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HB0752 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 37 and Title 39, relative to children.
Mary Littleton, Sam Whitson, Rebecca Kefauver Alexander
Last updated over 1 year ago
8 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, creates a criminal offense of a foster parent from a kinship placement knowingly allowing a child in the foster parent's care to visit with the child's parent if the foster parent has knowledge of a current court order prohibiting the parent from visiting with the child, with a first violation being a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine only and a second or subsequent violation being a Class B misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.
STATUS
Passed
HB1151 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8; Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 8, relative to sick leave banks.
Mark White, Torrey C. Harris, Esther Helton-Haynes
Last updated over 1 year ago
18 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, authorizes the grant of sick leave from a sick leave bank to a state employee to care for a sick minor child of the employee. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8; Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 9 and Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 8.
STATUS
Passed
HB1484 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 5; Title 41 and Title 68, relative to inmates infected with bloodborne pathogens.
Bud Hulsey, Chris Todd, Rebecca Kefauver Alexander
Last updated over 1 year ago
5 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, revises present law relative to medical care of prisoners. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 41 and Title 68.
STATUS
Passed
HB1459 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39 and Title 40, relative to criminal offenses.
Debra Moody, Kip Capley, Dave Wright
Last updated over 1 year ago
16 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a warden or chief administrative officer employed by a penal institution, who knows that certain offenses have occurred within the institution, to fail to report such offenses to the district attorney general for the judicial district in which the institution is located and the district attorney general who prosecuted the offense for which the offender is incarcerated within five business days of becoming aware of the offense being committed; authorizes the court to order sentences to run consecutively if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant was incarcerated at the time of the offense and is convicted of an offense that is reportable by a warden or chief administrator. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
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
HB1306 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 47 and Title 48, relative to services.
Sabi Kumar, Jeremy Faison, William G. Lamberth
Last updated over 1 year ago
16 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires that if an entity requires on-site payment from a consumer for the parking of a motor vehicle on the entity's property, and the entity only accepts payment by use of a quick response (QR) code or a credit or debit card machine, then, in the event the QR code or the credit or debit card machine fails to operate correctly to process the payment transaction, the entity must either accept payment by cash, check, or credit or debit card or allow the consumer to leave the property without providing payment at the time. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 47 and Title 48.
STATUS
Passed
HB1503 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68, relative to health care.
Kevin Vaughan, Iris Rudder, Cameron Sexton
Last updated over 1 year ago
18 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires the commissioner of commerce and insurance to conduct a study on the implementation of the federal No Surprises Act and its implications for physicians and healthcare facilities in this state; revises present law concerning network adequacy. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
STATUS
Passed
HB1812 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to education.
Rebecca Kefauver Alexander, Tim Hicks
Last updated 5 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, allows all LEA and public charter school employees, instead of only teachers, to receive their full salary, or average pay, and full benefits in the event they sustain a personal injury as the result of a physical assault or other violent criminal act committed against them while they are acting in the course and scope of their employment. - Amends TCA Title 49.
STATUS
Passed
HJR0355 - A RESOLUTION to honor the memory of Officer Geoffrey "Bernard" Redd of the Memphis Police Department.
Karen D. Camper, Antonio Parkinson, Rebecca Kefauver Alexander
Last updated over 1 year ago
96 Co-Sponsors
Officer Geoffrey "Bernard" Redd
STATUS
Passed
HJR0288 - A RESOLUTION to recognize Officer Tina Shaw for her act of heroism.
Antonio Parkinson, Dwayne Thompson, Tom Leatherwood
Last updated over 1 year ago
93 Co-Sponsors
Officer Tina Shaw
STATUS
Passed
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Representative from Tennessee district HD-007
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Tennessee House
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Rebecca Kefauver Alexander grew up in Maryville, Tennessee. She graduated from Maryville High School and went on to receive her Bachelor’s degree from Maryville College. In 2014, Alexander was elected to replace term-limited state Rep. Joe McCord. She currently serves on the House Health Subcommittee, House Insurance & Banking Subcommittee, House Transportation Subcommittee, and Joint Fiscal Review Committee.read less
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