Tennessee Representative Joe Towns [D] | Bills

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TNHB1248Engross
50%
As introduced, requires the department of human services to advertise prominently on the home page of the department's website the division of adult protective services' toll-free telephone service that enables citizens within the state to call the d...
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2024-04-24
Passed Senate, Ayes 31, Nays 0
TNHB1807Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the state fire marshal or another state entity that receives an inspection request for new construction or the renovation of an existing building to conduct the inspection within 72 hours of receipt of the request. - Amends TC...
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2024-04-24
Comp. SB subst.
TNHB2943Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the application of certain indecent exposure offenses by including victims from 13 to 17 years of age; increases the penalty for indecent exposure if the victim is between 13 and 17 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1924Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the penalty for indecent exposure from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony if the person was confined in a penal institution at the time of the commission of the offense and the offense was committed with the intent to ...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2641Enroll
75%
As introduced, authorizes counties and municipalities, by resolution or ordinance of their governing bodies, to levy a tax on the retail sale of food and food ingredients for human consumption within the county or municipality at a rate less than the...
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2024-04-24
Transmitted to Governor for his action.
TNHB2940Engross
50%
As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
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2024-04-24
Passed Senate, Ayes 31, Nays 0
TNHB2954Enroll
75%
As introduced, enacts the "Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men Act," which requires health insurance coverage for the early detection of prostate cancer for men who meet certain risk criteria or age thresholds. - Amends TCA ...
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2024-04-24
Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
TNHB2302Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from 15 days to 15 business days the time period a court may send notification of a defendant's conviction of aggravated cruelty to animals to the appropriate protective agencies if the defendant resides in a household with m...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
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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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1859PassAs introduced, prohibits certain licensing authorities from automatically barring an individual from licensure because of the individual's criminal record; requires the licensing authority to provide individualized consideration of an individual's cr...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNHB1640PassAs introduced, expands the definition of "adjudication as a mental defective" to include a person who has been found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding and requires the clerk of court in such a proceeding to collect and report any su...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2692Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the court to order an offender to wear a global positioning monitoring system device under certain circumstances unless the court finds the offender no longer poses a threat to the alleged victim or public safety; specifies th...
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2366Intro
25%
As introduced, changes the application requirements for international medical school graduates applying for special licenses. - Amends TCA Title 63.
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2024-04-22
Comp. SB subst.
TNHB2125PassAs introduced, designates November as "Christian Heritage Month." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.
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2024-04-22
Signed by Governor.
TNHB1731Intro
25%
As introduced, decreases from two inches to one and one-half inches the minimum height of the lettering required to be used on the mandatory signage posted on property for which an agreement exists with a person engaged in the business of installing ...
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2728PassAs introduced, authorizes probation officers to meet with probationers utilizing a technology portal or for probationer's employer to submit weekly reports verifying the probationer's current employment in place of an in-person meeting upon approval ...
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2024-04-22
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2047PassAs introduced, adds former public officials to the list of officials who may contest liens on real property believed to lack any legal basis. - Amends TCA Section 47-9-513 and Title 66, Chapter 21, Part 1.
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2024-04-22
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2921Intro
25%
As introduced, requires all TennCare health benefit plans to provide coverage and reimbursement for mental health services and treatment to the same extent that the plans provide coverage and reimbursement for the treatment of alcoholism and drug dep...
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2011Intro
25%
As introduced, broadens the electronic health care records modernization act to include subjecting healthcare entities to injunctive relief and civil penalties for interfering with their patients accessing electronic health information and prohibitin...
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2226Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Maternal Health Equity Advisory Committee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-04-18
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2222Intro
25%
As introduced, adds testing for variants of the Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) gene associated with increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease to the conditions for which the department of health must develop screening...
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2024-04-18
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2828Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "African American Cultural and Historical Grant Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 13.
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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
TNHB2826PassAs enacted, requires the department, using existing resources, to develop a conflict resolution program that may be adopted and implemented by LEAs and public charter schools to assist students in any of the grades K-12 in developing the skills neces...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 676
TNHB2898Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a registry of persons convicted of the criminal offense of domestic assault; requires the bureau to maintain the registry. - Amends TCA Title 18; Section 38-6-103; Title 39 and Title 40.
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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
TNHB1878Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from 48 hours to seven days the time in which a victim of a crime or a member of the victim's family has to report the crime to law enforcement to be eligible to receive a claim for compensation unless good cause is shown. - ...
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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
TNHB2839Intro
25%
As introduced, makes various revisions to provisions related to property that is exempt from execution, seizure, or attachment. - Amends TCA Section 26-2-111.
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2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2008Intro
25%
As introduced, requires organizers of public school athletic events to accept cash as a form of payment for admission to the event or the purchase of concessions or other items for sale at the event; prohibits organizers of public school athletic eve...
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2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2088Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the military department to administer a critical skills retention bonus program to be used to award retention bonuses of up to $10,000 to enlisted service members in the Tennessee national guard; entitles certain state emplo...
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2024-04-16
All Ayes added as Sponsors
TNHB1059Intro
25%
As introduced, removes a provision that, in developing course equivalencies and awarding academic credits, required state institutions of higher education to submit such equivalencies to the Tennessee higher education commission (THEC) on or before D...
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2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1259Intro
25%
As introduced, removes ambiguous language and clarifies that a transfer of a possibility of reverter or right of entry by a holder other than the original grantor is invalid unless the validity of the future interest was determined by a final judgmen...
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2024-04-15
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1832Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a business that makes an automatic renewal offer or continuous service offer to a consumer to obtain affirmative consent to the agreement containing the automatic renewal offer terms or continuous service offer terms no less t...
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2024-04-15
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2864Intro
25%
As introduced, designates barbecue as an official state food. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
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2024-04-11
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2572Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the offense of aggravated rape to include when the defendant commits rape knowing that the defendant is infected with HIV. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.
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2024-04-11
Comp. SB subst.
TNHB2863Intro
25%
As introduced, increases, from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony, the penalty for a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving; requires a person who commits a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving to at...
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2024-04-10
Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee
TNHB2942Intro
25%
As introduced, provides a working families' tax refund for state and local sales and use tax paid on or after January 1, 2024, by low-income taxpayers who are eligible for the federal earned income tax credit. - Amends TCA Title 67.
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2024-04-10
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
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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2024-04-10
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHB0688Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a Class C felony of reckless endangerment committed against a population within a geographic territory by members of a criminal gang and the commission of the offense is gang-related; authorizes a court to revoke or prohibit th...
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2024-04-10
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHB1520Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes an extended juvenile court jurisdiction pilot project through which a juvenile court in Davidson County or Shelby County may choose to proceed with a case against a juvenile that could be transferred to criminal court as an...
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2024-04-10
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHB2216PassAs enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends ...
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2024-04-08
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 644
TNHB2519Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer initiating a traffic stop or pedestrian stop, on or after January 1, 2025, to inform the person stopped of the reason for the stop before engaging the person in questioning related to an investigation...
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2837Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a court to order the revocation of a person's driver license if the person is convicted of the offense of reckless endangerment involving the display of a firearm from within a motor vehicle and the person has a prior convicti...
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2840Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the education good time sentence reduction credit from 60 days to 90 days. - Amends TCA Title 41.
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2838Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony the penalty for a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving; requires a person who commits a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving to atte...
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2311PassAs enacted, requires the principal or head of a school that maintains an opioid antagonist at the school to ensure that the opioid antagonist is stored in accordance with manufacturer instructions; prohibits a school from prohibiting a student, emplo...
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2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024
TNHB2690PassAs enacted, 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 buildings o...
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2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 607
TNHB2251PassAs enacted, 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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2024-04-03
Effective date(s) 03/27/2024, 07/01/2024
TNHB2960Intro
25%
As introduced, adds first degree murder, second degree murder, and voluntary manslaughter to the offenses for which a defendant, who has been convicted of a violation that resulted in the death of a parent of a minor child, must pay restitution in th...
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2964Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer who becomes aware that an order of protection has been entered against a person in the officer’s presence but has not been served on the person to take appropriate steps to facilitate service of the...
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2601Intro
25%
As introduced, makes various changes to the requirements for investigating sexual offenses, including requiring all law enforcement personnel involved in investigating sexual assault crimes to complete a minimum of 16 hours annually of sensitivity tr...
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2024-04-02
Taken off notice for cal. in Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB0465Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from 10 to 20, the amount of days within the action complained of, that an aggrieved party must make a written request for a formal hearing under the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, when the commissioner of revenue iss...
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2024-03-28
All Ayes added as Sponsors
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