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• SB 158 Became law 114
  Local Education Agencies - As enacted, increases, from 130 minutes per full school week to 40 minutes per school day, the minimum amount of physical activity required for elementary school students; establishes additional requirements for the minimum amount of physical activity required for elementary school students. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 13, 2025: Pub. Ch. 306
• SB 161 Became law 114
  Local Education Agencies - As enacted, requires each board of education for an LEA that operates at least one high school to adopt and implement a policy to authorize a high school student to serve as an advisory, nonvoting representative on the board during meetings that are open to the public. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 2.
  May 13, 2025: Pub. Ch. 359
• SB 1360 Became law 114
  Remedies and Special Proceedings - As enacted, removes the ability to bring a civil liability action for negligence per se against a seller of a qualified product; expands "qualified products" to include knives, body armor, pepper spray, silencers, and other certain products; requires physical injury for a negligent entrustment action rather than an unreasonable risk of physical injury; specifies that a person who will be subject to an ordinance in the future or reasonably intends to be physically present in the political subdivision is an adversely affected party for purposes of filing certain actions; makes various other changes regarding civil actions against arms dealers, manufacturers, and sellers and the preemption of local regulation of firearms. - Amends TCA Title 29, Chapter 42 and Title 39.
  May 13, 2025: Pub. Ch. 329
• SB 263 Became law 114
  State Government - As enacted, prohibits the enforcement and recognition of requirements or mandates issued by the World Health Organization, United Nations, or World Economic Forum in this state or its political subdivisions. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 4.
  May 13, 2025: Pub. Ch. 361
• SB 827 Became law 114
  Schools, Private - As enacted, prohibits the state board of education from requiring a private school that provides a fully online, self-paced educational program to comply with certain class size, school calendar, vaccination, and assessment requirements in order to operate in this state as an approved Category III nonpublic school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  May 13, 2025: Pub. Ch. 380
• SB 657 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, adds organized retail crime and possession or employment of a firearm during the commission of or attempt to commit a dangerous felony to the definition of racketeering activity; clarifies that carjacking is a racketeering activity. - Amends TCA Title 39.
  May 13, 2025: Pub. Ch. 374
• SB 660 In committee 114
  Motor Vehicles, Titling and Registration - As enacted, authorizes a county clerk, during a period of a public health emergency, natural disaster, or other temporary office closure, to request the assistance of a county clerk in a contiguous county for purposes of registering motor vehicles and related transactions. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 4 and Section 55-6-101.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 193
• SB 495 In committee 114
  Municipal Government - As enacted, authorizes a city incorporated under a city manager-commission charter to contract with a private entity for the development, construction, management, or operation of an indoor or outdoor sports facility under terms acceptable to the city if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 6.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 279
• SB 1410 In committee 114
  Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As enacted, increases from 20 to 30, the maximum number of consecutive days a substitute teacher may substitute for a regular teacher on leave without having to possess a teaching license; requires the six weeks of paid parental leave for eligible employees to be taken either consecutively or non-consecutively based on certain criteria. - Amends TCA Section 8-50-814; Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 49, Chapter 3, Part 3.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 296
• SJR 375 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Interns - Nathan Walsh -
  Apr 24, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 614 Passed Senate 114
  Education - As introduced, requires, if a local government adopts a budget that includes the required maintenance of effort for education funding but fails to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA, the local government, in the following fiscal year, to appropriate and allocate the unfunded portion to the LEA; specifies that the maintenance of local funding effort required for a fiscal year following a fiscal year in which the local government failed to appropriate or allocate the full amount budgeted to the LEA must be determined based on the amount budgeted to the LEA for the previous fiscal year instead of the amount actually appropriated or allocated to the LEA by the local government. - Amends TCA Section 49-3-314.
  Apr 15, 2025: Rcvd. from S., held on H. desk.
• SB 267 In committee 114
  Health Care - As enacted, clarifies that an additional license for a collection station is not required, without regard to where specimens are transported, as long as the medical laboratory owner of the licensed medical laboratory retains ownership of the medical laboratory and oversight of the collection station. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 29.
  Apr 4, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 147
• SB 823 In committee 114
  Election Laws - As introduced, clarifies that the county election commissions have the duty to purge the permanent registration records of certain voters unless otherwise prohibited by federal law. - Amends TCA Section 2-2-132.
