Tennessee Representative Justin Pearson [D]

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TNHJR1504Enroll
75%
Kim McCaster Cox
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2024-05-06
Transmitted to Governor for his action.
TNHJR1027PassJillian Ludwig
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2024-05-03
Signed by Governor.
TNHB1659Enroll
75%
As introduced, raises the base salary from $156,024 to $205,328 for district attorneys general and district public defenders. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 16.
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2024-05-01
Signed by H. Speaker
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
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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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHJR1484Intro
25%
Volkswagen Chattanooga
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2024-04-24
Ref. to Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
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.
TNHR0155PassMaster Sergeant Robert D. Davis, Jr., United States Air Force
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2024-04-18
Signed by H. Speaker
TNHB1590Intro
25%
As introduced, allocates sales tax proceeds collected on firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories to a mental health care in Tennessee schools' account for local education agencies to obtain school counselors, school therapists, and after school...
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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
TNHB2088Intro
25%
As enacted, 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 employee...
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2024-04-16
All Ayes added as Sponsors
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
TNHJR1142PassFirst anniversary of the Covenant School shooting
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2024-04-10
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR1140PassRepresentative Darren Jernigan
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2024-04-09
Signed by Governor.
TNHJR1141PassRepresentative Dwayne Thompson
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2024-04-09
Signed by Governor.
TNHB1339Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to actively seek and apply for federal grants and other available federal funds, and utilize available federal funds, for the purpose of alleviating childhood hunger. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71.
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2024-04-03
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNHB1589Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits the manufacture, transfer, or purchase in this state of a detachable firearm ammunition magazine that is capable of storing and feeding more than 10 rounds of ammunition; a violation is subject to a civil penalty of up to $5,...
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2024-04-03
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB1595Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a committee to study the impacts of gun violence in communities in this state, prioritizing those that are of lower socioeconomic status and who have been disproportionately impacted by gun violence. - Amends TCA Title 38; Titl...
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2024-04-03
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB1593Intro
25%
As introduced, requires, subject to certain exemptions, that a sale or transfer of a firearm be done through a federally licensed gun dealer; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for sales or transfers that are not conducted through a gun dealer; ch...
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2024-04-03
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB1596Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits a gun dealer from delivering a firearm to a purchaser until 15 business days after the completion of certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6 and Section 39-17-1316.
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB1587Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits the manufacture of semi-automatic rifles in this state; specifies that a violation of this prohibition is a Class A misdemeanor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47 and Title 68.
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2024-04-03
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB1592Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the owner of a firearm to report loss or theft of the firearm to law enforcement within 24 hours of discovery of the loss or theft; a violation is punishable only by a civil penalty of up to $500. - Amends TCA Title 39.
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2024-04-03
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TNHB1584Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the administrative office of the courts to ensure that all circuit, criminal, chancery, general sessions, and county courts accurately, completely, and timely submit relevant information to the TBI to be included in databases ...
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2024-04-03
Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
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
TNHB1586Intro
25%
As introduced, allows a law enforcement officer to petition for an extreme risk protection order; requires the court to issue an extreme risk protection order if, after notice and a hearing on the petition, the court finds by clear and convincing evi...
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2024-04-02
No Action Taken
TNHB1594Intro
25%
As introduced, allows a court to issue an extreme risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a fi...
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2024-04-02
No Action Taken
TNHB1588Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits the storage of a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle unless the firearm or ammunition is not plainly observable and either the owner is present in the vehicle or the firearm or ammunition is inside a locked compa...
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2024-04-02
No Action Taken
TNHB1591Intro
25%
As introduced, creates an offense to store or keep a firearm in any place unless the firearm is secured in a locked container, unloaded, and separate from ammunition so as to render the firearm inoperable by any person other than the owner or another...
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2024-04-02
No Action Taken
TNHB1585FailAs introduced, directs the department to develop and implement, in consultation with the department of health, a public awareness campaign on mental health and gun safety; requires the department to make campaign materials available to the public for...
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2024-03-26
Failed in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
TNHB2335FailAs introduced, enacts the "Separation of Need Act"; removes income eligibility requirements from free school lunch and breakfast programs; requires each local board of education and governing body of a public charter school to provide a free breakfas...
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2024-03-26
Failed for lack of second in: K-12 Subcommittee
TNHB2334FailAs introduced, requires the department of health, in conjunction with the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities, to submit an annual report concerning the level of compliance with state law of each healthcare facility in this stat...
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2024-03-26
Failed in s/c Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
TNHB2343Intro
25%
As introduced, requires the department to create and maintain an informational tool on the department's website that provides data related to the presence of facilities that are required to submit toxic release inventory data to the environmental pro...
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2024-03-20
To House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
TNHJR0999PassNathaniel Harris
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2024-03-20
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2336FailAs introduced, prohibits the manufacture, distribution, sale, or transfer of an 80 percent frame or 80 percent receiver on or after July 1, 2024, without a manufacturer's serial number prominently stamped on the item or on a piece of metal securely a...
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2024-03-19
Failed in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2331FailAs introduced, requires a law enforcement agency to assign a law enforcement officer to begin an investigation of a suspected homicide within the agency’s jurisdiction and, in determining which law enforcement officer will lead the investigation, r...
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2024-03-19
Failed for lack of motion in: Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHB2329FailAs 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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2024-03-19
Failed in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2340Intro
25%
As introduced, creates a violation under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a person or entity that alters the appearance, action, or speech of an individual through the use of synthetic media in a communication that is knowingly distr...
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2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee
TNHB2333Intro
25%
As introduced, prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a switch or auto sear device designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by...
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2024-03-19
Def. to Summer Study in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
TNHJR0986PassOrange Mound Progressive Club, 105th anniversary
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2024-03-19
Signed by Governor.
TNHB2337FailAs introduced, requires the agency to establish the payment standard amount for the monthly housing assistance payment under the federal housing choice voucher program to the maximum allowed by federal law. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 23.
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2024-03-13
Failed for lack of second in: Property & Planning Subcommittee
TNHB2342FailAs introduced, directs the department to promulgate rules to establish a grant program for first-time home buyers. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10; Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 47 and Title 66.
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2024-03-13
Failed for lack of second in: Property & Planning Subcommittee
TNHB2341FailAs introduced, requires each department of the executive branch to develop a plan to prevent the malicious and unlawful use of artificial intelligence for the purpose of interfering with the operation of the department, its agencies and divisions, an...
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2024-03-13
Failed for lack of second in: Departments & Agencies Subcommittee
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
TNHB1255Intro
25%
As introduced, changes from March 31 to February 1, the date by which each region must submit its annual report to the commissioner of environment and conservation for the immediately preceding calendar year that includes data on collection, recyclin...
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2024-03-12
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee of Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
TNHB1583FailAs introduced, requires an individual who resides in this state and owns a firearm to maintain liability insurance in an amount of no less than $300,000 to insure the individual against losses or damages resulting from the accidental use of the indiv...
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2024-03-12
Failed in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee
TNHB2332FailAs introduced, enacts the "Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved People Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21.
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2024-03-12
Failed for lack of second in: Public Service Subcommittee
TNHB2330FailAs introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; authorizes the governor to negotiate with the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine the terms of t...
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2024-03-12
Failed in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee
TNHB2338FailAs introduced, increases, from three days to three months, the amount of paid leave provided to the officers and employees of the various agencies, boards, and departments of state government in the event of death of such officers' or employees' chil...
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2024-03-12
Failed for lack of second in: Public Service Subcommittee
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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