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Tennessee · Current officeholder
Renea Jones
Republican Tennessee House, District 4
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Sponsored legislation
37 bills in the current data (37 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 902 | Education, Curriculum - As enacted, establishes a pilot program that provides grants to local education agencies to advance substance abuse and violence prevention programs. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2614 | State Government - As enacted, designates the Rhododendron and Fall-O-Dendron festivals of Roan Mountain as the official Rhododendron and Fall-O-Dendron festivals in this state in recognition of the festivals' contributions to the preservation of the heritage, history, and beautiful landscapes of this state. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 9. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1443 | Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Caring for Caregivers Act." - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 52; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 2411 | Boards and Commissions - As enacted, integrates the bureau of TennCare into the statewide planning and policy council’s structure and mission by adding the director of long-term care services and a managed care organization representative to its membership; expands the council’s advisory and reporting duties to include TennCare’s director, services, and waiver implementation alongside existing department programs. - Amends TCA Title 52, Chapter 5, Part 6 and Title 71, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2146 | Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, specifies that if a student is referred to juvenile court for being unlawfully absent from school and is ultimately adjudicated to be unruly, that the disposition made by the juvenile judge or magistrate may include the suspension of the student's driving privileges or ability to obtain a driver license for a period of up to one year. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30 and Title 55, Chapter 10. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2148 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, clarifies that tenure and the process for dismissing a nontenured, licensed employee by a director of schools does not apply to individuals who hold a temporary academic permit or temporary clinical permit. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 4, 2026 |
| HB 2147 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the Class C misdemeanor offense of knowingly using an unmanned aircraft over the grounds of a school. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 4, 2026 |
| HB 2655 | Unicoi County - Subject to local approval, aligns the county's mineral severance tax with the tax amounts prescribed under state law. - Amends Chapter 213 of the Private Acts of 1982. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| HB 1672 | Local Government, General - As enacted, makes changes to the process by which local governments may issue and sell grant anticipation notes; authorizes the comptroller to approve certain notes issued by a local government if the local government demonstrates that a natural disaster has caused economic distress. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 13, Part 2 and Title 9, Chapter 21, Part 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 27, 2026 |
| HB 2149 | Education - As enacted, authorizes an LEA or public charter school to continue a disciplinary investigation of a student who, during the investigation, withdraws from the LEA or public charter school; authorizes, if the student later reenrolls, the LEA or public charter school to discipline the student in accordance with the LEA's or public charter school's policy based on the results of the investigation. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2026 |
| HB 1825 | Food and Food Products - As enacted, increases from 150 gallons to 835 gallons the annual threshold amount of honey at or above which a honey producer is subject to food manufacturing and inspection requirements. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 15 and Title 53. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 24, 2026 |
| HB 193 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts from the sales and use tax the purchase of a motor vehicle that is registered in this state by a qualifying member of the Tennessee national guard; applies the sales tax exemption only to the first $15,000 of the sales price and only to one vehicle sold to such individual within a five-year period. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1540 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts certain school supplies and instructional materials from the sales and use tax if sold to a teacher employed by a local education agency or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HR 168 | Agriculture - Recognizes the importance of developing information and recommendations to assist the 115th General Assembly in crafting legislation to regulate agricultural operations based on raising fur-bearing animals. - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 31, 2026 |
| HB 1040 | Boards and Commissions - As introduced, creates the Tennessee board of sign language interpreting. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 21. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| HJR 999 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Mabel Chandler Edwards, 106th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 929 | Memorials, Recognition - Zoe Scheiderich, Miss Tennessee 2025 - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 668 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45 days, the amount of time a person who purchases, subscribes to, or receives products, services, or membership in an organization by negotiating an unsolicited negotiable instrument has from the date of the first statement or bill for the purchase, subscription, service, product, or membership to cancel the services, subscription, or membership, or return the product. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 961 | House of Representatives - As introduced, revises the statutory reference to the house committee responsible for approving the Tennessee Code Commission style guidelines from the civil justice committee of the house of representatives to the committee of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over subject matters pertaining to the code commission. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 52; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70; Title 71 and Chapter 895 of the Public Acts of 2024. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | March 2, 2026 |
| HJR 904 | Memorials, Recognition - Analee Shaver, Miss Tennessee's Teen 2025 - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2026 |
| HB 2150 | Livestock - As introduced, broadens the definition of alternative livestock under the Tennessee Livestock Dealer Act to include non-traditional livestock without hooves. - Amends TCA Title 44, Chapter 10. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 24, 2026 |
| HJR 710 | Memorials, Death - James W. "Jim" Ayers - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| HJR 749 | General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes importance of substance abuse prevention education. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| HB 717 | Health Care - As enacted, extends the termination date for the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care pilot program from December 31, 2025, to December 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 52; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HJR 660 | Memorials, Death - James W. "Jim" Ayers - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| HB 589 | Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, creates the Tennessee agriculture and forestry hall of fame as the successor to, and a continuation of, the Tennessee agricultural hall of fame; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 660 | Water Authorities - As enacted, generally authorizes the board of directors of a municipal energy authority to, as part of the transfer of a water and wastewater system, adopt and assume all or any portion of such regulatory powers, authority, duties, obligations, and oversight over the water and wastewater operations as were applicable to the municipal water and wastewater system pursuant to ordinances, resolutions, or other rules or policies that were in effect immediately prior to the transfer of such system to the authority; authorizes later amendment to such rules, regulations, and requirements. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HJR 546 | Memorials, Recognition - Alvin Murphy, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| HJR 515 | Memorials, Recognition - Southeastern Autorama, 65th annual car show - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 15, 2025 |
| HB 499 | Business and Commerce - As enacted, requires that, in order to resign an agency appointment, a registered agent file a certification with the secretary of state that the agent has mailed written notice of the agent's resignation, instead of a copy of the original statement of resignation, to the principal office of the entity employing the agent. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 38, Part 1; Title 48, Chapter 15; Title 48, Chapter 208; Title 48, Chapter 249; Title 48, Chapter 25; Title 48, Chapter 55; Title 48, Chapter 65; Title 61, Chapter 1; Title 61, Chapter 2 and Title 61, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HR 68 | Memorials, Recognition - Jerry Byrd, 2024 Master Logger of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 3, 2025 |
| HB 185 | Municipal Government - As enacted, authorizes a certified municipal finance officer who is contracted with a municipality to provide financial oversight on behalf of the municipality to devote fewer than 16 hours per month to such duties, if the municipality seeks and receives written approval from the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 28, 2025 |
| HJR 243 | Memorials, Death - Johnny Peterson - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| HR 3 | Memorials, Recognition - 2025 Tennessee State FFA Officers - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 5, 2025 |
| HB 670 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, decreases from 450 to 400 feet from the usual banks of a Class II or Class III scenic river, the maximum area within which development is limited. - Amends TCA Title 11. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 5, 2025 |
| HB 429 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, designates a person impersonating a transportation network company driver or falsely representing that the person is responding to a passenger ride request for a transportation network company as a Class E felony when the conduct occurs during the commission of a separate felony offense, or as a Class C misdemeanor when the conduct does not occur during the commission of a felony offense. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 39 and Title 65, Chapter 15. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 3, 2025 |
| HB 168 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, urges the department of agriculture to study the effects of the sale and distribution of smokeless nicotine products and other alternative nicotine products to persons under 21; encourages the department to make recommendations to the legislature with regard to reducing such sales and distribution. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title 39; Title 43; Title 47; Title 49; Title 62; Title 63; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 27, 2025 |