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

9,112 bills

• HB 750 Introduced 114
  Education - As introduced, requires the chief law enforcement officer of each law enforcement agency with law enforcement jurisdiction for a school that has utilized armed school security officers to annually submit a report by September 1 of each year, following the conclusion of each school year. to the governor, the chairs of legislative committees with subject matter jurisdiction over education, and the commissioner of education detailing any school security deficiencies and providing recommendations for security improvements for each such school; authorizes a single, consolidated report for situations where more than one agency within any one county is affected by the reporting requirement. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 49 and Title 68, and to amend Chapter __ of the Public Acts of 2025 (1st Ex. Sess. – SB 6001 / HB 6004).
  Feb 5, 2025: Intro., P1C.
• HB 461 In committee 114
  Notary Public - As introduced, adds that a person must complete a course of instruction and pass an examination to qualify to be commissioned as an online notary public; clarifies that an application to be commissioned as an online notary public requires a certification that the applicant has reviewed, understands, and will comply with the applicable rules and requirements promulgated by the secretary of state; adds that a course of instruction for online notarization must include, at a minimum, notarial laws, technology procedures of online notarizations, and ethical requirements for online notaries. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 16, Part 3.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Judiciary Committee
• HB 517 Introduced 114
  Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, requires the executive director of the health facilities commission to submit a report no later than July 1, rather than February 1, of each year to the governor, the chief clerk of the house of representatives, and the chief clerk of the senate, regarding the commission's nursing home inspection and enforcement activities during the previous year. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 472 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 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• HB 628 Introduced 114
  Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, extends, from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2028, the authorization for an emergency medical service employee who has been retired for at least 60 days from TCRS to accept employment as an emergency medical services employee without loss or suspension of retirement benefits if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8 and Title 68, Chapter 140, Part 3.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 460 In committee 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 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• HR 4 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Retirement - Caroline Vallejos -
  Feb 5, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• HB 512 In committee 114
  Zoning - As introduced, extends the terms of members of historic zoning commissions from five years to six years. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 7, Part 4.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• HB 497 Introduced 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 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 619 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to provide a copy of a student's education records, upon request, and a copy of a student's draft individualized education program, unless previously declined, to the student's parent or guardian prior to a scheduled IEP team meeting. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 10 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 1.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Education Committee
• HB 430 In committee 114
  Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts the "Protect Kids Not Guns Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 10; Title 13; Title 16; Title 29; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 70.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Judiciary Committee
• HJR 94 In committee 114
  Constitutional Amendments - Proposes amendments to Article II of the Constitution of Tennessee to establish an independent redistricting commission for state senate districts, state house of representative districts, and congressional districts. -
  Feb 5, 2025: Intro., ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• SB 783 Introduced 114
  Taxes, Personal Property - As introduced, authorizes the county trustee or other property tax collecting official to decline to bill or refer for collection a de minimis personal property tax totaling less than $20 under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Section 67-5-2013.
  Feb 5, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 450 Introduced 114
  Expunction - As introduced, reduces from 15 years to 10 years the amount of time that must have elapsed since the completion of the sentence imposed for illegal registration or voting before filing a petition for expunction. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 19 and Title 40, Chapter 32.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• SB 195 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 5, 2025: Recalled from Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• HB 518 Introduced 114
  Public Utilities - As introduced, extends from January 1 to February 1, the deadline for local governments that have adopted local legislation related to wind energy facility siting to submit an annual report. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65 and Title 68.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 585 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, requires the punishment for the offense of misuse of official information to include at least 30 hours of community service work to be determined by the court, in addition to any other punishment authorized by law. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16, Part 4.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Judiciary Committee
• HB 806 Introduced 114
  Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, renames enhanced and concealed handgun carry permits as enhanced and concealed firearm carry permits and authorizes a permit holder to carry any firearms, rather than handguns, that the permit holder legally owns or possesses. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 7; Title 8; Title 10; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 50; Title 57; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 70.
  Feb 5, 2025: Intro., P1C.
• HB 362 In committee 114
  General Assembly, Directed Studies - As introduced, requires TACIR to study the economic impact that the cosmetology and barbering professions have in this state; upon completion of the study, requires TACIR to report its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to legislative committees having jurisdiction over cosmetology and barbering, and to provide a copy of the report to the legislative librarian. - Amends TCA Title 64, Chapter 3 and Title 64, Chapter 4.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Commerce Committee
• HB 360 In committee 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: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• HB 551 In committee 114
  Health Care - As introduced, urges the human rights commission to study problems of discrimination against healthcare providers in this state because of their decision to decline to participate in a healthcare service on the basis of religious, moral, or ethical beliefs. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 20; Title 29; Title 39; Title 49; Title 50; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Health Committee
• HJR 74 In committee 114
  Constitutional Amendments - Proposes adding a provision establishing the right to clean air, pure water, and the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic, and esthetic values of the state's environment. -
  Feb 5, 2025: Assigned to s/c Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee
• HB 610 Introduced 114
  Election Laws - As introduced, requires the officers of a party to file with the secretary of state and with the coordinator of elections a copy of the rules under which the party and its subdivisions operate within 15 days, instead of 30 days, following adoption in order for the party to have nominees on a ballot or exercise other rights of a political party. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 17; Title 27; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 54; Title 57 and Title 67.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HJR 93 In committee 114
  General Assembly, Directed Studies - Requests the governor, the department of education, and appropriate committees of the general assembly to examine ways in which to reduce the administrative burdens on local education agencies and to submit recommendations to the general assembly for making such reductions by December 31, 2025. -
  Feb 5, 2025: Intro., ref. to Education Committee
• HB 613 In committee 114
  Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, requires the department to submit an annual report regarding the number of applications filed pursuant to the Water Quality Control Act; requires the department to include information on the mechanism of compensatory mitigation provided for in permits that are required to have a provision for adequate compensatory mitigation; requires additional information when the mechanism of compensatory mitigation is an in-lieu fee program or mitigation banking. - Amends TCA Title 69.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
• HB 560 Introduced 114
  Taxes - As introduced, clarifies that the monthly list of taxpayers delinquent in paying professional privilege tax that the commissioner of revenue transmits to licensing boards and agencies is subject to such restrictions on use as determined by the commissioner. - Amends TCA Title 67.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 523 In committee 114
  Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, requires TACIR to study transportation user fee alternatives and submit its recommendations to the chair of the committee in the house of representatives with jurisdiction over transportation issues, the chair of the transportation and safety committee of the senate, and the legislative librarian on or before January 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Transportation Committee
• HB 159 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases the penalty for reckless endangerment committed by discharging a firearm or antique firearm into a motor vehicle from a Class E felony to a Class C felony, unless the motor vehicle was unoccupied at the time of the offense, in which event it is a Class D felony. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 1.
  Feb 5, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 507 Introduced 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.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 414 In committee 114
  Codes - As introduced, allows an existing place of worship to be used for educational purposes without reclassification of the building's occupancy type if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68, Chapter 120.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• HB 800 Introduced 114
  Education - As introduced, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or marital status against a student or an employee in a public institution of education; requires public institutions of education to treat harassment or discrimination against students or employees, or resulting from institutional policies or programs on their campuses, motivated by or including antisemitic intent in an identical manner to discrimination motivated by race; requires Title VI coordinators to be designated to monitor antisemitic discrimination and harassment at K-12 schools and institutions of higher education. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 5, 2025: Intro., P1C.
• HB 435 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.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Health Committee- Government Operations for Review
• HB 384 In committee 114
  Public Officials - As introduced, creates a recall process for members of a municipal legislative body and of a city or county school board. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8 and Title 49.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• HB 438 Introduced 114
  Employees, Employers - As introduced, increases, from two to three, the number of conspicuous places in which an employer is required to post and maintain notices setting forth the regular pay day established by the employer. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 39; Title 49; Title 50 and Title 62.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 449 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 508 Introduced 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.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 549 In committee 114
  State Government - As introduced, creates the "Tennessee Critical Infrastructure Act." - Amends TCA Title 4.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• HB 432 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As introduced, enacts the "Agricultural Right to Repair Act." - Amends TCA Title 43 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
  Feb 5, 2025: P2C, ref. to Commerce Committee
• HB 670 Introduced 114
  Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, decreases from 450 to 400 feet from the usual banks of a Class II or Class III scenic river, the maximum area within which development is limited. - Amends TCA Title 11.
  Feb 5, 2025: Intro., P1C.
• SB 18 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 5, 2025: Recalled from Senate Education Committee
• SB 123 In committee 114
  Political Parties - As introduced, prescribes a process by which a person must declare a statewide political party or recognized minor party affiliation before voting in a primary election; designates unaffiliated registered voters as independents who have not affiliated with a political party prior to the primary election in August of 2026. - Amends TCA Title 2.
  Feb 4, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HJR 45 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Retirement - Andy Lewallen -
  Feb 4, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 39 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Donald Majors, Jr. -
  Feb 4, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 40 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Inez Gibbs Crutchfield -
  Feb 4, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 10 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Retirement - Holly Hatcher, Alcoa Police Department -
  Feb 4, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 9 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Margie Lois Shuler Caughron -
  Feb 4, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 23 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Joyce Vise -
  Feb 4, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 25 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Mark Moffatt -
  Feb 4, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 46 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - Coach Kyle Shoulders, 2024 Tennessee Titans Coach of the Year -
  Feb 4, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 43 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - Macon County High School football team, TSSAA 4A state champions -
  Feb 4, 2025: Signed by Governor.