Tennessee Representative Esther Helton-Haynes [R]

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TNHB1614Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Protect Tennessee Minors Act"; requires an individual or commercial entity that publishes or distributes in this state a website that contains a substantial portion of material harmful to minors perform reasonable age-verif...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 4:30 pm]
To House Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB1642Enroll
75%
As introduced, revises various provisions regarding pretrial release of a defendant charged with a criminal offense to require the magistrate to give first consideration to ensuring the safety of the community when determining whether to impose condi...
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2024-03-18
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHB1645Engross
50%
As introduced, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking, especially aggravated stalking, and felony harassment. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
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2024-03-18
Passed Senate, Ayes 32, Nays 0
TNHB1613Engross
50%
As introduced, designates “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee as the official state holiday song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
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2024-03-18
Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 30, Nays 0
TNHB2251Enroll
75%
As introduced, enacts the "Smart Heart Act"; establishes various requirements for automatic external defibrillators in schools and response protocols for cardiac-related medical emergencies. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
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2024-03-18
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHJR1009Engross
50%
A Soldier's Child Foundation
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2024-03-18
Concurred, Ayes 32, Nays 0
TNHB2124Engross
50%
As introduced, requires, rather than authorizes, law enforcement agencies to communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, including reporting knowledge that a particular alien is not lawfully p...
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2024-03-18
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TNHJR1083Intro
25%
Herman Schrader
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2024-03-18
Filed for introduction
TNHB1969Intro
25%
As introduced, requires installation of carbon monoxide alarms in each room of a child care agency where care is provided to a child; requires the alarms to meet certain national certification standards and be installed in accordance with national fi...
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2024-03-18
To House Government Operations Committee
TNHB2216Intro
25%
As introduced, extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person 18 years of age or older relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 a...
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2024-03-18
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1817Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony for the offense of child endangerment by a parent or custodian of a child eight years of age or less if the parent or guardian knowingly exposes the child to, or know...
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2024-03-18
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHJR1050Intro
25%
Pickett County Lady Bobcats, Class A state champions
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2024-03-18
Adopted, Ayes 94, Nays 0, PNV 0
TNHJR0810Intro
25%
Urges Governor Lee to deploy Tennessee National Guard to support Texas in its efforts to secure border.
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2024-03-18
Adopted as am., Ayes 70, Nays 23, PNV 0
TNHB0623PassAs enacted, specifies that a seller of residential property is required to disclose the presence of a known sinkhole on the property prior to entering into a contract with a buyer regardless of whether the sinkhole is indicated through the contour li...
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2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB1648PassAs enacted, authorizes, upon request, the department of revenue to issue lien-free salvage certificates of title to a salvage pool operator under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 3, Part 2.
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2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB1647PassAs introduced, requires all requests for amendments to county budgets by county departments and other entities to be approved by the department or entity seeking the amendment prior to being submitted to the county legislative body for consideration;...
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2024-03-15
Signed by Governor.
TNHB1923PassAs introduced, requires a Tennessee college of applied technology (TCAT) to reserve an enrollment slot for each dual enrollment student in the term immediately following the last term in which the student was enrolled in the TCAT as a dual enrollment...
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2024-03-15
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2207Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 67.
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2024-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am]
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHB2940Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
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2024-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am]
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHB1950Intro
25%
As introduced, designates June 6 as a day of special observance for D-Day. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
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2024-03-14
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2961Intro
25%
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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2024-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 10:30 am]
To House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHJR0096Enroll
75%
Music Therapy Week
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2024-03-13
Transmitted to Governor for his action.
TNHB2086Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a 340B entity that receives federal grant funds through § 317 or § 318 of the Public Health Service Act to enter into an agreement with the department on such terms and conditions as the commissioner may require in order to ...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 3:30 pm]
To House Health Committee
TNHB2549Intro
25%
As introduced, on or after January 1, 2025, requires a health carrier that issues or renews a health insurance policy, health benefit plan, or contract of accident or health insurance providing benefits for medical or hospital expenses to provide cov...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Insurance Subcommittee
TNHB2650Intro
25%
As introduced, continues the requirement that a temporary healthcare staffing agency presently doing business in this state provide notice to the health facilities commission identifying its business entity and any controlling person by December 31 o...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Health Subcommittee
TNHB2929Intro
25%
As introduced, removes the requirement that the state building commission set a ratio for water closets at publicly and privately owned facilities where the public congregates, including certain football stadiums in Davidson County. - Amends TCA Titl...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am]
To House State Government Committee
TNHJR0853Engross
50%
National Epilepsy Month
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2024-03-13
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNHB2720Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Healthcare Quality and Access Act of 2024"; makes various changes to certificates of need for healthcare facilities. - Amends TCA Title 68.
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Health Subcommittee
TNHJR0798Engross
50%
Urges Governor Lee to work with neighboring states and law enforcement officials to identify and prosecute child and human traffickers.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNHB0521Intro
25%
As introduced, creates the professional music therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology to regulate the practice of music therapy. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63, Chapter 11.
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2024-03-13
Placed behind the budget
TNHJR1006PassRep. Don Ridgeway
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2024-03-13
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2845Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits a beer permittee from selling at retail refrigerated or cold beer. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 57.
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am]
To House State Government Committee
TNHB2378Intro
25%
As introduced, adds the legislative librarian as a party to which the commissioner must submit an annual report on the work done by the commissioner in supervising dentists and dental equipment in the various state institutions, as well as in distrib...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Health Subcommittee
TNHJR0801Engross
50%
Urges the federal government to do all within its power to secure the U.S. border.
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2024-03-12
To Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee
TNHB1644PassAs introduced, requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop a procedure to determine the cause of a fire alarm activation, including the potential of an active shooter event; requires each LEA to coor...
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2024-03-12
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0963PassTennesseans for opposing and condemning neo-Nazism
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2024-03-11
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2690Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to issue grants, subject to appropriations, to support the installation of powered, height-adjustable, adult-sized changing tables in single occupancy family restrooms in privately and municipally owned building...
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2024-03-11
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHJR0811Engross
50%
Recognizes the benefits of chess in education and correctional systems.
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2024-03-11
To Senate Education Committee
TNHB0916Engross
50%
As introduced, extends, from January 15 to February 1 of each calendar year, the due date of the annual report required to be submitted by the bureau of TennCare to certain legislative committees on the use and cost of opioids and other controlled su...
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2024-03-11
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TNHB0949Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes a dental service plan corporation to limit participation in a plan that is providing or managing dental benefits for the impoverished uninsured on behalf of, or as required by, any governmental entity, only if such excluded ...
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2024-03-07
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1687PassAs enacted, authorizes a nurse practitioner or physician assistant to perform the mandatory physical examination of a public safety dispatcher or emergency call taker if the physical examination is included in the written protocol developed by the su...
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2024-03-07
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2445Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts "Emma's Bill," which requires that when making a determination of medical necessity, the bureau shall take into consideration the patient's overall condition and use such overall condition as a factor to determine the level of f...
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2024-03-06
Placed behind the budget
TNHB2462Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of health to publish on its website information on the possibility of reversing the effects of a chemical abortion in any language that is the primary language spoken by 1 percent or more of this state's populat...
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2024-03-05
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Population Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
TNHB1602Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a video or audio recording to be made of any interrogation of a child who has been taken into custody on suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct unless a technical issue with the equipment or exig...
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2024-03-04
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB0689Engross
50%
As introduced, requires an officer to provide an alleged victim of certain criminal offenses with a document notifying the victim of the global positioning monitoring system used as a condition of bail. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, C...
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2024-03-04
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TNHB1778PassAs enacted, extends the board of control of the Tennessee corrections institute to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 41, Chapter 7.
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2024-03-01
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0921PassRoger Dudley Fish
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2024-03-01
Signed by Governor.
TNHB1021Engross
50%
As introduced, increases from 30 to 60 days, after the order of a court to release money held in trust to the custodian of a minor who was a victim of a crime, the period by which the custodian must provide an accounting to the court as to how the mo...
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2024-02-29
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TNHB1680PassAs enacted, expands the Tennessee Adult Protection Act's definition of abuse or neglect to include certain situations when an adult is unable to maintain the adult's own health or welfare. - Amends TCA Section 71-6-102.
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2024-02-28
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0094Enroll
75%
Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 35 of the Constitution of Tennessee to expand the rights of victims of crimes.
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2024-02-26
Signed by Senate Speaker
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