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State bill data last updated Oct 26, 2026, 8:06 PM.

9,112 bills

• HB 1376 Became law 114
  Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, provides for the regulation of the manufacturing, supplying, wholesale distribution, and retail sale of hemp-derived cannabinoid products by the commission and department of revenue; creates licenses for suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers; establishes taxes for such products and the manner in which such taxes are collected and allocated; establishes civil and criminal penalties for violations. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 43, Chapter 27; Title 53, Chapter 11; Title 57 and Title 67.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 526
• SB 693 In committee 114
  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.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 472
• HB 717 Became law 114
  Health Care - As enacted, extends the termination date for the Alzheimer's and dementia respite care pilot program from December 31, 2025, to December 31, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 33; Title 52; Title 67 and Title 68.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 497
• SB 133 In committee 114
  Election Laws - As enacted, requires the coordinator of elections, in collaboration with the department of safety, prior to January 1, 2028, to create a secure, electronic portal through which each county administrator of elections may access information to verify, prior to processing an applicant's application to register to vote, whether the applicant is a United States citizen based upon records on file at the time of issuance of the most recent driver license or identification card or other credential from the department of safety; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 38; Title 39; Title 41 and Title 55.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 473
• SB 845 In committee 114
  Local Government, General - As enacted, sets up a process by which the attorney general and reporter may review whether a local government action violates state law or the Constitution of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 9.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 514
• HB 486 Became law 114
  Public Defenders - As enacted, creates five additional assistant district public defender positions effective July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 9, Chapter 4.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 485
• SB 885 In committee 114
  Taxes - As enacted, allows nuclear energy production facilities to seek pollution control tax credits for certain machinery and equipment. - Amends TCA Title 67.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 517
• HB 1050 Became law 114
  Nuisances - As enacted, revises nuisance laws. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 510
• HB 894 Became law 114
  Boards and Commissions - As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the board of ground water management effective July 1, 2025; makes related changes relative to the board. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 69.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 507
• SB 517 In committee 114
  Education - As enacted, authorizes local education agencies and public charter schools to provide up to four days of the required 180 days of classroom instruction via hybrid learning in the event of dangerous or extreme weather conditions, or an emergency, as determined by the director of schools or the director of public charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 484
• HB 1097 Became law 114
  Local Government, General - As enacted, sets up a process by which the attorney general and reporter may review whether a local government action violates state law or the Constitution of Tennessee. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 9.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 514
• SB 963 In committee 114
  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 is released into the community, the chief officer is required to notify the court of the defendant's discharge and provide the court and the sheriff with an outpatient treatment plan that accounts for the safety of the community. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 40 and Title 52.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 519
• HB 576 Became law 114
  Bonding, Surety and Professional - As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to bondsmen. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 56; Title 62 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 8.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 491
• HB 782 Became law 114
  TennCare - As enacted, directs the director to establish an additional PACE program as a pilot in one of the two grand divisions where a PACE program did not exist in 2024; permits a current PACE program in a county with a specific population to expand into contiguous counties having specifically listed populations. - Amends TCA Title 71.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 502
• SB 1431 In committee 114
  Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025. -
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 530
• HB 594 Became law 114
  Taxes, Sales - As enacted, increases, from two to four, the number of temporary sales periods that a bona fide religious institution may participate in and be exempt from registering to collect sales tax on sales directly to consumers made during such temporary sales period. - Amends TCA Section 67-6-102.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 493
• HB 487 Became law 114
  Clerks, Court - As enacted, revises present law concerning court clerks' fees. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 18; Title 55 and Title 67.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 486
• SB 445 In committee 114
  Public Defenders - As enacted, creates five additional assistant district public defender positions effective July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 14 and Title 9, Chapter 4.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 485
• SB 476 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires, beginning August 1, 2027, each LEA and public charter school to prohibit food or beverage items that contain Allura Red AC, which is Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 25956-17-6 and also known as Red 40, to be sold, offered for sale, or provided to students on school property through the school nutrition program provided by the LEA, public charter school, or a third party expressly authorized by the LEA or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 476
• SB 782 In committee 114
  Real Property - As enacted, extends from January 28, 2025, to April 15, 2025, the date by which an assessor must have determined that property was destroyed or damaged by a qualified disaster in order for the owner to be eligible for a direct payment from the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 67.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 498
• SB 1366 In committee 114
  Federal Aid - As enacted, establishes a process for reviewing requests for federal aid. -
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 512
• HB 160 Became law 114
  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.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 477
• HB 479 Became law 114
  Military - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee National Guard Servicemember's Medical Readiness Act." - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1, Part 2.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 483
• HB 780 Became law 114
  Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to revise and certify the population of each county and municipality, and the aggregate population of the state, prior to July 1 each year during the interim between the regular decennial federal census to ensure equitable allocation and distribution of the local share of revenue; requires the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee, through the Tennessee state data center, to generate annual population estimates for each county and municipality and provide the estimates to the department for review and certification. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 4, Chapter 49; Section 9-16-101; Title 54, Chapter 4; Title 55, Chapter 4; Title 57, Chapter 5, Part 2; Title 57, Chapter 3, Part 3; Title 67, Chapter 3, Part 9; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 9 and Title 67.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 501
• SB 409 In committee 114
  Clerks, Court - As enacted, revises present law concerning court clerks' fees. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 18; Title 55 and Title 67.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 486
• HB 1383 Became law 114
  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 have successive terms of office if members of the local legislative body for the county have successive terms of office and members of the county board of education to have the same term limits as members of the local legislative body for the county. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 527
• SB 682 In committee 114
  Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, makes various changes to the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 488
• SB 778 In committee 114
  Driver Licenses - As enacted, limits to four the number of points that may be assessed to a person's driver record for the offense of operating a motor vehicle while the person's driving privilege is canceled, suspended, or revoked. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 504
• HB 1089 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires the department of mental health and substance abuse services to establish a mental health evaluation process for a community mental health center or qualified mental health professional to evaluate a defendant convicted of domestic assault, child abuse, aggravated child abuse, cruelty to animals, aggravated cruelty to animals; requires a court in which a person is convicted of any such offense to order the offender to undergo a mental health evaluation prior to the sentencing hearing. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39 and Title 40.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 511
• HB 1278 Became law 114
  Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, authorizes use of the Hurricane Helene interest payment fund to pay local governments' loan charges; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9 and Title 58.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 521
• HB 783 Became law 114
  Housing - As enacted, authorizes local governments 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 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 33.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 503
• HB 524 Became law 114
  Montgomery County - As enacted, permits a court to transfer, upon motion by the defendant, a criminal case to the veterans treatment court program in Montgomery County if the veterans treatment court program would have jurisdiction over the case if the offense had been committed in Montgomery County, the defendant files with the court a written waiver of the right to be tried by an impartial jury of the county in which the crime was committed, and the district attorney general for Montgomery County agrees to accept transfer of the case. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 40.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 489
• HB 1093 Became law 114
  Firearms and Ammunition - As enacted, expands the definition of "machine gun" to include any part, or combination of parts, designed and intended solely for use in converting a firearm into a machine gun; increases the classification for the intentional or knowing possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of a machine gun from a Class E to a Class C felony; reclassifies certain other offenses involving the possession of firearm or handgun ammunition; makes a defendant ineligible for parole if convicted of aggravated assault that involved the use of a firearm from within a motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 513
• HB 641 Became law 114
  Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, enacts the "Savannah Grace Copeland Act." - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 12; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 49.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 495
• SB 1135 In committee 114
  Nuisances - As enacted, revises nuisance laws. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 510
• SB 1065 In committee 114
  County Officers - As enacted, revises present law relative to constables. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 10 and Title 38, Chapter 8.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 516
• HB 1092 Became law 114
  Federal Aid - As enacted, establishes a process for reviewing requests for federal aid. -
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 512
• SB 1430 In committee 114
  Bond Issues - As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds. -
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 528
• SB 760 In committee 114
  Newspapers and Publications - As enacted, specifies that the website where legal notices must be posted must not require a fee or a subscription for a person to view the website; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 500
• SB 324 In committee 114
  Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, enacts "Savanna's Law," which creates a registry of persistent domestic violence offenders; requires the bureau to maintain the registry. - Amends TCA Title 18; Section 38-6-103; Title 39 and Title 40.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 520
• HB 504 Became law 114
  Scholarships and Financial Aid - As enacted, makes various changes to the "Tennessee Future Teacher Scholarship Act of 2023." - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 7.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 488
• SB 1296 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the criminal offense of threatening to commit an act of mass violence; creates the criminal offense of posting on a publicly accessible website the telephone number or home address of an individual with the intent to cause harm or a threat of harm to the individual or a member of the individual's family or household. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 8 and Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 522
• HB 691 Became law 114
  Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, changes the amounts of the franchise and excise tax credits allowed to financial institutions from certain percentages of the unpaid principal balance of certain qualified loans made to eligible housing entities to certain percentages of the month-end average unpaid principal balance of such loans; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-2109.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 496
• SB 1083 In committee 114
  Local Government, General - As enacted, enacts "Dismantle DEI in Employment Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 494
• HB 622 Became law 114
  Local Government, General - As enacted, enacts "Dismantle DEI in Employment Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 494
• HB 212 Became law 114
  Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, creates new specialty earmarked license plates; extends certain specialty earmarked license plates; authorizes the funds generated from the issuance of the Historic Franklin new specialty earmarked license plate to also be used to provide financial support for the Chester Inn State Historic Site; authorizes the issuance of motorcycle plates for paratroopers. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 479
• HB 1373 Became law 114
  Education, Dept. of - As enacted, extends the school turnaround pilot program for priority schools administered by the department and that is scheduled to conclude at the end of the 2024-2025 school year to a permanent school turnaround program for priority schools; increases, from five to 15, the maximum number of priority schools that may participate in the school turnaround program. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 525
• SB 144 In committee 114
  Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, generally requires that all monies received under the sales and use tax from the sale, use, consumption, or distribution of new or used tires on or after July 1, 2025, must be earmarked and allocated to the highway fund. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 508
• SB 764 In committee 114
  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.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 509
• HB 134 Became law 114
  Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires, beginning August 1, 2027, each LEA and public charter school to prohibit food or beverage items that contain Allura Red AC, which is Chemical Abstracts Service registry number 25956-17-6 and also known as Red 40, to be sold, offered for sale, or provided to students on school property through the school nutrition program provided by the LEA, public charter school, or a third party expressly authorized by the LEA or public charter school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 476