Tennessee · Current officeholder
Bobby Harshbarger
Republican Tennessee Senate, District 4
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Sponsored legislation
53 bills in the current data (53 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 2711 | Bristol - Subject to local approval, revises election provisions for city council and the board of education to comply with changes to general election law; reduces the time after final passage for an ordinance to take effect from 17 days to seven days; changes the due dates for property taxes; creates a department of education. - Amends Chapter 84 of the Private Acts of 1991; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2040 | Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, enacts the "Freedom, Access, and Integrity in Registered Pharmacy (FAIR Rx) Act." - Amends TCA Title 63. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2579 | Dieticians and Nutritionists - As enacted, enacts the "Dietetics and Nutrition Practice Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 26, 2026 |
| SB 900 | Criminal Procedure - As enacted, prohibits a defendant charged with certain offenses from being released on the defendant's personal recognizance or upon execution of an unsecured bond. - Amends TCA Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2026 |
| SJR 1108 | Memorials, Recognition - Rylan Kiser, Boys & Girls Club of Greater Kingsport Youth of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SJR 1082 | Memorials, Interns - Bridget Harper-Diaz - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| SB 2710 | Kingsport - Subject to local approval, makes various changes to the charter, including when a vice-mayor is chosen by the board; when warrants to collect delinquent taxes may be issued; removes a requirement that a tentative appropriation ordinance must be published in a newspaper; changes from the 1st of July to the 1st of September when elected board of education members assume office and when such members must choose a president. - Amends Chapter 76 of the Private Acts of 1917; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 1, 2026 |
| SR 436 | Memorials, Death - Fred Walton - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 30, 2026 |
| SB 1210 | Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires a prosecuting agency that maintains a Brady list to adopt a policy that meets certain requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 27, 2026 |
| SB 740 | Education - As introduced, requires local boards of education to establish a program to provide free school breakfast and lunch to disadvantaged students; subject to funding, requires the state to reimburse LEAs for providing such free breakfasts and lunches after all federal funds have been applied. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 470 | Education - As introduced, enacts the "Protecting Tennessee Schools and Events Act." - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 1123 | Sexual Offenses - As introduced, establishes a sexual assault response team coordinator for the purpose of providing statewide training, support, and technical assistance to and oversight of sexual assault response teams. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 38. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| SB 2578 | Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the residential burn building located on the campus of the Tennessee fire services and codes enforcement academy as the "Charles 'Charlie' J. Lewis Residential Burn Building." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 24 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 13, 2026 |
| SB 350 | Landlord and Tenant - As enacted, generally restricts a landlord from prohibiting a residential tenant from lawfully possessing, carrying, transporting, or storing a firearm, any part of a firearm, or firearm ammunition in the tenant's residential property; a vehicle located in a parking area provided for tenants or tenants' guests; or other locations controlled by the landlord necessary to enter or exit any such location in leases entered into, amended, extended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 66. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 2018 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, revises provisions relating to the production of documents in certain proceedings relating to the retirement of a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system (TCRS); revises provisions relating to the temporary reemployment of such a member upon retirement. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 6, 2026 |
| SJR 592 | Naming and Designating - Designates March 12, 2026, as "Be the One to End Suicide Day." - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| SB 1721 | General Assembly - As introduced, authorizes the chair of a committee of the general assembly to require an executive branch employee to take an oath prior to testifying before the committee subject to the penalty of perjury; authorizes the chair of a committee or the executive director of fiscal review to require any documentation submitted by such employee for the purpose of evaluating the merits of a legislative measure or generating a fiscal note to submit an affidavit with such documentation attesting to the accuracy of the information subject to the penalty of perjury. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| SB 2035 | Safety - As introduced, requires an air medical communication specialist to be certified within six months of employment by certain listed certified flight programs. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 140. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| SB 1680 | Assessors - As enacted, expands the duties of the division of property assessments to supervise and direct all reappraisals and revaluation programs beyond the cost of which the state contributes. - Amends TCA Section 67-1-202(a)(1). | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 16, 2026 |
| SB 739 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45 days, the amount of time a person who purchases, subscribes to, or receives products, services, or membership in an organization by negotiating an unsolicited negotiable instrument has from the date of the first statement or bill for the purchase, subscription, service, product, or membership to cancel the services, subscription, or membership, or return the product. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 2577 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits a pharmacy benefits manager from contracting with a state department, agency, or entity if the pharmacy benefits manager has been disciplined by the department of finance and administration or the department of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 2576 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits a pharmacy benefits manager from reimbursing a contracted pharmacy for a prescription drug or device or a pharmacy service in an amount that is less than the greatest of certain listed amounts and makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 71, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 2575 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits an insurer from denying, conditioning the issuance or effectiveness of, or discriminating in the pricing of a medicare supplement policy if an applicant meets certain listed requirements, including a non-age eligible person who submits an application for enrollment in a medicare supplement policy with a different insurer within 60 days of such person's birthday and makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 56. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 2574 | Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, prohibits a pharmacy benefits manager from certain listed actions, including modifying, restricting, or denying a medication ordered by a healthcare prescriber; requires that a request for a formulary exception or prior authorization be granted or denied by a pharmacy benefits manager within a specified amount of time or such request is deemed approved. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 1722 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits a health insurance issuer or managed health insurance issuer from reimbursing for testing services a medical laboratory that is eligible to participate as an in-network participating provider at a rate less than the CMS clinical laboratory fee schedule for medical labs in this state; permits a managed health insurance issuer to require such lab to meet the performance metrics required of in-network labs. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7, Part 23. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2026 |
| SB 2706 | Bristol - Subject to local approval, revises election provisions for city council and the board of education to comply with changes to general election law; reduces the time after final passage for an ordinance to take effect from 17 days to seven days; changes the due dates for property taxes; creates a department of education. - Amends Chapter 84 of the Private Acts of 1991; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 2, 2026 |
| SR 293 | Memorials, Death - Bobby Lynn Jarnagin - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 24, 2026 |
| SR 283 | Memorials, Recognition - Dobyns-Bennett High School Band Centennial - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2582 | Zoning - As introduced, prohibits the adoption or enforcement of zoning regulations that have the effect of diminishing the value of a property; authorizes property owners to seek compensation for such diminished value. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2580 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to use existing resources to conduct a study of the requirements to obtain prescription medications via telehealth in neighboring states in order to determine the restrictions upon prescribers issuing prescription medications via telehealth and compare such restrictions to those on prescribers in this state; requires the commissioner to compile the findings from the study into a report and transmit a copy of the report to the general assembly no later than December 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2573 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each LEA to compile a list of all school buildings in the district that use natural gas for the provision of one or more utilities and to post the list on its website no later than October 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 49 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 2036 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, enacts the "Stabilizing Healthcare Access with Reimbursement Protections (SHARP) Act." - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 56. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| SR 264 | Memorials, Recognition - Appalachian Miles for Smiles - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 3, 2026 |
| SB 782 | Real Property - As enacted, extends from January 28, 2025, to April 15, 2025, the date by which an assessor must have determined that property was destroyed or damaged by a qualified disaster in order for the owner to be eligible for a direct payment from the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 357 | Sullivan County - As enacted, requires the members of a utility district board of commissioners to serve without compensation for their services, except that, by resolution duly adopted by the board of commissioners, each commissioner may receive per diem payments for not more than 12 meetings of the board of commissioners in any calendar year, at rates not greater than $500 per meeting. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SB 1332 | Education - As enacted, prohibits excusing a student from school to attend a released time course in religious moral instruction during the school year unless certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2; Title 49, Chapter 5 and Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| SJR 460 | Memorials, Recognition - John Adams Elementary School, Destination Imagination - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SJR 445 | Memorials, Recognition - Colonial Heights Athletic Commission - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SJR 438 | Memorials, Retirement - Chief Dale Phipps, Kingsport Police Department - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SJR 437 | Memorials, Heroism - Wendy Doran, Sullivan County Sheriff's Office Lifesaving Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2025 |
| SB 908 | Open Meetings - As enacted, specifies that the Tennessee One Health Committee is a governing body under the open meetings act; requires meetings of the committee to be open to the public. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 8, Chapter 44; Title 43, Chapter 1; Title 58; Title 68, Chapter 1 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2025 |
| SJR 365 | Memorials, Interns - Raneisha Wright - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| SB 1445 | Rogersville - Subject to local approval, authorizes holding of an advisory, nonbinding referenda. - Amends Chapter 519 of the Private Acts of 1911. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 23, 2025 |
| SB 619 | Health Care - As enacted, allows a healthcare provider to petition a relevant board after completing a peer assistance or treatment program contract to remove information from the public-facing licensure verification website regarding the adverse action and the order by the relevant board after five years from the completion date of that program or contract indicated in such order; authorizes the division of health related boards to promulgate rules to effectuate such petition process. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| SB 620 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes an antique emergency vehicle registered as an antique motor vehicle to be used for participation in, or transportation to and from, community or educational events, including displays at fairs, festivals, and schools, as well as during weekends and holidays; authorizes the installation and operation of emergency lights and sirens on a privately owned antique emergency vehicle under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 39-16-301 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 4, 2025 |
| SB 114 | Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, broadens certain disclosure obligations of state and local governmental entities by requiring their disclosure of covenant violations and credit rating downgrades to the comptroller of the treasury or the comptroller's designee. - Amends TCA Section 9-21-134. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 21, 2025 |
| SB 302 | Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Consumer Protection and Subscription Renewal Act," which prohibits a business from requiring submission of credit or debit card information, or other payment information for an automatic renewal offer or continuous service offer containing a free gift or trial; makes other changes related to automatic renewal offers and continuous service offers. - Amends TCA Title 45; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| SJR 173 | Memorials, Retirement - Chief Scott Boyd, Kingsport Fire Department - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 13, 2025 |
| SB 356 | State Employees - As introduced, requires each appointing authority of a state department or agency to electronically report to the commissioner of human resources the job performance evaluations for the employees in the appointing authority's department or state agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 355 | State Government - As introduced, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations to file its biennial report of its recommendations and findings with respect to intergovernmental relations with the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 41; Title 52; Title 57 and Title 58. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 353 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, increases from 4 percent to 5 percent the percentage of general assembly candidates and their committees who will be selected for an audit by the registry of election finance. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3 and Title 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 352 | Public Officials - As introduced, requires the chief executive officer of a state agency or department to ensure that its policies, practices, and procedures relating to the recruitment, hiring, advancement, and retention of qualified individuals with disabilities are posted on the respective agency or department website. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 14; Title 41; Title 52; Title 58; Title 66 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SB 301 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, authorizes a firefighter with a rank equal to or higher than shift commander to continue in service beyond the mandatory retirement age of 62 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |