Tennessee · Current officeholder
David Hawk
Republican Tennessee House, District 5
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Sponsored legislation
30 bills in the current data (30 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2359 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, expands the definition of "consumable material" to include natural and synthetic liquid nicotine solutions and liquid nicotine analogues for purposes of the taxation of vapor products containing such material; requires the alcoholic beverage commission to issue the fines for the offense of selling or offering for sale a vapor product for retail sale in this state to anyone under 21. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43; Title 57 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2366 | Tourism - As enacted, requires the department of tourist development to promulgate rules designating tourism development zones in this state as economic protection zones; places certain limitations on a local government blocking streets or other rights-of-way in a tourism development zone; clarifies that the Tennessee highway patrol has concurrent law enforcement authority with local law enforcement agencies within a tourism development zone in this state. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 2358 | Human Resources, Department of - As enacted, requires the department to annually publish on the department's website a report on the temporary assistance for needy families program's and the child care and development fund's balances and expenditures. - Amends TCA Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 2313 | Health, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes the department to establish and administer an early childhood mental health home visiting program as a voluntary, evidence-based and home-based intervention to promote the mental health, developmental progress, and family stability of children from birth to five years of age and their families. - Amends TCA Title 33 and Title 68, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 1, 2026 |
| HB 2363 | Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, reduces professional privilege tax from $400 to $200 per year for attorneys in tax years that begin on and after June 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2361 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, enacts "The Mint Act," which establishes a precious metals enterprise fund to be administered by the state treasurer for the purpose of acquiring, converting, storing, and selling bullion and specie. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2360 | Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, allocates 30 percent of the revenue from taxes on vapor products to counties in equal amounts to be used for youth nicotine prevention programs and services. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1683 | Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires 95.3970 percent, instead of 100 percent, of sales and use tax revenue generated from the sale of new or used tires to be deposited in the highway fund; adds 95.3970 percent of sales and use tax revenue generated from the sale of new or used motor vehicles to be deposited in the highway fund; requires the remaining 4.6030 percent of such revenue to be allocated to the several incorporated municipalities; allocates single article sales tax collections on the retail sale of new or used motor vehicles to the highway fund. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HJR 1109 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sapana Das, Valedictorian, Chuckey-Doak High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 1, 2026 |
| HB 2364 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows certain school employees to conduct physical searches of students and searches of vehicles, containers, packages, lockers, or other enclosures used for storage by students or visitors in certain circumstances; narrows, from all threats of violence or significantly disruptive behavior at a public school that are reported to a state or local law enforcement agency to only those first determined by the LEA to be credible, the threats or behavior for which an LEA must notify parents and guardians within 48 hours. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 30, 2026 |
| HB 2365 | School Vouchers - As introduced, expands eligibility for an education freedom scholarship to students who are enrolled in an out-of-district public school. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| HB 1685 | Workers Compensation - As introduced, enacts the "Zero Estimated Exposure Policy Act." - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 1684 | Traffic Safety - As enacted, clarifies the areas in which a personal delivery device may be operated and where such devices are prohibited; authorizes local resolutions or ordinances to both regulate and prohibit such devices but only in compliance with state law. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 16, 2026 |
| HJR 990 | Memorials, Recognition - Bring David Crockett Home Week, March 2-6, 2026 - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 26, 2026 |
| HB 2362 | Motor Vehicles - As introduced, prohibits governmental entities that regulate entertainment transportation from denying the transfer of a permit, establishing certain noise ordinances, requiring an entertainment transportation vehicle to be enclosed, and taking other actions under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-1008. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 9, 2026 |
| HB 969 | Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, generally requires that all monies received under the sales and use tax from the sale, use, consumption, or distribution of new or used tires on or after July 1, 2025, must be earmarked and allocated to the highway fund. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 964 | Education - As enacted, changes the standard for entry-resistant window treatment for school buildings constructed or remodeled on or after July 1, 2025; requires the state-level school safety team to issue guidelines to the state fire marshal for inclusion in rules. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 968 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, requires the department of revenue to maintain a directory on its website that lists all vapor products certified as authorized to be sold in this state; levies certain privilege taxes. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15; Title 47, Chapter 25; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 26. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HJR 663 | Memorials, Retirement - Kenneth Robert Carpenter - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| HB 965 | Contractors - As enacted, encourages licensed contractors and subcontractors who enter into state construction contracts to employ apprentices from certified and registered apprenticeship programs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 12, Chapter 4; Title 50, Chapter 11; Title 62, Chapter 6 and Title 66, Chapter 34. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 30, 2025 |
| HB 927 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, clarifies that excepted benefits are not part of a requirement to provide coverage for a specific person, provider, treatment, service, condition, or disease, unless coverage of such excepted benefits is expressly required by law. - Amends TCA Title 56. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 962 | Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes local governments to create local boards for the purpose of permitting retailers of hemp-derived cannabinoid products. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 43, Chapter 27. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HJR 122 | General Assembly, Directed Studies - Directs the Department of Health to conduct a comprehensive study to evaluate and make recommendations regarding anesthesia workforce and staffing across all facilities providing anesthesia services in Tennessee. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| HB 1006 | State Universities - As introduced, expands the list of those who are prohibited from serving on a state university board to include those who hold the position of a member of a governing body for another institution of higher education, not just public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2025 |
| HB 963 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, allocates all revenue generated from the state sales tax on retail sales of new or used motor vehicles and new or used tires in excess of base tax revenues to the state highway fund. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 5, 2025 |
| HB 970 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Healthcare Quality and Access Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 34; Title 42; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68; Title 71 and Chapter 985 of the Public Acts of 2024. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 26, 2025 |
| HB 1167 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires the dissolution and reconstitution, upon appointments by the governor, of the board of directors of any hospital that is part of a certificate of public advantage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| HB 967 | Credit and Debit Cards - As introduced, requires state and local taxes and fees be excluded from the calculation of interchange fees by payment card networks for electronic payment transactions. - Amends TCA Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 11, 2025 |
| HB 966 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, creates two special accounts in the state treasury, the K-12 lottery capital outlay special account and the early learning program account, for excess lottery funds; requires the comptroller of the treasury to develop and administer a program to provide grants from such accounts to local education agencies to be used for capital outlay projects for K-12 educational facilities and for new or existing pre-K programs. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 8, Chapter 4; Title 9 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 11, 2025 |
| HB 1041 | General Assembly - As introduced, establishes parameters for biennial September sessions. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 11, 2025 |