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State bill data last updated Oct 30, 2026, 12:17 PM.

9,112 bills

HJR 269 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Michael Todd Henderson, John Trotwood Moore Middle School Teacher of the Year -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SB 483 In committee 114
Aircraft and Airports - As introduced, prohibits public airports that provide commercial services from entering into an agreement that authorizes a private third-party vendor that provides expedited security screening to use the standard security lane or the transportation security administration PreCheck security lane; exempts an agreement between a public airport and a private third-party vendor if the private third-party vendor has obtained dedicated transportation security administration security lanes solely for use by the private third-party vendor at that public airport. - Amends TCA Title 42.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
HB 431 In committee 114
Taxes, Excise - As introduced, enacts the "CEO Pay Disparity Tax Act," which imposes a pay disparity surcharge in the amount of an additional 0.1 percent to the standard 6.5 percent excise tax rate on each company whose top executive is paid at least 100 times more than the median income of the company's employees. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee
HJR 292 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Kelly Orr, 2025 Tennessee Arts Academy Teacher Hero -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 282 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Maegan Hickey, Cambridge Early Learning Center Teacher of the Year -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SB 945 In committee 114
Comptroller, State - As introduced, deletes antiquated language that required the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller to submit a report by November 1, 2018, to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives regarding the formation and operation of community schools. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
HJR 286 Adopted 114
Memorials, Death - Ann B. Lee -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 277 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Maria Seda, Haywood Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HB 1290 In committee 114
Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Hollyssee Act." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3 and Title 64.

Mar 19, 2025: Failed in s/c Business and Utilities Subcommittee of Commerce Committee
HJR 310 Adopted 114
Memorials, Death - Carl Dean -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 359 Adopted 114
Memorials, Heroism - Sergeant Cody Manders, Monroe County Sheriff''s Office -

Mar 19, 2025: Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
HB 1011 In committee 114
Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits an online payment system from freezing the funds of a user without first providing the user with a written notice of the online payment system's intent to freeze the user's funds; designates a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice pursuant to the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.

Mar 19, 2025: Failed in s/c Banking and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee of Commerce Committee
HJR 271 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - LaShonda Toran, Apollo Middle School Teacher of the Year -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SB 834 In committee 114
Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, requires the commission, in consultation with the department of finance and administration, to submit a report to the general assembly of the state appropriations made to each land grant institution in this state from 1987 to 2020, on a per pupil basis, by December 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 9 and Title 49.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 1042 In committee 114
Driver Licenses - As introduced, lowers the minimum age, from 25 to 21, that is necessary to receive an initial school bus endorsement. - Amends TCA Section 5-8-102; Title 49 and Title 55.

Mar 19, 2025: Failed in Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
HB 651 In committee 114
Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits a health insurance entity or TennCare MCO from including an all-products clause in a network participation agreement with a healthcare provider, and makes certain other changes related to MCO network adequacy. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.

Mar 19, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee
HJR 275 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jessica P. Ellis, John B. Whitsitt Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SB 951 In committee 114
Safety - As introduced, changes the reporting date, from February 1 to January 15, by which the commissioners of education and safety must jointly report to the governor and the general assembly on the implementation of the "Schools Against Violence in Education Act." - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
HB 544 In committee 114
Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, creates the commercial development board; with respect to new commercial property developed by private entities in certain taxing jurisdictions, authorizes the private entities to enter into agreements for payments in lieu of ad valorem taxes and leases with the commercial development board. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 13; Title 48 and Title 67.

Mar 19, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Cities & Counties Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
SB 779 In committee 114
Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to make the catalog of materials on source reduction and recycling created by the department available on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68, Chapter 211.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Energy, Ag., & Nat. Resources Committee
HB 978 In committee 114
Utilities, Utility Districts - As introduced, requires a utility governed by the Utilities' Cut-Off Procedures Act to publish its policy governing the discontinuation of service for nonpayment of service on the utility's website in a publicly accessible location. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.

Mar 19, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Business and Utilities Subcommittee of Commerce Committee
SB 701 In committee 114
Libraries - As introduced, prohibits libraries from banning, removing, or otherwise restricting access to a book or other material based solely on its viewpoint or the messages, ideas, or opinions it conveys, except as otherwise authorized. - Amends TCA Title 10 and Title 49.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 1025 In committee 114
Education - As introduced, deletes an obsolete section requiring the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee to, by December 15, 2014, perform a study on the economic feasibility of creating and utilizing a statewide comprehensive energy policy and submit its final report to the energy task force of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
HJR 313 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Anat Sultan-Dadon, Consul General of Israel to Southeastern United States -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SB 1044 In committee 114
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires a parent or guardian who wishes to enroll the parent's or guardian's student into an LEA or public charter school to submit one of the listed documents to the LEA or public charter school upon enrollment of the student unless the parent or guardian pays an amount equal to the amount representing the per pupil state and local funds generated and required through the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula for the LEA in which the participating student resides. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Mar 19, 2025: Failed in Senate Education Committee
HB 1384 In committee 114
Employees, Employers - As introduced, enacts the "Pay Stub Protection Act," which requires an employer to provide a statement to an employee on the employer's payday that contains certain information about the employee and the employee's wages and hours worked during the applicable pay period. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 50.

Mar 19, 2025: Rec. for pass. if am., ref. to Government Operations Committee
HJR 192 Adopted 114
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - John McCarty, Fish and Wildlife Commission -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 278 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Christina Johnson, Eagle View Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HB 1026 In committee 114
Expunction - As introduced, permits the expunction of a Class E felony conviction for official misconduct. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40, Chapter 32.

Mar 19, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee
HB 1291 In committee 114
Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires health insurance carriers to provide mental health coverage in parity with alcoholism and drug dependence coverage. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 39; Title 49; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Mar 19, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Insurance Subcommittee of Insurance Committee
HJR 274 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Elizabeth Tingler, Paragon Mills Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 283 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Deborah E. Whitman, 2024–2025 Metro Nashville Public Schools Support Employee of the Year -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SB 1335 In committee 114
Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, requires evidence of compliance with the financial responsibility law prior to registering vehicles; increases from $25 to $50 the coverage failure fee imposed by the department of revenue for the first failure to comply with the James Lee Atwood Jr. Law; increases that fee to $250 for a second failure to comply and to $500 for a third or subsequent failure to comply; allocates 50 percent of the fees to county clerks. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 12 and Title 55, Chapter 4.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
HB 1279 In committee 114
Zoning - As introduced, specifies that a privately owned property built after 1899 that is located in a tourism development zone is not subject to the authority of a historic zoning commission or a historic zoning law, rule, review guideline, or regulation, with respect to certain aspects of a project. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7, Part 4.

Mar 19, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Cities & Counties Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
HJR 289 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Centennial of the Scopes Trial -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SB 822 In committee 114
Education - As introduced, authorizes virtual schools to administer TCAP tests to their students in a virtual setting if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
HJR 279 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Alexandra R. Wood, Casa Azafran Early Learning Center Teacher of the Year -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HJR 288 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Bruce MacDonald and Cavender, 2024 Tennessee Walking Horse national Celebration World Grand Champion -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HB 319 In committee 114
Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, revises the definition of "residential property" for purposes of classification and assessment of property taxes to include property that can be sold and purchased as a single unit fee simple title, regardless of whether it is vacant, owner-occupied, rented, or detached or attached. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

Mar 19, 2025: Def. to Summer Study in Cities & Counties Subcommittee
SB 1408 In committee 114
Traffic Safety - As introduced, removes the prohibition on a person physically holding or supporting, with any part of the person's body, a wireless telecommunications device or stand-alone electronic device while operating a motor vehicle on a road or highway other than in a marked school zone or work zone; retains restrictions on activities such as texting on, reaching for, or watching or recording a video on such device while operating a motor vehicle on a road or highway. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-199.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
HB 832 In committee 114
Firefighters - As introduced, increases from within two weeks to 15 days after the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of any commissioner caused by death, resignation, disability, or forfeiture of office, and no later than 30 days prior to the expiration of the term of office of any incumbent commissioner, the time within which the chair of the commission must notify the appropriate association of the vacancy or expiration of the term when the vacancy or expiration results in an opening for that particular association to make recommendations for an appointment. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55 and Title 68.

Mar 19, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Cities & Counties Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
SB 588 In committee 114
Education, Higher - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee for Tampons Act," which requires public institutions of higher education to provide feminine hygiene products in all women's and girl's bathrooms and locker rooms. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 492 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.

Mar 19, 2025: Failed in Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
HJR 162 Adopted 114
General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Hanes Torbett, Fish and Wildlife Commission -

Mar 19, 2025: Signed by Governor.
HB 1296 In committee 114
Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, allows a retirement allowance increase equal to the percentage increase in the consumer price index if there is an over-collection of state tax revenue; requires this allowance increase to be used instead of the allowance increase in present law, which cannot exceed 3 percent. - Amends TCA Section 8-36-701.

Mar 19, 2025: Failed in s/c Public Service Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
HB 426 In committee 114
Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts a nonprofit religious institution from property taxes, under certain circumstances; applicable in Davidson County. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-212.

Mar 19, 2025: Returned to the Clerk's Desk.
HB 15 In committee 114
TennCare - As introduced, authorizes the governor to expand medicaid eligibility solely for the purpose of providing treatment for a patient with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease in accordance with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to negotiate with the centers for medicare and medicaid services with respect to the terms of such expansion. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 71, Chapter 5.

Mar 19, 2025: Action def. in Insurance Committee to First Cal. 2026
SB 596 In committee 114
Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires a motor vehicle exceeding 75 feet in length and hauling a load of poles, logs, or timber to haul the load on a trailer having an extendable and retractable rear impact protection or to be followed by an escort vehicle that is signed. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65.

Mar 19, 2025: Deferred to Summer Study
SB 746 In committee 114
Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a third grade student who achieves a performance level rating of "approaching" on the English language arts portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test, and who has earned an overall letter grade of A or B in the student's third grade ELA class, to be promoted to fourth grade if promotion is recommended by a majority of the categories of participants in a conference convened by the student's LEA or public charter school; requires a student promoted to fourth grade through such process to receive tutoring services for the entirety of the student's fourth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 1192 In committee 114
Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires the department of transportation to study the development of a new bridge crossing the Mississippi River and connecting to Arkansas. - Amends TCA Title 54.

Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee