Five years of showing up — turning the priorities of District 91 into law and real resources for Memphis.
As primary sponsor, Torrey made sure brothers and sisters separated by the foster system can stay in each other's lives — requiring agencies to share sibling contact information so no child loses their family twice.
Strengthens child-custody law to keep children safe from family violence.
Protects student athletes placed in foster care so they can keep competing.
Funds grants to open new child care agencies and strengthen existing ones.
Speeds up contested custody cases for unmarried parents when paternity is at issue.
Updates Tennessee’s adoption laws to better serve families.
Ensures children with disabilities in state custody receive the services they need.
Reinstates a parent’s commercial license once child support is withheld from their pay.
Protects parents with disabilities from losing custody of their children based on disability alone.
Requires schools to designate a foster-care liaison to break down educational barriers for kids in foster care.
Requires the Department of Children’s Services to put the best interest of the child first.
Grants state employees paid leave when they foster a child.
Lowers from 21 to 18 the age at which adoptees can access certain adoption records.
Expands voluntary extended foster care up to age 23, so young adults aren’t cut loose without support.
Requires use-of-force policies and bans no-knock warrants.
Requires a recording whenever a child in custody is questioned.
Lets survivors of serious felonies obtain a lifetime order of protection.
Has officers check for outstanding warrants when serving protection orders.
Bans restraining incarcerated women once a pregnancy is confirmed.
Renews the recovery courts that help Tennesseans overcome addiction.
Expands mental-health and substance-abuse treatment options.
Permanently allows testing equipment that detects deadly fentanyl.
Strengthens funding for county victim-assistance programs.
Bolsters the address-confidentiality program that shields victims.
Enacts new measures to prevent impaired driving on our roads.
Increases penalties for illegal littering.
Bars executing people with intellectual disabilities and lets some on death row petition for review.
Lets domestic-violence, sexual-assault, and stalking survivors break a lease and move to safety without penalty.
Lets families pay bail by debit card or mobile app to get a loved one released from jail.
Requires teachers to get regular training to spot and prevent child human trafficking.
Makes it a crime to possess key-fob programming devices used to steal cars.
Strengthens the ‘move over’ law to protect stranded drivers, emergency crews, and roadside workers.
Adds a sentencing enhancement for law-enforcement officers who commit serious crimes while on duty.
Cracks down on caller-ID ‘spoofing’ by scam debt collectors and telemarketers.
Requires domestic-violence victims be notified about GPS monitoring of their abuser’s bail.
Lets minor victims of sexual crimes get a forensic exam without needing a parent’s consent.
Creates a juvenile justice review commission to examine cases and recommend reforms.
Studies how to improve family-visitation access for incarcerated people.
More leave time so educators can give their best to our youngest minds.
Improves leave for teachers, increasing the personal-leave days teachers receive each year.
Puts suicide-prevention resources on student IDs and in every school.
Adds local law enforcement to school safety teams and plan reviews.
Adds reading- and dyslexia-screener results to K–8 report cards.
Brings career and technical education to 7th- and 8th-graders.
Extends the TN Promise scholarship to students who finish high school early.
Creates a program teaching students nonviolent conflict-resolution skills.
Requires school support groups to report how money is raised and spent.
Lets qualifying universities run innovative Pre-K–12 districts.
Names a youth-center school for the trailblazing educator and legislator.
Streamlines how public universities purchase goods and services.
Requires directors of schools to hold at least a bachelor’s degree.
Lets adult high schools offer virtual instruction so adults can finish their diploma.
Requires Black history and culture as a required part of the middle-school curriculum.
Lets students who finish a bachelor’s degree early keep their HOPE scholarship for an advanced degree.
Improves the Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship to help grow the teacher pipeline.
Studies how to offer free or low-cost driver’s education in high-poverty high schools.
Studies ‘ninth-grade on-track’ tools that help keep students from dropping out.
A nod to the everyday tools that start every education.
Lets state employees use the sick-leave bank to care for a sick child.
Updates leave policies for Tennessee’s public employees.
Lets drivers show digital proof of vehicle registration to police.
Updates school-bus camera rules and penalties for illegal passing.
Adds bicycle hand-signal questions to the driver’s-license exam.
Keeps disabled-parking placards accurate and up to date.
Eases paperwork for seniors 80 and older seeking property-tax relief.
Creates a sales-tax holiday on gun safes and safety devices.
Creates a task force to improve Tennessee’s conservatorship system.
Honors and supports Tennessee’s firefighters and their families.
Removes unnecessary college-degree requirements for many state jobs.
Requires landlords to give tenants written contact info for service, notices, and maintenance up front.
Puts the burden of proof on the government taking the land.
Adds ‘Amazing Grace’ by John Newton as an official Tennessee state song.
Studies passenger rail connecting Memphis to Tennessee’s other major cities.
Requires review of VA records to recognize service-connected causes of death.
Provides free parking placards for eligible disabled veterans.
Grants leave for employees recovering from living organ donation.
Protects insurance coverage for complex rehabilitation technology.
Updates the definition of the practice of optometry.
A respite-care program giving family caregivers of Alzheimer’s and dementia patients a much-needed break.
Strengthens access to mental-health treatment through the Mental Health Treatment Act of 2022.
Lets people with disabilities work without losing health coverage through TennCare.
Expands step-therapy protection so cancer patients get the right prescribed drug without delays.
Requires insurance and TennCare to cover biomarker testing.
Studies and strengthens county veterans service offices so vets can get help locally.
Protects natural and protective hairstyles from workplace discrimination.
Clarifies how Tennesseans can have their voting rights restored.
Tells high-school seniors how to register and vote at 18.
Recognizing the end of slavery statewide, now honored across Tennessee. (Public Chapter 337)
Recognizing the women who served our nation in uniform.
From the well of the House to the neighborhoods of District 91, Torrey brings the voice of Memphis to every debate — and delivers results that outlast the headlines.
