Tennessee Representative Mark Cochran [R] | House | Bills | Introduced

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TNHB1890Intro
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As introduced, establishes a program to allow the department of agriculture to acquire and administer real estate interests in the state, including the administration of grants for the purpose of preserving farm and forestry land; creates the Farmlan...
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) withdrawn.
TNHB0028Intro
25%
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
TNHB2538Intro
25%
As introduced, creates the criminal offense of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence and the threat causes a reasonable expectation or reasonable fear of the commission of an act of mass violence. - ...
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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
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
TNHB2099Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the clerk of every court having jurisdiction of criminal offenses to include a $12.50 charge in every cost bill, to be remitted to the county government to provide support services for the purpose of promoting public safety at...
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2024-04-09
Taken off notice for cal. in Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB2032Intro
25%
As introduced, removes the offense of possessing a weapon in a building that prohibits or restricts weapons; allows a person with an enhanced handgun carry permit to carry a handgun into a business that prohibits or restricts weapons; removes penalti...
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2024-04-09
Taken off notice for cal. in Civil Justice Committee
TNHB1674Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of agriculture and the state forester to promulgate rules for purposes of managing state forests; authorizes the commissioner and state forester to request assistance from law enforcement agencies for enforc...
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2024-04-03
No Action Taken
TNHB2287Intro
25%
As introduced, changes, from the governor to the president of the university, the appointing authority for members of an advisory board; removes the requirement that advisory board members be confirmed by the general assembly prior to beginning a ter...
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal. in Education Administration
TNHB2241Intro
25%
As introduced, removes the requirement that the notice of delinquent hotel-motel taxpayers be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in the month of January. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 4 and Title 67, Chapter 4.
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2024-03-27
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Property & Planning Subcommittee of Local Government Committee
TNHB1889Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to perform certain activities related to management of real property owned by this state; increases the cost threshold for major maintenance contracts for state departments, colleges of applied technology, a...
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2024-03-20
Taken off notice for cal. in State Government Committee
TNHB2034Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of safety to redesign temporary driver licenses and permits and temporary photo identification licenses issued to qualified noncitizens so that the licenses may be easily distinguished from driver and photo iden...
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2024-03-12
To House Finance, Ways & Means Committee
TNHB2772Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to report to the finance, ways and means committee of the senate and the finance, ways and means committee of the house of representatives on the utilization of funds for the Tennessee job skill...
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2024-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB2290Intro
25%
As introduced, updates the title of the person who stands in the place of the director of TWRA in the director's absence or if there's a vacancy in the office of director, from assistant director to deputy director. - Amends TCA Title 70.
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2024-02-01
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB1457Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the length of notice the executive director of the board must give a person holding a current licensure registration to practice as a professional or registered nurse that the renewal fee is due, from 60 days to 65 days prior...
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2024-01-30
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
TNHB2098Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the number of credits, from three to four, a student in a work-based learning program can earn in a year; reduces the number of hours of supervised work experience, from 10 to five, required for a student in a work-based lear...
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2024-01-30
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
TNHB1690Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the sheriff to give the parties involved in a lawsuit to secure an easement or right-of-way four days' notice of the time and place of the proceeding before a jury instead of three days' notice. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; ...
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2024-01-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1685Intro
25%
As introduced, removes the requirement that the department of revenue submit quarterly reports to the transportation committees of both houses on its progress toward completion of the updated computerized titling and registration system; deletes the ...
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2024-01-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1677Intro
25%
As introduced, revises provisions relative to the manner in which the department of general services contracts for, prints, and distributes publications of state departments and agencies. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 12.
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2024-01-22
Withdrawn.
TNHB1686Intro
25%
As introduced, extends, from February 1, 2030, to February 1, 2031, the last year for which the department of revenue is required to annually report to the speakers of both houses and to the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees regarding ...
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2024-01-10
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB7030Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the offenses for which a juvenile court may transfer a child to be tried as an adult in criminal court, if the child was 16 years of age or more at the time of the offense, to include burglary involving the theft of a firearm o...
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2023-08-29
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB7016Intro
25%
As introduced, creates the criminal offense of recklessly, by any means of communication, threatening to commit an act of mass violence; requires the court to determine whether a defendant charged with threatening to commit an act of mass violence is...
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2023-08-28
Withdrawn.
TNHB7081Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the information a person with knowledge of a threat of mass violence must report to the local law enforcement agency to include the approximate age of the person making the threat. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 11...
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2023-08-28
To House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHB7015Intro
25%
As introduced, expands, from certain violent offenses to any felony offense, the offenses for which a person who has been arrested is required to have a biological specimen taken for the purpose of DNA analysis to determine identification characteris...
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2023-08-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB7014Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration to obtain a TennCare new demonstration waiver or amendment to provide medical assistance to members who are receiving care in an institution for mental diseases. - Amends TCA Sect...
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2023-08-22
Assigned to s/c Insurance Subcommittee of 1st Extraordinary Session
TNHB7058Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the statutory duty that qualified mental health professionals and licensed behavior analysts have to notify potential victims and law enforcement of an actual threat of bodily harm against a clearly identified victim made by a ...
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2023-08-22
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
TNHB7031Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the offenses for which a juvenile court may transfer a child to be tried as an adult in criminal court, if the child was 16 or older at the time of the offense, to include theft of a firearm or attempt to commit theft of a fire...
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2023-08-22
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB7040Intro
25%
As introduced, establishes the designation of a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and enumerates the permitted activities for an individual with such designation. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7.
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2023-08-22
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee
TNHB1274Intro
25%
As introduced, repeals the professional privilege tax for tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2024. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17.
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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
TNHB0330Intro
25%
As introduced, deletes provisions related to a report regarding the status of the development of a plan for a statewide system of care for children's mental health due by February 1, 2009, and plans regarding implementation of the system of children'...
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2023-03-21
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Children & Family Affairs Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
TNHB1275Intro
25%
As introduced, exempts security guards and officers who are retired law enforcement officers with 20 or more years of service and who retired in good standing from certain training requirements. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 57 and Title 62, Chapter 3...
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2023-03-16
Taken off notice for cal. in Calendar & Rules Committee
TNHB0534Intro
25%
As introduced, allows a student who did not test proficient in English language arts (ELA) on the Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test administered to the student in third grade, but who was promoted to fourth grade after attending a learn...
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2023-03-14
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
TNHB1272Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the scope of practice for physician assistants, subject to increased regulatory oversight by the board of physician assistants as part of such expanded practice. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 19, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 1...
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2023-02-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1297Intro
25%
As introduced, removes an obsolete cross-reference to a statute that was repealed in 2010. - Amends TCA Title 71.
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2023-02-15
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee
TNHB1273Intro
25%
As introduced, permits the commissioner to submit to the governor by electronic means the required annual report of all official department transactions for the preceding year. - Amends TCA Title 56.
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2023-02-02
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB0387Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability within the office of the comptroller of the treasury to report its findings on projects assigned to it by the general assembly twice annually, instead of annually, to the gen...
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2023-02-01
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB0326Intro
25%
As introduced, extends the repeal date for the Virtual Public Schools Act from June 30, 2023, to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Section 49-16-216.
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2023-01-30
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
TNHB0067Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the allowable number of beds in private for-profit and private not-for-profit intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities from 668 to 804. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 1.
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2023-01-20
Withdrawn.
TNHB0056Intro
25%
As introduced, allows any qualified permanent legal resident of the United States to be certified as a law enforcement officer and not just a permanent legal resident who is an honorably discharged military veteran; prohibits the POST commission from...
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2023-01-20
Withdrawn.
TNHB0055Intro
25%
As introduced, removes the ability of a health insurance carrier to disregard an insured's assignment of health insurance benefits to an out-of-network facility-based physician under certain conditions. - Amends TCA Section 56-7-120.
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2023-01-20
Withdrawn.
TNHB0069Intro
25%
As introduced, extends, from 30 days to 45 days, the period of time before a teacher on leave is scheduled to return to work that the teacher must give the director of schools notice if the teacher does not intend to return to the position from which...
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2023-01-12
Caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB0059Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from 45 days to 60 days the time period a temporary injunction enjoining a person from removing certain material relevant to a violation of certain criminal offenses from the jurisdiction of the court may remain in effect bef...
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2023-01-12
Caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB0060Intro
25%
As introduced, extends, from five working days to 10 working days, the time within which the clerk of a court sentencing a person to a special alternative incarceration unit must mail to the department of correction a certified copy of the sentence a...
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2023-01-12
Caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB0063Intro
25%
As introduced, specifies that a copy of the order obtained by prospective adoptive parents terminating parental or guardianship rights must be filed as an exhibit to a petition for adoption and must be certified by the clerk of the court that entered...
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2023-01-12
Caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB0061Intro
25%
As introduced, increases, from within 90 days to within 120 days of receipt by the department of a valid judgment of conviction, the time period within which the department must notify the victim witness coordinator of the county of conviction of the...
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2023-01-12
Caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB0058Intro
25%
As introduced, extends, from 10 days to 15 days after the injury or death, the period of time within which a prison warden must report to the commissioner the death or injury of an inmate by violence or accident. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 41.
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2023-01-12
Caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB0079Intro
25%
As introduced, extends from 30 to 60 days the period by which a business entity that maintains a fleet of 200 or more motor vehicles and that has contracted with the department of revenue to provide titling and registration of the vehicle fleet to co...
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2023-01-12
Caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB0070Intro
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As introduced, directs the department of education to publish the TISA guide on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2023-01-12
Caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB0073Intro
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As introduced, updates the maximum potential penalties for violations of the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Act to match those allowed under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 3, Part 4.
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2023-01-12
Caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
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