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State bill data last updated Oct 30, 2026, 4:05 PM.

9,112 bills

• HB 808 In committee 114
  County Government - As introduced, authorizes a county to forgo the automatic compensation increase for county officers if the department of economic and community development determines that the county experienced substantial characteristics of economic distress in the preceding fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 24.
  Mar 19, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Cities & Counties Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
• SB 1179 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: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Government Operations Committee
• SB 656 In committee 114
  School Transportation - As introduced, extends the use of service of a conventional and Class D school bus from 200,000 miles to 230,000 miles. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 55.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
• SB 653 In committee 114
  Special License Plates - As introduced, exempts new specialty earmarked license plates for which the funds are allocated to, and used by, a nonprofit organization to support state historic sites from meeting the minimum initial issuance requirement of 1,000 plates and the minimum issuance requirement of 800 plates upon renewal. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
• SB 592 In committee 114
  Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, authorizes a landlord to submit a single registration form for a multi-dwelling property with the agency or department of local government that is responsible for enforcing building codes in the jurisdiction if the property contains five or more dwelling units; authorizes local governments to require residential landlords to register with the local government. - Amends TCA Section 66-28-107.
  Mar 18, 2025: Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 698 In committee 114
  Employees, Employers - As introduced, prohibits an agricultural employer from retaliating against an agricultural employee who asserts a protected right or based on the agricultural employee's immigration status; creates related protections and penalties related to agricultural employees. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 43; Title 50 and Title 68.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• HB 1004 In committee 114
  Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to award grants to local education agencies that operate or authorize at least one public school located in a county with a county juvenile offense rate that is at least 10 percent higher than the statewide juvenile offense rate to enable such LEAs to provide after school programs for students in grades K-12. - Amends TCA Title 37 and Title 49.
  Mar 18, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Education Administration Subcommittee of Education Committee
• SB 410 In committee 114
  Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, increases, from November 1 to December 31 to October 15 to December 31, the time frame during which a licensee under the Money Transmission Modernization Act must pay the annual nonrefundable supervision fee and submit its annual renewal report to the department. - Amends TCA Title 38; Title 45 and Title 67, Chapter 6.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 967 In committee 114
  Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, increases, from 30 to 45, the number of days a tenant or household member and a landlord have to agree upon a date to terminate a residential rental or lease agreement, provided the tenant supplies written notice and documentation to the landlord that the tenant is a domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking victim. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 13; Title 20; Title 21; Title 25; Title 26; Title 28; Title 29; Title 40; Title 62; Title 66; and Title 68.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SR 12 Adopted 114
  General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Deanne Dewitt, Tennessee Board of Regents -
  Mar 18, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SR 13 Adopted 114
  General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jeremy Harrell, Tennessee Board of Regents -
  Mar 18, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• HB 933 In committee 114
  Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to establish and administer a three-year artificial intelligence weapons detection system grant pilot program to award grants to eligible LEAs for the purchase of artificial intelligence weapons detection systems for schools without an artificial intelligence weapons detection system. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Mar 18, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Education Administration Subcommittee of Education Committee
• SR 11 Adopted 114
  General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Nisha Powers, Tennessee Board of Regents -
  Mar 18, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• HB 1220 In committee 114
  Birth Control - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Contraceptive Freedom Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Mar 18, 2025: Failed in s/c Population Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
• SB 552 In committee 114
  Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, extends from 30 to 60 days the period of time following delivery of a medicare supplement policy or certificate during which an applicant may have the premium refunded, and about which each medicare supplement policy or certificate must have notice prominently printed on the first page of the policy or certificate. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 13; Title 8; Title 55, Chapter 12; Title 56 and Title 71.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 1120 In committee 114
  Contracts - As introduced, requires that contracts entered into between a personal seat license (PSL) holder of 10 or more years and a professional sports franchise for the purchase of a subsequent PSL with an upgraded or improved seating classification include a provision that enables the PSL holder to purchase the subsequent PSL for the same price as the previous PSL; applies to all contracts for subsequent PSL purchases entered into for seating at stadiums in certain counties on or after the effective date of the act. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 16; Title 47 and Title 67.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 1243 In committee 114
  Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, requires an insurance company that is admitted to do business in this state and insures the tangible personal property of a policyholder who resides in this state to provide a discount to the policyholder through the policyholder's homeowners or renters insurance policy if the policyholder secures the policyholder's firearms in a firearm safe or uses a firearm safety device for the firearms and requests to receive the annual discount. - Amends TCA Title 56.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SR 30 Adopted 114
  General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Lowell Russell, Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission -
  Mar 18, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SB 466 In committee 114
  Civil Procedure - As introduced, specifies the damages that may be awarded against a person or commercial entity that publishes or distributes a website containing a substantial portion of content harmful to minors includes actual damages, nominal damages, and punitive damages; specifies that a person or entity that violates certain obscenity laws may be found civilly liable to an injured party for nominal damages, actual damages, court costs, reasonable attorney fees, and punitive damages; provides that the attorney general and reporter may issue guidance to assist commercial entities in complying with age requirements for websites containing a substantial portion of content that is harmful to minors. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 9; Title 47, Chapter 18 and Chapter 1021 of the Public Acts of 2024.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 403 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires a healthcare facility that accepts public funds as compensation for losses due to providing uncompensated care to ensure that an amount of outstanding patient debt equal to the amount of public funds accepted is designated as satisfied and that patient is notified of such satisfied debt; prohibits the healthcare facility from seeking a judgment or taking other legal action to collect from the debtor any portion of such debt that is so designated; requires the department of health and division of TennCare to submit an annual report on uncompensated care payments to hospitals. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 16; Title 18; Title 20; Title 21; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 45; Title 47; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Mar 18, 2025: Failed in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 42 In committee 114
  Natural Disasters - As introduced, creates the State Disaster Relief Program to be administered by TEMA for the purpose of providing grants to local governments where a natural disaster has occurred that does not exceed the threshold for federal disaster relief. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 2, Part 1.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State & Local Government
• HB 10 In committee 114
  Immigration - As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency in custody of an individual unlawfully present in the United States to request an immigration detainer and detain such individual for the maximum period as specified in the detainer; requires such agency to transport such individuals not taken into federal custody to a sanctuary city; requires department of revenue to request reimbursement for costs of detention and transportation of illegal aliens and to withhold federal petroleum taxes collected in this state if such reimbursement is not received. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 67.
  Mar 18, 2025: Failed in s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
• HB 1005 In committee 114
  Students - As introduced, prohibits local education agencies and public charter schools from suspending or expelling a student enrolled in any of the grades pre-K-2 unless the student's behavior endangers the physical safety of others; authorizes local education agencies and public charter schools to suspend such a student for such behavior for no more than three days if certain measures are taken before the student is suspended. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Mar 18, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Education Administration Subcommittee of Education Committee
• HB 559 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 18, 2025: Def. to Summer Study in Transportation Subcommittee
• SB 1088 In committee 114
  Landlord and Tenant - As introduced, reduces the time period, after which a landlord may terminate a rental agreement, from 14 days to seven days following notice to the tenant of a material breach of the rental agreement for the nonpayment of rent, the cost of repairs, damages, or another amount due the landlord under the rental agreement, or for an act of violence or other behavior that poses a real and present danger on the premises. - Amends TCA Title 66.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 1009 In committee 114
  Economic and Community Development, Dept. of - As introduced, creates the small business recovery grant fund, to be administered by the department, to assist eligible small businesses temporarily with costs incurred as a result of extenuating circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 50 and Title 67.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• HB 217 In committee 114
  Aircraft and Airports - As introduced, establishes a process for renaming an international airport governed by a metropolitan airport authority to Trump International Airport. - Amends TCA Title 42, Chapter 3; Title 42, Chapter 4 and Title 55.
  Mar 18, 2025: Failed in Transportation Committee
• HB 593 In committee 114
  School Transportation - As introduced, extends the use of service of a conventional and Class D school bus from 200,000 miles to 230,000 miles. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 55.
  Mar 18, 2025: Def. to Summer Study in Transportation Subcommittee
• HB 14 In committee 114
  Abortion - As introduced, clarifies that the term "abortion," as defined for the offense of criminal abortion, does not include the use of contraceptives, including any device, medication, biological product, or procedure that is generally intended for use in the prevention of pregnancy, whether specifically intended to prevent pregnancy or for other health needs, or the disposal of embryos resulting from fertility treatments, including healthcare services, procedures, testing, medications, treatments, or products. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Mar 18, 2025: Failed in s/c Population Health Subcommittee of Health Committee
• HB 1202 In committee 114
  Law Enforcement - As introduced, requires law enforcement agencies and officials to communicate with federal officials regarding the immigration status only for an individual who has been arrested for a criminal offense; sets a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for a law enforcement agency that does not comply to be enforced by the attorney general and reporter. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 40 and Chapter 716 of the Public Acts of 2024.
  Mar 18, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
• HB 1211 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 18, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Transportation Subcommittee of Transportation Committee
• SB 1006 In committee 114
  State Employees - As introduced, requires an employee in the preferred service system to file an appeal regarding an adverse employment action to the board of appeals not later than 10 days rather than 14 days after the date the employee became aware, or should have reasonably became aware, of the adverse action. - Amends TCA Section 8-30-318.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State & Local Government
• HB 86 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As introduced, specifies that the comptroller of the treasury is authorized to determine how soon after June 30 of each year charter schools are required to submit audits of their accounts and records. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 13.
  Mar 18, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Education Administration Subcommittee of Education Committee
• HB 556 In committee 114
  Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires all written driver license examinations to be administered in English only; prohibits the use of a translation dictionary, electronic device, or interpreter to assist a person taking the examination. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.
  Mar 18, 2025: Failed in s/c Transportation Subcommittee of Transportation Committee
• HB 788 In committee 114
  Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to provide a person with a free photo identification license at each location where the department issues a driver license or photo identification license if the person signs an affidavit stating that the person does not have a valid government issued photo identification. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 8 and Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.
  Mar 18, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Transportation Subcommittee of Transportation Committee
• SB 615 In committee 114
  Workers Compensation - As introduced, decreases from 10 business days to 10 calendar days, the amount of time the advisory council on workers' compensation has to provide a summary of a meeting after it has been conducted to each member of legislative committees with jurisdiction over commerce. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 1257 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 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• HB 455 In committee 114
  Health Care - As introduced, requires the Tennessee council on autism spectrum disorder to submit an annual report by February 1 of each year to legislative committees that details, at a minimum, the council's findings, progress on the comprehensive statewide plan and system of care, and recommendations for legislation. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56 and Title 71.
  Mar 18, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Tenncare Subcommittee of Insurance Committee
• HB 615 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 18, 2025: Def. to Summer Study in Transportation Subcommittee
• HB 924 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 18, 2025: Def. to Summer Study in Transportation Subcommittee
• HR 62 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Interns - Lauren Cabrera -
  Mar 18, 2025: Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
• HB 1048 In committee 114
  Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, requires the presence of one rather than two credible witnesses to be present when an officer of the commission destroys contraband distillation equipment, paraphernalia, and personal property. - Amends TCA Title 57.
  Mar 18, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee of State & Local Government Committee
• SB 13 In committee 114
  Boards and Commissions - As introduced, expands, from nine to 11, the number of members appointed to serve on the emergency communications board. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 7, Chapter 86, Part 3.
  Mar 18, 2025: Action deferred in Senate State and Local Government Committee to first calendar of 2026
• SB 888 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 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 467 In committee 114
  Obscenity and Pornography - As introduced, specifies that a commercial entity that knowingly possesses, promotes, purchases, produces, sells, sends, transports, or distributes obscene matter in violation of state law may be held civilly liable to an individual for nominal damages, actual damages, punitive damages, court costs, and reasonable attorney fees. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• HB 1284 In committee 114
  Traffic Safety - As introduced, requires the driver of a vehicle approaching a slow-moving or stationary farm tractor or implement of husbandry that displays an indicator that it is a slow-moving vehicle to reduce speed and move over, if possible to do so safely. - Amends TCA Title 55.
  Mar 18, 2025: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Transportation Subcommittee of Transportation Committee
• SR 42 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Megan High, Buckley-Carpenter Elementary School Teacher of the Year -
  Mar 18, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SB 302 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Consumer Protection and Subscription Renewal Act," which prohibits a business from requiring submission of credit or debit card information, or other payment information for an automatic renewal offer or continuous service offer containing a free gift or trial; makes other changes related to automatic renewal offers and continuous service offers. - Amends TCA Title 45; Title 47; Title 56 and Title 65.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 458 In committee 114
  Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian to the list of persons the commissioner of health must submit an annual report to on the work done by and under the commissioner regarding the general supervision of dentists and dental equipment in the various state institutions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 14; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 1403 In committee 114
  Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, extends from two to three weeks the period of notice that must be provided to a pharmacist or pharmacy prior to an initial on-site audit for each audit cycle by a covered entity, pharmacy benefits manager, the state or its political subdivisions, or an agent of such entity by sending written notice to the pharmacist or pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee