Tennessee · Current officeholder
Karen Camper
Democratic Tennessee House, District 87
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Sponsored legislation
47 bills in the current data (47 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HJR 1646 | Memorials, Recognition - South Side Class of 1976, 50th reunion - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| HJR 1552 | Memorials, Recognition - Memphis Massacre of 1866, 160th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1551 | Memorials, Interns - Suzy Bengin - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1550 | Memorials, Interns - Tania Humphrey - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HB 2598 | Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, requires the commissioner of health to use existing resources to conduct a study of neighboring states to examine the varying levels of practice independence that may or may not be granted to certified nurse midwives in such states; requires the commissioner to compile the findings of the study and any recommendations in a report and transmit the report to the general assembly no later than December 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 56, Chapter 32, Part 1; Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 24; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 4, 2026 |
| HJR 1440 | Memorials, Recognition - Top Ladies of Distinction, Inc., National President Lady Eddie Lee Marsh - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| HJR 1439 | Memorials, Recognition - Representative Harold M. Love, Jr., induction into the Board of Preachers at the 41st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. College of Ministers and Laity at Morehouse College - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| HB 1219 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to establish and administer a pilot program for the placement of hygiene vending machines that dispense feminine hygiene products to students at no cost to the student in women's restrooms or locker rooms in each eligible school selected to participate in the program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| HB 686 | Historical Sites and Preservation - As introduced, enacts the "African American Cultural and Historical Grant Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1108 | Licenses - As introduced, enacts the "Ola Mae Ransom Reintegration Act," which exempts veterans of the United States military, including the national guard and reserves, from payment of the $15 fee for a business license. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 687 | Election Laws - As enacted, revises present law that prohibits a person convicted of an infamous crime after May 18, 1981, from being eligible to have the right to vote restored unless the person meets certain requirements, including having been compliant with all child support orders for the previous 12 months, including orders related to child support arrearages. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| HJR 1058 | Memorials, Recognition - AARP Tennessee Day, March 18, 2026 - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| HJR 1068 | Memorials, Death - Colby Jacob Palmer - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 26, 2026 |
| HB 940 | Boats, Boating - As enacted, generally increases from 12 to 14, the age that a person must be to lawfully operate a personal watercraft upon the waters of Tennessee without being under the direct supervision of an adult, except that persons 12 and 13 may continue to operate a personal watercraft upon the waters of Tennessee without being under the direct supervision of an adult on Monday through Friday, excepting legal holidays. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 16, 2026 |
| HB 689 | Expunction - As introduced, authorizes court clerks in certain counties to implement an automatic expunction processing program that initiates processing the expunction of public records without petition by the person, certification of eligibility from the TBI, or court order in certain limited circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 2049 | Health Care - As introduced, creates the state uterine fibroids commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 1082 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, prohibits the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a switch or auto sear device designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of converting a weapon to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger unless certain exceptions apply. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 1081 | Expunction - As introduced, lowers the period of time that must elapse after completion of the sentence imposed before a petitioner may have an eligible criminal offense expunged, for misdemeanors or Class E felonies, from five years to three years, and for Class D felonies, from 10 years to six years. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| HR 167 | Memorials, Recognition - The Links Day on the Hill, March 9-10, 2026 - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 10, 2026 |
| HJR 1029 | Memorials, Recognition - Deborah Manning Thomas - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 6, 2026 |
| HB 688 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner to develop and maintain an essential buffer stock of necessary medicines and healthcare supplies to be distributed during a natural or man-made disaster, mass casualty event, or public health emergency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 58; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| HB 2054 | Energy - As introduced, enacts the "Data Center, Artificial Intelligence, and Clean Transition Tariff Accountability Act." - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| HB 2053 | Women - As introduced, requires the department of health to maintain a database of demographic information of women diagnosed with uterine fibroids; requires the department to publish on its website existing resources and educational materials on uterine fibroids to increase public awareness of uterine fibroids and treatment options. - Amends TCA Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| HB 2052 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires certain food retail establishments to use a nondigital presentation of price; prohibits a food retail establishment from using personalized algorithmic pricing; makes other changes related to food retail establishments. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 53. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| HB 2051 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts "The Tennessee Safe Stores and Staffed Stores Act;" requires drug and food retail establishments using self-service checkout stations to maintain a minimum staffing ratio, limits self-service transactions to no more than 15 items, and prohibits the purchase of age-restricted or security-tagged merchandise at self-service checkout stations. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| HB 732 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to develop or approve a policy allowing for the retake of a TCAP test, including each end-of-course assessment, if the administration of one or more of the state-mandated TCAP tests is interrupted due to an act of God or other circumstance beyond the control of the school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| HB 698 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires an LEA in which a child care facility operates to submit a comprehensive list of all underutilized or vacant property to the department of human services and the comptroller of the treasury and to make the list available to each child care facility operating in the LEA; grants certain owners of a child care facility that operates in an LEA a first or second right of refusal to lease or purchase underutilized or vacant property listed by the LEA. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| HB 2050 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, authorizes the use of unexpended campaign funds by an officeholder to procure home security equipment and monitoring services for the officeholder's personal residence. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| HB 1276 | Education - As introduced, removes a provision that required the board of regents, the University of Tennessee, and the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association to provide a report by April 1, 2009, to the Tennessee higher education commission on the reasonable efforts their institutions have taken to attempt to deter infringement of copyrighted works over the school's computer and network resources. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| HJR 877 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Dewey Branstetter, Jr., Tennessee Ethics Commission - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 2, 2026 |
| HJR 811 | Memorials, Recognition - Black History Month, 100th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 18, 2026 |
| HB 2597 | Health Care - As introduced, requires TennCare to create a methodology to make medicaid facility fee reimbursement rates for birthing centers comparable to rates for similar services provided at a hospital; requires the department of health to give priority to allocating federal rural health transformation program grant funds to birthing centers in rural counties and urban counties that serve residents of rural counties. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 2596 | Election Laws - As introduced, requires a county election commission, upon receipt of a bona fide complaint of a violation of a person's right to vote in an election, to document the details of the complaint and electronically submit the complaint to the state election commission. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 5, 2026 |
| HJR 691 | Memorials, Interns - Derryus Shaw - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| HJR 690 | Memorials, Interns - Taylor Adkins - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| HJR 647 | Memorials, Death - Kimberley Nicole Maclin - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| HJR 669 | Memorials, Interns - Taylor Adkins - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| HJR 668 | Memorials, Interns - Derryus Shaw - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| HB 537 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, enacts the "Law Enforcement’s Safer Tennessee Electronic Registration (LESTER) Act," which clarifies that law enforcement is required to accept a digital copy of vehicle registration as proof of registration. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 2, 2025 |
| HJR 541 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Andrew and Rose Pollard, 60th wedding anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 15, 2025 |
| HJR 375 | Memorials, Sports - PJ Haggerty, AAC Player of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 15, 2025 |
| HJR 374 | Memorials, Sports - Penny Hardaway, AAC Coach of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 15, 2025 |
| HJR 285 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Barbara Joyce Driver-Rice, 70th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 19, 2025 |
| HJR 225 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Andrew Pollard, 80th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 13, 2025 |
| HJR 250 | Memorials, Recognition - John Jones - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| HB 1249 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates December 14 of each year as "Hazel Moore Day." - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2025 |
| HB 690 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates December 14 of each year as "Hazel Moore Day." - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 5, 2025 |