Rep. Tom Leatherwood

Primary HB 630

In committee · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to maintain staffing to allow case managers to have no more than 20 open cases, rather than an average of 20 active cases; states that a "person residing in the child's home" includes a person living in a residential setting with a child who is in the custody of the department for purposes of reporting, investigating, and treating child sexual abuse. - Amends TCA Title 37.

In committee Apr 18, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 853

In committee · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Real Property - As enacted, provides that the plane coordinate values for a point on the earth's surface used to express the geographic position or location of such point consist of two distances expressed in either International, instead of United States survey, feet and decimals of a foot or meters and decimals of a meter when using the Tennessee State Plane Coordinate System; removes a requirement when the values are expressed in United States survey feet that they be used as the standard foot for the Tennessee State Plane Coordinate System. - Amends TCA Section 66-6-102.

In committee Apr 18, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 629

In committee · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Education - As introduced, requires an LEA to provide information on its website concerning the career-based experiences available to high school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.

In committee Mar 21, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 179

In committee · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Education, Dept. of - As introduced, removes the commissioner's authority to directly operate, or contract for the management of, a school or any grade configuration within a school in the achievement school district (ASD), and to assign a school or any grade configuration within a school to the ASD, on or after July 1, 2024; removes all schools from the ASD by July 1, 2024; removes all authority of, and requirements established for, the ASD on July 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 49.

In committee Mar 14, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 852

In committee · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a third grade student who is not proficient in English language arts (ELA) based on the student's achieving a performance level rating of "approaching" on the ELA portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test to be promoted to the next grade level if the student has demonstrated growth above the national norm on a universal reading screener and has demonstrated growth in standards mastery based on the student's scores on a state-adopted benchmark assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.

In committee Mar 14, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 1341

In committee · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, requires a person convicted of drag racing to serve a minimum of 48 consecutive hours in confinement; increases the period of time that the department of safety is required to revoke the driver license of a person convicted of drag racing, from one to two years. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5.

In committee Mar 9, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 124

died · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires the registration of personal trailers, including personal trailers used for the transportation of boats or other personal trailers or semitrailers drawn by an automobile or truck. - Amends TCA Title 55.

died Feb 13, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 906

Introduced · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

State Government - As introduced, increases from 90 to 180 days the period by which a nonprofit public benefit corproration that partners with the Governor's Books from Birth Fund must report to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives on its operations and accomplishments after the end of the fiscal year of the nonprofit corporation. - Amends TCA Title 4.

Introduced Feb 2, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2677

Signed into law · Tennessee House · Lead sponsor

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class E felony of an employer influencing or attempting to influence an employee who is a public servant to vote or not to vote in a particular manner or to resign as a public servant or unnecessarily recuse themselves from a public body with the intent to influence the action or inaction of a public body; 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.

Signed into law Jun 6, 2022 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 2445

Signed into law · Tennessee Senate · Lead sponsor

Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class E felony of an employer influencing or attempting to influence an employee who is a public servant to vote or not to vote in a particular manner or to resign as a public servant or unnecessarily recuse themselves from a public body with the intent to influence the action or inaction of a public body; 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.

Signed into law Jun 6, 2022 0 co-sponsors