Tennessee Representative Kirk Haston [R] | Bills | Introduced

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TNHB2068Intro
25%
As introduced, raises from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony certain animal cruelty offenses involving a cock; requires a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $2,500 for the offense of being a spectator at a cock fight. - Amends TCA Tit...
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2024-04-25
Held on desk.
TNHB0390Intro
25%
As introduced, deletes a provision authorizing the state board of education to, in its discretion, waive the requirement that a person employed as a supervisor for the supervision of teaching grades 1-12 have a license of qualification issued by the ...
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2024-04-25
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB0526Intro
25%
As introduced, removes requirement for receipt of certain grants and loans for water and wastewater treatment infrastructure projects that a municipality includes depreciation in its calculation of fees or rates. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title ...
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2024-04-24
Comp. SB subst.
TNHB2545Intro
25%
As introduced, defines "hospital-based laboratory" and "hospital-based laboratory supervisor" for purposes of the Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act; provides hospital-based laboratory supervisors the authority to supervise up to four hospital-based la...
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2024-04-24
Comp. SB subst.
TNHB2310Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a civil cause of action against any person who knowingly removes a minor from this state without the consent of a parent of the minor for the purpose of assisting the minor in obtaining a healthcare procedure that is for the pu...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
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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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
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.
TNHB1872Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the enhancement of criminal penalties up to life in prison without parole upon conviction of violent crimes by illegal aliens; conviction of possession of a firearm or deadly weapon by an illegal alien; or conviction of a vi...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB0587Intro
25%
As introduced, lowers the threshold for enhancing the minimum sentence of a person convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, from a blood alcohol concentration of 0.20 percent or more to a blood alcohol concentration of 0.15 percent ...
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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.
TNHB2031Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the penalty for intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony; allows a person who suffers loss or injury as a resul...
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1908Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Beyond Ordinary Learning Opportunities (BOLO) Act," which requires the department to establish a one-year pilot program to place a therapy dog in five public schools in the 2024-2025 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1727Intro
25%
As introduced, specifies that a parent or guardian who knowingly leaves their child under the care or supervision of a person who is required to register as a sexual offender commits a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 4 an...
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2283Intro
25%
As enacted, makes revisions to the "School Against Violence in Education Act." - Amends TCA Section 49-6-804.
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2024-04-22
Comp. SB subst.
TNHB1663Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, or especially aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Chapter 1062 of the Public Acts of 2022.
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB0849Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Rural Schools Innovation Act"; requires the department of education to establish a two-year pilot program for rural districts to partner together to expand access to high-quality, robust college and career pathways. - Amend...
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2024-04-17
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB1187Intro
25%
As introduced, reduces, from 29.0141 percent to 28.5262 percent, the share of state sales and use tax revenue deposited to the state general fund; increases, from 4.6030 percent to 5.0909 percent, the share appropriated to municipalities. - Amends TC...
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2024-04-17
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB0785Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to create and implement a promising futures program to provide scholarships to children who are not school age to assist them in developing early language and literacy skills in a high-quality early care and lea...
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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
TNHB2212Intro
25%
As introduced, allows the comptroller of the treasury to investigate the operations of rural hospitals and facilitate the transfer of the ownership and operations of government-owned rural hospitals that have failed or are abandoned. - Amends TCA Tit...
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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
TNHB2211Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes TennCare minimum and maximum reimbursement rate levels for rural hospitals and requires that the reimbursement rate is based on the rural hospital's current federal fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71,...
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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
TNHB2490Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes separate reimbursement rates for ground-based rural ambulance services and urban ambulance services provided to TennCare recipients; allows for certain rural ambulance service providers to receive emergency medical services...
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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
TNHB1011Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the department to submit its annual report to the governor and general assembly on the state's solid waste management system in electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 4 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
TNHB2008Intro
25%
As enacted, prohibits an LEA or public charter school governing body from participating in a public school athletic activity that is hosted by an organizer who does not allow students of a public school that is participating in the public school athl...
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2024-04-16
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2285Intro
25%
As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to temporary teaching permits and teaching end-of-course examination classes. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-04-16
Comp. SB subst.
TNHB2088Intro
25%
As enacted, 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 employee...
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2024-04-16
All Ayes added as Sponsors
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.
TNHB1183Intro
25%
As introduced, extends from October to November, the time within which a public institution of higher education that receives funds from the distribution of credit cards to students or any percentage from the use of cards bearing the college or unive...
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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
TNHB1554Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes a program under which a state employee may receive up to six weeks of paid leave if the employee becomes a foster parent of a minor child. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8; Title 16 and Title 50.
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2024-04-01
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNHB1917Intro
25%
As introduced, revises the weighted allocations generated by a student for purposes of the TISA based on the number of students who are members of the LEA in which the student resides. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 3.
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2024-03-27
Taken off notice for cal. in Education Administration
TNHB2818Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes public school students in grades nine through 12 to be excused from school attendance for one school day per school year to allow students to participate in a civic engagement activity. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-03-13
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNHB2470Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of education to contract with a vendor to provide internet security software for school-issued electronic devices in selected LEAs as part of a two-year pilot program. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-03-05
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
TNHB2007Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes a tanning facility to operate either with a trained attendant on duty or a self-serving customer kiosk that allows a customer to initiate the tanning process without the service of a trained attendant; authorizes a tanning f...
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2024-02-27
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
TNHB2742Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes off-highway vehicles to be operated on certain designated roads and highways in Perry County. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-185.
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2024-02-21
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Transportation Subcommittee of Transportation Committee
TNHB1985Intro
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As introduced, expresses the intent that the department of finance and administration, in coordination with the departments of health and mental health and substance abuse services, give priority to efforts that facilitate the expansion of a health c...
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2024-02-20
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee
TNHB1148Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to electronically publish on the department's website all proposals for establishing trails and reports on trails that the commissioner submits to the governor and the general assembly pursuant to the Tennessee ...
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2024-02-15
Sponsor(s) withdrawn.
TNHB2314Intro
25%
As introduced, requires that grants provided by the department to provide assistance to distressed counties and communities in this state require a 10-percent match of funds raised locally, which may include public and private funds. - Amends TCA Tit...
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2024-02-14
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee of State Government Committee
TNHB2544Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a government-owned hospital or health system to submit a report to the health facilities commission disclosing certain information on administrative bonuses or salary increases and any disbursements and contractor costs on an ...
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2024-02-06
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee
TNHB2284Intro
25%
As introduced, changes, from 30 days to 30 business days, the amount of time an athletic agent applicant has to respond to a request for clarifying information from the secretary of state before risking the denial, revocation, or non-renewal of a cer...
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2024-02-01
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB2009Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a sales tax refund for a primary or secondary vehicle purchased in response to a natural disaster. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
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2024-01-31
Withdrawn.
TNHB0135Intro
25%
As introduced, extends mandatory retirement provision imposed on certain public safety officers to commissioned special agents of the department of revenue and commissioned members of the department of environment and conservation; requires such pers...
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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
TNHB0251Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Special Educator Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
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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
TNHB0391Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the board of regents to develop and administer a two-year pilot program to award grants to students enrolled in an eligible workforce training program. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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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
25%
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
TNHB1174Intro
25%
As introduced, removes language that incorrectly refers to the department of safety as the department of safety and homeland security in a provision that requires the department of safety, in collaboration with the department of education, to develop...
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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
TNHB0524Intro
25%
As introduced, clarifies that the office of early learning is required, by February 1, to provide an annual report to the governor and the general assembly on the status of pre-kindergarten programs, which must include, at a minimum, the number, loca...
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2023-03-28
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
TNHB0570Intro
25%
As introduced, allows civil actions for an injury or illness based on child sexual abuse occurring on or after a certain date to be brought at any time. - Amends TCA Section 28-3-116.
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2023-03-21
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
TNHB0847Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the minimum compensation for certified administrators of elections from 90 percent of the compensation of the county assessor of property to 100 percent of the compensation of the county assessor of property. - Amends TCA Tit...
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2023-03-15
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Cities & Counties Subcommittee of Local Government Committee
TNHB0848Intro
25%
As introduced, adds various exceptions to mandatory retention for third grade students who are not proficient in English language arts; allows an LEA to retain students in any of the grades kindergarten through two who have not shown a basic understa...
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2023-03-14
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
TNHB1092Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes off-highway vehicles to be operated on roads and highways in Perry County. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-185.
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2023-02-22
Def. to Summer Study in Transportation Subcommittee
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