Representative Martin B, 79th Representative District

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

Bill Number	Composite Abstract	Last Action	Date
HB0298	Health Care - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of health to submit, by electronic means, the commissioner's current annual report concerning the annual evaluation of the adequacy of the birth defects registry to the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly.	P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.	1/21/2023
HB0495	Physicians and Surgeons - As enacted, enacts the "Topical Medical Waste Reduction Act of 2023," which establishes certain regulations of facility-provided medications.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 150	4/18/2023
HB0496	Health Care - As enacted, requires certain health related boards to either render a decision on the application or inform the applicant of the need to appear before such board within 60 days from the date the respective board receives a completed application for licensure from either an initial applicant or an applicant who is licensed in another state or territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 426	5/24/2023
HB0497	Health Care - As introduced, removes a requirement, with regard to developing standards for determining eligibility for the care and treatment of persons suffering from epilepsy and other seizure disorders under a department program, that the department of health seek the advice of the epilepsy advisory committee, as such committee was terminated in 2008.	P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.	2/1/2023
HB0498	Health Care - As enacted, exempts a patient receiving an initial behavioral health evaluation via telehealth from the requirement that a patient have an in-person encounter with a healthcare services provider, the healthcare services provider’s practice group, or the healthcare system within 16 months prior to an interactive visit in order to establish a provider-patient relationship for purposes of telehealth; allows a physician assistant who is authorized to prescribe drugs and who provides services solely via telehealth to arrange for chart review by a collaborating physician via HIPAA-compliant electronic means.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 201	5/3/2023
HB0690	Medical Occupations - As enacted, authorizes the board of examiners in psychology to designate as a health service provider in this state, a person who has held a valid license or certificate to practice psychology in another state under certain conditions.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 173	4/25/2023
HB0924	Education - As introduced, requires the written disclosure regarding transferability of credits made by a postsecondary educational institution to a prospective student to be in 20 point font instead of 16 point font.	P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.	2/2/2023
HB0925	Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires a person who is licensed to practice a healing art; who was an officer in the commissioned medical corps of the army, the navy, the air force or the public health service of the United States; and who was subsequently discharged, instead of honorably discharged, to register with the appropriate board licensing that profession.	P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.	2/2/2023
HB0964	Business Organizations - As enacted, establishes a procedure by which a domestic or foreign limited partnership may elect and register to use an assumed name for transacting business in this state.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 96	4/18/2023
HB1250	Taxes - As introduced, adds the directors of the office of legislative budget analysis to the list of persons to whom the comptroller must provide the estimates of the annual income limit for eligibility in the property tax relief program that are likely to maintain the program at a constant level of expenditure.	P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.	2/2/2023
HB1487	State Government - As introduced, increases from 90 to 120 days the period by which a nonprofit partner of the governor's office of faith-based and community initiatives must report its activities to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives after the end of the nonprofit partner's fiscal year.	P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.	2/2/2023
HB1540	Milan - Subject to local approval, changes the date for city elections to coincide with federal elections; removes the requirement for the board of aldermen to approve the mayor's appointment of a city recorder; removes the city's authority to operate a hospital.	Pr. Ch. 10	4/18/2023
HB1553	Lexington - Subject to local approval, clarifies that vacancies on the board of mayor and aldermen and in the office of mayor be filled by majority vote of the remaining board members, with the appointee to serve only until the next regular election, at which time the remaining unexpired term is filled; authorizes mayor to vote in board matters but only to break a tie vote; removes city residency requirement for certain officers and managers by allowing such persons to reside in the county.	Pr. Ch. 12	5/24/2023
HB1790	Comptroller, State - As enacted, modifies the course work required to receive a certified municipal finance officer (CMFO) designation; requires examinations, including test questions, administered by MTAS and CTAS to be designated as a municipal or county finance officer, respectively, to be confidential.	Effective date(s) 03/07/2024	3/19/2024
HB1796	Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes licensed chiropractic physicians to issue certified statements of disability in the same manner as physicians for a person's application for a disabled registration plate, decal, or placard.	Effective date(s) 03/01/2024	3/19/2024
