Tennessee Representative Joe Towns [D]

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TNHB2125Engross
50%
As introduced, designates November as "Christian Heritage Month." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1.
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2024-03-28
Passed Senate, Ayes 26, Nays 2
TNHJR1050Enroll
75%
Pickett County Lady Bobcats, Class A state champions
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2024-03-28
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHJR1139Engross
50%
Sherry Jones
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2024-03-28
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNHB2047Engross
50%
As 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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2024-03-28
Passed Senate, Ayes 32, Nays 0
TNHJR1140Engross
50%
Representative Darren Jernigan
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2024-03-28
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNHJR1141Engross
50%
Representative Dwayne Thompson
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2024-03-28
To Senate Calendar Committee
TNHJR0131Engross
50%
Addresses and establishes the declared public policy of the State of Tennessee relative to the right of the citizens and those within the boundaries of this State to keep, bear, and wear arms.
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 12:30 pm]
To Senate Judiciary Committee
TNHB1248Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of human services to advertise prominently on the home page of the department's website the division of adult protective services' toll-free telephone service that enables citizens within the state to call the d...
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 3]
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHJR0674Intro
25%
Urges the office of legislative administration to establish and encourages members of the 113th General Assembly and legislative employees to participate in a race relations and discrimination and age-based discrimination in the workplace training pr...
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:30 pm]
To House State Government Committee
TNHB2519Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a law enforcement officer initiating a traffic stop or pedestrian stop, on or after January 1, 2025, to inform the person stopped of the reason for the stop before engaging the person in questioning related to an investigation...
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 12:30 pm]
To House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHB2864Intro
25%
As introduced, designates barbecue as an official state food. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
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2024-03-27
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNHB2837Intro
25%
As introduced, requires a court to order the revocation of a person's driver license if the person is convicted of the offense of reckless endangerment involving the display of a firearm from within a motor vehicle and the person has a prior convicti...
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 12:30 pm]
To House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHB2840Intro
25%
As introduced, increases the education good time sentence reduction credit from 60 days to 90 days. - Amends TCA Title 41.
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 12:30 pm]
To House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHB2863Intro
25%
As introduced, increases, from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony, the penalty for a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving; requires a person who commits a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving to at...
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 12:30 pm]
To House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHB2839Intro
25%
As introduced, makes various revisions to provisions related to property that is exempt from execution, seizure, or attachment. - Amends TCA Section 26-2-111.
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 8:00 am]
To House Civil Justice Committee
TNHB2838Intro
25%
As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony the penalty for a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving; requires a person who commits a second or subsequent offense of aggravated reckless driving to atte...
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 12:30 pm]
To House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHB2942Intro
25%
As introduced, provides a working families' tax refund for state and local sales and use tax paid on or after January 1, 2024, by low-income taxpayers who are eligible for the federal earned income tax credit. - Amends TCA Title 67.
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Government Operations Committee
TNHB2943Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the application of certain indecent exposure offenses by including victims from 13 to 17 years of age; increases the penalty for indecent exposure if the victim is between 13 and 17 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 39...
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 12:30 pm]
To House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHB2311PassAs introduced, requires the principal or head of a school that maintains an opioid antagonist at the school to ensure that the opioid antagonist is stored in accordance with manufacturer instructions; prohibits a school from prohibiting a student, em...
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2024-03-27
Signed by Governor.
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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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 3]
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHB2251PassAs introduced, 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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2024-03-27
Signed by Governor.
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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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 12:30 pm]
To House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHB2940Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 3]
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
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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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Government Operations Committee
TNHB2572Intro
25%
As introduced, expands the offense of aggravated rape to include when the defendant commits rape knowing that the defendant is infected with HIV. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5.
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 4:30 pm]
To House Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2898Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a registry of persons convicted of the criminal offense of domestic assault; requires the bureau to maintain the registry. - Amends TCA Title 18; Section 38-6-103; Title 39 and Title 40.
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 4:30 pm]
To House Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2601Intro
25%
As introduced, makes various changes to the requirements for investigating sexual offenses, including requiring all law enforcement personnel involved in investigating sexual assault crimes to complete a minimum of 16 hours annually of sensitivity tr...
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 4:30 pm]
To House Criminal Justice Committee
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
TNHJR0038Intro
25%
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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2024-03-26
To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TNHB2091PassAs introduced, 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 deter...
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2024-03-26
Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TNHJR1009PassA Soldier's Child Foundation
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2024-03-26
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2692Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the court to order an offender to wear a global positioning monitoring system device under certain circumstances unless the court finds the offender no longer poses a threat to the alleged victim or public safety; specifies th...
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2024-03-25
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2728Engross
50%
As introduced, authorizes probation officers to meet with probationers utilizing a technology portal or for probationer's employer to submit weekly reports verifying the probationer's current employment in place of an in-person meeting upon approval ...
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2024-03-25
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TNHB2826Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department, using existing resources, to develop a conflict resolution program that may be adopted and implemented by LEAs and public charter schools to assist students in any of the grades K-12 in developing the skills ne...
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2024-03-25
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2366Intro
25%
As introduced, changes the application requirements for international medical school graduates applying for special licenses. - Amends TCA Title 63.
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2024-03-20
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNHB1470Intro
25%
As introduced, enacts the "Consumer Wheelchair Repair Bill of Rights Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
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2024-03-19
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHJR0096PassMusic Therapy Week
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2024-03-19
Signed by Governor.
TNHB1384PassAs enacted, adds aggravated prostitution convictions as eligible for expunction if certain requirements are met; removes such offense as "a sexual offense" or "violent sexual offense" for which a person is required to register on sexual offender regi...
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2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 545
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
TNHB0257PassAs enacted, clarifies that an owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who is the parent, legal guardian, or conservator of a person who has an intellectual or developmental disability or medical condition, who may be operating the owner's or lessee's vehi...
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2024-03-19
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 521
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
TNHJR0986PassOrange Mound Progressive Club, 105th anniversary
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2024-03-19
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2216Intro
25%
As introduced, extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person 18 years of age or older relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 a...
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2024-03-18
Sponsor(s) Added.
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
TNHB2205Engross
50%
As introduced, establishes that the district attorney general shall only prosecute cases in municipal court where the municipality provides sufficient additional prosecutorial personnel for the district attorney general; empowers the district attorne...
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2024-03-14
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TNHB1469Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department of transportation to proceed to initiate the development of a new bridge crossing the Mississippi River and connecting to Arkansas. - Amends TCA Title 54.
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2024-03-13
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Transportation Subcommittee of Transportation Committee
TNHJR1006PassRep. Don Ridgeway
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2024-03-13
Signed by Governor.
TNHB1473Intro
25%
As introduced, decreases the time within which a hearing concerning a punitive employment action against a law enforcement officer must be set following a request for such hearing from 14 days to 10 days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10, Chap...
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2024-03-12
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Public Service Subcommittee of State Government Committee
TNHJR0963PassTennesseans for opposing and condemning neo-Nazism
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2024-03-11
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR0811Engross
50%
Recognizes the benefits of chess in education and correctional systems.
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2024-03-11
To Senate Education Committee
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