Tennessee · Current officeholder
Jason Powell
Democratic Tennessee House, District 53
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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 2210 | Natural Disasters - As enacted, enacts the "Local Disaster Displacement Tax Relief Act." - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 4; Title 58 and Title 67, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HJR 7009 | Constitutional Amendments - Proposes additional language in Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of Tennessee requiring the General Assembly to establish congressional districts after each decennial census made by the Bureau of Census of the United States is available and prohibiting changes to the congressional districts between decennial censuses unless necessary to remedy a specific violation of the Constitution of the United States or the Voting Rights Act of 1965. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 7008 | Memorials, Recognition - Lawmakers who rejected redistricting push in Indiana - | Primary sponsor | Introduced | May 6, 2026 |
| HJR 1407 | Memorials, Recognition - Germany and Tennessee's friendship and partnership - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HJR 1406 | Memorials, Recognition - Japan Men's National Team - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HJR 1405 | Memorials, Recognition - Spain Men's National Team - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HJR 1402 | Memorials, Sports - Valor College Prep volleyball team, TSSAA Division I, Class AA state champion - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HJR 1247 | Memorials, Death - Lawrence Richard Ahern III - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| HB 1289 | Recreational Areas - As introduced, changes from January 8 to January 31 the date by which the executive director of the Tennessee wildlife resources agency must submit an annual report on the administration of Reelfoot Lake natural area. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 11; Section 28-3-117; Title 39 and Title 70, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2212 | Privacy, Confidentiality - As introduced, enacts the "Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act"; creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for officers, employees, or contractors of a state agency or local governmental entity that is required by law to be issued a warrant prior to obtaining personal information or sensitive data about an individual to knowingly purchase, license, or otherwise obtain the personal information or sensitive data from a controller in lieu of the warrant requirement. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 39 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| HB 2209 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As introduced, enacts the "Federal Enforcement Accountability and Community Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| HB 2001 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds as an affirmative defense to the offense of criminal exposure of another to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), proof by a preponderance of the evidence that a person infected with HIV was in compliance with a treatment regime prescribed by the person's healthcare provider to medically suppress the risk of HIV transmission. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| HB 1288 | Education - As introduced, creates the school safety grant fund to be administered by the department of education; requires that school safety grants be used to support local education agencies and public charter schools with prevention, reduction, and response efforts with regard to school shootings. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| HB 2213 | Employees, Employers - As introduced, creates the "Anti-Retaliation for Reporting Unsafe Work Act." - Amends TCA Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2169 | Planning, Public - As introduced, enacts the "Electric Grid Resilience, Transparency, and Planning Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 58 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2211 | State Government - As introduced, enacts the "Safe Access to Schools and Child Services Act," which prohibits the following entities from conditioning enrollment, attendance, or receipt of services for a child under 18 on the disclosure of the child's immigration status, except as explicitly required by federal or state law or court order: a county, municipality, or branch or agency thereof; public utility, utility district, entity created pursuant to any interlocal agreement, or any other political subdivision thereof; LEA, public school, or public charter school; and state board, commission, committee, department, office, or other unit of state government; clarifies that the prohibition does not limit compliance with federal immigration law or limit cooperation with federal authorities as required by law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 37; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| HJR 997 | Memorials, Sports - Nashville SC, 2025 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 955 | Memorials, Recognition - YMCA of Middle Tennessee, 150th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 2214 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a person or entity from distributing an electoral deepfake within 90 days of an election that the person or entity knows or should have known is a deceptive and fraudulent depiction of a candidate or political party; creates civil penalties and outlines exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 39, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| HB 2003 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "School Mental Health Transparency Act"; requires the department to consult relevant agencies to compile a list of mental health resources; requires public schools to use the department's list to compile lists of mental health resources available to enrolled students and provide the lists to students' parents; requires that lists of mental health resources be published on the website of the department and each public school. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 33 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| HJR 810 | Memorials, Recognition - Wright Middle School Mariachi Ensemble and Director Maikel Rodriguez - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 18, 2026 |
| HB 2492 | Finance and Administration, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to promulgate rules relating to cash transaction rounding. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 1295 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts the "Shielding Tennesseans from Oligarchic Power and Eliminating Lawless Obstruction of Necessities Act (STOP ELON Act)," which creates a new offense of interfering with an individual's or entity's receipt of a loan, grant, or financial assistance that the individual or entity is lawfully entitled to receive from the federal, state, or local government, with intent to deprive the individual of the loan, grant, or financial assistance, which is punished as theft; authorizes a victim of an offense to bring a civil action to recover the funds that the victim did not receive because of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| HB 2002 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to ensure that certain safety signage is placed at new trails or trails under renovation within the state's trail system; requires the same for jogging trails. - Amends TCA Title 11. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 2, 2026 |
| HJR 672 | Memorials, Sports - Broadway Block Party - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| HB 1292 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, expands the circumstances under which a law enforcement agency may petition a court for permission to destroy a firearm that has been confiscated by a law enforcement officer and declared to be contraband by a court, to any firearm, rather than only a firearm that is inoperable or unsafe. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2025 |
| HB 1296 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, allows a retirement allowance increase equal to the percentage increase in the consumer price index if there is an over-collection of state tax revenue; requires this allowance increase to be used instead of the allowance increase in present law, which cannot exceed 3 percent. - Amends TCA Section 8-36-701. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| HB 1291 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires health insurance carriers to provide mental health coverage in parity with alcoholism and drug dependence coverage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| HB 1290 | Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Hollyssee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 64. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| HJR 211 | Memorials, Sports - Valor College Prep girls' volleyball team, Class AA state champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2025 |
| HB 1298 | Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, enacts the "Speak UP, Tennessee Scholarship Act"; requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to establish by rules a program that provides scholarships for students in grade 12 and at public institutions of higher education in this state who demonstrate artistic excellence in spoken word poetry through a competitive, performance-based selection process to pursue higher education to further develop their literary and performance skills. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4 and Title 49, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| HB 1297 | Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, changes, from three days to three business days from the date written notice is received by a tenant, the date on which a landlord may terminate a rental agreement if the tenant or another person on the premises with the tenant's consent willfully or intentionally commits a violent act; behaves in a manner which constitutes or threatens to be a real and present danger to the health, safety, or welfare of the life or property of other tenants or persons on the premises; creates a hazardous or unsanitary condition on the property that affects the health, safety, or welfare or the life or property of other tenants or persons on the premises; or refuses to vacate the premises after entering the premises as an unauthorized subtenant or other unauthorized occupant. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 12, 2025 |
| HB 1294 | Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, prohibits the department from denying the dissemination or availability of books and materials donated by book vendors to state inmates, with certain exceptions for depictions of nudity and sexually explicit material. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 40 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |