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• SB 2071 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits a person from requiring another to use programmable money for a transaction; prohibits an issuer of programmable money from denying a transaction based upon certain factors; requires an issuer of programmable money that denies a transaction to provide reasons for the denial to the affected party upon request; designates violations to be violations of the Consumer Protection Act of 1977 and provides for other forms of relief and enforcement. - Amends TCA Title 47.
  Apr 7, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 2068 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires each LEA to submit a report to the department of education by July 31 each year that includes, for the immediately preceding school year, the number of students the LEA provided with information on the career and technical education opportunities offered by the LEA after the students were administered a career aptitude assessment in grade seven or eight. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Mar 26, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SB 836 Passed House 114
  Local Education Agencies - As introduced, authorizes LEAs and public charter schools to refuse to enroll students who are unlawfully present in the United States. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
  Mar 26, 2026: Re-refer to S. Cal Comm
• SB 2218 In committee 114
  Planning, Public - As introduced, requires an establishment resolution adopted by the governing body of a municipality to form an infrastructure development district to include an itemization of the funded costs for infrastructure related to each utility service that will serve the development district. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 65 and Title 66.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SJR 812 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) Awareness Day, May 17 -
  Mar 23, 2026: Ref. to Delayed Bills Committee
• SB 1979 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each LEA and public charter school to administer the Presidential Fitness Test to students to assess their strength, endurance, and flexibility. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68.
  Mar 23, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 598
• SJR 813 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Amanda and Erik Neil, owners of MICHELIN Guide restaurants Little Coyote, Easy Bistro, and Main Street Meats -
  Mar 18, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 814 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Retirement - Howard J. Kittell -
  Mar 18, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 815 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Andrew Jackson Foundation, 125th anniversary -
  Mar 18, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• SB 2350 In committee 114
  Local Government, General - As introduced, authorizes the board of directors of a rail service authority to submit each annual report electronically. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 45; Title 49; Title 54 and Title 67.
  Mar 16, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SB 2073 In committee 114
  Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As enacted, designates the month of April as "Tennessee Native Plant Month." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
  Mar 16, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 588
• SB 2063 In committee 114
  Parks, Natural Areas Preservation - As introduced, requires playgrounds at Booker T. Washington State Park and Harrison Bay State Park to be built no later than January 1, 2027; requires existing resources of the department of environment and conservation to be used to build the parks. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 3.
  Mar 11, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee
• SB 2078 In committee 114
  Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, requires the Tennessee higher education commission to submit a report to the education and finance committees of the senate and house of representatives identifying any fiscal year, beginning with the 2004 fiscal year, for which net lottery proceeds were insufficient to fully fund certain scholarships and grants, resulting in a pro rata reduction in award amounts or a draw upon the general shortfall reserve subaccount. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 49; Title 4, Chapter 51 and Title 49, Chapter 4.
  Mar 11, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
• SB 2192 In committee 114
  Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, increases the employer contribution under the hybrid retirement plan from 5 percent to 10 percent for current members of the general assembly who have 10 years of creditable service on or after July 1, 2026. - Amends TCA Section 8-36-916.
  Mar 10, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 1363 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As introduced, requires the office of the attorney general and reporter to submit to the chair of the house committee having jurisdiction over consumer protection and the chair of the commerce and labor committee of the senate a report on the number of investigations into violations of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977 in which artificial intelligence was used to effectuate an unfair or deceptive act or practice affecting the conduct of any trade or commerce between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2025; requires the report to be submitted no later than July 1, 2026; allows the report to be submitted electronically. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 12; Title 39; Title 45; Title 47; Title 48; Title 50; Title 55; Title 61; Title 62; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67 and Title 68.
  Mar 10, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 284 In committee 114
  Insurance, Motor Vehicles - As introduced, prohibits an insurance company from requiring a visually impaired owner of a motor vehicle to obtain a commercial motor vehicle liability policy in lieu of a standard owner's policy of liability insurance if the covered motor vehicle is not used for commercial purposes. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 12.
  Feb 18, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce & Labor Committee
• SB 2084 In committee 114
  Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As introduced, deletes an obsolete requirement that the commissioner conduct a study of this state's insurance laws to determine what impediments, if any, exist that may be acting as 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 submit a report of the study to the general assembly no later than March 1, 2012. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Feb 18, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce & Labor Committee
• SB 1383 In committee 114
  Comptroller, State - As introduced, increases from $50,000 to $100,000 the bond amount that every insurance company doing a workers' compensation business in this state must furnish with a surety company; increases from $100,000 to $200,000 the certificate amount that such a company may deposit with the commissioner of labor and workforce development in lieu of the bond. - Amends TCA Title 12; Title 29; Title 50 and Title 56.
  Feb 18, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce & Labor Committee
• SB 1380 In committee 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 18, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce & Labor Committee
• SB 1362 In committee 114
  Boards and Commissions - As introduced, provides for a new definition for the term "artificial intelligence" for the Tennessee artificial intelligence advisory council act; expands, from 24 to at least 24 and at most 27, the number of members on the council; directs the council to make various other changes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 31.
  Feb 18, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce & Labor Committee
• SB 2154 In committee 114
  Planning, Public - As introduced, specifies that the presiding officer of the local government planning advisory committee must promptly notify, or cause to be notified, the appointing authority of a member who fails to attend three consecutive committee meetings. - Amends TCA Title 4.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 2074 In committee 114
  Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, enacts the "Local Government Revenue Stability Act," which replaces property taxes with a statewide 4 percent surtax on the sale of goods and services to be collected in the same manner as the sales and use tax and disbursed to local governments. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 49; Title 54 and Title 67.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 2075 In committee 114
  Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires the comptroller of the treasury to provide required cost and income limit estimates for property tax relief to the directors of the office of legislative budget analysis in addition to the members of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 67.
  Feb 5, 2026: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 1462 In committee 114
  Ridgeside - Subject to local approval, repeals and replaces in its entirety the city's private act charter. - Amends Chapter 615 of the Private Acts of 1931; as amended.
  Jun 4, 2025: Comp. became Pr. Ch. 30
• SB 1390 In committee 114
  TennCare - As enacted, directs the director to establish an additional PACE program as a pilot in one of the two grand divisions where a PACE program did not exist in 2024; permits a current PACE program in a county with a specific population to expand into contiguous counties having specifically listed populations. - Amends TCA Title 71.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 502
• SB 1382 In committee 114
  Commerce and Insurance, Dept. of - As enacted, revises law relative to the treatment and coverage of treatment for stage 4 advanced metastatic cancer, blood cancer, metastatic blood cancer, and associated conditions; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 505
• SB 1366 In committee 114
  Federal Aid - As enacted, establishes a process for reviewing requests for federal aid. -
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 512
• SB 1381 In committee 114
  Housing - As enacted, 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. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13 and Title 33.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 503
• SB 1426 In committee 114
  TennCare - As enacted, enacts "Lucca's Law," which addresses TennCare coverage of treatment for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 56 and Title 71.
  May 27, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 482
• SB 1359 Became law 114
  Education, Higher - As enacted, authorizes, subject to appropriation, an institution of higher education to request to redirect the institution's capital outlay funds for purposes other than those set out in the 2022 appropriations act; makes related revisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 9; Title 10; Title 12; Title 49; Title 66 and Title 67.
  May 15, 2025: Pub. Ch. 467
• SB 1388 Became law 114
  Human Services, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to establish a process by which management of a public property may submit formal complaints regarding the conduct or performance of a blind individual who has been licensed to operate a vending facility on such public property through the business enterprise program for the blind; makes other changes relative to such programs for disabled individuals. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 4.
  May 13, 2025: Pub. Ch. 402
• SB 1384 In committee 114
  Private Protective Services - As enacted, creates the enhanced armed guard registration that may be obtained upon completion of certain training and other requirements by an armed security guard/officer who has at least five years of full-time experience as a law enforcement officer or four years of active duty military experience in a combat arms military occupational specialty; directs the commissioner of commerce and insurance to approve an enhanced armed guard training course. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 39 and Title 62, Chapter 35.
  May 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 344
• SB 248 Became law 114
  Traffic Safety - As enacted, creates the offense of an occupant of a vehicle parking, leaving standing, or stopping the vehicle on a street or highway and blocking or impeding the normal movement of traffic for the purpose of soliciting, negotiating, or consummating an employment transaction with a person standing on or in proximity to the street or highway. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17; Title 54 and Title 55.
  May 2, 2025: Pub. Ch. 158
• SJR 428 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Chattanooga Federal Employees Credit Union, 100th anniversary -
  May 1, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 446 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - Chattanooga Mocs, 2025 NIT champions -
  May 1, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 1368 Became law 114
  Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As enacted, adds the executive director of the commission to the statutorily prescribed selection process for chief executive officers of public institutions of higher education and removes the repeal date for that process; revises various reporting and other duties of the commission; allows the commission to delegate its approval authority to its executive director in certain areas; expands the quality non-degree credentials for which a student may receive the Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Apr 30, 2025: Pub. Ch. 186
• SB 1379 Became law 114
  Children - As enacted, allows a child care agency to lease or purchase underutilized property from local education agencies; classifies a child care family home as residential property for certain purposes, including zoning and building codes; permits a host-school's fire inspection and facilities to be sufficient for a child care agency's provisional license under the department of human services. - Amends TCA Title 13; Title 49; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 276
• SB 1385 Became law 114
  Public Health - As enacted, requires a medical laboratory supervisor to be readily available for consultations during all hours when tests are performed; prohibits a medical laboratory supervisor from being required to be on laboratory premises. - Amends TCA Title 68.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 232
• SR 157 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Interns - Owen Barnert -
  Apr 24, 2025: Signed by Senate Speaker
• SJR 296 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Retirement - Dave Staley -
  Apr 10, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 261 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Retirement - Ty Campbell -
  Apr 10, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 1377 Became law 114
  Insurance, Health, Accident - As enacted, enacts the "Voluntary Portable Benefit Plan Act"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 50 and Title 65, Chapter 15, Part 3.
  Apr 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 131
• SB 1374 In committee 114
  Emergency Communications Districts - As enacted, authorizes a motor vehicle operated by an emergency communications district that is marked as a mobile command vehicle or mobile communications vehicle to display flashing red or white lights or a combination of flashing red and white lights. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 4.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 106
• SB 1416 In committee 114
  General Assembly - As introduced, requires the board of trustees of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system to convert a person's participation in the retirement system, for service as a member of the general assembly and as a participant in the hybrid plan, from the hybrid plan to the legacy plan upon the person completing 10 years of service as a member of the general assembly if the person became a member of the general assembly on or after July 1, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 8, Chapter 34; Title 8, Chapter 35 and Title 8, Chapter 36.
  Apr 2, 2025: Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 282 Became law 114
  Health Care - As enacted, enacts the "Individualized Investigational Treatment Act." - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63.
  Mar 28, 2025: Pub. Ch. 45
• SB 1378 In committee 114
  Education - As introduced, creates the division of early child care and education within the department of education. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 49.
  Mar 26, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
• SB 1365 In committee 114
  Children - As introduced, reduces the time in which the department of children's services has to determine whether a temporary childcare licensee has complied with all regulations to receive a permanent childcare license from 90 days from the date the temporary license was issued to 80 days. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 13; Title 37; Title 49; Title 62; Title 67; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Mar 26, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee
• SB 1372 In committee 114
  Insurance, Health, Accident - As introduced, prohibits a health insurance entity or TennCare MCO from including an all-products clause in a network participation agreement with a healthcare provider, and makes certain other changes related to MCO network adequacy. - Amends TCA Title 56 and Title 71.
  Mar 25, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 283 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.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee
• SB 1373 In committee 114
  Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires all written driver license examinations to be administered in English only; prohibits the use of a translation dictionary, electronic device, or interpreter to assist a person taking the examination. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50, Part 3.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee