Tennessee bills

Tennessee legislators · Data: Open States

State bill data last updated Oct 29, 2026, 8:07 PM.

9,112 bills

HJR 500 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Mary Carol Perry, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HB 48 In committee 114
Veterans - As introduced, removes the market value cap used for calculating property tax relief on the primary residence for disabled veterans who are eligible for property tax relief and requires the state to fully reimburse such veterans for local property taxes paid for a given tax year on that property. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.

Apr 15, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
HJR 519 Adopted 114
Memorials, Retirement - Officer Robert A. Jackson -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 543 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Joi Wasill, 2025 Strong and Courageous Award from Welch College -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 505 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Rachel Luckey, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 515 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Southeastern Autorama, 65th annual car show -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 535 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Bella Bryson, Top Ten Senior, Cannon County High School -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 525 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Robin McCord, Cannon County School District Grades PreK-4 Teacher of the Year -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 520 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Nick Davis -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 531 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Thomas McGee, Top Ten Senior, Cannon County High School -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SR 140 In committee 114
Memorials, Retirement - Lanny Selby, Sparta Fire Department -

Apr 15, 2025: Recalled from Senate Calendar Committee
HJR 532 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - McCarlee Eubank, Top Ten Senior, Cannon County High School -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 503 Adopted 114
Memorials, Retirement - Hugh Harris -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 510 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Trinity Tabernacle Church of God in Christ, 59th anniversary -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 516 Adopted 114
Memorials, Death - Don Kelley -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 502 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Charlene Burpo, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 544 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Karis Community Health, 10th anniversary -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 530 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Henry Williams, Top Ten Senior, Cannon County High School -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 374 Adopted 114
Memorials, Sports - Penny Hardaway, AAC Coach of the Year -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SR 144 In committee 114
Memorials, Sports - Upperman Bees, TSSAA Division I, Class 3A state champions -

Apr 15, 2025: Recalled from Senate Calendar Committee
HJR 540 Adopted 114
Memorials, Death - William "Bill" Curtis Siler -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 523 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amanda Kreh, Cannon County School District Grades 9-12 Teacher of the Year -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SB 614 Passed Senate 114
Education - As introduced, requires, if a local government adopts a budget that includes the required maintenance of effort for education funding but fails to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA, the local government, in the following fiscal year, to appropriate and allocate the unfunded portion to the LEA; specifies that the maintenance of local funding effort required for a fiscal year following a fiscal year in which the local government failed to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA must be determined based on the amount budgeted to the LEA for the previous fiscal year instead of the amount actually appropriated or allocated to the LEA by the local government. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-314.

Apr 15, 2025: Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
HJR 509 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 521 Adopted 114
Memorials, Retirement - R. Kinney Poynter -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 527 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Courtney Nichols, Cannon County School District Principal of the Year -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 35 Adopted 114
General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes emergency telecommunicators as first responders. -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 534 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Katherine Fann, Top Ten Senior, Cannon County High School -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 512 Adopted 114
Memorials, Retirement - Officer Robert A. Jackson -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 588 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Alice Asako Walle -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 528 Adopted 114
Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sadey Grizzle, Valedictorian, Cannon County High School -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 511 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - First Peoples Bank of Tennessee, 50th anniversary -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 506 Adopted 114
Memorials, Sports - Ty Glasper, Class 2A Mr. Basketball -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 375 Adopted 114
Memorials, Sports - PJ Haggerty, AAC Player of the Year -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 542 Adopted 114
Memorials, Retirement - Pigeon Forge City Manager Earlene Teaster -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 498 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Shawna Dodds, Governor's Volunteer Stars Award -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 522 Adopted 114
Memorials, Public Service - Mayor Harold Patrick -

Apr 15, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HB 138 In committee 114
Education - As introduced, creates a special fund to provide grants to local education agencies and public charter schools for the acquisition, retention, or expansion of digital career and technical education curricula through platforms containing comprehensive courses with lesson plans, media rich content and activities, and interactive assessments. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.

Apr 14, 2025: Placed behind the budget
HR 12 Adopted 114
General Assembly, Review Or Ratification of Rules - Ratifies and approves the amendments and revisions to the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure, as promulgated by the Supreme Court. -

Apr 14, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
HB 94 In committee 114
State Inmates - As introduced, requires the state to pay for autopsies of deceased inmates and for any transportation associated with the autopsy. - Amends TCA Title 38, Chapter 7; Title 41, Chapter 21 and Title 68, Chapter 4.

Apr 14, 2025: Placed behind the budget
HB 1056 In committee 114
Education - As introduced, corrects the name of the Cumberland Museum and Science Center to the Adventure Science Center for purposes of receipt of appropriations of state funds made for educational grants-in-aid under allotments of the commissioner of finance and administration. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Apr 14, 2025: Placed on s/c cal Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee for 4/15/2025
HB 856 In committee 114
Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, lowers the standard for the use of deadly force to protect property; specifies that deadly force does not include the display of a weapon, the brandishing of a weapon, or the use of force in circumstances that do not result in death or serious bodily injury. - Amends TCA Title 39.

Apr 14, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
HR 109 Adopted 114
Memorials, Interns - Intern basketball team -

Apr 14, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 94, Nays 0, PNV 1
HB 1147 In committee 114
Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to submit an annual report, by July 31 each year, to legislative committees having jurisdiction over postsecondary education detailing, for each of the five immediately preceding academic years for which the corporation awarded scholarships, the amount appropriated by the general assembly for the scholarship program, the total number of scholarship applications received by the corporation, the total number of scholarship recipients, and the average scholarship award amount. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Apr 14, 2025: Placed behind the budget
HB 706 In committee 114
District Attorneys - As introduced, adds an additional assistant district attorney general position and criminal investigator position in each judicial district that includes a state correctional facility. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 16 and Title 41.

Apr 14, 2025: Placed behind the budget
HB 1023 In committee 114
Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires an enforcement officer to issue an out-of-service order to a driver issued a commercial driver license if the officer determines during a safety inspection that the driver is unable to read and speak the English language in violation of federal requirements for commercial driver license holders; applies penalties against employers of such drivers. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65, Chapter 15.

Apr 14, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
HB 468 In committee 114
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for reckless endangerment when the offense is committed by discharging a firearm or antique firearm into a motor vehicle from a Class E felony to a Class C felony, if the motor vehicle is occupied, or a Class D felony, if the motor vehicle is unoccupied. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.

Apr 14, 2025: Placed behind the budget
HB 333 In committee 114
Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, authorizes a firefighter with a rank equal to or higher than shift commander to continue in service beyond the mandatory retirement age of 62 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36.

Apr 14, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee of Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
SB 1331 In committee 114
Children's Services, Dept. of - As introduced, clarifies that on or before January 31 of each year, the department shall report information regarding child support to the general assembly and the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 41; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71.

Apr 14, 2025: Re-refer to Senate Calendar Committee
HB 401 In committee 114
Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, adds pre-kindergarten students with special education needs and their peer models to the categories of students who generate education funding through the TISA. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Apr 14, 2025: Placed behind the budget