Tennessee Representative John Ragan [R]

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TNHB0806PassAs enacted, makes revisions to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act of 1989, including expanding the definition of racketeering activity. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 12, Part 2.
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 487
TNHB1365PassAs enacted, revises provisions relating to background checks for persons considered for appointment to or employment in various positions in state government and for administrators and employees of child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter ...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 433
TNHB0088PassAs enacted, requires the department of safety to waive the knowledge test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members and members of the national guard or the armed forces reserves applying for tempo...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 422
TNHB0250PassAs enacted, requires, beyond the 2022-2023 school year, each LEA and public charter school to provide each high school senior, instead of students generally, the opportunity to take nationally recognized assessments if the assessments meet certain cr...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 439
TNHB1311PassAs enacted, enacts the "Graduate Physicians Act." - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 470
TNHB0485PassAs enacted, enacts the "Eddie Conrad Act," which establishes the number of points to be charged to a person's driving record for violations of driving while using a wireless telecommunications device. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-199.
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 428
TNHB0431PassAs enacted, changes the present law that imposes and remits a tax on a person's purchase, use, consumption, or storage of aviation fuel that is used in the operation of an aircraft of a certificated or licensed air carrier with a transportation hub w...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 455
TNHB1346PassAs enacted, prohibits this state and its political subdivisions from adopting or implementing policy recommendations that deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy rec...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 479
TNHB1144PassAs enacted, clarifies that the registration fee for one school bus owned by a person under contract with a local education agency (LEA) for the provision of transportation services is equal to the fee charged for a school bus owned by an LEA. - Amend...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 462
TNHB1431PassAs enacted, increases the pay schedule for certain assistant district attorneys general, assistant district public defenders, district investigators, and criminal investigators. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7.
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 460
TNHB1269PassAs enacted, specifies that a teacher or other employee of a public school or LEA is not required to refer to a student using the student's preferred pronoun if the pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex; insulates a teacher or ot...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 448
TNHB1286PassAs enacted, requires the department of treasury investment division staff to invest, reinvest, manage, and select investment options for program assets for financial reasons, excluding environmental, social, and governance interests that may not be m...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 471
TNHB0158PassAs enacted, prohibits a local education agency, public charter school, public institution of higher education, the state board of education, and the department of education from requiring an educator, employee of an LEA or charter school, faculty mem...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 438
TNHB1199PassAs enacted, revises present law relative to tuition reimbursement for national guardsmen. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 485
TNHB1072PassAs 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 funer...
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024
TNHB0457PassAs enacted, makes changes concerning youth sports safety. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 62, Chapter 50 and Title 68.
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHB0323PassAs enacted, makes various revisions to present tax law. - Amends TCA Title 67.
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023, 04/01/2024, 01/01/2024, 07/01/2024, 01/01/2025
TNHB0885PassAs enacted, enacts the "Prior Authorization Fairness Act." - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56 and Title 71.
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2025
TNHB1060PassAs enacted, makes changes to the Tennessee Employment Security Law relative to benefit eligibility conditions, disqualifications events, and methods for employers to report certain conduct of claimants. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 50; Title 62; Title...
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB0328PassAs enacted, renames the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Act" to be the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Public Safety Protection Act of 2023" and makes various changes to its existing provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 9.
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023
TNHB0938PassAs enacted, allows owners of real property used primarily for agricultural purposes who reside in a territory previously annexed by ordinance upon the initiative of the municipality to petition the municipality to deannex such property, if certain co...
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHB0432PassAs enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 07/01/2023
TNHB0831PassAs enacted, requires the bureau to develop a request for certification form to be completed by the court and submitted to the bureau prior to entering an order of expunction, with a few exceptions; requires the bureau to determine and certify whether...
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023
TNHB0702PassAs enacted, enacts the "One Pill Will Kill Act," which adds fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, and thiafentanil to what constitutes a qualifying controlled substance for purposes of certain felony offenses. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Tit...
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHB0562PassAs enacted, clarifies that compensation for members of the national guard must accrue upon them being ordered to active state service and the payment of compensation to members must use this state's established weekly pay cycle as needed to effectuat...
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2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHB0289PassAs enacted, requires a sentence of death to be carried out within 30 business days of the conclusion of any appeals or post-conviction relief, if the jury unanimously determines that certain circumstances are met. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
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2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHB0322PassAs enacted, revises various provisions of present law relative to safety in elementary and secondary education and the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 62, Chapter 35.
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2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/10/2023, 07/01/2023
TNHB1225PassAs enacted, revises present law relative to child support. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-103 and Title 36.
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2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023
TNHB0606PassAs enacted, makes various revisions to present law relative to adoption. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 36; Title 37; Title 47 and Title 71.
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2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHB0027PassAs enacted, allows a student who earns the student's first baccalaureate degree in less than the projected completion time to continue to receive the Tennessee HOPE scholarship in pursuit of an advanced degree. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part ...
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2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 07/01/2023
TNHB0040PassAs enacted, prohibits certain foreign ownership of real property in this state by nonresident aliens and foreign entities if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66.
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2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHB0155PassAs enacted, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible emergency medical services personnel in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.
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2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024
TNHB0203PassAs enacted, extends the department of children's services to June 30, 2024; requires the department to submit quarterly reports to the chairs of the government operations committees to provide updates on the department's progress in addressing perfor...
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2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 331
TNHB0234PassAs enacted, continues permanent rules filed with the secretary of state between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2022, that are in effect on the effective date of this act until repealed or amended by subsequent rule of the appropriate rulemaking ag...
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2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 332
TNHB0002PassAs enacted, makes permanent various provisions regarding COVID-19. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Section 49-7-159 and Chapter 896 of the Public Acts of 2022.
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2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 48
TNHB1342PassAs enacted, places certain restrictions on employers seeking to receive economic development incentives. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.
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2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHB0437PassAs enacted, revises various provisions of present law pertaining to the promotion of students from third grade. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 338
TNHB0472PassAs enacted, establishes standards for shelter that must be provided to dogs under animal cruelty laws. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 44.
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2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 335
TNHB1150PassAs enacted, requires the department to conduct a statewide needs analysis of preschool education in this state; requires the department to establish the Tennessee preschool task force to assist in developing a strategic plan for preschool education i...
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2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 340
TNHB1444PassAs enacted, makes changes to present law relative to criminal offenses involving motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 55.
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2023-05-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHJR0027PassExpresses strong support for completion of the southern border wall and urges Congress to immediately take action to fund the construction.
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2023-05-04
Signed by Governor.
TNHB1321PassAs enacted, allows school bus drivers to use a portable electronic device for navigation of the school bus and for accurately accounting for students at bus pick-up and drop-off locations through use of the device's global positioning system if no ha...
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2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 210
TNHB1312PassAs enacted, revises the law relative to the board of medical examiners issuing a temporary license of limited duration to certain international medical school graduates. - Amends TCA Title 63.
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2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 211
TNHB0424PassAs enacted, authorizes the commissioner of education to grant an individual pursuing clinical experience in an educator preparation program (EPP) who meets certain requirements a temporary permit to teach in a teaching position in which an LEA or pub...
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2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 284
TNHB0826PassAs enacted, authorizes a director of schools, or a director's designee, to not assign a student in grades 7-12 who has been suspended for more than 10 days or expelled from the regular school program for an offense of violence or threatened violence,...
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2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 279
TNHB1400PassAs enacted, requires certain persons convicted of rape, when the victim is 13-17, or incest, when the victim is a minor, to be punished as a Range II offender; allows the sentence imposed, if appropriate, to be within Range III but in no case lower t...
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2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 283
TNHB0962PassAs enacted, authorizes an LEA to award a high school student credit for a course offered by the LEA's high school if the student attains a qualifying score on the course's final examination without requiring the student to enroll in the course. - Ame...
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 269
TNHB1376PassAs enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7 and Title 49, Chapter 8.
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 268
TNHB1388PassAs enacted, terminates the radiologic imaging and radiation therapy board of examiners; authorizes the board of medical examiners, to establish and issue limited and full X-ray certifications. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 63, Chapter 6.
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023
TNHB1416PassAs enacted, extends the benefits and opportunities provided to children of active duty members of the uniformed services in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to school-aged children in the household of a member o...
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 257
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