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Tennessee · Current officeholder

Ken Yager

Republican Tennessee Senate, District 12

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Sponsored legislation

87 bills in the current data (87 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.

BillTitleRoleStageLast action
SB 2716Lafayette - Subject to local approval, moves the date of elections from coinciding with the primary in May to coinciding with the general election in November; increases the compensation of the council members from $100 to $150 for each council meeting and from $50 to $75 for each committee meeting; increases the annual salary of the mayor from $45,000 to $75,000; authorizes the mayor, subject to confirmation of the city council, a superintendent of streets and a superintendent of sanitation. - Amends Chapter 325 of the Private Acts of 1945; as amended.Primary sponsorIn committeeMay 27, 2026
SB 2293Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, expands the definition of "consumable material" to include natural and synthetic liquid nicotine solutions and liquid nicotine analogues for purposes of the taxation of vapor products containing such material; requires the alcoholic beverage commission to issue the fines for the offense of selling or offering for sale a vapor product for retail sale in this state to anyone under 21. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 43; Title 57 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10.Primary sponsorEnactedMay 27, 2026
SB 2221TennCare - As enacted, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2027; changes the penalty imposed by the bureau on an ambulance provider for each day an assessment remains unpaid from $50 per calendar day to 5 percent of the principal amount owed per month for each month. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 15.Primary sponsorEnactedMay 27, 2026
SB 2177Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires TACIR to conduct a study of the salaries and other benefits paid to state and local law enforcement officers in this state; authorizes the commissioner of safety to establish a hazardous duty designation for members of the highway patrol that may be used to authorize additional compensation for designated members. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 38.Primary sponsorEnactedMay 27, 2026
SB 2173Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, establishes a statutory schedule of permit fees for the operation of off highway vehicles at North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area. - Amends TCA Title 70, Chapter 9.Primary sponsorEnactedMay 27, 2026
SB 1964Fireworks - As enacted, expands the length of the existing Independence Day and New Year sales periods and adds new Memorial Day and Labor Day sales periods for seasonal retailers of fireworks for the 2026 retail period; increases the seasonal retailer permit fee from $100 to $150 for calendar year 2026; and authorizes the state fire marshal to promulgate rules to effectuate the act. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.Primary sponsorEnactedMay 27, 2026
SB 2178Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the penalty for patronizing prostitution from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class B or Class A felony under certain circumstances that are currently punished as trafficking for a commercial sex act. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.Primary sponsorIn committeeMay 18, 2026
SJR 1187Memorials, Death - Isaiah Peddicord -Primary sponsorEnactedMay 11, 2026
SJR 1186Memorials, Death - Howard Galyon -Primary sponsorEnactedMay 11, 2026
SJR 1185Memorials, Death - Larry Richard West -Primary sponsorEnactedMay 11, 2026
SJR 1184Memorials, Death - Marshall McKamey -Primary sponsorEnactedMay 11, 2026
SJR 1183Memorials, Death - Connie Sue Achenbach -Primary sponsorEnactedMay 11, 2026
SB 2167Boards and Commissions - As enacted, integrates the bureau of TennCare into the statewide planning and policy council’s structure and mission by adding the director of long-term care services and a managed care organization representative to its membership; expands the council’s advisory and reporting duties to include TennCare’s director, services, and waiver implementation alongside existing department programs. - Amends TCA Title 52, Chapter 5, Part 6 and Title 71, Chapter 5.Primary sponsorEnactedMay 5, 2026
SB 2276County Government - As enacted, prohibits the director of accounts and budgets for Overton County from being terminated or discharged without the approval of the county legislative body if such prohibition is approved by a two-thirds vote of the Overton County legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 5.Primary sponsorEnactedMay 4, 2026
SJR 1188Memorials, Public Service - Rhett Pratt -Primary sponsorEnactedMay 1, 2026
SJR 1110Memorials, Public Service - Trent Heath -Primary sponsorEnactedMay 1, 2026
SB 2176Roane County - Subject to local approval, repeals act that designated the chief executive officer of the county as the county executive. - Amends Chapter 1 of the Private Acts of 2007.Primary sponsorIn committeeMay 1, 2026
