Tennessee bills

Tennessee legislators · Data: Open States

State bill data last updated Oct 27, 2026, 8:04 AM.

9,112 bills

• HJR 633 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Buddy Templeton -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HB 764 In committee 114
  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.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 244
• SB 689 Became law 114
  Education - As enacted, requires the Tennessee higher education commission (THEC), to serve as the governing board of directors for the Tennessee student assistance corporation; requires THEC's review committee to aid in the development or revision of state financial aid; terminates the Tennessee teaching scholars program; terminates the minority teaching fellows program. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 234
• HB 1129 In committee 114
  Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, lifts certain restrictions on temporary borrow pits used to source material for a road work construction project performed in a FEMA-certified county under a contract for construction work entered into with the state that is part of a state or local Hurricane Helene recovery effort. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 1.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 230
• HB 266 In committee 114
  Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee bureau of investigation to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 38, Chapter 6.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 240
• SB 1137 Became law 114
  Secretary of State - As enacted, allows a litigation financier that is not a business entity or partnership to amend or withdraw its registration with the secretary of state by filing a form prescribed by the secretary of state, along with a filing fee of $20. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 16.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 271
• HB 646 In committee 114
  Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, authorizes persons to wear daylight fluorescent pink as a substitute for daylight fluorescent orange when hunting big game during gun hunts; deletes statutory definition of daylight fluorescent orange. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 70.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 220
• SB 946 Became law 114
  Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires an LEA that receives credible information regarding a threat of violence or significantly disruptive behavior directed toward, or occurring on the grounds of, a public school in the LEA, and that reports the threat or disruptive behavior to a state or local law enforcement agency, to notify the parents and guardians of students enrolled in the public school of the same threat or disruptive behavior within 48 hours of the LEA making its report to law enforcement. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 215
• HJR 621 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Marilyn and Vernon Holmes -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 601 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ellie Garland, Salutatorian, Powell High School -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HB 579 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds the offense of robbery to the definition of crime of violence. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 211
• HB 361 In committee 114
  Orders of Protection - As enacted, expands the courts in Shelby County that can hear a petition for an order of protection to include a criminal court when the criminal court is hearing a criminal matter involving a domestic abuse victim, sexual assault victim, or stalking victim; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 18 and Title 36.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 246
• HJR 615 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Branden Partson, Valedictorian, Cordova High School -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 616 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Earvonna Mathis, Salutatorian, Cordova High School -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 643 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Reverend Kenneth Paul Luckadoo -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 92 Became law 114
  Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee emergency management agency to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 58, Chapter 2.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 241
• HJR 678 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - Coach Jason Reuter -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• HB 589 In committee 114
  Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, creates the Tennessee agriculture and forestry hall of fame as the successor to, and a continuation of, the Tennessee agricultural hall of fame; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 6.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 226
• SB 206 Became law 114
  Game and Fish Laws - As enacted, authorizes persons to wear daylight fluorescent pink as a substitute for daylight fluorescent orange when hunting big game during gun hunts; deletes statutory definition of daylight fluorescent orange. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 70.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 220
• SB 1310 Became law 114
  Schools, Charter - As enacted, establishes a process by which the governing body of an existing public charter school may replicate that public charter school in the same district by applying to the local board of education or directly to the Tennessee public charter school commission; allows, in certain circumstances, a public charter school sponsor to apply directly to the commission to open a new public charter school; makes various changes to the state agencies responsible for performing certain functions in the Tennessee Public Charter Schools Act of 2002. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 275
• SB 554 Became law 114
  Medical Occupations - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Physician Workforce Information Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 49; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 213
• SB 376 Became law 114
  Education, Higher - As enacted, prohibits institutions of higher education from excluding a person from benefits, activities, and employment, or making decisions, based on a person's race, color, ethnicity, or national origin; requires such institutions to provide notice of such prohibitions; authorizes injunctive and declaratory relief for violations. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 245
• HB 1339 In committee 114
  Secretary of State - As enacted, allows a litigation financier that is not a business entity or partnership to amend or withdraw its registration with the secretary of state by filing a form prescribed by the secretary of state, along with a filing fee of $20. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 16.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 271
• SB 1140 Became law 114
  Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, makes changes relative to temporary group hunting event permits. - Amends TCA Title 58 and Title 70.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 216
• HB 927 In committee 114
  Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, clarifies that excepted benefits are not part of a requirement to provide coverage for a specific person, provider, treatment, service, condition, or disease, unless coverage of such excepted benefits is expressly required by law. - Amends TCA Title 56.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 210
• SB 916 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the definition of "racketeering activity" to include committing, conspiring to commit, aiding, attempting to aid, soliciting, coercing, facilitating, or intimidating another person to commit the criminal offense of animal fighting. - Amends TCA Title 39.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 264
• HB 243 In committee 114
  Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of mental health and substance abuse services to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 238
• SB 842 Became law 114
  Tort Liability and Reform - As enacted, clarifies that any governmental entity may purchase any of the insurance authorized under state law, without the necessity of public bidding, as required by any public or private act or charter restriction, if such insurance is purchased through a plan authorized and approved by any organization of cities, counties, or other governmental entities as contemplated by state law. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 12, Chapter 3 and Title 29.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 260
• HJR 609 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - University of Memphis Tigers football team -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HB 6 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to enroll LEAs' employees' children into the voluntary pre-kindergarten program if space is available after enrollment of at-risk children; authorizes LEAs to charge the employee tuition and fees for such enrollment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 225
• HB 1308 In committee 114
  Education - As enacted, makes various changes to reporting requirements, school and district accountability, the accumulation of excess instructional time, remote instruction, the immunization status of students in state custody, the individualized education account program, public virtual school enrollment, and certain course access program requirements imposed on the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 8; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 6; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 9; Title 49, Chapter 10, Part 14; Title 49, Chapter 16, Part 2; Title 49, Chapter 18, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 2, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 1; Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 31; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 41; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 50; Title 49, Chapter 1, Part 2 and Chapter 1005 of the Public Acts of 2024.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 235
• SB 497 Became law 114
  Tattoos and Piercings - As enacted, permits tattoo artists who have been licensed in this state for fewer than three years but licensed in another state for 10 years or more to receive a tattoo artist licensure in this state; requires the tattoo artist to provide the tattoo artist's signature on this state's tattoo apprenticeship completion application signifying that the apprentice tattoo artist has met the requirement of law. - Amends TCA Title 62 and Title 68.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 212
• HB 1385 In committee 114
  Education - As enacted, requires a school support organization and a group or organization that collects and raises money, materials, property, or securities while representing itself to be a school support organization to annually provide a detailed report of the organization's receipts and expenditures while representing itself to be a school support organization to the department of education by July 1 each year, unless the school support organization is a booster club, parent teacher association, parent teacher organization, or parent teacher support association; requires the department to publish the reports on the department's website for at least three years from the date on which the report was submitted. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 277
• HJR 632 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Coldplay -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HB 567 In committee 114
  State Symbols - As enacted, designates Nashville hot chicken as an official state food. - Amends TCA Title 4.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 273
• SB 915 Became law 114
  Highways, Roads and Bridges - As enacted, lifts certain restrictions on temporary borrow pits used to source material for a road work construction project performed in a FEMA-certified county under a contract for construction work entered into with the state that is part of a state or local Hurricane Helene recovery effort. - Amends TCA Title 54, Chapter 1.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 230
• SB 1024 Became law 114
  Education - As enacted, authorizes a state university board of trustees to conduct private meetings to discuss or deliberate on matters related to senior administration, personnel positions, and contracts, without taking action on such matters in a private meeting. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 14; Title 49, Chapter 4; Title 49, Chapter 50; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 267
• HJR 644 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - NHC Cookeville, 2024 NHC Center of the Year -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 606 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - Columbia State Chargers, TCCAA champions -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 88 Became law 114
  Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee bureau of investigation to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 38, Chapter 6.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 240
• SB 882 Became law 114
  Health Care - As enacted, adds that the governor's appointee for the health facilities commission who is a representative of the assisted-care living facility industry may be appointed from lists of qualified persons submitted by interested groups, including the Tennessee Center for Assisted Living; requires the commission to submit certain reports to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 68.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 263
• SB 755 Became law 114
  Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, creates the Tennessee agriculture and forestry hall of fame as the successor to, and a continuation of, the Tennessee agricultural hall of fame; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 6.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 226
• HB 1085 In committee 114
  Education - As enacted, prohibits a local board of education or public charter school governing body from removing a material from a library collection for the sole reason that the material is religious. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 270
• SB 741 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a criminal offense of possessing, distributing, or producing technology, software, or digital tools designed for the purpose of creating material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive; establishes relevant factors to be considered in determining whether artificial technology, software, or digital tools are used or possessed with intent to create material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive. - Amends TCA Title 39.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 257
• HB 1338 In committee 114
  Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, redefines "local government" to include a water, wastewater, or energy authority for purposes of the present law applicable to bonds and notes issued by local governments; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Section 9-21-133 and Title 9, Chapter 21, Part 4.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 218
• HJR 598 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dylan Kleparek, DeKalb County High School Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 613 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jada Lloyd, Salutatorian, Craigmont High School -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 76 Became law 114
  Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the local government planning advisory committee to June 30, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 7.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 239
• SB 576 Became law 114
  TennCare - As enacted, revises present law relative to the annual coverage assessment. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 252
• SB 64 Became law 114
  Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the department of financial institutions to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 4, Chapter 3.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 237