Tennessee House

Sam McKenzie

Democratic. House, district 15.

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Bills they sponsored

20 bills sponsored this session

allocates 2 percent of revenue from sports gaming in this state to programs that serve rural and urban at-risk youth. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49 and Title 67HB 2441 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026

Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee

requires TACIR to study and prepare a report on marijuana arrests made in this state from 2015 to 2025, including data on race, age, gender, and the location of arrest. - Amends TCA Title 4HB 2440 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026

Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee

enacts the “Oral-Fluid DUI Testing and Evidence-Based Enforcement Safeguards Act." - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4HB 2439 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026

Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee

Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates November 9 of each year as "Gold Star Father's Day," to honor and recognize fathers who have lost children in service to the United States as members of thHB 2438 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026

Sponsor(s) Added.

exempts the retail sale of generic food products from the food retail sales tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6HB 2437 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026

Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee

clarifies that the Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022 does not apply to any materials in the Tennessee Electronic Library. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6HB 2435 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026

Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Committee

prohibits local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies from allowing, through their policies, a material in a library collection to be removed while it is being evaluated by the local board, goverHB 2434 · this session · introduced Feb 2, 2026

Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Committee

requires a law enforcement agency that uses body cameras to adopt a written policy for the use of the cameras by its law enforcement officers; establishes certain requirements for the policies. - Amends TCA Title 38, ChaHB 2436 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026

Taken off notice for cal. in State & Local Government Committee

exempts books from sales tax on the annual sales tax holiday. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6HB 2433 · this session · introduced Jan 22, 2026

Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee

Statutes of Limitations and Repose - As enacted, requires prosecution for vehicular homicide committed on or after July 1, 2026, to commence within 10 years from the date the offense occurs. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title HB 2432 · this session · introduced Jan 21, 2026

Sponsor(s) Added.

requires the department of finance and administration, in collaboration with the department of health and the bureau of TennCare, to apply for federal approval to import prescription drugs from Canada. - Amends TCA TitleHB 1260 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025

Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee

allows certain persons deprived of the right of suffrage to apply for a voter registration card and have the right of suffrage provisionally restored if the person enters into a payment plan to become current on all chilHB 1053 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025

Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee

requires the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller of the treasury to annually report information about the students participating in the education freedom scholarship program tHB 1052 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025

Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Committee

enacts the "Freedom to Read Act"; repeals the "Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6HB 1051 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025

Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Committee

requires the office of research and education accountability (OREA), in the office of the comptroller of the treasury, to study and make recommendations for the implementation of an incentive program for educators who haHB 778 · this session · introduced Feb 6, 2025

Taken off notice for cal. in Education Committee

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Failed in s/c Public Service Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee

raises, from 70 mph to 75 mph, the maximum statutory speed limit on a highway of the interstate and defense highway system or a four-lane controlled-access highway which are federal or state highways; raises, from 55 mphHB 1055 · this session · introduced Feb 5, 2025

Withdrawn.

requires local governments to obtain, when possible, three written quotations for purchases costing less than the threshold established pursuant to law but more than 40 percent of such threshold, or some lower amount as HB 742 · this session · introduced Jan 28, 2025

Taken off notice for cal in s/c Cities & Counties Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee

excludes materials obtained by an individual teacher that are made available in the teacher's classroom to students assigned to the teacher's class from having to be identified in a list of library collection materials pHB 1234 · this session · introduced Jan 27, 2025

Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee

authorizes a local government having a population of 100,000 or more and having centralized purchasing with a full-time purchasing agent to use any project delivery method that the local government determines most effectHB 1054 · this session · introduced Jan 27, 2025

Assigned to s/c Cities & Counties Subcommittee

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