Tennessee · Current officeholder
Antonio Parkinson
Democratic Tennessee House, District 98
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Sponsored legislation
78 bills in the current data (78 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2477 | Firefighters - As enacted, extends the period for the estate of an emergency responder killed in the line of duty from three years from the date of death to the later of such date or the date of a final order of a court, administrative law judge, or authorized state or local official designating the death as being in the line of duty; extends the period for an estate to file an appeal of a denial from 90 days to one year; adds a mechanism of appeal of a denial of a claim for the estates of firefighters, volunteer rescue squad workers, and emergency medical technicians. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24; Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 2; Title 38, Chapter 8 and Title 68, Chapter 140. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1429 | Memorials, Retirement - Vanessa M. Horner - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HJR 1401 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jakiaus Cox, Valedictorian, Trezevant High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HJR 1400 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Rickey Wright, Salutatorian, Trezevant High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HJR 1399 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Meaghan Miller, Valedictorian, Douglass High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HJR 1398 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Travis Collins, Salutatorian, Douglass High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HB 2481 | District Attorneys - As enacted, authorizes the district attorneys general conference to pay the licensing fees for software applications used by the office of the district attorney general within a judicial district, regardless of whether the district attorney general office staff member using the application has a position funded by the state or another entity. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 16 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2026 |
| HB 1807 | Vital Records - As enacted, enacts "April's Law of 2026," which authorizes a surviving parent, in addition to another next of kin, to formally disagree with the county medical examiner's determination that the manner of death for the parent's child was suicide and request reconsideration from the state chief medical examiner; allows the other parent of a child of the decedent to request a copy of the decedent's death certificate if the child is under 18. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 27, 2026 |
| HJR 1338 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sha'Mya M. Johnson, Valedictorian, Craigmont High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2026 |
| HJR 1337 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Christopher G. Covington, Salutatorian, Craigmont High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2026 |
| HJR 1297 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dominic Santiago, Valedictorian, Cordova High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 20, 2026 |
| HJR 1296 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Mason Marchan, Salutatorian, Cordova High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 20, 2026 |
| HJR 1295 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dariana Sanchez Arredondo, Salutatorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 20, 2026 |
| HJR 1294 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lilliana Mendez Medina, Valedictorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 20, 2026 |
| HJR 1139 | Memorials, Interns - Pedro Cabrera Acuna - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 9, 2026 |
| HJR 1138 | Memorials, Interns - Yoddyashley Nicole Cortes Figueroa - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 9, 2026 |
| HB 2041 | Landlord and Tenant - As enacted, prohibits certain persons from publishing, transmitting, or broadcasting any video of the service of civil process related to an eviction proceeding without the express written permission of the individual being served with civil process; specifies that an individual who is a victim of the publication, transmission, or broadcast of such a video without the individual's permission has a private right of action against the person violating the prohibition. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 29 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| HJR 1056 | Memorials, Recognition - Joe Northington, U.S. Marine Corps veteran - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2479 | Agriculture - As introduced, enacts the "Freedom to Farm Act." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 40 and Title 43. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2478 | Registers of Deeds - As introduced, creates a two-year pilot program that requires the register of deeds in Shelby County to verify and record the government-issued photo identification of individuals presenting documents for in-person property transfers. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 10; Title 66 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2483 | Schools, Charter - As introduced, changes from December 11 to December 15, the date by which the state board of education is required to post the information received from each local education agency regarding the total amount of authorizer fees collected by the LEA in the previous school year and the authorizing obligations fulfilled using the authorizer fees collected on its website. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| HB 2482 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a nonprofit or for-profit entity that operates an adult high school under a contract with a local board of education to receive state and local funding in years subsequent to the first year of the adult high school's operation based on current enrollment numbers that are reported and adjusted no less than three times per year. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| HB 2623 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, increases, from 60 to 65 days, the time that a controller has after receipt of an appeal from a consumer regarding the controller's refusal to take action on a consumer request under the Tennessee Information Protection Act to inform the consumer in writing of action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decision. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 650 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As introduced, requires a sheriff to accept the surrender of a criminal defendant on pretrial release by a bail bondsman or surety for good cause, pending a hearing by a court with jurisdiction to admit to bail to determine whether there is good cause for the surrender. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| HB 2042 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to implement programs to reward persons who report the illegal presence of a gun on school property; authorizes the use of private funding sources to fund the reward programs. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 8 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 2, 2026 |
| HB 2040 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the criminal offense of intentionally communicating a threat of harm to a public official or a member of the public official's immediate family; punishes a violation as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 2, 2026 |
| HB 1808 | District Attorneys - As introduced, authorizes the district attorneys general conference to pay the licensing fees for software applications used by the office of the district attorney general within a judicial district. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9; Title 16 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| HB 738 | Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, adds an institution accredited by the National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences (NACCAS) that has its primary campus domiciled in this state as an eligible postsecondary institution in which a student may be enrolled for purposes of receiving a Tennessee Promise scholarship; conditions the availability of the scholarship at such an institution on there being no available enrollment slots in a Tennessee college of applied technology in the student's county of residence for the student's desired program of study. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2026 |
| HB 1050 | Nuisances - As enacted, revises nuisance laws. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HJR 617 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Keara Lanae Rivers, Valedictorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 616 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Earvonna Mathis, Salutatorian, Cordova High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 615 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Branden Partson, Valedictorian, Cordova High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 614 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Alexis Chaunte' Smith, Salutatorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 613 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jada Lloyd, Salutatorian, Craigmont High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 612 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Shelby Shaw, Co-Valedictorian, Craigmont High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 611 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jekiya Udell, Co-Valedictorian, Craigmont High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 361 | Orders of Protection - As enacted, expands the courts in Shelby County that can hear a petition for an order of protection to include a criminal court when the criminal court is hearing a criminal matter involving a domestic abuse victim, sexual assault victim, or stalking victim; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 18 and Title 36. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 587 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ana Martinez Monroy, Salutatorian, Douglass High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| HJR 586 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Esther Sanni-Obasusi, Valedictorian, Douglass High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| HJR 556 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tiffany Tucker, Valedictorian, Trezevant High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| HJR 555 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - LaQuavia Anderson, Salutatorian, Trezevant High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| HJR 554 | Memorials, Interns - Malik Abdullah - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| HR 139 | Memorials, Recognition - Khadajah Kimbrough, 77th Miss LeMoyne-Owen College - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 23, 2025 |
| HR 136 | Memorials, Recognition - Anita Ward - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 22, 2025 |
| HR 134 | Memorials, Sports - Assistant Coach Mark Freeman, Elmore Park Middle School Eagles - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 22, 2025 |
| HR 133 | Memorials, Sports - Assistant Coach Frankie Stinson, Elmore Park Middle School Eagles - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 22, 2025 |
| HR 132 | Memorials, Sports - Head Coach Jevonte Holmes, Elmore Park Middle School Eagles - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 22, 2025 |
| HR 131 | Memorials, Sports - Assistant Coach Marcus Taylor, Elmore Park Middle School Eagles - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 22, 2025 |
| HR 128 | Memorials, Sports - Malik Williamson, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 127 | Memorials, Sports - Malachi Hill, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 126 | Memorials, Sports - Kollin Patterson, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 125 | Memorials, Sports - Octavious Anderson, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 124 | Memorials, Sports - Freeman Agee, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 123 | Memorials, Sports - King Bullard, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 122 | Memorials, Sports - Jordan Crawford, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 121 | Memorials, Sports - Ryan Nelson, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 120 | Memorials, Sports - Eli Turner, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 119 | Memorials, Sports - Chase Kee, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 118 | Memorials, Sports - Grant Griffin, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 117 | Memorials, Sports - Ladarian Pittman, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 116 | Memorials, Sports - Frankie Stinson, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 115 | Memorials, Sports - Quinton Beauregard, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 114 | Memorials, Sports - Mitchell Easter, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HR 113 | Memorials, Sports - Russell Randle, Elmore Park Middle School basketball team - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2025 |
| HB 1165 | Sentencing - As introduced, adds as an enhancement factor to be used in determining the sentence within the permissible range for a criminal offense that the defendant is an adult and committed the offense with a minor, regardless of whether the minor was convicted of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 1131 | Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, clarifies that on or before January 31 of each year, the department shall report information regarding child support to the general assembly and the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 41; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 862 | General Assembly, Directed Studies - As enacted, requires TACIR to study the economic impact that the cosmetology and barbering professions have in this state; upon completion of the study, requires TACIR to report its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to legislative committees having jurisdiction over cosmetology and barbering, and to provide a copy of the report to the legislative librarian. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 3 and Title 62, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 1166 | Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies to investigate for the presence of workplace bullying concurrent with investigations of crimes of violence in the workplace; requires law enforcement agencies to report findings to the TBI; requires the TBI to annually submit a report to legislative committees concerning workplace bullying and violence. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 2, 2025 |
| HJR 368 | Memorials, Death - Pastor Ricky Floyd - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 27, 2025 |
| HB 1132 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, changes, from 45 to 50 days from receipt of a request, the time that a controller has to inform a consumer of the controller's decision to decline to take action regarding the consumer's authenticated request under the Tennessee Information Protection Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 10; Title 29; Title 39; Title 47 and Title 48. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| HR 65 | Memorials, Recognition - Richard Ransom - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 20, 2025 |
| HJR 262 | Memorials, Public Service - Shelly Rice - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 19, 2025 |
| HB 933 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to establish and administer a three-year artificial intelligence weapons detection system grant pilot program to award grants to eligible LEAs for the purchase of artificial intelligence weapons detection systems for schools without an artificial intelligence weapons detection system. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| HR 46 | Memorials, Death - Jimmy Taylor, Jr. - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 6, 2025 |
| HB 971 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to create a physical education through community service program by partnering with a community service partner to provide students in grades nine through 12 the opportunity to earn one-half credit in physical education by completing yardwork projects for older persons and persons with disabilities within the community served by the LEA or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 25, 2025 |
| HJR 119 | Memorials, Recognition - Adrian Maclin - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 21, 2025 |
| HB 43 | State Symbols - As introduced, designates "Tennessee" by Arrested Development as an official state song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 19, 2025 |
| HB 362 | General Assembly, Directed Studies - As introduced, requires TACIR to study the economic impact that the cosmetology and barbering professions have in this state; upon completion of the study, requires TACIR to report its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to legislative committees having jurisdiction over cosmetology and barbering, and to provide a copy of the report to the legislative librarian. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 3 and Title 64, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |