Tennessee bills

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State bill data last updated Oct 18, 2026, 8:04 AM.

9,112 bills

• HJR 1514 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Heroism - Graham Tudor -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HB 1934 In committee 114
  Schools, Charter - As enacted, requires the department of education to annually collect and report certain data for opportunity public charter schools on the department's website; requires a director of schools, juvenile court judge, or department of children's services caseworker who has knowledge that a student is an at-risk student and is eligible to attend an opportunity public charter school to provide the student and the student's parent or legal guardian with information regarding the student's eligibility to enroll in an opportunity public charter school and the location of any opportunity public charter schools that are located in or adjacent to the student's county of residence. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 5, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 842
• HB 2082 In committee 114
  Children - As enacted, specifies that a parent's or legal guardian's action of raising, guiding, or instructing the parent's or legal guardian's child in a manner consistent with the child's biological sex is not a basis for certain findings or actions by the court, does not constitute the criminal offense of child abuse, child neglect, or child endangerment, and must not be considered as a negative factor by a court in determining a custody arrangement in the best interest of the child. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 6; Title 37, Chapter 1 and Title 39, Chapter 15.
  May 5, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 846
• HB 1671 In committee 114
  Local Government, General - As enacted, prohibits local governmental entities from relocating homeless individuals unless the relocation meets certain criteria; authorizes the receiving jurisdiction to seek damages and injunctive relief for violations. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 71, Chapter 5.
  May 5, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 832
• SB 2205 Became law 114
  Mass Transit - As enacted, enacts the "Subterranean Transportation Infrastructure Coordination Act." -
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 854
• HJR 1522 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Madeline Ward, Top Ten Senior, Gordonsville High School -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 1512 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Yejoon Ham, Valedictorian, Bearden High School -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 1525 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Elijah Hall, Top Ten Senior, Gordonsville High School -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• SB 2585 Became law 114
  Medical Occupations - As enacted, changes references to marital and family therapists to marriage and family therapists throughout the code, and makes other changes relative to marriage and family therapists. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 8, Chapter 50; Title 33; Title 36; Title 52; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 737
• HJR 1508 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Calvin Richardson, Valedictorian, South-Doyle High School -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• SB 1817 Became law 114
  Local Education Agencies - As enacted, revises law relative to LEAs providing enrollment and services to certain students who are the dependent children of service members. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 834
• HJR 1483 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Landon Mims, Salutatorian, Sale Creek High School -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• SB 1935 Became law 114
  Homestead Exemptions - As enacted, adds a child who is 18 or older and has a developmental or intellectual disability to whom the homestead exemption extends upon the death of the head of the household. - Amends TCA Title 26; Title 30; Title 33 and Title 52.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 709
• HB 1640 In committee 114
  Public Records - As enacted, designates records of the office of homeland security related to critical infrastructure as confidential and exempts such records from public records requests; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.
  May 5, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 837
• SB 2535 Became law 114
  Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to collaborate with the department of safety to develop guidelines for LEAs and public charter schools providing a driver education and training course that include certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 55.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 735
• SB 1888 Became law 114
  Cemeteries - As enacted, clarifies eligibility and required documentation for interment in state veterans' cemeteries for military service members and veterans, including certain members of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, the army national guard, or the air national guard, and spouses and children of such service members and veterans. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 6.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 839
• HB 1834 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Religious Freedom Act," which authorizes a local board of education to open a meeting of the board with a prayer led by a member of the board as long as the prayer does not require participation of any person in attendance at the meeting and no person is harassed or coerced to participate in the prayer. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 5, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 710
• SB 2013 Became law 114
  Nurses, Nursing - As enacted, enacts the "Tennessee Nursing Education Integrity and Oversight Act." - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 63.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 848
• SB 2201 Became law 114
  Juvenile Offenders - As enacted, specifies that if a student is referred to juvenile court for being unlawfully absent from school and is ultimately adjudicated to be unruly, that the disposition made by the juvenile judge or magistrate may include the suspension of the student's driving privileges or ability to obtain a driver license for a period of up to one year. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 30 and Title 55, Chapter 10.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 853
• HB 2184 In committee 114
  Civil Procedure - As enacted, increases minimum time from 15 to 90 days that a court must give the general assembly to remedy any defects in a redistricting plan; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 18.
  May 5, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 835
• HB 1692 Became law 114
  Adoption - As enacted, clarifies that a court may waive the requirement for a home study in an adoption when the prospective adoptive parent or parents are not related to the child if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 878
• HB 2543 In committee 114
  Public Funds and Financing - As enacted, specifies the conditions that must be satisfied for monies from the governor's response and recovery fund to be provided to eligible local governmental entities and to eligible individuals in qualifying counties following an emergency or disaster. - Amends TCA Section 9-4-216.
  May 5, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 855
• HB 2451 In committee 114
  Estates - As enacted, states that the Uniform Partition Heirs Property Act does not apply to sales of land to pay the debts of an estate; revises the method for determining a decedent’s gross estate for purposes of calculating a surviving spouse's elective share. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 31 and Title 34.
  May 5, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 717
• HJR 1499 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Addyson DeHart, Valedictorian, Halls High School -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• SB 2184 Became law 114
  Estates - As enacted, states that the Uniform Partition Heirs Property Act does not apply to sales of land to pay the debts of an estate; revises the method for determining a decedent’s gross estate for purposes of calculating a surviving spouse's elective share. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 31 and Title 34.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 717
• HJR 1519 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Retirement - Doug Gunnels -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• SB 2138 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a person convicted of vehicular homicide proximately resulting from the person's intoxication to be punished as no lower than a Range II offender if the person, as a result of the same course of conduct, is also convicted of leaving the scene of the accident. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 715
• SB 1883 Became law 114
  Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, precludes certain boards administratively attached to the department of environment and conservation from voting to review the initial order of an administrative law judge in an administrative proceeding, but preserves the right of a party to appeal an initial order directly to the board; reduces from 180 to 90 days the period of time from the completion of the record of a contested case hearing within which an administrative law judge must issue an initial order in a hearing involving such boards. - Amends TCA Title 60; Title 68 and Title 69.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 838
• HJR 1489 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - Michael Green, 2026 BCAT Class AA Coach of the Year -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• SB 2197 Became law 114
  Expunction - As enacted, permits a court to expunge certain violent offenses for which a person has been pardoned; requires the court to consider, in weighing the best interests of justice and public safety, whether the offense sought to be expunged was violent and any other relevant factors presented by the petitioner and the district attorney general. - Amends TCA Title 40.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 719
• HB 1909 In committee 114
  Medical Occupations - As enacted, changes references to marital and family therapists to marriage and family therapists throughout the code, and makes other changes relative to marriage and family therapists. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 8, Chapter 50; Title 33; Title 36; Title 52; Title 56; Title 63 and Title 68.
  May 5, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 737
• HJR 1486 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Gleason School, Anne Dallas Dudley Award -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 1485 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Dresden High School, Anne Dallas Dudley Award -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HB 803 Became law 114
  Sewage - As enacted, makes revision to present law concerning sewerage systems using land application; exempts Hamilton County from the provisions requiring the developer of a subdivision or neighborhood that proposes to construct a treatment works to submit an application to the utility serving the area in which the system is located. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 62, Chapter 2; Title 65; Title 68, Chapter 221 and Title 69.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 876
• HB 2221 Became law 114
  Courts - As enacted, requires the clerks of the criminal courts to provide the Tennessee sheriffs' association with all court data necessary for the administration of the criminal proceedings notification system. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 18; Title 40 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 6.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 882
• HB 2014 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, requires a person convicted of vehicular homicide proximately resulting from the person's intoxication to be punished as no lower than a Range II offender if the person, as a result of the same course of conduct, is also convicted of leaving the scene of the accident. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 55.
  May 5, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 715
• HB 1839 In committee 114
  Correction, Dept. of - As enacted, prohibits the department from removing a state inmate from a local jail facility for the purpose of relocating the inmate to a state facility if the inmate is participating in a work release or re-entry program unless the inmate has failed to meet the work release or in-house duty requirements, or the inmate's disciplinary records warrant the inmate's removal from participation in the work release or re-entry program. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.
  May 5, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 841
• HJR 1481 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Kylee Am, Salutatorian, Hixson High School -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 1498 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Sloan Darby, 2026 Miss Greenfield Princess -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 1535 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Sidney Ware, Brandon Randolph, Fatima Grandos Macareno, Mu Zeta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and No Labels at Middle Tennessee State University -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 1510 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Academic Achievement - Avery York, Salutatorian, South-Doyle High School -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HB 2534 In committee 114
  Administrative Procedure (UAPA) - As enacted, precludes certain boards administratively attached to the department of environment and conservation from voting to review the initial order of an administrative law judge in an administrative proceeding, but preserves the right of a party to appeal an initial order directly to the board; reduces from 180 to 90 days the period of time from the completion of the record of a contested case hearing within which an administrative law judge must issue an initial order in a hearing involving such boards. - Amends TCA Title 60; Title 68 and Title 69.
  May 5, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 838
• SB 2525 Became law 114
  Children - As enacted, allows a high school student who is older than 16 but younger than 19 to work in a child care center outside of school hours or during school hours through a work-based learning program if the student meets certain criteria. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49; Title 50, Chapter 5 and Title 71.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 873
• HB 1903 In committee 114
  Homestead Exemptions - As enacted, adds a child who is 18 or older and has a developmental or intellectual disability to whom the homestead exemption extends upon the death of the head of the household. - Amends TCA Title 26; Title 30; Title 33 and Title 52.
  May 5, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 709
• HJR 1475 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Deputy Landon Faulkner, Hamilton County Sheriff's Office -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• HJR 1493 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Personal Achievement - Jacob Adam "Jake" Pedigo -
  May 5, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• SB 2206 Became law 114
  Federal Aid - As enacted, enacts the "Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 49.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 720
• HB 890 In committee 114
  Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, limits the authority of a special purpose corporation to negotiate and enter into PILOT agreements with the corporation's lessees, as delegated to it by a municipality, if certain written notice is not provided to certain chief executive officers of taxing jurisdictions; voids PILOT agreements entered into by the special purpose corporation if such notice is not provided. - Amends TCA Title 48 and Title 67.
  May 5, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 820
• SB 1858 Became law 114
  Civil Procedure - As enacted, increases minimum time from 15 to 90 days that a court must give the general assembly to remedy any defects in a redistricting plan; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 20, Chapter 18.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 835
• SB 1881 Became law 114
  Public Records - As enacted, designates records of the office of homeland security related to critical infrastructure as confidential and exempts such records from public records requests; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5.
  May 5, 2026: Pub. Ch. 837