehicle that has flashing lights activated.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2023	5/18/2023
HB0115	Secretary of State - As enacted, requires the Secretary of State to establish and implement a program designated as the Tennessee Businesses Against Trafficking program to engage participating corporations and other private entities in voluntary efforts to identify, prevent, and combat human trafficking.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 177	4/25/2023
HB0135	Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, extends mandatory retirement provision imposed on certain public safety officers to commissioned special agents of the department of revenue and commissioned members of the department of environment and conservation; requires such persons to also receive, in addition to the retirement service allowance, a supplemental bridge allowance.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/18/2023
HB0159	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, exempts from the offense of possessing or carrying a weapon on school property the possession or carrying of a pocket knife by a nonstudent adult on election day if the knife remains concealed at all times while the adult is on school property for the sole purpose of voting in an election for which the school is the adult's designated polling place.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 142	4/27/2023
HB0163	Adoption - As enacted, revises the definition of abandonment for purposes of termination of parental rights to include circumstances where the parent or guardian fails to visit or support the child for a period of three consecutive months if the child is less than four years of age.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2023	5/18/2023
HB0164	Adoption - As enacted, authorizes a court to waive certain waiting periods and expedite certain proceedings relative to the adoption of children abandoned or voluntarily left at a facility or in a newborn safety device if certain conditions are met.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2023	5/2/2023
HB0242	Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, requires the individual that signs the death certificate of a decedent, or an agent of the individual, to ask whether the family or other appropriate person wants to make an anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part; prohibits a procurement organization from contacting the family or other appropriate person if the family or other appropriate person refused to make an anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee	1/30/2024
HB0257	Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, clarifies that an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is the parent, legal guardian, or conservator of a person who has an intellectual or developmental disability or medical condition, who may be operating the owner's or lessee's vehicle, and who needs assistance in communicating specific needs to law enforcement and first responders, may apply for a designation of such person's need in the Tennessee Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 521	3/19/2024
HB0289	Capital Punishment - As enacted, requires a sentence of death to be carried out within 30 business days of the conclusion of any appeals or post-conviction relief, if the jury unanimously determines that certain circumstances are met.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2023	5/18/2023
HB0306	Schools, Private - As enacted, limits the ability of a student enrolled in a private school to participate in an interscholastic athletic activity or event, to such activity or event where membership in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association is required, in accordance with the student's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 285	5/4/2023
HB0312	Adoption - As enacted, makes various changes in regard to maintaining and securing documents in certain parental rights proceedings and the grounds for termination of parental rights.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 253	5/3/2023
HB0318	Children - As enacted, revises present law provisions governing adoption and foster care.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 187	5/3/2023
HB0321	Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Transportation Modernization Act of 2023."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 159	4/25/2023
HB0322	Education - As enacted, revises various provisions of present law relative to safety in elementary and secondary education and the Schools Against Violence in Education Act.	Effective date(s) 05/10/2023, 07/01/2023	5/18/2023
HB0323	Taxes - As enacted, makes various revisions to present tax law.	Effective date(s) 05/05/2023, 04/01/2024, 01/01/2024, 07/01/2024, 01/01/2025	5/19/2023
HB0324	Public Employees - As enacted, makes various changes to present law pertaining to leave for state employees.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 216	5/3/2023
HB0328	Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, renames the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Act" to be the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Public Safety Protection Act of 2023" and makes various changes to its existing provisions.	Effective date(s) 05/11/2023	5/19/2023
HB0349	Business and Commerce - As enacted, revises the types of entities that may serve as registered agents for certain corporations, companies, and partnerships; requires a registered agent to maintain a business office at the location of the agent's registered office.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 102	4/18/2023
HB0394	Food and Food Products - As enacted, makes various changes to the Tennessee Meat and Poultry Inspection Act and establishes a state meat inspection program.	Effective date(s) 05/11/2023	6/2/2023
HB0465	Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, enacts the "Representative Darren Jernigan Act," which requires, beginning on January 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, the department of revenue to verify that the owner of each disabled parking placard has not died; requires the department to promptly invalidate a disabled parking placard if the recipient of the placard is found to be deceased.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 726	4/29/2024
HB0521	Professions and Occupations - As enacted, creates the professional music therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of music therapy.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1010	5/31/2024
HB0551	Adoption - As enacted, makes various changes to adoption law.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 263	5/3/2023
HB0552	Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, states that the goal of the department must be to act in the best interest of the child at all times and that goal must be reflected in any mission statement or motto established by the department.	Effective date(s) 04/28/2023	5/3/2023
HB0555	Victims' Rights - As enacted, revises present law relative to the criminal injuries compensation fund for victims of human trafficking offenses.	Effective date(s) 05/05/2023	5/18/2023
HB0557	Evidence - As enacted, expands the admissibility of a forensic interview to include statements made by a child under 18 years of age rather than under 13 years of age; expands admissible forensic interviews from statements made by a child describing sexual contact performed with or on the child by another to statements describing sexual or physically violent contact performed with or on the child by another or performed by a person with or on another and witnessed by the child; makes other changes relevant to forensic interviews.	Effective date(s) 04/06/2023	4/18/2023
HB0562	Military - As enacted, clarifies that compensation for members of the national guard must accrue upon them being ordered to active state service and the payment of compensation to members must use this state's established weekly pay cycle as needed to effectuate compensation.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2023	5/18/2023
HB0662	Education - As enacted, revises present law that relative to a local board of education keeping on file and available in each school library added or amended operating policies and a notice of each deleted operating policy; authorizes a person who holds an active industry license or credential relevant to a career and technical education course to provide instruction to students in the career and technical education course as long as the instruction is supervised at all times in the classroom by a licensed teacher who serves as the teacher of record for the course; holds such a person subject to investigation pursuant to law relative to investigating applicants for teaching positions.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 344	5/17/2023
