Tennessee · Current officeholder
Andrew Farmer
Republican Tennessee House, District 17
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Sponsored legislation
61 bills in the current data (61 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 684 | Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the commissioner to provide the commissioner of correction with a form application for food assistance for use by inmates who are preparing for release. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2496 | Taxes - As enacted, adds to the definition of a "qualified public use facility" as used in the Local Tourism Development Zone Business Tax Act a mixed-use development containing a performance venue with a seating capacity of at least 2,500; authorizes a municipality or public authority that has financed a qualified public use facility within a tourism development zone and that qualifies for an allocation of sales tax revenue from within that zone under the Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998 and under other provisions of sales tax law to use the revenue for purposes authorized in the act or other law. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1966 | Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the commissioner to develop a statewide quality assurance program to ensure quality control through monitoring, evaluation, and feedback on the performance of the best practices in the service delivery system and utilizing both qualitative and quantitative data in outcomes-based approaches at the regional level. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1970 | Real Property - As enacted, requires a description of real property contained within a deed of conveyance of a property not previously described in a recorded instrument to be prepared by a registered land surveyor, or by a licensed attorney utilizing a survey prepared by a registered land surveyor. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 23; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 1968 | Opioids - As enacted, adds Alvogen, Inc., Apotex Corp., and Zydus Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. to the list of companies that may be released by the attorney general for pending or future claims regarding opioids. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 656 | Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, extends present law concerning compensated unused leave for teachers to all employees of LEAs and public charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 14, 2026 |
| HB 483 | District Attorneys - As enacted, authorizes the attorney general to conduct a study of a district attorney general's disposition of charges and other ancillary matters within the 30th judicial district; authorizes the attorney general to petition the supreme court for appointment of a district attorney general pro tem if a district attorney general in this state has peremptorily and categorically refused to prosecute criminal offenses based on an unjustifiable and unconstitutional standard, without regard to facts or circumstances or taken other official action that constitutes a failure or refusal to prosecute according to the law. - Amends TCA Title 8. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 14, 2026 |
| HB 2495 | Real Property - As enacted, provides that a provision of a document requiring a transferor or transferee to pay a fee, charge, assessment, dues, contribution, deposit, or other amount to purchase, issue, reissue, maintain, or transfer a club membership that is related to the real property or the community in which the property is sited is not a transfer fee covenant. - Amends TCA Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 4, 2026 |
| HB 2429 | Children - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding children, including requiring a parent educational seminar in certain juvenile cases. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 4, 2026 |
| HB 2078 | Courts - As enacted, enacts the "Parental Rights Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 8 and Title 40, Chapter 11. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 4, 2026 |
| HJR 1441 | Memorials, Death - Gary Odom Roach - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| HJR 1409 | Memorials, Recognition - Elaine Carver - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HB 569 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, requires title insurance agencies that separately represent the buyer and seller in a real estate transaction and agree to an arrangement to share the title insurance premiums, commissions, or other fees paid by the buyer and seller, to provide written notice to the buyer and seller of such sharing arrangement and to receive signed, written acknowledgement from the buyer and seller confirming that they were so notified in writing; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 35 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 27, 2026 |
| HB 1972 | Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, clarifies that if marijuana is rescheduled or deleted as a controlled substance under federal law, the commissioner is prohibited from rescheduling or deleting marijuana under state law, unless the general assembly has established a regulatory framework for marijuana and authorized the commissioner to reschedule or delete marijuana as a controlled substance. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 24; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 45; Title 50; Title 53; Title 57; Title 63; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 27, 2026 |
| HB 1965 | Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Child Care Hosting Safe Harbor Act." - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 71, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 27, 2026 |
| HJR 1336 | Memorials, Sports - Sevier County High School Bearette basketball team, TSSAA Division I, Class 4A state champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2026 |
| HB 1971 | Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, removes the right of a cause of action for any affected person who seeks declaratory and injunctive relief in any action brought regarding the legality or constitutionality of a state governmental action; authorizes such an action against a political subdivision of this state; does not limit any other cause of action or waiver of sovereign immunity to vindicate rights under the Tennessee Constitution or the United States Constitution. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 23, 2026 |
| HJR 808 | Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article IV, Section 1, of the Constitution of Tennessee, to specify that only citizens of the United States may vote in state, county, or municipal elections. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 21, 2026 |
| HJR 1305 | Memorials, Sports - Maliyah Glasper, 2026 TSSAA Class 2A Miss Basketball - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 20, 2026 |
| HJR 1261 | Memorials, Interns - Victoria Marie Grigsby - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 20, 2026 |
| HB 2494 | Judges and Chancellors - As introduced, increases base salaries for trial and appellate level judges and supreme court justices effective September 1, 2030; revises compensation and other requirements for general sessions judges on or after September 1, 2030. - Amends TCA Section 8-23-103; Title 16 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1964 | Courts - As introduced, effective September 1, 2030, divides counties into five, instead of seven, different classes by population for the purpose of determining the compensation of general sessions and juvenile judges; revises provisions setting minimum salary requirements for general sessions and juvenile judges; establishes a county litigation tax on each civil, criminal, juvenile, and traffic case initiated in a general sessions or juvenile court to defray general sessions and juvenile judges' salaries; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 15, Part 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1962 | Sentencing - As introduced, states that there is a rebuttable presumption that a defendant convicted of aggravated assault is not a favorable candidate for probation if the offense involved the use or display of a firearm during the commission of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 35. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2501 | Judicial Districts - As introduced, requires the advisory task force to review composition of judicial districts to submit its findings and recommendations by January 15, 2027, rather than January 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 16. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2026 |
| HB 154 | Education - As introduced, deletes obsolete pilot program to improve parent-teacher engagement that terminated at the end of the 2020-2021 school year. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| HB 1969 | Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, redefines "movable structure" for purposes of classification and assessment of property so that a mobile home or other movable structure that is used as a residence or apartment must be used permanently as such instead of temporarily or permanently. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 493 | Guardians and Conservators - As introduced, requires a hearing on a petitioner for the appointment of a guardian or conservator to be held within 90 days, rather than 60 days, from the date of service on the respondent or the date a guardian ad litem was appointed. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 25; Title 26; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 34; Title 35 and Title 36. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | March 2, 2026 |
| HJR 774 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brittany Ramsey, Sevier County School System Grades 9-12 Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| HJR 773 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Hans Ballew, Sevier County School System Supervisor of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| HJR 772 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Mitchell Whaley, Sevier County School System Principal of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| HJR 771 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Stephanie Carr, Sevier County School System PreK-4 Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| HJR 770 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brooke White, Sevier County School System Grades 5-8 Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| HB 2430 | Welfare - As introduced, requires the commissioner of human services to provide to the commissioner of correction an application for food assistance to be used by inmates in state correctional institutions prior to release; requires the application to contain an option for the inmate to indicate a denial to apply for food assistance and reasons for doing so; requires the commissioner of correction to supply the application to each inmate prior to release; requires reports to the general assembly on certain data collected from the applications and on the number of inmates leaving incarceration who are approved for food assistance. - Amends TCA Title 41 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 1963 | DUI Offenses - As introduced, allows a person convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant who is eligible for a restricted license to request, and the court to order, the use of a transdermal monitoring device in lieu of the person being required to operate only a motor vehicle equipped with an ignition interlock device; requires the person to pay all costs associated with the transdermal monitoring device; specifies the person is not eligible for assistance from the electronic monitoring indigency fund. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| HB 487 | Clerks, Court - As enacted, revises present law concerning court clerks' fees. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 18; Title 55 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 486 | Public Defenders - As enacted, creates five additional assistant district public defender positions effective July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 9, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 1128 | County Officers - As enacted, revises present law relative to constables. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10 and Title 38, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 1127 | Real Property - As enacted, revises present law relative to advertising the sale of land to foreclose a deed of trust, mortgage, or other lien securing the payment of money or other thing of value or under judicial orders or process. - Amends TCA Title 35. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 1125 | Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to develop guidelines and criteria for determining how long a student must have been present in a teacher's classroom before the student's record is attributable to the teacher for purposes of evaluating the teacher; authorizes an LEA or public charter school to compensate the estate of a teacher who, on the teacher's death, was in the employ of the LEA or public charter school for the teacher's unused and accrued annual and sick leave in the same manner that the estates of deceased state employees are compensated under present law. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 492 | Child Custody and Support - As enacted, requires the court to consider any failure to pay child support, rather than failure for a period of three years or more, when making a child custody determination; clarifies that the court may preclude or limit any provisions of a parenting plan if the court finds that a parent has failed to pay child support. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 491 | Opioids - As enacted, adds Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC, Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc., Indivior Inc., Viatris Inc., and Purdue Pharma L.P. to the list of companies that may be released by the attorney general and reporter for pending or future claims regarding opioids. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Title 33. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1180 | Adoption - As enacted, allows petitioners to include all children in one adoption petition if the petitioners are seeking to adopt more than one child at the same time, unless the court issues a written order finding that it is in the best interest of the children that separate petitions be filed; specifies that the clerk of court must charge only one filing fee for such a petition. - Amends TCA Title 18; Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1129 | Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, lifts certain restrictions on temporary borrow pits used to source material for a road work construction project performed in a FEMA-certified county under a contract for construction work entered into with the state that is part of a state or local Hurricane Helene recovery effort. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 579 | Memorials, Interns - Alexis Bartlett - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| HJR 393 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Lani O'Connor, Jefferson County Schools District Level and Jefferson County High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 7, 2025 |
| HJR 392 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Pam Oakes, Jefferson County Schools District Level Teacher of the Year and Piedmont Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 7, 2025 |
| HJR 391 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Leslie Vines, Jefferson County Schools District Level and Jefferson Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 7, 2025 |
| HB 531 | Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires local education agencies and public charter schools to provide age-appropriate instruction to students on how to access, utilize, and critically evaluate various artificial intelligence tools within the curriculum taught by the educator; requires the department of education to issue guidance on how to implement the required instruction; requires the department to provide a professional development program in artificial intelligence education for educators, subject to available funding. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| HJR 203 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. John Robinette, Sevier County School System Supervisor of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2025 |
| HJR 202 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Amy Case, Sevier County School System Principal of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2025 |
| HJR 201 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dustin Helton, 2024-2025 Sevier County Schools Grades 9-12 Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2025 |
| HJR 200 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Misti DeGroot, Sevier County School System Grades 5-8 Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2025 |
| HJR 199 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Lindsay Whitted, Sevier County School System Grades Pre-K-4 Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2025 |
| HJR 123 | Memorials, Recognition - Judge Norma McGee Ogle, Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 21, 2025 |
| HB 1130 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to allocate to each local education agency sufficient funds for the LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor at each high school in the LEA that enrolls at least 600 students in grades 10 through 12; requires each LEA to employ one full-time licensed professional school counselor at each high school for which the LEA receives such funding from the department. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| HB 1126 | Labor - As introduced, permits state governmental entities and local health departments to submit annual reports to the general assembly electronically regarding compliance with the Eligibility Verification for Entitlements Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 50 and Title 57. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 12, 2025 |
| HB 1124 | Education - As introduced, requires LEAs to screen all students for dyslexia and use the Orton-Gillingham method to teach students who exhibit characteristics of dyslexia; adds training in the Orton-Gillingham method to in-service training subjects for educators. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| HB 1123 | Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, increases the amount of medical, hospital, or doctor bills that are presumed in a civil action to have been necessary and reasonable if the bills are itemized in the complaint or civil warrant with an attached copy of the bills attached as an exhibit to the complaint or civil warrant, from a total of $4,000 to a total of $25,000. - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 1; Title 24, Chapter 5; Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 56, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 12, 2025 |
| HB 488 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, lessens, from 90 calendar days to 60 calendar days, the time within which a clerk of court must notify the health facilities commission of a conviction for certain offenses committed against elderly or vulnerable adults for inclusion on the registry of persons who have abused, neglected, misappropriated, or exploited the property of vulnerable individuals. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 5, 2025 |
| HB 461 | Notary Public - As introduced, adds that a person must complete a course of instruction and pass an examination to qualify to be commissioned as an online notary public; clarifies that an application to be commissioned as an online notary public requires a certification that the applicant has reviewed, understands, and will comply with the applicable rules and requirements promulgated by the secretary of state; adds that a course of instruction for online notarization must include, at a minimum, notarial laws, technology procedures of online notarizations, and ethical requirements for online notaries. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 16, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |
| HB 460 | Secretary of State - As introduced, establishes a complaint process with the secretary of state for any person who contends that the person’s name or address was included on a document filed with the secretary of state without the person’s consent. - Amends TCA Title 48. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |