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State bill data last updated Oct 25, 2026, 4:01 AM.

9,112 bills

• SB 2308 In committee 114
  Public Records - As introduced, specifies that certain information related to the carrying out of a sentence of death is not confidential and is open to public inspection. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SJR 904 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Hailey Dickerson, Smith County Middle School Teacher of the Year -
  Mar 24, 2026: Withdrawn.
• HB 2322 In committee 114
  Agriculture, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the commissioner to annually report the amount of fees, fines, and proceeds resulting from the sale of seized properties collected under Tennessee Apiary Act of 1995 to the chairpersons of the committees having subject jurisdiction over agriculture in both chambers of the general assembly. - Amends TCA Title 1; Title 4; Title 8; Title 11; Title 12; Title 35; Title 36; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 41; Title 43; Title 44; Title 47; Title 49; Title 50; Title 53; Title 55; Title 56; Title 57; Title 62; Title 63; Title 65; Title 66; Title 67; Title 68; Title 69; Title 70 and Title 71.
  Mar 24, 2026: Taken off notice for cal. in Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee
• SB 1906 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, adds as an affirmative defense to the offense of criminal exposure of another to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), proof by a preponderance of the evidence that a person infected with HIV was in compliance with a treatment regime prescribed by the person's healthcare provider to medically suppress the risk of HIV transmission. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 13.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• HB 1449 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, restates the criminal offense of drag racing as street drag racing; expands the offense to include acts committed on commercial property; authorizes a vehicle used in the commission of the offense or to flee after commission of the offense to be impounded for the purpose of collecting evidence; makes various other changes regarding the offense of street drag racing. - Amends TCA Title 7; Title 39; Title 40; Title 55 and Title 68.
  Mar 24, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SB 994 In committee 114
  Taxes, Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, deletes an obsolete provision relating to a tax credit for beer or ale that was destroyed in a flood occurring between May 1, 2010, and May 8, 2010. - Amends TCA Title 57 and Title 67.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 1994 In committee 114
  Prisons and Reformatory Institutions - As introduced, prohibits this state or a local government from entering into a new contract or renewing an existing contract for the provision of correctional services for an inmate under the custody and care of the department of correction or the local government. - Amends TCA Title 41, Chapter 24.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 1946 In committee 114
  Notary Public - As introduced, requires the secretary of state to appoint notaries public to commissions in this state; prescribes additional requirements to be commissioned as a notary public in this state. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 16 and Title 23.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 2502 In committee 114
  Planning, Public - As introduced, enacts the "Electric Grid Resilience, Transparency, and Planning Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 58 and Title 65.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• HR 171 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - Knoxville Central Bobcats boys' basketball team -
  Mar 24, 2026: Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
• SB 1916 In committee 114
  Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, redefines "movable structure" for purposes of classification and assessment of property so that a mobile home or other movable structure that is used as a residence or apartment must be used permanently as such instead of temporarily or permanently. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State & Local Government Committee
• SB 2097 In committee 114
  Election Laws - As introduced, requires the secretary of state to direct each county election commission to place a ballot question on the ballot for the November general election in 2026 asking voters whether this state should legalize the sale, possession, and use of medical cannabis. - Amends TCA Title 2.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 961 In committee 114
  Housing - As introduced, enacts the "Affordable Housing and Tenant Protection Act"; allows local governments to adopt ordinances and resolutions to control rent for private residential rental units; creates the increased housing program and increased housing fund; authorizes the Tennessee housing development agency to make grants from the fund to eligible developers and first-time homebuyers to assist in gap financing and down payment assistance. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53; Title 9; Title 12; Title 13; Title 66 and Title 67.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SJR 911 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Amber Phillips, Gainesboro Elementary School Teacher of the Year -
  Mar 24, 2026: Withdrawn.
• SB 2164 In committee 114
  Election Laws - As introduced, enacts the "Election Integrity Act of 2026"; creates a process by which a candidate in a local election may challenge the results of the election prior to certification of the election if the candidate has reason to believe errors were made in the adminstration of the election. - Amends TCA Title 2 and Title 49.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 2208 In committee 114
  State Government - As introduced, enacts the "DEI Compliance Certification Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 49.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 2037 In committee 114
  Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the "One America Act," which requires every person who has resided in this state for a period of more than 30 days and who is not lawfully present in the United States to register and submit to an interview with the department at which time the department may issue the person a one-year visa for re-entry into the United States and to this state; if the person does not commit a criminal offense within such one-year period, the person is eligible to apply for permanent resident status upon completion of the one-year period. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8 and Title 39.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 2092 In committee 114
  Natural Disasters - As introduced, requires TACIR to perform a comprehensive evaluation on the preparedness and response of local and state officials, departments, and agencies to the Hurricane Helene natural disaster. - Amends TCA Title 3; Title 4, Chapter 10 and Title 58.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• HB 2372 In committee 114
  Jails, Local Lock-ups - As introduced, specifies that a jailer's authorization to evaluate a person confined in the county jail for purposes of the person's care includes evaluating the person's need for medical attention. - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8, Chapter 8; Title 29; Title 40 and Title 41.
  Mar 24, 2026: Taken off notice for cal. in State & Local Government Committee
• SJR 908 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Shelia Stafford, Jackson County Middle School Teacher of the Year -
  Mar 24, 2026: Withdrawn.
• HJR 1131 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Robert Randle Roll -
  Mar 24, 2026: Signed by Governor.
• SR 344 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Safespace, 50th anniversary -
  Mar 24, 2026: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SB 2129 In committee 114
  Taxes, Real Property - As introduced, requires a written notice of the intended seizure of personal property given by the county trustee, deputy trustee, or delinquent tax attorney that is mailed to the taxpayer's last known address be provided by certified, registered, or first class mail. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 5.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SJR 907 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Koundi Thompson, White County High School Teacher of the Year -
  Mar 24, 2026: Withdrawn.
• HB 349 In committee 114
  Education - As introduced, deletes an antiquated section, which required the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee to, by December 15, 2014, perform a study on the economic feasibility of creating and utilizing a statewide comprehensive energy policy and submit its final report to the energy task force of the house of representatives. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Mar 24, 2026: Failed in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Committee
• HB 1936 In committee 114
  Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the department to submit a report on the feasibility and cost projections for creating and maintaining an implanted medical device registry available to each healthcare facility in this state to the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives on or before January 1, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 53; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71.
  Mar 24, 2026: Taken off notice for cal. in Health Committee
• HB 1389 In committee 114
  Aircraft and Airports - As introduced, increases, from 30 days to 30 business days, the amount of time before the start of a fiscal year that a joint board composed of public agencies overseeing a county or municipal airport has to submit its total expenditures to be made to the governing bodies of its constituent public agencies. - Amends TCA Title 42.
  Mar 24, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SB 2282 In committee 114
  Real Property - As introduced, makes void and unenforceable any restrictions on the operation of a family child care home or group child care home that may be in a homeowners' association declaration that applies to a property where a family child care home or group child care home is or will be sited by the property owner; makes other changes relative to restrictions on the use of real property. - Amends TCA Title 66.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SR 343 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - Nathaniel Root -
  Mar 24, 2026: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SB 1407 In committee 114
  Firearms and Ammunition - As introduced, lowers the standard for the use of deadly force to protect property; specifies that deadly force does not include the display of a weapon, the brandishing of a weapon, or the use of force in circumstances that do not result in death or serious bodily injury. - Amends TCA Title 39.
  Mar 24, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.
• SJR 909 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Katy Jo Harrison, Jackson County High School Teacher of the Year -
  Mar 24, 2026: Withdrawn.
• SB 2378 In committee 114
  Election Laws - As introduced, requires a county election commission, upon receipt of a bona fide complaint of a violation of a person's right to vote in an election, to document the details of the complaint and electronically submit the complaint to the state election commission. - Amends TCA Title 2; Title 4; Title 8; Title 29; Title 39 and Title 41.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 2409 In committee 114
  Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, enacts the "No Pride Flag or Month Act." - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 15; Title 20 and Title 49.
  Mar 24, 2026: Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SJR 912 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Katy Wyatt, Cumberland County High School Teacher of the Year -
  Mar 24, 2026: Withdrawn.
• SB 1743 In committee 114
  Tort Liability and Reform - As introduced, expands the definition of a person for whom a wrongful death action may be brought to include an unborn child beginning at fertilization, rather than in utero; extends the period of time from two to three years after which a spouse is rebuttably presumed to have abandoned a deceased spouse for purposes of bringing a wrongful death claim. - Amends TCA Title 20 and Section 63-6-1102.
  Mar 24, 2026: Failed in Senate Judiciary Committee
• SJR 918 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Jeremy Pippin, Dodson Branch School Teacher of the Year -
  Mar 24, 2026: Withdrawn.
• HB 2365 In committee 114
  School Vouchers - As introduced, expands eligibility for an education freedom scholarship to students who are enrolled in an out-of-district public school. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Mar 24, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Committee
• HB 2458 In committee 114
  Education - As introduced, enacts the "Public Education Investments Act"; increases, from $50,000 to $50,290, the minimum base salary in the state salary schedule for teachers; increases from 5 percent to 10 percent the weighted allocation for a student who is a member in a school that is eligible for Title I schoolwide designation in the Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement Act; increases the amount of a Tennessee middle college scholarship by 3 percent each academic year for 10 academic years. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Mar 24, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Committee
• 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 910 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Professional Achievement - Leann Davis,Woodland Park Elementary School Teacher of the Year -
  Mar 24, 2026: Withdrawn.
• SB 1749 In committee 114
  Criminal Offenses - As introduced, increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class C felony the available sentence for an aggravated criminal trespass if, while in commission of the trespass, the trespasser encounters the owner using or displaying a firearm in self-defense; upgrades trespass offenses to Class C felonies. - Amends TCA Section 39-11-611; Title 39, Chapter 13, Part 10 and Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 4.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• HR 172 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Sports - J.P. Payne, District 3, Class 4A Coach of the Year -
  Mar 24, 2026: Enrolled; ready for sig. of H. Speaker.
• HB 2459 In committee 114
  Children - As introduced, exempts a school social worker, licensed by the state board of education, who provides preventative and developmental counseling, from having to obtain the consent of a parent of a minor prior to rendering such services. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 8; Title 49 and Title 63, Chapter 1.
  Mar 24, 2026: Taken off notice for cal. in Health Committee
• SB 1344 In committee 114
  Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, authorizes the issuance of a retail package store license to an operator within the general services district of a metropolitan government that has approved the retail sale of liquor for off-premises consumption by local option election. - Amends TCA Title 7 and Title 57.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• HB 2435 In committee 114
  Libraries - As introduced, clarifies that the Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022 does not apply to any materials in the Tennessee Electronic Library. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 1, Part 3 and Title 49, Chapter 6.
  Mar 24, 2026: Taken off notice for cal in s/c K-12 Subcommittee of Education Committee
• SB 2196 In committee 114
  Public Contracts - As introduced, requires a tire manufacturer or supplier responding to a solicitation to bid with this state, or who has an existing contract with this state, to indicate each tire, by product, and material number, that is manufactured with 100 percent French process zinc oxide. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9 and Title 12.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State and Local Government Committee
• SB 1943 In committee 114
  Holidays and Days of Special Observance - As introduced, designates September 10 of each year as "Charlie Kirk Day." - Amends TCA Title 15, Chapter 2.
  Mar 24, 2026: Failed in Senate State and Local Government Committee
• HB 1806 In committee 114
  Human Services, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the department to apply, no later than January 1, 2027, for federal grants and other federal funds available to the state through the federal summer electronic benefits transfer (EBT) for children program for the purpose of providing nutrition assistance through EBT during the summer months for each eligible child. - Amends TCA Title 49 and Title 71.
  Mar 24, 2026: Taken off notice for cal. in Health Committee
• SB 2662 In committee 114
  Safety, Dept. of - As introduced, enacts the “Oral-Fluid DUI Testing and Evidence-Based Enforcement Safeguards Act." - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 10, Part 4.
  Mar 24, 2026: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• HJR 1147 In committee 114
  Memorials, Congress - Urges Tennessee delegation to prevent closure of McMinnville VA clinic. -
  Mar 24, 2026: Sponsor(s) Added.