HB0663	Education - As enacted, makes changes to the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 472	5/24/2023
HB0667	Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, makes various changes to the prescription drug donation repository program operated by the department of health.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 200	5/3/2023
HB0689	Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, requires an officer to provide an alleged victim of certain criminal offenses with a document notifying the victim of the global positioning monitoring system used as a condition of bail.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/28/2024
HB0752	Children - As enacted, creates a criminal offense of a foster parent from a kinship placement knowingly allowing a child in the foster parent's care to visit with the child's parent if the foster parent has knowledge of a current court order prohibiting the parent from visiting with the child, with a first violation being a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine only and a second or subsequent violation being a Class B misdemeanor.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2023	5/3/2023
HB0771	State Symbols - As enacted, requests the governor to submit a new design of the great seal of the state of Tennessee by July 1, 2025, that incorporates the language "In God We Trust."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 261	5/3/2023
HB0776	Taxes, Sales - As enacted, makes revisions to the "Border Region Retail Tourism Development District Act" and the "Regional Retail Tourism Development District Act."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1006	5/29/2024
HB0785	Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and learning program; redirects, from the lottery for education account to an account administered by the department to provide funding for the promising futures scholarship program, a certain percentage of the privilege tax collected from sports wagering licensees for certain fiscal years.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/17/2024
HB0814	Fire Prevention and Investigation - As enacted, requires the state fire marshal to create a state fire permit that mobile food units may obtain annually to demonstrate fire safety and electrical code compliance to local governments; requires a local government to recognize the state fire permit in its jurisdiction; prohibits the local government from requiring a local fire permit if the mobile food unit holds a state fire permit.	Effective date(s) 05/11/2023	5/19/2023
HB0818	School Transportation - As enacted, revises present law provisions relative to cameras on school buses and failing to stop upon approaching a school bus that has stopped on the highway.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 179	4/25/2023
HB0835	Election Laws - As enacted, requires the coordinator of elections to compare the statewide voter registration database with the department of safety database to ensure non-United States citizens are not registered to vote in this state.	Effective date(s) 05/03/2024	5/13/2024
HB0882	Election Laws - As enacted, allows a candidate to demand and receive a list of all voters who changed their residential address at the polling place; requires a recount to include the verification of any address of residence changed at the polling place.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 204	5/3/2023
HB0883	Abortion - As enacted, makes various changes relative to abortion.	Effective date(s) 04/28/2023	5/3/2023
HB0908	Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, clarifies that a motor vehicle used in the commission or flight from commission of the offense of drag racing is subject to civil asset forfeiture; designates the department of safety as the applicable agency for such forfeiture proceedings.	Failed in Criminal Justice Committee	1/30/2024
HB0949	Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, prohibits a dental benefit plan from containing restrictions on methods of payment from the dental benefit plan or its vendors to the dentist in which the only acceptable payment method is a credit card payment; makes other changes to dental benefit plans.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 589	4/3/2024
HB0976	Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 465	5/24/2023
HB0988	Landlord and Tenant - As enacted, requires a landlord to provide 60 days' notice of termination of tenancy for the purpose of eviction of a residential tenant of certain facilities for older persons if the tenant has paid the tenant's rent due and is not in arrears on rent payments, and the termination and eviction are to allow for new property development.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2023	5/19/2023
HB0996	Education - As enacted, clarifies that instruction in topics related to sexual activity are generally not age-appropriate for students in grades K-5 and must generally not be taught to students in grades K-5 as part of a family life curriculum; clarifies that such prohibition does not prohibit an LEA or public charter school from providing instruction to students in K-5 on the detection, intervention, prevention, and treatment of child sexual abuse and human trafficking in which the victim is a child.	Effective date(s) 05/21/2024	5/28/2024
HB1025	Historical Sites and Preservation - As enacted, creates the Tennessee monuments and memorials commission, which is required to study, hear, and resolve petitions for waiver under the Tennessee heritage protection act.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 434	5/24/2023
HB1051	Mental Illness - As enacted, authorizes certain licensed advanced practice nurses and physician assistants to execute a certificate of need if a person is admitted and detained by a hospital or treatment resource for emergency diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment; makes other revisions to the execution of certificates of need.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 199	5/3/2023
HB1072	Veterans Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to establish an honor guard grant program to provide grants to veteran service organizations to offset expenses incurred by the organization and members of the organization's honor guard in providing military funeral honors for qualifying Tennessee veterans.	Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024	5/19/2023
HB1074	Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires reimbursement payments from insurers to chiropractors for services rendered to be based on the same methodology for the calculation of payments to medical doctors for the provision of services.	Received from House, Passed on First Consideration	4/23/2024
HB1105	Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, changes from January 15 to February 15 of each year the date by which the department must evaluate the success of programs for at risk adolescents and report findings and recommendations to the judiciary committee of the senate and the civil justice committee of the house of representatives.	P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.	2/2/2023
HB1151	State Employees - As enacted, authorizes the grant of sick leave from a sick leave bank to a state employee to care for a sick minor child of the employee.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 151	4/18/2023
HB1182	Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Real Property Records Integrity Act."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 160	4/25/2023
HB1194	Health Care - As enacted, makes changes to law relative to the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care program.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 221	5/3/2023
HB1198	Alcohol Offenses, Motor Vehicles - As enacted, enacts the "Silas Gable Flatt Law," which creates an offense of knowingly providing a motor vehicle to another person who the provider of the vehicle knows or should know is under the influence of an intoxicant or whose driver license has been suspended or revoked under certain circumstances, punishable as a Class A misdemeanor.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2023	5/3/2023
HB1259	Real Property - As enacted, enacts anti-squatter laws.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1009	5/29/2024
HB1296	Birth Control - As introduced, requires the department of health to provide voluntary reversible long-acting contraception to women at no charge.	Assigned to s/c Population Health Subcommittee	2/7/2023