HB1826	TennCare - As enacted, requires TennCare coverage of rapid whole genome sequencing when certain clinical criteria are met.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1020	5/31/2024
HB1827	Courts, Juvenile - As introduced, extends the period of time during which a child who is alleged to be unruly may be detained prior to a detention hearing from no more than 24 hours excluding nonjudicial days or 72 hours total to no more than 72 hours excluding nonjudicial days or 96 hours total.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/17/2024
HB1984	Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires managed health insurance issuers that offer healthy benefit cards to demonstrate that the healthy benefit cards are accepted at all retail food establishments that meet certain criteria within a given geographic area.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee	3/19/2024
HB1985	Health Care - As introduced, expresses the intent that the department of finance and administration, in coordination with the departments of health and mental health and substance abuse services, give priority to efforts that facilitate the expansion of a health care safety net to the uninsured that also supports federally designated rural health clinics using a sliding fee scale payment model.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee	2/20/2024
HB2048	Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, makes various changes to the "Revised Tennessee Captive Insurance Act."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 643	4/8/2024
HB2076	Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, establishes procedures for recoupment of overpayments made to a healthcare provider by certain health insurance entities.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 861	5/13/2024
HB2191	School Districts, Special - As introduced, allows a local board of education for a special school district to initiate an advisory, non-binding referendum election on the question of whether one or more schools in the special school district should be consolidated.	Withdrawn.	1/31/2024
HB2545	Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to rural hospital-based laboratories.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1046	5/31/2024
HB2575	Humboldt - Subject to local approval, enacts the Humboldt Utilities Authority Act to create and empower the Humboldt Utilities Authority.	Withdrawn.	2/22/2024
HB2867	Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, changes the name of Lake Halford in Carroll County to Carroll County 1,000 Acre Lake.	Failed in s/c Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee of Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee	3/12/2024
HB2974	Trenton - Subject to local approval, amends the City of Trenton's election cycle for the Board of Mayor and Aldermen to align the election with the state and federal general election in November of even-numbered years.	Pr. Ch. 39	4/3/2024
HB2981	Humboldt - Subject to local approval, enacts the Humboldt Utilities Authority Act to create and empower the Humboldt Utilities Authority.	Pr. Ch. 41	4/3/2024
HB2985	Carroll County - Subject to local approval, enacts the "Carroll County Financial Management System of 2024."	Pr. Ch. 57	5/13/2024
HB2986	Carroll County - Subject to local approval, establishes the office of highway supervisor; aligns the powers and duties of the highway supervisor with the Tennessee County Uniform Highway Law.	Pr. Ch. 58	5/13/2024
HB2989	Gibson County - As introduced, moves election date for the county special school district board of trustees to coincide with the general election.	Pr. Ch. 59	5/13/2024

92 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
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
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
HB0068	Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires LEAs to conduct summer learning camps and after-school learning mini-camps annually instead of only in the summers immediately following the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years; revises the definition of "priority student" to allow additional "at-risk" children and students entering certain grade levels to participate in after-school learning mini-camps, learning loss bridge camps, and summer learning camps.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 144	4/18/2023
HB0120	Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, expands the exception to the offense of unlawful carrying of a firearm with the intent to go armed from handguns to firearms if a person meets the age requirements, lawfully possesses the firearm, and is in a place where the person is lawfully present.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee	3/21/2023
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
HB0166	Military - As introduced, establishes that full-time state employees who are members of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including the Tennessee army and air national guard, shall continue to accrue annual and sick leave the employee would ordinarily accrue during any period of absence from the employee's respective duties for military service.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/18/2023
HB0170	Zoning - As enacted, states that property owners should expect that a permit application will be judged on the law in effect at the time of application; declares that the general assembly rejects the pending ordinance doctrine, as described by the Tennessee supreme court in its May 14, 2007, opinion in the case of Harding Academy v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, as contrary to the public policy interests of property owners in this state.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 453	5/24/2023
HB0282	Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, clarifies what constitutes the "practice of pharmacy"; makes related changes.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 824	5/9/2024
HB0319	Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, establishes a "brownfield redevelopment area fund" to be used by the department to administer a brownfield redevelopment area grant program; creates a franchise and excise tax credit equal to the remediation costs for a brownfield property for a qualified development project in a tier 3 or tier 4 enhancement county; makes other related revisions.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 86	4/18/2023
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
HB0416	TennCare - As introduced, directs the bureau to establish, by January 1, 2024, a statewide program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) to provide comprehensive, integrated acute and long-term care services for qualifying frail, elderly individuals who require nursing facility levels of care; sets minimum program enrollment limits; authorizes the director to seek any federal waiver the director deems necessary to establish the program.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/17/2024
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
HB0482	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises the punishment for critical infrastructure vandalism.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2023	5/3/2023
HB0500	Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $20 million to the legislature for the purchase or construction of a building or other facility accessible to the Cordell Hull Building.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	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
HB0628	Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Wellness Law."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 924	5/13/2024
HB0637	Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires an employer that requires an immunization as a condition of employment or continued employment to exempt from the immunization requirement a person who files a signed, written statement that the immunization conflicts with the person’s religious tenets or practices; prohibits an employer from taking adverse action against a person who files a statement of religious objection.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee	3/21/2023
HB0695	Education, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes the amount of an occupational educator scholarship awarded by the department to prospective educators seeking a Tennessee occupational teaching license as the cost of tuition and mandatory fees at the postsecondary institution attended less all other gift aid, which must be credited first to the eligible prospective educator's tuition and mandatory fees.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 181	4/25/2023
HB0789	Taxes, Sales - As introduced, increases, over a five-year period, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue appropriated to municipalities; reduces, over a five-year period, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/18/2023
HB0827	Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires the call button to each bed in a general patient area in a nursing home to be easily reachable to, and useable by, a patient.	Received from House, Passed on First Consideration	4/15/2024
HB0883	Abortion - As enacted, makes various changes relative to abortion.	Effective date(s) 04/28/2023	5/3/2023
HB0976	Firefighters - As enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act."	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 465	5/24/2023
HB0994	Criminal Offenses - As introduced, clarifies that a threat to use deadly force by a private citizen making an arrest is not in itself considered a use of deadly force; prohibits a private citizen from threatening to use deadly force during the course of a citizen's arrest unless the arrest is for a crime committed or threatened against the citizen making the arrest or for a violent crime committed or threatened in the presence of the citizen making the arrest.	Def. to Summer Study in Criminal Justice Subcommittee	4/3/2024
HB1002	Attorney General and Reporter - As enacted, grants the attorney general and reporter, in cases where a defendant has been sentenced to death and is seeking collateral or direct review of a conviction or sentence, exclusive control over the state's defense of the request for review and reimbursement for expenses incurred in connection with such matter.	Effective date(s) 04/28/2023	5/3/2023
HB1005	Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, renames enhanced and concealed handgun carry permits as enhanced and concealed firearm carry permits and authorizes a permit holder to carry any firearms, rather than handguns, that the permit holder legally owns or possesses; expands the circumstances in which a permit holder may carry a firearm.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/18/2023
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
HB1059	Education, Higher - As enacted, makes changes to present law regarding an intercollegiate athlete's name, image, or likeness.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 823	5/9/2024
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
HB1077	Food and Food Products - As enacted, creates a farmers market food unit permit for food service establishments that meet requirements.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 475	5/24/2023