SB 2175Water - As enacted, requires the department of environment and conservation to add water system projects located in counties having a population of less than 57,000 according to the 2020 census, or a subsequent census, to the priority list for consideration for loans from the water system revolving loan fund. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221.Primary sponsorEnactedApril 29, 2026
SB 2168Education - As enacted, requires LEAs and public charter schools to recognize Victims of Communism Day to honor the people who have fallen victim to communist regimes by providing high school students enrolled in a world history and geography course with at least 45 minutes of instruction on such topic. - Amends TCA Title 15; Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.Primary sponsorIn committeeApril 24, 2026
SB 2053County Government - As introduced, requires a local legislative body to approve the location of any quarry or digital asset mining facility in a public meeting. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 68.Primary sponsorIn committeeApril 21, 2026
SB 748TennCare - As introduced, requires the bureau of TennCare to reimburse certain public or private ground-based ambulance services that bill for transports at a rate not less than 67.5 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for emergency services and 100 percent of the federal medicare program's allowable charge for participating providers for nonemergency services. - Amends TCA Title 71.Primary sponsorIn committeeApril 20, 2026
SB 2169Public Defenders - As introduced, creates five additional social worker positions in the public defender system. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 9, Chapter 4.Primary sponsorIn committeeApril 20, 2026
SR 403Memorials, Interns - Brant Edward Hall II -Primary sponsorPassed one chamberApril 17, 2026
SR 402Memorials, Recognition - Nicole Herschberger -Primary sponsorPassed one chamberApril 17, 2026
SJR 1024Memorials, Death - Jane Bell -Primary sponsorEnactedApril 16, 2026
SB 2179Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires that monies from the opioid abatement fund that are disbursed to nonprofit organizations for statewide, regional, or local opioid abatement and remediation purposes be disbursed as a combination of advance payment and reimbursement grants. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 13 and Title 33, Chapter 11.Primary sponsorIn committeeApril 15, 2026
SB 2171Safety - As introduced, enacts the "Artificial Intelligence Public Safety and Child Protection Transparency Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 47; Title 58 and Title 68.Primary sponsorIn committeeApril 15, 2026
SJR 936Memorials, Retirement - Samuel Milton Leslie, South Harriman Baptist Church music minister -Primary sponsorEnactedApril 8, 2026
SB 2174Health, Dept. of - As introduced, excludes from the definition of a public swimming pool subject to regulation in the same manner as a hotel or public swimming pool by the department of health any privately owned, controlled-access, above-ground swimming pool that is installed indoors at a fitness facility and used only by facility staff and students for the purpose of swimming instruction if the pool meets certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 68.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 30, 2026
SJR 881Memorials, Death - Charles Goodson -Primary sponsorEnactedMarch 25, 2026
SJR 840Memorials, Death - Frederick Dale "Freddie" Harvey -Primary sponsorEnactedMarch 25, 2026
SJR 648Naming and Designating - Designates Tennessee a Purple Heart State. -Primary sponsorPassed one chamberMarch 19, 2026
SB 2172Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, extends from two years to 27 months the amount of time that the commissioner has to designate the boundaries of a scenic river area following the addition of a river segment to the state scenic rivers system. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 13 and Title 68, Chapter 211.Primary sponsorPassed one chamberMarch 19, 2026
SB 2054Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, increases exemption to a maximum of 400 acres for certain nonprofit entities. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-212.Primary sponsorPassed one chamberMarch 19, 2026
SJR 824Memorials, Recognition - Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute, 100th anniversary -Primary sponsorEnactedMarch 18, 2026
SR 284General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Tammy S. White, Tennessee Ethics Commission -Primary sponsorPassed one chamberMarch 17, 2026
SB 2170Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, requires the monthly report of the warden of a county workhouse for each prisoner placed under a work release program to be filed with the judge by whom the prisoner was sentenced on or before the fifteenth day of the month immediately following the reporting period. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 40 and Title 41.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 17, 2026
SB 2130Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates October 1 of each year as "APDS Day" to promote awareness of activated PI3K delta syndrome. - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 16, 2026
SB 2477Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, expands the category of students who are considered economically disadvantaged for purposes of generating a weighted allocation through the TISA funding formula to include students who are enrolled in the state's medicaid program. - Amends TCA Title 49.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 11, 2026
SB 2294Boats, Boating - As introduced, increases, from 50 to 75 feet, the distance a jet boat that carries passengers for hire must be from a private or public dock or boat ramp before the boat may travel at a speed greater than no-wake speed. - Amends TCA Title 69.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 11, 2026
SB 2180Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to allocate federal and state funds to rural planning organizations in parity with its allocation of such funds to metropolitan planning organizations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54 and Title 64, Chapter 8.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 11, 2026
SB 2476Health Care - As introduced, exempts a nurse who provides home health services to four or less patients from hiring staff or maintaining an office in order to qualify for licensure as a home care organization by the health facilities commission; requires a nurse who does not hire staff or maintain an office to submit a request to the department of health for space at a location deemed appropriate by the department to securely store patient records. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 10, 2026
SJR 687Memorials, Recognition - WIN Learning, 30th anniversary -Primary sponsorEnactedMarch 6, 2026
SB 1965Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, increases, from 60 to 70 days, the time within which, after the end of the calendar year, the commissioner of financial institutions must submit the department's annual report to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 35; Title 42; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 59; Title 60; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 3, 2026
SB 1833Education, Higher - As introduced, prohibits imposing liability against a higher education institution for negligence in admitting, enrolling, or extending housing opportunities to a person who has been previously convicted of a criminal offense based solely upon the previous criminal conviction; prohibits use of the person's prior criminal record as evidence in a cause of action against a higher education institution for negligence in admitting, enrolling, or extending housing opportunities to the person. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 28; Title 29; Title 40 and Title 49.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 3, 2026
SR 297Memorials, Death - Sister Carrie Elizabeth Rowan Barksdale -Primary sponsorPassed one chamberFebruary 27, 2026
SR 295Memorials, Death - Bill R. Dunlap -Primary sponsorPassed one chamberFebruary 27, 2026
SB 2627Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department, by July 1 each year, to provide the chairs of the finance, ways, and means committees of the senate and house of representatives, the chairs of the education committees of the senate and house of representatives, and the directors of the office of legislative budget analysis a report to assist the general assembly in evaluating the availability of the individualized education account program. - Amends TCA Title 49.Primary sponsorIn committeeFebruary 5, 2026
SB 1451Red Boiling Springs - Subject to local approval, increases the annual salary of the mayor from $5,200 to $18,200; increases the annual salary of council members from $500 to $1,800. - Amends Chapter 120 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended and rewritten.Primary sponsorIn committeeJune 4, 2025
SB 760Newspapers and Publications - As enacted, specifies that the website where legal notices must be posted must not require a fee or a subscription for a person to view the website; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3.Primary sponsorIn committeeMay 27, 2025
SB 1463Morgan County - Subject to local approval, establishes that the County Attorney must be a licensed practicing attorney appointed or hired subject to the vote of the Morgan County Commission to serve a four-year term and does not need to be a resident of Morgan County to serve as County Attorney. - Amends Chapter 467 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended.Primary sponsorEnactedMay 14, 2025
SB 763Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, requires the department of revenue to maintain a directory on its website that lists all vapor products certified as authorized to be sold in this state; levies certain privilege taxes. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15; Title 47, Chapter 25; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 26.Primary sponsorEnactedMay 13, 2025
SB 758Industrial Development - As enacted, redefines "remediation site" to include a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity whose main purpose is to promote industrial development and new nuclear development upon dissolution of the existing nonprofit entity. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53, Part 3.Primary sponsorEnactedMay 13, 2025
