died · Tennessee · House Feb 2, 2022 HR 131: Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to defund National Public Radio. - Withdrawn. Track
died · Tennessee · House Feb 2, 2022 HB 2279: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, authorizes the director of the bureau to issue an AMBER Alert using the system's infrastructure in this state if the director reasonably believes that an abduction has occurred and that sufficient information about the victim and abduction exist to justify the issuance of the Alert. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 37 and Title 38. Intro., P1C. Sponsor Jason Powell (D) Track
died · Tennessee · House Feb 2, 2022 HB 1769: Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires a court to order the state to reimburse a criminal defendant for all reasonable costs incurred in defense if the defendant was charged with a criminal homicide offense and found not guilty due to the justification of self-defense and the trier of fact determines that the defendant proved the self-defense claim by a preponderance of the evidence; authorizes the court to order the state or the prosecuting attorney, in their individual capacity, to pay damages for malicious prosecution. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7 and Title 39. Withdrawn. Sponsor Bruce Griffey (R) Track
died · Tennessee · House Feb 2, 2022 HB 1861: Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires employees and contractors of the department of transportation and first responders to wear blaze orange vests with reflective tape when working on roads and highways; prohibits all other colored vests; requires the department of safety to provide training on proper interstate incident traffic control to each police officer in a department that contains in its jurisdiction an interstate highway. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 54; Title 55; Title 68, Chapter 102 and Title 68, Chapter 140. Withdrawn. Sponsors Kirk Haston (R) , Ed Jackson (R) Track
died · Tennessee · Senate Feb 2, 2022 SB 1920: Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires, rather than permits, the department to provide services on a voluntary basis to any person who was in the custody of the department at the time of the person's eighteenth birthday and who also meets other conditions. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 2, Part 4. Recalled from Senate Judiciary Committee Sponsor Page Walley (R) Track
died · Tennessee · Senate Feb 2, 2022 SB 1923: Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, removes population requirements for a municipality to hold a referendum on the sale of alcoholic beverages; requires a municipality to maintain a police department or enter into an agreement for the provision of law enforcement during the hours of sale of alcoholic beverages to be eligible to hold a referendum on the sale of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57. Recalled from Senate State & Local Government Committee Sponsor Page Walley (R) Track
died · Tennessee · Senate Feb 2, 2022 SB 2052: Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class E felony of an employer influencing or attempting to influence an employee who is a public servant in the performance of their official duties as a public servant by means of coercion; creates a cause of action for unlawful discharge of an employee who is a public servant. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39 and Title 50. Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee Sponsor Ferrell Haile (R) Track
died · Tennessee · Senate Feb 2, 2022 SB 2235: Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of health and the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services to allow certain rules to not be applied to certain healthcare professionals and students in order for those persons to operate outside of normal licensure requirements. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68. Introduced, Passed on First Consideration Sponsor Ed Jackson (R) Track
died · Tennessee · Senate Feb 2, 2022 SB 2234: Medical Occupations - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of health and the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services to allow certain rules to not be applied to certain healthcare professionals and students in order for those persons to operate outside of normal licensure requirements during a healthcare staffing crisis; requires certain notice to governor and speakers of the senate and house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 63 and Title 68. Introduced, Passed on First Consideration Sponsor Ed Jackson (R) Track
died · Tennessee · House Feb 2, 2022 HB 794: Business and Commerce - As introduced, prohibits a person from denying an individual the full and equal enjoyment of goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of a place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement on the grounds of the wearing or use of a medical device, or whether the individual has received medical treatment. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 58 and Title 68. Withdrawn. Sponsors Terri Lynn Weaver (R) , Joey Hensley (R) Track
died · Tennessee · House Feb 2, 2022 HB 1928: Election Laws - As introduced, prohibits a political party from requiring a person to pay a fee in order to run as that political party's candidate for public office. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 17. Withdrawn. Sponsors Kerry Roberts (R) , John Ragan (R) Track
failed · Tennessee · House Feb 2, 2022 HB 149: Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires each LEA and public charter school to provide age-appropriate instruction to public school students in kindergarten through grade 12 on the events of September 11, 2001, annually on September 11. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. Failed in Senate Education Committee - no motion Sponsors Jason Zachary (R) , Richard Briggs (R) Track