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Torrey Harris D

State Representative
Tennessee House of Representatives District 83
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2026
2 Total

Biography

Photo URL: https://capitol.tn.gov/house/members/images/H91.jpg

On Record (36)

Bill Children's ServicesDept. of
May 23, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Child Custody and Support
May 23, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Criminal Offenses
May 23, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Local Education Agencies
May 23, 2026 · source · details / share
Article / Text
May 04, 2026 · source · details / share
Article / Text Auto-discovered
Harris, Mannis make history as first LGBTQ legislators elected to Tennessee House  News Channel 5 Nashville
Apr 08, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Memorials, Recognition
Public Education Needs Community Involvement and Leadership (PENCIL)
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Memorials, Recognition
Dr. Christiane Buggs
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Memorials, Recognition
HPV Awareness Day, March 4, 2026
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Memorials, Sports
University of Memphis Athletics
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Memorials, Sports
University of Memphis Tigers
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Memorials, Recognition
AARP Tennessee Day
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Criminal Offenses
As introduced, enacts the "Fair Background Check and Due Process Act." - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 50; Title 62; Title 66 and Title 71.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Teachers, Principals and School Personnel
As introduced, increases from one to two, the number of days of personal and professional leave a teacher accumulates for each one-half year employed. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Public Contracts
As introduced, enacts the "Higher Education Purchasing Act." - Amends TCA Title 12 and Title 49.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Consumer Protection
As introduced, prohibits sending by mail a fake check or an image of a fake check, for the purpose of advertising. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral PUBLIC UTILITIES
As introduced, requires the supervisory body of municipal electric plants to make the current schedule of rates and charges and all rules and regulations relating to electric service available to the public in an electronic format online. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7 and Title 65.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral TennCare
As introduced, requires a managed care organization or pharmacy benefits manager that is contracted with the bureau to reimburse a claim for a long-acting injectable drug intended for treatment and prevention of human immunodeficiency virus and administered in a pharmacy, physician's office, clinic, ambulatory surgical treatment center, or hospital. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Health, Dept. of
As introduced, requires the commissioner to use existing resources to conduct a study of the use of designated caregivers for admitted patients in hospitals in neighboring states in order to determine the prevalence of and identify the best practices for the use of designated caregivers; requires the commissioner to compile study findings and any legislative recommendations into a report to …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Insurance, Motor Vehicles
As introduced, enacts the "Community Faith Transportation and Service Protection Act," which establishes secondary vehicle liability insurance provided by the state to a faith-based organization for vehicles used by the faith-based organization for community service use. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 55 and Title 56.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Public Contracts
As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Businesses First Act," which requires local governmental entities to provide a 30-day local bidding period for certain contracts, during which only local businesses may submit bids; creates a bidding preference for local businesses. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 12.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Criminal Offenses
As introduced, allows the warden or chief administrative officer's report to the district attorney general of certain offenses that occur within a penal institution to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55; Title 64 and Title 65.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral JUDICIAL DISTRICTS
As introduced, creates an additional criminal court in the thirtieth judicial district to be designated as part IX; requires the governor to appoint a criminal court judge to serve until the person's successor is elected at the August 2028 general election. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 2.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Courts, Municipal
As introduced, allows a municipal court to order a municipality to remedy a property maintenance ordinance violation when the person or entity found to be in violation of a municipal ordinance related to property maintenance fails to remedy the violation within 30 days; requires the cost of the remediation to be assessed against the property owner in the form of …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral SENTENCING
As introduced, requires a sentencing court to order every convicted person to perform a certain number of community service hours in addition to any other punishment imposed for the criminal violation. - Amends TCA Title 40.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Public Officials
As introduced, authorizes recall elections for elected members of a local legislative body, city and county mayors, sheriffs, trustees, registers, clerks, assessors of property, and members of a school board. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 8, Chapter 47 and Title 49, Chapter 2.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Museums
As introduced, requires the state to enter into good faith negotiations for the purchase of the Cotton Museum in Memphis, subject to approval by the state building commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11 and Title 12.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Education, Higher
As introduced, requires institutions of higher education to conduct various programs for intercollegiate athletes covering name, image, and likeness; authorizes institutions of higher education to collect talent fees; makes various other changes to intercollegiate athletes' name, image, and likeness authorizations and requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Employees, Employers
As introduced, enacts the "Pay Stub Protection Act," which requires an employer to provide a statement to an employee on the employer's payday that contains certain information about the employee and the employee's wages and hours worked during the applicable pay period. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 50.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Local Education Agencies
As enacted, authorizes a local legislative body for a county that has adopted a charter form of government to require elections for the county board of education to be held at the same time and on the same election cycle as elections for members of the local legislative body for the county, members of the county board of education to …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies
As introduced, imposes requirements for health insurance issuers using artificial intelligence, algorithms, or other software for utilization review or utilization management functions. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 27; Title 56 and Title 71.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral HOUSING
As introduced, authorizes municipalities to create, implement, and enforce a rental property registry for all residential rental dwelling units within the municipality's jurisdiction; requires owners of residential rental dwelling units to register; requires a municipality that adopts a registry to send an annual report containing certain information to the department of economic and community development. - Amends TCA Title 13, …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Taxes, Real Property
As introduced, exempts taxpayers who are 85 or older and who have received property tax relief for at least five consecutive years from annual income reporting requirements for continued participation. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Driver Licenses
As enacted, requires written examinations administered to applicants for a driver license or intermediate driver license to include questions concerning hand signals used by operators of bicycles to communicate turning, slowing, and stopping. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Education
As enacted, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to develop and implement a policy to provide, with each K-8 student's report card, the student's score on the universal reading screener if administered to the student in the current school year, and the results of the dyslexia screener most recently administered to the student, if …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral Local Education Agencies
As introduced, requires the department of education, by July 31 each year, to list on its website each LEA designated as a high performing school district for the upcoming school year and how long the LEA will be designated a high performing school district before having to meet the criteria for re-designation. - Amends TCA Title 49.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share