Tennessee · Current officeholder
Charlie Baum
Republican Tennessee House, District 37
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Sponsored legislation
28 bills in the current data (28 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2408 | Telecommunications - As enacted, requires a person or entity that makes telephone solicitations using an automated telephone dialing system to deliver artificial or prerecorded voice messages to residential subscribers in this state to maintain a record of the number of such telephone solicitations made each month; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 65 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 2156 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, revises law relative to a financial institution applying for a credit against the sum total of the taxes imposed by the Franchise Tax law and by the Excise Tax law. - Amends TCA Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 1450 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, makes various changes related to entities seeking to secure the release of a defendant. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2026 |
| HB 1447 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Trump Account Program Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2026 |
| HB 1744 | Business and Commerce - As enacted, authorizes a private entity that is engaged in business with the public and accepts cash payments to round off all figures used in the transaction amount to the nearest nickel, if exact change is not available; authorizes a financial institution that provides currency in exchange for a payment instrument received to round off all figures used in the transaction amount to the nearest nickel, if exact change is not available. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 45; Title 47, Chapter 50; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 23, 2026 |
| HB 1518 | Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows a student who was ineligible for the Tennessee HOPE scholarship as an entering freshman based on their high school grade point average or composite ACT score to regain their eligibility for the HOPE scholarship as a transfer student if the student meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2155 | Evidence - As introduced, states that in certain civil actions a licensed nurse practitioner or licensed physician assistant who is properly qualified as an expert witness may testify as to certain medical findings. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 29, Chapter 26 and Title 50, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 2158 | Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, establishes the "Tobacco Product Retail Licensing Act," under which the alcoholic beverage commission is required to license and regulate tobacco product retailers. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 43; Title 47; Title 57; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 26, 2026 |
| HJR 756 | Memorials, Retirement - Nancy Garner - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| HB 2151 | Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, requires notice to be published on the governing body's website for at least two weeks prior to the date set for a hearing on whether to create an airport authority. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 31; Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 42, Chapter 4 and Title 42, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 5, 2026 |
| HJR 757 | Memorials, Death - Elizabeth Lorenza McPhee - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | January 23, 2026 |
| HB 691 | Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, changes the amounts of the franchise and excise tax credits allowed to financial institutions from certain percentages of the unpaid principal balance of certain qualified loans made to eligible housing entities to certain percentages of the month-end average unpaid principal balance of such loans; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-2109. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 495 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, rewrites the fee limits for a party requesting a patient's medical record in either paper or electronic format from a provider or the provider's third-party release of information provider. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 331 | Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As enacted, increases, from $4 billion to $5 billion, the maximum aggregate principal amount for which the agency may issue bonds and notes at any one time. - Amends TCA Section 13-23-121. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 1036 | Education - As enacted, authorizes a state university board of trustees to conduct private meetings to discuss or deliberate on matters related to senior administration, personnel positions, and contracts, without taking action on such matters in a private meeting. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 14; Title 49, Chapter 4; Title 49, Chapter 50; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 695 | Taxes - As enacted, increases, by 15 cents over a 10-year period, and subject to a two-thirds vote of the county legislative body, the maximum mineral severance tax rate that may be levied by a county on all sand, gravel, sandstone, chert, and limestone severed from the ground within its jurisdiction; removes the authorization for Smith County to allocate its mineral severance tax to the county general fund or a fund other than its county road fund. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 7, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HB 424 | Taxes - As introduced, urges the department of revenue to study the potential economic impact of making all franchise and excise tax credits transferable to any person or entity other than the entity to whom or to which the credits are initially made available pursuant to the statute creating the credit; requires the department to report to the finance, ways and means committee of the senate and the committee in the house of representatives having jurisdiction over tax-related matters on or before January 1, 2026 if such study is conducted. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 20 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 21. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 693 | Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, makes certain changes to the practice of pharmacy, including removing the present prohibition on requiring a patient to pay an administrative fee for pharmacist-provided hormonal contraceptives when the patient is insured or covered and receives a pharmacy benefit that covers the cost of the hormonal contraceptives. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 56, Chapter 32 and Title 63, Chapter 10. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 494 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, enacts the "Voluntary Portable Benefit Plan Act"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 65, Chapter 15, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 18 | TennCare - As introduced, directs the bureau to establish a temporary TennCare benefits program to provide medical assistance on a temporary basis to certain individuals who do not qualify for enrollment in TennCare, CoverKids, or a successor program; requires the bureau to submit a waiver to the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services by December 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 5, 2025 |
| HB 714 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, requires the commissioner of revenue to establish a sales tax remittance schedule that allows dealers making sales to reasonably offset the burden of transaction fees associated with the collection of sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| HB 694 | Taxes - As introduced, increases, from 10 to 12, the number of days from an action taken by the department of revenue that a person may be afforded an opportunity for a formal hearing before the commissioner for an issue in connection with an application, entitlement, or proposed revocation of or to a certificate, license, permit, privilege, or right, or for any other adverse action proposed or taken to implement any revenue regulatory or registration law. - Amends TCA Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 6, 2025 |
| HB 692 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to publish the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula guide on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 6, 2025 |
| HB 332 | State Government - As introduced, enacts the "Government Serves the People Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2025 |
| HB 42 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes the date, from July 1 to August 1, that the department must annually report to the general assembly on receipts and expenditures for the school safety alert grant pilot fund. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 27, 2025 |
| HB 19 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee State Healthcare Cost Savings Incentive Program." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27 and Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |
| HB 17 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Retirement Savings Plan Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |
| HB 163 | Education, Higher - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days after which a municipal corporation must cease to prescribe and enforce traffic ordinances on the campus of a state institution after a state university and community college system or the board of trustees of the University of Tennessee requests the governing body of the municipal corporation to cease prescribing and enforcing such traffic ordinances on the campus of the state institution. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 27, 2025 |