Tennessee · Current officeholder
Rusty Grills
Republican Tennessee House, District 77
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Sponsored legislation
47 bills in the current data (47 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2650 | Obion County - Subject to local approval, clarifies that the county highway superintendent of the county highway department be appointed by the county commission pursuant to state law. - Amends the private acts of Obion County. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2251 | Judges and Chancellors - As enacted, creates a pilot project to provide for criminal magistrates in the 10 counties in which the criminal courts experience the highest judicial caseload, if authorized by the legislative body of an eligible county; authorizes the judges of the county with criminal jurisdiction to appoint the criminal magistrate, who shall serve at the pleasure of the majority of the judges of the county with criminal jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 17 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 1985 | Professions and Occupations - As enacted, adds that a managed services provider that provides direct sales, installation, or maintenance service for an IP camera connected to the managed services provider's network; derives less than 25 percent of the managed services provider's gross annual revenue from those services; and provides proof of employee vetting satisfactory to the commissioner is specifically excluded from the requirements of the Alarm Contractors Licensing Act. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 32. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 1986 | Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires a county incurring expenses pursuant to a criminal prosecution to provide an invoice of the expenses imposed on the county to the department; requires, within 60 days of receiving an invoice, the department to pay the amount of the invoiced expenses permitted by law to the county. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 1980 | Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, allows the court to temporarily revoke a defendant's bond and order the defendant held without bail for no more than 10 days pending a bail revocation hearing if the defendant violates a condition of release, is charged with an offense committed during the defendant's release, or engages in conduct that results in the obstruction of the orderly and expeditious progress of the trial. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 11. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 803 | Sewage - As enacted, makes revision to present law concerning sewerage systems using land application; exempts Hamilton County from the provisions requiring the developer of a subdivision or neighborhood that proposes to construct a treatment works to submit an application to the utility serving the area in which the system is located. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 62, Chapter 2; Title 65; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 1982 | Professions and Occupations - As enacted, decreases from 18 to 16, the minimum age an individual must be to apply for a license to be a bid caller auctioneer. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 19. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2252 | Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to promulgate rules to implement and administer a voluntary program for the promotion of meat and byproducts from livestock raised in Tennessee, which may be labeled with an appropriate statement that indicates the meat or byproduct is a Tennessee meat or byproduct. - Amends TCA Title 43; Title 44 and Title 53. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 4, 2026 |
| HJR 1341 | Memorials, Sports - Dyersburg High School Lady Trojans, 2026 TSSAA Division I, Class AAA basketball state champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HB 1981 | State Symbols - As enacted, designates Lake County as the "Eagle Capital of Tennessee." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 27, 2026 |
| HR 195 | Memorials, Recognition - Stanley Gordon Jones II - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1189 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, renames enhanced and concealed handgun carry permits as enhanced and concealed firearm carry permits and authorizes a permit holder to carry any firearms, rather than handguns, that the permit holder legally owns or possesses. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7; Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50; Title 57; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2026 |
| HB 2472 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, defines "criminally negligent conduct,” as used in the offense of criminally negligent homicide, to include failing or refusing to render aid to another person who is unconscious or in need of medical care and the person failing to act knows or reasonably should know that the unconsciousness or need for medical care occurred after the consumption of any controlled substance. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| HB 2513 | Tourist Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires a copy of an annual audit report prepared by certain organizations under the department to be submitted to the legislative librarian. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 11; Title 13; Title 24; Title 36; Title 39; Title 42; Title 43; Title 47; Title 49; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 1983 | Water Authorities - As introduced, establishes that public water systems have a maximum allowable hardwater level of 180 mg/L, measured as calcium carbonate equivalents; creates compliance and reporting requirements; exempts measurements that exceed the limit due to seasonal runoff in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 1301 | Civil Procedure - As introduced, revives causes of action based on a sexual assault that occurred when the injured party was 18 years of age or older and are time-barred because the applicable statute of limitations has expired; allows such actions to be commenced within a certain time period. - Amends TCA Title 28, Chapter 3; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2512 | Education - As introduced, requires the state to elect to participate in the federal tax credit established under federal law for individuals who make qualified contributions to scholarship granting organizations. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 809 | Pest Control - As introduced, specifies that a manufacturer or seller of a pesticide registered with the commissioner of agriculture and with the environmental protection agency under the federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) is not liable in a civil action related to the labeling of the pesticide, if the pesticide bore a label approved by the EPA under FIFRA at the time of sale. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 22, 2026 |
| HB 324 | Governor - As enacted, prohibits orders, proclamations, or rules issued by the governor under the governor's emergency management powers from contravening, suspending, or conflicting with a provision of the Tennessee Constitution; restricts governor's ability under such powers to suspend certain procedural provisions of a law, order, rule, or regulation. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 58, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | June 4, 2025 |
| HB 804 | Food and Food Products - As enacted, prohibits labeling a cell-cultured food product as meat or a meat food product. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39; Title 40; Title 43; Title 44; Title 47 and Title 53. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 802 | State Employees - As enacted, classifies as state employees for purposes of defense and other related provisions, soil and water conservation district board of supervisors, employees, officers, and agents, and persons designated by a soil and water conservation district as participants in volunteer programs authorized by such districts. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 42 and Title 9, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 799 | Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, directs the commission to promulgate rules to create and issue guide licenses for persons who work as guides at Reelfoot Lake. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 811 | Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, allows a charitable organization that provides housing to a person whom the charitable organization knows is unlawfully present in the United States to be held liable for a loss, damages, injury, or death resulting from a criminal offense committed by the person who is unlawfully present in the United States while the person is receiving housing services from the charitable organization if the charitable organization's conduct in providing housing constitutes negligence, gross negligence, or willful and wanton misconduct. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 34. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HJR 701 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jody Prater, Dyer County Schools Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| HJR 700 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Hailey Johnson, Dyer County Schools Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| HJR 699 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Malissa Flagg, Dyer County High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2025 |
| HJR 655 | Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee District Council of the Assemblies of God - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2025 |
| HJR 622 | Memorials, Recognition - Child Abuse Prevention Month - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 621 | Memorials, Recognition - Marilyn and Vernon Holmes - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 620 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dan Rodamaker - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 619 | Memorials, Recognition - The I AM Fitness Training - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 810 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes utility terrain vehicles to operate on county roads and state highways throughout the state, subject to certain restrictions. - Amends TCA Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 805 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, requires the TCRS board of trustees to divest the retirement system from investment activity it has in a company known to be majority-owned by China; requires a local governing body to divest its political subdivision pension plan from investment activity it has in a company known to be majority-owned by China. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 15. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HB 1188 | Education - As enacted, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, or religion against a student or an employee in a public institution of education; requires public institutions of education to treat harassment or discrimination against students or employees, or resulting from institutional policies or programs on their campuses, motivated by or including antisemitic intent in an identical manner to discrimination motivated by race; requires Title VI coordinators to be designated to monitor antisemitic discrimination and harassment at K-12 schools and institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HR 138 | Memorials, Recognition - Dyersburg State Community College, SOAR Awards College of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 22, 2025 |
| HJR 656 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jon Keeling - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2025 |
| HJR 514 | Memorials, Death - John Hamilton - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 15, 2025 |
| HB 801 | Codes - As enacted, clarifies that, as of July 1, 2025, the roof solar reflectance and thermal emittance requirements of the International Energy Conservation Code for low-sloped roofs do not apply to the 2021 International Code Council adoption; authorizes the state fire marshal to promulgate rules to that effect. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 120. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| HJR 385 | Memorials, Recognition - Dyer County Rescue Squad, 50th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 7, 2025 |
| HJR 328 | Memorials, Recognition - Holden Farms, U.S. Poultry and Egg Association's Family Farm Environmental Excellence Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 26, 2025 |
| HB 808 | County Government - As introduced, authorizes a county to forgo the automatic compensation increase for county officers if the department of economic and community development determines that the county experienced substantial characteristics of economic distress in the preceding fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 24. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| HB 798 | Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to make the catalog of materials on source reduction and recycling created by the department available on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68, Chapter 211. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 12, 2025 |
| HB 1152 | Schools, Home - As introduced, eliminates various requirements for parents conducting a home school if the parent provides a normed curriculum to their child at home; prohibits this state from regulating, overseeing, or otherwise imposing requirements on a home school parent or student unless the home school parent or student is participating in a state program or applies for and receives state funds. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| HB 685 | Pest Control - As introduced, changes, from June 30 to July 15, the date on which a pesticide product's annual registration with the department of agriculture expires. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 28; Title 43, Chapter 8; Title 53, Chapter 1; Title 53, Chapter 7; Title 62, Chapter 21 and Title 68, Chapter 212. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 10, 2025 |
| HB 807 | Telecommunications - As introduced, removes a requirement that the comptroller report to the general assembly, not later than January 31, 2008, with recommendations regarding whether the pilot project that authorized certain municipal electric systems to provide services beyond their service area with certain limitations should be continued or expanded to other systems. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 35, Chapter 8, Part 1; Section 37-10-204; Section 38-6-121; Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 6, 2025 |
| HB 806 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, renames enhanced and concealed handgun carry permits as enhanced and concealed firearm carry permits and authorizes a permit holder to carry any firearms, rather than handguns, that the permit holder legally owns or possesses. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7; Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50; Title 57; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 70. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 5, 2025 |
| HB 800 | Education - As introduced, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or marital status against a student or an employee in a public institution of education; requires public institutions of education to treat harassment or discrimination against students or employees, or resulting from institutional policies or programs on their campuses, motivated by or including antisemitic intent in an identical manner to discrimination motivated by race; requires Title VI coordinators to be designated to monitor antisemitic discrimination and harassment at K-12 schools and institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 5, 2025 |