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SJR 870 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Officer Michael J. Douglas -

Mar 24, 2026: Signed by Governor.
SR 345 Adopted 114
Memorials, Death - Jeffery Alan Hartline -

Mar 24, 2026: Enrolled and ready for signatures
SB 737 In committee 114
Marriage - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Covenant Marriage Act" to create covenant marriage, which is entered into by one male and one female, who understand and agree that marriage is a lifelong relationship; permits a spouse in a covenant marriage to obtain a judgment of divorce under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 10; Title 16; Title 36; Title 39; Title 67 and Title 68.

Mar 23, 2026: Action deferred in Senate Judiciary Committee to 2027
SJR 889 Adopted 114
Memorials, Personal Occasion - Ken Nelson, Sr., 90th birthday -

Mar 18, 2026: Signed by Governor.
SB 2147 In committee 114
Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, authorizes the board of directors of the Tennessee Duck River Development Agency to file annual reports electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 14; Title 4, Chapter 31; Title 7; Title 13; Title 64; Title 66; Title 67 and Chapter 68 of the Private Acts of 2024.

Mar 17, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 2307 In committee 114
Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As introduced, enacts the "The Frank J. Lake III Act"; requires a long-term care ombudsman for an assisted-care living facility to notify all residents of such facility if the facility contacts the ombudsman; directs the health facilities commission to post a certain specified notice on the commission's website if an assisted-care living facility is placed on probation; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 11.

Mar 17, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee
SB 1647 In committee 114
Traffic Safety - As introduced, authorizes a law enforcement officer to seize and impound a motor vehicle in any county or municipality that has passed a resolution or ordinance authorizing the seizure and impoundment of a motor vehicle observed by law enforcement to have been used to commit the offense of drag racing or to flee after commission of the offense of drag racing subject to certain restrictions. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 7; Title 16; Title 40 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 5.

Mar 16, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 1069 In committee 114
Motor Vehicles - As enacted, provides that a motor vehicle dealer license is not required to sell or purchase certain antique vehicles or unique motor vehicles through an auction being held at a venue with a permanent seating capacity of at least 20,000 located in Wilson County, the auction operator conducts no more than one auction in this state per year, the auction offers no less than 400 vehicles and no more than 2,000 vehicles for any one auction, and the operator has a minimum net worth of $25 million. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 17 and Title 62, Chapter 19.

Mar 16, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 540
SJR 837 Adopted 114
Memorials, Personal Occasion - Letha May Beatrice Dedman Hallums, 95th birthday -

Mar 12, 2026: Signed by Governor.
SB 1959 In committee 114
Education, Higher - As introduced, requires the governing board for each public institution of higher education to install and maintain a "Charlie Kirk Memorial Courtyard for Civil Debate" at the main campus of each public institution of higher education governed by the board. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.

Mar 11, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 2304 In committee 114
Water - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Fluoride-Free Water Act" to prohibit public water systems from adding fluoride to drinking water, prohibit sales of bottled water containing added fluoride, and requires certain actions for naturally occurring fluoride that exceeds certain levels in drinking water and bottled water. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 53 and Title 68, Chapter 221.

Mar 11, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee
SB 150 In committee 114
Education - As introduced, allows students to use their score on the Classic Learning Test (CLT) to satisfy the eligibility requirements for certain grants and scholarships funded using net proceeds of the state lottery; requires the Tennessee student assistance corporation to include information concerning testing dates for the CLT when informing students about lottery scholarship opportunities; allows public institutions of higher education to accept student scores on the CLT for admissions purposes. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Mar 11, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 566 In committee 114
Safety - As introduced, requires a blasting firm that conducts a pre-blast survey for an owner or occupant of certain buildings within 300 feet of the blast hole to provide the survey upon request by the owner or occupant at no cost. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 105.

Mar 9, 2026: Companion House Bill substituted
SB 1041 In committee 114
Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, authorizes a local board of education and public charter school governing body to employ or accept as a volunteer a school chaplain to provide support, services, and programs for students, school staff, and students' parents. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Mar 4, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
SB 2250 In committee 114
Local Government, General - As introduced, deletes the provision that classifies a local government official's affirmative vote for adoption of a prohibited sanctuary policy as a Class E felony. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 8.

Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State & Local Government Committee
SB 1961 In committee 114
Taxes, Ad Valorem - As introduced, requires the notification submitted by the director of the division of property assessments to the commissioner of finance and administration of the default by a county or city in the repayment of a loan provided by the state to finance the city's or county's real property reappraisal program to be in writing. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.

Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State & Local Government Committee
SB 2046 In committee 114
Consumer Protection - As introduced, reduces from 15 to 10 days, the time within which a person licensed to provide deferred presentment services must file a written report with the commissioner of financial institutions following the occurrence of the filing for bankruptcy or reorganization; the institution of revocation or suspension proceedings by any state or governmental authority; the denial of the opportunity to engage in deferred presentment services by any state or governmental authority; any felony indictment or conviction of the licensee or any of its directors, officers, or principals; and other events that the commissioner may determine and identify by rule. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.

Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB 1765 In committee 114
Probation and Parole - As introduced, permits a trial judge to revoke a defendant's probation for a felony or misdemeanor based on one instance of technical violation; extends the permitted terms of incarceration a court may impose for a technical violation to 90 days for a first revocation, 180 days for a second revocation, and the remainder of the sentence for a third or subsequent revocation. - Amends TCA Title 40.

Mar 3, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 738 In committee 114
State Government - As introduced, directs the state capitol commission to be responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the monument to unborn children through funds appropriated to the commission. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 20; Title 29; Title 36; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 49; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.

Feb 26, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.
SB 24 In committee 114
Taxes, Sales - As introduced, allocates all revenue generated from the state sales tax on retail sales of new or used motor vehicles and new or used tires in excess of base tax revenues to the state highway fund. - Amends TCA Title 9; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 67.

Feb 18, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
SJR 597 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Beverly Bell -

Feb 12, 2026: Signed by Governor.
SB 2319 Introduced 114
Libraries - As introduced, requires public libraries established by a county, city, or town to adopt a materials reconsideration policy that provides a process by which any legal resident of the county where the library is located may request that the library withdraw an item from the library's collection or reclassify or move the item to a different area in the library. - Amends TCA Title 10.

Feb 11, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.
SB 2148 In committee 114
Professions and Occupations - As introduced, enacts the "Responsible Welding for Tennessean’s Safety Act," which requires general contractors, project managers, and subcontractors to ensure that welders performing structural steel welding are tested and certified by an accredited facility or individual and that the work meets applicable standards whenever a design professional includes D1.1 or D1.5 codes in the job specifications, subject to an exemption for work performed on the premises of a homeowner or farmer. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 15; Title 56; Title 62; Title 64 and Title 68.

Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB 2306 In committee 114
Professions and Occupations - As introduced, exempts a person whose occupation or practice is confined solely to makeup application services from the requirement to be licensed as a cosmetologist or aesthetician if the person meets the requirements to obtain a certificate to provide makeup application services. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 62, Chapter 3; Title 62, Chapter 38 and Title 62, Chapter 4.

Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB 2309 In committee 114
Education - As introduced, requires the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller of the treasury to submit a copy of its annual report detailing the results of certain tests administered to recipients of education freedom scholarships to the legislative librarian. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Education Committee
SB 2303 In committee 114
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates an offense to knowingly inhale, ingest, use, or possess any compound, liquid, gas, or chemical that contains nitrous oxide. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 57, Chapter 7; Title 63 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10.

Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SJR 550 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - R. Larry Smith -

Feb 3, 2026: Signed by Governor.
SJR 545 Adopted 114
Memorials, Retirement - Ray Daniel -

Feb 3, 2026: Signed by Governor.
SJR 549 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Tennessee and Quebec's partnership -

Feb 3, 2026: Signed by Governor.
SJR 546 Adopted 114
Memorials, Recognition - Tim Rausch -

Feb 3, 2026: Signed by Governor.
SB 2590 Introduced 114
School Vouchers - As introduced, changes the reporting date, from June 30 to June 15, by which each private school must provide the results of the tests that are required to be administered to recipients of an education freedom scholarship to the office of research and education accountability in the office of the comptroller of the treasury. - Amends TCA Title 49.

Feb 2, 2026: Filed for introduction
SB 2417 Introduced 114
Controlled Substances - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Kratom Consumer Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 43 and Title 57.

Feb 2, 2026: Filed for introduction
SJR 547 Adopted 114
Memorials, Death - Jeffery Alan Hartline -

Jan 22, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.
SB 1763 In committee 114
Real Property - As introduced, prohibits a homeowners' association from prohibiting a first responder from parking an emergency vehicle at the first responder's residence or on a roadway adjacent to the first responder's real property or from penalizing or threatening to penalize a first responder for parking an emergency vehicle at the first responder's residence or on a roadway adjacent to the first responder's real property. - Amends TCA Title 47 and Title 66.

Jan 22, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
SB 1764 In committee 114
Criminal Offenses - As introduced, removes the limitation on the penalty for illegally possessing a telecommunication device in a penal institution that required the Class E felony to be punished by a fine only. - Amends TCA Title 39.

Jan 22, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 1648 In committee 114
Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, revises various provisions of the Real Estate Infrastructure Development Act of 2025. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

Jan 21, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
SB 1646 In committee 114
Nuisances - As introduced, prohibits any cause of action for nuisance, taking, or another claim against a racing facility or racetrack by the owner of a surrounding real property if the racing facility or racetrack was built before the owner of the surrounding real property purchased the real property or built in the area of the racing facility or racetrack, regardless of the date on which the cause of action is alleged to have arisen; prohibits a political subdivision from adopting or enforcing any ordinance, resolution, or regulation that would restrict, limit, or prohibit the operation of a racing facility or racetrack in a manner inconsistent. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 29.

Jan 21, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
SJR 544 In committee 114
Memorials, Recognition - Beverly Bell -

Jan 14, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Calendar Committee
SB 27 To Governor 114
Governor - As enacted, prohibits orders, proclamations, or rules issued by the governor under the governor's emergency management powers from contravening, suspending, or conflicting with a provision of the Tennessee Constitution; restricts governor's ability under such powers to suspend certain procedural provisions of a law, order, rule, or regulation. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 58, Chapter 2.

Jun 4, 2025: Pub. Ch. 153
SB 30 Became law 114
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates new misdemeanor offenses, including intentionally giving a false or fictitious name to a law enforcement officer who has lawfully detained or arrested such person. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40; Title 54 and Title 55.

May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 409
SB 1115 Became law 114
Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, provides that in a facility operated pursuant to a contract to provide correctional services, or in a facility operated pursuant to a contract with a county to hold state inmates and that county has entered into a contract with a contractor to provide correctional services, if the death rate of inmates at the facility is twice the death rate of an equivalent state-operated facility, then the department must reduce the population at such facility by 10%. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 12; Title 40 and Title 41.

May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 460
SB 28 Became law 114
Criminal Offenses - As enacted, expands the criminal offense of harassment to include harassment that occurs by communicating in the physical presence of the victim, in addition to in writing, by telephone, or electronically. - Amends TCA Title 39.

May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 408
SB 26 Became law 114
Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, enacts the "Real Estate Infrastructure Development Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.

May 13, 2025: Pub. Ch. 357
SB 1444 In committee 114
Wilson County - Subject to local approval, transfers control and governance of the Tenth Special School District of Wilson County from a board of directors and commissioners composed of three members to a Board of Education composed of five members; divides the Tenth Special School district into five districts of proportionate population; establishes staggered terms for the members of the Board of Education of four years. - Amends Chapter 330 of the Acts of 1901; as amended.

May 8, 2025: Comp. became Pr. Ch. 9
SJR 506 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jennifer Bamford, 2024-2025 Gladeville Middle School Teacher of the Year -

May 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SJR 503 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Elizabeth Elgin, Mt. Juliet Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

May 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SJR 502 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Erin Clark, Mt. Juliet Christian Academy Teacher of the Year -

May 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SJR 500 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Melissa Cole, Lakeview Elementary School Teacher of the Year -

May 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SJR 507 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Charisse Carter, Teacher of the Year for Springdale Elementary School and Wilson County Schools -

May 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.
SJR 501 Adopted 114
Memorials, Professional Achievement - Allen Davis, Lebanon High School Teacher of the Year -

May 7, 2025: Signed by Governor.