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State bill data last updated Oct 15, 2026, 4:19 PM.

9,112 bills

• HB 2616 Became law 114
  Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes a governing body to conduct an executive session for the purpose of interviewing applicants for employment as director-level staff of the body without providing public notice of such session. - Amends TCA Title 8.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1048
• SB 1814 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of intentionally moving, altering, destroying, or removing a monument the person knows, or reasonably should know, is a property corner monument, historic land surveying monument, or geodetic control monument. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 62, Chapter 18 and Title 66.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1097
• HB 2097 In committee 114
  TennCare - As enacted, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2027; changes the penalty imposed by the bureau on an ambulance provider for each day an assessment remains unpaid from $50 per calendar day to 5 percent of the principal amount owed per month for each month. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 15.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1123
• HB 1455 In committee 114
  Computers and Electronic Processing - As enacted, requires TACIR to study artificial intelligence and submit a report to the governor and both speakers by January 31, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 33; Title 39 and Title 47.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1066
• SB 821 Became law 114
  Education, Curriculum - As enacted, establishes a pilot program that provides grants to local education agencies to advance substance abuse and violence prevention programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1058
• HB 2647 Became law 114
  Jonesborough - Subject to local approval, authorizes the board of mayor and alderman for the Town of Jonesborough to elect a mayor from among the aldermen to fill a vacancy; authorizes the Town recorder to carry liability insurance rather than be bonded in an amount prescribed by Town ordinance; updates the election dates for the mayor and board of aldermen. - Amends Chapter 135 of the Acts of 1903; as amended.
  May 27, 2026: Pr. Ch. 60
• SB 2730 In committee 114
  Grundy County - Subject to local approval, creates the Southern Cumberland Plateau Regional Water and Wastewater Authority. -
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pr. Ch. 71
• HB 1773 In committee 114
  Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes emergency communications district boards of directors to participate in board meetings electronically under the open meetings law. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 86, Part 3 and Title 8, Chapter 44, Part 1.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1099
• SB 1909 Became law 114
  Courts - As enacted, removes a conviction for domestic assault from the definition of a violent offender for purposes of drug treatment courts; changes the definition of a violent offender for purposes of drug treatment courts from an offender with a conviction for an offense involving certain acts to an offender with a conviction for a felony offense involving certain acts within the previous 10 years. - Amends TCA Title 16, Chapter 22.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1105
• HB 2640 Became law 114
  Hamblen County - Subject to local approval, abolishes the Hamblen County Road Commission, effective August 31, 2028. - Repeals Chapter 313 of the Private Acts of 1949; as amended.
  May 27, 2026: Pr. Ch. 57
• SB 2528 Became law 114
  Recreational Areas - As enacted, expands the purposes for which monies from the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund may be expended by the Ocoee River recreation and economic development fund board; replaces the park manager member of the board with the director of the division of state parks. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 10 and Title 11, Chapter 8.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 981
• SB 2320 Became law 114
  Campaigns and Campaign Finance - As enacted, clarifies that expenditures of campaign funds to enhance security for an officeholder's personal residence are not deemed for personal use and that such expenditures are limited to home security consultation, home security equipment, home security monitoring services, safe rooms, and the use of security guards at an officeholder's personal residence for non-campaign purposes; clarifies that such expenditures must not exceed $12,000 per calendar year and must be disclosed as "residential security." - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 10.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1129
• SB 2039 In committee 114
  District Attorneys - As enacted, eliminates the fraud and economic crimes fees and assessments in criminal prosecutions for counties that have enacted a $12.50 court cost to be used for supplemental funding for the district attorney general's office; requires existing funds in fraud and economic crimes prosecution fund to be remitted back to the county government of original assessment and collection. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 3.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1033
• SB 2145 Became law 114
  Orders of Protection - As enacted, allows a person to file a petition for a lifetime order of protection against a person who was convicted of certain offenses in another jurisdiction; provides that venue for such a petition is in the county where the respondent resides or, if the respondent is not a resident of this state, the county where the petitioner resides. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1118
• HB 2305 In committee 114
  Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, clarifies that certain individuals who have not completed the amount of clinical practice required by the educator preparation provider in which the individual is enrolled may receive a temporary clinical permit if all other requirements for the permit are satisfied; allows such an individual who is issued a temporary clinical permit to meet the clinical practice requirements of the EPP in which the individual is enrolled by combining the amount of clinical practice the individual completed before being issued a temporary clinical permit with the amount of time the individual taught under the temporary clinical permit. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1134
• HB 2667 Became law 114
  Grundy County - Subject to local approval, creates the Southern Cumberland Plateau Regional Water and Wastewater Authority. -
  May 27, 2026: Pr. Ch. 71
• HB 2539 Became law 114
  Health Care - As enacted, makes revisions to health law, including, but not limited to, revising certain reporting requirements, requiring a person licensed by the board of examiners in psychology to complete certain suicide prevention training, defining palliative care, and clarifying certain rulemaking authority of health boards and the commissioner of health. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 33; Title 36; Title 37; Title 48; Title 49; Title 52; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 62; Title 63 and Title 68.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1041
• HB 2666 Became law 114
  Shelby County - Subject to local approval, changes the conditions under which the occupancy tax will no longer be levied; changes the allocation of the revenue from the occupancy tax if the tenant of the indoor sports facility no longer occupies such facility. - Amends Chapter 131 of the Private Acts of 1969; as amended.
  May 27, 2026: Pr. Ch. 70
• HB 2080 In committee 114
  Lottery, Corporation - As enacted, vacates and reconstitutes the board of directors of the Tennessee education lottery corporation; requires certain information maintained by the corporation to be subject to a public records request; terminates the lottery corporation on June 30, 2030. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 10 and Title 49.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1084
• SB 2732 In committee 114
  Monterey - Subject to local approval, deletes obsolete provisions authorizing the mayor to serve as the ex officio recorder for the town of Monterey; establishes the position of Town Administrator and prescribes the Administrator's powers, duties, and functions. - Amends Chapter 492 of the Acts of 1901; as amended.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pr. Ch. 72
• SB 2726 In committee 114
  Tullahoma - Subject to local approval, allocates 3.8 percent of each annual operating budget, but not less than $1.5 million, to the maintenance of streets and roads within the city limits of the City of Tullahoma. - Amends Chapter 553 of the Acts of 1903.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pr. Ch. 67
• SB 1587 Became law 114
  Immigration - As enacted, creates certain offenses for a person who is unlawfully present in the United States to operate a commercial motor vehicle in this state and a direct employer of such person; requires the law enforcement agency of an officer who arrests a person who is unlawfully present in the United States to operate a commercial motor vehicle in this state to ensure that federal immigration authorities are notified; creates related civil actions for persons injured by an unlawfully present person's operation of a commercial motor vehicle. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1070
• HB 1516 In committee 114
  Municipal Government - As enacted, creates a process for continuing funding for a municipal LEA when the municipal legislative body and the governing body for the LEA cannot agree on a budget; provides a process for continuing funding of municipal operations when a municipal legislative body has not adopted a budget by the first day of a fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 1 and Title 6, Chapter 56, Part 2.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1071
• HB 2026 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a Class A misdemeanor offense of intentionally moving, altering, destroying, or removing a monument the person knows, or reasonably should know, is a property corner monument, historic land surveying monument, or geodetic control monument. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 62, Chapter 18 and Title 66.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1097
• SB 2162 In committee 114
  Open Meetings - As enacted, authorizes a governing body to conduct an executive session for the purpose of interviewing applicants for employment as director-level staff of the body without providing public notice of such session. - Amends TCA Title 8.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1048
• SB 1900 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, increases the penalty for assaulting a first responder from a Class A misdemeanor with a mandatory fine of $5,000 and a mandatory minimum of 30 days incarceration to a Class E felony with a mandatory fine of $10,000 and a mandatory minimum of 60 days incarceration. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1104
• HB 1380 In committee 114
  Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, provides that a collecting official or the division of property assessments is not required to request documentation verifying the income of an elderly person seeking tax relief if the applicant is at least 80 years old and meets certain other requirements. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1063
• SB 2468 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes revisions to law relative to offenses occurring at a house of worship. - Amends TCA Title 29 and Title 39.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1140
• SB 714 Became law 114
  Education - As enacted, requires an educational oversight board to be created for an LEA that meets certain criteria and is established to annually conduct a comprehensive needs assessment of the LEA to determine the factors that may be contributing to the LEA meeting such criteria; requires the oversight board to develop a transformation plan that identifies performance and operational goals for the LEA and benchmarks for assessing the LEA's progress toward meeting such goals; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7 and Title 49.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1057
• SB 2712 In committee 114
  Obion County - Subject to local approval, clarifies that the county highway superintendent of the county highway department be appointed by the county commission pursuant to state law. - Amends the private acts of Obion County.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pr. Ch. 62
• HB 2207 In committee 114
  Taxes - As enacted, provides that an application for an exemption from property taxation for property owned by a religious, charitable, scientific, or nonprofit educational organization that is filed within 180 days after the exempt use of the property began will be effective as of the date the exempt use began, if the application is made after May 20th of the year for which the exemption is sought, but prior to the end of the year; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 67.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 982
• SB 1849 Became law 114
  Local Government, General - As enacted, enacts the "Essential Governmental Employee Housing Act of 2026"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1101
• SB 1326 Became law 114
  Taxes, Real Property - As enacted, provides that a collecting official or the division of property assessments is not required to request documentation verifying the income of an elderly person seeking tax relief if the applicant is at least 80 years old and meets certain other requirements. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5, Part 7.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1063
• HB 1710 In committee 114
  Immigration - As enacted, adds local governments to the entities that must verify that each applicant for public benefits is a United States citizen or lawfully present in the United States; authorizes certain investigations of violations of requirements for verification of citizenship or presence for public benefits; requires certain reporting related to such verification for benefits; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1 and Title 4, Chapter 58.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1106
• SB 2690 Became law 114
  Appropriations - As enacted, makes appropriations for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2026. -
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1142
• HB 2560 Became law 114
  Civil Emergencies - As enacted, creates the department of Tennessee emergency management authority ("TEMA") to authorize the creation of local organizations for emergency management in the political subdivisions of the state, and to authorize cooperation with the federal government and the governments of other states. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 13; Title 16; Title 39; Title 55; Title 58; Title 62; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 71.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1045
• HB 1943 In committee 114
  Hospitals and Health Care Facilities - As enacted, prohibits a hospital emergency department, including a satellite emergency department, from denying to a woman who presents at such facility and purports or, if incapacitated, appears to be pregnant and experiencing active labor, other symptoms associated with active labor, or an emergency medical condition, an appropriate medical screening examination within the capability of the emergency department, including ancillary services routinely available to the emergency department, to determine whether or not an emergency medical condition or active labor exists; makes other related changes. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1080
• HB 2301 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes revisions to the offense of adulteration of food, liquids, or pharmaceuticals. - Amends TCA Title 39; Title 40 and Title 57.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1131
• SB 1766 Became law 114
  Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, 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.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1089
• HB 902 In committee 114
  Education, Curriculum - As enacted, establishes a pilot program that provides grants to local education agencies to advance substance abuse and violence prevention programs. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1058
• SB 1774 Became law 114
  Students - As enacted, creates a criminal offense for certain school employees who intentionally engage in bullying or cyberbullying of a student; clarifies that a teacher or school employee of a local education agency who is found to have committed an act of harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyberbullying is subject to dismissal or suspension. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 3; Title 40; Title 49 and Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 7.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1093
• SB 2716 In committee 114
  Lafayette - Subject to local approval, moves the date of elections from coinciding with the primary in May to coinciding with the general election in November; increases the compensation of the council members from $100 to $150 for each council meeting and from $50 to $75 for each committee meeting; increases the annual salary of the mayor from $45,000 to $75,000; authorizes the mayor, subject to confirmation of the city council, a superintendent of streets and a superintendent of sanitation. - Amends Chapter 325 of the Private Acts of 1945; as amended.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pr. Ch. 64
• HB 1796 In committee 114
  Local Government, General - As enacted, enacts the "Essential Governmental Employee Housing Act of 2026"; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 9; Title 12 and Title 67.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1101
• HB 1739 In committee 114
  Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, authorizes the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee and certain law enforcement agencies to enter into a written agreement authorizing sworn peace officers of the law enforcement agency to enforce certain traffic laws on one or more designated private megasite roadways identified in the agreement. - Amends TCA Title 54 and Title 64, Chapter 9.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1091
• HB 2422 Became law 114
  Education - As enacted, requires the department of education to implement a pilot program to evaluate whether administering fewer district- and state-mandated assessments results in students achieving greater academic success; adds an additional method by which a student who is not proficient in ELA, as determined by the student's achieving a performance level rating of “approaching” on the ELA portion of the student's most recent TCAP test, may be promoted. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1030
• HB 545 In committee 114
  Education, Dept. of - As enacted, requires the department to provide at least one professional development course that provides asynchronous instruction on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom and that is made available, at no cost, to teachers in grades 6-12; requires such teachers to complete at least one department-approved professional development course on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom by the later of August 1, 2028, or within two years of becoming licensed as a teacher in this state. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1056
• SB 1602 Became law 114
  Sentencing - As enacted, enacts the "James Bardsley, Jr. Life Protection Act." - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13 and Title 55, Chapter 10.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1072
• SB 639 Became law 114
  Water - As enacted, authorizes municipal water and sewer systems to undertake certain projects on private property. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 63; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69.
  May 27, 2026: Pub. Ch. 1055
• HB 2102 In committee 114
  County Government - As enacted, authorizes a county legislative body operating under the County Purchasing Law of 1957 to set the compensation for the director of accounts and budgets. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 8.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 985
• SB 2640 In committee 114
  DUI Offenses - As enacted, clarifies present law regarding the revocation of a person's driver license for an implied consent violation. - Amends TCA Section 55-10-407.
  May 27, 2026: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1046