Tennessee · Current officeholder
Tim Hicks
Republican Tennessee House, District 6
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Sponsored legislation
27 bills in the current data (27 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 1796 | Local Government, General - As enacted, enacts the "Essential Governmental Employee Housing Act of 2026"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1720 | Zoning - As enacted, authorizes certain counties to adopt a resolution prohibiting a municipality or regional zoning commission from exercising zoning authority outside of the boundaries of the municipality. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1690 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, prohibits the initial issuance of registration of a motor vehicle if the vehicle has not met the requirements of the Financial Responsibility Law of 1977, which provides insurance and financial responsibility requirements for motor vehicle operators; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 55 and Title 56. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1471 | Courts - As enacted, removes a conviction for domestic assault from the definition of a violent offender for purposes of drug treatment courts; changes the definition of a violent offender for purposes of drug treatment courts from an offender with a conviction for an offense involving certain acts to an offender with a conviction for a felony offense involving certain acts within the previous 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 22. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 658 | Athletic Trainers - As enacted, expands the scope of practice for athletic trainers by authorizing them to treat conditions that limit or prevent a person's participation in certain physical activities rather than just treating injuries that limit or prevent such participation; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 24. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 2130 | Professions and Occupations - As enacted, authorizes graduates of certain accredited engineering technology curriculums to apply for and become registered as engineers, provided, that such persons have prior engineering experience and meet certain examination requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 62, Chapter 2, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 1506 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, authorizes the executive director of or an attorney employed by the bureau of ethics and campaign finance to conduct a training program for members of the bureau and Tennessee ethics commission. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10, Part 2 and Title 3, Chapter 6, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 23, 2026 |
| HB 2409 | Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, adds an exception to the requirement that mineral and other interests in real property are assessed to the owner of the real property. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 16, 2026 |
| HB 1470 | Health Care - As enacted, prohibits a person from developing or deploying an artificial intelligence system that advertises or represents to the public that such system is or is able to act as a qualified mental health professional. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 47 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| HJR 1107 | Memorials, Death - Hobart L. "Coach" Powell, Sr. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 1, 2026 |
| HB 864 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires evidence of compliance with the financial responsibility law prior to registering vehicles; increases from $25 to $50 the coverage failure fee imposed by the department of revenue for the first failure to comply with the James Lee Atwood Jr. Law; increases that fee to $250 for a second failure to comply and to $500 for a third or subsequent failure to comply; allocates 50 percent of the fees to county clerks. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 55, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2026 |
| HJR 977 | General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Steven Emil Johnson, Fish and Wildlife Commission - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| HB 1837 | Real Property - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Private Property Vesting Rights of 2026," which entitles a property owner to just compensation from a public entity if the public entity enacts a land use regulation that has the effect of reducing the fair market value of the property. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 16. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| HB 867 | Women - As introduced, creates a pilot program to be administered by the bureau of TennCare to provide pregnant TennCare recipients improved maternal health care through remote patient monitoring for maternal hypertension and maternal diabetes. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| HJR 916 | Memorials, Death - Kenneth Harlan Green - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2026 |
| HJR 915 | Memorials, Death - Hobart L. "Coach" Powell, Sr. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2026 |
| HJR 914 | Memorials, Death - Tracy George Trott - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2026 |
| HB 1880 | Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, removes licensed attorneys who have practiced more than 20 years from the application of the professional privilege tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| HB 865 | Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, requires the board of nursing to permit a student to enroll in a practical nursing program offered by a public institution of higher education governed by the Tennessee board of regents if the student meets the qualifications for a high school diploma or its equivalent and meets other requirements; requires the board of nursing to permit a student enrolled in a practical nursing program to sit for the national council licensure exam for practical nurses (NCLEX-PN) upon completion of a practical nursing program. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 653 | Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, makes various changes to campaign finance laws and related laws. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 1181 | Taxes, Sales - As enacted, sets the end date at June 30, 2027, for the exemption from sales and use tax for purchases and leases of equipment and infrastructure used to produce broadband communications services or provide internet access. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6, Part 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 654 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, revises certain protocols for mental health and substance abuse services. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 30, 2025 |
| HB 657 | Health Care - As enacted, allows a healthcare provider to petition a relevant board after completing a peer assistance or treatment program contract to remove information from the public-facing licensure verification website regarding the adverse action and the order by the relevant board after five years from the completion date of that program or contract indicated in such order; authorizes the division of health related boards to promulgate rules to effectuate such petition process. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 655 | Special License Plates - As introduced, exempts new specialty earmarked license plates for which the funds are allocated to, and used by, a nonprofit organization to support state historic sites from meeting the minimum initial issuance requirement of 1,000 plates and the minimum issuance requirement of 800 plates upon renewal. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2025 |
| HB 652 | Zoning - As introduced, prohibits local governments or planning commissions from requiring more than one means of ingress and egress into a proposed subdivision unless the proposed subdivision has at least 70 residential dwellings. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 26, 2025 |
| HB 866 | Health Care - As introduced, requires a healthcare provider to provide to a patient or a patient's authorized representative a copy of the patient's medical records within 20 working days of receipt of a written request by the patient or representative instead of 10 working days. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 6, 2025 |
| HB 1007 | Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision that required the comptroller of the treasury, in conjunction with any appropriate TennCare drug utilization review committees, to study the use of prescription drugs in nursing homes and the costs of those prescription drugs for residents of nursing homes; to examine prescription use overall; to focus on any practices that would improve the quality of resident care while reducing costs to the TennCare program; and to report by January 1, 2005, to speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 6, 2025 |