HB1187	Taxes, Sales - As introduced, reduces, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund; increases, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share appropriated to municipalities.	Returned to the Clerk's Desk.	4/17/2024
HB1232	Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes a local board of education to contract with a private college or university accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to maintain a training school for grades pre-kindergarten through 12 to provide practice teaching experience for teachers in training.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 435	5/24/2023
HB1259	Real Property - As enacted, enacts anti-squatter laws.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1009	5/29/2024
HB1280	Elder Abuse - As enacted, expands the offense of aggravated stalking to include a person who commits stalking against a victim who is at least 65 or older.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2023	5/24/2023
HB1286	Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, requires the department of treasury investment division staff to invest, reinvest, manage, and select investment options for program assets for financial reasons, excluding environmental, social, and governance interests that may not be material to the financial analysis of the investment, for the exclusive benefit of the beneficiaries of the programs while maximizing long-term shareholder value; makes other changes concerning the authority of the state treasurer.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 471	5/24/2023
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
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
HB1682	Mental Illness - As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to emergency involuntary admission to inpatient treatment and judicial commitment for nonemergency involuntary inpatient treatment.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/1/2024
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
HB1735	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 licensed physicians and osteopathic physicians, and to hospital employees who are discharging or attempting to discharge their official duties in a hospital emergency department; enacts the "Dr. Benjamin Mauck Act."	Withdrawn.	1/25/2024
HB1828	State Symbols - As enacted, designates as official state books: "Farewell Address to the American People" by George Washington; "The Papers of Andrew Jackson"; "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville; "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren; "A Death in the Family" by James Agee; "Roots" by Alex Haley; "The Civil War: A Narrative" by Shelby Foote; "American Lion" by Jon Meacham; "Coat of Many Colors" by Dolly Parton; and "Aitken Bible"; requires the secretary of state to list the books in the Tennessee Blue Book.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	4/22/2024
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
HB1881	Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Back the Blue Act," which increases the penalty for assault against a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-day sentence and $10,000 fine.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/28/2024
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
HB1908	Education, Dept. of - As enacted, enacts the "Beyond Ordinary Learning Opportunities (BOLO) Act," which requires the department to establish a one-year pilot program to place a therapy dog in five public schools in the 2024-2025 school year.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 954	5/13/2024
HB1931	Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits a local governmental entity or official from adopting or enacting a resolution, ordinance, or policy that prohibits or limits the ability of a law enforcement agency to conduct traffic stops based on observation of or reasonable suspicion that the operator or a passenger in a vehicle has violated a local ordinance or state or federal law.	Effective date(s) 03/28/2024	4/3/2024
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
HB1999	Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, adds the MidSouth development district to the list of development districts to which this state intends to assist financially; specifies an overall state funding level for the nine development districts; changes the calculation for how much funding each development district will receive.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/17/2024
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
HB2032	Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, removes the offense of possessing a weapon in a building that prohibits or restricts weapons; allows a person with an enhanced handgun carry permit to carry a handgun into a business that prohibits or restricts weapons; removes penalties for violations of certain firearms provisions.	Taken off notice for cal. in Civil Justice Committee	4/9/2024
HB2033	Election Laws - As introduced, adds political party affiliation to the voter registration form.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee of Local Government Committee	3/13/2024
HB2034	Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires the department of safety to redesign temporary driver licenses and permits and temporary photo identification licenses issued to qualified noncitizens so that the licenses may be easily distinguished from driver and photo identification licenses issued to residents of this state who are United States citizens; reduces from eight years to two years the maximum period of time for which a temporary license or permit may be issued.	Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	3/12/2024
HB2035	Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, preempts the entire field of legislation regarding extreme risk protection orders to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulation.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1062	6/3/2024
HB2039	Taxes - As introduced, authorizes business, excise, and franchise tax credits equal to unreimbursed TennCare costs for eligible healthcare providers that provide healthcare services to TennCare recipients; allows a refund to be issued in lieu of a tax credit on the condition that the refund be used to make a charitable contribution.	Taken off notice for cal. in Insurance Committee	3/26/2024
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
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
HB2091	Trade Regulation - As enacted, defines and adds "voice" as a protected personal right; adds commercial availability of a sound recording or audiovisual work in which the individual's name, voice, likeness, or image is readily identifiable to considerations for determining whether non-use has occurred; makes other related changes.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	3/26/2024
HB2100	Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on certain analysis; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or otherwise discriminating against a person, based upon certain factors, including the person's political opinions, speech, or affiliations, or religious beliefs, religious exercise, or religious affiliations.	Effective date(s) 07/01/2024	5/1/2024
HB2108	Energy - As introduced, clarifies that a political subdivision that imposes requirements or expectations related to the type of clean or renewable energy used by a public utility in an ordinance, resolution, or other regulation must include certain sources of energy as permissible sources of clean or renewable energy, regardless of whether the political subdivision classifies the requirements or expectations as relating to clean energy or renewable energy.	Received from House, Passed on First Consideration	2/26/2024
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
HB2211	TennCare - As introduced, establishes TennCare minimum and maximum reimbursement rate levels for rural hospitals and requires that the reimbursement rate is based on the rural hospital's current federal fiscal year.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/17/2024
HB2212	Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, allows the comptroller of the treasury to investigate the operations of rural hospitals and facilitate the transfer of the ownership and operations of government-owned rural hospitals that have failed or are abandoned.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/17/2024
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
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
HB2318	Medical Occupations - As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to physician assistants and nurses.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1042	5/31/2024
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
HB2451	Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Provider Advertising Law."	Effective date(s) 05/01/2024	5/13/2024
HB2490	TennCare - As introduced, establishes separate reimbursement rates for ground-based rural ambulance services and urban ambulance services provided to TennCare recipients; allows for certain rural ambulance service providers to receive emergency medical services equipment grants.	Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee	4/17/2024
HB2544	Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires a government-owned hospital or health system to submit a report to the health facilities commission disclosing certain information on administrative bonuses or salary increases and any disbursements and contractor costs on an annual basis and prior to asking for public funds or ending services; requires the health facilities commission to post reported information from government-owned hospitals or health systems on its public website.	Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee	2/6/2024
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
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
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
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
HB2857	Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, removes from the definition of "provider-based telemedicine" the requirement that the healthcare service provider or the provider's practice group or healthcare system have an established provider-patient relationship that is documented by an in-person encounter within 16 months prior to the interactive visit; makes related changes.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1027	5/31/2024
HB2940	TennCare - As enacted, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act."	Effective date(s) 05/21/2024	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
HB7030	Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, expands the offenses for which a juvenile court may transfer a child to be tried as an adult in criminal court, if the child was 16 years of age or more at the time of the offense, to include burglary involving the theft of a firearm or an attempt to commit such offense; adds an appeal process for a criminal court to review a juvenile court's determination for such transfers.	H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 8/29/2023	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
HB7036	Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, changes prerequisites for emergency detention and admission to a treatment facility from "immediate" substantial likelihood of serious harm to "imminent" substantial likelihood of serious harm.	H. Placed on Regular Calendar for 8/29/2023	8/28/2023
