Sponsored (introduced) — Historical

Harris, Torrey C. · 86 bills · page 3 of 4

HB 860 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an exception to the offense of simple possession of marijuana for persons with a valid, state-issued medical marijuana identification card who obtained the marijuana pursuant to a valid physician's recommendation. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4. Died
HB 932 Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, exempts from the professional privilege tax physicians who are on inactive status and no longer earning income from the practice of medicine. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17. Died
HB 2372 Election Laws - As introduced, lengthens voter registration period to 15 days before an election instead of 30 days before an election. - Amends TCA Title 2. Died
HB 854 Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes law enforcement to scan driver's portable electronic device if officer has probable cause to believe driver was using device in violation of state law and driver was involved in an accident resulting in death or serious bodily injury; revises the description of the devices to which the prohibition on texting and driving apply. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55. Died
HB 1326 Taxes - As introduced, reduces from 10 to eight years the amount of time that a charitable institution must own and maintain property on the National Register of Historical Places prior to applying for a 100 percent exemption from property taxation in counties and municipalities offering such exemption. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. Died
HB 1011 Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes law enforcement to scan a school bus driver's portable electronic device if the officer has probable cause to believe the driver was using the device in violation of state law and the driver was involved in a crash resulting in death or serious bodily injury. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 55. Died
HB 1708 Victims' Rights - As introduced, requires a victim of a crime be notified when a defendant is scheduled to be transferred to a correctional complex with lower security designation instead of after the defendant is transferred. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 38, Part 1. Failed
HB 2615 Evidence - As introduced, expands Rule 412 of the Rules of Evidence, known as the rape shield law, to include the offenses of sex trafficking or commercial sexual exploitation of children, aggravated rape of a child, statutory rape by an authority figure, and promoting travel for prostitution. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13. Died
HB 1053 Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, prohibits using public buildings or facilities for campaign activities for all popularly elected officials, officials elected by the general assembly, qualified candidates for public office, members of the governor's cabinet, and members of the governor's staff. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 19, Part 2. Died
HB 1260 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for aggravated assault and reckless endangerment when committed from within a motor vehicle; permits a motor vehicle used in an offense to be seized and forfeited; requires the court to revoke a defendant's license for one year following any period of confinement imposed. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 40. Died
HB 31 Barbers and/or Cosmetologists - As introduced, revises barbers' authorization to perform services in the residence of any person who is "actually ill" to authorize the performance of services in the residence of any person who is "suffering from actual illness or disability". - Amends TCA Title 62. Died
HB 1264 Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises offense of criminal trespass in regard to grounds and common areas of housing and apartment complexes. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-106 and Section 39-14-405. Enacted
HB 589 Taxes, Hotel Motel - As enacted, authorizes Memphis to levy the occupancy tax by one or more ordinances, in an amount not to exceed an aggregate of 5 percent of the consideration charged. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 14. Enacted
HB 631 Water Pollution - As enacted, requires each local board of education to develop a policy to implement a program to reduce the potential sources of lead contamination in drinking water in public schools that incorporates periodic, not to exceed biennial, testing of lead levels in drinking water sources at school facilities that were constructed prior to January 1, 1998. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 68 and Title 69. Enacted
HB 277 Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires that the TBI’s completed investigative report be disclosed to the public after the district attorney general has completed its prosecutorial function; authorizes the district attorney to disclose all or part of the report prior to the record becoming a public record. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 8, Chapter 6; Title 8, Chapter 7 and Title 38. Enacted
HB 1545 Nuclear Materials, Transportation and Safety - As introduced, exempts information concerning low-level radioactive waste from the general requirement that records of the department of environment and conservation concerning radioactive materials be classified and not open for public inspection. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 11, Chapter 1 and Title 68, Chapter 202. Died
HB 329 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As enacted, decreases the amount of time that teachers are required to teach math or science in a public school in order to be eligible for a Tennessee HOPE teacher’s scholarship from two years to one year for each year of receipt of the scholarship. - Amends TCA Section 49-4-936. Enacted
HB 2506 Consumer Protection - As introduced, triples the amount of a civil penalty assessed against a person for violating the Tennessee Price-Gouging Act of 2002. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18. Died
HB 2389 Victims' Rights - As introduced, adds immediate family members as persons that a victim of a crime may have present during a defense interview with the victim. - Amends TCA Section 40-38-115. Died
HB 598 Driver Licenses - As introduced, waives the driver license fee for inmates released from incarceration, under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50. Died
HB 933 Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, establishes requirements regarding the custody and transfer of remains in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 7; Title 62, Chapter 5 and Title 68. Enacted
HB 2549 Education - As enacted, allows the energy efficient schools council to award grants or loans for energy efficient capital outlay projects to charter schools and the achievement school district in addition to LEAs. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 17 and Section 49-4-940. Enacted
HB 1846 Public Health - As introduced, requires parents, guardians, legal custodians, or caregivers of children attending schools to be notified of unsafe drinking water at schools. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 7. Died
HB 1337 Child Abuse - As enacted, requires the department of children's services to develop guidelines on the best practices for identifying and reporting signs of child abuse, child sexual abuse, and human trafficking in which the victim is a child; requires the department of education to use the guidelines to identify child abuse training programs appropriate for teachers; requires local education agencies and public charter schools to ensure teachers complete a child abuse training program. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 4; Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 1; Title 63, Chapter 23; Title 63, Chapter 6, Part 2; Title 63, Chapter 7, Part 1 and Title 63, Chapter 9. Enacted
HB 918 Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the board to create an endorsement in computer science for all teachers who demonstrate sufficient content knowledge in the course material. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 5. Enacted