Tennessee Representative John Ragan [R]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
TN	HB2310	Pass	As introduced, creates a civil cause of action against any person who intentionally recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor within this state for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure, regardless of where the medical... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-06-03 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1064
TN	HB1872	Pass	As enacted, authorizes a court to enhance the statutory penalty, up to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole, for a conviction under certain circumstances involving illegal aliens or crimes occurring on school property while student... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-06-03 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1063
TN	HB2035	Pass	As enacted, preempts the entire field of legislation regarding extreme risk protection orders to the exclusion of all county, city, town, municipality, or metropolitan government law, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulation. - Amends TCA T... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-06-03 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1062
TN	HB2940	Pass	As enacted, enacts the "TennCare for Working Individuals with Disabilities Act." - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-29 Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
TN	HB1259	Pass	As enacted, enacts anti-squatter laws. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-29 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1009
TN	HB2954	Pass	As enacted, enacts the "Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men Act" or the "PSA Screening for HIM Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-29 Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TN	HB2553	Pass	As enacted, makes changes to law regarding restrictions on land purchases by sanctioned aliens or foreign entities. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 48 and Title 66. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-29 Effective date(s) 05/21/2024, 01/01/2025
TN	HB2774	Pass	As enacted, requires the review of executive branch agency policies and spending as it relates to illegal immigration; requires a report to be compiled and delivered to the governor and the speakers of the senate and house of representatives regardin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-29 Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
TN	HB1754	Pass	As enacted, extends the department of general services to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-28 Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
TN	HB0996	Pass	As enacted, clarifies that instruction in topics related to sexual activity are generally not age-appropriate for students in grades K-5 and must generally not be taught to students in grades K-5 as part of a family life curriculum; clarifies that su... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-28 Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
TN	HB2054	Pass	As enacted, increases from 1,500 to 3,000, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, the amount of acreage of land permitted to be placed within any one taxing jurisdiction under the Agricultural, Forest and Open Space Land Act. - Amends T... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-28 Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
TN	HB2074	Pass	As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to exemptions from sales and use tax for natural disaster claimants. - Amends TCA Title 67. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-28 Effective date(s) 05/21/2024
TN	HB1016	Pass	As enacted, makes various changes to the present law relative to the offense of communicating a threat concerning a school employee. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-13 Effective date(s) 07/01/2024
TN	HB1855	Pass	As enacted, requires each public institution of higher education to establish a policy framework to promote the security of academic research conducted at the institution to mitigate against the risk of foreign influence. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapt... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 955
TN	HB2348	Pass	As enacted, establishes a Class E felony for an entity that is supported in whole or in part by public funds to knowingly provide meeting spaces or other forums, including electronic and print platforms, to certain groups or organizations for the pur... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 872
TN	HB2346	Pass	As enacted, creates a mechanism for the management and governance functions of certain boards to be transferred and assumed by the commission in the event a board ceases to exist under the Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law. - Amends TCA Title ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 848
TN	HB2845	Pass	As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Prevention of Drunk Driving Act." - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 57. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 961
TN	HB2031	Pass	As enacted, authorizes a person who suffers loss or injury as a result of a defendant intentionally obstructing a highway, street, or other place used for the passage of vehicles or conveyances to bring a cause of action against such person to recove... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 958
TN	HB2088	Pass	As enacted, authorizes the military department to administer a critical skills retention bonus program to be used to award retention bonuses of up to $10,000 to enlisted service members in the Tennessee national guard; entitles certain state employee... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 847
TN	HB1663	Pass	As introduced, authorizes the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, or especially aggravated rape of a child. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Chapter 1062 of the Public Acts of 2022. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 951
TN	HB2433	Pass	As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to conduct a study on the effects of vaping and the use of all vapor products by persons under 21. - Amends TCA Title 25; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 67. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-13 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 937
TN	HB1748	Pass	As enacted, extends the commission on children and youth to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 37, Chapter 3. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 825
TN	HB1783	Pass	As enacted, generally establishes that permanent rules filed in the office of the secretary of state on or after January 1, 2023, that are in effect on May 1, 2024, and that are scheduled for expiration on June 30, 2024, do not expire on June 30, 202... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 827
TN	HB1781	Pass	As enacted, extends the University of Tennessee, board of trustees, to June 30, 2028. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 9. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 826
TN	HB2619	Pass	As enacted, generally prohibits the department from using state funds to administer hormone replacement therapy to state inmates incarcerated in a state penitentiary or a county jail or workhouse, or for sex reassignment surgery for state inmates inc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 821
TN	HB2784	Pass	As enacted, adds a process by which compliance with the law concerning divisive concepts in institutions of higher education can be reviewed by applicable legislative committees. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 815
TN	HB2859	Pass	As enacted, provides that an owner of land who enters into a cooperative agreement with a public utility owned by the federal government for the use of the public utility's land in conjunction with the owner's land of at least 100 acres that is made ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 819
TN	HJR1450	Pass	Christopher Coffey [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Signed by Governor.
TN	HJR1504	Pass	Kim McCaster Cox [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Signed by Governor.
TN	HJR1027	Pass	Jillian Ludwig [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-03 Signed by Governor.
TN	HB1375	Pass	As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the commission; makes other changes relative to the commission. - Amends TCA Title 4. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-01 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 764
TN	HB2464	Pass	As enacted, requires local boards of education to include school safety training in the training requirements for substitute teachers; clarifies that LEAs are prohibited from hiring a substitute teacher whose license in another state is revoked; make... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-01 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 735
TN	HJR0131	Pass	Addresses and establishes the declared public policy of the State of Tennessee relative to the right of the citizens and those within the boundaries of this State to keep, bear, and wear arms. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-22 Signed by Governor.
TN	HB1245	Intro 25%	As introduced, allows for a sentence of death to be carried out by electrocution as an alternative to lethal injection if the commissioner of correction certifies to the governor that the department is unable to adhere to the lethal injection protoco... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
TN	HB1633	Pass	As enacted, requires the department of safety to create de-escalation training for teachers, administrators, and other school personnel; requires LEAs and public charter schools to ensure that the LEA's or public charter school's teachers, administra... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 675
TN	HB1776	Pass	As enacted, extends the Tennessee board of court reporting to June 30, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 20, Chapter 9, Part 6. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 673
TN	HB1769	Pass	As enacted, extends the state board of education to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 3. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Effective date(s) 04/09/2024
TN	HB2038	Intro 25%	As introduced, directs the department of economic and community development to develop a program for the installation and operation of combustion turbine power plants to increase the state's electric generation capacity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TN	HB2827	Intro 25%	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. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TN	HB2067	Intro 25%	As introduced, requires that a newborn safety device be installed in each county in this state. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TN	HB2089	Pass	As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Disability and Aging Act of 2024." - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 33; Title 34; Title 37; Title 40; Title 41; Title 45; Title 49; Title 52; Title 55; Title 56; Title 63; Title 67; T... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 688
TN	HB1999	Intro 25%	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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-17 Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TN	HB0474	Intro 25%	As introduced, expresses legislative intent that the persons appointed to a charter commission for the consolidation of the functions of the county and creation of a metropolitan government be representative of both incorporated and unincorporated ar... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-16 Comp. SB subst.
TN	HJR1359	Intro 25%	States that neither World Health Organization, United Nations, nor the World Economic Forum shall have any jurisdiction or power within the State of Tennessee. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 To House Delayed Bills Committee
TN	HJR0038	Intro 25%	Proposes an amendment to Article I, Section 26 of the Constitution of Tennessee to remove the provision that authorizes the legislature to regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime and to clarify that citizens have a right to keep and... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-10 Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
TN	HB2961	Intro 25%	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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-10 To House Finance, Ways & Means Subcommittee
TN	HB2304	Engross 50%	As introduced, requires the department to provide written and electronic notice to the employing company of a person appointed and commissioned as a state facility protection officer to provide facility security when the department no longer requires... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-10 Received from House, Passed on First Consideration
TN	HB2647	Intro 25%	As introduced, removes an outdated provision that required the department to report to the chairs of the government operations committees of the senate and the house of representatives, and appear before the education, health, and general welfare joi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-09 Def. to Summer Study in Civil Justice Committee
TN	HB2216	Pass	As enacted, enacts "Danielle's Law," which extends the statute of limitations for injuries to a person, who is 18 or older, relating to sexual assault to three years or five years depending on if law enforcement was notified of the assault. - Amends ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Comp. became Pub. Ch. 644
TN	HB0023	Pass	As enacted, requires a legislative body for a municipal, metropolitan, or county government to make available to the public, at no charge and at least 48 hours prior to a meeting, the agenda for the upcoming meeting in a place accessible to the publi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Sponsor(s) Added.