Tennessee Representative Sam Whitson [R] | House | Introduced

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TNHB2068Intro
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As introduced, raises from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony certain animal cruelty offenses involving a cock; requires a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $2,500 for the offense of being a spectator at a cock fight. - Amends TCA Tit...
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2024-04-25
Held on desk.
TNHB2959Intro
25%
As enacted, creates a committee to study the establishment of incarcerated parenting plans to facilitate the ongoing relationships between incarcerated parents and their children within this state; requires the committee to report its findings and re...
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2024-04-25
Sponsor(s) Added.
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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2024-04-25
Comp. SB subst.
TNHB1614Intro
25%
As enacted, 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-verifica...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2902Intro
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As introduced, removes from code an outdated requirement that the polysomnography professional standards committee hold at least one public meeting each year during the years 2007 through 2010 to allow public discussion of new developments in the pra...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2062Intro
25%
As enacted, enacts the "Jacob (Jake) T. Barnhardt Act," which 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
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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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2024-04-24
Comp. SB subst.
TNHB2743Intro
25%
As enacted, 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
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TNHB2302Intro
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As enacted, enacts the "Ben Kredich Act," which, for the purpose of proving a person violated state law relative to driving under the influence of an intoxicant, establishes that evidence that the person was suspected to be impaired secondary to the ...
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2024-04-24
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2405Intro
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As enacted, 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.
TNHB1946Intro
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As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to the Ocoee River; adds "Class IV Olympic river areas" to the types of river areas included in the state scenic rivers system; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 65, Chapter 1...
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2024-04-23
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2318Intro
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As enacted, makes revisions to the law relative to physician assistants and nurses. - Amends TCA Title 55; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB1731Intro
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As enacted, enacts the "Modernization of Towing, Immobilization, and Oversight Normalization (MOTION) Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 39; Title 47; Title 48; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66 and Title 67.
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2024-04-22
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB0186Intro
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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
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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
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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
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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
TNHB2827Intro
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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
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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
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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
TNHB1835Intro
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As introduced, allocates 2.83 percent of the sales and use tax collected in the 11 fastest-growing counties to such counties; requires such counties to earmark such revenue for educational facility maintenance and construction and infrastructure. - A...
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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
TNHB1999Intro
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As introduced, adds the MidSouth development district to the list of development districts to which this state intends to assist financially; specifies an overall state funding level for the nine development districts; changes the calculation for how...
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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
TNHB2322Intro
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As introduced, requires certain health benefit plans to include coverage for treatment services required for and related to treatment of an acquired brain injury; prohibits health benefit plans from imposing certain limitations on the number of days ...
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2024-04-17
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TNHB1875Intro
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As introduced, expands the definition of "racketeering activity" to include committing, conspiring to commit, aiding, attempting to aid, soliciting, coercing, facilitating, or intimidating another person to commit the criminal offense of animal fight...
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2024-04-11
Re-ref. Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
TNHB2961Intro
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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
TNHJR0851Intro
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Proposes an amendment to Article II, Section 28 of the Constitution of Tennessee to authorize the General Assembly to exempt historical properties from taxes on real property.
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2024-04-10
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB2908Intro
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As introduced, requires the Tennessee bureau of investigation to establish a program in which a person may enroll to voluntarily waive the right to purchase firearms. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
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2024-04-09
Taken off notice for cal. in Civil Justice Committee
TNHB2454Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "Anti-Road Rage Act of 2024"; creates a Class E felony for the reckless discharge of a firearm while operating, or as a passenger in, a motor vehicle; creates a Class A misdemeanor for the reckless brandishing or display of ...
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2024-04-03
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Committee
TNHB2014Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms Act," which permits a person to voluntarily waive their firearm rights through filing a waiver with the clerk of the circuit court in the county of the person's residence or with the...
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2024-04-02
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee of Civil Justice Committee
TNHB2170Intro
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As introduced, prohibits an insurer, pharmacy benefits manager, or third-party administrator from changing or conditioning the terms of health plan coverage based on availability of financial or other product assistance for a prescription drug; estab...
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2024-03-28
Taken off notice for cal. in Calendar & Rules Committee
TNHB1574Intro
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As introduced, allows a court to issue a 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 firearm; au...
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2024-03-26
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TNHB1650Intro
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As introduced, extends, from February 1, to March 1, the annual date by which the bureau of TennCare and the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities are required to issue an annual joint report to the insurance committee of the hous...
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2024-03-19
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee
TNHB2453Intro
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As introduced, specifies that a cause of action for wrongful death must be commenced within three years after the cause of action accrued. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 29.
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2024-03-13
Taken off notice for cal. in Civil Justice Committee
TNHB2751Intro
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As introduced, expands the category of primary elections in which candidates nominated for school boards are to appear on the regular August election ballot for which the date of such election may be reset by an election commission to coincide with t...
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2024-03-05
Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Administration
TNHB2204Intro
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As introduced, requires license plates issued for box trucks having a gross weight of 26,000 pounds or less to be attached to the rear of the vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
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2024-02-28
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Transportation Subcommittee of Transportation Committee
TNHB2484Intro
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As introduced, mandates private insurance coverage for treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Ti...
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2024-02-27
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2463Intro
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As introduced, requires TennCare coverage of treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and...
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2024-02-27
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHJR0751Intro
25%
Jeremy Nagoshiner, Heritage Conservation Trust Fund Board
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2024-02-12
H. subst. & concurred in SJR 841
TNHB2016Intro
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As introduced, extends from 60 days to 120 days, the time within which a handgun carry permit holder must notify the department of safety in writing of a change in the permit holder's principal place of residence. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 36; Tit...
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2024-02-08
Sponsor(s) Added.
TNHB2750Intro
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As introduced, removes the condition that the department of transportation first authorize the installation of surveillance cameras on interstates and state highways before such cameras may be operated by law enforcement agencies; authorizes the oper...
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2024-02-07
Assigned to s/c Transportation Subcommittee
TNHB2015Intro
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As introduced, requires the medical services board to promulgate rules to authorize medics who have completed an army, navy, or air force training program to be licensed as AEMTs upon completion of the National Registry Exam for Advanced Emergency Me...
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2024-01-30
Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee
TNHJR7015Intro
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Urges the Department of Safety to provide its "Safe & Secure Firearms in Tennessee" brochures at all Driver Service Centers alongside other information provided to public that deals with public safety.
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2023-08-29
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TNHB7015Intro
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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.
TNHB1233Intro
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As introduced, creates the offense of storing a firearm or firearm ammunition in a motor vehicle or boat while the person is not in the motor vehicle or boat unless the firearm or firearm ammunition is kept from ordinary observation and locked within...
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2023-07-14
Sponsor(s) withdrawn.
TNHB0154Intro
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As introduced, enacts the "Employee Ownership, Empowerment, and Expansion Act," to support the growth and expansion of employee-owned businesses. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12, Chapter 3; Title 45; Title 50; Title 56, Chapter 1 and...
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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
TNHB0700Intro
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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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2023-04-18
Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TNHB0500Intro
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As introduced, appropriates $20 million to the legislature for the purchase or construction of a building or other facility accessible to the Cordell Hull Building. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12.
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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
TNHB1278Intro
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As introduced, lowers the minimum visual acuity requirement for drivers of non-commercial vehicles from 20/40 to 20/50. - Amends TCA Title 55.
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2023-04-18
To House Calendar and Rules Committee
TNHB0402Intro
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As introduced, increases the penalty for driving upon a highway without a valid driver license for the vehicle being driven from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class B misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent o...
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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
TNHB0331Intro
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As introduced, requires the salaries paid to teachers and other professional personnel in a state special school on or after July 1, 2023, to equal or exceed the salaries paid to teachers and other professional personnel with comparable training and ...
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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
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