Tennessee Representative Sam Whitson [R] | Bills

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TNHB7003Engross
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As introduced, expands the eligibility for filing a petition to obtain a lifetime order of protection to include victims of aggravated stalking and especially aggravated stalking. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
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2023-08-28
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
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
TNHB7027Engross
50%
As introduced, requires the state to pay the cost of a court-ordered mental health evaluation and treatment for criminal defendants who have been charged with a misdemeanor and are believed to be incompetent to stand trial or for whom there is a ques...
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2023-08-28
Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TNHB7015Intro
25%
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
25%
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Sponsor(s) withdrawn.
TNHB0355PassAs enacted, requires that a health benefit plan that provides coverage for a screening mammogram must provide coverage for diagnostic imaging and supplemental breast screening without imposing a cost-sharing requirement on the patient. - Amends TCA T...
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2023-06-02
Effective date(s) 08/09/2023
TNHB0976PassAs enacted, enacts the "James 'Dustin' Samples Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 9; Title 50, Chapter 6 and Title 68, Chapter 102.
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 465
TNHB0088PassAs enacted, requires the department of safety to waive the knowledge test, and accept alternative requirements, for active duty and honorably discharged service members and members of the national guard or the armed forces reserves applying for tempo...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 422
TNHB1431PassAs enacted, increases the pay schedule for certain assistant district attorneys general, assistant district public defenders, district investigators, and criminal investigators. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 8, Chapter 7.
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 460
TNHB1556PassSubject to local approval, authorizes the vice mayor to vote on all matters when serving as mayor in the temporary absence of the mayor. - Amends Chapter 126 of the Private Acts of 1967; as amended.
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2023-05-24
Pr. Ch. 16
TNHB1232PassAs enacted, authorizes a local board of education to contract with a private college or university accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to maintain a training school for grades pre-kindergarten through...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 435
TNHB1153PassAs enacted, designates the National Guard Armory to be constructed in Warren County as the "Major General Terry Max Haston National Guard Armory".
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 478
TNHB1095PassAs enacted, places requirements for registration of a temporary healthcare staffing agency. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 50; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 432
TNHB1366PassAs enacted, requires the department to provide an inmate who is discharged from imprisonment for a felony offense and who intends to reside in this state with certain documentation to assist the inmate in obtaining post-release employment and to coor...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 461
TNHB1365PassAs enacted, revises provisions relating to background checks for persons considered for appointment to or employment in various positions in state government and for administrators and employees of child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter ...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 433
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
TNHB0485PassAs enacted, enacts the "Eddie Conrad Act," which establishes the number of points to be charged to a person's driving record for violations of driving while using a wireless telecommunications device. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-199.
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 428
TNHB1280PassAs enacted, expands the offense of aggravated stalking to include a person who commits stalking against a victim who is at least 65 or older. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3 and Title 71, Chapter 6.
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHB1242PassAs enacted, makes it a Class A misdemeanor to knowingly possess xylazine; makes it a Class C felony to knowingly manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine, or to knowingly possess xylazine with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell xylazine; provides ...
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2023-05-24
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHB1144PassAs enacted, clarifies that the registration fee for one school bus owned by a person under contract with a local education agency (LEA) for the provision of transportation services is equal to the fee charged for a school bus owned by an LEA. - Amend...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 462
TNHB0248PassAs enacted, requires a person convicted of domestic assault involving strangulation to serve a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days incarceration; enhances offenses involving strangulation or attempted strangulation based on certain circumstances. -...
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2023-05-24
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 440
TNHB1072PassAs enacted, requires the department to establish an honor guard grant program to provide grants to veteran service organizations to offset expenses incurred by the organization and members of the organization's honor guard in providing military funer...
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024
TNHB0706PassAs enacted, makes changes to the present law relative to reemployment after retirement from public employment. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHB0328PassAs enacted, renames the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Act" to be the "Tennessee Local Development Authority Public Safety Protection Act of 2023" and makes various changes to its existing provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 9.
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023
TNHB0983PassAs enacted, requires local education agencies (LEAs) to provide licensed employees of the LEA 6 paid workweeks after a birth or stillbirth of the employee's child or employee's adoption of a newly placed minor child. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and...
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023
TNHB0432PassAs enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 49.
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2023-05-19
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 07/01/2023
TNHB0322PassAs enacted, revises various provisions of present law relative to safety in elementary and secondary education and the Schools Against Violence in Education Act. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 62, Chapter 35.
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2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/10/2023, 07/01/2023
TNHB1225PassAs enacted, revises present law relative to child support. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-103 and Title 36.
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2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/05/2023
TNHB0027PassAs enacted, allows a student who earns the student's first baccalaureate degree in less than the projected completion time to continue to receive the Tennessee HOPE scholarship in pursuit of an advanced degree. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part ...
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2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 07/01/2023
TNHB0155PassAs enacted, requires an annual training pay bonus supplement for eligible emergency medical services personnel in the amount of $800. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.
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2023-05-18
Effective date(s) 05/11/2023, 01/01/2024
TNHB0472PassAs enacted, establishes standards for shelter that must be provided to dogs under animal cruelty laws. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 44.
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2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 335
TNHB0398PassAs enacted, requires mental health evaluation and treatment for juveniles who commit aggravated animal cruelty under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39.
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2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 334
TNHB0435PassAs enacted, establishes a deaf mentor and parent advisor program to assist families in implementing bilingual and bicultural home-based programming for young children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind at the Tennessee Schools for the Deaf ...
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2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 327
TNHB0317PassAs enacted, changes the designation of June 19, known as "Juneteenth," from a day of special observance to a legal holiday. - Amends TCA Title 15.
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2023-05-17
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 337
TNHB1134PassAs enacted, makes various changes to law relative to county officials. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 8; Title 9; Title 18; Title 54 and Title 67.
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2023-05-04
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 207
TNHB0940PassAs enacted, enacts "Abrial’s Law, the Keeping Children Safe from Family Violence Act," which makes various changes to child custody law. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 266
TNHB0883PassAs enacted, makes various changes relative to abortion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/28/2023
TNHB0482PassAs enacted, revises the punishment for critical infrastructure vandalism. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40 and Title 65, Chapter 35.
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHB0445PassAs enacted, 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 operati...
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 193
TNHB0447PassAs enacted, designates a segment of the Duck River in Maury County as a Class II scenic river; requires permitting of certain water resource projects in Class II scenic river areas, subject to rules promulgated by the commissioner of environment and ...
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 195
TNHB0411PassAs enacted, revises the definitions of "wine" and "beer" with regard to law relative to traffic in intoxicating liquors and regulating the sale of wine in retail stores. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3 and Title 57, Chapter 5.
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 04/25/2023
TNHB0752PassAs enacted, creates a criminal offense of a foster parent from a kinship placement knowingly allowing a child in the foster parent's care to visit with the child's parent if the foster parent has knowledge of a current court order prohibiting the par...
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHB0722PassAs enacted, increases the classification for voluntary manslaughter from a Class C felony to a Class B felony. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
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2023-05-03
Effective date(s) 07/01/2023
TNHB0137PassAs enacted, reorganizes provisions regarding new specialty earmarked license plates; removes outdated provisions, including the obsolete street rod specialty plate; adds new specialty earmarked license plates. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 250
TNHB0138PassAs enacted, makes various revisions to law relative to designating bridges, highways, and roads. - Amends TCA Title 54.
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 251
TNHB0859PassAs enacted, authorizes the department to disclose de-identified data that is collected from records maintained by ambulance service and invalid vehicle operators licensed or permitted by the department, including for the purpose of providing opioid o...
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 203
TNHB0667PassAs enacted, makes various changes to the prescription drug donation repository program operated by the department of health. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 200
TNHB1051PassAs enacted, authorizes certain licensed advanced practice nurses and physician assistants to execute a certificate of need if a person is admitted and detained by a hospital or treatment resource for emergency diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment; ma...
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 199
TNHB0641PassAs enacted, requires the department to conduct an assessment of the home to determine whether the child will receive proper care and supervision, including a visit to the home, prior to the department notifying a court in writing of its intention to ...
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 198
TNHB0551PassAs enacted, makes various changes to adoption law. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 68, Chapter 3, Part 3.
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2023-05-03
Comp. became Pub. Ch. 263
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