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

9,112 bills

• SB 720 In committee 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: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 507
• HB 773 Became law 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: Pub. Ch. 500
• HB 578 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds certain criminal offenses to the list of dangerous felonies for purposes of the offense of possessing a firearm or antique firearm during commission or attempt to commit a dangerous felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 492
• SB 1082 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds certain criminal offenses to the list of dangerous felonies for purposes of the offense of possessing a firearm or antique firearm during commission or attempt to commit a dangerous felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 492
• HB 542 Became law 114
  Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to utilities. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 65 and Title 68.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 490
• HB 411 Became law 114
  TennCare - As enacted, enacts "Lucca's Law," which addresses TennCare coverage of treatment for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 482
• HB 1200 Became law 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: Pub. Ch. 520
• HB 69 Became law 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: Pub. Ch. 473
• SB 1139 In committee 114
  Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, makes revisions to present law relative to utilities. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 13, Chapter 7; Title 65 and Title 68.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 490
• SB 1381 In committee 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: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 503
• HB 1408 Became law 114
  Budget Procedures - As enacted, authorizes, in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, transfers from the Access Tennessee health insurance program fund, created or referenced in the Access Tennessee Act of 2006. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 13; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 44; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 54; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 58; Title 59; Title 60; Title 61; Title 62; Title 63; Title 64; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 529
• SB 654 In committee 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: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 497
• SB 944 In committee 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: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 511
• HB 751 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of knowingly engaging in conduct that places a child in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment by exposing the child to fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or a fentanyl derivative or analogue; punishes the offense as a Class E felony if the child is over 8 and as a Class B felony if the child is 8 or less. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 499
• HB 175 Became law 114
  Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, authorizes the commission to promulgate rules or pass proclamations to authorize the use of drones to locate and retrieve deer that have been wounded by hunters. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 70.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 478
• SB 1336 In committee 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: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 527
• HB 371 Became law 114
  Sentencing - As enacted, generally requires a person convicted of a Class A misdemeanor in general sessions court to pay for and complete a cognitive behavioral training course; requires the offender to provide proof of course completion to the court or the court’s designee within the time period specified by the court. - Amends TCA Section 40-35-302.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 481
• SB 784 In committee 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: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 496
• HB 888 Became law 114
  Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, prohibits political campaign committees formed to support or oppose a measure from receiving, soliciting, or accepting contributions or expenditures from a foreign national; requires such political campaign committees and persons making independent expenditures supporting or opposing a measure to file certain disclosures regarding funding sources with the registry of election finance. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 506
• HB 1127 Became law 114
  Real Property - As enacted, revises present law relative to advertising the sale of land to foreclose a deed of trust, mortgage, or other lien securing the payment of money or other thing of value or under judicial orders or process. - Amends TCA Title 35.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 515
• HB 1407 Became law 114
  Bond Issues - As enacted, authorizes the state to issue and sell bonds. -
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 528
• HB 490 Became law 114
  Courts - As enacted, prohibits the disqualification or removal of a municipal judge who was duly elected or appointed to office prior to March 7, 2025, and who is qualified for such office under the laws and interpretations in effect at the time of such election or appointment, due to a residency requirement during the term of office to which the municipal judge was elected or appointed. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16; Title 17; Title 18; Title 20; Title 21; Title 24; Title 25; Title 26; Title 27; Title 28 and Title 29.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 487
• SB 289 In committee 114
  Workers Compensation - As enacted, creates a presumption that the diagnosis of a law enforcement officer or emergency medical responder with post-traumatic stress disorder as the result of responding to certain incidents was incurred in the line of duty for purposes of workers' compensation coverage. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51 and Title 50, Chapter 6.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 480
• SB 1415 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of knowingly engaging in conduct that places a child in imminent danger of death, bodily injury, or physical or mental impairment by exposing the child to fentanyl, carfentanil, remifentanil, alfentanil, thiafentanil, or a fentanyl derivative or analogue; punishes the offense as a Class E felony if the child is over 8 and as a Class B felony if the child is 8 or less. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 499
• SB 1426 In committee 114
  TennCare - As enacted, enacts "Lucca's Law," which addresses TennCare coverage of treatment for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 482
• SB 1306 In committee 114
  Tourist Development, Dept. of - As enacted, creates a marketing division within the department to replace the tourism division; authorizes the department to enter into agreements with the department of transportation to assist with maintenance of welcome center facilities; creates a welcome centers division within the department to oversee such centers throughout the state; directs the commissioner of finance and administration to transfer from highway user taxes allocated to the highway fund an amount sufficient to support the annual appropriation for implementation and administration of all welcome centers in the state. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 22.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 523
• SB 505 In committee 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: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 489
• HB 979 Became law 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: Pub. Ch. 509
• SB 685 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, revises present law relative to unlawful photography. - Amends TCA Section 39-13-605 and Title 40, Chapter 39, Part 2.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 474
• HB 1162 Became law 114
  Schools, Charter - As enacted, permits a public charter school authorized in the county local education agency for a county in which only one city school system operates to use available buildings or facilities located within the geographic boundaries of the city school system located in the same county if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 27, 2025: Pub. Ch. 518
• SB 361 In committee 114
  Employees, Employers - As introduced, requires a person who employs an unemancipated minor and who knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that the minor has been subjected to child sexual abuse or attempted child sexual abuse in the course of the minor’s employment or on the premises of the employer to report such knowledge or suspicion to the minor’s parent within 24 hours of discovering the abuse or attempted abuse; imposes a penalty of $1,000 for a first violation or $2,000 for a second or subsequent violation, to be paid to the commissioner of labor and workforce development. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 50.
  May 16, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SB 30 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates new misdemeanor offenses, including intentionally giving a false or fictitious name to a law enforcement officer who has lawfully detained or arrested such person. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 54 and Title 55.
  May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 409
• SB 457 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, decreases from 0.20 to 0.15 percent the minimum weight of alcohol concentration in a defendant's blood or breath as an element of the offense of aggravated vehicular assault and in a defendant's blood as an element of the offense of aggravated vehicular homicide. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.
  May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 430
• SB 102 Became law 114
  Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee technology development corporation to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 14, Part 2 and Title 4, Chapter 29.
  May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 410
• SB 1273 Became law 114
  Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to implement a transition plan to close the achievement school district (ASD) and to release all schools currently assigned to the ASD before the start of the 2026-2027 school year; requires the department to establish a different intervention system for priority schools; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 464
• HB 482 In committee 114
  Firefighters - As enacted, adds prostate cancer, breast cancer, and pancreatic cancer to the list of cancers for which a presumption is created that certain conditions or impairments of full-time firefighters caused by prostate cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, or other listed cancers arose out of employment unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence. - Amends TCA Section 7-51-201.
  May 15, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 422
• SB 246 Became law 114
  Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to convene a working group to study and develop best practices, strategies, and programming for English language learner (EL) educators in this state to utilize in educating EL students enrolled in a public school in this state in any of the grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 419
• SB 899 Became law 114
  Education - As enacted, changes the standard for entry-resistant window treatment for school buildings constructed or remodeled on or after July 1, 2025; requires the state-level school safety team to issue guidelines to the state fire marshal for inclusion in rules. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 8.
  May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 448
• HB 1232 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes to present law concerning criminal justice. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40 and Title 53.
  May 15, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 462
• HB 919 In committee 114
  Boards and Commissions - As enacted, makes various revisions to the governing boards of public higher education institutions. -
  May 15, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 452
• HB 386 In committee 114
  Children - As enacted, increases the age of an infant from 14 days or younger to 45 days or younger who can be received by a facility without the mother being subject to criminal liability. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2.
  May 15, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 420
• HB 393 In committee 114
  Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to pay from existing budgeted funds a monthly amount to a department employee for the medical care of a retired canine that served the department if the canine is given to the care and custody of the employee. - Amends TCA Title 4.
  May 15, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 436
• SB 415 Became law 114
  Education - As enacted, creates an advisory committee on innovations in K-12 education. - Amends TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
  May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 426
• HB 322 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of human smuggling; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 39.
  May 15, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 424
• SB 239 Became law 114
  General Assembly, Directed Studies - As enacted, requires TACIR to study the availability of housing and other treatment facilities for juvenile offenders who have been adjudicated delinquent and committed to the department of children's services, and the availability of local juvenile detention centers and other facilities for the housing and treatment of juvenile offenders who have been detained by the juvenile court prior to an adjudicatory hearing; requires TACIR to report its findings and recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 40.
  May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 418
• SB 1420 Became law 114
  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.
  May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 469
• SB 1089 Became law 114
  Courts, Municipal - As enacted, increases from $1.00 to $2.00 the amount of funds from the court costs collected in municipal court cases that must be forwarded by the municipal court clerk to the state treasurer for deposit and credited to the account for the administrative office of the courts for the sole purpose of defraying the administrative director's expenses in providing training and continuing education courses for municipal court judges and municipal court clerks. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 18 and Title 17, Chapter 3.
  May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 459
• SB 136 Became law 114
  Local Government, General - As enacted, authorizes a member of a local government's legislative body to participate in a scheduled meeting by electronic means if the member is dealing with a family or medical emergency, has been called into military service, or is unable to attend in person due to inclement weather. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8, Chapter 44.
  May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 411
• SB 1002 Became law 114
  Cooperatives - As enacted, specifies that the privilege tax exemption for subsidiaries of agricultural cooperatives applies without regard to whether the subsidiary was formed as a corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity, association, or body vested with the power or function of a legal entity. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 16, Part 1 and Section 67-4-102.
  May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 455
• HB 1270 In committee 114
  Education - As enacted, prohibits a public school, LEA, or teacher, employee, or contractor of a public school or LEA from requiring a student, teacher, employee, or contractor of the public school or LEA to provide the individual's preferred pronouns; makes related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 29, Chapter 20 and Title 49.
  May 15, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 453