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SB2457 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 13, Chapter 23, relative to affordable housing.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the agency to establish the payment standard amount for the monthly housing assistance payment under the federal housing choice voucher program to the maximum allowed by federal law. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2453 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to firearms.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a switch or auto sear device designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger, and a firearm built from a weapon parts kit, including a frame or receiver parts kit, and not marked with a serial number, unless certain exceptions apply. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2474 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16 and Title 18, relative to reports related to the operation of courts.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the clerk of each court to compile a monthly report of all criminal fines and fees assessed by the court in the previous month and submit the report to the administrative office of the courts; requires the administrative office of the courts to create and maintain a statewide database and searchable public website that compiles the reports received by the office from the court clerks. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 18.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1928 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 1, relative to class sizes.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, reduces maximum class sizes and maximum average class sizes by one student each school year over a period of five school years, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 1.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2450 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 71, Chapter 5, relative to medicaid expansion.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid 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; requires the governor to ensure that during such negotiation, an emphasis is placed on increasing resources and health care in rural and marginalized communities in this state. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2435 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 47, Chapter 18, relative to parking.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, prohibits a person engaged in the business of installing vehicle immobilization devices on motor vehicles from installing a device on a motor vehicle after sunset or before sunrise. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2462 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 47 and Title 66, relative to first-time home buyers.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, directs the department to promulgate rules to establish a grant program for first-time home buyers. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 47 and Title 66.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2732 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 49 and Title 62, relative to professions.
Raumesh A. Akbari, London P. Lamar
Last updated 4 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, enacts the "Cosmetology Licensure Compact." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49 and Title 62.
STATUS
Passed
SB2447 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 62 and Title 67, relative to entrepreneurship assistance centers.
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, requires the department of economic and community development to establish and support, subject to appropriation, entrepreneurship assistance centers, the purpose of which is to train minority group members, women, individuals with a disability, dislocated workers, and veterans in the principles and practice of entrepreneurship in order to prepare those persons to pursue self-employment opportunities and to pursue a minority-owned business or a women-owned business. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 62 and Title 67.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2452 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 21, relative to the "Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved People Act."
Raumesh A. Akbari
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, enacts the "Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved People Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
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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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