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HB0785 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5; Title 49 and Title 71, Chapter 3, relative to early learning.
Mark White, Torrey C. Harris, Rebecca Kefauver Alexander
Last updated over 1 year ago
9 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and learning program; redirects, from the lottery for education account to an account administered by the department to provide funding for the promising futures scholarship program, a certain percentage of the privilege tax collected from sports wagering licensees for certain fiscal years. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5; Title 49 and Title 71, Chapter 3.
STATUS
Introduced
HB0789 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 67-6-103, relative to distribution of revenues.
Bryan Richey, Todd Warner, Elaine Davis
Last updated over 1 year ago
41 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, increases, over a five-year period, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue appropriated to municipalities; reduces, over a five-year period, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-103.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1242 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to drug offenses.
Dennis Powers, William G. Lamberth, Michele Carringer
Last updated over 1 year ago
17 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly possess xylazine; makes it a Class C felony to knowingly manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine, or to knowingly possess xylazine with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine; provides exceptions for veterinarians. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
STATUS
Passed
HB1232 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to education.
Caleb Hemmer, Mark White, William Slater
Last updated over 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, authorizes a local board of education to contract with a private college or university accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to maintain a training school for grades pre-kindergarten through 12 to provide practice teaching experience for teachers in training. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Passed
HB1230 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-1-401, relative to daylight saving time.
Caleb Hemmer
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, exempts the state from daylight saving time upon the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, and North Carolina exempting themselves from daylight saving time. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-401.
STATUS
Failed
HJR0096 - A RESOLUTION commemorating "Tennessee Music Therapy Week," the week of February 27, 2023.
Mike Sparks, Gregory Bryan Terry, Robert Stevens
Last updated 6 months ago
90 Co-Sponsors
Music Therapy Week
STATUS
Passed
HB1069 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2, relative to voters.
Caleb Hemmer
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the last four digits of a voter's social security number to be included on the voter registration form and application for an absentee ballot, instead of the entire social security number. - Amends TCA Title 2.
STATUS
Introduced
HJR0188 - A RESOLUTION to honor the memory of John Cole Word of Nashville.
Caleb Hemmer
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
John Cole Word
STATUS
Passed
HB1860 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to school meals.
Caleb Hemmer, Aftyn Behn, Jason Powell
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, requires each local school board to establish a school lunch program and a school breakfast program that provide a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in a school under the board's jurisdiction; requires the state to reimburse each LEA the cost of providing a free breakfast and lunch to each student enrolled in the LEA after all available federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
HJR0134 - A RESOLUTION urging the Bureau of TennCare to seek a Section 1115 waiver to provide housing solutions for Tennesseans in need.
Vincent Dixie, Caleb Hemmer
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Urges the Bureau of TennCare to seek a Section 1115 waiver to provide housing solutions for Tennesseans in need.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Tennessee district HD-059
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Tennessee House
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ABOUT
Caleb Hemmer is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Wyoming. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 8, 2022. Hemmer completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Wyoming in 2016. He earned his J.D. from the University of Wyoming in 2020. His professional experience includes working as an attorney.read less
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