Tennessee Representative Sam McKenzie [D] | Bills

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TNHB2406Intro
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As introduced, directs the department to identify federal and state regulations that inhibit the efficient processing of applications and delivery of benefits for the food assistance program; requires the department to submit any necessary waiver app...
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2024-04-24
Comp. SB subst.
TNHB2261Engross
50%
As introduced, defines a home for the aged that houses three or fewer nonrelated persons as a tier 1 home for the aged that is subject to licensure and regulation by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities; defines a home for th...
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2024-04-24
H. concurred in S. am. no. 1 Ayes 98, Nays 0 PNV 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.
TNHB0351Engross
50%
As introduced, authorizes the establishment of industrial development corporations solely to assist and benefit minority-owned businesses, locally owned businesses, small businesses, and women-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53.
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2024-04-24
H. Placed on Message Calendar for 4/25/2024
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.
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.
TNHB2504PassAs introduced, makes it an offense for a person, on behalf of a debt collector or inbound telemarketer service, to knowingly cause any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information, including cal...
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2024-04-22
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2922Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the department of education to make its standardized form for reporting student allergies available to all local education agencies on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2215Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the Real Estate Fraud Reduction Act, which requires county registers of deeds and notaries public to verify the identity of a person recording or notarizing a document relating to certain real estate transactions, as applicable,...
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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.
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
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
TNHB2207Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Menstrual Hygiene Products Accessibility Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49 and Title 67.
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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
TNHB2327PassAs enacted, by May 31, 2025 and by each May 31 thereafter, requires the department of health to publish an annual report stating the total number of attempted suicides and completed suicides that have occurred in this state in the previous calendar y...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 678
TNHB2508Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of human services to notify the department of safety that a child support obligor whose commercial driver license was suspended or revoked for noncompliance with a child support order is in reasonable compliance...
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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
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.
TNHB2398Intro
25%
As introduced, adds local law enforcement officials to those who must be appointed to each district-wide school safety team; specifies that it is each district-wide school safety team and each building-level school safety team that is required to ann...
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2024-04-15
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2230Intro
25%
As introduced, designates the calendar week that includes October 28 as the "Reverend Kelly Miller Smith, Sr. Week of Service." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2 and Title 49.
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2024-04-15
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1490Intro
25%
As introduced, deletes the provision granting broad discretion to the commissioner of revenue to administer the Business Tax Act from July 1, 2013, to December 31, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.
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2024-04-10
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
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
TNHB1950PassAs enacted, designates June 6 as a day of special observance for D-Day. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
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2024-04-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 601
TNHB2648FailAs introduced, deletes provisions authorizing permitless carry of handguns; requires range training for handgun carry permits. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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2024-04-02
Failed for lack of second in: Civil Justice Subcommittee
TNHB2681Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the penalty for use or possession of drug paraphernalia from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony if the drug paraphernalia used or possessed is a pill press device or pieces of a pill press device. - Amends TCA Title 39...
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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
TNHB0279FailAs introduced, allows certain persons deprived of the right of suffrage to apply for a voter registration card and have the right of suffrage provisionally restored if the person enters into a payment plan to become current on all child support oblig...
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2024-03-26
Failed in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2091PassAs enacted, defines and adds "voice" as a protected personal right; adds commercial availability of a sound recording or audiovisual work in which the individual's name, voice, likeness, or image is readily identifiable to considerations for determin...
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2024-03-26
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB1602PassAs enacted, requires a video or audio recording to be made of any interrogation of a child who has been taken into custody on suspicion that the child committed a delinquent act or unruly conduct unless a technical issue with the equipment or exigent...
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2024-03-26
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 565
TNHB2450Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a nonpublic school that accepts publicly funded vouchers for student tuition to comply with the same requirements for student testing applicable to public schools, subject to certain exemptions; requires a nonpublic school tha...
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2024-03-26
Def. to Summer Study in K-12 Subcommittee
TNHB2634FailAs introduced, removes the requirement that a registered voter be a bona fide member of, affiliated with, or declare allegiance to a political party in order to vote in a political party's primary election; removes the requirement that the officer of...
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2024-03-20
Failed in s/c Elections & Campaign Finance Subcommittee of Local Government Committee
TNHB0930Intro
25%
As introduced, removes driver licenses from the list of licenses that can be revoked for failure to pay child support; removes process for issuance of a restricted driver license for a person who is enrolled in a payment plan to pay child support arr...
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2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Children & Family Affairs Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
TNHB0664Intro
25%
As introduced, revises provisions governing criminal history checks of certain persons who come in direct contact with school children or children in a child care program, or who enter the grounds of a school or child care center while children are p...
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2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
TNHB1803PassAs enacted, clarifies when a student must be enrolled in an eligible postsecondary program to be eligible to receive a Tennessee Promise scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
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2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHB1680PassAs enacted, expands the Tennessee Adult Protection Act's definition of abuse or neglect to include certain situations when an adult is unable to maintain the adult's own health or welfare. - Amends TCA Section 71-6-102.
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2024-03-19
Effective date(s) 02/28/2024
TNHB0284PassAs enacted, standardizes the thresholds for competitive sealed bids for counties, municipalities, utility districts, local education agencies, and other local governmental entities. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 14; Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 3; Title...
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2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 03/01/2024
TNHB1170PassAs enacted, requires the Tennessee peace officer standards and training (POST) commission to adopt guidelines and materials instructing law enforcement officers on the best practices for recognizing and responding to a medical crisis involving a pers...
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2024-03-15
Effective date(s) 03/07/2024
TNHB2649Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a full-time state employee's annual compensation to be sufficient to disqualify the employee for state supplemental benefit or public assistance programs, including, but not limited to, the temporary assistance for needy famil...
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2024-03-12
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Public Service Subcommittee of State Government Committee
TNHB2725FailAs introduced, deletes the prohibition on local governments enacting a law that would place requirements regarding inclusionary, affordable, or below market value housing when entitlements, variances, or any other form of permit or authorization is s...
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2024-03-06
Failed for lack of motion in: Property & Planning Subcommittee
TNHB2726Intro
25%
As introduced, reduces maximum class sizes and maximum average class sizes by one student each school year over a period of five school years, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 1.
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2024-03-04
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1502Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50 and Title 56.
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2024-02-20
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee
TNHB2756Intro
25%
As introduced, makes students who graduate from an out-of-state high school eligible for the Tennessee HOPE scholarship if at least one of the student's parents resides in this state and has resided in this state no less than 10 years; requires the b...
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2024-02-07
Assigned to s/c Higher Education Subcommittee
TNHB2755Intro
25%
As introduced, bans the use of personal protection spray devices, such as mace, pepper spray, or tear gas, on any child under the supervision of the department of children's services or in a juvenile detention facility. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 3...
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2024-02-07
Assigned to s/c Children & Family Affairs Subcommittee
TNHB2680Intro
25%
As introduced, deletes an exception to the offense of carrying a firearm with the intent to go armed for persons carrying, whether openly or concealed, a handgun if the person lawfully possesses the handgun, is in a place where the person is lawfully...
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2024-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB2757Intro
25%
As introduced, changes from 20 days to 15 days the notice of a hearing on a petition for restoration of rights of citizenship that must be given to the district attorney general of the county in which the petitioner currently resides and the district...
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2024-02-05
P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
TNHB2049Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of education to ensure that an equivalent amount given as a scholarship amount to students in grades K-12 for the purposes of attending private schools be disbursed to the LEA in which the student was enrolled b...
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2024-01-30
Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
TNHB1801Intro
25%
As introduced, requires adult cabarets and adult-oriented establishments to post a notice on the inside and outside of each bathroom door and door used by customers or patrons to enter or exit the facility that provides the contact information to the...
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2024-01-22
Withdrawn.
TNHB7007Engross
50%
As introduced, specifies that reports of county medical examiners and autopsy reports of victims of violent crime who are minors are not public documents; allows a parent or legal guardian of a minor victim of a violent crime to consent to the releas...
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2023-08-28
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TNHB0933PassAs enacted, requires each high school to inform each high school senior that upon reaching the age of 18 the student may be eligible to vote and provide information from the secretary of state about voter eligibility and how to register to vote. - Am...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 444
TNHB0929PassAs enacted, exempts a person under 18 years of age who is in custody of the department of children's services or receiving foster care services from payment of fees for issuance, renewal, or reinstatement of a driver license, instruction permit, inte...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 468
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