Tennessee · Current officeholder
Sam McKenzie
Democratic Tennessee House, District 15
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Sponsored legislation
43 bills in the current data (43 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HJR 1556 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jelena Armsworth, Salutatorian, L&N STEM Academy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1555 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lily Seaton, Valedictorian, Austin-East High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1554 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Seth Sparks, Salutatorian, Austin-East High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1553 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Harshita Nagar, Valedictorian, L&N STEM Academy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HB 2438 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates November 9 of each year as "Gold Star Father's Day," to honor and recognize fathers who have lost children in service to the United States as members of the United States armed forces. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 4, 2026 |
| HB 2432 | Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, requires prosecution for vehicular homicide committed on or after July 1, 2026, to commence within 10 years from the date the offense occurs. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2026 |
| HB 2437 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts the retail sale of generic food products from the food retail sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HJR 1235 | Memorials, Retirement - Beverly Renée Holland - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 14, 2026 |
| HJR 1220 | Memorials, Death - Juanita Usher Cannon - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 14, 2026 |
| HB 2436 | Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency that uses body cameras to adopt a written policy for the use of the cameras by its law enforcement officers; establishes certain requirements for the policies. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2026 |
| HB 778 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability (OREA), in the office of the comptroller of the treasury, to study and make recommendations for the implementation of an incentive program for educators who have 15 or more years' experience in education; requires OREA to report its findings and recommendations for implementation of the incentive program by December 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| HB 2439 | Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the “Oral-Fluid DUI Testing and Evidence-Based Enforcement Safeguards Act." - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| HB 1053 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, allows certain persons deprived of the right of suffrage to apply for a voter registration card and have the right of suffrage provisionally restored if the person enters into a payment plan to become current on all child support obligations. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 29. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| HB 2435 | Libraries - As introduced, clarifies that the Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022 does not apply to any materials in the Tennessee Electronic Library. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| HJR 1032 | Memorials, Death - Wesley Hazen Rucker - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2434 | Education - As introduced, prohibits local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies from allowing, through their policies, a material in a library collection to be removed while it is being evaluated by the local board, governing body, or the state textbook and instructional materials quality commission, if applicable, until a determination is made as to whether the material is appropriate for the age and maturity level of the students who may access it, and whether the material is suitable for, and consistent with, the educational mission of the school. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| HJR 978 | Memorials, Death - Diane Jordan - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 931 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Lois Goins LeFlore, 100th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 926 | Memorials, Recognition - Lonsdale Elementary School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 925 | Memorials, Recognition - Austin-East High School, TVAAS Level 5 - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 848 | Memorials, Death - Randy Tyree - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 18, 2026 |
| HB 1052 | Comptroller, State - As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller of the treasury to annually report information about the students participating in the education freedom scholarship program to the general assembly by October 30. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14 and Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2026 |
| HB 2441 | Gaming - As introduced, allocates 2 percent of revenue from sports gaming in this state to programs that serve rural and urban at-risk youth. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 2440 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires TACIR to study and prepare a report on marijuana arrests made in this state from 2015 to 2025, including data on race, age, gender, and the location of arrest. - Amends TCA Title 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 2433 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, exempts books from sales tax on the annual sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HJR 638 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jacob Anderson, Salutatorian, L&N STEM Academy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 637 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Yuqi Wang, Valedictorian, L&N STEM Academy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 636 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Al'isha Roach, Salutatorian, Austin-East Magnet High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 635 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Javen Blanks, Valedictorian, Austin-East Magnet High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 625 | Memorials, Interns - Alex Nelson - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 510 | Memorials, Recognition - Trinity Tabernacle Church of God in Christ, 59th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 15, 2025 |
| HJR 494 | Memorials, Death - Mary Elizabeth Goins - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 9, 2025 |
| HJR 361 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Mary Elizabeth Goins, 104th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 1, 2025 |
| HB 1051 | Education - As introduced, enacts the "Freedom to Read Act"; repeals the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| HB 742 | Purchasing and Procurement - As introduced, requires local governments to obtain, when possible, three written quotations for purchases costing less than the threshold established pursuant to law but more than 40 percent of such threshold, or some lower amount as may be established by the governing body of the local government. - Amends TCA Section 5-14-204; Section 5-14-205 and Section 6-56-305. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| HB 741 | Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency that uses body cameras to adopt a written policy for the use of the cameras by its law enforcement officers; establishes certain requirements for the policies. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 12, 2025 |
| HJR 184 | Memorials, Recognition - Knoxville Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Founder's Day - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2025 |
| HJR 97 | Memorials, Death - Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 21, 2025 |
| HJR 96 | Memorials, Retirement - Bob Kesling - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 21, 2025 |
| HB 1260 | Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, requires the department of finance and administration, in collaboration with the department of health and the bureau of TennCare, to apply for federal approval to import prescription drugs from Canada. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| HB 1234 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, excludes materials obtained by an individual teacher that are made available in the teacher's classroom to students assigned to the teacher's class from having to be identified in a list of library collection materials posted on the school's website; requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a policy for developing and reviewing classroom libraries. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| HB 1054 | Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes a local government having a population of 100,000 or more and having centralized purchasing with a full-time purchasing agent to use any project delivery method that the local government determines most effectively meets the needs of the local government for the construction of local projects or additions to existing buildings. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 12. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 11, 2025 |
| HB 1055 | Traffic Safety - As introduced, raises, from 70 mph to 75 mph, the maximum statutory speed limit on a highway of the interstate and defense highway system or a four-lane controlled-access highway which are federal or state highways; raises, from 55 mph to 60 mph, the minimum statutory speed limit in the left lane of such highways; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 6, 2025 |