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21,674
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Attendance
99%
107 missed
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0%
crosses aisle rarely
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Sponsored
560
bills & resolutions
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Vote
Result
Tally
Date
HB 515
Taxes, Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, exempts smokeless nicotine products from the tax on tobacco products and cigarettes. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-1001 and Section 67-4-1005.
Yea
Passed
30–0
Mar 18, 2021
SB 26
Taxes, Excise - As enacted, extends for an additional six years to June 30, 2028, the temporary tax on bottles of soft drinks and barrels of beer to fund programs for the prevention and collection of litter; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Section 57-5-201 and Section 67-4-402.
Yea
Passed
32–0
Mar 18, 2021
HB 431
Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes off-highway vehicle operation on certain segments of Mill Creek Road, Dyna Tex Road, and Old Burrville Road, all within Sunbright, in Morgan County. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-185.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
HB 1418
Motor Vehicles - As enacted, specifies three segments of state highways located in Unicoi County where operation of off-highway vehicles will be authorized. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-185.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
HB 713
Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA to allocate prorated daily per pupil state and local funding to an out-of-state residential mental health facility if a student of the LEA is admitted to the facility and certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Yea
Passed
8–0
Mar 17, 2021
SB 1156
Education - As enacted, requires, if an appeal of a mandatory retention in third grade based on a student's scores on the ELA portion of the student's TCAP test is filed, it must be filed by the student's parent or guardian; requires an LEA or public charter school to include information about third grade retention in information the LEA or charter school must send to a student's parent upon determining that the student has a significant reading deficiency. - Amends Chapter 1 of the Public Acts of 2021 (1st Ex. Sess.); Chapter 3 of the Public Acts of 2021 (1st Ex. Sess.) and TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 9; and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 31.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
HB 472
Schools, Charter - As enacted, entitles all public charter schools to participate in the state group insurance plans selected by the governing body of the public charter school in accordance with existing law; authorizes, instead of requires, teachers and other full-time permanent employees of public charter schools to participate in such plans. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49, Chapter 13.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
HB 116
Driver Licenses - As enacted, disqualifies for life persons convicted of a human trafficking offense from obtaining a commercial driver license; requires lifetime suspension of commercial driver license for persons convicted of a human trafficking offense. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 3 and Title 55, Chapter 50.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
SB 758
Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, reduces the lower gross weight threshold for freight vehicles that are required to pay the registration tax of $1,019 from 56,000 pounds to 55,000 pounds; removes authority for nonresidents to apply directly to department of revenue for off-highway vehicle permits; authorizes issuance of decals instead of new plates upon expiration of special purpose plates for manufacturers, dealers, transporters, and nonprofit organizations. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
Yea
Passed
9–0
Mar 17, 2021
HB 1020
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA to provide voter registration information by hand delivery, mail, or email to the LEA's students who are 18 years of age on or before a date of election. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 12.
Yea
Passed
5–3
Mar 17, 2021
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