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SB2440 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 2, relative to directors of schools.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, authorizes a director of schools to delegate one or more of the director's official duties to another person employed by the LEA, if the local board of education has adopted a policy authorizing such delegation. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR0907 - A RESOLUTION to honor the memory of Sara L. Lewis of Memphis.
Raumesh A. Akbari, Brent Taylor
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Sara L. Lewis
STATUS
Passed
SB2442 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 34 and Title 71, Chapter 2, relative to conservatorships and guardianships.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to create standards of practice for guardians and conservators; declares that it is the policy of this state that guardians and conservators must abide by the highest ethical standards of decision-making when making decisions for their wards or protected persons. - Amends TCA Title 34 and Title 71, Chapter 2.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2445 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68, relative to child fatality review teams.
Raumesh A. Akbari, Sara Kyle, London P. Lamar
Last updated 5 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, adds three persons to the state child fatality review team who are each state residents with a child under 18; requires the state child fatality review team to distribute the team's annual report to each local education agency and to the board of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68.
STATUS
Passed
SB2437 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 8 and Title 36, relative to child custody.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the court to include in any parenting plan involving shared custody of a child, the establishment of at least one designated location for the exchange of the child; provides that, unless otherwise agreed by both parents in writing, the court may require the parents to exchange the child at a neutral safe exchange location; requires each sheriff to designate at least one parking lot at the sheriff’s office as a neutral safe exchange location at which parents with shared custody of a child may meet to exchange the child. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8 and Title 36.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2444 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to priority schools.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, reduces, from 25 to 15, the maximum class size in grades K-2 at a priority school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2465 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to school nutrition.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires each local school board to establish programs for free school lunch and free school breakfast for students regardless of income eligibility; 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 private funding and federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2612 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 9 and Title 13, relative to the "African American Cultural and Historical Grant Act."
Raumesh A. Akbari, London P. Lamar, Charlane Oliver
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, enacts the "African American Cultural and Historical Grant Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 13.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2461 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 47, Chapter 18, relative to artificial intelligence.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires each department of the executive branch to develop a plan to prevent the malicious and unlawful use of artificial intelligence for the purpose of interfering with the operation of the department, its agencies and divisions, and persons and entities regulated by the respective department; requires each department to report its plan, findings, and recommendations to each member of the general assembly no later than January 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2460 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 47, Chapter 18, relative to synthetic media.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, creates a violation under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a person or entity that alters the appearance, action, or speech of an individual through the use of synthetic media in a communication that is knowingly distributed publicly with the intent to malign, slander, defame, or otherwise intentionally mislead the public and damage the reputation of the individual. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Tennessee district SD-029
COMMITTEES
Tennessee Senate
BIRTH
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Raumesh A. Akbari was born in India and immigrated to the United States with his family when he was three years old. They settled in Tennessee, where Akbari graduated from White Station High School and went on to earn his B.S. in political science from the University of Memphis and his law degree from Washington University School of Law. Akbari served as a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Bernice Donald before practicing law at Potter Anderson & Corroon and Burr & Forman. He was also an Assistant District Attorney and advisor to the Shelby County Board of Commissioners and Memphis City Council.read less
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