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

9,112 bills

• HB 1255 In committee 114
  Civil Procedure - As enacted, requires, in a child custody order, the court to include written findings of fact as to whether the limitations in present law relative to restrictions in temporary or permanent parenting plans apply; makes other changes relative to child court proceedings; clarifies, for purposes of domestic abuse law, that "abuse" includes acts inflicted directly by the offending party or indirectly through a third party, including, but not limited to, a family member, friend, significant other, or coworker, on behalf of the offending party. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 265
• HJR 625 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Interns - Alex Nelson -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 279 Became law 114
  Military - As enacted, defines "working day" for purposes of determining the military leave and compensation available to state and local government employees who are members of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States who are called to active military service. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 33.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 243
• SB 1004 Became law 114
  Abortion - As enacted, clarifies the term "serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function" as used in present law provisions relative to criminal abortion. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 53; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 217
• HB 810 In committee 114
  Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes utility terrain vehicles to operate on county roads and state highways throughout the state, subject to certain restrictions. - Amends TCA Title 55.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 255
• HB 779 In committee 114
  Charitable Solicitations - As enacted, corrects a reference in the charitable solicitations law that requires educational institutions be approved as such by the Tennessee public charter school commission rather than the state board of education to be exempt from registration requirements. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 251
• HB 896 In committee 114
  Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, generally prohibits a governmental agency from adopting a rule or establishing numeric criteria or numeric limitations applicable to a contaminant, pollutant, hazardous substance, solid waste, or hazardous waste that relates to drinking water, water pollution control, hazardous substances, contaminated site remediation, air quality, or solid or hazardous waste handling unless certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 228
• HJR 614 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Alexis Chaunte' Smith, Salutatorian, Raleigh-Egypt High School -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 718 Became law 114
  Courts, Juvenile - As enacted, requires a juvenile court conducting a child custody, detention, or adjudicatory proceeding to conduct the proceeding in a dedicated courtroom provided by the county that is closest in proximity to an approved detention center. - Amends TCA Title 37.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 254
• HB 178 In committee 114
  Education, Curriculum - As enacted, establishes that family life curriculum must include age-appropriate instruction and evidence regarding the positive personal and societal outcomes associated with the method by which a person completes the following in sequential order: obtains a high school diploma or high school equivalency credential; enters into the workforce or pursues a postsecondary degree or credential; enters into marriage; and has children. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 13.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 224
• HB 377 In committee 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: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 245
• SB 1055 Became law 114
  Expunction - As enacted, reorganizes present statutes concerning expunction and specifies that facilitation, attempt, or solicitation of an offense that is presently eligible for expunction is also eligible for expunction. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 16; Title 38; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 57.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 268
• HJR 612 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Shelby Shaw, Co-Valedictorian, Craigmont High School -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 471 Became law 114
  Education, Curriculum - As enacted, establishes that family life curriculum must include age-appropriate instruction and evidence regarding the positive personal and societal outcomes associated with the method by which a person completes the following in sequential order: obtains a high school diploma or high school equivalency credential; enters into the workforce or pursues a postsecondary degree or credential; enters into marriage; and has children. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 13.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 224
• HJR 600 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Anna Askins, Valedictorian, Central High School -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 1385 Became law 114
  Public Health - As enacted, requires a medical laboratory supervisor to be readily available for consultations during all hours when tests are performed; prohibits a medical laboratory supervisor from being required to be on laboratory premises. - Amends TCA Title 68.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 232
• HB 829 In committee 114
  TennCare - As enacted, revises present law relative to the annual coverage assessment. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 252
• HB 1349 In committee 114
  Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires a county medical examiner to test for, and obtain certain information concerning, the presence of any drugs in a decedent in certain situations; requires the health science center to conduct certain studies regarding drug interactions and submit quarterly reports to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 272
• HJR 619 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - The I AM Fitness Training -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 856 Became law 114
  Bail, Bail Bonds - As enacted, allows a magistrate to consider hearsay evidence when determining whether a defendant should be released on bail pending trial and the amount of bail necessary to reasonably assure the appearance of the defendant while at the same time protecting the safety of the public. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 39 and Title 40.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 262
• HJR 635 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Javen Blanks, Valedictorian, Austin-East Magnet High School -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 594 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Interns - Trinity Vann -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 599 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Eleanor Wood, Salutatorian, Central High School -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 1281 Became law 114
  Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, requires that interest income accruing on investments and deposits as a result of the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee's collection of rates to customers of a water system or wastewater system operated by the authority be credited to a separate account and carried forward into each subsequent fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 64-9-107.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 274
• SB 1112 Became law 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: Pub. Ch. 270
• HJR 611 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jekiya Udell, Co-Valedictorian, Craigmont High School -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 629 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - The Harding Art Show, 50th anniversary -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 607 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Martin Daniel -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 835 Became law 114
  Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, allows a judge, hearing officer, or administrative judge to award a person or entity that prevails in an administrative or civil action brought against the person or entity attorneys' fees and costs incurred as a result of the administrative or civil action. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 5; Title 27, Chapter 1 and Title 57, Chapter 1.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 227
• HB 199 In committee 114
  Environment and Conservation, Department of - As enacted, requires an agreement or contract entered into between the commissioner and a county health department for the department to implement subsurface sewage disposal requirements to include authority for the commissioner to issue a variance in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 4.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 208
• HB 408 In committee 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: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 234
• SB 561 Became law 114
  Boats, Boating - As enacted, removes the monitoring requirement for boating safety examinations; replaces statutory fees for boating safety certificates and replacement cards with authorization for TWRA to set such fees. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 214
• HB 1139 In committee 114
  Water - As enacted, clarifies that if a point-of-entry treatment device is installed in a facility solely to soften hard water and, because of the installation of such a device, the house, building, or complex of buildings meets the definition of a public water system under the Tennessee Safe Drinking Water Act of 1983, then the facility constitutes a consecutive system, and is required to monitor the influent and finished water for hardness, alkalinity, and pH on a quarterly basis, and sodium on an annual basis, and report the results to the department of environment and conservation within 15 days of the end of the reporting period. - Amends TCA Title 68.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 233
• HB 437 In committee 114
  County Government - As enacted, authorizes a county that has adopted the County Sheriff's Civil Service Act of 1974 to rescind such adoption by a two-thirds vote of the county legislative body. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 8, Part 4.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 250
• HJR 628 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Retirement - Paul Thompson -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 290 Became law 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: Pub. Ch. 244
• SB 799 Became law 114
  Election Laws - As enacted, generally requires statewide political parties to nominate their candidates in primary elections for all offices for which partisan elections are held at the regular August or regular November election; authorizes, in a county in which a statewide political party nominated a candidate by a method other than a primary election in 2022 or 2024, the statewide political party in such county to continue to use such method with certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 2.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 259
• SB 101 Became law 114
  Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee Technological University, board of trustees, to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 49, Chapter 8.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 242
• SB 525 Became law 114
  Election Laws - As enacted, requires a three-judge panel to hear any civil action in which it is alleged that a proposed charter amendment ordinance that is to be submitted to qualified voters at an election is in violation of the Constitution or state law; prohibits an amendment to the charter of a home rule municipality from being placed on any ballot if the amendment is in violation of the Constitution or state law. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 20, Chapter 18.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 249
• SB 728 Became law 114
  Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes utility terrain vehicles to operate on county roads and state highways throughout the state, subject to certain restrictions. - Amends TCA Title 55.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 255
• HB 391 In committee 114
  Charitable Solicitations - As enacted, revises notification requirements regarding the provision to the secretary of state of solicitation materials to be used by a professional solicitor on behalf of a nonprofit organization. - Amends TCA Title 48, Chapter 101, Part 5.
  Apr 29, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 248
• HJR 637 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Yuqi Wang, Valedictorian, L&N STEM Academy -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 595 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - West Creek High School, 2025 TSSAA girls' traditional wrestling state champions -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 593 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Blount Memorial Foundation's Downtown Dash for Breast Cancer Charitable 5k -
  Apr 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HB 1088 In committee 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: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 215
• HB 1322 In committee 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: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 275
• HB 660 Became law 114
  Water Authorities - As enacted, generally authorizes the board of directors of a municipal energy authority to, as part of the transfer of a water and wastewater system, adopt and assume all or any portion of such regulatory powers, authority, duties, obligations, and oversight over the water and wastewater operations as were applicable to the municipal water and wastewater system pursuant to ordinances, resolutions, or other rules or policies that were in effect immediately prior to the transfer of such system to the authority; authorizes later amendment to such rules, regulations, and requirements. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 283
• HB 1316 Became law 114
  Driver Licenses - As enacted, prohibits the use of digital driver licenses and digital photo identification licenses for voter identification purposes; regulates the use, retention, and disclosure of data submitted by persons participating in the digital driver license system, including biometric identifiers; prohibits geolocation data from being collected for purposes of the digital driver license system; revises other provisions related to driver licenses. - Amends TCA Section 2-7-112 and Title 55, Chapter 50.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 297
• SB 1209 In committee 114
  Education - As enacted, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, or religion against a student or an employee in a public institution of education; requires public institutions of education to treat harassment or discrimination against students or employees, or resulting from institutional policies or programs on their campuses, motivated by or including antisemitic intent in an identical manner to discrimination motivated by race; requires Title VI coordinators to be designated to monitor antisemitic discrimination and harassment at K-12 schools and institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 293
• SB 436 In committee 114
  Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, adds mandating the use of biosimilar drugs as a cost-saving measure the bureau of TennCare may implement; adds that a health carrier, health benefit plan, or utilization review organization may require a patient to try a biosimilar product prior to providing coverage for the equivalent branded prescription drug; requires the TennCare pharmacy advisory committee to consider as a factor the use of biosimilar drugs in the committee's recommendation to the bureau of TennCare on any drugs to be added to the state preferred drug list. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 206