Tennessee Representative Lowell Russell [R]

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TNHB2590PassAs enacted, makes bullying and cyber-bullying offenses subject to the same penalties as harassment; requires an officer to make a report of bullying and notify a parent or guardian when victim is a minor. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and...
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB2267PassAs enacted, lowers, from 15 to seven, the number of days by which a general sessions judge may postpone a trial for forcible entry and detainer; makes other changes related to forcible entry and detainers. - Amends TCA Title 27; Title 29 and Title 66...
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB2882PassAs enacted, requires, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each local education agency and public charter school to provide students with age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction on firearm safety. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/23/2024
TNHB1906PassAs enacted, makes changes to the law relative to statutes of limitations for bringing actions for injury or illness based on certain child sexual abuse offenses, including trafficking offenses. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39.
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB2429PassAs enacted, states that the court, rather than the sheriff or administrative officer of a local jail, may authorize the use of alternative facilities for the incarceration of an offender convicted of a first time offense of driving under the influenc...
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2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 774
TNHB2119PassAs enacted, establishes generally that a condemner bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence certain facts relative to public use; grants the property owner a right to have a court of competent jurisdiction determine if the takin...
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024
TNHB2125PassAs enacted, designates November as "Christian Heritage Month." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024
TNHB2100PassAs enacted, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on certain analysis; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or othe...
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB2537PassAs enacted, requires former and current district attorneys general, in order to solemnize the rite of matrimony, to opt in by filing notice of intention to solemnize the rite of matrimony with the office of vital records. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapt...
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024
TNHB2728PassAs enacted, requires a probation officer to set required in-person meetings at times and locations that reasonably accommodate the work schedule of the probationer; authorizes the probation officer to utilize a technology portal for communication wit...
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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024, 07/01/2024
TNHB2047PassAs enacted, 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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2024-05-01
Effective date(s) 04/22/2024
TNHB2762PassAs enacted, enacts the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 45 and Title 47.
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2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 773
TNHB2464PassAs enacted, requires local boards of education to include school safety training in the training requirements for substitute teachers; clarifies that LEAs are prohibited from hiring a substitute teacher whose license in another state is revoked; make...
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2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 735
TNHB1883PassAs enacted, establishes that generally an attorney or an agent designated to make healthcare decisions under a durable power of attorney for health care has a right to in-person visitation with the principal at a hospital where the principal is locat...
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2024-05-01
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 766
TNHB1922PassAs enacted, makes changes to the procedure for surrendering custody of an unwanted infant without criminal liability. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.
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2024-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 728
TNHB0465PassAs enacted, enacts the "Representative Darren Jernigan Act," which requires, beginning on January 1, 2025, and each year thereafter, the department of revenue to verify that the owner of each disabled parking placard has not died; requires the depart...
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2024-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 726
TNHB1698PassAs enacted, requires the juvenile court to include in the disposition for a juvenile who has been found to have made a threat to commit mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity, in addition to any other disposition authorized ...
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2024-04-29
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 727
TNHJR1456Engross

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Glioblastoma Cancer Awareness Day
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2024-04-24
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee
TNHB1319Engross

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As introduced, requires the United States flag and the official state flag to be displayed continuously on property owned, operated, or controlled by this state or a political subdivision of this state, including educational institutions and public s...
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2024-04-23
Re-refer to S. Cal Comm
TNHB1947Intro

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As introduced, makes various changes to criminal offenses involving fentanyl; increases the penalty one classification for criminal offenses involving fentanyl if the defendant crossed county lines in the course of the criminal offense; requires cert...
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2024-04-23
Taken off notice for cal. in Criminal Justice Committee
TNHJR0801PassUrges the federal government to do all within its power to secure the U.S. border.
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2024-04-18
Signed by Governor.
TNHR0155PassMaster Sergeant Robert D. Davis, Jr., United States Air Force
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2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHB1187Intro

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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.
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.
TNHB0028Intro

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As introduced, deletes requirement that municipalities adopt a comprehensive growth plan and have an approved urban growth boundary prior to annexing unincorporated territory. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 10; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 49 and...
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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
TNHB1637Intro

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As introduced, exempts from sales tax the retail sale of infant diapers, wipes, and formula sold between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3.
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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
TNHB2586Intro

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As introduced, suspends the professional privilege tax for any year in which the amount of state general fund tax revenue over-collections during the prior fiscal year exceeded $500,000,000. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
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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
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
TNHB0909Intro

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As introduced, extends annuity and insurance death benefits to the estate and surviving family members of a commissioned reserve law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty; immunizes such officers from tort liability under certain circumstanc...
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2024-04-17
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB1726PassAs enacted, prohibits the department from requiring an immunization as a condition of adopting or overseeing a child in foster care if an individual or member of an individual's household objects to immunization on the basis of religious or moral con...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 699
TNHB2124PassAs enacted, 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 pres...
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2024-04-17
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB2911PassAs enacted, specifies that the court may order reasonable visitation to grandparents when it is in the best interest of the child; requires the reasonable visitation to be, at a minimum, sufficient contact that reasonably permits a strong and meaning...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 715
TNHB2089PassAs enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Disability and Aging Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 33; Title 34; Title 37; Title 40; Title 41; Title 45; Title 49; Title 52; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67; T...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 688
TNHB1878Intro

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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
TNHB1998Intro

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As introduced, requires the bureau to reimburse certain public or private ground-based ambulance services that bill for transports at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for...
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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
TNHB1899Engross

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As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to employ retired law enforcement officers who are retired from a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency and honorably discharged veterans of the United States armed forces to serve a...
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2024-04-17
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TNHJR1152PassGrand Ole Opry House, 50th anniversary
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2024-04-16
Signed by Governor.
TNHB0688Intro

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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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2024-04-11
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHJR1359Intro

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States that neither World Health Organization, United Nations, nor the World Economic Forum shall have any jurisdiction or power within the State of Tennessee.
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2024-04-11
To House Delayed Bills Committee
TNHJR0038Intro

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Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 26 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the provision that authorizes the legislature to regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime and to clarify that citizens have a right to keep and...
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2024-04-10
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB2794Intro

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As introduced, authorizes a state or local law enforcement agency, at the direction of the executive officer with authority over such agency or the commissioner of safety, to provide aid and assistance to another state or a law enforcement agency of ...
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2024-04-10
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
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
TNHJR1142PassFirst anniversary of the Covenant School shooting
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2024-04-10
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2304Engross

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As introduced, requires the department to provide written and electronic notice to the employing company of a person appointed and commissioned as a state facility protection officer to provide facility security when the department no longer requires...
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2024-04-10
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TNHJR1096PassRepresentative Curtis Johnson
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2024-04-09
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR1098PassRepresentative John Holsclaw
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2024-04-09
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR1097PassRepresentative Sam Whitson
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2024-04-09
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR1141PassRepresentative Dwayne Thompson
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2024-04-09
Signed by Governor.
TNHB1645PassAs enacted, 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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2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 04/02/2024
TNHB2126PassAs enacted, allows a juvenile court to transfer a child, who is 15 or older, to be tried as an adult in criminal court for the offense of organized retail crime, theft of a firearm, or an attempt to commit such offense; revises law with regard to con...
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2024-04-08
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
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