  Apr 2, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 268 In committee 114
  Immigration - As introduced, requires a financial institution to verify the immigration status of a person sending funds electronically outside of the United States and its territories; changes the definition of resident or citizen of this state to mean citizens of the United States and aliens lawfully present in this state; requires the parent, guardian, or legal custodian of a pupil who is not lawfully residing in this state, but who attends a public school in this state, to pay tuition. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title 7; Title 45 and Title 49.
  Apr 1, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 157 In committee 114
  Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to use student performance on career readiness assessments administered to high school seniors as part of the school grading system if the department uses student performance on postsecondary readiness assessments for such purpose; directs the department to only consider student performance on the assessment type for which the student achieved the highest score for school grading purposes, if the student was administered a postsecondary readiness assessment and a career readiness assessment. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Mar 26, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
• SB 159 In committee 114
  Election Laws - As introduced, prohibits using voting machines or voting equipment to cast, receive, or transmit an election ballot via the internet, except for military personnel and citizens abroad. - Amends TCA Title 2, Chapter 6, Part 5 and Title 2, Chapter 9.
  Mar 25, 2025: Recommended for passage with amendment/s, refer to Senate Calendar Committee Ayes 7, Nays 1 PNV 1
• SJR 262 In committee 114
  Memorials, Recognition - "General Pulaski Memorial Day" in Pulaski -
  Mar 24, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State & Local Government Committee
• SB 825 In committee 114
  Water Pollution - As introduced, prohibits the department of environment and conservation from applying criteria that will result in the classification of real property as a wetland if the property is prior converted cropland that is exempt from classification as a wetland under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4 and Title 69.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee
• SB 822 In committee 114
  Education - As introduced, authorizes virtual schools to administer TCAP tests to their students in a virtual setting if certain requirements are met. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
• SB 1408 In committee 114
  Traffic Safety - As introduced, removes the prohibition on a person physically holding or supporting, with any part of the person's body, a wireless telecommunications device or stand-alone electronic device while operating a motor vehicle on a road or highway other than in a marked school zone or work zone; retains restrictions on activities such as texting on, reaching for, or watching or recording a video on such device while operating a motor vehicle on a road or highway. - Amends TCA Section 55-8-199.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
• SB 264 In committee 114
  Taxes - As introduced, requires TennCare to certify an eligible healthcare provider's unreimbursed costs in a calendar year as charitable contributions made exclusively for public purposes to TennCare; requires eligible healthcare providers to pay TennCare $25 annually to receive such certification. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4.
  Mar 19, 2025: Action deferred in Senate Health & Welfare Committee to first calendar of 2026
• SB 820 In committee 114
  Education - As introduced, authorizes the board of regents to produce and make available a copy of the board's tenure policy in an electronic format or in a printed, physical medium. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 49 and Title 62.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
• SB 265 In committee 114
  Aircraft and Airports - As introduced, establishes a process for renaming an international airport governed by a metropolitan airport authority to Trump International Airport. - Amends TCA Title 42, Chapter 3; Title 42, Chapter 4 and Title 55.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
• SB 656 In committee 114
  School Transportation - As introduced, extends the use of service of a conventional and Class D school bus from 200,000 miles to 230,000 miles. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6 and Title 55.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
• SB 615 In committee 114
  Workers Compensation - As introduced, decreases from 10 business days to 10 calendar days, the amount of time the advisory council on workers' compensation has to provide a summary of a meeting after it has been conducted to each member of legislative committees with jurisdiction over commerce. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 50.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 458 In committee 114
  Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, adds the legislative librarian to the list of persons the commissioner of health must submit an annual report to on the work done by and under the commissioner regarding the general supervision of dentists and dental equipment in the various state institutions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 14; Title 29; Title 33; Title 37; Title 39; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 1403 In committee 114
  Pharmacy, Pharmacists - As introduced, extends from two to three weeks the period of notice that must be provided to a pharmacist or pharmacy prior to an initial on-site audit for each audit cycle by a covered entity, pharmacy benefits manager, the state or its political subdivisions, or an agent of such entity by sending written notice to the pharmacist or pharmacy. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3; Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 53; Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 818 In committee 114
  Business and Commerce - As introduced, prohibits an individual without a valid transportation network license from accepting or transporting a prearranged ride originating in this state; requires the department of commerce and insurance to issue transportation network licenses to eligible individuals; limits the issuance of transportation network licenses to residents of this state and residents of certain out-of-state counties adjacent to this state. - Amends TCA Title 55 and Title 65, Chapter 15, Part 3.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 1096 In committee 114
  Codes - As introduced, allows an existing place of worship to be used for educational purposes without reclassification of the building's occupancy type if certain conditions are met. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 68, Chapter 120.
  Mar 18, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 991 In committee 114
  General Assembly - As introduced, establishes parameters for biennial September sessions. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 3.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 1094 In committee 114
  Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, enacts the "Suicide Prevention Act of 2025," requiring the Tennessee bureau of investigation to establish a program in which a person may enroll to voluntarily waive the right to purchase firearms. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 13.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 828 In committee 114
  Health Care - As introduced, requires a person who collects blood donations for the purpose of providing blood for blood transfusions to require a blood donor to disclose if the donor has received a COVID-19 vaccination; permits a person in need of a blood transfusion in a nonemergent situation to request blood based on the blood donor's COVID-19 vaccination status. - Amends TCA Title 68.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Health and Welfare Committee
• SB 348 In committee 114
  Election Laws - As introduced, requires the state coordinator of elections to monthly compare the statewide voter registration database with relevant databases of state and federal agencies to ensure non-United States citizens are not registered to vote in this state; revises documents that may be provided to prove United States citizenship upon request by a county election commission; revises the process of appealing a determination that an individual is not qualified to vote based upon citizenship status. - Amends TCA Title 2.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 829 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, creates the Class B misdemeanor of intentionally refusing a law enforcement officer's request to exit from a motor vehicle during a lawful traffic stop. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 16.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 1402 In committee 114
  Historical Commission - As introduced, provides for the purchase of the James K. Polk Home in Columbia by the commission; authorizes the commission to contract with a nonprofit corporation for the improvement, maintenance, and operation of the property for the benefit of the citizens of this state and the general public. - Amends TCA Title 4.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 658 In committee 114
  Election Laws - As introduced, requires acceptable forms of identification to cast a vote in an election in this state to be valid and unexpired; prohibits the registration of an applicant to vote without such a valid, unexpired identification. - Amends TCA Title 2.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 347 In committee 114
  Election Laws - As introduced, revises the definition of "signature" for purposes of certain election-related documents, including absentee ballot and voter registration forms, and petitions for nomination, referendum, or another purpose; revises requirements for signing such petitions. - Amends TCA Title 2.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 830 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, specifies that the offense of reckless endangerment includes a person who recklessly discharges a firearm into the air while in a densely populated area; provides that a densely populated area may be proven by evidence of the population of the city or county, housing density in the immediate area of the offense, the number of persons present at the time of the offense, or any other evidence. - Amends TCA Title 39.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 1404 In committee 114
  Municipal Government - As introduced, prohibits a municipality, or an instrumentality of a municipality, from taking an action that affects or has the potential to affect the tax obligations, fees, or other costs for real property owners whose property is located outside of a municipality's corporate boundary, unless the action is approved by the county legislative body in which such property is located; requires the membership of joint economic and community development boards to proportionately represent the citizenry over which the board exercises jurisdiction by July 1, 2029. - Amends TCA Title 5 and Title 6.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 266 In committee 114
  Flags - As introduced, prohibits state and local government entities from displaying or allowing display of flags other than Tennessee and U.S. flags on courthouses and public roads and sidewalks; prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from displaying in public schools flags other than the official United States flag and the official Tennessee state flag. - Amends TCA Title 4; Section 5-5-114; Section 6-54-144; Title 7; Section 15-2-116; Title 49; Title 55; Title 58 and Title 65, Chapter 31, Part 1.
  Feb 10, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate State and Local Government 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 194 In committee 114
  Abortion - As introduced, enacts the "Unborn Child Protection Act of 2025." - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 53; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Jan 27, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 5 In committee 114
  Driver Licenses - As introduced, requires the department of safety to redesign driver licenses, instruction permits, intermediate driver licenses, and photo identification cards issued to lawful permanent residents of the United States, and temporary driver licenses and permits and temporary photo identification licenses issued to qualified noncitizens, so that the licenses and permits may be easily distinguished from driver and photo identification licenses issued to residents of this state who are United States citizens. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 50.
  Jan 15, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Transportation and Safety Committee
• SB 6 In committee 114
  Immigration - As introduced, requires a law enforcement agency in custody of an individual unlawfully present in the United States to request an immigration detainer and detain such individual for the maximum period as specified in the detainer; requires such agency to transport such individuals not taken into federal custody to a sanctuary city; requires department of revenue to request reimbursement for costs of detention and transportation of illegal aliens and to withhold federal petroleum taxes collected in this state if such reimbursement is not received. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 38; Title 39; Title 55 and Title 67.
  Jan 15, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Judiciary Committee