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HB0759 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 36 and Title 37, relative to the department of children's services.
Rick Eldridge, Torrey C. Harris, Esther Helton-Haynes
Last updated over 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, requires the department to employ a guardian ad litem within each region of the state to advocate for each child who is in the custody of the department due to allegations of dependency and neglect and located within the region that the guardian ad litem serves; requires the guardians ad litem to review dependency and neglect cases of children who have been in the custody of the department for six months to determine whether termination of parental rights should be filed and, if so, file a petition within 30 days. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
STATUS
Introduced
HB0805 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 65, Chapter 4, relative to text message solicitations.
William G. Lamberth, Clark Boyd, Greg Martin
Last updated over 1 year ago
18 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, extends the prohibitions, requirements, and penalties that apply to telephone solicitations to text message solicitations. - Amends TCA Title 65, Chapter 4.
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
HB1391 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 11, relative to criminal law.
William Slater, Chris Todd
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, changes, from 21 days to 30 days, the time in which a court must hold a hearing from the date a claimant's motion is filed to have the state show cause why forfeited property should not be returned or a lien lis pendens released. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1163 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 48 and Title 56, relative to health care.
Chris Todd, Bud Hulsey, Paul Sherrell
Last updated 6 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, enacts the "Healthcare Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act." - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 56.
STATUS
Passed
HB0958 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9, relative to middle college scholarships.
William Slater
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As introduced, extends eligibility for a Tennessee middle college scholarship to students enrolled in any eligible postsecondary institution located in this state, instead of only eligible public two-year postsecondary institutions, that is partnering with a local education agency to offer middle college to students. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
STATUS
Introduced
HB0983 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49, relative to employment benefits.
Cameron Sexton, Kirk Haston, G.A. Hardaway
Last updated over 1 year ago
8 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, requires local education agencies (LEAs) to provide licensed employees of the LEA 6 paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.
STATUS
Passed
HB0957 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9, relative to dual enrollment.
William Slater
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
As enacted, allows an eligible independent postsecondary institution and certain private, nonprofit technical schools to charge dual enrollment students tuition or fees in an amount that exceeds the amount of the student's dual enrollment grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
STATUS
Passed
HB1045 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 2, relative to political party registration.
Kelly Keisling, Clay Doggett, Bryan Richey
Last updated over 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
As introduced, requires each voter to declare a political party affiliation or that the voter is unaffiliated with a political party on voter registration; authorizes political parties to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in that political party's primary. - Amends TCA Title 2.
STATUS
Failed
HB1280 - AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3 and Title 71, Chapter 6, relative to offenses committed against the elderly.
Kelly Keisling, Kip Capley, Jody Barrett
Last updated over 1 year ago
31 Co-Sponsors
As enacted, expands the offense of aggravated stalking to include a person who commits stalking against a victim who is at least 65 or older. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3 and Title 71, Chapter 6.
STATUS
Passed
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Representative from Tennessee district HD-035
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