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SB2754 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to education.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the commissioner of education, subject to appropriations, for the 2024-2025 school year, to approve voluntary pre-kindergarten programs in an amount sufficient to provide up to 1,200 pre-kindergarten classrooms. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2733 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 33 and Title 71, relative to expanding medicaid to provide mental health services.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid for mental health prevention and treatment pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of the expansion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 71.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2760 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to criminal offenses.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, decreases from 10 to nine days, the amount of time before trial a person shall notify the district attorney general in writing of their intention to rely upon an affirmative defense. - Amends TCA Title 39.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2468 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 29, Chapter 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to marijuana.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, authorizes the retail sale of marijuana; levies a 12 percent tax on the retail sale of marijuana. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2467 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 30; Title 8, Chapter 50; Title 50 and Title 71, relative to state employee compensation.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires a full-time state employee's annual compensation to be sufficient to disqualify the employee for state supplemental benefit or public assistance programs, including, but not limited to, the temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) program, supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP), and TennCare program. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 30; Title 8, Chapter 50; Title 50 and Title 71.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2438 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearm ammunition.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires retailers and sellers of firearm ammunition to maintain ammunition in an area inaccessible to a customer in a retail establishment; classifies a violation as a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2752 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71, relative to juveniles.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires monthly reports from a volunteer of the office of community contact within the department of education evaluating the progress of the juvenile assigned to the volunteer. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2758 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to education.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, extends, from October 1 to October 15, the date by which the department of education is required to provide a report regarding the physical education programs and activity for each local education agency to the education committee of the senate and the education instruction committee of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2762 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Section 12-2-112; Title 54 and Title 55, relative to the Transportation Modernization Act of 2023.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the annual report submitted by the department of transportation on the status of projects funded by the transportation modernization fund be supplemental to, and not in place of, other reports required to be submitted by the department on the status of highway projects. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29, Part 2; Section 12-2-112; Title 54 and Title 55.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2756 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17; Title 40 and Title 41, relative to the Tennessee Reconciliation Sentencing Act.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Reconciliation Sentencing Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 17; Title 40 and Title 41.
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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