Tennessee Representative Dennis Powers [R] | Bills | Introduced

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TNHB1245Intro

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As introduced, allows for a sentence of death to be carried out by electrocution as an alternative to lethal injection if the commissioner of correction certifies to the governor that the department is unable to adhere to the lethal injection protoco...
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2024-04-17
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB2067Intro

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As introduced, requires that a newborn safety device be installed in each county in this state. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68.
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2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB1999Intro

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As introduced, adds the MidSouth development district to the list of development districts to which this state intends to assist financially; specifies an overall state funding level for the nine development districts; changes the calculation for how...
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2024-04-17
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB2961Intro

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As introduced, directs the Tennessee advisory committee on intergovernmental relations (TACIR), with the assistance of the Tennessee bureau of investigation, the district attorneys general conference, and the department of safety, to study the feasib...
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2024-04-10
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHB2889Intro

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As introduced, authorizes the registered agent of a foreign corporation to resign the agency appointment by filing information with the secretary of state in an electronic format deemed suitable by the secretary of state. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title ...
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2024-04-08
To House Finance, Ways & Means Committee
TNHB0994Intro

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As introduced, clarifies that a threat to use deadly force by a private citizen making an arrest is not in itself considered a use of deadly force; prohibits a private citizen from threatening to use deadly force during the course of a citizen's arre...
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2024-04-03
Def. to Summer Study in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHB1247Intro

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As introduced, prohibits an illegal alien from being housed on real property owned by this state or a political subdivision of this state; excepts incarceration and other housing required as a result of a criminal conviction. - Amends TCA Title 4; Ti...
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2024-03-27
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB2116Intro

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As introduced, extends the 25 percent tuition discount at state institutions of higher education for children of public school teachers to children of full-time law enforcement officers employed by a county or municipality in this state. - Amends TCA...
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2024-03-27
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Administration
TNHB2132Intro

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As introduced, reduces, from 23 to 21, the minimum age required for a student to be eligible for the Tennessee reconnect grant. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
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2024-03-27
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Administration
TNHB2133Intro

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As introduced, extends a 25 percent tuition discount, provided to the children of state employees at state institutions of higher education to the children of county and municipal employees. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 49.
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2024-03-27
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Higher Education Subcommittee of Education Administration
TNHB0682Intro

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As introduced, designates social media platforms as common carriers and requires the entities to obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity from the Tennessee public utilities commission; prescribes fines against social media platforms t...
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2024-03-26
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB2115Intro

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As introduced, requires local education agencies (LEAs) and public charter schools to recognize November 7 of each year as Victims of Communism Day to honor the people who have fallen victim to communist regimes across the world; requires LEAs and pu...
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2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
TNHB2591Intro

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As introduced, allows Tennessee comprehensive assessment program (TCAP) tests to be administered to students enrolled in a virtual school or virtual education program through the internet in a virtual or remote setting if certain requirements are met...
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2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
TNHB1044Intro

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As introduced, requires the department of safety to issue permits with the designation "Enhanced Handgun Carry Permit" on the front of the permit; requires the department to issue replacement permits for any permit that contains the designation "Hand...
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2024-02-05
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2592Intro

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As introduced, removes the requirement that, no later than December 31, 2021, the commissioner, or the commissioner's designee, submit to the U.S. secretary of labor and the administrator of the national office of apprenticeship, an application to re...
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2024-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB2593Intro

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As introduced, removes an obsolete provision that applied penalties and remedies of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 to a repealed part of the Code. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2024-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB2738Intro

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As introduced, deletes an obsolete reference for a person who possesses a Class I carnivore prior to July 1, 2015, and who continues to possess the animal on or after July 1, 2015, to have a compliant microchip implanted in the animal by July 1, 2018...
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2024-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB2131Intro

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As introduced, removes an outdated provision that required the department of labor and workforce development, on or before January 1, 2014, to report to the commerce and labor committee of the senate and the business and utilities committee of the ho...
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2024-01-31
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB0789Intro

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As introduced, increases, over a five-year period, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue appropriated to municipalities; reduces, over a five-year period, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the shar...
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2023-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB0500Intro

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As introduced, appropriates $20 million to the legislature for the purchase or construction of a building or other facility accessible to the Cordell Hull Building. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12.
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2023-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB0166Intro

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As introduced, establishes that full-time state employees who are members of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including the Tennessee army and air national guard, shall continue to accrue annual and sick leave the employe...
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2023-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB0311Intro

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As introduced, requires the state procurement commission to strive to ensure that at least 5 percent of procurement contracts are awarded to veteran-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 12.
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2023-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB1481Intro

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As introduced, makes gold and silver coinage legal tender; authorizes payment of taxes with gold and silver coinage; makes other changes concerning precious metals. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 38; Title 45 and Title 67.
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2023-04-18
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB1246Intro

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As introduced, removes exemptions from prosecution of the offense of transporting illegal aliens for common carriers and those transporting individuals for religious purposes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 37; Title 39; Title 49; Titl...
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2023-03-22
Assigned to s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee
TNHB0683Intro

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As introduced, requires that vessels used on Tennessee waterways and owned by nonresidents be registered with a certificate of identification number; requires that the proceeds from the registration fees be used for the enforcement of boating regulat...
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2023-02-28
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee of Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
TNHB1244Intro

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As introduced, enacts the "Local School District Empowerment Act"; allows for the establishment of the office of elected superintendent of schools; adjusts duties of local boards of education in school systems in which the office of elected superinte...
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2023-02-14
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB0681Intro

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As introduced, enacts the "Rescue Squad Recognition Act," which establishes a process by which the state fire marshal may issue a three-year certificate of recognition to a newly established rescue squad. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 68.
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2023-02-08
Assigned to s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee
TNHB1243Intro

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As introduced, extends the permitted occurrence date, from June 30, 2023, to June 30, 2025, for an injury underlying a workers' compensation case in which the court of workers' compensation claims is authorized to award reasonable attorneys' fees and...
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2023-02-07
Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
TNHB0679Intro

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As introduced, reduces, from 60 days to 45 days, the time within which, after the end of the calendar year, the commissioner of financial institutions must submit the department's annual report to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 45.
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2023-02-01
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
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