HB7041	Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, requires the bureau to submit a report on child and human trafficking crimes and trends in this state, based upon data available to the bureau, as well as current programs and activities of the bureau's human trafficking unit, to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the speaker of the senate by December 1, 2023, and by each December 1 thereafter.	Comp. became Pub. Ch. 3	12/27/2023

Bill Number	Composite Abstract	Last Action	Date
HJR0148	Memorials, Sports - Lexington High School softball team, 2022 TSSAA Division I, Class 3A champions	Signed by Governor.	2/15/2023
HJR0928	Memorials, Recognition - Oliver Oxford	Signed by Governor.	3/13/2024
HJR1146	Memorials, Sports - Gibson County Lady Pioneers girls’ basketball team, TSSAA Class 2A state champions	Signed by Governor.	4/16/2024
HJR1296	Memorials, Recognition - Huntingdon Book Lovers Club, 125th anniversary	Signed by Governor.	4/22/2024
HJR1327	Memorials, Death - Retired TBI K9 Agent Wrigley	Signed by Governor.	4/22/2024
HJR1341	Memorials, Personal Occasion - Joe Ray Davis, 100th birthday	Signed by Governor.	4/22/2024
HJR1342	Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Walter G. Butler	Signed by Governor.	4/22/2024
HR0145	Memorials, Death - Retired TBI K9 Agent Wrigley	Withdrawn.	4/4/2024

88 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
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
HJR0096	Memorials, Recognition - Music Therapy Week	Signed by Governor.	3/19/2024
HJR0101	General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dr. Lisa Piercey, East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees	Failed in Education Administration	3/8/2023
HJR0118	Naming and Designating - Designates October 2023 as "Spina Bifida Month,"	Received from House, refer to Senate State & Local Government Committee	3/13/2023
HJR0120	General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Honors the memories of Zackery Grooms and Chance Black and requests TWRA to erect a marker in remembrance of the young men.	Signed by Governor.	5/4/2023
HJR0131	General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Addresses and establishes the declared public policy of the State of Tennessee relative to the right of the citizens and those within the boundaries of this State to keep, bear, and wear arms.	Signed by Governor.	4/22/2024
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
HJR0326	Memorials, Recognition - West Tennessee Violent Crime and Drug Task Force	Signed by Governor.	3/16/2023
HJR0355	Memorials, Death - Officer Geoffrey "Bernard" Redd	Signed by Governor.	3/21/2023
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
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
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
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
HJR0844	General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Expresses support for bid to host Special Olympics USA Games in Tennessee.	Signed by Governor.	4/9/2024
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
HJR1095	Memorials, Public Service - Representative Bryan Richey	Ref. Calendar & Rules Committee	3/21/2024
HJR1096	Memorials, Public Service - Representative Curtis Johnson	Signed by Governor.	4/9/2024
HJR1097	Memorials, Public Service - Representative Sam Whitson	Signed by Governor.	4/9/2024
HJR1098	Memorials, Public Service - Representative John Holsclaw	Signed by Governor.	4/9/2024
HJR1099	Memorials, Public Service - Representative Dale Carr	Withdrawn.	3/21/2024
HJR1142	Memorials, Recognition - First anniversary of the Covenant School shooting	Signed by Governor.	4/10/2024
HJR1385	Memorials, Recognition - Buddy Clark Leach II	Signed by Governor.	5/7/2024
HJR1498	Memorials, Recognition - Memphis Police Department and Shelby County District Attorney	Signed by Governor.	5/9/2024
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
HJR7043	Memorials, Recognition - National Shooting Sports Month in Tennessee, August 2023	Signed by Governor.	9/8/2023
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
SJR0159	Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Credit Unions, 100 years	Signed by Governor.	3/30/2023
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
SJR0342	Memorials, Death - Sergeant Harold Lee Russell II, Tennessee Highway Patrol	Signed by Governor.	4/11/2023
SJR0343	Memorials, Death - Judge John Everett Williams	Signed by Governor.	4/11/2023
SJR0344	Memorials, Death - Mayor Dale R. Kelley	Signed by Governor.	4/11/2023
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
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
SJR0992	Memorials, Sports - McKenzie High School football team, 2023 TSSAA Division I, Class 1A runner-up	Signed by Governor.	3/11/2024
SJR0994	Memorials, Sports - Ellison Reynoldson, 2023 TSSAA Division I, Class A girls' tennis singles champion	Signed by Governor.	3/11/2024
SJR0995	Memorials, Sports - Will Douglas, 2023 TSSAA boys' track and field state champion	Signed by Governor.	3/11/2024
SJR0996	Memorials, Sports - McKenzie High School girls' basketball team, 2023 TSSAA state champion	Signed by Governor.	3/11/2024
SJR0997	Memorials, Sports - Milan High School baseball team, 2023 TSSAA Division I, Class 2A runner-up	Signed by Governor.	3/11/2024
SJR0998	Memorials, Sports - Hank Fisher, 2023 TSSAA Division I, Class A discus state champion	Signed by Governor.	3/11/2024
SJR0999	Memorials, Sports - Andy Westbrook, 2023 TSSAA Division I, Class A high jump state champion	Signed by Governor.	3/11/2024
SJR1003	Memorials, Sports - Ridge Bruce, 2023 TSSAA Class A-AA boys' cross country champion	Signed by Governor.	3/11/2024
SJR1040	Memorials, Heroism - Deputy Joshua Johnson	Signed by Governor.	3/13/2024
SJR1085	Memorials, Death - Pat Halloran	Signed by Governor.	3/22/2024