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HB0823 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 11; Title 12; Title 49; Title 58; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to the University of Memphis.
John Gillespie
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the University of Memphis to evaluate the university's educational programs to determine if changes are needed in any of the educational programs and to make the needed changes. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 11; Title 12; Title 49; Title 58; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1296 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 1, relative to long-acting reversible contraceptives.
Esther Helton-Haynes, Yusuf A. Hakeem, Mary Littleton
Last updated over 1 year ago
12 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, requires the department of health to provide voluntary reversible long-acting contraception to women at no charge. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 1.
STATUS
Introduced
HB0701 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to certain sexual offenses.
Clay Doggett, John Gillespie, G.A. Hardaway
Last updated 6 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, adds offenses of continuous sexual abuse of a child committed on or after July 1, 2024, to the list of qualifying criminal misconduct that is sentenced to community supervision for life in addition to any other statutorily imposed punishment. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
STATUS
Passed
HB1029 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 49, relative to juvenile offenders.
Cameron Sexton, Mary Littleton, John Gillespie
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, increases the period in which a juvenile and the juvenile's parents must receive notice of a hearing to transfer the juvenile to adult court from 14 days prior to the hearing to 15 days prior to the hearing. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 49.
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
HB0995 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 6, relative to corporal punishment for students with disabilities.
Robert Stevens, Mark White, Michael Hale
Last updated over 1 year ago
17 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires, prior to the administration of corporal punishment against a student, the student's teacher or school principal to make certain documentation in the student's educational record; prohibits corporal punishment against a student found to have a disability unless authorized in accordance with law. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
STATUS
Passed
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
HJR0094 - A RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to Article I, Section 35 of the Constitution of Tennessee, relative to the rights of crime victims.
Patsy Hazlewood, William G. Lamberth, Clay Doggett
Last updated 7 months ago
44 Co-Sponsors
Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 35 of the Constitution of Tennessee to expand the rights of victims of crimes.
STATUS
Enrolled
HB1120 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37, relative to the department of children's services.
Lowell Russell, John Gillespie, Mary Littleton
Last updated over 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires the department to make chaplain services available on a regular basis to juveniles who are housed in a youth development center; prohibits the department from requiring a juvenile to attend or use chaplain services; requires the department to provide annual training to youth service officers on best practices for behavior management and conflict resolution in the context of supervision of juvenile justice youth; requires the department to house children 16 years of age or older separately from younger children, unless housing the children together is necessary for the safety and well-being of the younger children or to otherwise comply with law relative to the use of seclusion at juvenile detention facilities. - Amends TCA Title 37.
STATUS
Passed
HJR0288 - A RESOLUTION to recognize Officer Tina Shaw for her act of heroism.
Antonio Parkinson, Dwayne Thompson, Tom Leatherwood
Last updated over 1 year ago
93 Co-Sponsors
Officer Tina Shaw
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Tennessee district HD-097
COMMITTEES
Tennessee House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
John Gillespie is a business owner and entrepreneur from Tennessee. Gillespie started his first company at age 19 while attending college. After graduating, he started a real estate company that has grown into one of the largest independent brokerages in Tennessee. In 2017, Gillespie sold his company and became CEO of a healthcare start-up. He also owns a number of other small businesses across Tennessee. Through his business career, Gillespie has created hundreds of jobs.read less
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