Tennessee · Current officeholder
Debra Moody
Republican Tennessee House, District 81
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Sponsored legislation
20 bills in the current data (20 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 1733 | Students - As enacted, creates a criminal offense for certain school employees who intentionally engage in bullying or cyberbullying of a student; clarifies that a teacher or school employee of a local education agency who is found to have committed an act of harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyberbullying is subject to dismissal or suspension. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HJR 1610 | Memorials, Public Service - Colleen Curtis - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HB 1679 | Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, expands the disposition allowed when a person under 21 is found to have unlawfully purchased, possessed, accepted receipt of, or presented fraudulent proof of age to purchase tobacco, smoking hemp, a vapor product, or a smokeless nicotine product to include requiring community service work, the successful completion of a prescribed court program, or placing the person on an informal adjustment for a period of 90 days for a first violation, and, for a second or subsequent violation, placing the person on probation for up to six months in addition to requiring community service and the successful completion of a prescribed court program focusing on the dangers of tobacco and vapor products. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 4, 2026 |
| HB 1804 | Mason - Subject to local approval, revises the charter of the Town of Mason to provide grounds for vacating certain offices, to prescribe the oath for office; to fix the time, place, and notice requirements for meetings of the board of mayor and aldermen, to establish the rules of procedure for meetings, to prescribe additional duties of the mayor and the board, to provide for the administration of government and personnel, to prescribe the duties of the town administrator and town attorney, to prescribe the budget process, and to make various other changes. - Amends Chapter 120 of the Private Acts of 1915; as amended and rewritten. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| HB 1645 | Tipton County - Subject to local approval, authorizes the legislative body of Tipton County to designate a division of the county's general sessions court as the environmental court to hear cases involving the alleged violation of any ordinance relating to health, housing, fire, land subdivision, building, or zoning. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| HB 2275 | Education - As enacted, creates a safe school design advisory board to recommend to the commissioner of commerce and insurance safe school design guidelines for LEAs and public charter schools to consider when constructing or remodeling K-12 public school facilities. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7; Title 49; Title 62, Chapter 35 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2026 |
| HB 1735 | Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As enacted, makes various changes to the TISA review committee, including, but not limited to, clarifying that the committee may convene a meeting with a majority of all members present, including one or more designees, but a quorum of all voting members of the committee is required to transact any business requiring a formal vote of the committee. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-113. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2026 |
| HB 181 | Judicial Districts - As enacted, extends the date by which the advisory task force to review composition of judicial districts has to complete its findings and publish a proposed statewide judicial redistricting plan; extends the date by which the general assembly must reapportion the judicial districts in accordance with such plan. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 27, 2026 |
| HJR 1328 | Memorials, Recognition - Tabernacle Kinfolks Camp Meeting, 200th gathering - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2026 |
| HB 1734 | Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to record, by audio recording or video recording, all interviews of children conducted by department employees as part of the department's investigation of claims of abuse or dependency and neglect. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 24; Title 37 and Title 38. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| HB 1422 | Mason - Subject to local approval, authorizes the town to appoint a town administrator; requires the town administrator to perform some of the duties previously performed by the mayor. - Amends Chapter 120 of the Private Acts of 1915; as amended and rewritten. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 16, 2026 |
| HB 2183 | Elder Abuse - As introduced, extends from 10 to 20 days, the time within which a court must schedule a hearing on a petition to freeze the funds of a criminal defendant charged with financial exploitation of an elderly or vulnerable adult involving the taking more than $5,000 of property while the criminal proceeding is pending for purposes of restitution to the victim. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 9, 2026 |
| HB 1421 | Tipton County - Subject to local approval, establishes litter abatement and control requirements. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 4, 2025 |
| HB 787 | DUI Offenses - As enacted, creates a distance to drive program study committee to help determine the feasibility of implementing a distance to drive program that would facilitate reinstatement of suspended and revoked driver licenses for criminal defendants based on meeting the objectives set by the court and completing all the requirements set by the department of safety. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 1010 | District Attorneys - As enacted, authorizes a district attorney general, on the consent of the district attorney general of any other judicial district, to specially appoint another district attorney general, or an assistant to that district attorney general, to conduct specific proceedings under title 8, chapter 47, regarding removal of officers, which the district attorney general is authorized by law to conduct in that district. - Amends TCA Title 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1009 | Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, increases the amount of the reimbursement that is paid under the provisions for property tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners from the first $175,000 of the full market value of the home to the first $250,000 of the full market value. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-704. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 1067 | State Employees - As introduced, requires an employee in the preferred service system to file an appeal regarding an adverse employment action to the board of appeals not later than 10 days rather than 14 days after the date the employee became aware, or should have reasonably became aware, of the adverse action. - Amends TCA Section 8-30-318. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| HB 180 | Municipal Government - As introduced, expands the criteria for real property that is eligible for the property owner to petition a municipality to deannex. - Amends TCA Section 6-51-201. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 12, 2025 |
| HB 345 | Abortion - As introduced, adds the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over criminal justice-related matters to whom the department of health shall submit a report of each abortion procedure and the disposition of the aborted fetus or aborted fetal tissue to no later than January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Section 39-15-203. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2025 |
| HB 147 | Tourism - As introduced, requires a tourism development authority to file its annual audit and report with the members of the general assembly who represent the municipality that granted permission to the authority to organize; authorizes the audit and report to be filed electronically. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 16, 2025 |