Tennessee · Current officeholder
Scott Cepicky
Republican Tennessee House, District 64
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Sponsored legislation
82 bills in the current data (82 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 519 | State Government - As enacted, terminates the James K. Polk Memorial Association and requires the Tennessee historical commission to enter into good faith negotiations for the purchase and transfer of the James K. Polk Home in Columbia. - Amends TCA Title 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2277 | Education - As enacted, makes various revisions to education law, including, but not limited to, requiring each public school to annually submit to the department of education a list of all local assessments administered to students, requiring the department to publish the percentage of students who attain proficiency for the English language arts portion of the TCAP, and establishing the assessment review board to annually review the TCAP tests administered to students in the most recent school year. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2000 | Schools, Charter - As enacted, allows private postsecondary institutions, including those that are religiously affiliated, to operate a public charter school; allows such institutions to apply to the local board of education or directly to the Tennessee public charter school commission to open a public charter school and to give an enrollment preference to children of the institution's employees or members of its governing body in the same manner afforded to public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1885 | Gambling - As enacted, clarifies that gambling, the operation or possession of gambling devices, and the operation, conducting, or commercial promoting of online sweepstakes games and other forms of online or app-based gambling are unlawful and a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act; expands the authority of the sports wagering council to investigate illegal gambling and gaming activity; expands the investigative authority of the attorney general to investigate unlawful activity within the purview of the attorney general. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8, Chapter 6, Part 4; Title 40, Chapter 2 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1886 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each LEA and public charter school to adopt an internet acceptable use policy; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 2276 | Education - As enacted, revises law concerning math education; requires the state board of education, in developing and adopting a uniform grading system for students in grades 9-12, to include in such system the high school course grades achieved by students in eighth grade; specifies that the uniform grading system for students in grades K-8 must include K-8 course work. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 29 | Chiropractors - As enacted, requires certain insurers to reimburse chiropractic physicians at the same rate as physicians for the same services. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 7 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 14, 2026 |
| HR 7001 | Memorials, Recognition - Luemma McWilliams - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 7, 2026 |
| HB 1884 | State Government - As enacted, prohibits a state agency from issuing or renewing a certification, registration, license, or permit to a corporate entity if an officer, director, or employee of the entity provides material support or resources, meeting spaces, or other forums to certain terrorist groups or organizations for the purpose of soliciting material support or recruiting new members; requires a state agency to deny, revoke, or refuse or renew a certification, registration, license, or permit issued to such entities upon receipt of satisfactory proof of such activity. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 48 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 1833 | Education, Higher - As enacted, divides the appointing authority for the nine voting members of the Tennessee higher education commission among the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives equally; establishes various tuition and fee limitations and requirements for public institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 14; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 1, 2026 |
| HJR 1408 | Memorials, Retirement - Judge Bobby Sands - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HJR 1351 | Memorials, Recognition - Mariela Dominguez, Boys & Girls Club of South Central Tennessee Youth of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HB 1960 | Education - As enacted, changes, from the department of education to the state board of education upon the recommendation of the department, the party responsible for selecting the intervention option for priority schools receiving tier three interventions through the progressive tiered intervention system. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2026 |
| HB 1497 | Election Laws - As introduced, requires the legislative body of each municipality to change the date of municipal elections to coincide with the August primary or November general election; makes municipal elections partisan; standardizes the election timetable for referendums for the incorporation of a new municipality. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 22, 2026 |
| HB 912 | Education - As introduced, deletes an obsolete section requiring the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee to, by December 15, 2014, perform a study on the economic feasibility of creating and utilizing a statewide comprehensive energy policy and submit its final report to the energy task force of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2026 |
| HR 184 | Memorials, Death - Edward Allen Hickman - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 7, 2026 |
| HB 1194 | Employees, Employers - As enacted, defines, for purposes of the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act, a "private employer" as any person who is required by federal law and regulations to report remuneration paid to at least one employee; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 30, 2026 |
| HB 1466 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each LEA and public charter school to administer the Presidential Fitness Test to students to assess their strength, endurance, and flexibility. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 23, 2026 |
| HB 25 | Education - As enacted, generally provides that a middle school student or high school student who transfers from one member school to another is immediately eligible to participate in interscholastic athletics at the member school to which the student transfers if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 16, 2026 |
| HJR 979 | Memorials, Retirement - Lieutenant Colonel Brian E. Celatka - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HJR 66 | General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Encourages each local education agency that operates a high school to participate in the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery Career Exploration Program and make the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery tests widely available to all high school students in Tennessee. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 3, 2026 |
| HJR 843 | Memorials, Recognition - Dr. Rufus R. Clifford, Jr. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 12, 2026 |
| HR 145 | Memorials, Recognition - Lafayette Chapter #4 Royal Arch Masons of Tennessee, Bicentennial - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 4, 2026 |
| HB 1512 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to publish the character education curriculum on the LEA's website. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 14, 2026 |
| HB 1511 | Education, Curriculum - As introduced, clarifies that local education agencies and public charter schools shall instruct students about the formation of the governments of the United States and Tennessee using federal and state foundational documents at the appropriate grade level and consistent with social studies standards adopted by the state board. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 14, 2026 |
| HB 1076 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, decreases from 30 to 21 days, the amount of time each insurer of personal risk insurance must file with the commissioner of commerce and insurance before the proposed effective date of all rates, supplementary rate information, supporting information, policy forms, and endorsements. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | January 14, 2026 |
| HB 919 | Boards and Commissions - As enacted, makes various revisions to the governing boards of public higher education institutions. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 1192 | General Assembly, Directed Studies - As enacted, directs TACIR to conduct a study and prepare a report on recommendations on the continuum of care in this state and how the continuum of care can be improved; requires the study and report to survey the continuum of care in other states and compare such care to the continuum of care in this state; requires TACIR to submit the report. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 85 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, increases, from 130 minutes per full school week to 40 minutes per school day, the minimum amount of physical activity required for elementary school students; establishes additional requirements for the minimum amount of physical activity required for elementary school students. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 708 | Education, State Board of - As enacted, expands the state board's power to subpoena the appearance of persons or the production of items the chair of the state board, or the chair's designee, considers material or relevant to an accountability hearing for a local education agency operating a public school, or a public charter school, receiving a "D" or "F" letter grade. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1; Title 49, Chapter 3 and Title 49, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 665 | Education - As enacted, requires each public senior high school to provide official recruiting representatives of the armed forces of this state and the United States access to the high school at least once a month during student lunch periods for the purpose of informing students of educational and career opportunities available in the military and at least once every other month when school is in session to provide further information to students who have expressed interest; provides additional related access. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1193 | Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to conduct a landscape analysis of teacher evaluation practices in this state and other states; requires the department to convene a teacher evaluation advisory committee to review and evaluate current teacher evaluation practices in this state; requires the department and the state board to provide the education committee of the senate and committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over teacher evaluations a final report on the landscape analysis, teacher evaluation advisory committee's recommendations, and any department or state board recommendations by January 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HJR 606 | Memorials, Sports - Columbia State Chargers, TCCAA champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 921 | Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, authorizes the commission to regulate the operation of sport shooting ranges rather than firing ranges; authorizes the Tennessee wildlife resources agency to establish fees for the use of such ranges in operation prior to July 1, 1998. - Amends TCA Title 70. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HJR 584 | Memorials, Sports - Columbia Academy, 2024 TSSAA Division II, Class A girls' cross country state champions - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| HB 62 | Athletic Trainers - As enacted, authorizes athletic trainers to use dry needling to carry out the practice of prevention, recognition, evaluation, management, disposition, treatment, or rehabilitation of athletic injuries; requires the board of athletic trainers to establish minimum competency requirements for an athletic trainer to demonstrate in order to practice dry needling. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 8, 2025 |
| HJR 380 | Memorials, Recognition - Ava Grayson Sykes, 2025 Mule Day Court Fourth Runner-Up - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 7, 2025 |
| HJR 379 | Memorials, Recognition - Maya Keeton, 2025 Mule Day Court Third Runner-Up - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 7, 2025 |
| HJR 378 | Memorials, Recognition - Phynlee Ryan Keeling, 2025 Mule Day Court Second Runner-Up - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 7, 2025 |
| HJR 377 | Memorials, Recognition - Shae Klamert, 2025 Mule Day Court First Runner-Up - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 7, 2025 |
| HJR 376 | Memorials, Recognition - Colbey Dawn Fritts, 2025 Mule Day Queen - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2025 |
| HJR 313 | Memorials, Recognition - Anat Sultan-Dadon, Consul General of Israel to Southeastern United States - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 19, 2025 |
| HR 45 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brandon Skelton, Northfield Academy Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 44 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jessica Cooper, Mt. Pleasant Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 43 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Anna Arnold, Maury County Public Schools and Mt. Pleasant High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 42 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Sarah Spears, Mt. Pleasant Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 41 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amy Burnett, Howell Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 40 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Joseph Smylie, Horace A. Porter School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 39 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Abby Price, Highland Park Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 38 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Alexa Spears, Hampshire Unit School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 37 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Beth Marks, Hampshire Unit School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 36 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bethany Ring, Hampshire Unit School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 35 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Devin Staggs, Culleoka Unit School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 34 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Myra Sharp, Culleoka Unit School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 33 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Lindsay Weaver, Culleoka Unit School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 32 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Angela Jones, Cox Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 31 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Andrea Birdsong, Central High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 30 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Melissa Andrews, Brown Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 29 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brittany Morse, Battle Creek Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 28 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kate Sneed, Battle Creek High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 27 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Caitlyn Flaherty, Battle Creek Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 26 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Ashtyn Beasley, Baker Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 25 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Melissa Joslin, Wright Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 24 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Bryant Pratt, Woodard Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 23 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Tammy Scharrer, Whitthorne Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 22 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Carolyn Keysaer, Virtual Academy Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 21 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Rachel McMahon, Spring Hill Middle School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 20 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jennifer Huffman, Spring Hill High School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 19 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jill Mitchell, Maury County Public Schools and Spring Hill Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 18 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jessica Hill, Santa Fe Unit School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 17 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brooke Davis, Maury County Public Schools and Santa Fe Unit School Grades 5-8 Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 16 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Shabahn Massey, Santa Fe Unit School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HR 15 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Lindsey Stowell, Riverside Elementary School Teacher of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 11, 2025 |
| HB 1230 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, changes a department's reporting requirement, regarding local education agencies' and public charter schools' compliance with notice to an association that regulates interscholastic athletics of a student's placement in foster care who is seeking to participate in interscholastic athletics, from annually to upon the request of the education committee of the senate or the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over education. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 12, 2025 |
| HB 1196 | Education, State Board of - As introduced, requires the state board to publish the curriculum implemented for the statewide drug abuse resistance education (DARE) program on the state board's website. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 12, 2025 |
| HB 1195 | Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires each local education agency (LEA) to publish the character education curriculum on the LEA's website. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 12, 2025 |
| HJR 65 | Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to pass the SCREEN Act, - | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 6, 2025 |
| HB 710 | Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, changes, from May 1 to June 1, the annual date before which the commission must publish the Tennessee postsecondary education fact book. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 6, 2025 |
| HB 709 | Education - As introduced, requires local boards of education to notify the department of education when a board declares its local eduction agency to be a high performing school district; requires the department to maintain a list of high performing school districts on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 6, 2025 |
| HB 63 | Tennessee Housing Development Agency - As introduced, creates within the agency the Housing Opportunity and Pathways to Education (HOPE) pilot program to provide support to homeless families and those at risk of homelessness. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 9; Title 13 and Title 71, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2025 |
| HB 13 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to adopt a policy to prohibit students from using wireless communication devices during instructional time except in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2025 |
| HB 11 | Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires the department of safety to redesign driver licenses, instruction permits, intermediate driver licenses, and photo identification cards issued to lawful permanent residents of the United States, and temporary driver licenses and permits and temporary photo identification licenses issued to qualified noncitizens, so that the licenses and permits may be easily distinguished from driver and photo identification licenses issued to residents of this state who are United States citizens. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |