Tennessee Bills

sponsored by Jesse Chism

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HB 819 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Salaries and Benefits - As introduced, changes, from $7.25 to $12, the minimum hourly wage for employees within the state. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-203; Title 12 and Title 50, Chapter 2.
Jan 30 2023 Sponsor(S) Added.
Mar 19 2024
HB 2455 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Business and Commerce - As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to establish and support, subject to appropriation, entrepreneurship assistance centers, the purpose of which is to train minority group members, women, individuals with a disability, dislocated workers, and veterans in the principles and practice of entrepreneurship in order to prepare those persons to pursue self-employment opportunities and to pursue a minority-owned business or a women-owned business. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 62 and Title 67.
Jan 30 2024 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Business & Utilities Subcommittee Of Commerce Committee
Mar 12 2024
HB 171 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Safety - As introduced, enacts the "Fuel Gas Detector Act"; requires the installation and maintenance of fuel gas detectors in rooms containing an appliance fueled by propane, natural gas, or any liquefied petroleum gas for certain residential buildings. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 49; Title 66 and Title 68.
Jan 12 2023 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Business & Utilities Subcommittee Of Commerce Committee
Mar 12 2024
HB 2651 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Courts - As introduced, requires the clerk of each court to compile a monthly report of all criminal fines and fees assessed by the court in the previous month and submit the report to the administrative office of the courts; requires the administrative office of the courts to create and maintain a statewide database and searchable public website that compiles the reports received by the office from the court clerks. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 18.
Jan 31 2024 Assigned To S/C Civil Justice Subcommittee
Feb 07 2024
HB 2652 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Education - As introduced, requires each local school board to establish programs for free school lunch and free school breakfast for students regardless of income eligibility; requires the state to reimburse each LEA the cost of providing a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in the LEA after all available private funding and federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Jan 31 2024 Assigned To S/C K-12 Subcommittee
Feb 07 2024
HB 2656 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Business and Commerce - As introduced, requires corporations registered with the secretary of state to submit certain information to the secretary of state; requires corporations that are publicly held domestic or foreign corporations with their principal executive offices located in this state to provide the secretary of state with information regarding diversity of board members and officers; requires the secretary of state to publish certain information regarding such diversity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 48 and Title 67.
Jan 31 2024 Assigned To S/C Business & Utilities Subcommittee
Feb 07 2024
HB 2653 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Fireworks - As introduced, removes the requirement that a request for the issuance of a retailer's or seasonal retailer's fireworks permit be accompanied by a statement signed by the chief executive officer of the county or municipality in which fireworks are to be sold or offered for sale, or a person appointed or designated by the chief executive officer, that the sale of fireworks in the county or municipality is permissible. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.
Jan 31 2024 Assigned To S/C Business & Utilities Subcommittee
Feb 07 2024
HB 2655 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department of health to make available and require blood lead level testing for students in certain schools and certain pregnant women; requires the department to provide to persons who have high blood lead levels or lead poisoning certain services to aid with such condition; requires juvenile detention facilities that are aware of a juvenile in custody with high blood lead levels or lead poisoning to provide certain services in collaboration with the department of health and local education agencies. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
Jan 31 2024 Assigned To S/C Health Subcommittee
Feb 07 2024
HB 2456 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, deletes an exception to the offense of carrying a firearm with the intent to go armed for persons carrying, whether openly or concealed, a handgun if the person lawfully possesses the handgun, is in a place where the person is lawfully present, and the person meets certain age requirements. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
Jan 30 2024 Assigned To S/C Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Feb 06 2024
HB 2400 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Education, Higher - As introduced, reduces, from 65 to 62, the minimum age of a person who is eligible to enroll in courses for credit at state-supported colleges and universities without payment of tuition and certain fees; adds law schools and veterinary schools to the list of schools at which disabled persons and persons of a certain age are not eligible to audit or enroll without payment of tuition and fees. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Jan 30 2024 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 01 2024
HB 820 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Child Custody and Support - As introduced, allows a court to temporarily halt a child support obligor's support payments if the support obligor has made an overpayment of child support and to apply the overpayment toward current and future child support obligations until the overpayment is exhausted. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
Jan 30 2023 Taken Off Notice For Cal. In Civil Justice Committee
Jan 31 2024
HB 2139 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Judicial Districts - As introduced, creates three additional trial courts in the 30th judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
Jan 25 2024 P2c, Ref. To Civil Justice Committee
Jan 31 2024
HB 480 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Criminal Procedure - As introduced, allows to be submitted electronically the investigatory report of a social service agency into the financial affairs of the accused, when the agency is ordered to conduct such investigation by a court having reasonable cause to believe that the accused has the financial resources to employ counsel. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.
Jan 25 2023 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Criminal Justice Subcommittee Of Criminal Justice Committee
Jan 23 2024
HB 22 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires an audiovisual 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. - Amends TCA Title 37.
Jan 03 2023 Def. To Summer Study In Criminal Justice Committee
Apr 11 2023
HJR 426 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Death - LaSanta Daneen Walker -
Mar 14 2023 Signed By Governor.
Apr 10 2023
HB 19 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Fiduciaries - As introduced, allows persons convicted of a criminal offense and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a penitentiary to serve as executor, administrator or guardian, fiduciary, or conservator; removes the requirement that a petition for appointment of a conservator, a petition for letters of administration, and a petition for letters testamentary contain a statement of any misdemeanor conviction of the proposed conservator or personal representative. - Amends TCA Title 30; Title 34; Title 35 and Title 40.
Jan 03 2023 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Children & Family Affairs Subcommittee Of Civil Justice Committee
Mar 21 2023
HB 478 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
State Employees - As introduced, requires the department of human services to develop, implement, and manage a program to provide monthly stipends for certain state employees for the cost of child care services. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 71, Chapter 1, Part 1.
Jan 25 2023 Sponsor(S) Added.
Mar 07 2023
HB 172 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Health Care - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Medical Cannabis Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 67 and Title 68, Chapter 7.
Jan 12 2023 Sponsor(S) Added.
Mar 07 2023
HB 309 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Controlled Substances - As introduced, decriminalizes the possession of certain amounts of marijuana by making such possession a civil violation punishable by a $25 fine or community service; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4.
Jan 19 2023 Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/C Criminal Justice Subcommittee Of Criminal Justice Committee
Feb 28 2023
HB 173 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to include three non-binding questions related to the legalization of marijuana on the November 2024 ballot; requires the secretary of state to compile the results of the public policy opinion poll and forward the results to the members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 2.
Jan 12 2023 Failed In S/C Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee Of Local Government Committee
Feb 22 2023

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