Tennessee · Current officeholder
Clay Doggett
Republican Tennessee House, District 70
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Sponsored legislation
44 bills in the current data (44 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 489 | Criminal Procedure - As enacted, requires a defendant who is ordered to wear a transdermal monitoring device or alternative device, including other alternative alcohol or drug monitoring device, or global positioning monitoring device, as a condition of pretrial release, and who has not been determined by the court to be indigent, to pay all fees associated with the installation, monitoring, maintenance, and operation of the device. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2374 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, removes the requirement to place a defendant on a state or federal list or database as a fugitive from justice for failure to appear, unless it is on a felony; authorizes a court to relieve the surety of liability for an undertaking if the defendant has not been placed on the available state or federal list or database within five business days of the entering agency's receipt of the bench warrant or capias. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 2369 | Criminal Procedure - As enacted, revises present law that authorizes the attorney general to bring an action to enforce compliance with the Tennessee Abortion-Inducing Drug Risk Protocol Act or intervene as a matter of right in a case in which the constitutionality of such act is challenged. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 2376 | Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, states that if the possession of a handgun is restricted or prohibited at a county courthouse, then the sheriff of the county may provide secure storage lockers for those individuals who are lawfully carrying a firearm to store the firearm in separate secured, lockable storage units at or near a designated public entrance to the building or structure at no cost to the individual. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 7; Title 8, Chapter 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 2368 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense when a person operates an unmanned aircraft within 400 feet of or above a ticketed entertainment event; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 1273 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies, for purposes of criminal offenses relative to threats of mass violence on school property or at a school-related activity or failing to report such threats, that a threat of mass violence is credible if the threat causes another to reasonably expect the commission of an act of mass violence. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2026 |
| HJR 1251 | Memorials, Recognition - Richland High School Raiders cheerleading team - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| HJR 1250 | Memorials, Sports - Coach Chad Hall, 500th career win - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 16, 2026 |
| HB 592 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires the board of claims to hear claims for compensation by persons wrongfully imprisoned whose charges are dismissed and sentences vacated; authorizes persons whose charges were dismissed and sentences vacated prior to enactment of this legislation to file a claim within one year; authorizes surviving spouse and children the right to file a claim with the board of claims on behalf of a person who was wrongfully imprisoned and died prior to filing a claim; grants surviving adult children the same right as surviving minor children to receive payments from an award. - Amends TCA Section 9-8-108. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2480 | Public 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 sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2377 | Sexual Offenses - As introduced, revises the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a child, including the required number of victims, required number of incidents of sexual abuse, and time frame within which the incidents must have occurred. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2375 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, enacts the "Greenbelt Initiative Fund Transfer (GIFT) Act," which creates the rural revenue equity fund; authorizes the commissioner of economic and community development to distribute amounts from the fund to rural counties based on certain agricultural, demographic, and fiscal criteria, including greenbelt acreage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2373 | County Government - As introduced, creates a supplemental pay incentive program for local correctional officers who receive 40 hours or more of in-service training per calendar year. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 8, Part 1 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2367 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds "a victim" to the definition of an individual involved in the judicial process for purposes of the criminal offense of harming or threatening to harm an individual involved in the judicial process; makes various other changes regarding victims of crime. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2378 | Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates October 11 of each year to be observed as "General Pulaski Memorial Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 13, 2026 |
| HJR 1213 | Memorials, Sports - Richland High School Lady Raiders basketball team, Diviision I, Class A State Champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 9, 2026 |
| HB 369 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, clarifies that a school employee does not commit the criminal offense of falsifying educational and academic documents for altering, creating, or duplicating the grade of a student in an educational or academic document if the alteration, creation, or duplication is due to the student obtaining the grade through a program that allows students to retake a failed course, exam, or assignment and earn credit. - Amends TCA Section 39-14-136 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| HJR 1148 | Memorials, Retirement - Major Wayne Sellers, Tennessee Highway Patrol - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 1, 2026 |
| HB 2372 | Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, specifies that a jailer's authorization to evaluate a person confined in the county jail for purposes of the person's care includes evaluating the person's need for medical attention. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8, Chapter 8; Title 29; Title 40 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| HB 2370 | Motor Vehicles - As introduced, requires the department of safety to report to the chairs of the transportation and safety committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over transportation matters, the number of persons who participated in the motorcycle rider education program and the types of expenses for which the funds in the motorcycle rider safety fund were used during the last three years. - Amends TCA Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| HJR 764 | Memorials, Recognition - Clara Parker - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| HB 577 | State Inmates - As enacted, increases the accreditation stipend provided to eligible counties for each convicted felon housed by the county. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 4, 2025 |
| HB 594 | Taxes, Sales - As enacted, increases, from two to four, the number of temporary sales periods that a bona fide religious institution may participate in and be exempt from registering to collect sales tax on sales directly to consumers made during such temporary sales period. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-102. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 578 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds certain criminal offenses to the list of dangerous felonies for purposes of the offense of possessing a firearm or antique firearm during commission or attempt to commit a dangerous felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 576 | Bonding, Surety and Professional - As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to bondsmen. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 8. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 528 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, makes changes to the law relative to professional bondsmen and agents of insurance companies making appearance bonds of a criminal nature. - Amends TCA Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1256 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises provisions of present law relative to placing certain defendants on a fugitives list for failure to appear. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 8, 2025 |
| HJR 694 | Memorials, Recognition - Benjamin and Lauren Neale, Rural Small Business of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| HJR 662 | Memorials, Recognition - Heather Ayres, Giles County Rehab Unit - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| HJR 661 | Memorials, Recognition - Bertha Mae Dees, posthumous winner of 2024 Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| HB 583 | Evidence - As enacted, permits the introduction into evidence of a video recording of a child victim being interviewed by a forensic interviewer regarding sexual or physically violent contact with the child if the forensic interviewer confirms the accuracy of the recording and the child is available for cross examination; makes other changes relative to forensic interviews. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 2, 2025 |
| HB 580 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, makes various changes regarding global positioning monitoring and the pretrial release of certain defendants. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 579 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds the offense of robbery to the definition of crime of violence. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 1257 | Expunction - As enacted, reorganizes present statutes concerning expunction and specifies that facilitation, attempt, or solicitation of an offense that is presently eligible for expunction is also eligible for expunction. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 16; Title 38; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 57. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 1056 | Education - As introduced, corrects the name of the Cumberland Museum and Science Center to the Adventure Science Center for purposes of receipt of appropriations of state funds made for educational grants-in-aid under allotments of the commissioner of finance and administration. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 14, 2025 |
| HB 574 | Election Laws - As introduced, requires acceptable forms of identification to cast a vote in an election in this state to be valid and unexpired; prohibits the registration of an applicant to vote without such a valid, unexpired identification. - Amends TCA Title 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 573 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, decreases from 150 grams to 50 grams or more the amount of any substance containing fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or any fentanyl derivative or analogue that is punished as a Class A felony for the knowing manufacture, delivery, or sale of the substance, or possession with intent to manufacture, deliver, or sell the substance. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 582 | Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, requires the bureau to classify offenders and determine whether the offender's offense qualifies as a sexual offense, violent sexual offense, or a violent juvenile sexual offense, and whether the offender is an offender against children; allows the bureau to rely on investigative reports, files of certain prosecutorial entities, court records, or other credible information to classify an offender; requires the bureau to notify the offender of the classification. - Amends TCA Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| HJR 150 | General Assembly, Directed Studies - Urges the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture to complete a comprehensive economic study about the effect of Bradford pear trees on agriculture and forestry in the State. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 7, 2025 |
| HB 581 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, prohibits the registry of election finance from charging a member of the public more than the registry's actual costs when providing a copy of a report regarding a required disclosure statement filed with the registry. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 39 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2025 |
| HR 69 | Memorials, Death - Keither "Dale" Hood - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 1, 2025 |
| HB 575 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, specifies that the administrative office of the courts may distribute to the courts electronically the discharge from conditions of release form that is required to be sent to law enforcement agencies by the court when a defendant upon whom conditions of release have been imposed is discharged or released from those conditions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 16; Title 18; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2025 |
| HB 648 | Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, authorizes a landlord to submit a single registration form for a multi-dwelling property with the agency or department of local government that is responsible for enforcing building codes in the jurisdiction if the property contains five or more dwelling units; authorizes local governments to require residential landlords to register with the local government. - Amends TCA Section 66-28-107. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| HB 593 | School Transportation - As introduced, extends the use of service of a conventional and Class D school bus from 200,000 miles to 230,000 miles. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |