Tennessee · Current officeholder
Ed Butler
Republican Tennessee House, District 41
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 1844 | Children - As enacted, revises various provisions governing surrendering custody of unwanted infants. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2284 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, includes in the offense of criminal trespass intrusion on property, or any portion of property, without the consent of the owner, by driving, parking, or otherwise operating a motorized vehicle or bicycle. - Amends TCA Title 11; Title 29; Title 39; Title 40; Title 44; Title 45; Title 46; Title 59; Title 66; Title 68 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 1847 | Computers and Electronic Processing - As enacted, generally prohibits a municipality or electric utility to pay or absorb the cost of electrical infrastructure incurred to serve a data center; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 65. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 388 | Municipal Government - As enacted, extends from June 30, 2028, to June 30, 2038, the deadline by which a municipality that continues to receive an allocation of state sales tax revenue pursuant to the now-repealed Courthouse Square Revitalization Pilot Project Act of 2005, will continue to receive the allocation of the revenue. - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 14, 2026 |
| HJR 1649 | Memorials, Retirement - Coach Lamar Rogers - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| HB 2160 | County 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 sponsor | In committee | May 4, 2026 |
| HJR 1339 | Memorials, Recognition - Run for the Wall Week - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| HB 2334 | Boards and Commissions - As introduced, transfers oversight of the board of boiler rules and the elevator and amusement device safety board from the department of labor and workforce development to the department of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1846 | Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, eliminates liability for rollback taxes on agricultural, forest, or open space land with a greenbelt classification when the land is sold; requires that a buyer of property with a greenbelt classification submit a new application to renew the property's greenbelt classification. - Amends TCA Section 11-14-307; Section 11-14-406; Section 11-7-109; Title 66; Section 67-4-409; Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 10 and Section 67-5-2402. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1148 | Controlled Substances - As introduced, removes Tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCa) and Tetrahydrocannabiphorol (THCp) from the list of authorized hemp-derived cannabinoids. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4 and Title 43, Chapter 27. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HJR 1145 | Memorials, Recognition - American Legion Post 137, 100th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 9, 2026 |
| HJR 1144 | Memorials, Recognition - Scotty Phillips - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 9, 2026 |
| HB 387 | Medical Occupations - As introduced, prohibits a healthcare provider from inquiring as to a patient's ownership, possession of, or access to firearm ammunition or firearm accessories; subjects the healthcare provider to disciplinary action and a fine of $1,000 if the healthcare provider makes such inquires. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| HB 2333 | 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 4, 2026 |
| HB 2332 | 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 4, 2026 |
| HB 2331 | 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 4, 2026 |
| HB 1848 | 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 4, 2026 |
| HB 1849 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes counties and cities to create by majority vote of the local legislative body the elected office of school superintendent. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 17, 2026 |
| HB 1845 | Children - As introduced, requires, in contested child custody, dependency and neglect, adoption, and guardianship proceedings in which the court has appointed a guardian ad litem, a court to order the child to be evaluated by a qualified expert unless the court determines an examination is unnecessary; requires the expert to submit a report containing certain information; specifies that the submitted report constitutes prima facie evidence of the child's condition and the factors relevant to the child's best interest; specifies various other requirements for the guardian ad litem's consideration of the report and the allocation of the examination costs. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 17, 2026 |
| HJR 861 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kay McCrary, Pine Haven Elementary Grades Pre-K-4 Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HJR 860 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Shannon Phillips, South Fentress Elementary School Grades 5-8 Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HJR 859 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Della Sandoval, South Fentress Elementary School Grades Pre-K-4 Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HJR 858 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kellye Stone, Allardt Elementary School Grades 5-8 Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HJR 857 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amy Thoman, York Elementary School Grades Pre-K-4 Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HJR 856 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kendra West, 2025-2026 York Elementary School Grades 5-8 Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HJR 855 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jamie Andrews, 2025-2026 Pine Haven Elementary School Teacher of the Year for Grades 5-8 - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HJR 854 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Pam Conatser, 2025-2026 Allardt Elementary School Teacher of the Year for Pre-K-4 - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HJR 853 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Eddie Cook, Tennessee School Boards Association Quarter Century Club - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HJR 852 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Tasha Hull, 2025-2026 Clarkrange High School Teacher of the Year for Grades 9-12 - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HB 1783 | Courts, Juvenile - As introduced, requires the department of children's services, and others, to provide certain information to court-appointed special advocates in order to provide judicial officers with the most comprehensive information to be used in the consideration of the placement and custody of a child. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| HB 393 | Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to pay from existing budgeted funds a monthly amount to a department employee for the medical care of a retired canine that served the department if the canine is given to the care and custody of the employee. - Amends TCA Title 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 386 | Children - As enacted, increases the age of an infant from 14 days or younger to 45 days or younger who can be received by a facility without the mother being subject to criminal liability. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 1440 | Morgan 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 sponsor | In committee | May 14, 2025 |
| HJR 646 | Memorials, Recognition - Run for the Wall Week - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| HJR 674 | Memorials, Recognition - Vietnam War, 50th anniversary of its end - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| HB 392 | Education - As enacted, prohibits the department of education from excluding from the calculation of a school letter grade the data of any group of students within a school if the department collects, aggregates, and reports the data, and if the group of students has at least 20 valid test scores in math or English language arts for at least one grade band; and data for the college and career readiness indicator if the school has at least 20 students in a graduating cohort. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 1147 | Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to submit an annual report, by July 31 each year, to legislative committees having jurisdiction over postsecondary education detailing, for each of the five immediately preceding academic years for which the corporation awarded scholarships, the amount appropriated by the general assembly for the scholarship program, the total number of scholarship applications received by the corporation, the total number of scholarship recipients, and the average scholarship award amount. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 14, 2025 |
| HB 382 | Education - As enacted, authorizes a local education agency to implement the law enforcement against drugs and violence (L.E.A.D.) program in schools operated by the LEA; authorizes an LEA's implementation of the L.E.A.D. program to be in lieu of the DARE program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 49, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 478 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, specifies that a person does not commit an offense if the person possesses or carries a firearm into an area that is posted if, upon the request of an individual authorized to control access to the property, the person immediately leaves the property or stores the firearm in a personal vehicle in accordance with state law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 2, 2025 |
| HB 1149 | Boats, Boating - As introduced, prohibits certain activities, such as fishing, near public boat launches, docks, boats, and marinas so as to interfere with the use of such facilities. - Amends TCA Title 67; Title 68, Chapter 102, Part 6; Title 69 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2025 |
| HB 383 | Infectious 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 sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2025 |
| HB 385 | Taxes - As introduced, requires TennCare to certify an eligible healthcare provider's unreimbursed costs in a calendar year as charitable contributions made exclusively for public purposes to TennCare; requires eligible healthcare providers to pay TennCare $25 annually to receive such certification. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2025 |
| HB 588 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class E felony for altering or defacing a permanent distinguishing number on a firearm and selling, purchasing, or possessing such a firearm with a mandatory minimum sentence of 180 days incarceration. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| HJR 218 | Memorials, Recognition - Eric Enger, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2025 |
| HJR 217 | Memorials, Recognition - Lily Shelton, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2025 |
| HJR 216 | Memorials, Recognition - Haylee Martin, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2025 |
| HJR 215 | Memorials, Recognition - Meadow Hayes, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2025 |
| HJR 214 | Memorials, Recognition - Teresa Cochran, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2025 |
| HJR 213 | Memorials, Recognition - Aaron Summerall, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2025 |
| HJR 77 | Memorials, Recognition - TVA-affiliated distributors - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 10, 2025 |
| HB 384 | Public Officials - As introduced, creates a recall process for members of a municipal legislative body and of a city or county school board. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |