Tennessee Bills

sponsored by Kip Capley

Bill Title Introduced Latest Action↓
HJR 85 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Memorials, Death - Franklin Dewey Shaffer -
Jan 29 2025 Enrolled; Ready For Sig. Of H. Speaker.
Feb 14 2025
HJR 205 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Memorials, Death - Billy Ray Helton, Sr. -
Feb 11 2025 Adopted, Ayes 92, Nays 0, Pnv 0
Feb 13 2025
HB 343 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits persons from selling, offering for sale, or offering a free sample of counterfeit lighters and unsafe lighters. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 47.
Jan 23 2025 Placed On S/C Cal Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee For 2/19/2025
Feb 12 2025
HB 1259 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Water - As introduced, increases, from five to seven days, the amount of time members of the Tennessee board of water quality, oil, and gas must be notified in advance of the time and place of any regular or special meeting. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 63; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.
Feb 06 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 12 2025
HB 553 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands "law enforcement officer" to include a correctional officer employed by a county jail, the department of correction, or a private prison contractor and a probation or parole officer employed by the department of correction or a private probation provider for purposes of the offense of assault against a law enforcement officer. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.
Jan 29 2025 Placed On S/C Cal Criminal Justice Subcommittee For 2/19/2025
Feb 12 2025
HB 561 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, authorizes certain utility systems to borrow money in anticipation of revenue collections and to issue negotiable notes to evidence such borrowing to provide emergency cash flow for such systems, with oversight of such actions by the comptroller of the treasury; establishes deadline for the payment of such notes. - Amends TCA Section 7-34-111; Section 7-36-113; Section 7-82-501; Section 7-82-702; Section 68-221-1311 and Section 68-221-611.
Jan 29 2025 Placed On S/C Cal Business & Utilities Subcommittee For 2/19/2025
Feb 12 2025
HB 986 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Real Property - As introduced, abolishes various estates and reversion interests in land. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 1.
Feb 05 2025 Assigned To S/C Civil Justice Subcommittee
Feb 11 2025
HB 556 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires all written driver license examinations to be administered in English only; prohibits the use of a translation dictionary, electronic device, or interpreter to assist a person taking the examination. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.
Jan 29 2025 Sponsor(S) Added.
Feb 11 2025
HB 938 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Licenses - As introduced, creates a bait privilege license to allow hunting or taking of whitetail deer and wild-appearing swine using bait on privately owned or privately leased land. - Amends TCA Title 70.
Feb 04 2025 Sponsor(S) Added.
Feb 11 2025
HB 856 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, lowers the standard for the use of deadly force to protect property; specifies that deadly force does not include the display of a weapon, the brandishing of a weapon, or the use of force in circumstances that do not result in death or serious bodily injury. - Amends TCA Title 39.
Feb 04 2025 Assigned To S/C Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Feb 10 2025
HB 555 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases from a Class E felony to a Class D felony the offense of burglary of a conveyance. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Jan 29 2025 P2c, Ref. To Judiciary Committee
Feb 05 2025
HB 554 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Remedies and Special Proceedings - As introduced, creates a civil action against any person or government entity that infringes upon a person's right to bear arms under the Tennessee or United States Constitutions; requires the person or entity to be liable for actual or statutory damages, punitive damages, attorney's fees, and court costs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 54.
Jan 29 2025 P2c, Ref. To Judiciary Committee
Feb 05 2025
HB 560 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Taxes - As introduced, clarifies that the monthly list of taxpayers delinquent in paying professional privilege tax that the commissioner of revenue transmits to licensing boards and agencies is subject to such restrictions on use as determined by the commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 67.
Jan 29 2025 P2c, Caption Bill, Held On Desk - Pending Amdt.
Feb 05 2025
HB 558 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Motor Vehicles - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a person who is in the United States without legal authorization to operate a motor vehicle without possessing a valid driver license and evidence of financial responsibility; limits the fine for such offense to a maximum of $1,000. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.
Jan 29 2025 P2c, Ref. To Transportation Committee
Feb 05 2025
HB 559 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Traffic Safety - As introduced, removes the prohibition on a person physically holding or supporting, with any part of the person's body, a wireless telecommunications device or stand-alone electronic device while operating a motor vehicle on a road or highway other than in a marked school zone or work zone; retains restrictions on activities such as texting on, reaching for, or watching or recording a video on such device while operating a motor vehicle on a road or highway. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-199.
Jan 29 2025 P2c, Ref. To Transportation Committee
Feb 05 2025
HB 557 (114th Regular Session (2025-2026))
Natural Disasters - As introduced, creates the State Disaster Relief Program to be administered by TEMA for the purpose of providing grants to local governments where a natural disaster has occurred that does not exceed the threshold for federal disaster relief. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1.
Jan 29 2025 P2c, Ref. To State & Local Government Committee
Feb 05 2025
HB 1881 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
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. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
Jan 22 2024 Pub. Ch. 976
May 28 2024
HB 1882 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Health Care - As enacted, requires a healthcare provider to provide to a patient or the patient’s authorized representative a full copy of the patient’s medical records within 10 working days of receipt of a written request by the patient or representative, instead of providing a full copy or a summary of the records; requires a healthcare provider to provide to a principal or an attorney in fact acting pursuant to a durable power of attorney for health care a full copy of the principal’s medical records within 10 working days of receipt of a written request by the principal or attorney in fact, instead of providing a full copy or a summary of the records. - Amends TCA Title 34; Title 63 and Title 68.
Jan 22 2024 Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 831
May 09 2024
HJR 1402 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cannon Rogers, Salutatorian, Santa Fe Unit School -
Apr 16 2024 Signed By Governor.
May 07 2024
HJR 1400 (113th Regular Session (2023-2024))
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Abby Montgomery, Top Ten Senior, Santa Fe Unit School -
Apr 16 2024 Signed By Governor.
May 07 2024

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