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State bill data last updated Oct 31, 2026, 8:08 AM.

9,112 bills

• SB 199 In committee 114
  Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to take reasonable measures to publicize the availability of the option to designate in the Vehicle Title and Registration System (VTRS) database a driver's need for assistance with expressive language or communicating needs due to an intellectual or developmental disability or medical condition; authorizes the department of safety to take such measures with respect to the voluntary designation on a driver license or identification of an intellectual or developmental disability or medical condition. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.
  Feb 10, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
• HB 1062 Introduced 114
  Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, increases, from three to five days after receipt, the maximum time that the department has to publish on the department's website a notice of intent to appeal a final order by the board of water quality, oil and gas or an administrative judge. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 66; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 4; Title 68 and Title 69.
  Feb 10, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• SB 250 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for recklessly storing a firearm in a manner that a person knows or reasonably should know will allow a child younger than 18 years of age to access the firearm and the child brings the firearm to a school. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
  Feb 10, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 272 In committee 114
  Guardians and Conservators - As introduced, requires a hearing on a petitioner for the appointment of a guardian or conservator to be held within 90 days, rather than 60 days, from the date of service on the respondent or the date a guardian ad litem was appointed. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 25; Title 26; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 30; Title 31; Title 32; Title 34; Title 35 and Title 36.
  Feb 10, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SJR 24 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee Federation of Republican Women, 70th anniversary -
  Feb 10, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HB 814 In committee 114
  Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, authorizes a county legislative body to elect not to permit persons within the county to lawfully carry a handgun without a handgun carry permit by passage of a resolution; requires a county that has passed such a resolution to provide notice to persons present within the county by posting notice of the resolution in conspicuous public locations throughout the county. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
  Feb 10, 2025: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
• HB 994 Introduced 114
  Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, changes from March 31 to February 1, the date by which each region must submit its annual report to the commissioner of environment and conservation for the immediately preceding calendar year that includes data on collection, recycling, transportation, disposal, public costs, and other information deemed relevant to solid waste planning and management. - Amends TCA Title 68 and Title 69.
  Feb 10, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 1079 Introduced 114
  Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, removes an obsolete requirement for the commissioner to conduct a study of this state's insurance laws to determine what impediments, if any, exist under the laws or policies that may be deterrents for insurance companies in this state to underwrite policies of insurance to insure a person who has used force that is justified, including deadly force, in protecting such person's self or property, and to report the results of the study to the general assembly no later than March 1, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 10, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 1119 Introduced 114
  Public Health - As introduced, requires the attorney general to report to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives certain information regarding violations of the prohibition against using medical procedures to enable a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex or to treat purported discomfort or distress from discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 14; Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 34; Title 36; Title 37; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 10, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 887 In committee 114
  Lobbying, Lobbyists - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Foreign Adversary and Chinese Military Company Disclosure and Accountability Act." - Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 6; Title 4; Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 5 and Title 58, Chapter 2.
  Feb 10, 2025: Assigned to s/c Public Service Subcommittee
• SB 237 In committee 114
  Juvenile Offenders - As introduced, requires a juvenile 16 years of age or older accused of a delinquent act to be transferred from juvenile court to criminal court to be tried as an adult if the juvenile has a prior adjudication of delinquency for any offense and the juvenile court finds probable cause to believe the juvenile committed the delinquent act. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39 and Chapter 1007 of the Public Acts of 2024.
  Feb 10, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• HB 680 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.
  Feb 10, 2025: Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
• HB 1114 Introduced 114
  Children and Youth, Commission on - As introduced, changes from September 1 to October 1 the date by which the commission must make budget recommendations for the following fiscal year to the governor, finance committees of the house and senate, legislative budget offices, and affected state departments. - Amends TCA Title 16; Title 33; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41 and Title 49.
  Feb 10, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 841 In committee 114
  Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, establishes the promising futures early learning scholarship program and a fund to provide scholarships for high-quality early learning programs from excess lottery revenues. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 51; Title 37, Chapter 5, Part 5; Title 49 and Title 71, Chapter 3.
  Feb 10, 2025: Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
• SB 205 In committee 114
  TennCare - As introduced, requires a TennCare health benefit plan renewed or issued on or after July 1, 2025, by a health insurance carrier to provide coverage and reimbursement for biomarker testing for preeclampsia in pregnant women. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 10, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• HB 697 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.
  Feb 10, 2025: Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
• SB 1057 Introduced 114
  Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision that required the comptroller of the treasury, in conjunction with any appropriate TennCare drug utilization review committees, to study the use of prescription drugs in nursing homes and the costs of those prescription drugs for residents of nursing homes; to examine prescription use overall; to focus on any practices that would improve the quality of resident care while reducing costs to the TennCare program; and to report by January 1, 2005, to speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 33 and Title 71.
  Feb 10, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 881 In committee 114
  Water Pollution - As introduced, removes requirement that installers of subsurface sewage disposal systems pay a renewal fee as a condition to renewing a septic system installer license; maintains initial permit and fee requirement for such installers. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221.
  Feb 10, 2025: Assigned to s/c Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee
• SB 545 Introduced 114
  Secretary of State - As introduced, 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.
  Feb 10, 2025: Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
• SB 201 In committee 114
  Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, changes from January 1 to January 15 the date by which the department of transportation must submit its annual report on the status of projects funded by the transportation modernization fund. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65 and Title 67.
  Feb 10, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
• HB 984 Introduced 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 10, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 914 In committee 114
  Education, Curriculum - As introduced, requires each local education agency and public charter school to review any new family life curricula recommended by the joint task force on children's justice and child sexual abuse prior to the start of each school year. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 49.
  Feb 10, 2025: Assigned to s/c Education Instruction Subcommittee
• SJR 6003 Adopted 114S1
  Memorials, Recognition - Lori Cutler, 2025 Leadership Rutherford Pinnacle Award -
  Feb 10, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 287 In committee 114
  Telecommunications - As introduced, removes a requirement that the comptroller report to the general assembly, not later than January 31, 2008, with recommendations regarding whether the pilot project that authorized certain municipal electric systems to provide services beyond their service area with certain limitations should be continued or expanded to other systems. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 35, Chapter 8, Part 1; Section 37-10-204; Section 38-6-121; Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 10, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 578 Introduced 114
  Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates December 14 of each year as "Hazel Moore Day." - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 4.
  Feb 10, 2025: Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
• SB 385 Introduced 114
  Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department, on a monthly basis, to analyze electronic benefit card data to identify food assistance recipients who have made purchases out of state for 90 consecutive days or more, send written notice to the identified recipients to request proof of in-state residency, and remove any recipients who fail to provide proof of Tennessee residency or fail to respond within 30 days; prohibits the department from granting a homelessness exception to work requirements unless the department has verified that the recipient is a homeless individual based on certain proof. - Amends TCA Title 71.
  Feb 10, 2025: Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
• HB 991 Introduced 114
  Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, allows, instead of requires, the governor to consult with medical groups in making appointments to the board of medical examiners. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Feb 10, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• SB 1251 Introduced 114
  Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the report on drug overdoses by a student enrolled in grades K-12 to be reported to the public school officials within seven business days of the diagnosis or treatment of such a student. - Amends TCA Title 28; Title 29; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 7, 2025: Sponsor change.
• HB 639 Introduced 114
  Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, extends from five to 10 days the amount of time a law enforcement officer has to file a written informational statement with the county court clerk after taking possession of illicit intoxicating liquors. - Amends TCA Title 57.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 740 Introduced 114
  Health Care - As introduced, removes an obsolete provision that required, on or before January 15, 2018, the commissioner of health, in consultation with the perinatal advisory committee and with the assistance of relevant state agencies, to report to legislative committees with jurisdiction over health care concerning aspects of births involving neonatal abstinence syndrome and opioid use by women of childbearing age. - Amends TCA Title 14; Title 33; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 893 Introduced 114
  Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to make available a list of the registered withdrawals of 10,000 or more gallons of water per day from a surface water or a groundwater source in a publicly accessible place on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 59; Title 65; Title 66; Title 68 and Title 69.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 844 Introduced 114
  Comptroller, State - As introduced, deletes an antiquated section that required the office of research and education in the office of the comptroller to study and report on the formation and operation of community schools to legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over education by November 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 847 Introduced 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 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HJR 65 In committee 114
  Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to pass the SCREEN Act, -
  Feb 6, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 916 Introduced 114
  Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, requires, by September 1, 2025, the registry of election finance to issue a report to the speakers, the legislative librarian, and the office of legislative budget analysis on the use of digital currency being contributed to candidates and political campaign committees throughout the last five years. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10; Title 2, Chapter 19; Title 3, Chapter 6; Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 4, Chapter 55 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 5.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 739 Introduced 114
  Education - As introduced, requires each elementary and secondary school to post the toll-free telephone number operated by the department of children's services to receive reports of child abuse or neglect on the homepage of the school's website. - Amends Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004); and TCA Title 49.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 451 In committee 114
  Expunction - As introduced, reduces the time period following completion of the sentence imposed before which a person may file a petition for expunction from five years for a misdemeanor or Class E felony and 10 years for a Class C or D felony to one year since completion of the sentence imposed for the offense the person is seeking to have expunged. - Amends TCA Section 40-32-101.
  Feb 6, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 724 Introduced 114
  Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, authorizes an assisted-care living facility to comply with any requirement to post information in the facility by making such information available on an electronic screen clearly visible to residents and the public subject to approval by the board for licensing health care facilities. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 1070 Introduced 114
  Human Resources, Department of - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Health SNAP Act", which requires the department to submit a request for a waiver from the United States department of agriculture's food and nutrition service to seek authorization to prohibit the use of SNAP benefits for the purchase of candy and soft drinks. - Amends TCA Title 71.
  Feb 6, 2025: Intro., P1C.
• HB 892 Introduced 114
  Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to make its annual reports regarding operation of the Tennessee Agricultural Museum and the museum's board available in a publicly accessible location on the department's website within one month from the date the governor approves the reports. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11; Title 43; Title 44; Title 53; Title 57; Title 62; Title 63; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69 and Title 70.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 839 Introduced 114
  Health Care - As introduced, extends from January 15 to March 1, the date by which the commissioner of health, in consultation with the department of finance and administration and any other state agency involved in the administration of the safety net program, must annually report to the general assembly on data relating to access to care and safety net adequacy related issues. - Amends TCA Title 49; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 815 In committee 114
  Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires the department of safety to report to the transportation and safety committee of the senate and the committee in the house of representatives having jurisdiction over driver license matters on the extent to which current fees imposed on applications for an original or renewal of a driver license are used to offset processing costs for driver license issuance and reinstatements, information technology upgrades, and any ongoing costs to maintain the driver license issuance system. - Amends TCA Title 55.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, ref. to Transportation Committee
• HB 818 Introduced 114
  Education, Higher - As introduced, changes the date, from October to November 1, by which a public institution of higher education that receives funds from the distribution of credit cards to students or any percentage from the use of cards bearing the college or university name or logo to report the amount of such funds or percentage that it received as well as how the funds were expended during the previous fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 875 Introduced 114
  Safety - As introduced, decreases from five to three the number of business days an ambulance service provider has to furnish to a patient or their authorized representative a copy of the patient's run record upon written request; decreases from five to three the number of business days an ambulance service provider has to furnish a copy of the patient's run record to a surveyor employed by the health facilities commission upon written request. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 807 Introduced 114
  Telecommunications - As introduced, removes a requirement that the comptroller report to the general assembly, not later than January 31, 2008, with recommendations regarding whether the pilot project that authorized certain municipal electric systems to provide services beyond their service area with certain limitations should be continued or expanded to other systems. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 35, Chapter 8, Part 1; Section 37-10-204; Section 38-6-121; Title 39; Title 40, Chapter 6, Part 3; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 54; Title 55; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 709 Introduced 114
  Education - As introduced, requires local boards of education to notify the department of education when a board declares its local eduction agency to be a high performing school district; requires the department to maintain a list of high performing school districts on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 467 In committee 114
  Secretary of State - As introduced, allows a litigation financier that is not a business entity or partnership to withdraw its registration with the secretary of state by filing a form prescribed by the secretary of state, along with a filing fee of $20. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 16.
  Feb 6, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 837 Introduced 114
  Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As introduced, increases, from 60 to 90 days, the period of time for which a temporary plate for a motor vehicle may be issued and used. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17; Title 55, Chapter 3 and Title 55, Chapter 4.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 287 Introduced 114
  Correction, Dept. of - As introduced, reduces from 10 to five business days after a death, the time within which the commissioner must report the death of a person in custody to members of the general assembly representing the legislative districts where the deceased person resided; requires that the information contained in the report include the name of the department facility where the death occurred. - Amends TCA Title 4.
  Feb 6, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 866 Introduced 114
  Health Care - As introduced, requires a healthcare provider to provide to a patient or a patient's authorized representative a copy of the patient's medical records within 20 working days of receipt of a written request by the patient or representative instead of 10 working days. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.