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

9,112 bills

• HB 666 Introduced 114
  Education - As introduced, removes obsolete provision that required the department of education to submit a report on exclusionary discipline practices regarding students in pre-kindergarten through kindergarten to legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction on education no later than May 1, 2018. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 692 Introduced 114
  Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to publish the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula guide on the department's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 647 Introduced 114
  Health Care - As introduced, requires, by January 15 of each year, the commissioner of health to annually report to legislative committees on the progress of its statewide strategy for the provision of adult emergency oral health care, utilizing public and private sector resources. - Amends TCA Title 68.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HR 5 Adopted 114
  House of Representatives - Creates ad hoc committee to review the complaint filed with respect to the fifty-third representative district. -
  Feb 6, 2025: Filed for introduction
• HB 419 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs and public charter schools to prohibit students from displaying, using, or accessing an electronic device during the school day unless an exception applies; requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to develop and adopt a policy to implement the prohibition and to submit its policy to the department of education no later than July 31, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 6, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 678 Introduced 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 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 941 In committee 114
  Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, revises the property tax relief program for elderly, low-income homeowners to provide tiered property tax reimbursements based on the taxpayer's age. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• HB 637 Introduced 114
  Education, Higher - As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement for the University of Memphis and certain other collaborators on the Memphis Research Consortium to provide a progress report to the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 11; Title 12; Title 49; Title 58; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 367 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits certain entities from sharing, selling, or otherwise distributing a vehicle's driving data without the explicit, written consent of the owner of the vehicle, regardless of how or where the driving data is collected or stored. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 47 and Title 55.
  Feb 6, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 1055 Introduced 114
  Traffic Safety - As introduced, raises, from 70 mph to 75 mph, the maximum statutory speed limit on a highway of the interstate and defense highway system or a four-lane controlled-access highway which are federal or state highways; raises, from 55 mph to 60 mph, the minimum statutory speed limit in the left lane of such highways; makes other related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 8.
  Feb 6, 2025: Intro., P1C.
• HB 718 Introduced 114
  Codes - As introduced, extends the period in which the fire marshal is required to provide a decision on an appeal regarding building or fire codes involving a county building located in a city when there is a conflict between city and county from 10 working days to 15 calendar days. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102 and Title 68, Chapter 120.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 727 Introduced 114
  Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to annually report by December 1 of each year to legislative committees with jurisdiction over the subject matter pertaining to health concerning the effectiveness of the drug testing program for TANF applicants. - Amends TCA Title 53; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 31 In committee 114
  County Government - As introduced, authorizes county governments to publish required public notices on the applicable county's website in lieu of publication in a newspaper of general circulation as long as such publication complies with all other requirements for publication, including the period for publication. - Amends TCA Section 1-3-120; Title 5; Title 8, Chapter 44 and Title 10, Chapter 7.
  Feb 6, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 710 Introduced 114
  Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, changes, from May 1 to June 1, the annual date before which the commission must publish the Tennessee postsecondary education fact book. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 41 In committee 114
  Education - As introduced, requires each local board of education and public charter school governing body to adopt a wireless communication policy that requires students to keep wireless communication devices turned off and stowed away during a classroom instructional day or during instructional time except in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 6, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 1007 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 6, 2025: Intro., P1C.
• HB 820 Introduced 114
  Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, reduces, from 60 days to 45 days, the time within which, after the end of the calendar year, the commissioner of financial institutions must submit the department's annual report to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 45.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 903 In committee 114
  Public Records - As introduced, authorizes records custodians to charge a fee to view records if the records requested reasonably require more than one hour of an employee's time to collect for inspection by the requestor; specifies that the hourly rate for inspection be set in proportion to the rate of pay of the employee who is collecting the records. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• HB 694 Introduced 114
  Taxes - As introduced, increases, from 10 to 12, the number of days from an action taken by the department of revenue that a person may be afforded an opportunity for a formal hearing before the commissioner for an issue in connection with an application, entitlement, or proposed revocation of or to a certificate, license, permit, privilege, or right, or for any other adverse action proposed or taken to implement any revenue regulatory or registration law. - Amends TCA Title 67.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 669 Introduced 114
  Scholarships and Financial Aid - As introduced, extends from March 1 to March 30, the date by which not-for-profit corporations and associations that administer an educational cooperative plan or scholarship plan must file a statement of financial condition with the commissioner of commerce and insurance. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 877 In committee 114
  Education, Dept. of - As introduced, extends the school turnaround pilot program for priority schools that is scheduled to conclude at the end of the 2024-2025 school year to a permanent school turnaround program for priority schools to be administered by the department; increases, from five to 15, the maximum number of priority schools that may participate in the school turnaround program. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, ref. to Education Committee
• HB 891 Introduced 114
  Game and Fish Laws - As introduced, requires, by January 15 of each year, the office of the governor to submit a report to legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over natural resources detailing all such lands and waters set apart and dedicated by the governor for wildlife preserves, including the limits fixed of the lands and waters for such state wildlife preserves. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 11; Title 12; Title 43; Title 44; Title 55; Title 64; Title 67; Title 69 and Title 70.
  Feb 6, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 289 Introduced 114
  Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to submit a report to certain legislative committees concerning the practice of anesthesiology. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Feb 6, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 80 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; authorizes an individual or entity that believes that a third-party reseller has sold or offered for sale a speculative ticket to bring a cause of action. - Amends TCA Title 47.
  Feb 5, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 356 In committee 114
  Education - As introduced, requires local education agencies (LEAs) and public charter schools to recognize November 7 of each year as Victims of Communism Day to honor the people who have fallen victim to communist regimes across the world; requires LEAs and public charter schools to provide students enrolled in a world history and geography course with at least 45 minutes of instruction on Victims of Communism Day. - Amends TCA Title 15; Title 49, Chapter 1 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
  Feb 5, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 605 In committee 114
  Insurance, Liability - As introduced, requires the board of claims to review, consider, and approve insurance policies recommended by the board that are designed to pay liability claims against the state or its agencies and employees; defines "state agency" for purposes of such policies. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 9 and Title 56.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• HR 3 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - 2025 Tennessee State FFA Officers -
  Feb 5, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SB 633 Introduced 114
  Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, requires a gun dealer to ensure that 14 days have passed since the transaction was initiated by the purchaser before transferring a firearm to a purchaser if the purchaser is older than 17 years of age but younger than 21 years of age. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
  Feb 5, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 511 Introduced 114
  Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires a healthcare provider, healthcare group, practice, or clinic, healthcare facility, or other entity to provide notice to each health insurance entity with which it is under contract as soon as practicable if the healthcare provider, healthcare group, practice, or clinic, healthcare facility, or other entity is the subject of a cyber-attack. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68, Chapter 11 and Title 71.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 776 Introduced 114
  Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, increases, from 10 to 15 business days, the time that the commissioner has after receipt of an application for a certificate of authority or any accompanying documents for organization of a business authorized to conduct banking business that do not comply with requirements for the documents to return the certificate or documents to the incorporators with notice of the defect in the application. - Amends TCA Title 34; Title 45 and Title 47.
  Feb 5, 2025: Intro., P1C.
• HB 481 In committee 114
  State Government - As introduced, increases membership of the information systems council by adding a state employee with experience in the field of cybersecurity, to be appointed by the governor. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• HB 301 In committee 114
  Housing - As introduced, authorizes local governments to regulate sober living homes for recovery from alcohol, drug, and substance abuse to the extent such regulation complies with the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, including prescribing a distance requirement for such homes from primary schools, preschools, and daycares, regulating the location and operation of such homes, and requiring that prospective residents receive a clinical referral for placement in a sober living home. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 33.
  Feb 5, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 488 Introduced 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, lessens, from 90 calendar days to 60 calendar days, the time within which a clerk of court must notify the health facilities commission of a conviction for certain offenses committed against elderly or vulnerable adults for inclusion on the registry of persons who have abused, neglected, misappropriated, or exploited the property of vulnerable individuals. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 15.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 516 Introduced 114
  Public Health - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian as a party to which the department of health must submit an annual report based on data received by a county or district health department that operates a needle and hypodermic syringe exchange program, including the number of people served, number of needles, syringes, and supplies dispensed and returned to the program, number of naloxone kits distributed, and the number and type of treatment referrals provided. - 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.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 614 In committee 114
  Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, requires a pharmacy services administrative organization or similar entity that receives maximum allowable cost list or related information from a contracted pharmacy to destroy the shared information within five business days of receipt of a written request for destruction from the sharing pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 56.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Insurance Committee
• HB 525 Introduced 114
  Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As introduced, urges the department of agriculture to study the effects of the use of vapor products by persons under 21 and make recommendations to the legislature with regard to reducing such use. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 39; Title 43, Chapter 27 and Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• SB 894 Introduced 114
  Contractors - As introduced, extends from two to four years the period of time that a contractor's certificate of license is valid before expiring and requiring renewal. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 6.
  Feb 5, 2025: Filed for introduction
• HB 520 Introduced 114
  Election Laws - As introduced, increases the time a person may be absent from work to vote, from three hours to four hours. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 8.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 389 Introduced 114
  Health Care - As introduced, reduces, from 30 days to 14 days, the period of time within which a licensing board that assesses discipline or a penalty against a healthcare provider for a violation of pain management rules must notify the department of health of such discipline or penalty. - Amends TCA Title 63.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 500 In committee 114
  Boats, Boating - As introduced, prohibits certain activities, such as fishing, near public boat launches, docks, boats, and marinas so as to interfere with the use of such facilities. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 102, Part 6; Title 69 and Title 70.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
• HB 521 In committee 114
  Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, reduces the rate of tax on bottled soft drinks and barrels of beer; changes the distribution of the revenue from such taxes; provides for the eventual repeal of such taxes. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 5 and Title 67, Chapter 4.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
• HB 690 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 5, 2025: Intro., P1C.
• SB 708 Introduced 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 5, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 616 In committee 114
  Criminal Procedure - As introduced, restores the right of suffrage for persons convicted of an infamous crime after expiration of the sentence imposed for the infamous crime; removes requirement that the person pay restitution and court costs and be current in all child support obligations before having the person's right of suffrage restored; permits a person to have the right of suffrage restored without having the person's full rights of citizenship restored. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 40.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Judiciary Committee
• HB 112 In committee 114
  State Employees - As introduced, excludes from state service officers and employees of certain state entities; expands bereavement leave for certain categories of state officers and employees. - Amends TCA Section 8-30-102 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 1.
  Feb 5, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 513 Introduced 114
  Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, changes, from January 31 to February 15, the date by which the commissioner must submit reports related to the administration of the Water Quality Control Act of 1977 to legislative committees with jurisdiction over environmental matters. - Amends TCA Title 1, Chapter 3; Title 43; Title 44; Title 68 and Title 69.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 400 In committee 114
  Professions and Occupations - As introduced, changes the examination subjects, from business law and taxation to taxation and regulations, that may be included in order to receive a certificate as a certified public accountant. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 62, Chapter 1.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Commerce Committee
• SB 399 Introduced 114
  County Government - As introduced, authorizes a county that has adopted the County Purchasing Law of 1957 to require a competitive bid process for insurance brokerage services. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 12, Chapter 3, Part 12.
  Feb 5, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 730 Introduced 114
  Livestock - As introduced, requires the commissioner of agriculture and the state veterinarian to receive prior approval from the joint government operations committee of the house of representatives and the senate to order vaccinations and tests for animals in this state; removes the requirement that an owner of a dead animal be liable for the sanitary disposition of the animal; clarifies indemnity procedures for a destroyed animal. - Amends TCA Title 44 and Title 58.
  Feb 5, 2025: Intro., P1C.
• HB 539 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits healthcare providers from reporting a patient's medical debt to a consumer reporting agency; prohibits consumer reporting agencies from including on a consumer report a record of a medical debt. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 8; Title 16; Title 18; Title 20; Title 21; Title 27; Title 28; Title 29; Title 45; Title 47; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Commerce Committee