Tennessee bills

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State bill data last updated Oct 30, 2026, 4:16 AM.

9,112 bills

• SR 76 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Shawndra L. Armstrong, East Nashville Middle School Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SB 472 In committee 114
  Education - As enacted, requires all residential educational programs in this state that allow minors to participate or to access residential facilities, including staying overnight in such facilities, to segregate certain restrooms, changing areas, and showers by immutable biological sex. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 134
• HB 1157 Became law 114
  Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, enacts the "Restore Trust in Public Health Messaging Act." - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 68.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 108
• HB 100 Became law 114
  Utilities, Utility Districts - As enacted, authorizes the members of the board of directors of energy authorities formed under the Municipal Energy Authority Act to receive certain additional compensation for attendance at meetings for each additional utility system over which the board has jurisdiction and health insurance coverage. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 34; Title 7, Chapter 36 and Title 7, Chapter 52.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 78
• HB 276 Became law 114
  Sunset Laws - As enacted, extends the Tennessee opioid abatement council to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 33, Chapter 11.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 92
• SR 99 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Cheryl Wilson, 2024-2025 Isaiah T. Creswell Middle School of the Arts Teacher of the Year and Metro Nashville Public Schools Teacher of the Year finalist -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• HB 817 Became law 114
  Trusts - As enacted, establishes as a default rule of state trust law that a beneficiary is a non-fiduciary unless appointed in such capacity, and makes certain other changes relative to trusts. - Amends TCA Title 30 and Title 35.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 101
• SB 247 In committee 114
  Real Property - As enacted, clarifies that property that is qualified as agricultural, forest land, or open space land, owned by two individuals, and held under the titles of tenancy by the entireties or of joint tenancy with right of survivorship, is deemed to have unchanged ownership upon the death of an owner if the property is retained by the other owner through a right of survivorship or upon the divorce of the owners if the property is retained by either owner through division and distribution of property in the divorce proceeding. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 2; Title 11, Chapter 15 and Title 67, Chapter 5.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 138
• SR 97 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Molly Gillis, 2024-2025 Warner Elementary School Teacher of the Year and Metro Nashville Public Schools Teacher of the Year finalist -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SR 115 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Joni Wells, Napier Elementary School Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• HB 102 Became law 114
  Adoption - As enacted, changes from 21 to 18 the age at which certain adoption records must be made available to certain adopted persons; makes various other changes regarding adoption records. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 79
• SB 978 In committee 114
  Statutes and Codification - As enacted, changes all TCA references from "adult day care" to "adult day services." - Amends TCA Section 4-3-1205; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 18; Title 52, Chapter 8; Section 68-1-904; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2 and Title 71.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 87
• HB 1169 Became law 114
  Children - As enacted, requires on or before June 30, 2026, and each June 30 thereafter, the council on children's mental health care to submit a report to certain officials regarding the status of the statewide system of care for children's mental health and the service delivery system and the status of children's mental health in this state. - Amends TCA Title 37, Chapter 3.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 109
• SB 462 In committee 114
  Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates the month of November as "Diabetes Awareness Month." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2, Part 1.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 139
• SB 323 In committee 114
  Tennessee Fish & Wildlife Commission - As enacted, authorizes the commission to name real property, infrastructure, improvements to infrastructure, or features under the agency’s jurisdiction. - Amends TCA Section 3-2-112; Section 4-1-412 and Title 70, Chapter 1, Part 2.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 141
• SR 96 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Brittany Beech, Rose Park Middle School Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• HB 499 Became law 114
  Business and Commerce - As enacted, requires that, in order to resign an agency appointment, a registered agent file a certification with the secretary of state that the agent has mailed written notice of the agent's resignation, instead of a copy of the original statement of resignation, to the principal office of the entity employing the agent. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 38, Part 1; Title 48, Chapter 15; Title 48, Chapter 208; Title 48, Chapter 249; Title 48, Chapter 25; Title 48, Chapter 55; Title 48, Chapter 65; Title 61, Chapter 1; Title 61, Chapter 2 and Title 61, Chapter 3.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 97
• SR 88 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Shelby Crandall, East Nashville Magnet High School Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SB 146 In committee 114
  Education - As enacted, specifies that in an educational neglect case a subpoena may be issued for a student's attendance record, including all previous school years that the student attended a public school, in accordance with relevant privacy laws. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 133
• SB 429 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class B misdemeanor for knowingly activating and pointing a laser pointer or other device utilizing a laser beam at a person driving an automobile, boat, aircraft, or any other motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 39.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 88
• HB 375 Became law 114
  Local Government, General - As enacted, requires each department, agency, or official of a local government that assesses and collects a fee of more than $250 to document the justification and cost basis of the fee; makes such documentation a public record; subjects such documentation to an annual audit by the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 29.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 140
• SB 683 In committee 114
  Education - As enacted, authorizes a local education agency to implement the law enforcement against drugs and violence (L.E.A.D.) program in schools operated by the LEA; authorizes an LEA's implementation of the L.E.A.D. program to be in lieu of the DARE program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 49, Chapter 1.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 95
• SB 1267 In committee 114
  Adoption - As enacted, changes from 21 to 18 the age at which certain adoption records must be made available to certain adopted persons; makes various other changes regarding adoption records. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1, Part 1.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 79
• HB 1341 Became law 114
  Secretary of State - As enacted, establishes a complaint process with the secretary of state for any person who contends that the person’s name or address was included on a document filed with the secretary of state without the person’s consent. - Amends TCA Title 48.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 152