HB1306	Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires that if an entity requires on-site payment from a consumer for the parking of a motor vehicle on the entity's property, and the entity only accepts payment by use of a quick response (QR) code or a credit or debit card machine, then, in the event the QR code or the credit or debit card machine fails to operate correctly to process the payment transaction, the entity must either accept payment by cash, check, or credit or debit card or allow the consumer to leave the property without providing payment at the time.	Effective date(s) 01/01/2023	5/3/2023
HB1342	Economic and Community Development - As enacted, places certain restrictions on employers seeking to receive economic development incentives.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2023	5/17/2023
HB1367	Attorney General and Reporter - As enacted, adds additional companies to the statewide opioid settlement agreement for which the attorney general and reporter has the authority to release pending or future claims.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 429	5/24/2023
HB1375	Historical Commission - As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the commission; makes other changes relative to the commission.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 764	5/1/2024
HB1429	Health Care - As enacted, enacts "Quinnlee's Law."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 99	4/18/2023
HB1444	Motor Vehicles - As enacted, makes changes to present law relative to criminal offenses involving motor vehicles.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2023	5/17/2023
HB1459	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a warden or chief administrative officer employed by a penal institution, who knows that certain offenses have occurred within the institution, to fail to report such offenses to the district attorney general for the judicial district in which the institution is located and the district attorney general who prosecuted the offense for which the offender is incarcerated within five business days of becoming aware of the offense being committed; authorizes the court to order sentences to run consecutively if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant was incarcerated at the time of the offense and is convicted of an offense that is reportable by a warden or chief administrator.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 347	5/24/2023
HB1484	Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As enacted, revises present law relative to medical care of prisoners.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 469	5/24/2023
HB1503	Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to conduct a study on the implementation of the federal No Surprises Act and its implications for physicians and healthcare facilities in this state; revises present law concerning network adequacy.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 352	5/17/2023
HB1554	Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, establishes a program under which a state employee may receive up to six weeks of paid leave if the employee becomes a foster parent of a minor child.	Re-ref. to Calendar and Rules Committee	4/1/2024
HB1602	Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, requires a video or audio recording to be made of any interrogation of a child who has been taken into custody on suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct unless a technical issue with the equipment or exigent circumstances prevent the recording.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 565	3/26/2024
HB1614	Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Protect Tennessee Minors Act"; requires an individual or commercial entity that publishes or distributes in this state a website that contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors to perform reasonable age-verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material; specifies that a violation of age-verification or data retention requirements is a Class C felony.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1021	5/31/2024
HB1628	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts "Dr. Benjamin Mauck Act," which creates new criminal offenses of assault within a healthcare facility and aggravated assault within a healthcare facility.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 928	5/13/2024
HB1640	Mental Illness - As enacted, enacts "Jillian's Law," which makes various changes relative to being adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution, including requiring a person judicially committed to remain committed until the competency of the person to stand trial is restored or, if competency is unable to be restored but the person no longer meets the standard, until the court with criminal jurisdiction over the charges approves a mandatory outpatient treatment plan that accounts for the safety of the community.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/1/2024
HB1642	Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding pretrial release of a defendant charged with a criminal offense to require the magistrate to give first consideration to ensuring the safety of the community when determining whether to impose conditions of release or require a deposit of bail.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	4/3/2024
HB1644	Education - As enacted, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a procedure to determine the cause of a fire alarm activation, including the potential of an active shooter event; requires each LEA to coordinate with appropriate safety teams to incorporate the procedure; specifies that the procedure must be implemented no later than January 1, 2025.	Effective date(s) 03/12/2024	3/19/2024
HB1645	Orders of Protection - As enacted, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment.	Effective date(s) 04/02/2024	4/8/2024
HB1648	Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes, upon request, the department of revenue to issue lien-free salvage certificates of title to a salvage pool operator under certain circumstances.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	3/15/2024
HB1659	Public Officials - As enacted, raises the base salary from $156,024 to $205,328 for district attorneys general and district public defenders.	Effective date(s) 05/21/2024	5/28/2024
HB1663	Sentencing - As introduced, authorizes the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, or especially aggravated rape of a child.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 951	5/13/2024
HB1676	Children - As enacted, specifies that a juvenile court proceeding may be commenced by the taking of a child into custody or the removal of custody from a parent or legal guardian; requires the juvenile court in a dependency and neglect proceeding to determine whether a parent, guardian, relative, or caregiver of the child cannot be excluded as a perpetrator of severe child abuse against the child; prohibits a juvenile court from returning a child victim of severe child abuse to the custody of a person who cannot be excluded as the perpetrator unless certain circumstances are met; makes various other changes.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	4/3/2024
HB1680	Elder Abuse - As enacted, expands the Tennessee Adult Protection Act's definition of abuse or neglect to include certain situations when an adult is unable to maintain the adult's own health or welfare.	Effective date(s) 02/28/2024	3/19/2024
HB1697	Local Education Agencies - As enacted, removes the requirement that LEAs administer a pretest to students participating in an after-school learning mini-camp, learning loss bridge camp, or summer learning camp; deletes various reporting, funding, and accountability provisions regarding such pretests.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 639	4/8/2024
HB1719	Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, prohibits a magistrate from considering a defendant's ability to pay when determining the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant while at the same time protecting the safety of the public.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 869	5/13/2024
HB1727	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, specifies that a parent or guardian who knowingly leaves their child under the care or supervision of a person who is required to register as a sexual offender commits a Class A misdemeanor.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 952	5/13/2024
HB1731	Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Modernization of Towing, Immobilization, and Oversight Normalization (MOTION) Act."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1017	5/31/2024
HB1859	Professions and Occupations - As enacted, generally prohibits certain licensing boards for professions, including medical professions, from using a vague term in their consideration and their notice or decision for denying a license due to a prior criminal prosecution unless an explanation is provided of how the prior conviction directly relates to the applicable profession, if such prior conviction serves as a basis for the licensing authority's consideration and notice or decision.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/1/2024
HB1872	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, authorizes a court to enhance the statutory penalty, up to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole, for a conviction under certain circumstances involving illegal aliens or crimes occurring on school property while students or other children are present; makes revisions to law relative to bail.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1063	6/3/2024
HB1891	Children - As enacted, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act."	Effective date(s) 01/01/2025	5/13/2024
HB1895	Abortion - As enacted, creates the criminal offense of abortion trafficking of a minor; provides for a civil action against a person committing the offense of abortion trafficking of a minor if certain conditions are met.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1032	5/31/2024
HB1901	Uniform Commercial Code - As enacted, defines "central bank digital currency," and revises the definitions of "money" and "deposit account," for purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 694	4/17/2024
HB1909	Education, Higher - As enacted, enacts the "Laken Riley Act of 2024," which generally prohibits a public institution of higher education from prohibiting adults lawfully present on the institution's property from carrying a non-lethal weapon for purposes of self-defense; allows certain exceptions.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/1/2024
HB1916	Anatomical Gifts - As introduced, creates a process by which an individual or terminal patient can refuse to make an anatomical gift that cannot be amended by another person; requires a procurement organization to follow certain procedures for contacting a decedent's family member or other authorized person.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee	2/27/2024
HB1922	Children - As enacted, makes changes to the procedure for surrendering custody of an unwanted infant without criminal liability.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 728	4/29/2024
HB1950	Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates June 6 as a day of special observance for D-Day.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 601	4/3/2024
HB1969	Day Care - As enacted, requires each child care agency in this state to have installed in each room of the child care agency where care is provided to children a carbon monoxide alarm that is listed according to the International Building Code and International Fire Code for the purpose of carbon monoxide detection; provides that a violation is a Class C misdemeanor and that each day on which a violation continues constitutes a separate offense.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 733	5/1/2024
HB1998	TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse certain public or private ground-based ambulance services that bill for transports at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for emergency services and 100 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for nonemergency services.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/17/2024
HB2003	Guardians and Conservators - As enacted, makes revisions to present law relevant to an attorney ad litem.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 807	5/9/2024
HB2031	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, authorizes a person who suffers loss or injury as a result of a defendant intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances to bring a cause of action against such person to recover compensatory damages from the loss or injury.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 958	5/13/2024
HB2038	Energy - As introduced, directs the department of economic and community development to develop a program for the installation and operation of combustion turbine power plants to increase the state's electric generation capacity.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/17/2024
HB2044	Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts from the state sales and use tax the retail sale of food and food ingredients that are voucher-eligible under the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/17/2024
HB2054	Real Property - As enacted, increases from 1,500 to 3,000, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, the amount of acreage of land permitted to be placed within any one taxing jurisdiction under the Agricultural, Forest and Open Space Land Act.	Effective date(s) 05/21/2024	5/28/2024
HB2060	Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to prescribing buprenorphine products.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 808	5/9/2024
HB2063	Environmental Preservation - As enacted, prohibits the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 709	4/17/2024
HB2068	Criminal Offenses - As introduced, raises from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony certain animal cruelty offenses involving a cock; requires a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $2,500 for the offense of being a spectator at a cock fight.	Held on desk.	4/25/2024
HB2088	Military - As enacted, authorizes the military department to administer a critical skills retention bonus program to be used to award retention bonuses of up to $10,000 to enlisted service members in the Tennessee national guard; entitles certain state employees who are members of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States or the national guard to special leave with partial pay during a period in which the members have been called to active duty.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 847	5/13/2024
HB2089	Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Disability and Aging Act of 2024."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 688	4/17/2024
HB2103	Boats, Boating - As enacted, authorizes the establishment of a special temporary, slow no wake zone, if such zone is necessary because of an immediate danger to the public health, environment, safety, or welfare, and the nature of the necessity is such that an emergency rule cannot immediately be sought.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 845	5/13/2024
HB2117	Local Government, General - As enacted, requires a political subdivision to provide a written attestation with the political subdivision's annual audit to the comptroller of the treasury certifying that the political subdivision has not sought or received a grant in intentional pursuit of certain prohibited policies.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 877	5/13/2024
HB2118	Energy - As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the state energy policy council.	Effective date(s) 05/21/2024	5/28/2024
HB2124	Immigration - As enacted, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully present in the United States or otherwise cooperate with the appropriate federal official in the identification, apprehension, detention, or removal of aliens not lawfully present in the United States.	Pub. Ch. 716	4/17/2024
HB2126	Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, allows a juvenile court to transfer a child, who is 15 or older, to be tried as an adult in criminal court for the offense of organized retail crime, theft of a firearm, or an attempt to commit such offense; revises law with regard to confinement of a child in a local juvenile detention facility, a juvenile detention facility, or an adult detention facility.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	4/8/2024
HB2165	Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires a request made by a student to an employee of the student's LEA or public charter school for an accommodation to affirm the student's gender identity to be reported to a school administrator and to the student's parent; prohibits an employee of an LEA or public charter school from knowingly providing false or misleading information to a student's parent regarding the student's gender identity or intention to transition to a gender that differs from the student's sex at the time of birth; authorizes civil actions to be filed by parents and by the attorney general and reporter against a noncompliant LEA or public charter school.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 832	5/9/2024
HB2190	Governor - As enacted, authorizes the governor to deploy up to a brigade-sized force to Texas to assist in repelling the invasion at the southern border of the United States during fiscal year 2024-2025.	Effective date(s) 05/21/2024	5/28/2024
HB2198	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the penalty for the offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/13/2024
HB2216	Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 644	4/8/2024
HB2226	Health Care - As enacted, adds to the composition of the Tennessee maternal mortality review and prevention team four members appointed by the commissioner of health who are from community-based organizations.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 834	5/9/2024
HB2251	Local Education Agencies - As enacted, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for cardiac-related medical emergencies.	Effective date(s) 03/27/2024, 07/01/2024	4/3/2024
HB2301	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a violation of the law regarding criminal offenses and penalties for drugs or a conspiracy to violate such law to be punished as second degree murder if the substance involved is fentanyl or carfentanyl, or any analogue or derivative thereof, either alone or in combination with any substance scheduled as a controlled substance by the Tennessee Drug Control Act of 1989, including controlled substance analogues, and the violation resulted in the death of another person.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 957	5/13/2024
HB2304	Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to provide written and electronic notice to the employing company of a person appointed and commissioned as a state facility protection officer to provide facility security when the department no longer requires the service of such person.	Received from House, Passed on First Consideration	4/10/2024
HB2310	Public Health - As enacted, creates a civil cause of action against any person who intentionally recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor within this state for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure, regardless of where the medical procedure is to be procured.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1064	6/3/2024
HB2320	Debtor Creditor Relations - As enacted, requires, in an action on consumer debt filed in a general sessions court, the plaintiff to include certain information with a civil warrant or any other leading process used to initiate the action; requires, prior to an award of a default judgment, the plaintiff to present to the court documentation sufficient to demonstrate the authority of the plaintiff to collect the debt and certain agreements or records to demonstrate the existence of the consumer debt.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/13/2024
HB2323	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Chris Wright Act," which increases the penalty for a third or subsequent domestic assault conviction from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony; upgrades the offense classification for certain qualifying misdemeanor offenses to a Class E felony upon a defendant's conviction for a sixth or subsequent qualifying misdemeanor.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/29/2024
HB2326	Education - As enacted, requires a student's LEA or public charter school to convene a conference attended by the student's guardian, ELA teacher, and school principal if the student is promoted to fourth grade and does not show adequate growth in order to determine if the student should be promoted to fifth grade with required tutoring or retained in the fourth grade.	Effective date(s) 05/21/2024	5/29/2024
HB2426	County Government - As enacted, makes changes to the "County Powers Relief Act."	Effective date(s) 05/21/2024	5/29/2024
HB2444	Jails, Local Lock-ups - As enacted, allows a prisoner of a county workhouse or jail to be released from custody on work release or otherwise allowed to leave the grounds of the county workhouse or jail for employment or to perform work in the community, whether paid or unpaid, without using an electronic monitoring device if the judge of the sentencing court and the sheriff of the county where the jail or workhouse is located approve the prisoner's release in writing.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1052	6/3/2024
HB2464	Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, requires local boards of education to include school safety training in the training requirements for substitute teachers; clarifies that LEAs are prohibited from hiring a substitute teacher whose license in another state is revoked; makes other changes concerning LEA policies for substitute teachers.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 735	5/1/2024
HB2472	Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools to advise an employee who is assaulted by a student of the employee's rights as a result of the assault; requires, instead of authorizes, the suspension of a student who commits an assault against an employee of the LEA or public charter school in which the student is enrolled from attendance at school and from attendance at all school-sponsored events for at least one calendar year.	Effective date(s) 05/03/2024	5/13/2024
HB2480	Milk, Dairy Products - As enacted, enacts the "Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act," which authorizes each local board of education and public charter school governing body to establish policies for its public schools to offer students whole milk options through bulk milk dispensers.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 681	4/17/2024
HB2497	Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, requires a child who has been admitted to a juvenile detention facility, prior to being adjudicated for an alleged delinquent act, to be allowed at least one telephone call with the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian and one 30-minute in-person visit with the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian within 24 hours after the child is admitted to the juvenile detention facility.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/29/2024
HB2553	Real Property - As enacted, makes changes to law regarding restrictions on land purchases by sanctioned aliens or foreign entities.	Effective date(s) 05/21/2024, 01/01/2025	5/29/2024
HB2635	Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, requires a health benefit plan that amends, renews, or delivers a policy of coverage on or after July 1, 2024, and that provides coverage for prescription contraceptives, to provide coverage for a 12-month refill of contraceptives obtained at one time by an insured person, unless the insured requests a smaller supply or the prescriber instructs that the insured must receive a smaller supply.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 732	5/1/2024
HB2650	Health Care - As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to the health facilities commission; makes related changes.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 932	5/13/2024
HB2676	Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, abolishes the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation and designates the corporation as a division of the commission; revises certain duties and powers of the commission; vacates and reconstitutes the commission on July 1, 2024.	Re-refer to S. Cal Comm	4/10/2024
HB2682	Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, authorizes, until June 30, 2026, a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system, or of a local retirement fund, to be reemployed in a position covered by the retirement system without the loss or suspension of the member's retirement benefits if the member meets certain criteria; authorizes, until June 30, 2026, a law enforcement agency to employ a retired member for a full-time school resource officer position if certain criteria are met.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/13/2024
HB2683	Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to hazardous duty supplemental benefits; makes related benefits revisions.	Effective date(s) 01/01/2025	5/13/2024
HB2690	Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to issue grants, subject to appropriations, to support the installation of powered, height-adjustable, adult-sized changing tables in single occupancy family restrooms in privately and municipally owned buildings open to the public across this state; authorizes the commissioner to create and convene an ad hoc committee to advise and assist with grant applications.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 607	4/3/2024
HB2692	Domestic Violence - As enacted, enacts "The Debbie and Marie Domestic Violence Protection Act," which makes revisions to law related to global positioning monitoring system devices, including requiring the court to order an offender to wear such a device under certain circumstances unless the court finds the offender no longer poses a threat to the alleged victim or public safety, requiring a cellular device application or electronic receptor device provided to the victim to be capable of notifying the victim if the offender is within a prescribed proximity of the victim's cellular device or electronic receptor device, and making other revisions.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1033	5/31/2024
HB2712	Culture and Arts - As enacted, requires the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission, or a subcontracted nonprofit organization, to provide grants to eligible live music and performance venues, performers, and promoters to be used to support live music performances, performers, promoters, and the operational, promotional, or capital expenditures of live music and performance venues.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 867	5/13/2024
HB2716	General Assembly - As introduced, prohibits a local legislative body from electing a member, who was expelled for disorderly behavior, to fill a vacancy in the general assembly that was created because of the member's expulsion.	Received from House, Passed on First Consideration	2/29/2024
HB2743	Education, Higher - As enacted, requires each institution of higher education in this state to classify a student who is the spouse or dependent child of a service member as an in-state student for tuition purposes if certain criteria are met.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1057	6/3/2024
HB2762	Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 773	5/1/2024
HB2773	Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Cassie Wright Act," which makes changes to law relative to a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian having access to certain medical information of their unemancipated minor.	Effective date(s) 04/22/2024	5/1/2024
HB2774	Immigration - As enacted, requires the review of executive branch agency policies and spending as it relates to illegal immigration; requires a report to be compiled and delivered to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives regarding such review.	Effective date(s) 05/21/2024	5/29/2024
HB2814	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, raises the penalty for the offense of drag racing from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/29/2024
HB2845	DUI Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prevention of Drunk Driving Act."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 961	5/13/2024
HB2865	Veterans - As enacted, makes changes to the law relevant to applications for veterans treatment court program grant funds.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/13/2024
HB2889	Corporations, For Profit - As introduced, authorizes the registered agent of a foreign corporation to resign the agency appointment by filing information with the secretary of state in an electronic format deemed suitable by the secretary of state.	Rec. for pass; ref to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/8/2024
HB2940	TennCare - As enacted, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act."	Effective date(s) 05/21/2024	5/29/2024
HB2954	Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, enacts the "Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men Act" or the "PSA Screening for HIM Act."	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/29/2024
HB2961	Evidence - As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory committee on intergovernmental relations (TACIR), with the assistance of the Tennessee bureau of investigation, the district attorneys general conference, and the department of safety, to study the feasibility of a Shelby County crime lab and the impact of such a crime lab on public health, safety, education, housing, and the economy for citizens and visitors of Shelby County, the city of Memphis, this state, and the Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi tri-state region; requires TACIR to submit a report of the study findings to the general assembly by January 14, 2025.	Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/16/2024	4/10/2024
HB7002	Safety - As introduced, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a policy to direct how students, teachers, substitute teachers, and staff are to respond when a fire alarm is activated on school premises outside of a scheduled fire drill to protect students, teachers, substitute teachers, and staff in the event the fire alarm was activated due to the presence of an active shooter on school premises.	Received from House, Passed on First Consideration	8/28/2023
HB7004	Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the court or chief officer of a mental health facility that orders the release of a person from the mental health facility to notify the law enforcement agency that transported the person to the mental health facility of the person's release.	Received from House, Passed on First Consideration	8/28/2023
HB7007	Autopsies - As introduced, specifies that reports of county medical examiners and autopsy reports of victims of violent crime who are minors are not public documents; allows a parent or legal guardian of a minor victim of a violent crime to consent to the release of the report of the county medical examiner or autopsy report of the minor victim if the parent or legal guardian is not a suspect in the circumstances of the minor's death.	Received from House, Passed on First Consideration	8/28/2023
HB7013	Clerks, Court - As enacted, changes from 30 days to 72 hours the time frame within which a clerk of the circuit or general sessions court must notify the TBI of the final disposition of criminal proceedings against a person after final disposition of such proceedings; requires the clerk to notify the TBI of the final disposition of such proceedings by electronic submission; requires the clerk of the municipal court, when exercising concurrent general sessions court jurisdiction, to notify the TBI by electronic submission of the final disposition of such proceedings against a person no later than 72 hours after final disposition of such proceedings.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 2	12/27/2023
HB7015	Criminal Procedure - As introduced, expands, from certain violent offenses to any felony offense, the offenses for which a person who has been arrested is required to have a biological specimen taken for the purpose of DNA analysis to determine identification characteristics specific to the person if probable cause exists for the arrest.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee	8/22/2023
HB7027	Mental Illness - As introduced, requires the state to pay the cost of a court-ordered mental health evaluation and treatment for criminal defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor and are believed to be incompetent to stand trial or for whom there is a question about mental capacity at the time of the offense.	Received from House, Passed on First Consideration	8/28/2023
HB7032	Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires health insurance carriers, including TennCare providers, to provide mental health services and treatment to the same extent that the carriers and providers provide alcoholism and drug dependence services and treatment.	Received from House, Passed on First Consideration	8/29/2023
HB7073	Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires a juvenile court to impose a blended sentence on a child adjudicated delinquent for certain offenses; defines blended sentencing as a combination of any disposition otherwise provided for juveniles and a period of an adult disposition to be served after the child turns 19 and which ends on or before the child's 24th birthday; requires the juvenile court to hold a transfer hearing if a juvenile offender is 16 or more but less than 18 at the time of the alleged conduct and is alleged to have committed certain offenses; requires the juvenile court to transfer the juvenile to adult criminal court for disposition as if the juvenile were an adult if the court makes certain findings; provides for an automatic de novo review by the criminal court of a juvenile court's decision denying a transfer to adult criminal court.	Received from House, Passed on First Consideration	8/29/2023

Bill Number	Composite Abstract	Last Action	Date
HJR1048	Memorials, Recognition - Day of Mourning	Signed by Governor.	4/4/2024
HJR1154	Memorials, Recognition - Dr. William B. Greer	Signed by Governor.	4/12/2024

89 resolutions(s) co-sponsored in the 113th General Assembly.

Bill Number	Composite Abstract	Last Action	Date
HJR0027	General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses strong support for completion of the southern border wall and urges Congress to immediately take action to fund the construction.	Signed by Governor.	5/4/2023
HJR0038	Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 26 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the provision that authorizes the legislature to regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime and to clarify that citizens have a right to keep and bear arms for their defense, and not just for common defense.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/10/2024
HJR0058	General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages the federal government to provide free health care for all honorably discharged veterans.	Signed by Governor.	4/10/2023
HJR0072	Memorials, Death - Dr. Charles A. Champion	Signed by Governor.	2/15/2023
HJR0084	Memorials, Sports - Arion Carter, Gatorade Tennessee Football Player of the Year	Signed by Governor.	2/15/2023
HJR0094	Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 35 of the Constitution of Tennessee to expand the rights of victims of crimes.	Signed by Senate Speaker	2/26/2024
HJR0096	Memorials, Recognition - Music Therapy Week	Signed by Governor.	3/19/2024
HJR0099	General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ron Ramsey, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees	H. subst. & concurred in SJR 132	3/23/2023
HJR0100	General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Melissa Steagall-Jones, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees	H. subst. & concurred in SJR 133	3/20/2023
HJR0118	Naming and Designating - Designates October 2023 as "Spina Bifida Month,"	Received from House, refer to Senate State & Local Government Committee	3/13/2023
HJR0165	Memorials, Death - Mary Elizabeth Cotter	Signed by Governor.	2/24/2023
HJR0275	Memorials, Death - Colonel (Ret.) Patrick "Rage" Ragan	Signed by Governor.	3/17/2023
HJR0288	Memorials, Heroism - Officer Tina Shaw	Signed by Governor.	3/17/2023
HJR0301	Memorials, Recognition - Montford Point Marines	Signed by Governor.	3/8/2023
HJR0319	Memorials, Recognition - West Tennessee Healthcare Dyersburg Hospital cardiac catheterization laboratory	Signed by Governor.	3/16/2023
HJR0355	Memorials, Death - Officer Geoffrey "Bernard" Redd	Signed by Governor.	3/21/2023
HJR0465	Memorials, Recognition - Reverend Dr. J. Lawrence Turner	Signed by Governor.	4/11/2023
HJR0503	Memorials, Recognition - Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake and commanding officers	Signed by Governor.	4/20/2023
HJR0504	Memorials, Heroism - Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Officers and State and federal law enforcement officials	Signed by Governor.	4/20/2023
HJR0506	Memorials, Recognition - Julius Rosenwald, the Rosenwald Schools	Signed by Governor.	4/13/2023
HJR0521	Memorials, Recognition - Nashville Fire Department and Nashville Department of Emergency Communications 911	Signed by Governor.	4/25/2023
HJR0522	Memorials, Recognition - Sexual Assault Awareness Month	Signed by Governor.	5/4/2023
HJR0523	Memorials, Death - Evelyn Marie Dieckhaus	Signed by Governor.	4/26/2023
HJR0524	Memorials, Death - Hallie Scruggs	Signed by Governor.	4/26/2023
HJR0525	Memorials, Death - William Kinney	Signed by Governor.	4/26/2023
HJR0526	Memorials, Death - Dr. Katherine Koonce	Signed by Governor.	4/26/2023
HJR0527	Memorials, Death - Cynthia Broyles Peak	Signed by Governor.	4/26/2023
HJR0528	Memorials, Death - Michael "Mike" Hill	Signed by Governor.	4/26/2023
HJR0576	Memorials, Academic Achievement - Karla Yanely Pacheco, Salutatorian, Raleigh Egypt High School	Signed by Governor.	5/4/2023
HJR0577	Memorials, Academic Achievement - Maria Fernanda Arredondo, Valedictorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School	Signed by Governor.	5/4/2023
HJR0578	Memorials, Academic Achievement - Zoey Zakyia Carruth, Salutatorian, Cordova High School	Signed by Governor.	5/4/2023
HJR0579	Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ashton Rose Ramirez, Valedictorian, Cordova High School	Signed by Governor.	5/4/2023
HJR0580	Memorials, Academic Achievement - Petra Rayo Jimenez, Valedictorian, Kingsbury High School	Signed by Governor.	5/4/2023
HJR0581	Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kierra Thrill, Salutatorian, Kingsbury High School	Signed by Governor.	5/4/2023
HJR0663	Memorials, Recognition - Native Plant Month	Received from House, refer to Senate Energy, Ag., and Natural Resources Committee	1/9/2024
HJR0685	Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article VII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Tennessee to specify the duties of the sheriff, trustee, register, county clerk, and assessor of property.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	3/27/2024
HJR0688	General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Affirms support for Israel and condemns Hamas.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Public Service Subcommittee of State Government Committee	1/30/2024
HJR0715	Memorials, Recognition - Native Plant Month	Signed by Governor.	2/28/2024
HJR0733	Naming and Designating - Designates August 1 as "Gold Star Children's Day."	Signed by Governor.	3/19/2024
HJR0751	General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jeremy Nagoshiner, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board	H. subst. & concurred in SJR 841	2/12/2024
HJR0765	General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Krissi McInturff, State Board of Education	H. subst. & concurred in SJR 827	2/12/2024
HJR0772	General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tony Treadway, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees	H. subst. & concurred in SJR 824	2/12/2024
HJR0778	Naming and Designating - Designates February 24 as "SCN2A Awareness Day."	Signed by Governor.	4/4/2024
HJR0784	Memorials, Death - James B. "Jim" Spears	Signed by Governor.	2/12/2024
HJR0791	Memorials, Death - John Patten Guerry	Signed by Governor.	2/12/2024
HJR0798	Memorials, Government Officials - Urges Governor Lee to work with neighboring states and law enforcement officials to identify and prosecute child and human traffickers.	Signed by Governor.	4/4/2024
HJR0801	Memorials, Congress - Urges the federal government to do all within its power to secure the U.S. border.	Signed by Governor.	4/18/2024
HJR0803	General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Designates the period of July 1, 2024, through July 31, 2024, as a time of prayer and fasting in Tennessee and seeks God’s hand of mercy healing on Tennessee.	Signed by Governor.	4/16/2024
HJR0808	Memorials, Death - Representative Frank Buck	Signed by Governor.	2/21/2024
HJR0810	Memorials, Government Officials - Urges Governor Lee to deploy Tennessee National Guard to support Texas in its efforts to secure border.	Received from House, refer to Senate State & Local Government Committee	3/21/2024
HJR0811	General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes the benefits of chess in education and correctional systems.	Received from House, refer to Senate Education Committee	3/11/2024
HJR0825	Memorials, Death - Renfro Blackburn "Buddy" Baird III	Signed by Governor.	2/14/2024
HJR0963	Memorials, Recognition - Tennesseans for opposing and condemning neo-Nazism	Signed by Governor.	3/11/2024
HJR1006	Memorials, Death - Rep. Don Ridgeway	Signed by Governor.	3/13/2024
HJR1009	Memorials, Recognition - A Soldier's Child Foundation	Signed by Governor.	3/26/2024
HJR1027	Memorials, Death - Jillian Ludwig	Signed by Governor.	5/3/2024
HJR1050	Memorials, Sports - Pickett County Lady Bobcats, Class A state champions	Signed by Governor.	4/4/2024
HJR1128	Memorials, Public Service - Representative Dale Carr	Signed by Governor.	4/9/2024
HJR1142	Memorials, Recognition - First anniversary of the Covenant School shooting	Signed by Governor.	4/10/2024
HJR1316	Memorials, Recognition - Chattanooga Coca-Cola, 125th anniversary	Signed by Governor.	4/22/2024
HJR1504	Memorials, Retirement - Kim McCaster Cox	Signed by Governor.	5/9/2024
HJR7014	Memorials, Recognition - Bev Johnson	Signed by Governor.	9/7/2023
HJR7023	Memorials, Death - Representative Bill Beck	Signed by Governor.	9/7/2023
HJR7037	Memorials, Recognition - Larry Taylor, Congressional Medal of Honor	Signed by Governor.	9/7/2023
HJR7053	Memorials, Recognition - Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and Quinco Community Mental Health Centers	Signed by Governor.	9/8/2023
HR0088	Memorials, Government Officials - Requests that a memorial plaque be affixed in the House chamber to the desk of the late Representative Barbara Cooper.	Signed by H. Speaker	4/20/2023
HR0155	Memorials, Retirement - Master Sergeant Robert D. Davis, Jr., United States Air Force	Signed by H. Speaker	4/18/2024
SJR0124	Memorials, Death - Tyre D. Nichols	Signed by Governor.	1/31/2023
SJR0128	Memorials, Death - Clara Louise Macklin	Signed by Governor.	2/10/2023
SJR0132	General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Ron Ramsey, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees	Signed by Governor.	3/30/2023
SJR0133	General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Melissa Steagall-Jones, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees	Signed by Governor.	3/23/2023
SJR0159	Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Credit Unions, 100 years	Signed by Governor.	3/30/2023
SJR0174	Memorials, Recognition - Danube Institute	Signed by Governor.	5/2/2023
SJR0179	Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee State University Aristocrat of Bands	Signed by Governor.	2/14/2023
SJR0210	Memorials, Recognition - Lt. Governor Randy McNally	Signed by Governor.	2/17/2023
SJR0240	Memorials, Death - Major General Gary L. Harrell	Signed by Governor.	3/16/2023
SJR0288	General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes Tennessee as a Technology First state.	Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee	1/10/2024
SJR0355	Memorials, Sports - Hampton High School boys' basketball team, TSSAA Division I, Class 1A state champions	Signed by Governor.	4/4/2023
SJR0361	Memorials, Recognition - Paige Clark, Miss Tennessee Volunteer 2023	Signed by Governor.	4/10/2023
SJR0533	Memorials, Recognition - Women Veterans Appreciation Day	Signed by Governor.	4/25/2023
SJR0534	Memorials, Recognition - Great Smoky Mountains National Park Honoring Our Veterans Day	Signed by Governor.	4/25/2023
SJR0556	Memorials, Recognition - Jasmine Carson	Signed by Governor.	5/2/2023
SJR0824	General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tony Treadway, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees	Signed by Governor.	2/14/2024
SJR0827	General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Krissi McInturff, State Board of Education	Signed by Governor.	2/14/2024
SJR0841	General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jeremy Nagoshiner, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board	Signed by Governor.	2/14/2024
SJR0869	Memorials, Death - Brenda Louise Smith Allred	Signed by Governor.	2/5/2024
SJR0870	General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for State of Israel and condemns recent attacks on Israel.	Signed by Governor.	4/9/2024
SJR0919	Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 15 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the right to bail for the following offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great: act of terrorism; second degree murder; aggravated rape of a child; aggravated rape; grave torture; and any other offense, as of November 3, 2026, for which a defendant, if convicted, could not be released prior to the expiration of at least 85 percent of the entire sentence imposed.	Signed by H. Speaker	4/26/2024
SJR1085	Memorials, Death - Pat Halloran	Signed by Governor.	3/22/2024