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HB0531 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, relative to creditable service in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system.
Paul Sherrell
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, allows TCRS members to establish retirement credit for military service in active federal duty in the armed forces of the United States under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 8.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1025 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-1-412, relative to Tennessee heritage protection.
Ed Butler, Elaine Davis, Tim Hicks
Last updated over 1 year ago
9 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, creates the Tennessee monuments and memorials commission, which is required to study, hear, and resolve petitions for waiver under the Tennessee heritage protection act. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-412.
STATUS
Passed
HB1195 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 63, relative to the practice of physical therapy.
Ryan Williams, Paul Sherrell, Clay Doggett
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, allows the practice of physical therapy to be under the written or oral referral of a nurse practitioner or physician assistant; removes certain minimum education requirements to engage in the independent practice of physical therapy. - Amends TCA Title 63.
STATUS
Passed
HB1260 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-14-206 and Title 70, relative to the taking of aquatic creatures.
Paul Sherrell
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, establishes requirements and limitations for the use of a trotline to kill, catch, or take fish or other aquatic life. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-206 and Title 70.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1482 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 4, relative to the education of professional bondsmen.
Bud Hulsey, Paul Sherrell, Lowell Russell
Last updated over 1 year ago
5 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, allows the Tennessee Association of Professional Bail Agents to provide or contract for one or more virtual classes for agents; increases the maximum amount the association may charge for eight hours of continuing education; prohibits a person from attending such continuing education classes if the person has been convicted in any state of certain offenses. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11, Part 4.
STATUS
Passed
HB0962 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to secondary education.
William Slater, Scott E. Cepicky, Debra Moody
Last updated over 1 year ago
25 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, authorizes an LEA to award a high school student credit for a course offered by the LEA's high school if the student attains a qualifying score on the course's final examination without requiring the student to enroll in the course. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Passed
HB1072 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 25; Title 46, Chapter 6 and Title 58, relative to funeral honors.
Kirk Haston, Mary Littleton, Chris Hurt
Last updated over 1 year ago
54 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires the department to establish an honor guard grant program to provide grants to veteran service organizations to offset expenses incurred by the organization and members of the organization's honor guard in providing military funeral honors for qualifying Tennessee veterans. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 25; Title 46, Chapter 6 and Title 58.
STATUS
Passed
HB1319 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 15; Title 49 and Title 58, relative to the display of flags.
Sabi Kumar, Scott E. Cepicky, Lowell Russell
Last updated over 1 year ago
11 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, requires the United States flag and the official state flag to be displayed continuously on property owned, operated, or controlled by this state or a political subdivision of this state, including educational institutions and public school buildings; restricts the display of flags other than the United States flag and the official state flag on said property to only those periods of time for which an entity represented by the flag is meeting or performing an authorized function on the property, with certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 15; Title 49 and Title 58.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1245 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 40, Chapter 23, relative to the death penalty.
Dennis Powers, Lowell Russell, Paul Sherrell
Last updated over 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, allows for a sentence of death to be carried out by electrocution as an alternative to lethal injection if the commissioner of correction certifies to the governor that the department is unable to adhere to the lethal injection protocol required to carry out the sentence of death. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 23.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1286 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 9, Chapter 4, relative to investments.
Jason Zachary, Gregory Bryan Terry, Justin Lafferty
Last updated over 1 year ago
15 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires the department of treasury investment division staff to invest, reinvest, manage, and select investment options for program assets for financial reasons, excluding environmental, social, and governance interests that may not be material to the financial analysis of the investment, for the exclusive benefit of the beneficiaries of the programs while maximizing long-term shareholder value; makes other changes concerning the authority of the state treasurer. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Tennessee district HD-043
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Tennessee House
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