• SR 82 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jonathan M. Smith, Madison Middle School Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SR 72 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Interns - Omar Watkins -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• HB 120 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates the offense of intentionally impeding or obstructing a member of the division of protective services from ingress to, egress from, or movement about a location where the member is responsible for a person protected by the division of protective services; creates the offense of intentionally refusing to vacate an area where access has been restricted by a member of the division of protective services for the purpose of maintaining the safety or security of the person being protected. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 39.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 84
• SB 1074 In committee 114
  Economic and Community Development - As enacted, prohibits an employer seeking to receive an economic development incentive from the state from entering into a community benefits agreement or similar legal contract if the agreement or contract imposes obligations or conditions on the employer regarding employment practices, benefits, or operations that are not directly related to the performance of the employer’s duties under the economic development incentive. - Amends TCA Title 4.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 151
• SR 113 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Shaye Watson, Ivanetta H. Davis Early Learning Center Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• HB 207 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the offense of organized retail crime to include certain acts, including knowingly using an online marketplace or social media platform to coordinate a meeting with one or more persons to sell, barter, or trade stolen merchandise for monetary or other gain; increases the punishment for the offense under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 14.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 89
• HB 157 Became law 114
  Statutes and Codification - As enacted, changes all TCA references from "adult day care" to "adult day services." - Amends TCA Section 4-3-1205; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 18; Title 52, Chapter 8; Section 68-1-904; Title 68, Chapter 11, Part 2 and Title 71.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 87
• SR 52 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - National Arab American Heritage Month -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• HB 119 Became law 114
  Financial Responsibility Law - As enacted, requires the commissioner of revenue, instead of the commissioner of safety, to issue a certificate stating that a cash deposit or bond in the amount required by the Tennessee Financial Responsibility Law of 1977 has been paid or filed with the commissioner of revenue. - Amends TCA Section 55-12-139.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 83
• SR 92 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jade Wilkison, Nashville School of the Arts Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SR 84 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Linda Bean, Moses McKissack Middle School Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SB 780 In committee 114
  Driver Licenses - As enacted, authorizes an honorably discharged member of the national guard to receive "veteran" designation on driver license; specifies documentation that must be provided to receive such designation. - Amends TCA Section 55-50-354.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 148
• HB 382 Became law 114
  Education - As enacted, authorizes a local education agency to implement the law enforcement against drugs and violence (L.E.A.D.) program in schools operated by the LEA; authorizes an LEA's implementation of the L.E.A.D. program to be in lieu of the DARE program. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17 and Title 49, Chapter 1.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 95
• HB 1136 Became law 114
  Public Utility Commission - As enacted, prohibits the commission from exercising regulatory authority over the entry of, rates for, or terms or conditions used by a broadband internet access service or interconnected VoIP service, or from treating a provider of such services as a carrier; makes other changes related to broadband services. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 65.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 107
• SB 1300 In committee 114
  Financial Responsibility Law - As enacted, requires the commissioner of revenue, instead of the commissioner of safety, to issue a certificate stating that a cash deposit or bond in the amount required by the Tennessee Financial Responsibility Law of 1977 has been paid or filed with the commissioner of revenue. - Amends TCA Section 55-12-139.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 83
• SR 112 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Katie H. Liggett, Ida B. Wells Elementary School Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• HB 498 Became law 114
  Health Care - As enacted, creates the advisory task force on state reimbursement rates to make recommendations on annual adjustments to the reimbursement rates paid to agencies that perform healthcare functions and services, the purpose of which is to ensure such reimbursement rates are adequate. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62 and Title 63.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 144
• SB 509 In committee 114
  Purchasing and Procurement - As enacted, authorizes a local government to execute a cooperative purchasing agreement with other local, state, and federal governmental entities for purposes of purchasing materials, labor, and services used for maintenance, operations, component replacement, or repairs of existing facilities and grounds owned or operated by a local education agency or by a local government agency. - Amends TCA Section 12-3-1205.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 98
• SR 117 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Montavious Thomas, Robert Churchwell Elementary School Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SB 556 In committee 114
  Public Utility Commission - As enacted, prohibits the commission from exercising regulatory authority over the entry of, rates for, or terms or conditions used by a broadband internet access service or interconnected VoIP service, or from treating a provider of such services as a carrier; makes other changes related to broadband services. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 65.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 107
• SB 1309 In committee 114
  Workers Compensation - As enacted, increases, from 30 to 35, the minimum age for an individual to serve as a judge on the workers' compensation appeals board; increases, from two to three, the number of additional terms to which a judge of the workers' compensation appeals board may be reappointed; makes other changes related to workers' compensation. - Amends TCA Title 50, Chapter 6, Part 2.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 86
• SR 80 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Lyndell Edmondson, John Early Middle School Teacher of the Year -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SR 50 Adopted 114
  Naming and Designating - Athletic Training Month, March 2025 -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SR 105 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Dr. Miriam Harrington, Metro Nashville Public Schools Principal of the Year finalist -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• HB 1096 Became law 114
  Economic and Community Development - As enacted, prohibits an employer seeking to receive an economic development incentive from the state from entering into a community benefits agreement or similar legal contract if the agreement or contract imposes obligations or conditions on the employer regarding employment practices, benefits, or operations that are not directly related to the performance of the employer’s duties under the economic development incentive. - Amends TCA Title 4.
  Apr 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 151
• SR 101 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Chara Rand, 2024–2025 Metro Nashville Public Schools Principal of the Year and Middle School Principal of the Year -
  Apr 4, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures