Rep. John Gillespie

Primary SB 7052

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, establishes a mental healthcare professionals student loan repayment grant program to incentivize certain mental healthcare providers to provide services in this state. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Passed Aug 23, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 7009

Passed · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, establishes a mental healthcare professionals student loan repayment grant program to incentivize certain mental healthcare providers to provide services in this state. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Passed Aug 23, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 7006

Passed · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Mental Illness - As introduced, clarifies the meaning of “local law enforcement” for purposes of the required notification to law enforcement by an inpatient mental health treatment facility or hospital that a service recipient has been committed; requires the clerk of court who maintains records of the adjudication as a mental defective or judicial commitment to a mental institution of a Tennessee resident to notify the clerk of court in the county of the person’s permanent residence. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 18; Title 33 and Title 68.

Passed Aug 23, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 7028

Passed · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Mental Illness - As introduced, clarifies the meaning of “local law enforcement” for purposes of the required notification to law enforcement by an inpatient mental health treatment facility or hospital that a service recipient has been committed; requires the clerk of court who maintains records of the adjudication as a mental defective or judicial commitment to a mental institution of a Tennessee resident to notify the clerk of court in the county of the person’s permanent residence. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 18; Title 33 and Title 68.

Passed Aug 23, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 1085

Signed into law · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Taxes, Sales - As enacted, extends provisions related to the apportionment and distribution of state tax revenue as they pertain to National Basketball Association franchises until June 30, 2059. - Amends TCA Title 67.

Signed into law May 19, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary HB 92

Signed into law · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

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. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.

Signed into law May 18, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary HB 830

Signed into law · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, revises present law relative to admission to bail. - Amends TCA Title 40.

Signed into law May 18, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary HJR 574

Signed into law · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Memorials, Recognition - FedEx, 50th anniversary -

Signed into law May 4, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary HB 826

In committee · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Education - As enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or a director's designee, to not assign a student in grades 7-12 who has been suspended for more than 10 days or expelled from the regular school program for an offense of violence or threatened violence, or an offense that threatened the safety of persons attending or assigned to the student's school, to an alternative school or alternative program if the director or designee determines that assigning the student to the alternative school or program may endanger the safety of the students or staff of the alternative school or program. - Amends TCA Title 49.

In committee May 4, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 910

Signed into law · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits local governments from dismissing, disciplining, fining, or penalizing a jailer or corrections officer employed by a local government, or denying employment to a person applying to be a jailer or corrections officer, based on where the jailer or corrections officer or applicant resides. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 8, Chapter 8.

Signed into law May 3, 2023 0 co-sponsors