Tennessee · Current officeholder
Ryan Williams
Republican Tennessee House, District 42
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Sponsored legislation
48 bills in the current data (48 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2491 | District Attorneys - As enacted, eliminates the fraud and economic crimes fees and assessments in criminal prosecutions for counties that have enacted a $12.50 court cost to be used for supplemental funding for the district attorney general's office; requires existing funds in fraud and economic crimes prosecution fund to be remitted back to the county government of original assessment and collection. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2290 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, requires each fertility clinic operating in this state to obtain a certificate from the department of health to perform assisted reproductive technology services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 36; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2204 | Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires TACIR to conduct a study of the salaries and other benefits paid to state and local law enforcement officers in this state; authorizes the commissioner of safety to establish a hazardous duty designation for members of the highway patrol that may be used to authorize additional compensation for designated members. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 38. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2196 | Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes Putnam County and incorporated cities within the county to regulate sober living homes for recovery from alcohol, drug, and substance abuse to the extent such regulation complies with the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51, Part 26. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2172 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, imposes an additional 10 percent tax on a hemp-derived cannabinoid product's wholesale cost if the product is inhalable in cartridge form. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2026 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of intentionally moving, altering, destroying, or removing a monument the person knows, or reasonably should know, is a property corner monument, historic land surveying monument, or geodetic control monument. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 62, Chapter 18 and Title 66. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1951 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Grace Anne Sparks Coercive Suicide Prevention Law of 2026." - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2121 | Education - As enacted, enacts the "Better Spending, Better Schools Act of 2026." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 49 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 2093 | Managed Care Organizations - As enacted, prohibits a managed care organization from including a provision in the managed care organization's contract with a qualified nursing facility to provide medicaid nursing facility services, that permit actual or constructive termination by the MCO without cause, for convenience, or termination without specifying the grounds for termination; requires the bureau of TennCare, in conjunction with the department of commerce and insurance, to review and approve all standard contract templates used by MCOs for facility contracting to ensure compliance. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 68, Chapter 11 and Title 71, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 398 | Death - As enacted, authorizes, as of January 1, 2027, a licensed paramedic to make an actual determination and pronouncement of death; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 1892 | Real Property - As enacted, authorizes a tax increment agency to enter into a taxpayer agreement relative to a plan area after obtaining a written statement executed by each holder of an existing, previously recorded mortgage or deed of trust on the property securing indebtedness and in which each holder consents to the taxpayer agreement and indicates that the assessment does not constitute an event of default under the existing mortgage or deed of trust. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 23 and Title 67, Chapter 5. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 1816 | Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires the Tennessee opioid abatement council to allocate funds held in the opioid abatement fund in a certain manner. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 38 and Title 41. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| HJR 1659 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Lindsay Paige Thompson, Valedictorian, Monterey High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| HJR 1658 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kadence Saige Phillips, Salutatorian, Monterey High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| HJR 1657 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Dahee Yoon, Salutatorian, Cookeville High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| HJR 1656 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Camryn Claire Alley, Valedictorian, Cookeville High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| HJR 1655 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jacob Rawlston, Salutatorian, Highland Rim Academy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| HJR 1654 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cade Huff, Valedictorian, Highland Rim Academy - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| HJR 1653 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Abigail Brown, Third Honor, Upperman High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| HJR 1652 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Nicholas McCloud, Salutatorian, Upperman High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| HJR 1651 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Maureen O'Neil, Valedictorian, Upperman High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 11, 2026 |
| HB 1952 | Optometry - As enacted, redefines the practice of optometry. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1345 | Memorials, Interns - Eleanor Anne Schiller - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HB 1176 | Annexation - As introduced, specifies circumstances in which a referendum will not be required to effectuate annexation of territory; removes repealer provision for exceptions to the referendum requirement. - Amends TCA Section 6-51-104. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 23, 2026 |
| HB 2253 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, prohibits a juvenile adjudicated delinquent for conduct that, if committed by an adult, would constitute the offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence from purchasing or possessing a firearm until the juvenile reaches 25; prohibits a person appropriately licensed by the federal government from selling a firearm to a person who is ineligible to possess a firearm pursuant to any court order or under any law of this state; increases penalties for sexual exploitation of a minor offenses. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 21, 2026 |
| HJR 146 | Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article XI, Section 5 of the Constitution of Tennessee to authorize local boards of education to approve lotteries conducted by nonprofit school support organizations; requires that the net proceeds of the lottery’s revenues be allocated to the local education agency to be used for educational or extracurricular purposes. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2326 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, requires the state treasurer to allocate and deposit 10 percent of the investment income earned by the state pooled investment fund each fiscal year to the state highway fund. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-603. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2046 | TennCare - As introduced, directs the first $150 million of tax revenue generated by the health maintenance organization tax on or after July 1, 2026, to be utilized to draw down federal funds to reimburse a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant who is entitled to receive TennCare reimbursement for a CPT code for evaluation and management, obstetrics and gynecology, or anesthesia. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1171 | Taxes - As introduced, adds the office of legislative budget analysis as a recipient of the annual report submitted by the commissioner of revenue to the members of the committees of the house of representatives and the senate with subject matter jurisdiction over finance-related matters on franchise and excise tax credits claimed under present law. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2427 | Public Funds and Financing - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Transactional Gold and Silver Act," which recognizes gold and silver as legal tender for private transactions and, when accepted, for paying state and local taxes or fees; authorizes the creation of a secure bullion depository and an electronic payment system to support the use of gold and silver; exempts gold and silver transactions from state and local taxation. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2026 |
| HB 2224 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, requires the board of trustees of TCRS to include in its annual report to the general assembly a certification of the amount of normal contributions, accumulated liability contributions, and cost of living contributions required from the employer to meet the funding needs of retirements for state judges and attorneys general participating in Groups 1, 3, and 4 of the consolidated retirement system. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| HB 2493 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, applies the sales and use tax to advertising services purchased by or on behalf of a business entity that generates annual revenue in amount equal to or greater than $100 million. - Amends TCA Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 1427 | Putnam County - Subject to local approval, sets the salary of general session court judges at an amount equal to the amount received annually by the circuit court judges and chancellors as of September 1, 2030. - Amends Chapter 125 of the Private Acts of 1949; as amended. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 4, 2025 |
| HB 979 | Health Care - As enacted, establishes licensure of anesthesiologist assistants; revises provisions authorizing hospitals to employ certain licensed physicians for certain medical services. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 1177 | Criminal Procedure - As enacted, increases from 11 months and 29 days to two years from the date of arrest the time within which misdemeanor charges against a defendant who has been found incompetent must be retired unless the defendant is restored to competency; adds to present law that, when a defendant whose misdemeanor charges were retired due to a finding of incompetency is released into the community, the chief officer is required to notify the court of the defendant's discharge and provide the court and the sheriff with an outpatient treatment plan that accounts for the safety of the community. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 40 and Title 52. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 635 | Taxes, Excise - As enacted, authorizes, subject to certain provisions, a taxpayer, at the taxpayer's discretion, to add back to net earnings certain deductions and to subtract certain amounts. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-2006. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 8, 2025 |
| HJR 644 | Memorials, Recognition - NHC Cookeville, 2024 NHC Center of the Year - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 764 | Search & Seizure - As enacted, specifies that certain physical searches of students and searches of lockers, vehicles, and other property must be conducted by a school resource officer. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 1175 | Children - As enacted, allows a child care agency to lease or purchase underutilized property from local education agencies; classifies a child care family home as residential property for certain purposes, including zoning and building codes; permits a host-school's fire inspection and facilities to be sufficient for a child care agency's provisional license under the department of human services. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HJR 517 | Memorials, Heroism - Captain Barry "Butch" Wilmore - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 11, 2025 |
| HB 987 | Taxes, Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, requires cigarettes that are defined as heated tobacco products to be taxed at a rate of 0.15 cents per cigarette. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 526 | Taxes, Business - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to change the due date of the taxpayer's business tax return to a date that is not less than 60 calendar days, rather than two calendar months, following the end of the taxpayer's business tax period for purposes of the commissioner changing a taxpayer's business tax period to correspond to the taxpayer's fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 1173 | Purchasing and Procurement - As introduced, authorizes local governments to purchase goods and services directly, without bid or quotations, from vendors awarded general services administration (GSA) schedule contracts at prices equal to the vendor's current GSA schedule price. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 27, 2025 |
| HJR 389 | Memorials, Personal Occasion - Velma Christine Tidwell Bates, 100th birthday - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 25, 2025 |
| HB 651 | Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits a health insurance entity or TennCare MCO from including an all-products clause in a network participation agreement with a healthcare provider, and makes certain other changes related to MCO network adequacy. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 19, 2025 |
| HB 945 | Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to report to the chairs of legislative committees having jurisdiction over health-related matters on the standards and policies for assisted reproductive technology in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 36; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| HB 1174 | Boards and Commissions - As introduced, vacates and reconstitutes the Tennessee board of water quality, oil and gas effective July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 69, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| HB 1172 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires the district attorneys general conference to compile a yearly report detailing convictions made pursuant to the Terrorism Prevention and Response Act of 2002 during the previous year; requires the report to be provided to the general assembly no later than January 15 each year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 58. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 12, 2025 |