Sponsored (introduced) — Historical
Yarbro, Jeff · 290 bills · page 2 of 12
- SB 2593 Education - As introduced, enacts the "Teacher Residency Program Grant Act." - Amends TCA Title 49. Died
- SB 1768 Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires department of safety to provide photo identification license free of charge to person whose driver license is revoked or suspended upon surrender of driver license or proof of surrender. - Amends TCA Section 40-24-105 and Title 55. Died
- HB 1231 Hotels and Restaurants - As introduced, clarifies that certain requirements that apply to hotels and places of public accommodation do not apply to short-term rentals. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68. Died
- HB 2443 Welfare - As introduced, exempts long-term caregivers from work requirements under the food assistance and temporary assistance to needy families programs. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71. Died
- HB 834 Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires certain employers to make a reasonable accommodation for any pregnant employee upon request; authorizes the employer to require medical documentation concerning the reasonable accommodation; requires the employer to provide notice of a pregnant employee's right to a reasonable accommodation. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21, Part 4 and Title 50. Died
- HB 1210 Budget Procedures - As introduced, authorizes grant payments under the grant assistance program for nursing home care to be made either monthly or quarterly. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71. Died
- HB 1340 Basic Education Program (BEP) - As introduced, sets the BEP instructional salary unit cost for the 2017–2018 fiscal year at the statewide average licensed teacher salary. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5. Died
- SJR 466 General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Authorizes governor to expand Medicaid eligibility in accordance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to fully combat the opioid crisis in Tennessee. - Died
- SJR 110 Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendment of Article II, Section 4 to establish an independent redistricting commission for senatorial and representative districts. - Died
- SB 1069 Education - As introduced, authorizes the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute to provide the governor and general assembly written reports in electronic format. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 13. Died
- SB 600 Election Laws - As introduced, specifies that audio or video recording and taking photographs of a ballot with a mobile electronic or communication device is prohibited within a polling place. - Amends TCA Section 2-7-142. Died
- SB 1327 Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration to notify all members of the general assembly when making a recommendation for outsourcing of a state agency program to the governor and finance, ways and means committees. - Amends TCA Title 9. Died
- SB 868 TennCare - As introduced, changes the date for the comptroller of the treasury to submit the annual actuarial study of the TennCare program to the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the house of representatives, the office of legislative budget analysis, and the fiscal review committee from April 15 to April 30. - Amends TCA Title 71. Died
- HB 2673 Health Care - As introduced, directs the department of commerce and insurance and the department of health to study the need for medication assisted treatment in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 33; Title 40; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. Died
- HB 2649 State Inmates - As introduced, requires that a copy of an inmate's judgment of conviction and other sentencing documents be delivered with each inmate to the chief administrative officer of the local jail, workhouse, or other facility where the inmate will serve the sentence imposed rather than the warden of the penitentiary. - Amends TCA Title 41. Died
- HB 297 Criminal Offenses - As introduced, reduces from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class C misdemeanor the offense of possession of a small amount of marijuana not in excess of one-eighth ounce; punishes the offense by imposing a fine of no more than $50. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 40. Died
- SB 1333 Election Laws - As introduced, prohibits homeowners' associations from prohibiting the display of political or campaign posters or signs placed on private property that are not larger than 18 inches in height by 24 inches in width during the period beginning 60 days before any election until the day after the election. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 1. Died
- HB 1191 Emergency Communications Districts - As introduced, requires the emergency communications board to make its required annual report to the governor and the speakers of the general assembly on or before June 1 each year. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 17; Title 7, Chapter 86; Title 38, Chapter 1, Part 6 and Title 68, Chapter 140. Died
- HB 2567 Election Laws - As introduced, requires each county election commission, no later than January 1, 2020, to utilize precinct-based optical scanners for elections. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 20. Died
- SB 2185 Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires all health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraception and other women's preventive health services; provides exemptions for certain religious employers. - Amends TCA Title 56. Died
- HB 804 Taxes, Sales - As introduced, eliminates the sales tax on over-the-counter medicine, diapers, and feminine hygiene products; reduces sales and use tax rate on food and food ingredients by .5 percent each year beginning on January 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. Died
- HB 2611 General Assembly - As introduced, requires that individuals be permitted to bring signs into legislative office buildings and the state capitol building and to possess the signs while present in such buildings. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4, Chapter 8. Died
- SB 1007 Education - As introduced, creates a timeline for the commissioner of education to transition schools from the operation of the achievement school district (ASD) back to the local education agency if the ASD-operated school fails to improve student achievement. - Amends TCA Title 49. Died
- HB 1777 Election Laws - As introduced, creates a process for automatic voter registration by county election commissions after a person completes an application for a driver license, photo identification license, or handgun carry permit with the department of safety. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 55, Chapter 50. Died
- SB 872 Search & Seizure - As introduced, prohibits a law enforcement officer from seizing or destroying a person's photograph or recording of an event or person if it is not illegal and the person is in a place the person has a right to be when photographed or recorded; allows law enforcement to petition court for copy of certain photographic material. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 1. Died