Tennessee · Current officeholder
Mary Littleton
Republican Tennessee House, District 78
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Sponsored legislation
71 bills in the current data (71 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2080 | Lottery, Corporation - As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the board of directors of the Tennessee education lottery corporation; requires certain information maintained by the corporation to be subject to a public records request; terminates the lottery corporation on June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2079 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class E felony offense when a person, for the purpose of deriving a pecuniary benefit, engages in conduct intended to influence the occurrence or nonoccurrence of an event while the person, or another acting in active concert with the person, is a party to a contract traded on a prediction-market by which the person will derive such pecuniary benefit directly from the settlement of that contract based on the occurrence or a nonoccurrence of the event. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1878 | Industrial Development - As enacted, revises law relative to industrial development corporations. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 48. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1455 | Computers and Electronic Processing - As enacted, requires TACIR to study artificial intelligence and submit a report to the governor and both speakers by January 31, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 33; Title 39 and Title 47. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 2081 | Children - As enacted, adds the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services, and one at large member with experience advocating for children, to the Tennessee second look commission; revises certain severe and aggravated child abuse offenses to include offenses involving strangulation; authorizes a court to order a child's custodian to submit certain documentation of compliance with preventative pediatric care consistent with the periodicity schedule of the American Academy of Pediatrics in certain situations; authorizes the department of children's services to initiate a visit to ascertain the wellbeing of a child if such documentation contains allegations of abuse or neglect. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 26, 2026 |
| HB 2013 | Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, authorizes a law enforcement officer to cause to be administered a blood or urine test on a person for the presence of a psychotropic drug if such officer has probable cause to believe that the person committed a mass shooting and the person consents to such test; clarifies that if the person is a minor, then a parent or legal guardian must consent; directs the health science center to study the drug interactions between any drugs found in the person's blood or urine. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 40; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 1787 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the penalty for patronizing prostitution from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class B or Class A felony under certain circumstances that are currently punished as trafficking for a commercial sex act. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 18, 2026 |
| HB 1354 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes to law relative to human trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| HJR 1540 | Memorials, Recognition - Vice President Anna Beth Thompson, University of Tennessee's 105th year of SGA - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1539 | Memorials, Retirement - Dickson County Mayor Robert "Bob" Rial - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1517 | Memorials, Recognition - Mary Clement - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1516 | Memorials, Recognition - Robert Nelson Clement - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HJR 1515 | Memorials, Retirement - Dickson County Mayor Robert "Bob" Rial - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2350 | Foster Care - As enacted, requires the department of children's services to provide a copy of a petition to terminate parental rights for a child in the custody of the department to the child's foster parent, if the foster parent has served as the physical placement for the child for a period of nine or more consecutive months; requires the department to provide the required copy within seven days of the filing or being served with the petition. - Amends TCA Section 36-1-113 and Section 37-2-415. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2082 | Children - As enacted, specifies that a parent's or legal guardian's action of raising, guiding, or instructing the parent's or legal guardian's child in a manner consistent with the child's biological sex is not a basis for certain findings or actions by the court, does not constitute the criminal offense of child abuse, child neglect, or child endangerment, and must not be considered as a negative factor by a court in determining a custody arrangement in the best interest of the child. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6; Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 39, Chapter 15. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2014 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a person convicted of vehicular homicide proximately resulting from the person's intoxication to be punished as no lower than a Range II offender if the person, as a result of the same course of conduct, is also convicted of leaving the scene of the accident. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 2658 | White Bluff - Subject to local approval, authorizes persons who reside outside the boundaries of White Bluff but within the boundaries of Dickson County, and who own real property located within the boundaries of White Bluff, to vote in all White Bluff municipal elections; non-resident real property owners must own at least one-half interest in such real property, and such real property must be at least 5,000 square feet. - Amends Chapter 257 of the Private Acts of 1923; as amended and rewritten. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| HB 2657 | Ashland City - Subject to local approval, requires the position of mayor to be voted on by electors from the town at large; requires the position of councilman to be voted on by electors in their ward; requires elections to be nonpartisan; makes various other changes. - Amends Chapter 121 of the Private Acts of 2004; as amended. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 1, 2026 |
| HB 2626 | Cheatham County - Subject to local approval, requires the existing impact fee of $7,500 in Cheatham County, known as the Cheatham County Development Tax, to be allocated as follows: $3,500 to the county Education Debt Service Fund; $3,500 to the county Education Debt Service Fund reserved for school building construction and renovation; and $500 to the Highway and Public Works Fund. - Amends Chapter 28 of the Private Acts of 1997. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 1, 2026 |
| HB 2625 | Cheatham County - Subject to local approval, increases from six to seven the number of school districts and school board members in Cheatham County. - | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 1, 2026 |
| HJR 1349 | Memorials, Death - Stephanie Jan Halaiko Chivers - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 30, 2026 |
| HB 2352 | Court Rules - As enacted, requires each juvenile court, through the juvenile court clerk or juvenile court staff, each month within the statewide juvenile case management system prescribed by the administrative office of the courts to report to the administrative office of the courts each new dependency and neglect case, including for each child named in the petition, certain information. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2026 |
| HB 2351 | Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, revises various provisions regarding medication aides, including allowing for a student in good standing enrolled in an approved school of nursing to be eligible to receive a medication aide certificate. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2026 |
| HB 2188 | Children's Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department and the department of disability and aging to collaborate to ensure that children with an intellectual or developmental disability who are in the custody of the department of children's services or at risk of entering the custody of the department receive appropriate services and supports for individuals with a disability; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 33; Title 37 and Title 52. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2026 |
| HB 2012 | Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, creates a civil action for individuals who are the subject of an intimate image that is intentionally disclosed without the individual's consent under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2026 |
| HB 1786 | Boats, Boating - As enacted, creates the Class C misdemeanor offense of mooring a recreational vessel for more than 14 consecutive days at any one place along the water's edge of a reservoir or at any place within one mile of the water's edge; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2026 |
| HB 2349 | Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to create and maintain a website that includes certain information about child care agencies. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 21, 2026 |
| HJR 1160 | Memorials, Death - Shipp Robbley Weems - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2354 | Sentencing - As introduced, makes the offense of sexual battery by an authority figure ineligible for probation. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 2353 | Welfare - As introduced, clarifies that the department of human services must provide applicants with a written notice of temporary assistance eligibility determinations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1765 | Orders of Protection - As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony the penalty for the criminal offense of violation of an order of protection if the order violated was a lifetime order of protection and the conviction that the lifetime order of protection was based on involved the use of force against a victim. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HJR 939 | Memorials, Recognition - Taiwan - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 9, 2026 |
| HB 2104 | County Government - As introduced, increases from two to three days, the minimum notice period required for a county mayor to convene a special session of the county legislative body for emergency purposes. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2026 |
| HB 2083 | Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, expands the goals of zero to three court programs to include cases involving children five years of age or younger, with priority given to cases involving children younger than three years of age. - Amends TCA Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| HJR 1074 | Memorials, Recognition - Cheatham County, 170th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 26, 2026 |
| HJR 1027 | Memorials, Recognition - Local Emergency Management Agencies - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 2010 | Public Contracts - As introduced, requires a tire manufacturer or supplier responding to a solicitation to bid with this state, or who has an existing contract with this state, to indicate each tire, by product, and material number, that is manufactured with 100 percent French process zinc oxide. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 12. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HJR 913 | Memorials, Recognition - Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee (JAGTN) - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 27, 2026 |
| HB 2189 | Criminal Procedure - As introduced, requires the clerk of the court in which a person charged with a violent felony and for whom a biological specimen is taken for the purpose of DNA analysis to submit the clerk's notification to the TBI of the final disposition of the criminal proceeding against the person in writing. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 6; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | February 9, 2026 |
| HB 208 | Naming and Designating - As enacted, designates the National Guard Armory in Cheatham County as the "First Sergeant Charles Anderson Douglas National Guard Armory." - | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 1353 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates an offense for a person who harms or threatens to harm an individual involved in the judicial process or a family member of such person with the intent to impede, intimidate, interfere with, or retaliate against the justice system participant in connection with their participation in the judicial process, punishable as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 761 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, removes a definition of "content harmful to minors" from the Protect Tennessee Minors Act. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 314 | Treasurer, State - As enacted, sets the maximum award of compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act of 1976 at 105% of the national average of the maximum compensation award provided by the 50 states within the United States, the District of Columbia, and the United States Virgin Islands, rounded up to the nearest $100; requires the state treasurer to publish on the department of treasury website the maximum compensation award for claims filed for crimes occurring on or after July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Section 29-13-106. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1360 | Child Abuse - As enacted, expands the definition of child abuse to include a person under the age of 18 witnessing either the abuse of another child in the person's immediate family or household or domestic abuse of a member of the person's immediate family or household; specifies that reunification between a parent and a child placed in foster care due to abuse must not occur unless the parent has complied with the parent's statement of responsibilities in the permanency plan and the child has received mental health counseling. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1359 | Foster Care - As enacted, requires the department of children's services, to the extent not otherwise prohibited by state or federal law, to promulgate rules to implement certain rights for any foster child in the custody of the department or an agency that contracts with the department to place children in foster care. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 49 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1357 | Children - As enacted, enacts the "End Childhood Hunger Act." - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1356 | Vital Records - As enacted, requires certain records or papers for a person relating to the adoption or attempted adoption of a person in the possession of the office of the clerk of the adoption court; the offices of the department of health; the office of any child-placing agency, whether or not it is chartered or licensed; or any other information source, to be made available to the department of children's services for the purpose of searching for a kinship foster care placement. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1355 | Children - As enacted, specifies that a biological father or alleged biological father who makes token financial support to or for the benefit of a child or the child's mother during the pregnancy or when the mother had physical custody of the child is not a putative father; makes various other changes regarding final orders of adoption. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 63. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1352 | Sentencing - As enacted, provides that if the victim in an aggravated sexual battery was less than 18 or was mentally defective, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless, then such battery remains a Class B felony, and the defendant must be punished as a Range II offender; provides that the sentence imposed upon the defendant may, if appropriate, be within Range III but in no case lower than Range II. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 5. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1351 | Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, Dept. of - As enacted, revises present law relative to recovery residences and alcohol and drug prevention or treatment facilities under certification by the department. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 33; Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HJR 666 | Memorials, Recognition - Rachel Ahlheit, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| HJR 665 | Memorials, Recognition - Norma Binkley, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| HJR 664 | Memorials, Recognition - Savannah Williams, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| HB 762 | Witnesses - As enacted, establishes procedures for the use of certified facility dogs during witness testimony and other court proceedings; establishes standards for certified facility dogs. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 36; Title 37 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 30, 2025 |
| HB 769 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a criminal offense of possessing, distributing, or producing technology, software, or digital tools designed for the purpose of creating material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive; establishes relevant factors to be considered in determining whether artificial technology, software, or digital tools are used or possessed with intent to create material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive. - Amends TCA Title 39. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 763 | Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, clarifies that any governmental entity may purchase any of the insurance authorized under state law, without the necessity of public bidding, as required by any public or private act or charter restriction, if such insurance is purchased through a plan authorized and approved by any organization of cities, counties, or other governmental entities as contemplated by state law. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 12, Chapter 3 and Title 29. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 1349 | Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires a county medical examiner to test for, and obtain certain information concerning, the presence of any drugs in a decedent in certain situations; requires the health science center to conduct certain studies regarding drug interactions and submit quarterly reports to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 501 | Children and Youth, Commission on - As enacted, creates the Tennessee juvenile justice review commission to review an appropriate sampling of juvenile justice cases and any critical incidents involving juveniles in order to provide the general assembly with findings and legislative recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HJR 583 | Memorials, Recognition - St. John Cultural Arts Center at the Promise Land Historic Site - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| HJR 582 | Memorials, Recognition - Ashland City's Troop B, 1st Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Tennessee Army National Guard, 1st place, U.S. Army's 2024 Sullivan Cup Competition. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| HJR 324 | Memorials, Recognition - Taiwan - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2025 |
| HB 1358 | Children - As introduced, requires the department of children's services to study the need for a new juvenile detention facility to be constructed in the western grand division of this state that would serve the detention and treatment needs of juveniles in that grand division; requires the department to report its findings and recommendations to the judiciary committee of the senate and the committee having jurisdiction over criminal justice in the house of representatives on or before January 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 12; Title 16; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 22, 2025 |
| HJR 481 | Memorials, Death - Robert Earl "Bobby" Duke - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 1350 | Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes issuance of a free distinguishing placard for eligible disabled veterans to be used in lieu of a distinguishing license plate for parking purposes; authorizes issuance of a distinguishing placard upon payment of the applicable fee for eligible disabled veterans who have been issued a free distinguishing license plate for parking purposes. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 21 and Title 55, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| HB 502 | TennCare - As enacted, authorizes the bureau to provide coverage and treatment on behalf of an enrollee for the diagnosis, including genetic testing, and treatment of Kleefstra syndrome in the same manner and to the same extent that the bureau provides coverage for autism spectrum disorder, Trisomy 21 or Down syndrome, and other similar or related genetic disorders, when determined to be medically necessary. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 1016 | Education, Dept. of - As introduced, establishes October 15 of each year as the date by which the department must submit an early grades reading report; updates the committees for which the department must submit the early grades reading report to be the education committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives having jurisdiction over education. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 3, 2025 |
| HJR 373 | Memorials, Sports - Pleasant View 6U baseball team, Dixie Youth World Series Champion - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 1, 2025 |
| HB 182 | Tattoos and Piercings - As enacted, enacts "The Ink of Hope Act"; requires tattoo operators and tattoo artists to complete up to one hour of training on recognizing and reporting signs of human trafficking. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 38. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 21, 2025 |
| HJR 227 | Memorials, Retirement - Melody Corlew Lewis - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| HJR 226 | Memorials, Recognition - Linda P. Hayes - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| HB 768 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires public charter schools to adopt an internet acceptable use policy in the same manner required for LEAs; prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from tracking or monitoring a person's use of a personal electronic device on school property, except for instances in which a student uses such device during a test. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 11, 2025 |