Tennessee Representative Sam Whitson [R] | House

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TNHB2743Intro
25%
As introduced, requires each institution of higher education in this state to classify a student who is the spouse or dependent child of a service member as an in-state student for tuition purposes if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2024-04-24
Comp. SB subst.
TNHB1319Engross
50%
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
TNHB1016Enroll
75%
As introduced, changes the date, from February 1 to January 15, by which the commissioner must annually report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation of and compliance with the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amen...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Senate Speaker
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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2024-04-23
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNHB1625PassAs introduced, requires a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst to warn or protect an identified victim or group of people when the professional or analyst determines that a service recipient has communicated an intent for actual t...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2405Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the Social Work Licensure Compact. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2641Enroll
75%
As introduced, authorizes counties and municipalities, by resolution or ordinance of their governing bodies, to levy a tax on the retail sale of food and food ingredients for human consumption within the county or municipality at a rate less than the...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Senate Speaker
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.
TNHB2940Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
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2024-04-23
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
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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2024-04-23
Passed Senate as amended, Ayes 29, Nays 0
TNHB2062Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a street racing task force to study and determine best practices for curbing illegal street racing in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 55.
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2024-04-23
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNHB1891Enroll
75%
As introduced, creates the "Protecting Children from Social Media Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2024-04-23
Signed by Senate Speaker
TNHB2954Engross
50%
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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2024-04-23
H. concurred in S. am. no. 2 Ayes 94, Nays 1 PNV 1
TNHB2677Engross
50%
As introduced, increases the annual continuing education requirement for county commissioners from seven to eight hours; requires that the training be obtained by CTAS meetings; extends a $600 stipend to county commissioners for completion of annual ...
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2024-04-23
Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen.
TNHB1640PassAs introduced, expands the definition of "adjudication as a mental defective" to include a person who has been found incompetent to stand trial in a criminal proceeding and requires the clerk of court in such a proceeding to collect and report any su...
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2024-04-23
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2326Engross
50%
As introduced, changes, from 10 days to 10 business days, the maximum amount of time the commissioner of education can suspend schools in a year when the commissioner requires all teachers to attend county institutes or educational meetings. - Amends...
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2024-04-23
Conf. comm. appointed. (G. Hicks, Haston, White, Parkinson)
TNHB1946Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes available funds in the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund to be paid to the Tennessee Valley Authority for additional releases of water on the Ocoee River. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 65, Chapter ...
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2301Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the sheriff's department's and municipal law enforcement department's annual audit report of the disposition of goods seized and forfeited and fines imposed in relation to offenses involving controlled substances to be posted ...
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1600Engross
50%
As introduced, prohibits the purchase or possession of a firearm by a person under 25 years of age if the person was previously adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would have constituted one or more certain offenses; all...
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2024-04-23
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TNHB2808Engross
50%
As introduced, makes the state liable and responsible for paying the expenses for HIV medication for inmates committed to a county jail or workhouse who previously received prescription medication to treat HIV or AIDS through a state department, agen...
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2024-04-23
Engrossed; ready for transmission to Sen.
TNHB1881Engross
50%
As introduced, increases the penalty for assault against a law enforcement officer from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum 30-day sentence and $5,000 fine to a Class E felony with a mandatory minimum 60-day sentence and $10,000 fine. - Am...
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2024-04-23
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TNHJR1443Engross
50%
Clare Ashford, Extraordinary Educator
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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNHJR1444Engross
50%
Amanda Leigh "Mandi" Goodrich
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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNHJR1442Engross
50%
The Exotics, 60th anniversary
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2024-04-23
To Senate Calendar Committee
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.
TNHB0430Intro
25%
As introduced, allows a juvenile court to impose a blended sentence on a child 16 years of age or older for a juvenile offense that would be a Class A, B, or C felony if committed by an adult; defines blended sentencing as a combination of any dispos...
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1613PassAs enacted, designates “Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee as the official state holiday song; requires the secretary of state to include the song in the Tennessee Blue Book. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
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2024-04-22
Effective date(s) 04/16/2024
TNHB1805Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes proration of the registration fee for freight motor vehicles operated for commercial purposes upon the death of an eligible operator of the freight motor vehicle; requires submission of certain documentation prior to issuanc...
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2318Intro
25%
As introduced, makes various changes to the authorized scope of practice of physician assistants and advanced practice nurses who meet certain qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1731Intro
25%
As introduced, decreases from two inches to one and one-half inches the minimum height of the lettering required to be used on the mandatory signage posted on property for which an agreement exists with a person engaged in the business of installing ...
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHJR1055Engross
50%
Child Abuse Awareness Month, April 2024
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHJR1344PassP. Jan Markum
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2024-04-22
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2232Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a pilot project to place a moratorium on the loss of public assistance benefits for child care workers based solely on wage increases that cause their income to exceed program eligibility limits; requires TACIR to study wages a...
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHJR1426Engross
50%
Dustin Malone
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2024-04-22
Concurred, Ayes 28, Nays 0
TNHB1928Intro
25%
As introduced, clarifies, for purposes of obtaining a school bus endorsement on a driver license and for other purposes, that a school bus is a vehicle designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver; makes other related revisions. ...
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2024-04-18
Comp. SB subst.
TNHB2145Intro
25%
As introduced, creates an offense for possessing or distributing a license plate flipper. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
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2024-04-18
Comp. SB subst.
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.
TNHB2321Engross
50%
As introduced, increases the amount of personal needs allowance from $50 to $70 for long-term nursing home residents. - Amends TCA Title 71.
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2024-04-18
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TNHJR1027Engross
50%
Jillian Ludwig
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2024-04-18
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHR0155PassMaster Sergeant Robert D. Davis, Jr., United States Air Force
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2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHB0743Intro
25%
As introduced, authorizes the issuance of a retail package store license to an operator within the general services district of a metropolitan government that has approved the retail sale of liquor for off-premises consumption by local option electio...
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2024-04-18
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNHB2984Intro
25%
Subject to local approval, creates the East Bank Development Authority for the metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County.
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2024-04-18
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNHB0186Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the commissioner to make available to healthcare providers on the department's website the prescribed claims forms for reporting by healthcare providers. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
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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.
TNHB2184Intro
25%
As introduced, reallocates 5 percent of the privilege tax collected from licensees that offer sports wagering in this state from the lottery for education account to a new Tennessee Promise completion grant special account created to assist the commi...
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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
TNHB2297Intro
25%
As introduced, requires Part B of the Katie Beckett program to serve a minimum of 5,000 program participants. - Amends TCA Section 71-5-164.
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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
TNHB2296PassAs enacted, authorizes the board for professional counselors, marital and family therapists, and clinical pastoral therapists to enter into a reciprocal agreement with any other state that licenses marital and family therapists. - Amends TCA Title 8;...
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2024-04-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 700
TNHB2827Intro
25%
As introduced, increases, from one to two, the number of free plates for the Purple Heart and disabled veteran license plates issued to veterans with disabilities. - Amends TCA Section 55-4-256 and Section 55-4-257.
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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
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
TNHB2175Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of transportation to establish and administer a student pedestrian protection grant program; under certain conditions, authorizes grants to be awarded to local governments for designing, constructing, and repair...
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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
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