Tennessee · Current officeholder
Lowell Russell
Republican Tennessee House, District 21
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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 1817 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises law relative to out-of-service orders issued to commercial drivers and related penalties. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65, Chapter 15. | Primary sponsor | In committee | June 18, 2026 |
| HJR 7007 | Memorials, Recognition - James Kenneth "J.K." Harrill - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 14, 2026 |
| HJR 1582 | Memorials, Heroism - Dustin Frank, Brian Fernandez, Anthony Blackwell, and Terry McConkey - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1520 | Memorials, Heroism - Dustin Frank, Brian Fernandez, Anthony Blackwell, and Terry McConkey - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1519 | Memorials, Retirement - Doug Gunnels - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1514 | Memorials, Heroism - Graham Tudor - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 1815 | Jails, Local Lock-ups - As enacted, authorizes a sheriff, jail administrator, or deputy jailer to refuse or delay acceptance into the jail of an arrestee if the arrestee has not received medical treatment for obvious serious physical injuries or conditions of an emergency nature; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8; Title 29; Title 40 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2026 |
| HB 1813 | Autopsies - As introduced, requires the expenses of an autopsy ordered by a district attorney general to be paid by this state. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 20, 2026 |
| HB 1818 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires boards of education that contract for transportation services with persons owning equipment to provide school transportation facilities to all students who live more than 1.5 miles by the nearest accessible route from the school to which they are assigned by the board of education and in which they are enrolled. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 50 and Title 55, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1027 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days a sheriff has to provide the department of safety with any information that is within the knowledge of the sheriff concerning an applicant's truthfulness on an application for an enhanced handgun carry permit. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1021 | Advertising - As introduced, requires just compensation to be paid for the acquisition or removal of an outdoor advertising device lawfully erected; prohibits the use of amortization to provide such just compensation. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 16 and Section 54-21-107. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1820 | County Officers - As introduced, requires a person elected or appointed to the office of constable on or after August 1, 2030, to have graduated from a Tennessee POST-approved certified law enforcement training academy; excludes a person who has held the office of constable for one complete term and is reelected to the office of constable on or after August 1, 2030, from the requirement of graduating from a Tennessee POST-approved certified law enforcement training academy. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 8 and Title 38. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 6, 2026 |
| HJR 1077 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Edyth Ann Worthy, 100th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 26, 2026 |
| HJR 1076 | Memorials, Retirement - Major Stacey Heatherly - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 26, 2026 |
| HB 1814 | DUI Offenses - As introduced, allows a person convicted of driving under the influence of an intoxicant involving alcohol or opioids to agree to receive naltrexone injections at the person's own expense for a period of 12 continuous months in lieu of being required to operate only a motor vehicle equipped with an ignition interlock device. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| HB 1812 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds the advisement or encouragement to commit suicide to the offense of assisted suicide under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2026 |
| HJR 1064 | Memorials, Death - Thomas Cory Myers Gunnels - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 1022 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, specifies that for purposes of carrying out a sentence of death, lethal injection protocol may include the use of pharmaceutical fentanyl. - Amends TCA Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2164 | Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, allows the Tellico Village Property Owners Association's water and wastewater utility services to be placed under the jurisdiction of the Tennessee board of utility regulation. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 82, Part 7 and Title 65, Chapter 4, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 1831 | Public Records - As introduced, creates an offense for using or selling an individual's personal identifying information obtained from a governmental entity for commercial use, punishable as a Class B misdemeanor. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 1832 | Driver Licenses - As introduced, authorizes the department of safety to issue a for-hire endorsement to operate a Class D vehicle to an applicant who would otherwise qualify for a for-hire endorsement but for the requirement of at least two years of unrestricted driving prior to the date of application if the applicant has completed a sentence of incarceration after conviction for an offense and currently has a restricted license for unpaid fines and court costs and is making payments in accordance with a payment plan. - Amends TCA Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| HJR 755 | Memorials, Death - Thomas Myers "Cory" Gunnels - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| HB 1821 | Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, states that a person who has not been convicted of a violent, felony crime and who is lawfully able to own or to possess a firearm under the Constitution of Tennessee is considered to be individually licensed and verified by this state within the meaning of the provisions regarding individual licensure and verification in the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| HB 1819 | Sentencing - As introduced, increases the penalty for failing to stop at the scene of an accident when the person knew or should reasonably have known that death resulted from the accident by requiring a mandatory period of confinement of not less than one year and a minimum fine of $10,000. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| HB 1020 | Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, specifies that a law enforcement officer who causes property damage to or inflicts personal injury upon a person during the course of the law enforcement officer's official duties is immune from civil liability if at the time the damage or injury occurred, the person suffering the injury or damage was engaged in conduct that resulted in the person being convicted of the offense of resisting a stop, frisk, halt, arrest, or search of the person. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 2, 2025 |
| HJR 597 | Memorials, Recognition - Fort Loudoun Electric Cooperative, 85th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 1025 | Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, requires suspension of a minor's driving privileges or ability to obtain a driver license for a period of one year as part of the disposition if a minor is adjudicated delinquent for an act that would constitute the offense of harassment by bullying or cyber-bullying. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 7. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HJR 519 | Memorials, Retirement - Officer Robert A. Jackson - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 15, 2025 |
| HJR 518 | Memorials, Public Service - Teresa J. "TJ" Sutton - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 15, 2025 |
| HB 1023 | Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires an enforcement officer to issue an out-of-service order to a driver issued a commercial driver license if the officer determines during a safety inspection that the driver is unable to read and speak the English language in violation of federal requirements for commercial driver license holders; applies penalties against employers of such drivers. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65, Chapter 15. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 14, 2025 |
| HJR 482 | Memorials, Retirement - Danny Everhart - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 1426 | Loudon - Subject to local approval, authorizes the City to regulate construction, maintenance, and operation of public utilities, and assess fees for the use and impact of such services; authorizes the City to establish, maintain, and regulate certain infrastructure, public grounds, and public facilities, assess fees for the use of or impact upon such property and facilities, and condemn property for such purposes in accordance with state law. - Amends Chapter 74 of the Private Acts of 1975; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 2, 2025 |
| HJR 360 | Memorials, Recognition - Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians' efforts to reclaim land - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 1, 2025 |
| HJR 358 | Memorials, Recognition - Glioblastoma Cancer Awareness Day - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 1, 2025 |
| HB 1024 | Forfeiture of Assets - As introduced, increases the burden of proof required to be met by the state in civil asset forfeiture proceedings from a preponderance of evidence standard to a clear and convincing evidence standard. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 33. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 1, 2025 |
| HJR 359 | Memorials, Heroism - Sergeant Cody Manders, Monroe County Sheriff''s Office - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 19, 2025 |
| HB 1026 | Expunction - As introduced, permits the expunction of a Class E felony conviction for official misconduct. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 32. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| HJR 232 | Memorials, Recognition - Kamara Johnson, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| HJR 230 | Memorials, Recognition - Melanie Sloan, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| HB 1018 | Zoning - As introduced, requires, on and after July 1, 2025, a deed of conveyance of real property to include the zoning classification of the property at the time the deed is recorded; prescribes a process by which a local zoning authority may notify a state department, agency, or officer of a local zoning violation by a business resulting in the revocation or suspension of a license, permit, or certificate of a business in violation of a local zoning ordinance, resolution, or law; prescribes the process for reinstatement or appeal, including the assessment of a reinstatement fee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8, Chapter 13; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 62; Title 66 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 12, 2025 |
| HB 1019 | Public Records - As introduced, requires personal information of certain state and local officials to be maintained confidentially upon request; authorizes the release of such information by court order, subpoena, or pursuant to an active law enforcement investigation. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 11, 2025 |
| HB 1017 | Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires that all driver licenses and photo identification licenses be manufactured and printed in this state; requires the department of safety to review and determine the cost-effectiveness of having such licenses manufactured and printed by the department or another state department or agency or through a contract with a private vendor; requires that licenses be manufactured and printed in this state using the most cost-effective means. - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 55, Chapter 50. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 11, 2025 |
| HB 1028 | Medical Occupations - As introduced, deletes transitional language pertaining to the appointment and length of terms of members of the former board of medical examiners’ committee on physician assistants who were transferred to the new board of physician assistants in 2021, with the longest remaining term expiring in 2024; removes language limiting former committee members to a maximum of two consecutive four-year terms on the new board, inclusive of time as a member of the former committee. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 10, 2025 |
| HJR 36 | Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Air National Guard 134th Air Refueling Wing at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 4, 2025 |