Tennessee · Current officeholder
Justin Jones
Democratic Tennessee House, District 52
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Sponsored legislation
51 bills in the current data (51 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HJR 7020 | Memorials, Recognition - Civil rights martyrs whose sacrifice paved the way for passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 14, 2026 |
| HJR 1536 | Memorials, Recognition - 150th anniversary of the Colored National Convention held at the Tennessee State Capitol - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 1851 | Naming and Designating - As introduced, designates the bog turtle as an official state reptile. - Amends TCA Section 4-1-321. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2026 |
| HJR 840 | Memorials, Death - Alex Jeffrey Pretti - | Primary sponsor | Introduced | April 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1099 | Memorials, Recognition - Pam Weston - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| HJR 1098 | Memorials, Death - Reverend Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| HJR 1059 | Memorials, Recognition - Philippine-American Friendship Day, 80th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| HJR 1075 | Memorials, Recognition - Nashville Humane Association, 80th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 26, 2026 |
| HB 1999 | State Government - As introduced, enacts the "No Corporate Land Giveaways Act." - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8 and Title 12. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| HB 1442 | Law Enforcement - As introduced, enacts the "Stop American Gestapo Act (SAGA)." - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| HJR 869 | Memorials, Congress - Urges reinstatement of mandatory country of origin labeling for all meat. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HJR 1039 | Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee's African-American-owned Century Farms - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2192 | Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to prohibit the sale of a food product that includes certain chemical ingredients, unless it has a warning label, if the FDA requires the ingredient to be disclosed and the food product is intended to be consumed by humans. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HJR 1095 | Memorials, Recognition - Gift Horse, Jessica Maloan Vastagh - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 16, 2026 |
| HJR 976 | Memorials, Recognition - Kurdish New Year's celebration of Newroz - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 975 | Memorials, Recognition - Gloria McKissack - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 974 | Memorials, Recognition - Cheryl McKissack Daniel and the McKissack family - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 973 | Memorials, Recognition - Bozo the Clown, 80th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 1866 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, creates the "Regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI) In Health Care Act." - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 1038 | Memorials, Recognition - Gift Horse, Jessica Maloan Vastagh - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1042 | Memorials, Recognition - Philippine-American Friendship Day, 80th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Introduced | March 2, 2026 |
| HJR 1037 | Memorials, Recognition - Philippine-American Friendship Day, 80th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Introduced | March 2, 2026 |
| HJR 936 | Memorials, Recognition - Read Across America Week - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 23, 2026 |
| HJR 868 | Memorials, Recognition - Lunar New Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 13, 2026 |
| HJR 870 | Memorials, Recognition - Larry Bushart - | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 2191 | Agriculture - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Agriculture Recovery and Investment in Family Farm (TARIFF) Relief Act," which creates a fund within the state treasury for the purpose of making grants to family farmers who have struggled with high input costs and market losses resulting from tariffs on agricultural goods, equipment, and machinery. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 43. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 2190 | Environmental Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "Climate Resilient Tennessee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HJR 842 | Memorials, Recognition - Larry Bushart - | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 4, 2026 |
| HJR 841 | Constitutional Amendments - Proposes to amend Article I of the Constitution of Tennessee to establish the right to privacy. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| HJR 745 | Memorials, Death - Renee Nicole Good - | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| HB 1850 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, enacts the "Climate Resiliency Fund Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 9; Title 60; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| HJR 210 | Memorials, Recognition - "Read Across America Week," March 2-6, 2025 - | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 13, 2026 |
| HJR 576 | Memorials, Recognition - Maya Turner - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| HB 433 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, expands the offense of unlawful exposure to include the distribution, with the intent to cause emotional distress, of an image of the intimate parts of another identifiable person or an image of an identifiable person engaged in sexually explicit conduct and the image was created or modified by means of a computer software program, artificial intelligence application, or other digital editing tools. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2025 |
| HB 1261 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, makes it an offense for farmers to keep breeding pigs and veal calves in certain small enclosures, subject to certain exceptions, effective July 1, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14; Title 40, Chapter 39; Title 43; Title 44 and Title 53. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2025 |
| HJR 224 | Memorials, Recognition - Read Across America Week - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2025 |
| HB 431 | Taxes, Excise - As introduced, enacts the "CEO Pay Disparity Tax Act," which imposes a pay disparity surcharge in the amount of an additional 0.1 percent to the standard 6.5 percent excise tax rate on each company whose top executive is paid at least 100 times more than the median income of the company's employees. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| HB 715 | Libraries - As introduced, prohibits libraries from banning, removing, or otherwise restricting access to a book or other material based solely on its viewpoint or the messages, ideas, or opinions it conveys, except as otherwise authorized. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| HJR 238 | Memorials, Recognition - Bad Idea restaurant - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| HJR 237 | Memorials, Recognition - Vivian Lee Battle Sims - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| HB 716 | Environmental Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "Climate Resiliency Fund Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 9; Title 60; Title 67 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 26, 2025 |
| HB 681 | Soil Conservation - As introduced, enacts the "Healthy Soil Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 43, Chapter 14. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 26, 2025 |
| HB 682 | Education - As introduced, enacts the "Student Comfort through Alternative Restorative Environments (CARE) Act"; requires local education agencies and public charter schools to allow students of a school in the LEA or public charter school where an act of mass violence occurs to voluntarily participate in remote instruction or a virtual education program for at least 31 calendar days. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 25, 2025 |
| HJR 153 | Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Charles Kimbrough - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 21, 2025 |
| HJR 152 | Memorials, Recognition - The 15 enslaved persons who helped build the Tennessee State Capitol - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 21, 2025 |
| HJR 151 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Jane Osgerby, 80th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 21, 2025 |
| HB 680 | Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits an agricultural employer from retaliating against an agricultural employee who asserts a protected right or based on the agricultural employee's immigration status; creates related protections and penalties related to agricultural employees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 43; Title 50 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| HJR 74 | Constitutional Amendments - Proposes adding a provision establishing the right to clean air, pure water, and the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic, and esthetic values of the state's environment. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |
| HB 435 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires a healthcare facility that accepts public funds as compensation for losses due to providing uncompensated care to ensure that an amount of outstanding patient debt equal to the amount of public funds accepted is designated as satisfied and that patient is notified of such satisfied debt; prohibits the healthcare facility from seeking a judgment or taking other legal action to collect from the debtor any portion of such debt that is so designated; requires the department of health and division of TennCare to submit an annual report on uncompensated care payments to hospitals. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 16; Title 18; Title 20; Title 21; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 45; Title 47; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |
| HB 432 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Agricultural Right to Repair Act." - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 47, Chapter 18. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |
| HB 430 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts the "Protect Kids Not Guns Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |