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

9,112 bills

• HB 340 Introduced 114
  State Employees - As introduced, requires each appointing authority of a state department or agency to electronically report to the commissioner of human resources the job performance evaluations for the employees in the appointing authority's department or state agency. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 50.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 196 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, raises from $3,000 to $4,000, the maximum fine that a jury may impose for the offense of conveyance by general warranty deed with knowledge of existing liens. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 39; Title 62 and Title 66.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, ref. to Judiciary Committee
• HB 353 Introduced 114
  Financial Institutions, Dept. of - As introduced, reduces from 60 to 45 days, the time period following the end of each calendar year during which the commissioner must annually report to the governor. - Amends TCA Title 45.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 423 Introduced 114
  Taxes, Privilege - As introduced, specifies that the privilege tax exemption for subsidiaries of agricultural cooperatives applies without regard to whether the subsidiary was formed as a corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity, association, or body vested with the power or function of a legal entity. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 16, Part 1 and Section 67-4-102.
  Feb 3, 2025: Intro., P1C.
• HB 320 In committee 114
  Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, designates the new swimming pool at Henry Horton State Park as the "Riley Gaines Aquatic Center." -
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, ref. to Naming & Designating Committee - Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
• HB 215 In committee 114
  Appropriations - As introduced, appropriates $25 million to the legislature for planning and construction of a new parking garage that has at least 400 parking spaces, is attached to the Cordell Hull Building, and is used solely by legislative employees. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4; Title 8; Title 9 and Title 12.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, ref. to Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
• HB 146 In committee 114
  Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) - As introduced, requires the department of education create a process for LEAs to provide real-time enrollment data so that funding allocations are adjusted continuously throughout the year; revises criteria for infrastructure stipends; establishes that allocations of education funding to LEAs for the state's per student funding for charter school students must be made no later than the date by which LEAs are required to pay charter schools for each student. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 3, 2025: Withdrawn.
• HB 263 In committee 114
  Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the Tennessee board of court reporting to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 20, Chapter 9.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, ref. to Government Operations Committee
• SB 182 In committee 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 3, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• HB 299 In committee 114
  Education, Higher - As introduced, extends to the dependent children and spouses of veterans who sustained a permanent and total service-connected disability during a qualifying period of armed conflict the same waiver of all tuition and fees at public institutions of higher education being provided to the dependent children and spouses of veterans who were killed, died due to injuries received, or reported as prisoners of war or missing in action during a qualifying period of armed conflict. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, ref. to Education Committee
• HB 446 Introduced 114
  State Government - As introduced, restricts the jurisdiction of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6 and Title 7.
  Feb 3, 2025: Intro., P1C.
• HB 336 Introduced 114
  Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As introduced, increases from 4 percent to 5 percent the percentage of general assembly candidates and their committees who will be selected for an audit by the registry of election finance. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3 and Title 8.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 294 In committee 114
  Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, authorizes surveillance cameras to be installed on federal interstate highways and operated by a state entity to aid in the investigation and prevention of terrorism and state criminal offenses other than traffic violations; authorizes surveillance cameras to be installed on public roads and highways other than federal interstate highways and operated by local law enforcement agencies to aid in the investigation and prevention of terrorism and state criminal offenses other than traffic violations. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-198.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, ref. to Transportation Committee
• SB 70 In committee 114
  Sunset Laws - As introduced, extends the human rights commission to June 30, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21 and Title 4, Chapter 29.
  Feb 3, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SB 108 In committee 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 3, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• HB 352 In committee 114
  Highways, Roads and Bridges - As introduced, clarifies that the plans for an acquisition of a right-of-way by the state must be filed and recorded with the office of the register in each county where the project is located if the project is located in multiple counties. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 54 and Title 55.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, ref. to Transportation Committee
• HB 205 In committee 114
  Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, designates certain portions of the Duck River and certain portions of various creeks as Class II pastoral river areas. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 13.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, ref. to Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
• HB 334 Introduced 114
  Public Officials - As introduced, requires the chief executive officer of a state agency or department to ensure that its policies, practices, and procedures relating to the recruitment, hiring, advancement, and retention of qualified individuals with disabilities are posted on the respective agency or department website. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 3; Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 12; Title 13; Title 14; Title 41; Title 52; Title 58; Title 66 and Title 67.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 290 In committee 114
  Education - As introduced, converts the school safety alert grant pilot program to a statewide two-year school safety alert grant program; removes the limit on the number of grants that may be awarded in a fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Chapter 944 of the Public Acts of 2024.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, ref. to Education Committee - Government Operations for Review
• HB 204 Introduced 114
  Health Care - As introduced, changes from March 1 to January 15 the date by which the bureau of TennCare, in consultation with the perinatal advisory committee and with the assistance of relevant state agencies, must report to legislative committees concerning aspects of quality and outcomes in perinatal care for the last two available fiscal years or calendar years, as may be available. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 14; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt.
• HB 429 Introduced 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, designates a person impersonating a transportation network company driver or falsely representing that the person is responding to a passenger ride request for a transportation network company as a Class E felony when the conduct occurs during the commission of a separate felony offense, or as a Class C misdemeanor when the conduct does not occur during the commission of a felony offense. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 51; Title 39 and Title 65, Chapter 15.
  Feb 3, 2025: Intro., P1C.
• HB 376 Introduced 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 3, 2025: Intro., P1C.
• HB 332 In committee 114
  State Government - As introduced, enacts the "Government Serves the People Act." - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, ref. to State & Local Government Committee
• HB 311 In committee 114
  Disabled Persons - As introduced, enacts the "Autism Spectrum Online Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 37; Title 39 and Title 52.
  Feb 3, 2025: P2C, ref. to Judiciary Committee
• SB 156 In committee 114
  Military - As introduced, prohibits the Tennessee national guard, or a member of the national guard, from being released from state duty into federal active duty combat unless the United States congress has passed an official declaration of war or has taken an official action pursuant to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 15, of the United States Constitution to explicitly call forth the Tennessee national guard or a member of the national guard for the enumerated purposes to expressly execute the laws of the union, repel an invasion, or suppress an insurrection. - Amends TCA Title 58, Chapter 1.
  Jan 31, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SB 35 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.
  Jan 30, 2025: Withdrawn.
• SB 37 In committee 114
  Fees - As introduced, increases from $20 to $300 the annual report filing fee for for-profit business corporations and nonprofit corporations; changes from $50 per member to a $100 initial filing fee, and from $50 per member totaling not less than $300 or not more than $3,000, to a $300 annual report filing fee for limited liability corporations. - Amends TCA Title 48.
  Jan 30, 2025: Withdrawn.
• SB 38 In committee 114
  Solid Waste Disposal - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Waste Reduction and Recycling Act"; changes from January 1 to January 10 of each year the date by which the department of environment and conservation is required to make available on its website forms and information used by municipal solid waste regions to make annual reports. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 68, Chapter 211.
  Jan 30, 2025: Withdrawn.
• SJR 6004 Adopted 114S1
  Memorials, Recognition - Bachman-McCoy Farm, National Register of Historic Places -
  Jan 29, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 5 In committee 114
  Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to prohibit this state or an instrumentality of this state from abridging or denying a person's rights on account of sex. -
  Jan 29, 2025: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
• HJR 12 In committee 114
  Constitutional Amendments - Proposes an amendment to Article VI, Section 14 of the Tennessee Constitution to authorize municipalities to impose a civil penalty in excess of $50 for a violation of a municipal ordinance if such penalty is just and reasonable. -
  Jan 29, 2025: Assigned to s/c Civil Justice Subcommittee
• HJR 6001 Adopted 114S1
  Memorials, Death - William "Billy" Earl Knight -
  Jan 29, 2025: Received from House, refer to Senate Calendar Committee
• HB 44 In committee 114
  Drugs, Prescription - As introduced, allows a student to possess and self-administer rescue seizure medication at school or at a school-related activity or event. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 50, Part 16.
  Jan 28, 2025: Assigned to s/c Education Administration Subcommittee
• HB 151 In committee 114
  Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, changes the reimbursement amount for property tax relief for disabled veteran homeowners; increases the reimbursement amount from payment on the first $175,000 of the full market value of the home to payment on the first $200,000 of the full market value. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.
  Jan 28, 2025: Assigned to s/c Cities & Counties Subcommittee
• HB 172 In committee 114
  Medical Occupations - As introduced, requires a person who is licensed to practice a healing art; who was an officer in the commissioned medical corps of the army, the navy, the air force, or the public health service of the United States; and who was subsequently discharged, instead of honorably discharged, to register with the appropriate board licensing that profession. - Amends TCA Title 63.
  Jan 28, 2025: P2C, ref. to Health Committee
• HB 144 In committee 114
  Health, Dept. of - As introduced, requires hospitals that accept medicaid to inquire about a person's citizenship status and submit a quarterly report to the department on the number of hospital admissions and emergency department visits by persons lawfully and not lawfully present in the United States; requires the department to submit an annual report to the governor, speaker of the senate, and speaker of the house of representatives regarding the impact of uncompensated care for persons not lawfully present in the United States and other related information. - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Jan 28, 2025: Assigned to s/c Health Subcommittee
• HB 101 In committee 114
  Milk, Dairy Products - As introduced, repeals the Unfair Milk Sales Act; removes the prohibition against selling milk below cost. - Amends TCA Title 53, Chapter 3, Part 2.
  Jan 28, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• HB 70 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.
  Jan 28, 2025: Assigned to s/c Tenncare Subcommittee
• HB 109 In committee 114
  Banks and Financial Institutions - As introduced, requires a state-chartered bank to obtain an annual audit of its financial statements at intervals of no longer than 15 months, unless the bank's financial statements are included in the audit of its holding company's consolidated statements; requires the board to review, discuss, and record the audit in meeting minutes; requires each bank to provide the commissioner of financial institutions with a copy of the external audit within 45 days of receiving the audit; requires each bank to notify the commissioner whenever an independent public accountant is engaged to perform external auditing work, or when a change or termination of the bank's independent accountant occurs. - Amends TCA Title 45.
  Jan 28, 2025: Assigned to s/c Banking & Consumer Affairs Subcommittee
• HB 149 In committee 114
  Energy - As introduced, establishes a regulatory framework for solar energy facilities in this state. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7, Chapter 51 and Title 65, Chapter 17.
  Jan 28, 2025: Assigned to s/c Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee
• SJR 22 In committee 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Hurricane Helene recovery efforts -
  Jan 28, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.
• HB 51 In committee 114
  Lottery, Corporation - As introduced, requires each county to levy a tax at the rate of 5 percent of the sales price of lottery tickets or shares when sold at retail within the jurisdiction of the county; requires the state to administer the collection of the tax. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 49 and Title 67.
  Jan 28, 2025: Assigned to s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee
• HB 1 In committee 114
  Education - As introduced, enacts the "Education Freedom Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49 and Title 49.
  Jan 28, 2025: Assigned to s/c K-12 Subcommittee
• HB 156 In committee 114
  Taxes, Business - As introduced, exempts child care agencies from business tax; requires the state to annually allocate the amount of such taxes derived from child care services and received from counties and municipalities in the 2023-2024 fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.
  Jan 28, 2025: Assigned to s/c Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee
• HB 77 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.
  Jan 28, 2025: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• HB 158 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates a Class B misdemeanor offense for engaging in harassing behavior against a first responder engaged in official duties under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 39.
  Jan 28, 2025: Assigned to s/c Criminal Justice Subcommittee
• HR 2 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Clarksville Area Urban Ministries -
  Jan 28, 2025: Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
• HB 95 In committee 114
  Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires half the revenue collected from recordation taxes be returned to the county in which the real property is located on a recurring basis; applies to transfers of real property on or after July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Section 67-4-409.
  Jan 28, 2025: Assigned to s/c Cities & Counties Subcommittee
• HB 131 In committee 114
  Gaming - As introduced, clarifies that a provision of law voiding wagering contracts does not apply to a transaction to make a wager under the Tennessee Sports Gaming Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 29; Title 38; Title 39; Title 47; Title 49 and Title 67.
  Jan 28, 2025: Assigned to s/c Departments & Agencies Subcommittee
• SR 2 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Victoria Eady Butler -
  Jan 28, 2025: Sponsor(s) Added.