Tennessee · Current officeholder
Jake McCalmon
Republican Tennessee House, District 63
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Sponsored legislation
56 bills in the current data (56 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 1514 | Local Government, General - As enacted, clarifies that the general assembly occupies the entire field of the regulation of shopping carts, including their purchase, use, taxation, manufacture, ownership, sale, storage, and transportation, to the exclusion of all county or metropolitan government laws, ordinances, resolutions, enactments, or regulations; prohibits a county or metropolitan government, or any agency, department, or official of a county or metropolitan government, from adopting an ordinance, resolution, or other regulation requiring a business to adopt a shopping cart policy of any nature or imposing a fee or fine on a business related to shopping carts. - Amends TCA Title 5, Chapter 1 and Title 6, Chapter 54. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2026 |
| HB 1696 | Public Contracts - As enacted, requires a state department, agency, or official who contracts with a business to acquire property or services to make payments under the contract to the business within a certain time frame after receipt of the invoice; requires such state departments, agencies, and officials to annually report to the chairs of the appropriate standing committees of the senate and house of representatives the number and aggregate amount of late payments made for the preceding fiscal year and the amount of interest paid and outstanding on such late payments. - Amends TCA Title 12, Chapter 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 18, 2026 |
| HR 7004 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Victor O'Neal Lecou - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 7, 2026 |
| HR 7003 | Memorials, Recognition - Ravenwood High School boys' JV soccer team, TSSAA Division 1, Class AAA, District 10 JV tournament champion - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 7002 | Memorials, Academic Achievement - Victor O'Neal Lecou - | Primary sponsor | Introduced | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 7001 | Memorials, Sports - Ravenwood High School boys' JV soccer team, TSSAA Division 1, Class AAA, District 10 JV tournament champions - | Primary sponsor | Introduced | May 7, 2026 |
| HJR 1542 | Memorials, Recognition - Page High School, 50th anniversary - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 7, 2026 |
| HB 2337 | Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, requires the attorney general, in making a decision as to whether to object to a public benefit hospital conveyance transaction, to consider whether the proceeds will be controlled as funds independently of the acquiring or related entities; makes certain exemptions. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 68 and Title 68, Chapter 11. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 1803 | Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, adds the bottling of distilled spirits to the definition of "manufacture" for purposes of licensing and regulation of the manufacturing of alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 3. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2026 |
| HB 1697 | Flags - As enacted, authorizes a county mayor and the chief executive officer of a municipality to order the flags flown on county or municipal property to be lowered to half-staff to honor the death of a prominent citizen of that county or municipality. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 4, 2026 |
| HB 2646 | Williamson County - Subject to local approval, authorizes the board of the Williamson County hospital district to sell real property owned or operated by the hospital district and lease substantially all of the facilities owned or operated by the hospital district if approved by the Williamson County board of commissioners. - Amends Chapter 107 of the Private Acts of 1957; as amended. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 1, 2026 |
| HB 2048 | Education, Dept. of - As enacted, authorizes LEAs with a voluntary pre-K program to enroll children who are not at-risk but who live in the LEA's geographic area, are three on or before August 15 and who have a parent employed by the LEA, and certain children who are five on or before August 15 to be eligible for IEP and who have not previously been enrolled in an LEA's voluntary pre-K program, if certain criteria are met. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2026 |
| HB 1798 | Garnishments and Executions - As enacted, clarifies that the sheriff or other person authorized by law to serve garnishments is authorized to demand that the fee for performing service of a garnishment be paid in advance of such performance. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 21, Part 9. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 27, 2026 |
| HB 1527 | Education, Curriculum - As enacted, requires public schools and public charter schools to provide instruction in child trafficking awareness and prevention to students in grades kindergarten through 12 through health education, instead of being provided through a family life curriculum. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 23, 2026 |
| HR 251 | Memorials, Sports - Robert Malloy - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 22, 2026 |
| HJR 1218 | Memorials, Recognition - Club America, Brentwood High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 20, 2026 |
| HJR 1217 | Memorials, Recognition - Club America, Page High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 20, 2026 |
| HJR 1216 | Memorials, Recognition - Club America, Nolensville High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 20, 2026 |
| HJR 1215 | Memorials, Recognition - Club America, Independence High School - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 20, 2026 |
| HB 2047 | Taxes, Sales - As introduced, authorizes a qualified data center that applies for job tax credits to certify electronically that it has not, within the previous 12 months, been found to be in violation of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, or federal immigration laws. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| HB 1907 | Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As enacted, revises provisions relating to the production of documents in certain proceedings relating to the retirement of a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system (TCRS); revises provisions relating to the temporary reemployment of such a member upon retirement. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 25; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 6, 2026 |
| HJR 1083 | Memorials, Recognition - Jordan Feliz - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 31, 2026 |
| HJR 1070 | Memorials, Recognition - Williamson Health - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 26, 2026 |
| HB 1546 | Driver Licenses - As enacted, removes present law that prohibits a person from being denied a commercial driver license, or being deemed medically unqualified to operate a motor vehicle, based on the failure to meet motor safety carrier regulations because of a medical history or clinical diagnosis of diabetes mellitus currently requiring insulin, but whose medical history indicates that the insulin controls the diabetes to the extent that the condition is not likely to cause any loss of ability to control a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 23, 2026 |
| HJR 1034 | Memorials, Death - Aaron Stokes and Andrew Huskey - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 1519 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts the "Safe Highways and Roads Enforcement (SHARE) Act," which requires the court to assess an additional fine against a person convicted of a moving traffic violation or driving under the influence of an intoxicant; requires the additional fines be deposited into the state highway fund. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2026 |
| HB 974 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, provides that a motor vehicle dealer license is not required to sell or purchase certain antique vehicles or unique motor vehicles through an auction being held at a venue with a permanent seating capacity of at least 20,000 located in Wilson County, the auction operator conducts no more than one auction in this state per year, the auction offers no less than 400 vehicles and no more than 2,000 vehicles for any one auction, and the operator has a minimum net worth of $25 million. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17 and Title 62, Chapter 19. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 16, 2026 |
| HJR 921 | Memorials, Sports - Page High School girls' golf team, TSSAA Division I, Class AA State Championship - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 11, 2026 |
| HB 1660 | Nuisances - As introduced, prohibits any cause of action for nuisance, taking, or another claim against a racing facility or racetrack by the owner of a surrounding real property if the racing facility or racetrack was built before the owner of the surrounding real property purchased the real property or built in the area of the racing facility or racetrack, regardless of the date on which the cause of action is alleged to have arisen; prohibits a political subdivision from adopting or enforcing any ordinance, resolution, or regulation that would restrict, limit, or prohibit the operation of a racing facility or racetrack in a manner inconsistent. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 29. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| HJR 717 | Memorials, Sports - Page High School football team, TSSAA Division I, Class 5A State Champion - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 11, 2026 |
| HB 378 | Law Enforcement - As introduced, specifies that a commissioned reserve deputy sheriff or commissioned reserve or auxiliary police officer receiving compensation for services as a guard, patrol, or watchperson under a contract with a private business that is properly licensed by the state is exempt from the private protective services licensing and regulation requirements. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39 and Title 62, Chapter 35. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2026 |
| HB 45 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony for a person who commits child abuse by knowingly treating a child between 9 and 17 in such a manner as to inflict injury. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 160 | Wine & Wineries - As enacted, exempts the sale of wine for consumption on the premises of a winery or farm wine producer, including the premises of a satellite facility, including tastings and sealed bottles sold at retail for consumption on the premises, from the liquor-by-the-drink tax on alcoholic beverages. - Amends TCA Section 57-3-207. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 972 | Motor Vehicles - As enacted, revises various provisions of the Modernization of Towing, Immobilization, and Oversight Normalization Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 39; Title 47; Title 48; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62; Title 66 and Title 67. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 142 | Alcoholic Beverages - As enacted, authorizes a licensee that holds more than a 50 percent ownership interest in a manufacturer and a winery that are located on the same deeded property to offer product tastings and make retail sales for consumption on or off of such premises of its wine or spirits manufactured on such deeded property at a location on the overlapping premises other than on the bonded premises of the manufacturer or winery. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 1164 | Law Enforcement - As enacted, authorizes uniformed law enforcement officers to wear decorations, medals, service medals, and badges awarded to the officers by the armed forces of the United States, the Tennessee national guard, or the state guard during the week prior to Veterans Day and Memorial Day, the day of Veterans Day and Memorial Day, and the day immediately following Veterans Day and Memorial Day. - Amends TCA Title 38 and Title 58. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HJR 681 | Memorials, Professional Achievement - Laura Quering, Down Syndrome Association of Middle Tennessee Educator of the Year Award - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| HJR 680 | Memorials, Recognition - Rex Teixeira and the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| HJR 679 | Memorials, Recognition - William Zabka - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 2, 2025 |
| HB 973 | Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, extends the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution of certain child sexual abuse felonies from 25 years from the child's eighteenth birthday to 30 years from the child's eighteenth birthday; extends the statute of limitations for a civil action based on child sexual abuse from 15 years from the child's eighteenth birthday to 30 years from the child's eighteenth birthday. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 40, Chapter 2. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HB 861 | Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires LEAs to notify parents or guardians of a student at least 10 days before the student's individualized education program (IEP) meeting; requires LEAs to provide a copy of all evaluations and assessments of a student conducted for purposes of the student's IEP and, if created, a copy of a student's draft IEP, unless previously declined, to the student's parent or guardian at least 48 hours prior to a scheduled IEP team meeting. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10 and Title 49, Chapter 6. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HB 623 | Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to establish enrollment deadlines for voluntary pre-kindergarten programs so that at-risk students who will be four years old by August 15 must be enrolled by the beginning of the school year and students who are four-year-olds who do not have a disability or who meet the qualifications for enrollment at three years of age must be enrolled by August 30. - Amends TCA Title 49. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| HJR 17 | Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to enact H.R. 25, the Fair Tax Act of 2023. - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 24, 2025 |
| HB 161 | Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, revises the criteria by which certain domestic insurance companies may invest or acquire an interest in foreign investment assets, real property, and certain money market funds. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 3, Part 4. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 8, 2025 |
| HJR 333 | Memorials, Death - Robert Fitzgerald - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 1, 2025 |
| HJR 382 | Memorials, Recognition - Middle Tennessee Veterans Support Group - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 26, 2025 |
| HJR 381 | Memorials, Recognition - Vietnam Veterans Day - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 26, 2025 |
| HB 46 | Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires that a reimbursement payment to a child advocacy center be completed within 30 days of receipt of a request for reimbursement; requires payment of a 10 percent late payment fee for failing to make a timely reimbursement to a child advocacy center; requires the department to submit to the general assembly an annual report on the timeliness of reimbursement payments to child advocacy centers. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 37. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 25, 2025 |
| HJR 248 | Memorials, Death - Jay Ward Williams - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| HJR 247 | Memorials, Recognition - Williamson County Fair - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| HJR 231 | Memorials, Retirement - Nolensville Fire Chief David Windrow - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | March 12, 2025 |
| HB 606 | Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, requires the commission to submit its biennial report on underage drinking, drunk driving, and other harmful uses of alcohol to the governor in addition to members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 57. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2025 |
| HJR 113 | Memorials, Death - William "Billy" Earl Knight - | Primary sponsor | Enacted | February 21, 2025 |
| HB 619 | Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to provide a copy of a student's education records, upon request, and a copy of a student's draft individualized education program, unless previously declined, to the student's parent or guardian prior to a scheduled IEP team meeting. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |
| HB 159 | Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for reckless endangerment committed by discharging a firearm or antique firearm into a motor vehicle from a Class E felony to a Class C felony, unless the motor vehicle was unoccupied at the time of the offense, in which event it is a Class D felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |
| HJR 6001 | Memorials, Death - William "Billy" Earl Knight - | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | January 29, 2025 |