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SB2470 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 49 and Title 50, relative to diversity.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, allows employers and public institutions of higher education in this state to establish, maintain, and implement policies, practices, and requirements designed to safeguard employees, applicants for employment, students, faculty, and staff from discrimination based on race, creed, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity, which may be developed and administered through an office of diversity, equity, and inclusion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 50.
STATUS
Introduced
SJR0908 - A RESOLUTION to honor and congratulate Linda Street upon the retirement of her jersey by Mitchell High School.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Linda Street
STATUS
Passed
SB2729 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49, relative to school safety.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, extends, from February 1 to March 1, the date by which the commissioner of education and the commissioner of safety are required to report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2755 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 41, relative to sentence reduction credits.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, increases the education good time sentence reduction credit from 60 days to 90 days. - Amends TCA Title 41.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2761 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 55; Title 67 and Chapter 181 of the Public Acts of 2017, relative to the Improving Manufacturing, Public Roads and Opportunities for a Vibrant Economy (IMPROVE) Act.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, adds the date on which construction is anticipated to be completed to the list of information that must be included on the annual report submitted by the department on the status of projects funded by the IMPROVE Act. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 67 and Chapter 181 of the Public Acts of 2017.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2757 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 40 and Title 41, relative to the release of offenders.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, enacts the Restoration of Dignity for the Elderly Act, which requires the department to create a five-year pilot program for the release of elderly inmates to home detention; defines an elderly inmate as a person who is 60 years of age or older, has served a minimum of 65 percent of the sentence imposed, is not serving a sentence for a violent sexual offense or more than one conviction for first degree murder or facilitation of first degree murder, and is not serving a sentence of imprisonment for life without parole. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 40 and Title 41.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2727 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to the achievement school district.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, increases, from 60 to 70, the percentage of students enrolled in a school in the achievement school district (ASD) whose parents must have signed a petition demonstrating their support for their child's school remaining in the ASD in order for the school to remain in the ASD beyond the initial 10-year period. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2730 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 14, relative to state funding for the twentieth and thirtieth judicial districts.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 4 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As enacted, requires, for the twentieth (Davidson County) and thirtieth (Shelby County) judicial districts, the state to pay, in equal quarterly installments, to the county or metropolitan government that has a local public defender, an amount annually appropriated for that purpose; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14.
STATUS
Passed
SB2731 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to higher education.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, changes, from January 1 to December 1, the date by which the department of correction is required to transmit its annual report detailing the higher education opportunities available to eligible incarcerated individuals in this state to the chairs of the judiciary and education committees of the senate and the criminal justice and education administration committees of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2759 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40, relative to juveniles.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, changes the time frame within which each delinquent child ordered to probation supervision or committed to the custody of the department must undergo a validated risk and needs assessment to inform supervision levels, referrals to programs, and case planning from within seven days of the court's disposition to within five days of the court's disposition. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
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Senator from Tennessee district SD-029
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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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