Tennessee · Current officeholder
Michele Carringer
Republican Tennessee House, District 16
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Sponsored legislation
49 bills in the current data (49 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2309 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to offenses occurring at a house of worship. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1924 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, directs the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to study the status of the crime stoppers programs across the state and make recommendations to enhance such programs. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 1922 | Sexual Offenders - As enacted, requires sexual offenders and violent sexual offenders to notify the owner or operator of any campground on which the offender intends to stay overnight of the offender's status as a sexual offender or violent sexual offender prior to beginning the stay; creates the offense of knowingly staying overnight at a campground without providing the required notice, which is punished as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| HJR 7014 | Memorials, Sports - Knox Central High School baseball team - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 14, 2026 |
| HJR 1563 | Memorials, Retirement - M. Kevin Knowles - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1504 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Isabella Huddleston, Salutatorian, Central High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1503 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Barrett Lemons, Valedictorian, Central High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1502 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Giselle Cruz Cardoza, Salutatorian, Powell High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1501 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Caleb Lanius, Valedictorian, Powell High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1500 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Annsley Bruce, Salutatorian, Halls High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1499 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Addyson DeHart, Valedictorian, Halls High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1498 | Memorials, Recognition - Sloan Darby, 2026 Miss Greenfield Princess - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1497 | Memorials, Sports - Knoxville Central High school boys' basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1496 | Memorials, Sports - J.P. Payne, District 3, Class 4A Coach of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 640 | Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to develop guidance for Tennessee accelerating literacy and learning corps (TALLC) members on how to align tutoring services for students with the remediation the student needs and with the academic standards adopted by the state board of education for the student's grade level; requires the department to provide LEAs with a list of secure data management systems that utilize platforms capable of tracking the effectiveness of intervention methods, resource allocation, and student progress in real time across all schools in the LEA; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2026 |
| HB 2283 | Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, prohibits the department from requiring a relative caregiver, including relatives in the kinship foster care program, to provide a child with the child's own bedroom in determining whether to place the child in the custody of the relative caregiver. - Amends TCA Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 24, 2026 |
| HJR 1257 | Memorials, Death - John Peden Valliant, Jr. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 20, 2026 |
| HR 172 | Memorials, Sports - J.P. Payne, District 3, Class 4A Coach of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| HR 171 | Memorials, Sports - Knoxville Central Bobcats boys' basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 24, 2026 |
| HB 2306 | Real Property - As introduced, makes void and unenforceable any restrictions on the operation of a family child care home or group child care home that may be in a homeowners' association declaration that applies to a property where a family child care home or group child care home is or will be sited by the property owner; makes other changes relative to restrictions on the use of real property. - Amends TCA Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 1923 | Notary Public - As introduced, requires the secretary of state to appoint notaries public to commissions in this state; prescribes additional requirements to be commissioned as a notary public in this state. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 16 and Title 23. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2308 | Boats, Boating - As introduced, increases, from 50 to 75 feet, the distance a jet boat that carries passengers for hire must be from a private or public dock or boat ramp before the boat may travel at a speed greater than no-wake speed. - Amends TCA Title 69. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 2307 | Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As introduced, authorizes the operator of a crematory facility to provide an electronic receipt, instead of a written receipt, to the person who delivers a dead human body or body parts to the facility for cremation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 10; Title 29; Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 34; Title 35; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 46; Title 50; Title 55; Title 56; Title 58; Title 62; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 1117 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, creates a pathway for a person to obtain an alternative instructional leader license for purposes of serving as a principal, an assistant principal, or an instructional supervisor. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| HJR 885 | Memorials, Death - Charles Maxwell "Charlie" Severance - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 18, 2026 |
| HJR 793 | Memorials, Death - Thomas Hayes "Tommy" Schumpert - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HJR 740 | Memorials, Recognition - Dogwood Arts Festival, 70th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| HB 2310 | Public Health - As introduced, requires healthcare provider regulatory authorities to report quarterly to the department of health the number and type of disciplinary actions taken against a healthcare provider for knowingly performing or offering to perform on a minor, or administering or offering to administer to a minor, a prohibited medical procedure. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68, Chapter 33. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 2282 | Public Employees - As introduced, allows up to five days' leave for any eligible employee who is a foster parent or kinship caregiver regarding appearances in court or counseling sessions related to the placement of the foster child. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 641 | Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, enacts the "Savannah Grace Copeland Act." - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 12; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HJR 705 | Memorials, Death - Costas "Gus" Brinias - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| HJR 608 | Memorials, Recognition - Kyle Nahrebne - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 607 | Memorials, Recognition - Martin Daniel - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 604 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - John Hammeren, Salutatorian, Halls High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 603 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Izaiah Cohoon, Valedictorian, Halls High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 602 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Grayce Barnes, Valedictorian, Powell High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 601 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ellie Garland, Salutatorian, Powell High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 600 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Anna Askins, Valedictorian, Central High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 599 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Eleanor Wood, Salutatorian, Central High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 646 | Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, authorizes persons to wear daylight fluorescent pink as a substitute for daylight fluorescent orange when hunting big game during gun hunts; deletes statutory definition of daylight fluorescent orange. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 638 | TennCare - As introduced, prohibits a healthcare provider who participates in the TennCare or CoverKids programs from refusing to provide healthcare services to an enrollee based solely upon the enrollee’s refusal to obtain a vaccine or immunization; prohibits the bureau from reimbursing a healthcare provider in violation of such prohibition; requires the director to adopt rules. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 21, 2025 |
| HB 644 | Nurses, Nursing - As introduced, requires all hospitals licensed by the health facilities commission or by the department of mental health and substance abuse services to report annually to the department of health, on a form promulgated by the department, the number of advanced practice registered nurses who are working in the hospital for each month. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| HB 1116 | Treasurer, State - As introduced, creates within the state treasury a fund known as the crime stoppers trust fund to be used for the purpose of grant administration to fund crime stoppers programs within the state; requires an additional fine of $10 to be imposed on offenders convicted of a felony or misdemeanor offense to be deposited in the crime stoppers trust fund. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2025 |
| HB 642 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, changes from March 1 to February 15 the date by which the executive director of the commission must file an annual report concerning rules promulgated during the prior year with the appropriate standing committees of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| HB 643 | Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to create programs designed to enhance access to dental services in rural and underserved areas subject to the approval of the commissioner of finance and administration. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| HB 1119 | Public Health - As introduced, requires the attorney general to report to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives certain information regarding violations of the prohibition against using medical procedures to enable a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex or to treat purported discomfort or distress from discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 10, 2025 |
| HB 1115 | Wine & Wineries - As introduced, requires the Tennessee wine and grape board to coordinate with wineries across this state in an effort to create a statewide wine trail. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 10, 2025 |
| HB 639 | Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, extends from five to 10 days the amount of time a law enforcement officer has to file a written informational statement with the county court clerk after taking possession of illicit intoxicating liquors. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 6, 2025 |
| HJR 47 | Memorials, Death - Savannah Grace Copeland - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 4, 2025 |