Tennessee bills

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State bill data last updated Oct 30, 2026, 12:04 AM.

9,112 bills

• HR 91 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - Rob Pautienus, 2024 WILLCO Awards Female Sports Coach of the Year -
  Apr 8, 2025: Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
• HB 1154 In committee 114
  Personal Property - As enacted, specifies that if the occupant of a self-service storage facility does not sign a written rental agreement revision and continues to use the facility for not less than 30 days from the date of receipt of the agreement, then the occupant is considered to have accepted the rental agreement revision; makes other changes related to self-service storage facilities. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 31.
  Apr 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 67
• SB 418 In committee 114
  Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, increases the amount that a person may recover in an action brought against a local governmental entity under the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act for claims brought on or after July 1, 2025, to $750,000 for the bodily injury or death of a person, $1.5 million for the bodily injury or death of all persons in an accident, occurrence, or act, and $250,000 for the injury or destruction of property of others. - Amends TCA Title 29.
  Apr 8, 2025: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 569 Became law 114
  Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, makes certain changes to the practice of pharmacy, including removing the present prohibition on requiring a patient to pay an administrative fee for pharmacist-provided hormonal contraceptives when the patient is insured or covered and receives a pharmacy benefit that covers the cost of the hormonal contraceptives. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 56, Chapter 32 and Title 63, Chapter 10.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 68
• SB 909 Became law 114
  Real Property - As enacted, requires a buyer engaged in wholesaling real property to disclose certain information related to the buyer's equitable interest in the real property to the seller and a subsequent purchaser. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 66.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 72
• SB 213 Became law 114
  Motor Vehicles - As enacted, authorizes the sale or purchase of previously titled antique or unique motor vehicles without a motor vehicle dealer license through auction formats held in Hamilton County that meet certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17 and Title 62, Chapter 19.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 60
• SB 515 Became law 114
  Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, extends by four years to June 30, 2029, the current 125-bed limitation on the number of new nursing home beds for which the health facilities commission may issue a certificate of need per fiscal year. - Amends TCA Section 68-11-1619.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 65
• HR 85 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Monica Woods, Walnut Grove Elementary School Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 8, 2025: Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
• SB 704 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the Class B misdemeanor offenses of criminal impersonation of a transportation network company driver and criminal impersonation of a private passenger-for-hire vehicle driver. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 39 and Title 65, Chapter 15.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 117
• HB 62 Became law 114
  Athletic Trainers - As enacted, authorizes athletic trainers to use dry needling to carry out the practice of prevention, recognition, evaluation, management, disposition, treatment, or rehabilitation of athletic injuries; requires the board of athletic trainers to establish minimum competency requirements for an athletic trainer to demonstrate in order to practice dry needling. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 76
• HB 582 In committee 114
  Tennessee Bureau of Investigation - As enacted, requires the bureau to classify offenders and determine whether the offender's offense qualifies as a sexual offense, violent sexual offense, or a violent juvenile sexual offense, and whether the offender is an offender against children; allows the bureau to rely on investigative reports, files of certain prosecutorial entities, court records, or other credible information to classify an offender; requires the bureau to notify the offender of the classification. - Amends TCA Title 40.
  Apr 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 66
• SB 335 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Voyeurism Victims Act." - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 2.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 62
• HR 88 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kelley Wheeler, Hunters Bend Elementary School Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 8, 2025: Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
• HB 693 In committee 114
  Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As enacted, makes certain changes to the practice of pharmacy, including removing the present prohibition on requiring a patient to pay an administrative fee for pharmacist-provided hormonal contraceptives when the patient is insured or covered and receives a pharmacy benefit that covers the cost of the hormonal contraceptives. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 10; Title 56, Chapter 32 and Title 63, Chapter 10.
  Apr 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 68
• HB 186 In committee 114
  Medical Occupations - As enacted, requires the board of medical examiners to register an applicant as a registered surgical assistant if the applicant maintains current credentials as a surgical assistant issued by the American Board of Surgical Assistants and satisfies other necessary requirements; removes December 31, 2019, as the deadline by which an applicant for registration as a surgical assistant must register with the board in order to be registered on the basis of certain practical experience. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 6.
  Apr 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 59
• SB 224 In committee 114
  Athletic Trainers - As enacted, authorizes athletic trainers to use dry needling to carry out the practice of prevention, recognition, evaluation, management, disposition, treatment, or rehabilitation of athletic injuries; requires the board of athletic trainers to establish minimum competency requirements for an athletic trainer to demonstrate in order to practice dry needling. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.
  Apr 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 76
• HB 459 In committee 114
  Secretary of State - As enacted, clarifies that administrative dissolution is permitted for certain entities if the entity files a signed document with the secretary of state knowing that it contained materially false information; permits administrative dissolution of certain entities if the entity is owned or controlled by a foreign government or foreign non-government person determined to be a foreign adversary by the United States secretary of commerce. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 38; Title 48, Chapter 24; Title 48, Chapter 245; Title 48, Chapter 246; Title 48, Chapter 249; Title 48, Chapter 25; Title 48, Chapter 64; Title 48, Chapter 65 and Title 61, Chapter 3.
  Apr 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 113
• HR 90 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Lauren Bacon, Crockett Elementary School Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 8, 2025: Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
• SB 886 Became law 114
  Real Estate Agents and Brokers - As enacted, exempts a real estate broker licensee who was originally licensed prior to January 1, 2005, and does not supervise any affiliate brokers from the requirement to furnish certification of satisfactory completion of 16 classroom hours in real estate courses for reissuance of a license for a licensure period after the period in which the licensee completed the required 120 classroom hours in real estate. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 13.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 122
• SR 6 In committee 114
  General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Affirms that the American Dream belongs to all of us. -
  Apr 8, 2025: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
• HB 1142 In committee 114
  Mobile Homes and Manufactured Buildings - As enacted, requires this state's definition of manufactured home to automatically update with the definition of manufactured home under title 42 of the United States Code, which currently excludes a self-propelled recreational vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 55 and Title 68.
  Apr 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 112
• SB 694 Became law 114
  Interest Rates - As enacted, increases, from 30 to 36 percent per annum, the maximum permitted effective rate of interest that may be contracted for by an industrial loan and thrift company on an unpaid balance where the amount financed is $100 or more; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 5.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 70
• HB 821 In committee 114
  Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, specifies that a prospective purchaser of tobacco, smoking hemp, vapor products, or smokeless nicotine products must produce proof of age prior to the sale being made; increases from 30 to 50 years the apparent age above which a seller is not required to demand presentation of proof of age. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 43, Chapter 27.
  Apr 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 118
• SB 559 Became law 114
  Personal Property - As enacted, specifies that if the occupant of a self-service storage facility does not sign a written rental agreement revision and continues to use the facility for not less than 30 days from the date of receipt of the agreement, then the occupant is considered to have accepted the rental agreement revision; makes other changes related to self-service storage facilities. - Amends TCA Title 66, Chapter 31.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 67
• HR 92 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - Cody Williamson, 2024 WILLCO Awards Student-Athlete of the Year -
  Apr 8, 2025: Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
• SB 1063 Became law 114
  Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As enacted, removes the requirement that a provider notify a patient of communication between the provider and a health insurance entity or healthcare facility concerning additional information needed to process a prior authorization request for the patient; removes the requirement that an utilization review agent notify the enrollee and the provider or healthcare facility when additional information is needed from the enrollee, provider, or healthcare facility to make a determination on the request for prior authorization. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 63, Chapter 1.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 125
• HB 775 In committee 114
  Interest Rates - As enacted, increases, from 30 to 36 percent per annum, the maximum permitted effective rate of interest that may be contracted for by an industrial loan and thrift company on an unpaid balance where the amount financed is $100 or more; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 45, Chapter 5.
  Apr 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 70
• HB 494 In committee 114
  Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, enacts the "Voluntary Portable Benefit Plan Act"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 65, Chapter 15, Part 3.
  Apr 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 131
• SB 1128 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, enacts the "Shielding Tennesseans from Oligarchic Power and Eliminating Lawless Obstruction of Necessities Act (STOP ELON Act)," which creates a new offense of interfering with an individual's or entity's receipt of a loan, grant, or financial assistance that the individual or entity is lawfully entitled to receive from the federal, state, or local government, with intent to deprive the individual of the loan, grant, or financial assistance, which is punished as theft; authorizes a victim of an offense to bring a civil action to recover the funds that the victim did not receive because of the offense. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.
  Apr 8, 2025: Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to 1st Calendar of 2026
• HB 1319 In committee 114
  Health Care - As enacted, extends the CoverKids program from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Section 71-3-1113.
  Apr 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 130
• HR 100 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - Dominic Reed, 2024 WILLCO Awards Football Player of the Year and Offensive Player of the Year -
  Apr 8, 2025: Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
• SB 119 Became law 114
  Mobile Homes and Manufactured Buildings - As enacted, requires this state's definition of manufactured home to automatically update with the definition of manufactured home under title 42 of the United States Code, which currently excludes a self-propelled recreational vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 47; Title 55 and Title 68.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 112
• SB 1051 Became law 114
  Notary Public - As enacted, adds that a person must complete a course of instruction and pass an examination to qualify to be commissioned as an online notary public; clarifies that an application to be commissioned requires a certification that the applicant has reviewed, understands, and will comply with the applicable rules and requirements promulgated by the secretary of state; adds that a course of instruction for online notarization must include, at a minimum, notarial laws, technology procedures of online notarizations, and ethical requirements for online notaries. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 16, Part 3.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 124
• SB 1308 In committee 114
  Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, in the event of a transportation system failure or other emergency, grants the commissioner emergency contracting authority to enter into contracts for design-build, construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC), and progressive design-build (PDB) services for the delivery of transportation projects; exempts the department from having to identify such contracts exceeding $100 million in its transportation improvement program submitted annually to the general assembly in support of its annual funding recommendations, if they are issued under such emergency contracting authority; makes other revisions to the CM/GC and PDB process. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 54.
  Apr 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 110
• HB 1320 Became law 114
  Transportation, Dept. of - As enacted, in the event of a transportation system failure or other emergency, grants the commissioner emergency contracting authority to enter into contracts for design-build, construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC), and progressive design-build (PDB) services for the delivery of transportation projects; exempts the department from having to identify such contracts exceeding $100 million in its transportation improvement program submitted annually to the general assembly in support of its annual funding recommendations, if they are issued under such emergency contracting authority; makes other revisions to the CM/GC and PDB process. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12 and Title 54.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 110
• HB 602 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, enacts the "Voyeurism Victims Act." - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 36, Chapter 3, Part 6; Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 2.
  Apr 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 62
• HJR 404 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kaitlyn Wagonschutz, Top Ten Senior, Hampshire Unit School -
  Apr 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 435 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Blair Nicole Baugus, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School -
  Apr 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 417 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Audrey Owens, Top Ten Senior, Zion Christian Academy -
  Apr 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 403 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tripp Robertson, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School -
  Apr 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 431 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Addison Sensat, Salutatorian, Mt. Pleasant High School -
  Apr 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 175 Adopted 114
  General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges Tennessee universities to adopt principles of institutional neutrality, free expression and civil discourse, and the preservation of a safe and respectful campus. -
  Apr 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 377 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Shae Klamert, 2025 Mule Day Court First Runner-Up -
  Apr 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 179 Adopted 114
  General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Recognizes mental health consequences of social media on K-12 students. -
  Apr 7, 2025: Received from House, refer to Senate Education Committee
• HJR 434 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Cheyenne Abrie McDonald, Top Ten Senior, Wayne County High School -
  Apr 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 327 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders Awareness Month -
  Apr 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 409 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Sadie Page, Top Ten Senior, Hampshire Unit School -
  Apr 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 401 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Tessa Statom, Salutatorian, Collinwood High School -
  Apr 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 394 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Corbin Smith, Top Ten Senior, Collinwood High School -
  Apr 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 414 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jack Willems, Top Ten Senior, Zion Christian Academy -
  Apr 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.