SB 750Immigration - As enacted, requires the centralized immigration enforcement division within the department of safety to provide a report to the chief clerk of each house of the general assembly and the legislative librarian regarding illegal alien criminal activity in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 68.Primary sponsorEnactedMay 13, 2025
SB 747TennCare - As enacted, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2026; makes other revisions to the Ground Ambulance Service Provider Assessment Act. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 15.Primary sponsorEnactedMay 13, 2025
SB 751Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, adds the MidSouth development district to the list of development districts to which this state intends to assist financially; specifies an overall state funding level for the nine development districts; changes the calculation for how much funding each development district will receive. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 14, Part 1.Primary sponsorIn committeeMay 8, 2025
SB 251Public Employees - As enacted, establishes that a retiree who is a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system must have had a bona fide separation of service before the retiree is allowed to accept temporary reemployment without a loss or suspension of benefits in the retirement system; makes other changes to the present law relative to reemployment after retirement from public employment. - Amends TCA Section 8-25-213 and Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.Primary sponsorEnactedMay 2, 2025
SB 755Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, creates the Tennessee agriculture and forestry hall of fame as the successor to, and a continuation of, the Tennessee agricultural hall of fame; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 6.Primary sponsorEnactedApril 29, 2025
SB 753Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to enroll LEAs' employees' children into the voluntary pre-kindergarten program if space is available after enrollment of at-risk children; authorizes LEAs to charge the employee tuition and fees for such enrollment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.Primary sponsorEnactedApril 29, 2025
SB 741Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a criminal offense of possessing, distributing, or producing technology, software, or digital tools designed for the purpose of creating material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive; establishes relevant factors to be considered in determining whether artificial technology, software, or digital tools are used or possessed with intent to create material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive. - Amends TCA Title 39.Primary sponsorEnactedApril 29, 2025
SB 749Interest Rates - As enacted, removes the weighted average yield of the accepted offers of the Federal National Mortgage Association's current free market system auction and the 30-year treasury yield as the two bases upon which the maximum effective rate of interest on home loans may be set by the commissioner of financial institutions, and replaces them with the average prime offer rate. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.Primary sponsorIn committeeApril 28, 2025
SJR 354Memorials, Interns - Reagan Hill -Primary sponsorEnactedApril 24, 2025
SB 752Taxes, Business - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to change the due date of the taxpayer's business tax return to a date that is not less than 60 calendar days, rather than two calendar months, following the end of the taxpayer's business tax period for purposes of the commissioner changing a taxpayer's business tax period to correspond to the taxpayer's fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.Primary sponsorIn committeeApril 17, 2025
SJR 355Memorials, Recognition - Anna Collins -Primary sponsorEnactedApril 16, 2025
SB 754Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Courthouse Square Revitalization Act." - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 67, Chapter 6.Primary sponsorIn committeeApril 7, 2025
SB 759Boats, Boating - As introduced, requires a person to purchase a permit in order to operate a vessel on the intrastate waters of this state that is exempt from being numbered for identification in this state due only to the vessel having a valid number awarded to it pursuant to a federally approved numbering system of another state. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9.Primary sponsorIn committeeApril 1, 2025
SJR 309Memorials, Public Service - Captain Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Captain Sunita "Suni" Williams -Primary sponsorEnactedMarch 31, 2025
SB 744Infectious Diseases - As enacted, directs the commissioner of health to, on or before July 1, 2025, add alpha-gal syndrome to the department of health's published list of reportable diseases and conditions, the occurrence of which must be reported to the department by a healthcare provider pursuant to existing administrative rule. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 31, 2025
SB 742Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to create programs designed to enhance access to dental services in rural and underserved areas subject to the approval of the commissioner of finance and administration. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5 and Title 68.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 26, 2025
SB 761Expunction - As introduced, shortens the length of time that a petitioner must wait before having an eligible Class D felony expunged from 10 years after the completion of the sentence imposed for the offense the petitioner is seeking to have expunged, to eight years from completion. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 25, 2025
SB 1125Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits an online payment system from freezing the funds of a user without first providing the user with a written notice of the online payment system's intent to freeze the user's funds; designates a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice pursuant to the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 25, 2025
SB 46Celina - Subject to local approval, increases the number of aldermen from three to five. - Amends Chapter 90 of the Private Acts of 1991; as amended.Primary sponsorEnactedMarch 21, 2025
SB 746Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a third grade student who achieves a performance level rating of "approaching" on the English language arts portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test, and who has earned an overall letter grade of A or B in the student's third grade ELA class, to be promoted to fourth grade if promotion is recommended by a majority of the categories of participants in a conference convened by the student's LEA or public charter school; requires a student promoted to fourth grade through such process to receive tutoring services for the entirety of the student's fourth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 19, 2025
SB 743Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, prohibits the board of water and wastewater operator certification from delegating, by contract or other agreement, to a third-party its authority to determine minimum operator competency or to prepare examinations administered to applicants seeking operator certification; establishes requirements for such examinations and minimum scores required for issuance of a certificate. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 9.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 19, 2025
SB 745Motor Vehicles - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a person who is in the United States without legal authorization to operate a motor vehicle without possessing a valid driver license and evidence of financial responsibility; limits the fine for such offense to a maximum of $1,000. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 17, 2025
SJR 184Memorials, Death - John Charles McNeeley -Primary sponsorEnactedMarch 13, 2025
SJR 181Memorials, Death - R.W. Groom III -Primary sponsorEnactedMarch 13, 2025
SJR 143Memorials, Death - Michael Timme -Primary sponsorEnactedMarch 12, 2025
SB 757Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to publish the school lunch menu on the LEA's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 12, 2025
SJR 54Memorials, Death - James Ralph Inman, Sr. -Primary sponsorEnactedMarch 4, 2025
SJR 190Memorials, Death - Sheriff Wayne M. Potter -Primary sponsorEnactedMarch 4, 2025
SB 756Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, authorizes a retired campus police officer to be reemployed in a position covered by TCRS as a law enforcement officer without the loss or suspension of the retired officer's TCRS benefits; extends the repeal date for the provision authorizing retired law enforcement officers to be reemployed without the loss or suspension of retirement benefits from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.Primary sponsorIn committeeMarch 3, 2025
SB 762Lottery, Corporation - As introduced, requires each county to levy a tax at the rate of 5 percent of the sales price of lottery tickets or shares when sold at retail within the jurisdiction of the county; requires the state to administer the collection of the tax. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 49 and Title 67.Primary sponsorIn committeeFebruary 21, 2025
SJR 60Memorials, Recognition - Michael Timme -Primary sponsorIn committeeFebruary 12, 2025
SB 1334Fireworks - As introduced, extends from 10 to 14 days following the date of last publication in a newspaper of a notice from the state fire marshal about the seizure of and intent to destroy contraband fireworks, the period during which an owner may claim the fireworks and after which, if no such ownership claim is made, the state fire marshal may destroy the fireworks. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.Primary sponsorIn committeeFebruary 12, 2025
SB 1333Fireworks - As introduced, extends from 60 to 75 days, the time following receipt of a completed application within which the fire marshal must issue a fireworks exhibitor's license to an applicant who has complied with state law and rule relevant to the exhibitor licensing process. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.Primary sponsorIn committeeFebruary 12, 2025
SJR 33Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Ted Clower -Primary sponsorEnactedFebruary 10, 2025

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