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Ryan Williams R

State Representative
Tennessee House of Representatives District 42
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2026
1 Total

Biography

Photo URL: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/members/images/h42.jpg

On Record (47)

Bill Putnam County
Jun 02, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Hospitals and Health Care Facilities
Jun 02, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Education
May 23, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Algood
May 23, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill DAY CARE
May 23, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Medical Occupations
May 23, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Tennessee Higher Education Commission
May 23, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Firearms and Ammunition
May 23, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Principals and School PersonnelTEACHERS
May 23, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Physical and OccupationalTherapists
May 23, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Health Care
May 23, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Health Care
May 23, 2026 · source · details / share
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Ryan Coleman-Williams - Alabama Crimson Tide Wide Receiver  ESPN
Apr 09, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Memorials, Recognition
NHC Cookeville, 2024 NHC Center of the Year
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Memorials, Heroism
Captain Barry "Butch" Wilmore
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Memorials, Personal Occasion
Velma Christine Tidwell Bates, 100th birthday
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill 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.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill 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.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral DISTRICT ATTORNEYS
As introduced, 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 …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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 …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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 …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral LAW ENFORCEMENT
As introduced, requires TACIR to conduct a study of the salaries and other benefits paid to state and local law enforcement officers in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 38.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Local Government, General
As introduced, 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.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Local Education Agencies
As introduced, requires each LEA and public charter school to submit an expenditure report to the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller of the treasury and to the department of education by August 1 each year; requires the department to make the expenditure report submitted by each LEA and public charter school available to …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Managed Care Organizations
As introduced, prohibits a managed care organization from suspending, denying, refusing to review, terminating, or otherwise taking action resulting in the actual or constructive termination of a qualified nursing facility contract except under certain listed circumstances; specifies that the bureau of TennCare has the exclusive authority to determine whether a qualified nursing facility may be terminated from participating in the …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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, …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Criminal Offenses
As introduced, 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.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral OPTOMETRY
As introduced, redefines the practice of optometry, which includes permitting an optometrist to perform a board-approved surgical procedure for the correction and relief of an ocular abnormality, except for certain listed procedures. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 8.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Real Property
As introduced, allows a housing authority, industrial development corporation, or community redevelopment agency to enter into an agreement with a property owner in an area identified in a redevelopment plan, economic impact plan, or community redevelopment plan that requires the owner to make certain payments to secure the bonds of the authority, corporation, or agency; requires the agreement to be …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Mental Illness
As introduced, enacts "The Isbill Act," which requires the POST commission and Tennessee corrections institute to adopt guidelines and materials instructing law enforcement officers and correctional personnel on the criteria for emergency and nonemergency involuntary admissions to inpatient treatment and requires law enforcement officers and correctional personnel to undergo annual training on those guidelines and materials. - Amends TCA Title …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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 …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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 …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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; …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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 …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral 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 …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Public Health
As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days a licensing board has to respond to the department of health after the department has inquired about the status of an action or lack of action taken against a prescriber whose prescribing patterns of controlled substances have been identified as representing a statistical outlier, or if the prescriber is …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share