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

9,112 bills

• HB 1025 Became law 114
  Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, requires suspension of a minor's driving privileges or ability to obtain a driver license for a period of one year as part of the disposition if a minor is adjudicated delinquent for an act that would constitute the offense of harassment by bullying or cyber-bullying. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 7.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 292
• HB 1237 Became law 114
  Boards and Commissions - As enacted, prohibits the exclusion of persons from membership on state regulatory and health-related boards on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, and national origin; prohibits such boards from establishing or operating under race-based policies pertaining to their composition; removes requirement that appointing authorities strive to ensure certain boards and commissions are represented by members of racial minorities. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 9; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 294
• SB 1436 In committee 114
  Henry County - Subject to local approval, authorizes the county commission to appoint a minimum of three and a maximum of seven members to the board of trustees for the Henry County Hospital District; reduces the frequency of regular meetings of the board of trustees from monthly to quarterly. - Amends Chapter 176 of the Private Acts of 1953; as amended.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pr. Ch. 5
• SB 908 In committee 114
  Open Meetings - As enacted, specifies that the Tennessee One Health Committee is a governing body under the open meetings act; requires meetings of the committee to be open to the public. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 5; Title 8, Chapter 44; Title 43, Chapter 1; Title 58; Title 68, Chapter 1 and Title 70.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 286
• SB 874 In committee 114
  Agriculture - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Century Farms Act" for the purpose of recognizing the historical significance of family farms that have been in continuous operation in this state for over 100 years and to highlight their contribution to agriculture in and the economy of this state. - Amends TCA Title 43.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 200
• HB 1303 Became law 114
  Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, establishes June 30 as the expiration date for certain licenses issued by the department. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 1; Section 43-10-118; Section 43-11-405; Section 43-8-104; Section 44-10-203; Section 44-11-105; Section 44-6-104; Section 47-26-1010; Section 53-1-204; Section 53-3-105; Section 53-3-106; Section 53-7-216 and Section 53-8-106.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 207
• HB 23 Became law 114
  Election Laws - As enacted, defines "district," for purposes of municipal elections, to mean a district, region, precinct, sector, territory, ward, or other geographical area prescribed for the purposes of nominating and electing candidates. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 6, Chapter 53.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 187
• HB 1198 Became law 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: Pub. Ch. 206
• HB 1412 Became law 114
  Henry County - Subject to local approval, repeals an obsolete private act regarding the acquisition and operation of a nursing home. - Repeals Chapter 158 of the Private Acts of 1961.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pr. Ch. 4
• HB 861 Became law 114
  Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires LEAs to notify parents or guardians of a student at least 10 days before the student's individualized education program (IEP) meeting; requires LEAs to provide a copy of all evaluations and assessments of a student conducted for purposes of the student's IEP and, if created, a copy of a student's draft IEP, unless previously declined, to the student's parent or guardian at least 48 hours prior to a scheduled IEP team meeting. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 199
• SB 1149 In committee 114
  Funeral Directors and Embalmers - As enacted, authorizes a funeral director applicant who was not previously licensed in this state to substitute one year of apprenticeship with an associate degree from a college accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education or completion of a program of study in funeral service education. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 198
• SB 705 In committee 114
  Education - As enacted, requires that certain employees of state special schools receive the same leave and certain other benefits as employees of LEAs and public charter schools. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 50 and Title 49.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 284
• SB 1427 In committee 114
  Bedford County - Subject to local approval, abolishes the Bedford County road board. - Repeals Chapter 30 of the Private Acts of 1975 and Chapter 39 of the Private Acts of 1989.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pr. Ch. 3
• HB 123 Became law 114
  Mining and Quarrying - As enacted, revises certain requirements to file liens for the reclamation of abandoned coal mining lands. - Amends TCA Title 59, Chapter 8, Part 3.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 189
• SB 529 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As enacted, revises one of the definitions of a "nonprofit organization" for purposes of the Tennessee Information Protection Act to mean a public utility organized or regulated, instead of only organized, under the laws of this state. - Amends TCA Title 47.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 201
• SB 1277 In committee 114
  Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As enacted, revises the descriptions of existing state natural areas and designates new natural areas. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 1.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 190
• HB 1143 Became law 114
  Energy - As enacted, clarifies that a political subdivision that imposes requirements or expectations related to the type of clean or green, or renewable, energy used by a public utility in an ordinance, resolution, or other regulation must include certain sources of energy as permissible sources of clean or green, or renewable, energy, regardless of whether the political subdivision classifies the requirements or expectations as relating to clean or green, or renewable, energy. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 64; Title 65; Title 67 and Title 68.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 205
• HB 1188 Became law 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: Pub. Ch. 293
• SB 749 In committee 114
  Interest Rates - As enacted, removes the weighted average yield of the accepted offers of the Federal National Mortgage Association's current free market system auction and the 30-year treasury yield as the two bases upon which the maximum effective rate of interest on home loans may be set by the commissioner of financial institutions, and replaces them with the average prime offer rate. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 290
• SB 582 In committee 114
  Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to establish enrollment deadlines for voluntary pre-kindergarten programs so that at-risk students who will be four years old by August 15 must be enrolled by the beginning of the school year and students who are four-year-olds who do not have a disability or who meet the qualifications for enrollment at three years of age must be enrolled by August 30. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 192
• SB 444 In committee 114
  Children and Youth, Commission on - As enacted, creates the Tennessee juvenile justice review commission to review an appropriate sampling of juvenile justice cases and any critical incidents involving juveniles in order to provide the general assembly with findings and legislative recommendations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 37.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 281
• HB 743 Became law 114
  Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Debt Resolution Services Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 287
• HB 901 Became law 114
  Agriculture - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Century Farms Act" for the purpose of recognizing the historical significance of family farms that have been in continuous operation in this state for over 100 years and to highlight their contribution to agriculture in and the economy of this state. - Amends TCA Title 43.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 200
• SB 425 In committee 114
  Public Buildings - As enacted, expands public records exception to include residential information of local government employees. - Amends TCA Section 10-7-504.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 280
• SB 625 In committee 114
  Public Property - As enacted, clarifies exception to when a state entity must advertise for leasing space when the entity has requirements that are special and unique. - Amends TCA Section 12-2-114.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 202
• HB 695 Became law 114
  Taxes - As enacted, increases, by 15 cents over a 10-year period, and subject to a two-thirds vote of the county legislative body, the maximum mineral severance tax rate that may be levied by a county on all sand, gravel, sandstone, chert, and limestone severed from the ground within its jurisdiction; removes the authorization for Smith County to allocate its mineral severance tax to the county general fund or a fund other than its county road fund. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 7, Part 2.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 285
• HB 749 Became law 114
  Driver Licenses - As enacted, creates the Class B misdemeanor offense of operating a motor vehicle in this state with an invalid driver license; designates out-of-state driver licenses issued exclusively to illegal aliens as invalid driver licenses in this state. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 288
• HB 921 Became law 114
  Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, authorizes the commission to regulate the operation of sport shooting ranges rather than firing ranges; authorizes the Tennessee wildlife resources agency to establish fees for the use of such ranges in operation prior to July 1, 1998. - Amends TCA Title 70.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 203
• SB 256 In committee 114
  Appeal and Review - As enacted, authorizes criminal defendants who plead guilty, best interest, or no contest to also petition for a writ of error coram nobis based on evidence that was, through no fault of the defendant, unknown to the defendant at the time of the plea. - Amends TCA Title 40.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 282
• SB 1275 In committee 114
  Mining and Quarrying - As enacted, revises certain requirements to file liens for the reclamation of abandoned coal mining lands. - Amends TCA Title 59, Chapter 8, Part 3.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 189
• HB 601 Became law 114
  Appeal and Review - As enacted, authorizes criminal defendants who plead guilty, best interest, or no contest to also petition for a writ of error coram nobis based on evidence that was, through no fault of the defendant, unknown to the defendant at the time of the plea. - Amends TCA Title 40.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 282
• SB 811 In committee 114
  Education, Curriculum - As enacted, enacts the "Teen Social Media and Internet Safety Act." - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 195
• SB 1078 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As enacted, enacts the "Debt Resolution Services Act." - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 287
• HB 65 Became law 114
  Municipal Government - As enacted, authorizes a city incorporated under a city manager-commission charter to contract with a private entity for the development, construction, management, or operation of an indoor or outdoor sports facility under terms acceptable to the city if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 6.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 279
• HB 604 Became law 114
  Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As enacted, requires a law enforcement agency to provide records related to an accident, the persons involved in such accident, and persons involved in providing or selling alcoholic beverages to persons involved in an accident upon receipt of a request for such records by the commission; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 57.
  Apr 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 191
• SR 181 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Helen Emad Saba, Valedictorian, STEM Prep High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SR 214 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Vanessa Murrey, Salutatorian, Power Center Academy High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SR 220 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Neneh Darboe, Salutatorian, Southwind High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SR 161 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Olivia Balyeat, Valedictorian, Brighton High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SR 223 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Alexis Saldana, Valedictorian, Sheffield High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SR 183 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jennifer Gomez Ceba, Valedictorian, Pearl-Cohn High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SR 248 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Ellie Clark, Salutatorian, Greenbrier High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SR 218 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Quiyana Morris-Jones, Salutatorian, Kirby High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SR 187 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement -  Lena Zewdu Feleke, Valedictorian, Martin Luther King, Jr., Magnet High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SR 237 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tania Beyonce' Wright, Valedictorian, Early College High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SR 210 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sharon Valentina Cardenas Useche, Valedictorian, Overton High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SR 175 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jesse Zheng, Valedictorian, Bartlett High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SR 222 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sa'nya Harris, Salutatorian Sheffield High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SR 163 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Audrey Horton, Valedictorian, Munford High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SR 160 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Olivia Prescott, Salutatorian, Brighton High School -
  Apr 25, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker