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State bill data last updated Oct 31, 2026, 12:09 AM.

9,112 bills

• HB 1207 In committee 114
  Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts the "Suicide Prevention Act of 2025," requiring the Tennessee bureau of investigation to establish a program in which a person may enroll to voluntarily waive the right to purchase firearms. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
  Feb 18, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SJR 4 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Piper Hyde, Youth Art Month Winner -
  Feb 14, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 12 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Sergeant Rick N. Finley -
  Feb 14, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 5 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Abigail Lawson, Youth Art Month winner -
  Feb 14, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HB 899 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As introduced, makes it a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 for a weather-related company to conduct certain weather modification activities. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 68, Chapter 201.
  Feb 14, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SJR 10 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Dr. Richard E. Berryman -
  Feb 14, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 13 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Franklin Dewey Shaffer -
  Feb 14, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 11 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - School Custodians -
  Feb 14, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HR 8 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - Kenwood High School unified bowling team, TSSAA Unified State Champions -
  Feb 13, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 92, Nays 0, PNV 0
• HJR 111 In committee 114
  General Assembly, Statement of Intent or Position - Urges support of DEI programs in the private sector. -
  Feb 13, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SR 8 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Patricia Ann Jones Murphy -
  Feb 13, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 31, Nays 0
• SB 398 In committee 114
  Boards and Commissions - As introduced, prohibits the exclusion of persons from membership on state regulatory and health related boards on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, and national origin; prohibits such boards from establishing or operating under race-based policies pertaining to their composition; creates a private cause of action against a board and its officers, employees, and agents for such practices. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21; Title 9; Title 62 and Title 63.
  Feb 13, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 758 In committee 114
  Medical Occupations - As introduced, establishes the scope of practice for anesthesiologist assistants, subject to regulatory oversight by the board of medical examiners as part of such practice. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Feb 13, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SB 4 In committee 114
  Courts, Supreme Court of Tennessee - As introduced, requires the expenses of the Tennessee supreme court to include each year an amount sufficient to provide the chief justice with a security detail to transport and accompany the chief justice on all official state business. - Amends TCA Title 16 and Title 17.
  Feb 13, 2025: Withdrawn.
• SR 10 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Delta Days at the Capitol -
  Feb 13, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 31, Nays 0
• SR 5 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Personal Occasion - Dr. Priscilla Davis, 80th birthday -
  Feb 13, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 31, Nays 0
• SR 7 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Retirement - Teresa Newton -
  Feb 13, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 31, Nays 0
• SR 3 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Robert Glenn Officer, Most Excellent Great Chief of The Grand Council of Knight Masons -
  Feb 13, 2025: Adopted, Ayes 31, Nays 0
• SJR 34 In committee 114
  Memorials, Retirement - Mary Nell Bryan -
  Feb 13, 2025: Re-refer to Senate Calendar Committee
• SB 648 In committee 114
  Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) - As introduced, prohibits the use of the power of eminent domain over real property in an expedited manner during a declared emergency. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 16; Title 29, Chapter 17; Title 54 and Title 58, Chapter 2.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 935 In committee 114
  Abortion - As introduced, adds the chairs of the judiciary committee of the senate and the committee of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over criminal justice-related matters to whom the department of health shall submit a report of each abortion procedure and the disposition of the aborted fetus or aborted fetal tissue to no later than January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year. - Amends TCA Section 39-15-203.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 649 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes recall elections in all counties for members of local boards of education. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49, Chapter 2.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
• HB 1172 Introduced 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires the district attorneys general conference to compile a yearly report detailing convictions made pursuant to the Terrorism Prevention and Response Act of 2002 during the previous year; requires the report to be provided to the general assembly no later than January 15 each year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 58.
  Feb 12, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• SB 611 In committee 114
  Education - As introduced, designates October as "Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Month" in all public schools; requires local education agencies and public charter schools to provide age-appropriate, research-based instruction related to fentanyl abuse prevention and drug poisoning awareness to students in grades six through 12. - Amends TCA Title 15 and Title 49.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
• SB 338 In committee 114
  State Symbols - As introduced, designates "Tennessee" by Arrested Development as an official state song. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 1229 In committee 114
  Sports - As introduced, changes from January 1 to March 1, the date by which each local education agency and public charter school is required to submit documentation to the department of education evidencing its compliance with the requirement to notify an association that regulates interscholastic athletics at the school in which the student is enrolled of a student's placement in foster care; removes the requirement that the department annually submit a report of this information to the education committees of the senate and house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 48 and Title 49.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
• SB 630 In committee 114
  Election Laws - As introduced, requires a candidate's name on a nominating petition to match the candidate's name as it appears on the candidate's voter registration record; prohibits the use of nicknames, abbreviations, and variations in spelling of candidates' names on ballots. - Amends TCA Title 2.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 917 In committee 114
  Tickets, Admission - As introduced, prohibits a third-party reseller from selling or offering for sale a speculative ticket; requires the division of consumer affairs in the attorney general's office to enforce the prohibition and assess a penalty of $5,000 per violation. - Amends TCA Title 47.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• HB 1234 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As introduced, excludes materials obtained by an individual teacher that are made available in the teacher's classroom to students assigned to the teacher's class from having to be identified in a list of library collection materials posted on the school's website; requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a policy for developing and reviewing classroom libraries. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
  Feb 12, 2025: P2C, ref. to Education Committee
• HB 1260 In committee 114
  Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, requires the department of finance and administration, in collaboration with the department of health and the bureau of TennCare, to apply for federal approval to import prescription drugs from Canada. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 12, 2025: P2C, ref. to Health Committee- Government Operations for Review
• SB 806 In committee 114
  Remedies and Special Proceedings - As introduced, requires that the trial for an unlawful detainer action be held no later than 14 days from the date the plaintiff filed the unlawful detainer motion; limits the scope of a hearing for an unlawful detainer motion based on nonpayment of rent to facts and issues related to nonpayment of rent; makes other changes related to judicial proceedings for unlawful detainer. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 66.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• HB 1221 Introduced 114
  Schools, Charter - As introduced, deletes antiquated language regarding the state board of education being an authorizer for public charter schools which expired at 11:59 p.m. on June 30, 2021. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 8 and Title 49.
  Feb 12, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 1336 Introduced 114
  Education - As introduced, removes an obsolete provision requiring a report be provided by July 1, 2024, from the department of education, after working in partnership with the state board and the Tennessee higher education commission, to legislative committees regarding implementation of legislation concerning student literacy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 8 and Title 49.
  Feb 12, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• SB 395 In committee 114
  Traffic Safety - As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor for failure to properly adjust headlights by a person or entity that installs tires on a passenger motor vehicle or truck that are larger in total diameter than the original equipment manufacturer's tires installed; creates a Class B misdemeanor for installing such tires so as to cause the bumper or frame to exceed the maximum heights established in present law. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
• SB 724 In committee 114
  Public Employees - As introduced, provides a five-day grace period for assistant district attorneys general and criminal investigators to submit expense accounts. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 7.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 616 In committee 114
  Food and Food Products - As introduced, prohibits the sale or offering for sale of any food that contains a live vaccine. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18 and Title 53.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
• SB 1000 In committee 114
  Insurance Companies, Agents, Brokers, Policies - As introduced, removes an obsolete reference to the length of the validity for an insurance producer license issued on or after January 1, 2007; changes, from March 1 to March 15, the date that a business entity license under the Tennessee Insurance Producer Licensing Act of 2002 expires biennially. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 640 In committee 114
  Right to Die - As introduced, creates a process whereby an adult suffering from a terminal disease may request medication for the purpose of ending the adult's life in a humane and dignified manner if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 32; Title 39; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 839 In committee 114
  Health Care - As introduced, extends from March 1 to April 1, the date by which the department of health must submit to the governor, the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over health a report with de-identified aggregate claims data on every inpatient and outpatient discharge that includes coded drug poisonings as reported for the calendar year two years prior to the current year by licensed hospitals to the commissioner of health. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 44; Title 47; Title 49; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
• SB 991 In committee 114
  General Assembly - As introduced, establishes parameters for biennial September sessions. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 1212 In committee 114
  Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, enacts the "Speak UP, Tennessee Scholarship Act"; requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to establish by rules a program that provides scholarships for students in grade 12 and at public institutions of higher education in this state who demonstrate artistic excellence in spoken word poetry through a competitive, performance-based selection process to pursue higher education to further develop their literary and performance skills. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4 and Title 49, Chapter 7.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
• HB 1370 Introduced 114
  Election Laws - As introduced, requires county election commissions to include three non-binding questions related to the legalization of marijuana on the November 2026 ballot; requires the secretary of state to compile the results of the non-binding, advisory referendum, publish the results on the secretary of state's website, and forward the results to the members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 2.
  Feb 12, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• SB 691 In committee 114
  Redistricting, Legislative - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to report to the general assembly which counties, if any, redrew precinct lines to ensure no split precincts in legislative districts. - Amends TCA Section 2-16-103; Section 3-1-102 and Section 3-1-103.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 798 In committee 114
  Education, Dept. of - As introduced, specifies that the office of early learning is required, by February 1, to provide an annual report to the governor and the general assembly on the status of pre-kindergarten programs, which must include, at a minimum, the number, location, and types of providers of pre-kindergarten classrooms and the number of at-risk children served. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
• SB 369 In committee 114
  Purchasing and Procurement - As introduced, requires local governments to obtain, when possible, three written quotations for purchases costing less than the threshold established pursuant to law but more than 40 percent of such threshold, or some lower amount as may be established by the governing body of the local government. - Amends TCA Section 5-14-204; Section 5-14-205 and Section 6-56-305.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 383 In committee 114
  Courts - As introduced, specifies that certain actions for declaratory judgments or injunctive relief regarding the legality or constitutionality of a governmental action must be brought in state court and that the privileges and immunities afforded to this state, state entities, and state officials under state or federal law are not waived for purposes of such actions. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3 and Title 27, Chapter 1.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 360 In committee 114
  Zoning - As introduced, prohibits the construction of correctional facilities, hospitals, and nursing homes in areas designated as 100-year flood plains; applies to all applications for construction permits submitted on or after July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 13.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 1375 In committee 114
  Sewage - As introduced, decreases from 60 to 45 days, the amount of time the executive director of the board of commissioners of a water and wastewater treatment authority has to annually prepare the operating budget of the authority and submit the budget to the board for approval prior to the beginning of the fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee
• HB 1228 Introduced 114
  Education - As introduced, authorizes the board of regents to produce and make available a copy of the board's tenure policy in an electronic format or in a printed, physical medium. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 49 and Title 62.
  Feb 12, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• SB 1259 In committee 114
  Children - As introduced, specifies that "neglect" does not include permitting a child, whose basic needs are met and who is of sufficient age and maturity to avoid harm or unreasonable risk of harm, to engage in independent activities, including traveling to and from school by walking, running, or bicycling; traveling to and from commercial or recreational facilities; playing outdoors; remaining at home unattended for a reasonable period of time; and other similar independent activity. - Amends TCA Title 36; Title 37 and Title 39.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee