Tennessee · Current officeholder
Ron Travis
Republican Tennessee House, District 31
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Sponsored legislation
33 bills in the current data (33 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2174 | Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, revises the exemption for judges to the offense of carrying weapons during judicial proceedings. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2175 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, requires a delivery network company or delivery network company driver to comply with certain automobile liability insurance requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 55; Title 56 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HJR 7023 | Memorials, Recognition - Randy Mathis - | Primary sponsor | Introduced | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1605 | Memorials, Public Service - Carolyn Cates - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1571 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - August Jett Cates, birth - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1350 | Memorials, Sports - Cade Reel, 2026 Drive, Chip, and Putt National Finalist - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HB 1723 | Child Labor - As enacted, adds regulations for content creation that involves certain minors. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 27, 2026 |
| HJR 1333 | Memorials, Retirement - Jim Reed, Rhea County Commissioner - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2026 |
| HB 2170 | Health Care - As introduced, authorizes electronic filing of the annual report by a sponsoring not-for-profit corporation providing healthcare services to low income individuals pursuant to the Memphis Plan Act of 1991, with the commissioner of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2026 |
| HB 1252 | Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision relating to a tax credit for beer or ale that was destroyed in a flood occurring between May 1, 2010, and May 8, 2010. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| HJR 942 | Memorials, Death - Charles Farris Dye, Sr. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 941 | Memorials, Death - Ola Cecil Harris - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 2176 | Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian to the list the department of mental health and substance abuse services must submit its quarterly report to on the implementation and impact of available suitable accommodations, including the number and length of any delayed admissions, in state owned or operated hospitals or treatment resources. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 52; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| HJR 911 | Memorials, Recognition - Allan Dale Hannah - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2026 |
| HJR 839 | Memorials, Recognition - Allan Dale Hannah - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HJR 838 | Memorials, Death - Ola Cecil Harris - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HJR 837 | Memorials, Retirement - Rhea County Executive Jim Vincent - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HB 2591 | Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As introduced, establishes organic human reduction as a legally permissible method to dispose of human remains, with oversight by and pursuant to rules promulgated by the board of funeral directors and embalmers. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 6, Part 1; Title 62, Chapter 5; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 2173 | Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, authorizes an owner or person in legal possession of drugs or devices deemed adulterated to request a show cause hearing electronically, rather than strictly in writing. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 2171 | Cemeteries - As introduced, requires a cemetery company to include in its record of each burial in the cemetery the precise geographical location using latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates; requires the cemetery company to transmit a copy of the record to the funeral establishment responsible for the arrangements of the person buried at the interment site within 15 days after the date of burial. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 46 and Title 62, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 882 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, prohibits the department from regulating farming activities involving top soil, rock removal, or the building of a pond when the activities are conducted in an area that is less than three acres in size, and the property on which the activities occur has greenbelt classification. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 11; Title 13; Title 43; Title 44; Title 64; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| HB 1868 | Education, Higher - As introduced, waives, for the dependent child of a law enforcement officer or firefighter who was killed or who died as a direct result of injuries received while performing their official duties, the tuition and fees charged by the public institution of higher education at which the dependent child is enrolled as a student. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| HB 1724 | Water Pollution - As introduced, requires local approval of a tipping fee for application of sludge from water treatment plants onto agricultural lands, with proceeds earmarked for water treatment facilities, as a condition of such applications continuing in a locality; places a moratorium on certain permits in jurisdictions that do not provide such local approval. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-105; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 43; Title 68 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 22, 2026 |
| HB 816 | Driver Licenses - As enacted, limits to four the number of points that may be assessed to a person's driver record for the offense of operating a motor vehicle while the person's driving privilege is canceled, suspended, or revoked. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 706 | District Attorneys - As introduced, adds an additional assistant district attorney general position and criminal investigator position in each judicial district that includes a state correctional facility. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 14, 2025 |
| HB 463 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, requires the board of trustees of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system to convert a person's participation in the retirement system, for service as a member of the general assembly and as a participant in the hybrid plan, from the hybrid plan to the legacy plan upon the person completing 10 years of service as a member of the general assembly if the person became a member of the general assembly on or after July 1, 2014; requires retiree health benefit coverage be made available to retired members of the general assembly with 10 or more years of service. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8, Chapter 27, Part 2; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 462 | General Assembly - As introduced, requires the board of trustees of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system to convert a person's participation in the retirement system, for service as a member of the general assembly and as a participant in the hybrid plan, from the hybrid plan to the legacy plan upon the person completing 10 years of service as a member of the general assembly if the person became a member of the general assembly on or after July 1, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HJR 289 | Memorials, Recognition - Centennial of the Scopes Trial - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 19, 2025 |
| HB 615 | Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires a motor vehicle exceeding 75 feet in length and hauling a load of poles, logs, or timber to haul the load on a trailer having an extendable and retractable rear impact protection or to be followed by an escort vehicle that is signed. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| HB 1251 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, exempts an applicant seeking to restore the applicant's rights of citizenship from having to pay for the cost of the application if a court orders otherwise. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 12, 2025 |
| HB 881 | Water Pollution - As introduced, removes requirement that installers of subsurface sewage disposal systems pay a renewal fee as a condition to renewing a septic system installer license; maintains initial permit and fee requirement for such installers. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| HB 707 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a third grade student who achieves a performance level rating of "approaching" on the English language arts portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test, and who has earned an overall letter grade of A or B in the student's third grade ELA class, to be promoted to fourth grade if promotion is recommended by a majority of the categories of participants in a conference convened by the student's LEA or public charter school; requires a student promoted to fourth grade through such process to receive tutoring services for the entirety of the student's fourth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| HB 614 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires a pharmacy services administrative organization or similar entity that receives maximum allowable cost list or related information from a contracted pharmacy to destroy the shared information within five business days of receipt of a written request for destruction from the sharing pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 56. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |