Sponsored (introduced) — Historical
Powers, Dennis · 44 bills · page 1 of 2
- HB 741 Law Enforcement - As introduced, increases the death benefit payable to the estate of a law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty from $25,000 to $50,000. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2. Died
- HB 740 Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, requires the dual enrollment grant award (DEG) to be $500 for each of the first four courses taken; authorizes the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation (TSAC) to determine the DEG for courses five through eight; mandates that the cost for courses five through eight shall not exceed the cost per credit hour of courses taken at community colleges in the state university and community college system. - Amends TCA Title 49. Died
- HB 2309 Law Enforcement - As introduced, permits participating counties and the comptroller of the treasury to deliver by electronic means the annual reports required by the County Bounty Act. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 40. Died
- HB 861 Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, requires, by July 1, 2017, the commissioner of health to report to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate the results of consultations with stakeholders and to identify what method was chosen as the best means to obtain the records to facilitate investigations and inquiries concerning opioid drug abuse, overdoses, and death. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. Died
- HJR 38 Constitutional Conventions - Appoints commissioners to the planning convention for a prospective Article V convention. - Died
- HJR 24 Constitutional Conventions - Calls for a convention of the states to plan for an Article V convention to propose a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution; creates a balanced budget amendment convention committee. - Died
- HB 569 TennCare - As introduced, prohibits certain direct and indirect charges to a pharmacist by a pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) or a health insurance entity; requires PBMs and auditing entities to make certain registrations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71. Died
- HB 742 Law Enforcement - As introduced, increases from $600 per officer to $1,000 per officer the annual police pay supplement for completion of in-service training. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 38 and Title 55. Died
- HB 745 Education, Higher - As introduced, allows security guards who are employed on a part-time basis by a public institution of higher education and who are handgun carry permit holders to carry a handgun on campus in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49. Died
- HB 744 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, creates a Second Amendment sales tax holiday for the first weekend of September of each year for firearms and ammunition. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. Died
- HB 2215 Local Government, General - As introduced, requires an organization that provides risk management services to local governments to disclose certain information to the public upon request. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5 and Title 29, Chapter 20. Died
- HB 2475 Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires that driver education courses in public schools include instruction on the dangers of using hand-held mobile telephones or personal digital assistants to transmit or read a message; requires that students be apprised of the delinquent act, and penalty, to knowingly operate a motor vehicle and use a mobile phone or personal digital assistant equipped with a hands-free device to transmit or read a written message. - Amends TCA Title 49. Died
- HB 572 Short Term Loans and Lenders - As introduced, changes the time within which records of pawn broker transactions must be delivered to law enforcement agencies from 48 hours after the day of the transaction to by noon the day following the day of transaction; removes specifications about the manner of delivery of records. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 45 and Title 62. Died
- HJR 59 Memorials, Death - Sergeant Major Kenneth Eugene Goins - Enacted
- HJR 519 Memorials, Professional Achievement - George "Everett" Ellison, Sr., and Ellison's Sanitary Supply Company - Enacted
- HB 746 Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires the commissioners of health and mental health and substance abuse services to produce guidelines on nonresidential buprenorphine treatment by January 1, 2018, and to annually update those guidelines. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 1. Enacted
- HJR 61 Memorials, Death - Bill L. DeGuire - Enacted
- HB 570 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Local School District Empowerment Act," which creates a pilot program for reestablishment of the office of elected school superintendent; requires the department of education to study the pilot program procedures for reestablishment of the office; adjusts duties of local boards of education in systems in which the office of elected school superintendent is reestablished. - Amends TCA Title 49. Died
- HB 1857 Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, requires any person operating in this state as a pharmacy benefits manager to be licensed by the department of commerce and insurance prior to operating. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 6, Part 4 and Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 31. Enacted
- HJR 211 Memorials, Death - Alvin Carmany - Enacted
- HJR 517 Memorials, Recognition - Susan Miceli, Trustee of the Year, Tennessee Library Association - Enacted
- HJR 129 Memorials, Death - Tony Brown - Enacted
- HJR 195 Memorials, Recognition - John T. "Jack" Reynolds, Campbell County Good Scout Award - Enacted
- HJR 212 Memorials, Death - Shields Worth Richardson - Enacted
- HB 743 Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes off-highway vehicles on certain state routes in Campbell County. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-185. Enacted